Kowhaiwhai Artwork - T4WK8

Kowhaiwhai for PES.

This year as our parting koha, for Pt England School we have designed and painted our own kowhaiwhai. These will be mounted permanently as our koha as year 8 of 2018. I've named mine
"Ko au" - "Me'. It has symbols that represent Me, My family and my life at Pt England School

The steps I took to create this piece of art:

1. First Draft. Sketch the lines and shade in the parts that are coloured.
2. Second Draft. draw the lines then paint it.
3. Piece of wood. Sketch lines lightly then paint.           

Here is my final piece of art:

Practise Test questions #1 - 2018

                                 

Practice Maths Questions #2 - Test 2018

                    

Paideia Seminar - Term 4 2018

Today the Extension group had our very own Paideia Seminar, we were discussing about Obesity and how it affects peoples lives. We also talked about Healthy and unhealthy foods and how people get distracted from buying the right food to the wrong food, and unfit and fit people. We all had to research our facts and ideas, Our group, the Athletes which was Kyron Ajani and I researched on Athletes and how fitness is a big part in the life of an athlete.

Chicken dance - Reflection

Yesterday on Thursday the 27th of September, was the day when team 5 had our own performance day. We all have been practising very hard to make our items amazing, although my group made a last minute item because we didn't know what to do until the last week of practising. We had nothing to think about so we performed a chicken dance. 

Jayden, William, Simon and I were told that just in case our performance didn't go as planned, then we would have to at least have costumes or accessories. So we practised our dance filled out the workbook, looked for costumes. I didn't know what to get so I got white feather boa's and orange face paint. We used the face paint as chicken beaks and then we got the feather boa's and rapped them around our arms and flapped our wings like chickens.

Everyone was there, they had all practised for this moment, there were amazing performance's like Unicycle's, kung fu, hip hop, cultural dances, chicken dances. It was our time to perform so we went on stage and performed the Chicken Dance.

Outlook For Someday - Extension Movie

Here is a movie that we had to create for Extension, it was all about money hacks and how to save money. In this movie it talks about how to be smart when you don't know what to do, interviews with some people. Enjoy!
   

What I would do if I could Time Travel

If you had the chance to Time Travel, but you could only make two trips, where would you go and what would you do? Well If I had the chance to Time travel with a friend. First of all I would go back in time when I sat my first test, because I would know all the answers so that when I am older I will be very smart and get academics. I would do this because when I go to college I won’t be behind in class.

And the second trip would be to when the Time machine was invented so that I can Time travel multiple times, and if I wanted to go back to the present. I would like to time travel, but if I do something wrong in the past it could affect my future. If you had the choice to use a time machine, where would you go and what would you do?

Little Red Riding Hood - Fairy Tale Re-Written

Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time, there was a little cottage, and in that cottage lived a Granny and her niece,
Little red riding hood, (short for red). Red’s parents were attacked by a mean villain called The
Big Boss, he was trying to get information about where Granny keeps her recipes, but they refused,
so to his delight, he killed them. The Granny was famous for her recipes, she made the most delicious
brownies, cupcakes, cookies and all different kinds of sweets.

One day little red riding hood was delivering muffins to some of the customers in the
neighbourhood, as she was delivering muffins, she realised that the shops and bakeries were
sold out, and there was only one person that Red could think about, The Big Boss “He’s been
stealing all of the recipes” she said quietly to herself, “He might steal Granny's recipes!” Red
changed her course and headed to Granny's Bakery, It was closed because Granny had the day
off, But Red always keeps a key in her basket just in case of an emergency.

Red slowly checked the area to see if anyone was spying on her, checked once in the bakery,
then outside again. Red slowly grabbed the key and suddenly heard a stick crack behind her, she
quickly grabbed the key, stuffed it in the key hole, ran through the kitchen down the hall to the
paintings, hurried to the picture of Granny, took it off the wall and behind it was a built in vault,
red was snapping her fingers trying to remember the  pass-code, It was a very long and complicated
one.

Red didn’t know what do now so she hurried to her bike with the recipes disguised in her hood.
Her legs started to ache after biking up this big hill to Granny's house, but she was to late, she
could just see granny tied up in her rocking chair, with a overweight man in a black suit talking
to her, as red creeped up slowly more people appeared with tuxedos and glasses.

After creeping slowly to the house, she just remembered that she was a former black belt, she placed
top in her karate class. Out of nowhere Red kicked the door down and knocked out two of the
guards, three more to go including the Big Boss. sweeped the first person, second hooked in the
face, and for the big boss, a huge round house kick. The boss fell flat on his face shaking the cottage,
Red tied them up, called the police and saved the entire town, Including the recipes.

The End

How Baboons have red Butts - Pourquoi Tales

Deep in the tropical forest there lived all different kinds of animals and creatures, including
the baboons, the baboons lived in an amazing part of the jungle where nature provided them
with all the food the could ever want, and clean fresh water to bath and drink in, when it was a
cold day, they would march up to the boiling hot volcano, and wait for the lava to warm up,
surprisingly it never erupted, also they had never been encountered by a threat. It was paradise.

