Ocean at Pt England School

The Process Between Day And Night

2011-11-09T10:50:00.005+13:00

This presentation is about the process between day and night. Room 19 and I have all made a presentation about what causes day and night. Here is a little bit of information that causes day and night. I hope you enjoy this presentation.

My Dream Outta This World Holiday..

2011-11-02T12:20:00.003+13:00

‘Brring..................’ screamed the alarm. I tried to ignore it. I wanted to stay in my dream. My dream outta this world holiday.

In my dream holiday I would want to go to Jupiter, but if I took off today I would be 19 because it takes 7 years to get there. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.

Jupiter would be the fourth biggest object in the sky (after the Sun , the Moon and Venus). Its also is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the largest planet in the Solar System.

I would like to go to Jupiter not because its the closest planet to Earth or because its the biggest planet in our Solar System but because I really want to explore around the planet and see how big it really is. I heard that it has four large moons and many smaller moons that form a kind of miniature Solar System.

Thank you April.

The Order Of The Planets.

2011-11-01T10:43:00.003+13:00

This term our topic is Outta This World, Solar System. We have been doing a Mnemonic that will help us memories the order of the planets. Here is a presentation that Reina and I have made. I hope you enjoy this presentation.

What Are Killer Waves....

2011-10-06T10:36:00.001+13:00

In room 19 we had to read, write and learn about a book. We each got a book to study,we had to study, we had to summarise the reading and then put it together in a slide show. It is here on my blog so that team four can use it for reading task. I really hope you enjoy watching this presentation.

Georgia Conversation...

2011-10-03T11:47:00.000+13:00

“So Aliza what is the capital city of Georgia?” asked Ocean.
“The capital city of Georgia is T’blisi,” replied Aliza.
“So then do you know what the population is?” Ocean asked.
“Yes, the population of Georgia is over 4 million people,” answered Aliza.
“Great work Aliza,” I replied.
“So Ocean do you know one of the local delicacies in Georgia?” said Aliza
“Yes,one of the local delicacies is peaches,” I replied.
“Well Ocean do you know what continent Georgia is on?’’ asked Aliza.
“Yes,the continent of Georgia is Asia,” I answered.
“What are two of the famous people in Georgia?”
“One of them is Joseph Stalin and another Eduard Shevardnadze.
“What is their favourite sport?”said Aliza
“ One of the sports they like to play is football,” I replied.
“Okay then do you know what their neighboring countries are?” I asked.
“Well the neighboring countries are Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia,” replied Aliza.
“What is one of the major festivals in Georgia?” Aliza asked.
“Well one of the major festivals in Georgia is the Chabukiani-Balanchine Festival, a festival of ballet,” I replied.
“What is the team color?” I asked.
“The actual team color is red,” replied Aliza.
“Well then do you know what the alternative color is?” asked Aliza.
“The alternative color is red and white.
This is what the Georgia flag looks like.

Where In The World Is...?

2011-08-04T12:49:00.005+12:00

This task is about countries that didn’t quilify the rugby world cup 2011. We had to study different countries around the world. We had to find the flag, location,capital city, population and sports.

Ivory Coast:

Flag: Ivory Coast
Flag: Ivory Coast

Continent: Western Africa.
Population: The population of Ivory Coast is 21,504,162
Capital: The capital of Ivory Coast is Yamoussoukro.
Sport: Their sports in Ivory Coast is Soccer.

Bosnia Herzegovina:

Flag: Bosnia Herzegovina flag.

Continent: The continent for Bosnia Herzegovina is Europe.
Population: The population in Bosnia Herzegovina is 4,622,163
Capital: The capital city of Bosnia Herzegovina is Sarajero.
Sport: The sport they play in Bosnia Herzegovina is Soccer.
I have decided to study Bosnia Herzegovina for our Immersion tasks.

Were The Heck Is Pukekohe...?

