Room 7's Birthday Survay

This column graph shows Room 7's birthdays. 3 students were born in January. 2 students were born in February. 2 more students were born in March. 4 students were born on April. 1 student was born in May. 5 students were born in June. 1 person was born in July, same as August and September. 3 students were born in October. 2 students were born in November, and 3 students were born in December. This column graph also shows that most students were born in June, whereas only one person was born in May, July, August and September.

Statistics

This is my wordle about Statistics.

Athletics Day

Press play to watch a movie about our Athletics Day.


T.P.S NEWS- Athletics Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Rewinding back to June 2012

In Term 2 our school's inquiry topic was about 'Magic Movies'. Here is a trailer of our movies we made throughout Term 2. 


Room 7 Movie Tralier from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2012 School is Cool

In Term 2 we were learning a lot about movie magic, and how movies can influence our world. We created many movies. We started by brainstorming key messages we could include in our movies. 

We also made a movie that explains how to plant kumara. It was really fun to do. We created this movie to inspire people to learn how to grow their own kumara.


Our movie for The Manaiakalani Film Festival is called 'School Is Cool'. We made it to share all of the cool learning and fun that we have at school.

Our movie was also shown at the Tamaki Primary Academy Awards. We created a PMI about Movie Magic and shared what we liked, what was challenging and interesting.

School is Cool from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Room 7's Favourite Fruit

This column graph shows Room 7's favourite fruits4 students like apples,2 students like bananas,2 students like peaches,2 students like oranges,10 students like strawberries,0 students like pear and 6 students like grapes.This column graph also shows that the same amount of students likeoranges,peach and banana.Most students like strawberry were as 0 students likes pear.

Diwali

This is my poplet about diwali.

Happy Diwali

Renewable and Non-renewable energy

This is my renewable and non-renewable google presentation

Sign Language

Today we learnt how to do sign language. Here is a video of me doing my name in sing language.

Whanau Day

Whanau Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Yesterday was Whanau day.It was so cool because I presented to the teachers,parents and kids.The senior syndicate kapa haka group perform to the juniors and parents. The workshop that was happening around our kai garden was awesome. I learned heaps of things that we can do to keep our self sustainable.

Lamb Farming

This is a presentation about Lamb Farming.

Topic Reflection

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?Energy is all about being healthy and sustainable.


Where do humans get energy from?Humans get energy from plants.

Plants

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll

c. glucose                                                                d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)__________sunlight____________
b)_________water_______________
c)________carbon dioxide_________
d)________Oxygen______________

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green? Glucose


4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.

5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. It makes water in its leaves.
b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.







6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost?
Compost is a bin full of worms foods scraps,apple core,banana peels and plenty more stuff.You can make worm juice witch has nutrients and rich soil.


What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?
List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• Banana Peels
• food scraps
• apple core
• pear
• left overs

Sustainability

This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.



Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):Lamb farming______



People have to make sure that they shave the skin of the sheep.




Farmers have to make sure that the sheep is in good condition.

People also make sure that the lamb is healthy.


People also make sure that the lamb gets exported and imported well.

MY TOPIC REFLECTION

• What have you learnt about this topic?
• What did you like about this topic?
• What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at home, at school, in my community?

I have learned heaps of stuff about lamb farming,pork farming,planting and farming around the world,beef farming,dairy farming,poultry farming and genetically modified food.What I liked about the topic was learning about the different type of farming here in New Zealand and around the world.To be sustainable at at home I need to re-cycle my paper and make the right choices.At school I can be sustainable by listening to my teacher,do my work and come to school.My role in the community is to be sustainable is to pick up rubbish and contribute to make a healthy community.

Loud Shirt Day

Loud Shirt Day

Today is loud shirt day.This day is all about supporting deaf kids.All the money will go to the society so that technology can be provided to help kids hear better.

We think that this is an important charity as the money will help kids like Charday in our class who is partially deaf.

