Making Nets Using Geogrbra

 This Morning in Mathematics with Mrs David we learnt how to use a website called Geogebra Classic. Geogebra is a name in portmanteau created from the two words Geometry and Algebra. It is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application. We first designed a Pentagonal base prism and moved onto creating other shapes using Geogebra Classic.

Improving Your Gratitude!

- Taonga, My Gratitude Box

What kind of impact can gratitude affect on your life? In Health I have learnt that gratitude can mean a lot of things or can help you in lots of different ways as a person in life. I have also learnt that you have to practice gratitude and to practice gratitude you can do these three things, exercise, emote and extend.

My way of Exercising gratitude is, spending 10 minutes before I go to bed and write at least one thing I am grateful for on a piece of paper and put it in my Gratitude box. I will spend at least 5 minutes thinking about one meaningful thing that I am really grateful for to have in my life. It can be an environment, a person or even an object it just has to be something you are truly grateful for and why.

Emote, this means you need to feel what you are grateful for. When I want to feel what I am grateful for I like to make sure I am in a quiet place like my room away from any distractions like electronics and people. I like to take this time to wind down my brain from being on my phone to think about what I am grateful for before I go to bed. Sitting in a quiet place away from any distractions can help you think about how you feel about what you are grateful for.

The last thing you can do to practice gratitude is extend. If I was to write that I am grateful for my parents in order to extend I would do something that shows how I am grateful for them. For example I will clean the house for my Mum and Dad before they get home and because when my dad gets home from work he is always cleaning and I know my Mum likes the house nice and clean. I think this will show how appreciative I am because of my parents' hard work that they do. So doing something positive for someone you are grateful for can show how appreciative you are of them. If you are grateful for a park down the road from where you live, maybe you would like to pick up any rubbish in the area that you're grateful to have.

What are some benefits of gratitude on well-being? Gratitude can improve your social well-being because it helps you understand how lucky you are to have the people, people and objects that are important to you in your life. So you would always want to give them the utmost respect and love towards them because some things might not be possible without them. Gratitude also improves things like physical health, psychological health, self-esteem and can increase mental strength. Gratitude can also open the door to more relationships and some people benefit from better sleep, but overall gratitude can really improve your well-being.

Social Studies

Kia Ora, My name is Paikea Cecil. I am one of the thirty fortunate students who got selected to be part of a class called Akomanga Kaihanga. Our main Social Studies teacher is Ms Apelu. Karl is our main project teacher. The purpose of being part of this class is so we can come up with our own ideas that could help or predict something in our  community for a better future. 

At the start of the term each of us got put into five teams of six. I am in a team called Island Skittles. The other four teams are Team Renegade, Team Polys, Team Donk Corn and Team Jaxxz. The people in my team are Mary, Mathew, Leanah, David, Cherryanne and Me. 

My team's main idea or focus is Water Safety. Our point is that we want more kids to be aware of things like rips or rough rivers. We think that a lot of kids, especially polynesian kids like to hang out at places like the beach or the pools. But sometimes when they're at the beach they could be in a situation where they are swimming and a rip takes one of them out. So we want to provide lessons to teach children how to survive in water when they are alone.

At our school we found out that one of the P.E teachers, Mr Moyes, has a water safety programme for Year 10’s. Me and Mary got to talk to him and he said that this programme is mainly about survival, it's not about knowing how to swim like freestyle or backstroke. The reason why we wanted to talk to Mr Moyes was so that we could ask him if it was possible if this water safety programme can get extended to Year 9’s as well. He said that he will talk to his team about what our group is wanting to try and make happen. But extending Mr Moyes water safety programme was one of our main ideas so that more kids could be involved.

We thought of another idea we didn’t think would work but possibly could. This idea would have to take a lot of time and evidence. We were thinking that Tamaki College should have their own pool. Mr Dunn said that Tamaki College is getting some new buildings and if he can he will put a pool part of the new buildings plan. This idea on building a pool for Tamaki College could take a while to confirm this. Me and my group are gonna have to talk to some people like T.R.C, Mr Dunn and the Head boy and girl.


I think that this project is on the right path and ideas we thought of at the beginning of term 1 are coming to life. Me and my team would love Mr Moyes to get more kids in his programme and to experience it. But if Tamaki College had their own pool Mr Moyes wouldn’t have to worry about booking swimming lanes at our local pool down the road. It could also be easier for more students to be involved in the swimming programme. But the swimming pool idea could take a while to make happen.

Task Description - This was our Social Studies task for homework. I wanted to explain how we started our project and what happened at the start of Term 1. I elaborated on what my team main ideas are and where we are up to at the moment.

