25. Amazing Critters: Nature’s Super Powered Creatures

Hej  Everyone,

Today we had to do some Summer Learning Journey which was around critters and creatures. We had to do some activities about critters and creatures. We needed to watch a video about  what we needed  to do and what we were  doing. The video will be down here.

YouTube Video

Then we started our activity. We had  to research about  critters and creatures that have some amazing superpowers and what it is and what the creatures look like. We made a copy of a slideshow that was  already created but needed to be filled in with our creatures that we chose. The minimum that our teacher wanted us to talk about was at least 2 slides or creatures * Each slide had one slide which we would write about our creatures *. I created up to 4 slides which meant 4 creatures I will add my slides down here ⬇

After that was done we got gifted a badge for completing our slide show.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Whanau Fun Day: Bringing Smiles and Laughter Together

Marhabaan Everyone,

On Thursday this week we were able to have Whanau Fun Day and have some fun in the sun. Firstly we needed to come to school in our uniform but then before morning tea we would change into our house colors and my color was purple. For my clothing I had a purple tutu and 4 purple necklaces. In the purple  team we had Me, Treyden, Haji, Pita and Rizwan.

We began our first sport at  Ki O Rahi and the purple team was  on a roll. We had 5 points and the other team got 8 points just 3 points. They had just gotten enough points to just beat us in Ki O Rahi.

Our second sport was volleyball and our team was doing good we won almost all of our games but we had just lost to one game against the green and orange team. After all of that sport we had a lunch break and ate some food to regain our energy.

Our fourth game was soccer AKA football. For our teams we just had  a mix of whichever  team we wanted to go into and then we just started playing and then stopped  when we heard Whaea Lorraine telling us to move onto our next rotation.

For our last game we played Lape. Our team was good but not good enough because in the end the orange team won overall making them the champions of Whanau Fun Day.

Thank you for reading my blog and make sure to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Reading Response – Squished

Malo Ni Everyone,

This week we had to create a DLO about a book. The book that I chose to describe was Squished and the cover book looks like this ⬇

This book won’t be as long as my other blogs that I have done because all of my writing and description about this book is in my document that will be linked down there.

This is a book about a girl and her family. The girl in the middle with the yellow shirt is the main character and she talks about her life in the beginning her name is Avery Lee. She has  6 siblings but 9 people in her family ( Including herself ). I will add my DLO down here for you to take a look.

DOC Link ( Press here to enter the DLO ) 

Thank you for reading this blog hope you enjoyed it and make sure to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. From Percentages to Profits: Learning How Discounts Work

WALT – Learn about percentages and discounts and show your thinking and working out. 

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Is it really a bargain ? Sometimes shops can trick us into thinking that items are a bargain  when they may not be. For example, do they think we might not buy a $9.99 book if the sticker said $10? There hardly seems to be a day  that goes by without shops offering items at discount prices. The discounts are often shown as a percentage. 

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Zdravstvuyte everyone, 

As you can see from the first paragraphs of this blog that I’m going to explain a  bit about percentages and discounts. First things first percentages are included in discounts which show how much percentage the item or thing goes  for  then the original price.

What are  discounts and percentages ? 

Discounts are a reduction of the original price of the product or item. 

Percentages in supermarket meaning means that if it was up to 20% off meaning that 20% off the original price is the new price. 

What is a discount in supermarkets ? 

If you have ever gone to a supermarket you see price tags with a number and a percentage like this 50%. This means that the price has been lowered down and that if you buy the item then you could save a lot of money or some money. Some people fall into this trap it could either be a good bargain or a bad bargain. 

What we learnt around percentages and discounts !! 

We had to work from our year 8 textbooks and they  gave us some easy questions to do so we are able to get the hang of it. Some eof the questions we got asked were like 👇

If a book advertised at $9.99 and the discount is 50% or 10%,  we don’t need a calculator to work out the new price. Work out the new price of the book with  each of the discounts below. Round the new price to a sensible amount. Then in our math books we would round the new prices to the amount we think would be the sensible amount.