But One hot day that all changed. while the baboons were bathing in their icy cold water,
they felt a rumble in the ground, it was something they had never felt before, all the baboons
didn’t know what to do so they checked it out. It wasn’t a stampede, it wasn’t a storm, it was
the great watakuki Volcano mountain. The baboons were freaking out, and so they started to run,
as they were running they could see the bright orange and red lava streaming down beside them,
burning trees and wildlife.

The Baboons travelled for weeks and weeks and still did not find a place to rest, one day a
baboon saw a nice place to rest, and called the other baboons to see if it was suitable for everyone.
They were so exhausted that the only thing they thought about was relaxation and rest, they all
stood there like zombies staring at the sky, their eyes lids were saggy and their eyeballs were as
red as thick paint.

But they did not realise that the boiling Orange/red lava was creeping up behind them like a
predator getting ready to attack its prey. All of a sudden the baboons leaned over and all
sat down at the same time, there was silence, and then, AAAAAAHHHHH!!! All of the baboons
cried out and jumped up and down trying to find a way to stop the burning. They found
a waterhole and ran over like a stampede, what was a drinking hole was now a bath
(for the baboons).

So that's the story of how baboons have red bottoms, well I think?

Eat Your Veggies - Lyrics

Today, our Writing class made copies of songs, we had to change it and make it about the benefits of Physical exercise. The top part is the Original song, and the bottom part is my remake, hope you enjoy.

Don't Worry - Bob Marley Original song

(Chorus)

Don't worry about a thing

'Cause every little thing gonna be alright

Singing' don't worry about a thing

'Cause every little thing gonna be alright

(Verse)

Rise up this mornin'

Smiled with the risin' sun

Three little birds

Pitch by my doorstep

Singin' sweet songs

Of melodies pure and true

Saying', (this is my message to you)

Eat your Veggies - Noah's Remix

Don’t worry about a thing

Cause all you need to do is eat your veggies

Singing’ don’t worry about a thing

Cause all you need to do is eat your veggies

(Verse)

Rise up this morning

Smile with the risen sun

Gonna go for a run (yeah)

Because I have stamina

Running fasta

So I can get healthy and strong

Saying, we need to do physical exercise!

Yeah!

Benefits of Exercise on the Brain

The Benefits of Exercise

A healthy life improves peoples health and well being, but it is very hard to stay in a healthy state, there are a lot of ways that you can become a healthy person, Everyone should be eating fruit and vegetables and drinking plenty of water a day.  

There are many benefits of exercise that can help, some of the most common exercises include blood
flow, body fitness, weight loss and stress relief. Exercise stimulates the release of growth factors in
the brain.

Everyone should be eating fruit and vegetables and drinking plenty of water a day.  Eating
healthy can also start a diet, the main purpose of a diet is to eat healthy food and to stay like that
for as long as you want.  

Regular exercise strengthens the heart muscle and its ability to pump
blood into the lungs and the rest of the body, the lungs automatically pick up the pace to keep up
with the exercise.

So in conclusion, there are many ways to do exercise, eat healthy, drink lots of water, running,
and much more. Exercise gives you a active life. Remember that exercise keeps you healthy.

Noah's Word Problems

Noah's Gravity animation

Here is my animation about Gravity. Gravity keeps objects down on the ground. We need gravity to stay on the surface of the Earth.

Noah's PS4 Word Problems

How Planes Fly - Powtoon

WALT: Make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself. 

Here is my powtoon that I have created, (How Planes Fly) watch and listen, and most of all Enjoy!

Finding & Understanding Fractions

Free Writing Explanation - Space

Space, what is Space? Space is a three dimensional area with no end, it just keeps
going on and on. It has 0 Gravity, it holds Millions of galaxies including our solar system,
and the 8 planets that orbit the sun. Humans visit space to study and learn more about it,
they have even gone to other planets. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon,
he even quotes “ One Small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Earth so far is the only planet in space that has liquid water and that is a suitable for
humans to live and breathe on. Space is so big that if you travelled in a plane to
Neptune it would take 800 years. We are still learning more about space.

Noah's Current events - Super blood moon

Presents from the Brothers

Conservationist group movie and DLO

My Brothers Arrival!

Later today at 12:00 Mid - day my two older brothers (Jordan & Levi) are arriving at the Airport, they were very lucky to have this opportunity to go on a Kapa Haka Europe Trip. they started with an 11 hour flight to Hong Kong, than the plane had to refuel, the next country was a 12 hour flight to London where they went on the London eye, they visited Buckingham Palace and witnessed Big Ben. After all the excitement the group was very lucky to go on the Euro Star, the euro star is an electronic bullet train that took them underwater all the way to Belgium,

As soon as they left Belgium they had to come back to France early, so that they can catch their flight to Hong Kong. As they visited places all around different parts of Europe their journey was coming to an end. So today at 12:00 Mid - day they are coming back home.