Simple Fraction

   
                  This presentation is about simple fractions

Tsunami

One bright sunny day in Rarotonga there were three boys named Sione,Sau and Sam. They were  at the beach lying down in the flaming sun so they could get a tan.They could hear the nice splashy waves and the leaves on the palm trees moving swiftly in the air.Sione was a very handsome, good boy who always gets dressed in his best clothes. As for Sau, he has a silly and smart personality. Just like Sione, Sau also dressed in trendy clothes. Sam is a quiet boy who likes to get dressed in black and yellow clothes. All three boys were best friends.


After they were lying down on the sand Sione asked “Sam Do you want to have a game of rugby league...you two against me”Sione thought he was going to win.”Yes”spoke Sam .They started the game Sione kicked to Sau and Sam. Sam got the ball and ran straight up to Sione as fast as Usain Bolt.When he got closer Sione formed a humongous tackle on Sam,Sam offloaded the ball to Sau,Sau was jogging to the try line because he knew that he would score a try.Sam shouted and said “Yay”because Sau scored and they won.After the fun a big earthquake hit  Rarotonga.Sau Screamed “Help,help,help”. Then it stopped Sau was crying,He was very unhappy.Sam yelled “Look Sione as enormous wave is coming towards us”.They were looking for the closest mountain so they could sprint to it. The closest mountain was one hundred meters away.They sprinted like they were at the olympics running the  one hundred meter race.They finally got there. The tsunami just hit the mountain.


When the tsunami finished there were no food,no houses and nearly everyone died in Rarotonga. Sione,Sau and Sam were looking for someone to play with they saw no one.They did not eat for three days.While they were walking they walked past a cave they looked inside the cave if there were any food. Then they walked past a fresh fruit plantation.They opened the door to the fresh fruit plantation.There were all sorts of fruit like apples,oranges,pears,watermelon and plenty more.They also saw a big bowl,they put heaps and heaps of fruit inside the bowl.Two weeks later they sold their fruit at the beach so they can buy more TSUNAMI food and meat.


San,Sam and Sione learnt to not worry just be happy because there will always be a solution to their problems.                                                   

Reverse key

Today for reading I had to do a thinkers key.

I am learning to name twelve things that a spade cannot be used for.

1. It cannot be used for a brush.
2. It cannot be used for a toothbrush.
3. It cannot be used for a t-shirt.
4. It cannot be used for a shoe.
5. It cannot be used for a pencil.
6. It cannot be used for a toilet paper.
7. It cannot be used for a picking your nose.
8. It cannot be used for a T.V.
9. It cannot be used for a plug.
10. It cannot be used for a microphone.
11. It cannot be used for a rugby ball.
12. It cannot be used for a band.

Photosynthesis

This is my wordle about Photosynthesis

Room 7's Movie Magic Trailer

ROOM 7'S PMIS-MOVIE MAGIC

PMIS -MOVIE MAGIC

Positives

What did you like about this term’s unit?

• Using a camera.  
• Having the opportunity to edit a movie. Some of us are now confident to edit a movie and are now going to be helping our teacher edit T.P.S News.
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• Working as a group to plan our movies.  
• This unit helped us build stronger relationships with each other especially when we were working as a group to produce and edit our movies.  
• Speeches! - doing and preparing a speech helped developed our presenting skills. 
• We have become confident in sharing our ideas without being shy. 
• Learning about movie making equipment like the tripod, imove programme, flip cam etc.  
• Enjoyed learning about the movie making process - brainstorming, planning, script writing, storyboarding, filming, editing, presenting.  
• Learning about the different effective camera shots.  
• MAKING A MOVIE! 
• Everyone in our class was in a movie.
• Finishing the movie off with a whole school Academy awards. This made us feel very proud of our hardwork! We felt like REAL professional film makers.
• Our whanau and friends being proud of us - they really appreciated our movies.
• We have definitely expanded our knowledge about movie making and have developed good movie making skills that we want to share with others. We look forward to continuing our Movie Magic journey and learning more fun ways to extend our movie making skills.

Minus

What challenges did you have with this unit? 