Te Whare Tapa Wha - (Health)

In Health we designed and created our own Hauora Box.
On each wall of my Hauora box I wrote the four dimensions representing our well - being.
Each wall has its own dimension - Spiritual, Physical, Mental / Emotional and Social. The maori
words are - Taha Wairua, Taha Tinana, Taha Hinengaro and Taha Whanau. The words listed
under the main words showing what each wall represents are the keywords. The keywords are
words that relate to the dimension that it's in. 

If you look at a house with four walls like this Hauora box. If one of the walls was collapsing
or weak it wouldn't be able to hold the house or the roof for long. But if all four walls are strong
the house would stay up and won't end up collapsing to the ground. If your physical well being
was weak like you aren’t exercising or taking care of your body. That can in someway affect your
other three dimensions. It could affect the way you think or feel. 

Sometimes even one small incident can bring down all four of your walls.
Like you could have an argument with a family member and you have all these negative
emotions and feelings. So then you don’t feel like doing anything like exercise or going for a little walk.
Then you don’t want to talk to anyone like family because of your anger or emotions you are feeling. 

To fix each wall  you can work on one wall at a time or build on it. If you got into an argument with
someone that is family.  You could start with your Social well-being by talking to them about what
had happened and maybe hug it out. Or you could apologise if you think you need to. Once you're
like friends and have sorted out what ever happened you could go to the gym or go for a walk.
Doing fitness can help with things like stress relief or help you to feel better. Things like that
can also help your physical well-being.

Who dunnit?

Who DUNNIT?

In Room 4 we are solving a crime, someone had broken into a house with rare valuables lying around and shattered a window to get in. We had discovered little bits of cloth that was covered in what it looked like blood next to a broken window. We then had a look at the blooded cloth under a microscope and we found out that the red stuff on the cloth was actually blood. Looking at the CCTV footage there were at least 4 suspects so we decided to take a blood sample from each of them.

Each suspect had to take a blood test because we knew we had to find A+. Suspect 1 blood was A B+, suspect 2 blood was B and suspect 4 blood was 0. But looking at suspect 3 blood was different because their results were A+. We knew this because the blood on the ripped material turned out to be A+ so we were trying to find out what suspect blood is A+.






Task Description ~ This task was for Genomics and we had to actually find the suspect using chemicals but the blood wasn't real but we just called it Blood. Just a small group of us finished finding the suspect because the whole class couldn't handle it.

Six-Sentence Story (3 little pigs)

Six-sentence story
Walt - Create a narrative.
Sentence 1: Begins with ‘Once Upon a Time’ and introduces the main character
Sentence 2: Describes where the character lived
Sentence 3: Describes where the character’s special talent
Sentence 4: Describes the character’s problem
Sentence 5: Tells why the character felt that way
Sentence 6: Tells how the character solved the problem

Once Upon a Time, lived three chunky pigs.  They lived in a thick green, remote forest. The three of them were able to craft little huts out of three different materials - sticks, hay and bricks. Unfortunately nearby lived a dreadful, hungry wolf. Every time the dreadful wolf visited, he would huff and puff and blow down the two houses that were made out of sticks and hay by two of the pigs. So the two pigs bolted away to help their other brother build a brick home so the three of them would be safe from the big bad wolf.
Task Description: My task was to create a 6 sentence story. I chose to retell the 3 little pigs in my own way and in my own words. 

Fair Trade!

Task Description: This week for math we were put into 5 groups of 4-5. Each 
group were a country and we each had made up names for our country
from our teacher Mrs Stone. Each group had 5 things Coffee, Gold, Oil, Lumber and 
Electronics. Well the whole point of this was we were playing a little trading game where we 
could trade the items we had with the other groups to hopefully make profit. The aim of this game
was to become the wealthiest country out of the other 4 country's.

Genomics, 11-11-19 lll smallest to LARGEST

Walt - Place organisms on a continuum. 













Task description - Today in Genomics/Science we were placing living organisms from smallest to largest on the blue line. We also had to think about what animals were the smallest and animals that were the largest.

Looking at onion cells through a microscope (experiment

Aim: (On a slide are we able to see a clear picture of onion cells through a microscope)

Hypothesis: I think we will be able to see a clear picture of the onion cell at a magnification of 10x

Equipment: 

• 1 onion
• 1 Slide
• 1 Cover Slip
• Tweezers
• Blue Stain

Method: The first thing we had to do was get our slide. We then had to peel off a thin layer of onion skin. Then we carefully placed the thin layer of onion skin on the slide and made it flat so there were no lumps. Just to make sure we put 1 drop of saline on top of the thin layer of onion. So that we could see the onion cells on the slide through the microscope we put 1 drop of blue dye on the saline so it would be easier for us to see the onion cells

Observation/Conclusion: After adjusting the microscope so we can see the onion cells clearly. We finally got to see what onion cells look like. From what I could see they were very detailed like lots lines connected to each other in some way, in between the lines were dark purple dots but I think the funny looking dots were just the purple dye that we had applied on top of the saline or it was part of the onion cell but the dye had covered it

Task Description- Today we got to do a little experiment. But before attempting the actual experiment, Mrs Stone told us to create a new document so we can write down our Aim on what were gonna attempt or see if what we're gonna do is gonna work. I also had to write down my hypothesis and equipment to make this experiment work. After attempting the experiment as you can see I wrote the method so you know how I made this experiment work. Lastly I wrote my observation or conclusion to show you what my results were overall.

