Word Problems wk 4/5

WALT -  Use 2 different strategies to solve word problems

This presentation is a mixture of word problems my group and I had to solve. There are different strategies like decimals, takeaways, multiplication and more. Hope these strategies will help you of you are not sure how to solve it.

Word Problems and Sudoku

WALT -  Use 2 different strategies to solve word problems

Today I have finished my maths presentation about word problems and the Walt for today is to use 2 different strategies to solve word problems. In this presentation there are Easy, Medium and Hard word problems. I managed to get through them and once we have finished answering the questions we had to complete a Sudoku puzzle. 

Tapaono Interpreting Graphs

WALT -  a. Interpreting what word problems are asking me to work out.
WALT - Identify relationships by using graphs

This is my presentation about statistics and graphs. It is about interpreting graphs and creating graphs. This helps me to create graphs and to use a formula to solve practical problems.

The Rules

WALT - generate questions

This is my finished reading  for this week. The text that me and my reading group have been reading about is called The Rules. Once we have finished answering the questions our next task is to create a question cube for a buddy in our group. We had to think of 6 questions of our own to write on the question cube.

Time for Decimals!

WALT -  Use 2 different strategies to solve word problems AND adding and subtracting decimals



Today I have finished my my decimal maths presentation. This presentation obviously was all about decimals. I had to know how to add and subtract decimal equations. I hope this presentation will help you if you get stuck. 

Spitting to Survive

WALT - improve comprehension and understanding of a text

This is my reading presentation that I have completed for week 6. The text that I have been reading is about a snake called a spitting cobra. If this cobra spits in your eye that it will hurt really bad and it will be painful. At the end of the presentation I had to create a new presentation about 10 fun facts of any animal. I chose a tiger.

Running: Sport or Way of Life?

WALT - identify key information in a text

Manaiakalani Film Festival

WALT - write a recount

It was the 10th annual Manaikalani Film Festival of 2017. This remarkable event took place in Sylvia Park Hoyts Cinemas on Wednesday the 8th of November. A great amount of students from different schools in the Manaiakalani cluster have also watched the movies in the Hoyts Cinemas.

As we were seated in our seats we were excited and comfortable at the same time. We watched other movies from diverse schools and they were interesting and also not really the kind of movies I usually watched. The movies from Pt England School were the funniest. Some movies from Pt England that we watched were Slo Mo, Taste Test, Ask Your Aunty and other more cool movies.

After a long period of time watching these fantastic movies. We then went back out of the cinemas waiting for our buses to return back to school. I really enjoyed watching these fabulous movies created by students from each and different one of the Manaiakalani schools. You can click on the link to watch different movies from other school.

Parts of an Orchestra

Today I have created I presentation explaining the parts of an orchestra. In an orchestra there are different kinds of families. Brass family, string family, woodwind family and the percussion which is the largest family in the orchestra. This is all related to our topic and theme for this term which Musical Madness.

Equivalent Fractions

Learning about Equivalent Fractions

Today Tapawha met up with the teacher and learnt about fractions and equivalent fractions. We first folded up paper to make 1/2, 1/4, 1/8. We made equivalent fractions like 1/2 = 2/4 and 3/4 = 6/8 and 1/2 =4/8.   

Test Practice #3

This is my test practise number 3 for this week. This is to help us for our upcoming tests and our gloss test. We had to use different strategies to solve word problems.

Mr Patterson Motivational Talk

Today Mr Patterson came and talk to the Yr 7/8's about their future and other awesome stuff. One thing I picked up from his talk was when he was talking about Being a Giver not a Taker. Meaning not to be selfish and to be positive and have strength. Together we watched a short video about a 11 year old boy named Uili who has given his lunch money to a homeless man everyday for two weeks. The old man was crying and sitting out side the Leabank shops. A few days later Uili didn't know that he was going to take a trip to Wellington. He also talks about A+I+M. A stands for Aspiration, I stands for Inspiration and M stands for Motivational.       

Test Practice

This is my test practice presentation I have completed. This is a warm up test practice for the gloss test next week.

Test Prep #2

Today I have completed the test prep presentation. This presentation is a warm up for out test next week.

Explanation Writing

WALT - Practice explanation writing

Why is regular exercise important?

I will be explaining to you three main points to why regular exercise is important. How you can live longer, keeps you in a good mood and also keeps you healthy

First point for this explanation is about you and me living longer for the rest of our lives. Regular exercise helps us to live longer by being fit and always eating healthy food. Eating fruits and veggies will help you increase the level of having heart disease.