2011-08-03T10:25:00.013+12:00

Different Auckland town centres are hosting Rugby teams from countries that qualified for the World Cup. One of these places is Pukekohe.

Pukekohe is a suburb in the Auckland region of the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern edge of the Auckland Region, it is approximately 50 kilometres south of Aucland City. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe)

The Maori word Puke-kohe means ‘hill’ of the “kohekohe”, New Zealand’s Mahogany. During the New Zealand Wars, a battle was fought in Pukekohe known as the Defence of Pukekohe East 1863 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe)

The township population of Pukekohe is approx, 19,000 people. Pukekohe is Franklin’s main town along with Waiuku (population approx 5,500) and Tuakau (population approx 3000). Latest population figures show Franklin with a population of approx 58,932 and growing. (http://www.franklin.govt.nz/FranklinDistrict/tabid/269/Default.aspx)
Pukekohe's race tracks are famous their.(http://www.franklin.govt.nz/FranklinDistrict/tabid/269/Default.aspx)

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe

Keep Your Eye On The Ball.

2011-08-02T12:35:00.000+12:00

We are using the nations of the 2011 Rugby World Cup as our inquiry path. For this unit we are in one of four teams: Brumbies, Force, Rebels, Stormers.My team is the Stormers.
There will be a number of tasks for us to navigate to achieve our goal of an excellent result in this unit. There are a mixture of individual and team tasks to be completed. The main task that will show our learning in this unit will be a Hyperstudio presentation about one of the countries in the World Cup competition.

Our Designs For The Street...............

2011-07-15T10:08:00.006+12:00

This Term, Term 2, room 19 and I have been making our designs for the street. We have been doing some research from the internet on furniture designs. We gathered information and sketched some of the idea’s and changing some of the idea’s. When we were drawing our designs we had to do a P.M.I. For those of you who don’t know what P.M.I is it’s Plus Minus and Interesting. When we finished our P.M.I we started creating our designs. When we were creating we had choices one of our choices were papermashaye. After we papermashayed we painted them the colours we wanted and them we drew patterns all over them.

'If I was You'

2011-06-29T12:46:00.003+12:00

If I was you
I would be blue,

If I was you
I would say achoo,

If I was you
I would paddle a canoe,

If I was you
I would argue,

If I was you
I would chew,

If I was you
I would say, “Ooh!”,

If I was you
I would break through.

Limericks......

2011-06-29T12:35:00.005+12:00

There was a little girl Ala

she had a friend Bella

they both had money

and bought some honey

and that was the little girl Ala.

James Mackenzie the Polygraph

2011-06-22T09:58:00.006+12:00

In 1902 Sir James Mackenzie invented the Lie Detector also called the polygraph. His invention was a less successful machine then the Polygraph that John Larsen invented. The Polygraph is used in police interrogation but only if it needs to be used.

James Mackenzie was born on April 12,1853 in Scone Scotland.He died in January 26,1925.He was educated at Scone Village school, Perth Grammar School and Edinburgh University. He was a member of the Burnley Literary and Scientific Club.

1855- Mackenzie was caught stealing 1,000 sheep from a sheep station north of Timaru.

1897, to measure the resistance of the skin to small electric currents emitted through metal electrodes attached to two fingertips of the subject.

1902- Sir James Mackenzie invented the Polygraph

1915- an American psychologist, William M. Marston, began to demonstrate a lie detection test

1930- just before World War II, the government and private businesses took over further advances in the technology related to the polygraph.

1931- Mr. Leonardo Keeler patented his device before proceeding to market his device to police departments across the country.

1938 using the lie detector to determine the positive reaction to using this razor.

Dr Mackenzie's application for the position of Medical Officer in the Workhouse Infirmary. At the Victoria Hospital. He was instrumental in establishing the Victoria Hospital which opened in 1886 and spent some time working there.

His invention the lie detector (Polygraph) it is important because the Police need it so they can find out the truth from people in investigations.