- Pic of onion cells.

What make's an effective leader?

Term 4, Week 1. Walt - Identify and use features of explanation writing. 

What makes an effective leader? A true leader has a passion for a cause that is larger than they are, and their passion is leading others to do the right thing. Leaders have a lot of confidence because their confidence can help others have some confidence in themselves to do anything or be anything. To be an effective leader you have to be a good person, an effective leader would treat everyone with respect and would have good manners.

Firstly, a Leader's passion is being an effective leader. Well, some leaders have more than one passion, but they put a lot of hard work to be a good and effective leader. Leaders that have the passion to be good and effective cares about being a leader. And a Leader with a dream and a vision that will better society, or at least, some portion of it.

Secondly, Leaders with confidence can help others be more confident in a variety of situations. Like if your Leader or someone you follow that inspires you are very good at speaking in front of a large number of people and make it look so easy. Maybe one day their courage can help you have the courage to do the same. But not only that, Leaders have to be confident in themselves and others, so they can have confidence in others to help support them in whatever they're doing.

Lastly, being a respectful leader is one of the main things all leaders should be or have. All leaders have to have good manners, respect for everyone even if they don’t know them. An effective leader is always polite. Being respectful, kind, polite and nice makes you look like a very good person and it shows that you were brought up by your parents correctly.

All three points are very important to be an effective leader. Having a dream and a vision will help a better society if your passionate about doing the right things in being an effective leader. Having confidence in yourself so you can become or do whatever you like. Having good manners or respect towards everyone just makes you a good person. So, did any of these three points help? Would you like more information on, What makes an effective leader?

Task Description - This week we are practicing, Explanation Writing. Because next week Thursday we have our writing test and our main writing topic or genre is Explanation Writing. So this week we had to write about, What makes an effective leader? And I am a leader myself so I just took my three main points from what I know about what I have to do when I have to be a leader.

K-Pop History

Today we are learning about the K-Pop history and how K-Pop came to be. Before K-Pop was invented some Korean people wondered how they can make people from around the world like or want to listen to Korean music. So this man had this genius idea, to start up his own studio/company and find unique and attractive Korean men to be in a Korean bot band. But this guy wasn't the only one who had this type of idea. But there were also some restrictions and the Korean boys that were found on the street had to agree and sign a contract. There were some very strict rules on the contract and when they signed the contract they were pretty much saying, "you have full access to my life". If they broke the contract they could never rejoin to be a Korean star/idol. Their food/diet was very strict as well like they had to eat what their boss told them to eat.

But the main thing they had to find about Korean boys was that they had to be very attractive and it didn't matter if they could sing or not. If their boss didn't like the way they looked they would make them get plastic surgery but only if they had signed the contract, that was basically saying "you have access to my life". Now days most people from around the world listen to K-Pop because of how catchy the beats are and how creative their music videos can be. But I think that some people should still acknowledge the traditional Korean dance. Because some people from around the world think that K-Pop is Korea's traditional thing. So Korean people should try keep their traditional culture alive so they remember how their ancestors originally performed.

Should student have to wear school uniform?

Should students have to wear school uniforms? Uniforms have many drawbacks because they are not always affordable, creates more laundry with extra items to clean each week and they make everyone the same.

At Pt England School the school uniform is too expensive. The jacket is $49 - $54 dollars. It is about 40 dollars for a sport t-shirt, which is compulsory to wear when we do fitness, And the culottes/shorts are about $32. But in the year 7&8 / intermediate all the girls have to wear culottes which are about $47. So if we just wore the clothes sitting in our draw waiting to be used, it would help students families a lot more.

Reason number 2, I think here in New Zealand there are some poor students that only have 1 set of uniform, so they either wash their uniforms everyday when they get home from school, Or they wear the same pair of uniform at school for 5 days. Then on a Friday they would wash their uniform so it would be fresh and clean for the next week. So what I’m trying to pin is that if we just wear the clothes that are sitting in our draw it would be easier. And yes you would still have to wash your mufti clothes everyday but sometimes when schools have bright uniform and you keep washing it, it either fades or shrinks. 