Secondly exercise also keeps you in a good mood for the day. By walking in the morning for 30 mins each day, stretching, running and other exercises. When you have finished doing all of that you will feel more happier and more excited for the day that is coming ahead.  

Finally my last main point of regular exercise is to keep your body in a healthy weight. Meaning to eat healthy and it helps you lower the risk of some diseases including type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

I believe these three main points will help you live longer, keeping you in a good mood and keeping you healthy are reasons why regular exercise is important. I hope you take this information and use this to keep you body strong.

Today I have finished off my practice explanation writing. This is to help with my test next week. The topic for this explanation writing is Why is regular exercise important? I have written three elements explaining each idea i have brainstormed. Hope you get information from this explanation writing.

Niue Group Performance

Today is Niuean language week and to celebrate a group of students from my school have practised all week to perform their traditional dance on stage at assembly. The theme for Niue language week is 'Ko e Vagahau Niue ko e Atefua he Tagata Niue' which means 'The Niue language is the Heart of Niue People. In assembly the niuean group performed on stage. The niuean girls did a performance which was really nice and hand movements were nice too. After that the niuean warriors (boys) did a haka or takalo in niuean language. Everyone was cheering and were happy to see their peformance.

Term 4 Immersion Assembly

Hello people, the is the start of a new term which is Term 4. The topic for this term is called Musical Madness!!!. Teachers from different teams have created their own skit or item during the school holidays to present to the students of Pt England for the last term of 2017. Each team did a very good job entertaining us with their awesome skits and singing. 

To start off this term we had an eye-opening performance by the remarkable senior management team and one astonishing teacher who are followed by Mr Burt, Mrs Nua, Mr Somerville, Mr Jacobson and Mr Wiseman (astonishing teacher). They were singing their new song Musical Madness Saves the Day. Each teacher had an instrument to play. Mr 
Burt was playing the guitar, Mrs Nua had her tambourine, Mr Somerville was rocking out his drums, Mr Jacobson playing with his trumpet and Mr Wiseman playing the bass. Together they made a wonderful band.

Team 1 teachers did a item when they were playing cards and listening to music. There focus for this term is listening to music and how it affects their emotions. Team 2 did an amazing performance of Miss Gaston singing "The Lion sleeps tonight". As she was singing other teachers came in with different instruments. Miss Peck was playing the castanet, Miss Tumahai was playing the xylophone and last was Miss Nalder playing the bongos. 

Teachers from Team 3 made a movie about songs in real life. They were also lip syncing to different types of songs as they were talking to each other. The teachers involved Mr Moran, Miss King, Miss Eadie and Miss Davis. They were singing different songs. Team 4 teachers made a little movie kind of like carpool karaoke but they were singing different songs in a car. Each of them had a turn driving while they were singing their hearts out!! The teachers are followed by Mr Somerville, Mr Goodwin, Miss Scanlan, Miss Parent, Miss West and Miss Buchanan. 

Last but not least was the wonderful Team 5 teachers who performed an excellent item. The group of teachers are Mr Wiseman, Mrs Ilaoa, Mrs Tele'a, Ms Tapuke and Whaea Kelly. They were acting as if they were a family and they also watched the movie Lion King for their family movie night. There was different music in the audio and whenever it changes their emotions change too. It was really funny and amazing.

My favourite was Team 4 and 3 and 5. They had wonderful movies and made me laugh the whole time. It is pretty sad for me because it is the last Immersion assembly before I go to college.

Statistics & Probability

WALT - a. Use everyday language to talk about chance classify events as certain, possible, impossible.  

This presentation is a introduction to our statistics and probability. For this week my maths group and I are beginning this week of with statistics and probability. Statistics and probability is something that will happen, certain, possible or impossible.

History of Ta'ovala

This is a presentation I made about the history of the tongan ta'ovala and also the 3 types of ta'ovala.

Mount Rushmore

Today I have read a text on Read Theory about Mount Rushmore. This text is about faces of four presidents, George Washington (1st US president), Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president), Theodore Roosevelt (26th US president) and last Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of USA. The four presidents are carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota. 

A South Dakota historian named Doane Robinson had wanted to carve western heroes on the mountain. But instead of carving western heroes a designer named Gutzon Borglum decided to make it more nationally by carving the faces of the four presidents. It took fourteen years to carve it. Finally on the 1st of October 1941 it was ready to be opened for the public to see.