Rugby League Session

A couple of weeks ago Room 22 had a rugby league session with one of the Vodafone Junior Warriors. Our tutor was Sio Siua Taukeiaho.

Science Roadshow

Last week on Thursday the year 7 & 8 students at Pt England School, had to pay $7 to go to the science roadshow at Tamaki College. We all walked down class by class because we had different times to the roadshow because it is apart of our topic for the term. ( bigger, better, stronger and faster).

Before we left Ms Tito put us in to groups of 4 to 6 I was in a group of 4 others Vaha, Ilalio, Rose and Micheal. Vaha was the leader of the group. Ms T gave us a work sheet per each group and she gave some groups a camera to take videos or pictures, I was given a flip camera to get some videos of the exhibit that our was looking at but only Vaha and I did the work and all the rest of the group went and played on the hands on exhibits.

The exhibit the me and Vaha where looking at was Heat. It was good to learn about heat because it showed us what material out of Metal, Foam and sheep sheep Skin would contain the most heat in your house we had to feel the materials the metal one was cold the foam was a bit warmer but the sheep skin one was the warmest.

Before the show ended me and Vaha had aproxxmitly 10 minutes to go and look at the other exhibits we looked at sound. I played on the Theromen and the sound organ. Out of the two sounds instruments that I looked at my favourite one was the sound organ, to work it I had to put my hands in the gap and when it scened a movement it would play the tune and the light would come on.

Personally to me the Science Road show was a great experience, but it was a bit boring because my group left Vaha and I to do all the work so I did’nt get to see much of the roadshow. But with the little things I got to look at and learn about I rate the roadshow 8.5 out of 10.

Fabulous Felt.....

In reading Huia was reading this story in a journal called Fabulous Felt. The story was about kids that made some things with fleece (sheep skin). They died it, dryed it and made it into Felt then made some Christmas presents out of the fleece that they made into felt.

Here are the steps:

1)You have to shear the sheep to get the fleece.

2)Take it to the local fleece cleaner to get the Greece and dirt of the fleece.

3)If you don't wont it white get some Onion skins, beetroots, orange peels, lemon peels, Teabags, coffee grounds,spices and all sorts of leaves, berries and barks. Cook all of these ingredients to make some natural dyes.

4)Dye your fleece the colour you wont.

5)Hang up your dyed fleece to dry for about an 1hour and stir it from time to time.

6)Then felt it gently pull the fleece into three strips, then lay it on top of a ice cream container lid spread the next four strips for the next layer.

7)when the felt dry's you can make some cool finger puppets, purses, signs and a baby mobile.

Geometry

In Room 22 this term we are learning about Geometry. Geometry is the study of size, shape and position of 2-d shapes and 3-d figures.

We learnt how to draw perfect circles with the compasses. we also made our own tangrams. It was really fun because it was a new challenge.

I hope all the other maths tat we are going to learn about is as fun as geometry.

Taonga Time.....

........This is the imovie we are learning to be pros at.....

.......This is my Taonga Time teacher Mrs Telea......

Every Friday the year 7& 8 have a special time called Taonga Time. Taonga means treasure in maori. We have it only for 1 hour and a half a week. When we are at Taonga time the teacher is sharing there own passion with us. The passion my teacher shares with my group is ICT.

The group that I am in is Mrs Telea’s she has a passion of ICT. She is teaching us how to use imovie 11 probably. Mrs Telea has taught us is how to keep your audience interested by changing the camera angles, to take off the volume on our movies we are in the process of making.

I cant wait till Friday because it is fun and interesting to learn about imovie 11 and learning how to use it properly. It is going to be a great Friday middle block for Vaha and Me.

DLO Hope......

This is my DLO the pt England school value I did was hope Ms Tito told all the girls and me that this was the hardest one to do but I replied " I wont to give my self a challenge".

Creativity

In room 22 we have been learning about creativity. Creativity is a way of thinking and using your imagination.
Ms Tito gave us a task to be creative we had to design our name in a creative way the resources I used was the Internet. I searched the letters I needed and then I took screen shots.