They would provide the percentages and we would have to work out the answer to the percentages and create the new price. Doing this activity was  hard but let me understand the working of discounts and percentages.

If you enjoyed this blog make sure to check out my other blogs and give me some suggestions in the comments but remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Respect in Action with Kiwi Can

Aloha Everyone,

This week for Kiwi – Can we had our greeting as Aloha ( Which comes from the island/country Hawaii. ) A few facts that I learnt was that their national animal is a seal and that they actually use USD money since they are under one of the 50 states. Our theme for this term was Respect and our topic was respect for  others and last week one was respect for ourselves. Respect for ourselves meant respecting others the way we want to be treated. Then we got straight into the energizer which was  agree or disagree. One side was  the agreeing side and the other was the disagreeing side we had to go to pick which side we  wanted to go to. So our Kiwi – Can leader Glaytor  would say a sentence and we would either go to one of the sides  that agrees or the  other side which would disagree then we  would state our choices.

After we had  a discussion on what skills we showed during this energizer. Some of us were not participating but some people tried  their best to participate in the discussions.  Then we did our catchphrase ( I forgot how it went ). After that we got into our activity which was  protector and as you can tell from the name was a game including a protector and the protector would have a buddy which was not able to do anything expect be protected from their protector and other protectors had  to try and touch the opponents buddy but the opponents could block the protector from the other team to protect their buddy.

Then after we  had a discussion on how we  played fairly in the activity and reflected on what we could do better. Then after discussing  we would play GKQ ( General Knowledge Questions ) and we have a GKQ master and the master would go around the circle and pick someone to start with. After  they have picked someone to come up and question them they have a question battle whoever answers first wins and keeps going until they get the answer wrong then the person that got it right would now do the same. And that’s what we  basically do for Kiwi – Can.

Thank you so much for reading my blog and I hope you learnt something from my blog and don’t forget to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Building a Steam-Powered Robot Frog: A Step into Mechanical Innovation

Privet Everyone,

This week for technology we are in the STEAM class we transferred into the STEAM ( Which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics.) We were told that we were able to design and create a robotic frog but before getting into this design we needed to watch a video of the scientific method and it looks something like this.

As you can observe from the picture there are the scientific methods.

Creating The Robot Frog : 

Before creating our robot frog we needed to watch a short clip of how we needed our frog to look like and how we create the robotic frog.

Materials : 

  • Cardboard
  • Triangles measured 14 cm across 7 cm going up   ( x4 )
  • A rectangle with the same measurements as the triangles
  • 3 circles  ( 2 normal 1 smaller )
  • 1 motor
  • 2 Batteries
  • Hot glue ( Gun )
  •  Skewers

With these materials we had to create this 🡫

Robot Frog Video 

This was the exact video we watched. This is our second class that we have been trying to create this frog. Some people have gotten to the point where they are hot gluing their bits and pieces together which is good because if we all complete this task then we get to move onto some other fun activities. If you want to create this just click on the video and have a go.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read my blog and if you have an suggestions for my next blog don’t forget to give  me some recommendations and always remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

Explanation Writing : A Good Friend

Assalamualaikum Everyone,

For our writing assessment we wrote about a good friend and the expectations of a good friend. We were basically explaining what a goof friend means because this was an explanation writing and in the word it says explanation which means explain. We were only allowed 40 minutes to write what a good friend means to you. And within this 40 minutes we had to brainstorm and write our writing piece. When writing this I was able to think about my good friend which was my cousin and most of the sentences were dedicated to her because she was always there not just for me but for a lot of people. I will add my piece of writing down here for you to take a look at. ( Click on the blue writing to see my piece of writing.)