Some school staff, principals or teachers think wearing school uniforms help prevent to stop bullying. Because it makes everyone the same and some schools are so strict that your hair tie has to be your school uniform color or your socks have to black or white. Well at my school you aren’t allowed to wear hoops in your ears because they might get caught on something. But that’s not the point. The point is in my point of view is that teachers need to be harder on kids so they don’t bully and actually talk to kids and be more open to kids and be nicer to the kids who they think might need some actual help. Like talking to the kids who don't feel comfortable talking to their own families.

So overall I think students shouldn’t have to wear school uniform or some schools should even give students the option to wear school uniform or to wear mufti. So that if there is a school trip the teachers can tell the kids to wear their school uniforms so that the public can see what school is that. But back at school on normal days teachers or principals could give students the option to wear mufti. So here in NZ I think some schools uniforms prices are too high and some parents just can't afford it. Or school uniforms makes more laundry sometimes, or if you have 1 set of uniform every time you wash it, it starts to fade or shrink. I even think it's sometimes best to look different and just learn to accept people for who they are and teachers should teach that.

Task Description - Ms Tapuke gave Room 2 Literacy a topic and we had to look at the pro's and con's site that she had linked for us before writing our 3 main opinion. After looking at the pro's and con's we had to say if we agreed or disagreed with the topic/statement. Then we had to write our 3 main points on why we agree or disagree like a like brainstorm. Ms Tapuke helped me with my

Meet the Kākāpō! (create task)

This is my create task that I had to do for week 9 and 10. This poster is a information web about Kakapo's titled Meet the Kākāpō. I had to pretty much summarize the information off this article we first had to read before starting our task.

Whats inside a cell?

What’s inside a cell?

SAY IT - NAME IT - LABEL IT

NUCLEUS: It is an organelle found in a eukaryotic cell. It is also known as the brain of the cell. 

RIBOSOMES:  Are where RNA is translated into protein. The protein is called protein synthesis. Ribosomes also bound to endoplasmic reticulum.

CHROMOSOME: They carry all the information that helps a cell grow, thrive and reproduce. Chromosomes are also made up of DNA. Segments of DNA in specific patterns are called genes. Your genes also make you who you are.

GOLGI BODIES: Receives proteins and lipids (fats) from the rough endoplasmic reticulum. It modifies some of them and sorts, concentrates and packs them into sealed droplets called vesicles.

MITOCHONDRION: Are the working organelles that keeps the cell full of energy. They are also small organelles floating free throughout the cell. 

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM: This is also a type of organelle found in eukaryotic cells that forms an interconnected network of flattened, membrane-enclosed sacs or tube-like structures known as cisternae.

Stereotype Poem

                         

Morse Code

Did you know in New Zealand this week is math week. So in Math our teacher Mrs Stone put us into little groups I was with Naomi, Amelia and Jaylim so there were four of us. There were 7 groups altogether and after we found out what our groups were we were told to go to a table. Mrs Stone then came around the classroom handing out 3 papers, one paper had the key to solving the questions that were on the other 2 papers. I think it was fun working together as a team to work out the questions together.

Breakout in Maths!

Today for the last day of Maths Week we did a breakout. If you don't know what a breakout is click this link! We worked in our Maths week groups for this task as a team. I worked with Amelia and Hinerangi, Jaylim was busy and Naomi was at a tournament. In my opinion I had fun working this problem thing out.

KPMG Reflection

Today we got the opportunity to go to KPMG. My favourite part was the food because it was the first time the chefs did curly fries along with the curly fries there were mini burgers and like mini pizza bread. If you didn't know KPMG is Manaiakalani's main sponsor. KPMG is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organisations.

When we arrived some of the KPMG staff introduced them self and then two lady's named Susan and Lucy talked to us about their job, Ecology. After they talked to us about what they do we had Scones with raisins in it for Morning Tea. Straight after Morning Tea we went for a little walk and visited this charity called Sustainable Coastlines. When we got there a they did a little presentation for us about what they do and more. When we arrived back to the KPMG building we did a little activity that we were given by a lady named Miro. Lunch then came so we had lunch then we completed our activity. When two o'clock came we started to pack up and got ready to go back to school.

Quick Write! What am I?

What Am I ?

Today I am describing a fruit or a vegetable without saying the name of the fruit or vegetable! 

What am I ? I am round and I sometimes come in the color red sometimes in the color green.
I am a fruit and a lot of people like to eat me. When I’m green I’m sour when I’m red I’m sweet
and juicy. You can have me in a pie or a sponge you can make juice out of me and you can
eat me dry. I grow trees and when you pick me off a branch of the tree I have a little stick on
the center of the top of my head pointing up. I also don’t smell like much. People who have
odontophobia wouldn’t really eat me when I am solid.

Guess What I am in the comments section!!

Task Description - Before getting into our writing our teacher Ms Tapuke gave us a warm up. We had to describe a fruit or a vegetable in 5 minutes without saying the name of the fruit or vegetable. I did edit some bits and added on after the five minutes was up.

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