Bibliography

http://www.umw.edu/hisa/resources/Student%20Projects/Singel/students.umw.edu/_ksing2os/polygraph/origin.html -21/06/11

http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/forensic_2.htm - 16/06/11

http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/mackenzie/polygraph.asp - 21/06/11

Televisions

2011-05-26T12:45:00.001+12:00

Caselli invented a machine called the ‘Pantelograph’ wires. By 1880s, Alexander Graham Bell invented a machine that could send pictures and sounds over wires, the machine was called Photophone. In 1900 there was a world fair was in Paris, France, that was where the first television was used by a Russian named Constantin Perskyi. At the beginning when T.V’s were made, there were several types of TV technology. One system was a mechanical model using rotating disks and another system was an electronic model. In 1906, Boris Rosing built the first working mechanical television in Russia and in 1920 LogieAbbe Giovanna Caselli was the first person to send a picture over a wire in 1862, Abbe Giovanna Baird and Charles Francis Jenkins demonstrated an improved mechanical system. T.V’s these days are different because we have flat screens and we don’t always use an aerial.

THE MOUSE HOLDER CHALLENGE

2011-05-26T12:26:00.002+12:00

We were given a challenge to make an origami box that could hold Mr Harris’s mouse. It had to be big enough for his mouse and it also had to open and close with no glue to holding it together . We could choose to work as a team or by ourselves. I decided to work as a pair with Aliza, we were looking on the Internet to find some ideas for our box.

We made a prototype to see if it could work, it worked out really well so we made the box out of colored paper and we tested it again.

I was not confident that it was going to work so we tested it until I was positive that it could hold Mr Harris’s mouse without damaging it.

The challenge was awesome and I hope we can do it again.

Looking Forward Looking Back.

2011-05-26T12:25:00.001+12:00

Term 1:
Last term , term 1was so cool, I was excited because it was a new year. Last term we had lots of new things such as Netbooks , new class rooms and a new teacher.

We had more classes in technology like science and Electronics. At the moment I have been in both of the new classes and so far I find it really interesting.

We also have Taonga time that is when we go to the other classes in the intermediate school and in our groups we designed some fun things such as designing lino prints with Mrs Langitupu.

Term 2:
This term we are learning about designing things or making things Bigger , Better , Stronger and Faster. The topic is interesting so far. We have also been practicing the design processes of how to create a proper sign.

We have been practicing for the netball season and this week we had our first grading game. The team that I am in won our game and the other Year 8 team won their game too.
I play a lot of netball I really enjoy the sport.

I can’t wait for the rest of the term I know that there will be a lot of awesome activities and a lot more fun.

In Praising Of Adverbs

2011-04-05T13:10:00.001+12:00

Adverbs help describe Verbs.Verbs are doing words e.g laughing, running and holding. This picture is about a girl who has a beautiful smile. In this photo she is carefully holding a sunflower.

My letter home.

2011-03-29T14:31:00.006+13:00

Dear Aunty,
How are you. Hope you are well. I am doing good at school.
At school we are doing KFC, not the KFC we eat the Kids Fitness Club. We also have blogs, we have blogs to let the world know what we have been doing on holidays and all that. We now have Netbooks at our school.Our Netbooks are really great to have.

I am writing you this letter because I am letting you know what I am doing in school.
Love you Aunty

My Thoughts About Camp

2011-03-29T10:27:00.002+13:00

“YEAH” camp is coming and I gotta get packing. Next week on Monday Team 5 camp starts, it is called ‘Camp Take Charge’. I am really looking forward to camp because we did really cool activities last year. I am also excited to go camp because I get to spend time with my friends.

Yesterday we had our first camp meeting and that meeting was exciting because that’s when we were told what group we were in. I wish that my friends were in my group with me, but yesterday when we got told our groups the next thing we did was this one activity and it was quite hard. It was hard because there were like thirty of us in a group and the game was that you had to get your whole team across the hall without touching the ground, even if one person falls off the whole team has to start again. Our team did good but we just couldn’t get across to the end without touching the floor, we almost made it but then we got called to sit back into our group lines.

