The Life Cycle of a Turtle!!

Kelly Tarlton's!

Inquiry Presentations Reflection

Our group is the ‘Reasons Group’. The members are Taylor, Caprice, Tanisslous, Niko, Danisha and Willy. Our group answered questions like how and why WW1 and 2 began. We used a lot of websites to help us answer our questions. Hard work and effort was put into this!

As a whole group, we agreed that we needed to improve on making it original, using a range of different media types, and having the confidence to speak what we researched with pride. But, if I was to improve something independently, it would have to be the way it was presented. For example, making it engaging and worthwhile to watch and listen to.

From another group Weapons 1, I learnt that the machine gun was the best weapon to be used in war even though 4-6 men had to control it. This is because it was easy to target soldiers. From the same group, I also learnt that the Disappearing Gun was hard to spot from the sea and was hard to target.

This is my Inquiry Presentations Reflection I completed for this term. Be sure to eave me some comments about my work including FF and FB.

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PMIS Inquiry Reflection Unit 2014

This is my PMIS Chart reflecting on our Inquiry Unit this term. Be sure to leave me some comments below including FF and FB!

Success Criteria Poster

This is my Success Criteria Poster which has the success criteria we will follow on it to complete our explainations. Be sure to leave me some whizzing comments.

My Poem About Culture:

Rarotonga and Maori

Rarotonga is a place filled with beautiful people and sweet voices,

Rarotonga is place filled with laughter, enjoyment and choices,

Rarotonga is a place of tranquility,

Rarotonga is a place of love and ability,

Rarotonga is a place where the sun is always shining above our heads,

Rarotonga is a paradise anyone would dream of going to bed,

The pampering and the hazy heats,

While listening to some island beats.

New Zealand is like a peaceful song,

You listen to the calm sea send messages out to the above is so strong,

New Zealand is like a ball as it bounces along,

It’s gets thrown up and down and slams itself on the ground

New Zealand is the fish which jumps upon the water and dives back down.

New Zealand has karma,

But the good kind,

Sensing all the badness and saying goodbye.

This is my poem about my culture and where I come from. be sure to leave some comments as I worked really hard to use more than enough words!

Our Photovoice Project:

This is our Photovoice Project Chasity, Deandra, Mavis and I worked on for a week. We entered it into a competition and we got help by editing the original images we took of childfren which answered two very important questions. One: What does Manaiakalani mean to us and two: What impact does Manaiakalani have on us and our whanau? Be sure to leave some comments as we worked very hard to get this completed within a week of learning and education!

Literacy Change From 3200 BC - 2013

This is my popplet about literacy and how it's changed. be sure to leave me some comments including FF and FB about my work! 

Inquiry Unit Reflection 2013

The past few weeks we’ve been developing our knowledge and we’ve been trying to find solutions to decrease the amount of money we spend on removing the rubbish we produce in our school. Constantly, daily, monthly, yearly, we always end up on the wrong pathway. We always hang out with the wrong crowd and then we end up doing bad things. This is just like littering. You just constantly keep doing it once you’ve done it once! Once you’ve done it once, you get used to it. Then it becomes a life routine. Luckily I have a solution. To decrease the amount of money we spend removing our rubbish at school. I thought about it and came up with reusing most of the recyclable items we throw out. Back home I always had to make something out of an egg carton, or a cardboard box. Now that I’ve moved to Auckland, it’s all changed. Like you buy plastic plates, throw them in the bin. Plastic cups, throw them in the bin and then we don’t realise the facts are true!  

The past few weeks we’ve been developing our knowledge about rubbish. For years, different groups of people have been lead into different parts of our school. Most of us litter and some of us don’t. This is a real big issue because it harms marine animals in the ocean AND it could also ruin our school reputation. In our lives sometimes we get bothered because of the mess they leave behind for others to pick up. Basically, we don’t care about anyone but ourselves. We can stop this by making others(including myself) take the time to walk over to a bin and taking the time to talk about it with a bunch of friends!

Basically the rubbish I produce will harm our future generations and constantly kills marine animals. Imagine you as a seal and you come up onto a rock with rubbish strangling you. If you could think more, would you?

THIS IS MY REFLECTION I COMPLETED FOR ABOUT HALF N HOUR. IT'S ABOUT THE INQUIRY UNIT WE STUDIED. BE SURE TO FLING BY AND LEAVE ME SOME POSITIVE COMMENTS INCLUDING FF AND FB ABOUT MY WORK FOR THE NEXT TIME I POST MY WORK!

