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Friday 29 June 2018

Inchape Rock Poem

This a poem that reads out a verse about the Inhcape Rock, My Verse was about Sir Ralph and his Men traveling across a swelling sea. 
This was our activity then we were told to write down What does the text mean. 
After writing the context we were asked to read out our verse before checking our Verse meaning with the teacher.
We also found out clues to why Sir Ralph Died why he would cut off the Inchape bell.

M&M's presentation



Me,Sanujan,Nickela,Jonathan and Harlem created a presentation researching M&M's.
We created a bar graph and a diagram to show the results of which color was most popular.
To do this we were given instructions to come and get a packet of M&M's and a paper for our graph. We counted out all of the M&M's and ordered them into groups. 
The highest rate was green. There were 16 Green, 11 Orange, 10 Brown, 7 Yellow, 6 Blue and 6 Red.
The next day we made the DLO we took a screenshot of our bar graph we  made and a screen shot of our diagram.
The diagram shows how much in percentage the packet weighs with the amount of M&M's in it.
 For our information about when was the blue M&M made we wrote down the key information because before the Blue M&M existed, they used to sell Tan coloured M&M's but they removed it and replaced it with the blue M&M.
Our next task was to find out the history about the M&M's Which stands for Marrie&Mars which was a company that made mars chocolates.
We also wrote our guesses of how much the packet will weigh everybody in our group chose there guess. We also put down 7 facts about the mars company and chocolate. We popped in a video to explain key information about M&M's. We also wrote a comparison and the video to show the M&M's ad on T.V.

Thursday 28 June 2018

East-Cape Research

East Cape
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Information about the East cape lighthouse
The East cape lighthouse is located on the east coast, Otiki Hill above East Cape, North Island.


The East Cape Lighthouse stands 15 metres above sea level.
The East Cape Lighthouse is accessed by a walking track of some 700 steps.


In 1954 the light was converted from oil to diesel generated.


Getting to East Cape Lighthouse


East Cape Lighthouse is accessible to the public. It can be reached on foot from the car park at the end of East Cape Road.


From the East Cape Lighthouse, visitors can look out onto East Island where the lighthouse was originally located.


Lighthouse feature: Details
Location: latitude 37°41’ south, longitude 178°33’ east
Elevation: 154 metres above sea level
Construction: Cast iron tower
Tower height: 15 metres
Light configuration: 50 watt rotating beacon
Light flash character: White light flashing once every 10 seconds
Power source: Mains electricity
Range: 19 nautical miles (35 kilometres)
Date light first lit: 1900
Automated: 1985
Demanned: 1985


Fun Fact
  • East Cape was named by James Cook
  • The East Cape Lighthouse was originally located on East Island Whangaokeno
  • It takes 700 steps to get to the lighthouse.
  • The lighthouse was first lit in 1900
  • The road to the lighthouse clings to the coastline, and there are numerous sandy beaches just metres away.
  • The Araroa is the gateway to the East Cape Lighthouse.
  • Almost 600 visitors visited the East Cape Lighthouse.
  • The St Mary's church is one of the most popular churches in New Zealand.
  • February 2002 using a 50 watt tungsten halogen bulb and has a backup battery.
  • In 1971 the lighthouse was connected to main power and the station was automated withdrawing the last keeper in 1985.
  •        April of 1922 the light was extinguished, the tower and buildings were relocated to East Cape at Te Araroa.
  • The lighthouse is located in Gisborne/East Island.
  • There is a camping ground which is near the east cape lighthouse.


Distances from P.B.S To Lighthouse In Time
7 h and 37 min 516 km


This week for Mr Johnson created a tasks for us that includes reading and inquiry.
Our task was to research about specific lighthouse around New Zealand.
Firstly before we went on with our lighthouses we split into 10 groups.
In each groups there are approximately 5 to 6 students.
Now let’s get on with the working part.
After each groups were given their own lighthouse to research on, they got on working.
The lighthouse that we are working on is called East Cape Lighthouse.
For this task I work with Jonathan, Harlem, Nickela,  Joel

Wednesday 27 June 2018

M&M's blogpost



Today Me, Sanujan, Nickela and Jonathan worked on a slide finding out facts and information about when were M&M's were made who invented them why did the factory  people think of making M&M's.We worked collabraty together to get all information we needed down.
This Task we worked together as a group, We searched for information and facts on sites and we also found out why they were made.We are writing down our comparison.
During this session we made a diagram and a bar chart. 




Friday 22 June 2018

Blog Commenting PBS



For Commenting today I commented on 3 blogs the first blog I chose was Magenta's I read her blog post about Geese It sounded really interesting because her information talked about Geese and facts that told me a lot more about Geese. I also commented on Miki's and Avalon's I chose these blob post because I thought that they might have interesting posts up on there blog. The one blog post that I was interested in was Miki's he wrote about his tech reflection he wrote about cooking tech he explained with a picture what he made and how he made it.

My Goal is to comment on a blog each week so that  I can get a good feedback on my blog.