Monday came and I was so excited. My Group was called the ‘Carez’, the leaders were Kezia and Rayden and our teacher was Miss Tito. The first thing we did was peel the potatoes and kumaras. Maree and I were cutting them, we had to cut them into little pieces. The potatoes were easy to cut but the kumara wasn’t. Maree and I got all wet because people kept on chucking them in after they were washed.

The first activity we did was kayaking, we all got dressed into what we were going to swim in. We all walked down to the Pt England beach to meet Mr Burt. We walked down in our two lines. When we got there we sat down and waited for Mr Burt’s instructions. Etta and me were in a double canoe and I kept on hitting her with the paddle. I hopped out to have a turn on the single canoes. I only went half way then I turned around and hopped out. It got boring watching every body swimming and kayaking so I walked into the water and went down to Pharrah and Sylvia. I wasn’t going to get wet but Raven and Rayden wet me.

After that activity we went to Mrs Lagitupu and practised our item. Then we went outside to film our item. We played games with Mr Harris, the games we played with Mr Harris were Australian games. The Carez team were the last team to put up our tents. We went to Mrs Nua and Mrs Nua told us who we were in a tent with, I was in a tent with Kezia and Destiny. When we finished putting up our tent we got our bags and put them into our tent. “Finally we get to go to YMCA” I said out loud. Later on that night we were watching movies. I went into Miss Tito’s class and watched ‘Toy Story 3’. I was so tired that I almost fell asleep during the Movie.

Day 3 came and I couldn’t wait to go home. We all packed up our stuff and put our stuff in to our class rooms. We meet back into the marquette and waited until the buses came so we could go to Swimarama.

We finally made it to Swimarama and we watched the swimming relays. We waited for so long that I just couldn’t wait to get into the water. When the relays finished we jumped into the water. Vaine and I were going to jump into the water at the same time but she decided to push me in first. “Far out, the waters cold” I said to Vaine. I jumped out to push her in but when I got out she jumped in. I jumped back in and we swam around everyone hiding from each other.”Stop look and listen” said Mrs Nua, we all stop and listened, Mrs Nua said, “If you haven’t had morning tea all ready can you came and have some please, thanks.” I hopped out and jumped into the line. We had pizza bread and a calcium milk. Victoria, Vaine and me went to watch people jump off the diving boards. Vaine finished so she jumped into the line. One by one jumping off the diving boards, it was finally Vaines turn. Victoria and I were screaming out, “Go Vaine go.” She said that she was scared to jump off but she just walked off. she finished her turn and Victoria and I went to the hydroslide. We only had one turn on the hydroslide then we started playing tag with each other. I got tired so I jumped out and got changed. We all lined up into our group lines, we waited for the buses by the basin. As we were waiting we played sleeping lions. The buses arrived and the ‘Carez’ and another team were on the first bus. When we got back to school we went to the street and Mrs Nua told us who came first, second and third. It was finally time to go home.

Bumble Bee Pie

2010-11-25T14:34:00.003+13:00

I think that Bumblebee pie is a really great book and it rhymes and easy to read.
This book is really interesting and tells you how Mia thought you had to catch the bees first than you have bake it. She went to catch some bees and came back with 6 hundred bumblebees. She found many different ways to bake the pie, like in the air, the fountain, the mountain, the quarry, the lorry,the desert, in the woods or on the ice. Then Mia threw in all the bees and put on the topping and then the pie flew high into the sky.
The birds started picking at the pie and out of the pie came a whole lot of bees and that was the story of Bumble Bee Pie.

