Europe Slide.

This is my Europe slide from my, I like your latitude presentation. I chose the famous landmark the Colosseum which is in Rome because in Room 4 home class we have been learning about the Romans and what they discovered back in the day.  I also chose another popular landmark in Paris, France, The Eiffel Tower because it's a landmark that I would like to visit someday because of how popular it is.  

Tantalizing Transformation.

Task Description ~ This week Room 4 Math's class has been learning to Transform shapesusing Reflection, Rotation and Translation.

Rata And The Totara Tree Review.

WALT: interpret figurative language and its effect on a text.

The Rata and the Totara Tree I read was retold by Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira. The genre in her version was fiction. The key things she shared was that ceremonies and rituals had to be properly performed to ask for the God’s permission. This story is about a man named Rata who was commanded by his chief to build a large canoe so his people can voyage. After Rata looked and looked for the tallest tree he finally came across a large Totara tree. He ordered the men with him to cut it down. The Next day it was back up not a scratch. It’s like as if it hasn’t even been touch. 

Year 8 Leadership Camp!

Last week on Wednesday the 15th we went to Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp. The reason the year eights students got the opportunity to go on this camp was because it was all about leadership and learning what a true leader is. The whole 64 of us boarded 2 buses at the same time around quarter past nine.



After a hour and a half of travelling we finally arrive to our destination. As we all exit the bus yawning and stretching we remove our bags from the busses. As soon as Phil the man who runs the place introduced himself and the workers we finally got straight into it. We had our morning tea that was packed already in our backpacks. Next we got to play game in the indoor courts.

We then got to do activities the next day the first activity my group got to do was Archery, then flying fox, the third activity was Air Rifles, then we did paintball, the last activity we did was Go Karts. My favourite activity out of the 6 activities were Go Karts and Air Rifles. I really liked the Go Karts because I like driving and especially driving Go Karts when I was in the Go Kart I was also doing some mean drifts. The Air Rifles was also my favourite activity because I have never shot a Air Rifle before or put my hand on one. Another thing I really enjoyed about the camp was the delicious food Marcel the chef cooked. I also liked the people who worked their because they were friendly and kind.

One activity I didn’t like was the Paintball activity, I didn’t like this activity because it was with real paint balls but we had to shoot them with catapults. I also didn’t like this particular one because the balls were hard and I got shot in the face by accident then I didn’t feel like playing anymore. Another I was a little upset about was that I missed out on at least 2 activities that sounded fun. But the time I had at this camp was really fun. I would love to come back to this camp and try out the activities I missed out on.

Tech at Tamaki College

On Tuesday the 21st of May we went to Tamaki again. On Tuesday we made Chocolate Muffins. Normally we would cook or bake with a partner I normally cook with Bethan but unfortunately she was away sick. I was excited because I was on my own and I had to make 12 so that meant I had 12 to myself. But I shared some. These are the 7 simple steps.

Step 1 ~  1 1/2 cup of self rising flour into a large bowl, 1/3 cup of cocoa into the same bowl.

Step 2 ~ 1/2 a cup of sugar added to the bowl.

Step 3 ~ 1/2 a cup of milk.

Step 4 ~ 1/2 a cup of oil.

Step 5 ~ 1 egg

Step 6 ~ Mix well and drop 1 Tablespoon of mixture into muffin tin.

Step 7 ~ Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.





                                                                           

Battle Review.

Task Description ~ Me and my reading group read a fiction book called Battle written by Maria Samuela. It was a good story that could teach us older kid things to not do. I enjoyed reading it because the pictures were so entertaining and interesting which made me wanting to read more. The pictures also helped me understand what was happening in the story, Battle. Click this LINK! to read the story, Battle!

Cooking at Tamaki College.

Oh Noo it's our second to last week of cooking at Tamaki College. "Man i'm gonna miss cooking because every time we cook delicious food like the meal we cook today, Can you take a guess. We made Potato Top or Cottage Pie or a Potato Top Pie or what ever you would like to call it. The ingredients were - Mashed Potato mixed with butter, Cheese, Fried Mince with mixed veges. The cheese is underneath the mashed potato, On top of the mince. This was all made in a little tin foil.

Learning about Longitude and Latitude.

My Maps, New Zealand.

Task Description- 
This Term our topic in the school is I like your latitude but in Team 5 our topic is Where in the Longitude are you? Today we went on Google, My Maps and pinned some locations we know around New Zealand. If you click on a blue pin it will say the location you have clicked on and it will have a a description about the place and where in New Zealand the location is. We had to also look at New Zealand and compare different places in New Zealand using the compass directions.