Word Problem W7

Walt: Apply my number knowledge to word problems

This is week 7's maths work. my learning intention is applying my number knowledge to word problems. Our maths teacher Mrs Tele'a has given us a presentation to answer and solve. Then post to our blog.

Letter of Support

WALT: Compose a letter using vocabulary to add effect. 

Dear Peter and Jules (Waiau Family)

I am genuinely sorry for what you have been through. I desperately hope you are alright and safe with your family. I am also sorry for your granddaughters past and also her young brother.   

I am extremely sorry for your house being destroyed by the devastating earthquake that has been hit in North Canterbury. I understand that Sophia is buried inside the same plot with her little brother.

Many memories of your granddaughter will always be in your heart. It is good that you are shifting Sophia’s memorial stone and cross. To your new home. I hope you are safe and that you don’t have injuries, also your family.

I am a student from Pt England School, up north in Auckland. My name is Loseli and I am writing this letter to you for support of your family and your community.

Sincerely, Loseli

This is a letter of support to the people who have been hit in Kaikorua Wellington and other places that the earthquake has hit. This letter has been written to the Waiau family. Their house has been destroyed by the terrifying earthquake. I really hope they are okay and that God will be with them. God Bless Waiau Family.

Rewriting Instructions

Pick up an egg, gently hit it against the side of a bowl and empty the contents into a clean bowl.	Grab an egg and crack it beside the bowl.
Open the fridge and take out the butter. Take off the lid. Get a knife and use it to scoop some butter. Rub the knife onto the toast.	Get the butter from the fridge, get the knife and scoop come butter out and rub it into the toast.
Hold the two shortest sides of paper and bend them together. Squeeze them so that the paper is now in half.	Get a piece of paper and fold it in half.
When you hear the sound of the whistle, move one leg in front of the other as quickly as you can.	If you hear the whistle run as fast as you can.
When player One had rolled the die, they should hand it to player Two, who should then roll it too. The person with the highest score moves their counter first.	When player one has it’s turn rolling the die. It is player two’s turn to roll the die. The player with the highest score moves their counter first.
If you want to turn on the computer, look for the round, lack power button and press it once.	If you want to go on the computer find the circle power button and turn it on.
Hold the handles of the scissors and cut along the dotted line, making sure you don’t hurt yourself.	Hold the scissors with your hands and cut along the dotted line on the paper. Make sure you don’t cut yourself.
Before you start mixing the ingredients, switch on the oven and turn the dial to 140 degrees.	Before mixing the ingredients turn on the oven to dial to 140 degrees.
Take the lid off the glue stick and rub the glue on the tab, being careful not to get any glue on your clothes.	Grab a glue stick and rub it on the tab. Make sure you don’t get glue on your clothing.
When you have planted your seed, pick up the pot and move it it near to a window where it will get lots of sunlight.	Once you have finished planting your seed, pick up the pot and move it near to a window where it will have lots of sunlight.

This week for writing we have been looking at rewriting instructions. This was our writing for literacy. 

The Scientific Method

Title -  Fizzy Drink and Mentos Experiment

Purpose: What do you want to learn/find out?

Which drink has the biggest reaction to the mentos.

Hypothesis: Try to predict the answer to the problem. Another term for hypothesis is ‘educated guess’. This is usually stated like ” If I…(do something) then…(this will occur)

I think the biggest reaction might be the one that is desperately reacted to the mentos. I think it might explode a little bit because there was not that much liquid in it.

Materials: List everything you will need to conduct your experiment.

We used five different sodas: Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta, L&P, 7 Up, and Pepsi Packets of Mentos We used sellotape to put the mentos in it. After that we went outside so the sodas won’t fall out to the carpet. We then putted the mentos inside each one of the fizzy drinks.

Experiment procedure: The fun part! Design a test or procedure to confirm or disprove your hypothesis. Write down each step so that someone else could do the same experiment.

Get a pair of scissors or any kind of sharp object and create an hole in the middle of the soda cap. Get a piece of sellotape and stick 5 mentos onto it. Place the sticked mentos inside each of the caps and leave it there for someone to pull the sellotape to see how high it can go. Don’t forget to measure with a ruler.

Analysis/Data: Record what happened during the experiment.

When I looked at the mentos go down to the liquid, it fizzed up. Also the carbon dioxide released from the bottle which is also called gas. All of the sodas exploded a little bit, maybe because there was not that much liquid in it.

Conclusion: Review the data and check to see if your hypothesis was correct.

As I was saying about the prediction not all of the foam went up because it failed. So I was right about the mentos and fizzy drink experiment.