Mairangi bay

2010-11-25T13:17:00.005+13:00

Early on Friday morning the year 7 at Pt England school were very excited that we were going to mairangi bay. We were finally heading off and Me, Gabby, Shaniah and Santy were sitting right in the middle. Every time we would turn a corner we would go up and would kind of turn. Gabby and I were telling each other stories until we got there. We finally got there and me and Gabby waited for most of the year 7 students to get off the bus and then me and Gabby hopped off.

As I hopped off I could fell that wind flying pasted me. “Oh my gosh, its so cold”, I said to my self.
Even though I had my jacket on I could still feel the wind. We all gathered together and sat down on the grass. We waited for the instructions from Mrs Nua. Then Mrs Nua said “Ok then lets go and find out were we put our bags so we followed Mrs Nua up the stairs and then Oh hello there they were the life guards. We walked in and the life guards said “ Come on in and put your bags in that area over there and then come over here and sit down,” so we but our bags in the little area and we sat down in of the life guards. All of us were finally there so the life guards introduced their selves and then told use what we were going to do later on. Later on that day we played games then we had lunch.

After lunch we grabbed our bags and come back down stairs to eat our lunch. During lunch time we played games and buried each other. The whistle went and we all said”Oh man all this fun time and it has to end now. We sat down and listened to Megan a life guard. After the instructions she told us to hop in a line behind Ngaina and Cruz and then we headed down to the beach and listened to the instructions she told use the we hopped in the water. After that we got dressed and headed home.

Day1 with our NetBooks

2010-11-18T12:57:00.003+13:00

"Ya" I said to my self,"they finally arrived." Ive been waiting for them all morning and I just couldn't wait any longer. As we got the NetBooks we left them on our desks and waited Patiently until the bell rang. "Bring" the bell rang and we were all excited to finally have our own NetBooks to use.Before we got it ready we done the karakia, mihi and a himene. Then we pulled our NetBooks out, turned it on and signed in. Ms T gave us instructions to follow just so we knew what to do. When I finished the instructions I had a look around to see what other cool stuff was on there, I even learnt how to change the picture on the wallpaper.
Well my day is about to end and I have had a lot of fun on the NetBook.

Earth Worms

2010-11-18T12:41:00.004+13:00

Earth Worms are segmented worms which means when a part of its body is separated or cut of they can still move and they are still alive. They have no legs but they can still move from place to place. The Earth Worms live in soil, their skin is covered by film of muscus. They are Decomposers that means that when they die their skin rots. They eat soil, Dead and decaying material, the soil turning and remixing it while tunnelling and are unavailable for their healthy soil.

Fia Fia Night.

2010-11-12T22:11:00.000+13:00

Last Term at Pt England School we had Fia Fia Night.

Fia Fia night is when we break into different groups like dancing groups and culture groups. My favourite part of the night was getting up to perform in front of everyone.

Here are some video snippets of the groups I was in.

Niue Group from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Kapa Haka Fia Fia from KPE TV on Vimeo.

what we learnt

2010-10-22T12:11:00.004+13:00

We have been learning how to share the love and how to link photos on to our blogs to use.http://www.totarasprings.org.nz/

Giant Millipede

2010-10-13T10:39:00.001+13:00

All shipshape and ready to sail.

2010-09-07T11:51:00.004+12:00

All shipshape and ready to sail.
Our reading task was to find a picture of an Optimist and lable all of the equipment. We read about Tracey Page and Poppy Stevenson who belonged to a girls sailing group on Waiheke Island. They sailed thier dinghy called Petrel. They keep it upside down on the beach so it doesn't get full with water and sand. The first step is to put the mast up, then you have to lash the stays in a bow to keep the mast standing straight but you must remember to put you're life jackets on. You should alway's put you're sunscreen on even if it's not sunny so you don't get sunburnt. You have to keep you're dinghy facing the wind when you pull up the sail otherwise you're boat will catch the wind and tip over.

Immersion Assembllies

2010-08-23T12:17:00.001+12:00

Immersion Assembly is like an assembly but when all our teachers dress up and try to give us an idea of what our topic is.