Audit Information Project:

This is Mavis, Salome, Renee and my Audit Clean and Green Report on our Audit Day! This event took part on the 21 of June 2013. It was on a Friday. If you fly past, make sure you just stop to add me a comment including FF and FB to make my next post even better!

Audit Information Project Report!

THIS IS RENEE, MAVIS, SALOME AND MY REPORT ON WHAT WE DID ON FRIDAY THE 21 OF JUNE. WE HAD TO SORT RUBBISH AND GET OUR GLOVES ALL DIRTY. IT WAS FUNNY BUT AT THE SAME TIME SMELLY. READ ON AND BE SURE TO STOP BY AND LEAVE ME SOME ULTRA HELPFUL COMMENTS INCLUDING FF AND FB ABOUT MY WORK.

On Friday the 21st of June, a group of year 1-8 students were nominated to participate in  sorting out all of the rubbish we produced in our school over 24 hours. From Room 7 four girls represented their class. Their names are Caprice, Renee, Salome and Mavis and did they do their classroom proud!! Ron, who works at the Auckland city council was our tutor and explained to us about the rubbish we produce in our school. He also explained to us the different categories of rubbish and how we can reduce the amount of rubbish in our school.

Multiple times we had to discuss the categories in which the rubbish that was collected, where it would be sorted into. Individual students were chosen as leaders of their own crate(recycling bin). They put their given categories onto a crate. We then weighed the rubbish. After it was weighed, we sorted the rubbish into different crates. The pieces of rubbish were sorted into Non-recyclable paper, Food Scraps, Plastic wrappers, Steel and aluminium cans, Paper and Recyclable Plastic.

Most of the student in the seniors were group leaders, like Salome she was the group leader for the aluminum cans. Renee was the leader for the all other waste, and the people in Caprice group were they assisted me in  sorting the rubbish, and the weight of the waste was 0.6

When we finished the sorting of the categories others were then organised into small groups to help the leader of the group find and sort their rubbish that they were instructed to find. Groups were then give buckets to help collect the rubbish,the rubbish was then poured onto a tarpaulin and classes came to observe us as we collected and sort the different waste.

The amount of plastic wrappers blew up in our faces. Nearly over 270 pieces of chip, muesli and snack wrappers were scattered all over our tarpaulin and in the crate. Hevani and Paeroa collected a lot of these wrappers and within minutes the back was halfway full. The food scraps had an huge amount which continued to grow when we finished collecting it we had to carry it all the way to the scale but it resulted in being too heavy for one person to carry it ,so Marshal and Taylor carried it to the scale to get weighed.

The food scraps weighed 18.0kg due to the weight of the food scraps inside the bag and the crate altogether. After we sorted the rubbish we weighed the different categories of rubbish that we collected.The heaviest was the food scraps which weighed 18.0kg and the most found was food wrapper.

After we weighed all the sacks of rubbish from the crate our instructor calculated the rubbish that we weighed to see how much rubbish is thrown on the ground or wasted in the bin. It turns out that our school is producing more rubbish than other schools.

Caprice - Homework Term 2 Week 7 2013

Monday 17 June 2013

Homework Tasks:

Writing:

Summarise a current event:

Title: 

- Bank Standoff

Where is this event happening?

- Ellerslie Auckland, Rockfield Road, Westpac Bank

What happened at this event?

- Someone is robbing the Ellerslie bank and has hostages with him. The sqaut team is on their way and is ready to get the hostages and arrest the robber. He walked in about 4.30pm and there were people inside the bank getting their money.

A guy was holding a gun up to someones head and all of the staff has been evacuated safely.

Who is involved in this event? 

- The robber

- 3 News Media Team

- The Staff of Westpac.

- Hostages

What are the positives about this event?

- The staff were realised and evacuated safely.

What are the negatives about this event?

- That the guy was holding a gun to a staff member's head threatening the staff member to die unless he got the cash.

What are 3 new words about this event? Write the answers as well!

Evacuate - Quickly get out of the building you are in.

How did ths event happen?

- A guy walked into Westpac Bank in Ellerslie and thought of robbing it without getting caught, but he got caught.Now the Westpac Bank is surrounded by police and squat teams.

Monday 17 June 2013

Reading:

Read a book for 15 minutes and complete the reflection below:

Title:

- Dinosaur Rescue

Author:

- Kyle Mewburn

Illustrater:

- Donovan Bixley

What is this book around?

- Sometimes a big brain means big trouble. How do you stop a rampaging spinosaurus from eating the last dracorex? 

