TablesMaster

Our maths teacher set us a task. We had to learn 2 different times tables on a website called: TablesMaster. And we had to see what our fastest time was. To the left, I have decided to try the 13 Times Tables. As you can see, I got a time of 29 seconds. I was going to try and beat my high score of 22 seconds.

The image below shows that the 2nd times table I learnt was the 9 Times Tables. I got a time of 27 seconds trying to beat my high score of 23 seconds.

Elections 2017

WALT: Reflecting - understand how the ways in which leadership of groups 
is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.

This is all about the elections. Take a look. 

AIMS Games Reflect

WALT: Reflecting - on writer and audience appeal in news articles and campaigning.
This is my task from last week. Week 9. It is around the AIMS Games that were played
in Week 9. Take a look and I hope that you enjoy. maybe leave a comment down below.

Our Night Light

WALT: Identify features of a non-ficton text.
This was my task that was set for Week 3. It is all based around our Night Light
pretty much the moon. Take a look and I hope that you enjoy.

My Film Fest Experience - 2017

My Film Festival Experience

Well, it is that time of year, when everyone is busy trying to get their movies and ideas together for the very special, Manaiakalani Film Festival. Movies are being created all from the manaiakalani schools. Even my class had to come up with ideas and form them into a special movie to share. By the way, I had to be in 2 movies this year. One for class and One for an extension group for brainy students. Here, I will share what I have experienced doing them both.

What Did I Enjoy?

Class Movie: I enjoyed actually getting to be in our class movie and I also enjoyed helping out Mrs Ilaoa (My Teacher) to edit the Film Fest Movie. From my own perspective, I reckon that our movie is pretty awesome. Not to spoil it, but, in our movie, there is a very special guest. Watch it to find out who it is.

Extension Movie: For this movie, I enjoyed being a main character in my movie and getting to dress like my character as well. During this experience, We got to ride on our school bikes. (It was so fun)

What did i find challenging?

Class Movie: Well, to be honest, I found challenging trying not to slip when we went down to the creek to film a few bits. The rocks that we stood on were really slippery. (A couple of people slipped, Not Me!)

Secondly, I thought that maybe the editing was a bit challenging for me as well, trying to get all of the background sounds out and the voiceovers done.

Extension Movie: What I found challenging about the experience was trying to find the correct outfit that matched my character and the different scenes. Sometimes I even fell off my bike. (Ouch!) We had to shoot quite a lot of scenes. It was so difficult having to get people, send them back and then get others.

What should we improve on next time?

Class Movie: I think that next time we could improve on getting everyone to remember to bring their costumes that were needed. Most of the main characters struggled around that a bit. I think that I could work on having a louder voice maybe. When it is needed though.

Extension Movie: I actually think that, like I said about our class movie, people need to remember more often to bring their change of clothes to be in the movie. Because, they couldn’t just go out of school and get their outfit. But yeah, Maybe, we needed to focus on the time we had left.

Overall, I loved experiencing everything and getting to be in 2 movies at once. There wasn’t really anything that I hated about it and We had so much fun altogether.

THE END

Atareita

Ratio & Proportion Term 3 2017

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WALT: Explain or show the steps used to solve each problem.
Here is my Task for Week 9 Of Term 3 for 2017. It is all around, Ratio & Proportion.
There are about 20 - 25 question in this presentation. Take a look and I hope that
you enjoy looking at my work.

Moon and Tides Animation 2017 - Atareita

This is my Moon and Tides animation for Term 3 of 2017. This animation is all around

how the tides are connected to the moon when it orbits around earth. Watch my animation to find out more about the moon, tides and earth. Oh, and my animation also includes the phases of the moon to go along. Hope you enjoy and please leave some comments down below and give me some feedback. 

Cultural Twin Rays - Carving Project

Hey there, Bloggers! To the left you can obviously see that there is an image of a specific maori design. Well, maybe if you look closer, you will to Twin Stingrays, side by side. The yr 7 & 8's from Pt England school head down to Tamaki College, every "Tuesday (Yr 8's) and Thursday (Yr 7's)". We do about 4 activities down there. 1 each school term. This Term I was put into the carving activity. We had to create a design that we would like to have on a kowhaiwhai pallet. Here is the design that I thought about creating.

Hope you like it and leave comments down below please. Tell me what you think about my design.

SCIENCE TIME - Inquiry Project T3 2017

This is my inquiry project for Term 3. It is all around, Outer Space. These slides
have heaps of interesting facts about  a whole lot of different topics. It's SCIENCE TIME!
Take a look and feel free to comment down below and give me some feedback. Thanks
for reading.

Atareita

Mult Pyramid Wk 8 T3 2017

WALT: explain or show the steps we took to solve each problem.

To the left, this is my multiplication pyramid for week 8 of term 3 for 2017. You must times the 2 bottom numbers together and work up the pyramid to get the correct answer at the top.
I was asked to show my working for the top 3 layers of the pyramid. Here we go!