This is a scientific method I was working on. I have been working on it for about 25 minutes and this is about the experiments we had during the past few weeks. I hope you enjoy.

Attitude Talk- Paula Fakalata

On Tuesday after lunch we had a fabulous talk with Paula from Attitude. This man has come to talk to the Year 7/8's about Social, Mental,  Emotional , Physical and Spiritual issues. One of the things Paula was talking about was the Relationship with food. The Relationship with food is important because if we just eat because we have nothing to do that isn't good because it isn't a healthy relationship with food. One other thing he talked about was to don't let people on social media let us down and to always have a positive attitude

Immersion Assembly

Pt England School has kicked off Term 4 with an Immersion Assembly. Every start of the term, Pt England School holds an Immersion Assembly in their school hall to start off their term and also their inquiry topic. The topic for this term is ch-ch- ch- ch - Changes! The school consists of five teams, each team teaches different year levels. The teachers at Pt England also act and perform performances or make movies during the school holidays so that they can introduce it in the immersion assembly. Pt England School’s principal is Mr Burt and the associate principal, Mrs Nua. The two of them were standing positioned at the front of the school hall. Cooking corn fritters, they had a small cooking station. The two of them were serving out corn fritters, while they were watching each of the items from the five teams that were to follow.

Team 1’s item was about matter and physical changes. The teachers were dressed as witches. After that they had made a birthday cake out of cardboard. Many, many students were cheering and also the other teachers who also helped with their performance.

Team 2 teachers had made a movie. Throughout the term they are focusing on buoyancy. Their movie contains objects that sink or float. Teachers from team 2 have thrown objects in a pool to see if it sinks or floats. First object was a can of food in it. Obviously it sunk because food can be heavy. The second object was a tennis ball. When they threw it in their the tennis ball floated as if it is really light. Last but not least was one of the teacher's son. Her name is Miss Eadie. Miss Eadie grabbed her son and threw him into the swimming pool. Miss Eadie’s son floated.

Next up is the teachers from team 3. They have been looking at scientific experiments and dissolving substance in water which is a chemical reaction. One of the teachers from team 3 which is Mr Moran, who was doing a fizzing vinegar experiment. The other teacher Miss Scanlan who was also doing a experiment using milk, dishwashing liquid, food colouring. They were also acting as russian scientists like the crazy russian hacker.

Second to last is team 4 and they have made a movie about mythbusters and on various scientific experiments. In their movie they have been making up their own mythbusters. A teacher named Mr Goodwin who is part of team 4 was giving an example to him in the movie that when he drinks coffee every morning he sleeps during his learning time with his students. Another teacher named Mr Somerville was also giving an example to him is when he looks at his laptop too much his eyes turn into squares.

Last of all is the awesome teachers from team 5. Who did a live performance - Solids, Liquids and Gases and also states of matter. Teachers from team 5 were entertaining the audience and that they were in character. They were also testing on one another. On the stage there was a man name Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy Vottom (is a team 5 teacher) and his assistant/slave which is one of the team 5 teachers.

Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy Vottom was doing three experiment to threer teachers named Mrs Tele’a, Miss Berry and Miss Clark. The slave had got a water balloon to do it on Mrs Tele’a. The slave then counted 1, 2, 3 and above her head Mrs Ilaoa the slave had popped the water balloon and SPLASH!!! All of the water was on Mrs Tele’a’s head and she was so excited that they did another one on her. Next was Miss Berry. She didn’t wanted to get wet but she had to do it for the audience. The experiment is a Liquid into gas Pepsi experiment. It was now Miss Berry’s turn to get wet. Mrs Ilaoa finally opened the pepsi and it sprayed all over Miss Berry’s face, but luckily she was wearing big fat goggles. Now the last one was Miss Clark. She had to put ice through her back and the whole school had to see if she will giggle. Miss Ilaoa then did another round of ice through her back.

That was now the end of the immersion assembly.     

State of Matter: Remake of what does Physical form mean?

Walt: Synthesise information from multiple sources


This week is week 2 and my teacher Miss Clark and my literacy group Dr Seuss's have been learning about Solids, Liquids and Gases. This is what we are learning about for out topic which is called Ch, ch, ch, ch, Changes. Our learning intention is to synthesise information from multiple sources. Our following activity was a discussion document and a padlet we had to work on. First we had to get in as a group so we can discuss what matter is and what it is made of. 

The first activity we had to do was to make a copy of discussion doc and write stuff about the state of matter. We then had to work on this doc with a partner or in 3 and we had to give three examples of each state of matter. When that was finish we had to make a padlet and answer the following question. Remake of what does Physical form mean? We then answer the question and we had to post it to our blog.