Arg has to get help fast... 

Or he'll be extinct too!

A spino-rotty-triocious

Stone Age adventure that'll 

make your teeth rumble.

Who are the characters in this story? List them below:

- Arg(Caveboy genuis)

- Old Drik

- Hng(Arg's older sister)

- Arg's mothr

-Arg's father

- Giant Flea

- Giant Slug

- GIant Sting Bettle

- Giant Mosquito

Where is this set?

1. Pterosaur Cliffs

2. Lava Mountain

3. Bog

4. Slimepot Swamp

5. Big Bone Lake

6. Village Pit Fire

7. Arg's Village

8. Stinkooze Pit

What genre is this book?

- This book is fiction because it has monsterfying, stomping, huge dinosaurs!

Maths:

Get your family to ask you some sums and answer them with your stratergy!

Dupri - 1+1=2

- Because if you add one on one you get two!

Cavhyon - 282+282=564

- I took away the 82 from both the 200 and doubled the 200. That equals 400. Then I doubled the 82 and the equaled 164. All together it equals 564.

Mum - 404+404=808

- Because if you picture the 4 as a zero then you get 800. All you have to do is double the four and you get 808.

Rex - Caprice had 800 puppies. Daimai gave her 140 more. Then she gave Johnny 140. Renee came and asked Caprice for 160 puppies. She gave her 160 puupies and how much did she have left?

- She had 780 puppies left.

Me - Ariana had 3 apples. After that Hadee gave her 160 more. All together she had 163 apples. 800 apples were delivered to her house the next day. She still had the 163 from the day before. How much did she have altogether?

- Ariana had 963 apples left and she ate them all with her friends daily!

Inquiry:

Use your prior knowledge and explain to me about Cyber Smart.

Being Cyber Smart is a opportunity to make good and suitable friends online. If you are not Cyber Smart then you will Cyber Bully and you will end up giving out personal details about yourself. If you don't want to give out personal information about yourself and you want to be Cyber Smart, then so be it. Being Cyber Smart is a start to a healthy, happy world. 

CAN-DO ATTITUDE

YOUNG CHILDREN

BEING

EQUALY

REASONABLE

SMART

MAKING

ALL

RIGHT

TIMES.

Cybersmart is the right choice to make and CyberBullying is the wrong choice to make. If you want to CyberBully, then so be it. Go ahead! CyberBully! If you want to then why not? If you don't want it to happen to you then why do it to others? Why not say it to their faces? Are you scared? Are you going to get into trouble? Did you know that CyberBullying is a first cause to ripping families apart? Have you ever wondered about what consequences it give to them? It's a fact that more than 200 people everyday commite suyacide because of CyberBULLYING. So come one! Be CyberSmart! Being CyberSmart is knowing not to open any messages sent from odd people, giving out your passwords to anyone suspious and never giving out any personal details about yourself. BE CYBERSMART FOREVER AND LIVE A HAPPY LONG LIFE WITH LOVE!!!!!                      

THIS IS MY HOMEWORK I COMPLETED LAST NIGHT. I DID CYBER SMART(INQUIRY), MATHS, READING AND WRITING. BE SURE TO STOP BY AND LEAVE ME SOME POSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT MY WORK FOR MY NEXT PIECE OF HOMEWORK!

Smart Relationships Online:

This is my CyberSmart brochure that I created about stopping CyberBullying. If you are against CyberBullying comment and please include FF and FB.

Smart Relationships Online:

This is my CyberSmart brochure that I created about stopping CyberBullying. If you are against CyberBullying comment and please include FF and FB

Homework Term 2 Week

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Reading:

Read for 15 minutes and complete the reflection below:

Title: The Worry Website

What is this book about?

This book is about a school who has a site name The Worry Website. On the Worry Website, you can write your worries then you'll have answers to them. E.g. I keep on having nightmares about a monster crushing and clashing me together. Now that is a thing to go on The Worry Website.

Who are the characters in this book? List them below:

-Claire

-Natasha

-Lisa

-Mr Speed

-William

-Samantha

-Holly

-Greg

Who is the author?

Jacqueline Wilson

Who is the illustrator?

Nick Sharratt

When was this book first published?

This book was published in 2002.

What genre is this book? Why?

This book is a fiction. This is because it has information that isn't real!

How would you feel if you read this book concidering reading about you?

Well, if it was good and nothing bad had happened. Then I would feel over the moon. That I am in this book! BUT if I felt like I was a loser and didn't like what I was seeing. Then I would feel like an even more loser!