• Waiting for our turn to film because there was only one flip-cam and a tripod.  
• We had some groups using the same filming location so we had to wait for them to finish filming and sometimes it ment we couldn't film because they were taking too long. For example the staff room, corridor, reading room etc.
• We couldn’t film sometimes as some students were away and the weather was not too good as well.  
• Memorising our lines for our scripts. 

Interesting

What interested you about this unit?

• The editing process.  
• Adding sound effects and music to our movies.  
• Learning how professional film makers make movies and trying to develop their skills throughout the process of our film making experience.  
• Learning the movie elements helped us to make our movies interesting to watch! 
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• Solution
  How could we improve on this unit next time. 
•   More flip-cams and tripods.  
• Have the Imovie programme on our netbooks so that we could edit our movies instead of waiting for a group to finish. 

Interviewing Movie Makers

Camera Shots

Movie Magic Thinkers Key

Today for Reading I completed a Movie Magic Thinkers Key called the Reverse Key.I had to name 12 things that a microphone can not be used for.

1. Drum sticks
2. Eating
3. Rugby ball
4. Playing sports
5. Throwing it
6. Toilet paper
7. Drawing
8. Weapon
9. Cutting stuff
10. Washing my face
11. Phone
12. Typing

Syllabification

Alphabetical Order

Spelling T2 W3

Spelling T2 W2

The evil drinking fountain

My learning goals for team 2 2012

My Holiday Description

Dear Sau,

In my holidays I didn’t do much but done some stuff.I went on my cousins house in mangere and sleep there on the first day of the holidays.I also went to the park and on the way I bought fish in ships with a kebab.

Then I went to buy shoes me new shoes from Number one shoe Wearhouse. I saw heaps of cool shoes.Then I bought a black nice shoes.I also talk to friends on facebook.

I felt happy in the holidays because I had really nice food in the holidays.I also get to play on my sisters laptop.

Homophones

Room 7's Mural

The lost boy

WALT write a narrative story based on our artwork.

Once there was a lost lonely boy that had very short hair he was wearing black t-shirt and white pants,he was an orphan and was only four years old. He was at the beach.He was hot.The little boy wanted to go on the berserk massive water slide in private beach in America. It was a very hot day that he wanted to go down the waterslide.

Suddenly he felt a little earthquake,it took for long and he got scared.Then it suddenly stopped. He said,’’That was weird”.
Then the earthquake stopped. After that he saw two Tsunamis coming at once it was very small.It turned bigger and bigger and came closer and closer.He shouted AAAHHHHHH. Then he saw  the two waves coming, it turned into two enormous  tsunamis.


The tsunami stopped and nearly four hundred people died.The ambulance took the little boy inside the ambelance.They drove to a safe spot .They took to the docter.They were running as fast as possible.Finally they got there,then they started to pushed his chest down.They pushed for the first three times nothing happened, then they pushed eighteen more times.After that all the water came out of his mouth.

Art Words

All About Me

My name is Kini. I am 9 turning 10 this year.I was born in New Zealand. I was born on April 3 2002. I have spiky black hair, shiny dark brown eyes and my skin is as smooth as a cat.

In my family there are 4 amazing people which includes my Mum, my Father, Sister and me.My sister comes to my school. She is in Year 7 this year at the school I go to wich is Tamaki primary school.I like to play sport. My sister likes to sing. My mum likes to cook and my Dad likes to go work.

I am Tongan. I am proud to be Tongan. When I think about my culture, I think about the traditional patterns, the beach, the shiny flowers and the delicious food.I also like the look of the coconut trees. I am proud to be Tongan because it represents who I am as a person.       

I enjoy doing alot of things like playing rugby, watching tv, having fun and coming to school. My favourite learning subject at school is Maths because I like learning strategies that will help me solve complicated problems.

My best friend is Pate because he always plays rugby with me. He’s also a great friend because he gives me lunch.

When I grow up I want to be professional rugby player. I want to be in the Tongan rugby team so I can travel the world.