We have an Immersion Assembly at the start of every term. Each team, from Team 1 to Team 5, have an opportunity to describe who they are..

One of the Immersion assemblies I remember is “up up and away”. One of the Characters I liked was Mr Palmer, he was a flight attendant.

Another Immersion Assemblies I remember was when I was in Room12, Miss Gardens class. We where learning about ‘Blooming Success’. Miss Garden was a flower a funny looking flower to but I can’t remember what kind of flower she was.

One of my favourite immersion Assemblies so far is Mighty ‘TEEN’ Mariners. My favourite Character was Miss King, she’s the teacher that loved Johnny Depp from ‘Pirates of the Caribian.’’ Miss king was funny when she yelled out ‘Johnny’!. My other favourite Character was Ms Tito, she was funny as well because she was Jessica Watson. I think Ms Tito was a good actor she had a funny accent too. I was wondering if Jessica was from Australia and she was.

Twilight.

2010-07-26T09:13:00.011+12:00

My favourite Movie is Twilight. Two of my Favourite characters are Bella and Edward. I like the part when Eward took Bella to play baseball and when James, Victoria and Laurent came, Edward told Bella to let out her hair so she let it out. Then Laurent asked Edward and his family if they could play and they all said yes. So they all turned around and got ready to play again until Bella turned around the wind blew her human smell towards James, and James said'' I believe you brang a snack.'' Then Edward's mum Elizabeth pushed Bella behind her to keep her safe. The sad part is when James bite her and all this stuff went into her and Edward had to suck all the stuff out. Then she ended up in the hospital. When she woke up her mum was ther and Bella asked were Edward was, her mum said that he was asleep and he didn't want to leave with out seeing her. Bella asked what happend and her mum replied ''you fell dowm the stairs, fell through the window and brock her lePr

The Legend of Mt Taranaki DLO

2010-06-25T12:14:00.001+12:00

This term we are learning about Active Earth. Ms T gave us a task to do. We were asked to retell the Legend of Mt Taranaki.

We had to get into groups. The members in my team was April, Gabby, Etta and me. I got to decide what to do. We were going to do a drama but we decided to do green screeting because we thought it would have been easier. We had fun creating the project but the green screening was trickier than we first thought. Instead of putting images in the background we kept it as a green screen.
When we finished, I was so happy. We finished on time.

Here is our DLO

Here is our assessment rubric for the Mt Taranaki DLO

These are my reflections about our project.

Taking A Piture With Tye

2010-06-21T12:55:00.004+12:00

On Saturday 19th June 2010 I took a picture with Tye. For those of you who don't know Tye he is Scotties brother of Short land Street. That morning I went to the Auckland netball courts with Tyla and her mum. Me and Tyla went for a walk, then Tyla walked straight past Tye and didn't even notice him, but when I walked past him I noticed him of a programme. I looked at him a couple of times before I got to Tyla, I was wondering if he was of short land street. When I got to Tyla I said I think I just saw Tye of Short land street. But Tyla said ''No it's not him, and I said''Are you sure,'' and she answered back''Yes.'' So I said I wanna watch them play Tennis so I could get a closer look if it was Tye. Tye's daughter was playing with her skipping rope. So went up to her and said'' Is that you're dad,'' and she answered back''Yes,'' Then I said is you're dad on Short land Street,'' and she replied''Yes.'' Then I asked her if we could asked him if we could take a picture with him, but she said''ask him you're self.'' So me and Tyla stood there saying can you ask him or no you ask him. Then when he was about to leave I walked up to him and said''Are you Tye of Short land Street,'' and he said back''Yes I am.'' So I asked him if we could take a picture with him, he replied''Ok then.'' So me and Tyla started laughing and wouldn't stop laughing. Tye's wife or girlfriend took the photo for us. when she took it I said thank you to him and his girlfriend.Then we went to show Tyla's mum and we where still laughing. Then we stop laughing the next day.