First question was: 75 x 180 = ??
I went, 75 x 100 = 7500. After that I did, 75 x 80 = 6000. Once I had found those answers out, I added them together and I got, 13,500.
Next question was: 180 x 48 = ??
At first I went, 180 x 40 = 7200. After that, I did, 180 x 8 = 1440.
Once that was done, I had to add them together and I ended up with, 8640.
Last question was: 13500 x 8640
First I did, 13500 x 8000 = 108,000,000
Then I did, 13500 x 640 = 8640000
I had to ad them together, and ended up with, 116,640,000

THE END

Geometry Questions

WALT: Rotate, Reflect and Translate shapes.
We are still doing the same thing as I wrote on my other post. This time, it is about Rotation. To the left is one question that I found really easy. The question was, "Which of the following shows the new position of the square when rotated a full turn? I got it right.
Down below is a picture of a question that I found really hard. This question was, "Which of the following shows the correct image,". It obviously got it wrong because it was a bit too hard for me.

Geometry Questions

WALT: Rotate, Reflect and Translate shapes.
This week we are learning all about shapes and angles. Our maths class had to go onto a site called, "Maths is Fun," to answer 10 questions around Rotation, Reflection and Translation. The picture to the left is a screenshot of a question that I found easy. The question was, "Which of the following shows the new position of the square, when is flipped over the L line.
The nest question is one that I found hard. It is around Translation. The question was, "Rectangle A'B'C'D is the image of rectangle ABCD after which of the following translations. I took a guess because I didn't know.

Cross Country Fun Run Comp 2017

Cross Country Fun Run Competition 2017

2 months from Friday 1st September, Team 5 had been running and training to achieve our personal best. It’s the event that we have been training for. That’s Right - The Cross Country Fun Run for 2017. I love training. Training helped me get more fit and faster for me to have my turn running at our, Cross Country. I was so excited.

Finally, last friday was the special day, Pt England School had been training for for a long time round. Cross Country Time. For that special day, we had an early lunch time. During then, we had to get changed into spare clothes that we had brought from home. They mainly had to be the colour of our houses. The house colours were - Yellow (Hikianalia), Blue (Hinemoana), Green (Hokule’a), and finally, Red (Te Aurere). I was in Hokule’a, the Green house.  And then, at 1:00pm everyone had to meet on the hard courts near the field. The court was filled with bright coloured students ready to compete and run. There were a lot of younger kids that would just get up and dance to any of the songs they knew that were playing throughout the rest of the day.

For the year 7 and 8 students, we had to run 2 laps around the, Pt England Reserve to reach the finish line. Altogether, we had to run 3 kilometres. Year groups had passed and all I heard from the front was, Mr Jacobsen say, “Year 7 girls, it is your turn to run.” I stood up slowly and tried to look proud and excited to run, but really inside, I had butterflies in my stomach and in my mind, I was feeling more nervous than excited now. I felt really excited before it was my turn to run, but now, I was feeling so scared and nervous, thinking about what place I would come. Would I come last or near the end. Furthermore, I remember what my teacher had said to me. She used to always come No. 46 out of 50 when she ran, but she was proud of herself for pushing through the pain and never stopping even when she thought she really needed to give up. She never ever gave up on herself. So… that is exactly what I needed to do during this competition. I just needed to pace myself. Jog lightly and not sprint. I later on realised that when I was pacing myself, I never needed to stop. I was told that when you keep going and then you stop, it is really hard to start running/jogging again at the same pace.

On the track, parents had just shown up to become marshalls and help tell the runners which way to go and what puddles or obstacles to watch out for, so that we keep safe. They encouraged the runners to keep on going to the end. I took their advice and ran for as long as I could. As soon as I was about to reach the finish line, I could hear heaps of people cheering for me and I could see my whanau standing by the finish line. They looked so proud to see me finish the race.

To this day, I still don’t really know what place I came after I had finished. I realised that it didn’t matter if I came near the end, it only matters that I never gave up and completed the race. For me, it was a big accomplishment to complete the run with only a little bit of training before. I feel so proud of myself to know that I didn’t give up. So, this is a message also to those people out there who think that they’re not fit enough or fast enough to complete the race. Well, it doesn’t matter how fit or how fast you are, as long as you pace yourself and never give up or stop. Note that it is harder to start again once you have stopped. Try your hardest to achieve your personal best.  

Geometry Transformations

Today, my maths class was given a task to complete questions on a site about geometry transformations. We had to post up 2 screenshots about our learning. 1 that we found easy and 1 that we found hard. We are learning about, Translation, Reflection, Rotation and Enlargement/Resizing. To the left is the question that I found really easy. It is a question around Translation. And below is a screenshot of the question that I found hard. It is around Reflection
Take a look and I hope that you enjoy.

Maria Tutaia - Bio

Here is a presentation all about a famous netballer called - Maria Tutaia. She has
inspired me to play netball and I wish to grow up and be just like her. I hope that
you enjoy this presentation that is loaded with information about her. Please feel free
to comment down below some more information that you can find about Maria
Tutaia.