Witing Genre's

For our inquiry topic this term "Reading for Leisure,Writing for Pleasure" we had to make a popplet  about different writing genre's.

My Goals For This Term

These are my goals for this term and when parents came to our school we showed them this presentation to show them our goals and how they can help us with them.

My Personal Goal

This Is my personal goal to achieve by the end of the year.

What Counts as Literacy?

For Inquiry we looked at how the world way of writing changed and what can relate to it.

Food/Cultral Art Technology

Every Thursday for Technology year 7&8 and spit up into their group and head off to their Technology category for the first block,the different categories are music,art,science,cultural art and food.

I am cultural art and food technology(they are a combined category) and right now my group is doing food and we have made mussel fritters,scones,cottage pie,rewena bread and pizza.We have learn't how to knead dough properly and how to not over stir,work and cook our food.

For Cultural Art we learnt how to weave flax to make it look like a flower and also practised stripping it and cutting it,after we mastered the skill of making flowers we then made a maori kite.Two people would pair up and work on one and same with the others it took two days to finish one with team work and hard effort.After all kite were finished along with the flax flower we displayed them in our school hall.

Clear & Cloudy

Today at school for skills for adolescents we learnt about the art of listening and if comment made to us are clear or cloudy.

Cloudy Example:
"You are nice"
This is cloudy because it doesn't tell the person why they are nice.

Clear Example:
"You are nice because you always speak kindly to me"
This is clear because the person said why they are nice and the person listening got the message why they are nice.

So after we learnt about it our teacher instructed us to draw our hand on a piece of card and write our name on it.After we were told to go around to each others hands and write something kind about them,and most students in my class thought no one would bother writing something and when they saw people did their self confidence grew more to what people said about them.

Next Term Excitment

Term 2 is almost over and the two week holiday is nearly here and every school term has a specific topic.

So for our next term topic we have "Trash to Treasure" where we take insignificant things and turn it into a treasure and from our topic from this term we decided on making colour coded bins.So we're going to try and have bins given to us from companies or getting cheap bin and then paint them a specific colour for specific waste.Trash to Treasure might become into a day for all students to enjoy and have everyone take part.

What effects does the rubbish I produce have on the environment? Reflection

For Our Class Homework we were doing a reflection about what we learnt from our topic the is term "What effects does the rubbish I produce have on the environment?"

Jaffa Experiment

Today for our Matter Of fact topic this term we put one big and three small jaffas into two classes of cold and hot water to see what would happen to them.

P.s Sorry we have no picture from our project we could put on some picture due to some computer problems.

Our Upcoming Documentary

So here we are holding up our story board.

For our topic this term it is "What effects does our rubbish have on the environment?"so three girls from my class and I decided to enter a movie competition called KWN where we can make a movie or documentary.We all decided to make a documentary about the environment and how the littlest thing can make other places harder to live in and how it can also make our school look uninviting.

First we had to send in a storyboard so the we the people get it they will pick the top ten storyboard and send camera's and video recorders to help with the movie,but those that didn't get picked can still send in their movie but using their own equipment.

Here we are again about to send it in.

We spent two week to make and idea for film and to also draw the scenes that we are going to film.Finally on our last two days before entries were closed we made a good copy and handed it in to our teacher.

Aluminium Cans

As you may know my classes topic for this term is "What effects does our rubbish have on the environment?".So we were divided into groups and given a specific topic such as plastic bags,milk bottle,paper,aluminium cans and compost.The group I was in had the topic Aluminium cans and found out facts about it and how it effects the environment. Also every group had to involve a action plan to help our school stop littering and now I hope that you will enjoy my group's presentation.

Tuakana/Teina Day with Room 4

Room 7 and Room 4 worked together this week. Press play to find out what tuakana/teina day is all about. 

Tuakana Teina Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Tuakana Teina with Room 4

Today is Tuakana Teina day with Room 4.This means coming together and working with a student from another class.The buddy that I am working with is Edith.She thinks netbooks are cool because we can go on the blogs and post our work.

By Edith & Salome

Cyber Smart Brochure

Scones Presentation

For our Matter of Fact topic this term we observed,made and bake scone and then did a procedural text about how to make them.

So hope you enjoy reading.

Where Did They Go?-Jaffa Experiment

This presentation is for our topic this term "A Matter Of fact" and we put one big and three small jaffas into two cups of water hot and cold and observed what will happen to it.

(Sorry we have no photos our computers only let us put up a few pictures)

Matter of Fact Popplet

This term my class is learning about A Matter Of Fact,so I made a Popplet that have words that relate to   matter of fact and what I it meaans.

Matter of Fact

This term room 7 is learning about A Matter of Fact so we got separated into groups and observed three  different ice cube with three different mixtures and waited for which one will melt faster.

Netbook Learning Movie

Press play to find our how netbook learning looks like in our classroom with the use of our classroom site. We hope you enjoy our movie!

Netbook Learning with Ms Aireen and Room 7 at T.P.S from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo

Back To School

This is what back to school mean to my class Room 7.

So sit back, relax and hope you enjoy.