The Night of FiaFia - 20!8 Recount

As the sun went down, the lights flickered into life, the crowd suddenly started to make noises and

cheered, at that moment we entered the stage. Last night on the 12th of April PES had our very own
FiaFia, I bet your thinking in your head “What is FiaFia” Well let me explain, FiaFia is a
celebration of cultures where we acknowledge all the Cultures around the world.

This years FiaFia was a bonus, it was the last day of the term, it was FiaFia night, I was an MC and I was in Kapa Haka. In our Kapa Haka group we sang 3 Waiata (3 Songs) and 2 Haka’s, my brother performed like a Warrior and I performed like a leader (According to Mr Burt the Principal) all the parents were excited to see there children performing like stars. What an amazing night, I’m sure I will remember it forever.

Word Problems Poster

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WALT: Identify how many degrees in various angles and lines

Noah's PS4 Word Problems

Noah's Angles and Shapes Poster

                            WALT: Identify how many degrees in various angles and lines
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Noah's Geometry Shapes

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WALT - Match 3D shapes with their correct properties.

In Maths class we had a task to put shapes in order to match their properties. 

Reflection on Functions and Loops

Today at Extension the yr7&8 had the chance to look at a few coding commands, and then we had some fun dancing to the Macarena. A Function is a named program that performs a specific task, and a for loop is a piece of code that has a command to repeat over and over again.

Noah's Word Problems Week 5

Noah's Week 4 word problems

Noah's Back - About Me 20!8

Kia ora everyone! I’m Noah, I’m a Year 8 student attending Pt England School.
I have 3 brothers and 2 parents, I attend Tamaki Community Church every Sunday.
I am 13 years of age and a Prefect for 2018. A Prefect is a role model, they are the leaders
of the school. This year I want to achieve all my goals and hopefully be accepted
into a College.

My Visual Mihi - 2018

                                                                My Visual Mihi:            (Click on the picture to see up close)

Here you can see my Visual Mihi, I have created this Art work to show other people what I believe in, where I like to go and what I like to do. We will start on the top right where you can see an Airplane, a Passport and a Suitcase, that means that I like travelling to places. Then on the bottom right you can see that I love Movies. On the top left you can see that I love food!, lastly we have on the Bottom left a Cross that symbolises that I believe in Jesus.

Extension Trip - Digital Nations 2030

The Extension students were very lucky to attend a Digital Nations 2030 Summit at Cordis Hotel. Our Extension group was one of the two schools that went, First we were gathered in the Creative Space (One of our Computer Rooms) to discuss what we will be doing at the Summit. Then we got on the bus and headed down to the Cordis Hotel in the City.

Everyone was very excited about all the new technology that we were going to try out, as soon as we got inside the building Zoe (OMG Tech worker) was introducing us to some code avengers, as we looked around the room we could see Coding games, Robots, Makey makey and a 3D Printer. We were split up into two groups, doing separate work, then it started getting loud and noisy from all the Photographers and Videographers, Even the Maori Television was there filming us.

What I got out of the Trip was experience over the technology that we used, skills for controlling  robots, information and Prizes, I won a Stickers, bars of chocolate and a code Avengers T-shirt.

Introducing Algebra

Splash Splash Splash

Racing through the gate entrance, I am keen for a swim especially in the hot weather, with the sun beaming down on our skin heating our body's. I take my t - shirt off and grab my googles, my brothers already jumped in a head of me for a swim.

The water felt refreshing and cold, we had an awesome time doing handstand competitions and seeing how many flips we could do underwater. The hand stand comp was to see how long you could hold your breathe under water, we did Oldest to Youngest, so my mother went first, she started and her score was 11 seconds, then Jordan (my brother) he unfortunately scored 7 seconds, then it was time for me, I started to breathe heavily before I started, I held my breathe for 24 seconds underwater and did a perfect hand stand formation WOW! Then it was time for my little brother Toby he scored 13 seconds which placed him 2nd. So the winner was ME!

As I dipped my head under the water it felt like I was floating in space like an astronaut, Fact: There is know gravity in water, it disperses in proportion to your weight. (In other words) Heavier objects sink faster, lighter objects sink slowly or don't sink at all. It was the perfect time to swim because as soon as we got in the car to go back home it started to rain heavily, we started the engine, and we were off.

3 Short Story's with Noah - Holiday's

     Furious Tide 

1. As I pushed forward through the Furious Tide,
    my legs felt the water surging powerfully against my skin,
    My teeth gritting every step I take.

    Leaping off

2. As my eyes scan the water for a spot to land,
    my feet grip on to the ledge, take a breathe,
    3...2...1 SPLASH!

   Waiting for the start

3. Sitting down in my set shaking in excitement,                                               
    waiting for the musical movie to start.
    The GREATEST SHOWMAN!