25. A Good Friend – Explantion Writing – Sala

Thank you for reading my blog if you have any suggestions my comments will be available for you and make sure to always spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Capture The Flag

Malo Ni Everyone,

This week was a very busy week for all of us but most importantly some of our year 8 students. Our teacher Whaea Lorraine took some students to the Rangatahi Festival. Then she made the rest of the year 8 join the other class ( Room 10 ). Then we got to play capture the flag.

How to play / Rules  

First things first we are split into 2 teams. Then there is a line in between both teams there are also 2 bases one on one side then on the other side just like this. And in the bases are one ball and the people trying to protect their base are not allowed to step foot into their base only the opponents team.

  • If you pass the line into the opponents side then the opponents could run and tag you. If tagged then you sit down but if you are playing the other version your team mates can come and revive you by tagging you and then you continue playing.
  • To get a point you need to capture the ball or the flag inside of the opponents base when you’re in the base then the opponents are not able to tag you not even if they lean to try and tag you.
  • If  you run into the out zone then the classifies as out and you sit down and stay out or wait for a teammate to come and save you.

I  will add a video clip here ⬇  ( Might be some slight changes to the game. )

Capture the flag video 

This game is very fun especially when you get the hang of it. This sport contains teamwork, having a strong mindset, strategizing and much more.

Thank you so much for reading my blogs if you have any troubles with my blog make sure to comment down below and your reminder to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Remove Add Create : Using AI In A Joyful Way

Kia Ora Everyone,

This week on Tuesday we were able to do something unusual. We were able to use AI but not in a bad way in a funny but cool way.

What We Did 

Well firstly Matua Aina came into our class and told us that we were going to watch a video about how people can use AI in a funny and cool way that we never imagined that we could use and do. Now he instructed us to see a DLO about how we can insert ourselves to seem like we were in the actual place but guess what we weren’t actually. This could be classified as an illusion.

Here were some of my photos.

( In this image I was trying to imitate Spider Man )

( In this image I was acting like one of the minions )

And this was 2 of my snapshots that I took of myself.

The Process 

Firstly, we needed to take a picture of ourselves and make sure that it’s good to make it seem like you’re blending into the actual frame or backdrop.

Secondly, we had to go into an app which is called remove bg ( Stands for Remove Background ) then press the button that says remove background or something similar. After that download the photo of you and if you need to add some changes you are able toearse  of other stuff that is not included into your blogs if you need to restore something there is a button then the brush will restore what you need.

Next, get a Google drawing or a slide then insert a background that matches your image of you. Then make it into a background and insert the image of you, make sure that you find a perfect spot so that it seems like you’re in the actual image.

Finally, when you finish with all that you will now end up with an amazing portrait of yourself trying to seem like you were in the original piece.

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If you enjoyed this blog  make sure to check out some of my other ones and here’s your friendly reminder to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

25. Why Social Media Affects Us: Understanding Its Influence

Hola Everyone,

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As you can see from the I’m going to be discussing a little bit about why social media can affect us or our everyday lives. Social Media is a huge topic to write about. How ? Well because Social media has a positive side and a negative side. Most people think that  Social is a  positive platform to use but the thing they do not know is that they also have a huge negative side.

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What we did for our writing !

For our writing we were doing an explanation writing because our teacher wanted us to explain the reason why we think social media is bad for us. Our teacher gave us an example of a piece of explanation writing that  one of our classmates had written about ( which was about social  media writing ).  When we were done with writing our piece of writing we had to send it to our teacher  so she was able to mark  our writing and give us some suggestions (  She marked it like she would if  this was our writing assessment ). Her doing this was really helpful because I got to see what I needed help with and what I could improve from her suggestions.

Explanation Writing !

25. Negative affects of Social Media – Sala

If you saw my writing well you saw that see gave me 6  suggestions to help with my work and I used those suggestions to correct my writing.

Conclusion !!

In conclusion, being able to do this activity was enjoyable because it taught us the negative and positive affects of social media.

Thank you for being on my blog I hope you enjoyed my explanation writing if you forgot here is your reminder to spread the gospel !!!

Nga Mihi – Sala