Tech Reflections- Digital Tech


Today in Tech Group A, Planned there animations and Outcomes to do this we focused on our tasks that we were to be included finished.
We planned our animations and helped each other on how to embed our scratch animations.
This was cool it was a fantastic day I couldn't wait to make my own animation.

Casey and Jeff animated story



This is an example of an animated story that I recreated in scratch. For this task I used sprites which are cartoon characters for my animated story we used Back drops for the background.
The Components used to create this story include Backdrops CharactersSpeech bubbles Effects The codes that I used to Recreate the story include:

  • Events script codes to start the story 
  • Looks script to enable the sprites to speak
  • Control for the character to move from place to place
  • Looks for back drops to appear 
This was fun it was interesting  to make an animation from scratch, Today was our last day to finish our animated stories then we posted them up on our blog.




Thursday 21 June 2018

HIIT Training



Today's HIIT Training was great we learned how to do pull ups squats and push ups, for today we did this activity in LS2 because it was raining. I worked with my group and my pair Magenta together we got our heart rate up in red we encouraged each other if one of us were feeling pain. The rotation that I was interested in was pull ups I like doing pull ups because it helps your back feel strong and your chest feel strong to.It was amazing how many people got there heart rates up, I was really struggling on push ups until I a learnt a better way how to do the push ups.

Tuesday 19 June 2018

How do you use a unicycle/Unicycle research


I have learnt about unicycles and how people teach starters how they could ride one.
This was my reading task for today this video is about how to ride a unicycle.This was fun to learn about because I did not know that there were other cycles like a normal bicycle.
About a  Unicycle.

This was the information I found out about unicycles,

A Unicycle is a one wheeled cycle which  is often used for actors like clowns or juggling people. The places they use a unicycle in is a Circus or a talent show.

Unicycles take time to practise because it is hard to pedal on a one wheeled bike.
Heaps of people have talents using a unicycle. It is interesting to ride a unicycle in a show while everybody's watching you.

When were unicycles invented?

Unicycles were invented during 1866, James Stanley evented a unique bicycle & Penny farthing.

I enjoyed learning about unicycles it was something different to learn about. And how people are going to learn how to ride one.

Making connections DLO




I created a Making connections DLO showing Text to Text,Text to World and Text to self.This DLO was going to be about eating healthy.I wrote what I have watched or read what I already know and my reaction to why eating healthy is important. I also asked myself why is it important to exercise and eat nutrients to give your body enough energy and nutrition to play sport outside.

Friday 15 June 2018

DigiTech Project - Install planning

In digi tech today we started the install planning for our Digi tech project.



Context brainstorm
Context statement
Context planning 
To start off we played Kahoot this was fun, after that we created a brainstorm that we used to put down the areas of the tamaki reserve.We put in pictures and links to the sites, we explained why were doing the Context brainstorm it was important to identify ideas based on different places and facilities.
Our next task was Context statement we used this Document to put down our statement for our animation we put down the age the problem to why we picked this and producing the outcome.
The purpose of this statement what we show others DIY.
Our next task and this was our final task it was context planning we used a google sheets to do this we put down answers to the questions on the sheet.This statement was for us to learn about Digi Tech.


Thursday 14 June 2018

Kiwi Can


This week in Kiwi can we have a new topic called accountability. Today our energizer was copy me we followed instructions on the board it had a variety of actions that we needed to do. First we got into groups of 4 or 6 then we picked a leader for our group. Each leader from each group had to come to Miss Lily to get a card the number on the card was the number of the action we needed to do. This was fun when each team finished there leader had to count all the cards and the team with the most cards wins.
Our next activity was 2 truths 1 lie in this game we had to tell 2 truths and 1 lie then everybody had to think which one was the lie. 
Accountability is keeping your own actions to yourself this shows people the values of keeping out of trouble.

HIIT Today


HIIT today was great we tried our best to raise our heart rate,We watched the screen as it tells us what rate we are up in.The heart rate had to reach Red once you calm down after the session in will slowly go back down into blue or green.
This was Awesome it was fun and energizing, 
Everybody in group,A  participated in activities we were doing,This week  we are learning how to do Slip squat,Split squat pualse and split squat jump.
Last week we help each other on these 3 exercises, I helped Angela with her exercises together we both learnt it and gave encouragement to each other.
This training this week was good!. 

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Research About Geese

I learnt about Geese,I read a Website that told me  the facts that I needed to know. It told me the way  of life of how Geese survive and how there way of being.Learning about Geese I had to research about facts and Information. I learnt about the Geese system I learn the different body parts of a Geese.

Making Connections DLO

Today I read a story called the forty coats man this story was interesting to read because it told me a lot about what was happening why it was happening and who where the main characters.
I created a making connections DLO that I wrote my Text to Text, Text to world and Text to self.
I wrote down the different reactions to the story I have just read.


Friday 8 June 2018

Tech at Tamaki College



Tech at tamaki college was great the year 7ś used a DLO to put there scratch codes on,Digi tech was awesome I signed up for scratch then I created a animation about 2 people going to the park.