If you were to become a author and you had the chance to pick an famous author to write a book with. Who would you pick? Why would you pick this specific person?

I figured that I would pick Joy Cowley because when she writes books, she doesn't leave it as easy for people to find out the answer to the moral. Or to even find out what the moral is! She makes sure that they can find out the moral by themselves. But also makes it easier for them to understand!

Would you ever dream of becoming an author? Why?

Maybe. Because at once I can only handle one subject on my hands if I even make it towards what I really want to be in life: An Forensics.

Current Events:

Title: Off To Sail The World

What is this article about?

This article is about 3 boys who got selected to compete in the International Sailing Regattas.

Who was involved in the article?

Scott McKenzie, Lewis Anderson and Craig Keenan.

Where is this set?

According to this article, it is set at the beach as they are getting ready to go off. In Wellington.

A Fact:

They are New Zealand's top young optimist sailors to compete in a competition like this. Scott McKenzie is 13, Lewis Anderson is 12 and Craig Keenan is 12 years of age.

Writing:

Past the moon and in the sun, there was a magic carpet sitting on the hard wooden floor. “What can it do? What can it say? Does it work? Would it complain?” Jordan questioned dad.

“I don’t know but we have to find out. Remember it’s just a silly old carpet.” Dad replied.

But there was one thing they didn’t know. This silly old carpet was a magic carpet. Who had feelings for another carpet who lived in Jordans bedroom.

“I need to get to her! I need to get to her!!” The magic carpet groaned as he tried to move closer and closer. Each time he’d move, dad would pick him up and take him back to the centre of the living room.

“Jordan! Jordan,” dad shouted “Let’s go, we need to pick mum and Lilly up from the airport!” He yelled once again!

As they got in the car, the magic carpet then realised that he shouldn’t be here. That he doesn’t belong here!!! The magic carpet trying to read the tag on him, but couldn’t really see what was going on.

He yelled out “My love, I shall go! I must go! I don’t belong here!!!”

Missy(the carpet in Jordans room) yelled out “But what shall I do? Where shall I go? I need you and you need me too!”

“I’m very, very sorry Missy. But I need to go! I truly am sorry!” He answered back. Far away in the depth of the ocean, Missy looked out the window and saw him, travelling through the night sky. All alone and by himself.

Missy sighed “I wish I could of went with him.” The magic flying carpet stopped like a bomb been thrown onto him. He looked up to the moon. Missy was also looking up at the moon.

“Where am I? Missy help me. Please!” He muttered.

“I am with you! I will always be with you!!!” Missy shouted!

Far beyond the air point, the magic carpet then called himself Honda. Honda searched high and low for somewhere to go. He wished that Missy was here with him. Encouraging him and showing complete enthusiastic. Although he had a fantastic adventure, he was ready to go home.

“I must go back!” Honda said in his head.

“No I won’t. Wait I will go back! At least for Missy’s sake and I love her.” Honda said aloud. As he travelled his way back the way he came. He got lost.

“Where am I?” Honda asked himself. “I knew she was right.”

He saw a light. He saw a house! “There!!! There!!! I’m home. Missy?” Honda shouted with fill gratefulness. Honda saw her face as she looked out the window. It was hanging down. All of a sudden, Missy heard Honda say “Missy! I am here! I came back for you!!”
“You, you came back for me! You came back for me!” Missy said as her face lit up!

“Yes my love! Yes! I did! I did!” Honda shouted. He flew towards her like a lightning bolt. Honda was so, so happy to see her beautiful face once again!!!

“My name is now Honda!” Honda stated straight away.

“Honda. What are lovely name. Honda the supercar! My hero!” Missy said.

“I don’t want to go that far just yet. Laughed Honda.

“ You know, I wouldn’t mind being a human. To see how they live their lives compared to ours.” Missy stated.

“Well, how about it?”

“How about what Honda?”

“Let’s go for it! Let’s have an adventure and get married. Let’s be a happy married couple for the rest of our carpet lives.”
“I do and amen to that!!”

“Zippity zie, zippity zoo. We want to be humans just like you!”

Boom a clash of smoke happened to form their bodies. Missy was as beautiful as a rose blooming in the sunlight’s warmth and Honda looked as handsome as ever could be. The both of them ran out the door, towards the marriage chapel.

“Ready?”

“Yes my dear. Of course I am!” They opened the big doors and ran to the counter and said “We want to get married. Now!”

The accountant replied. “Just sign these papers and you’re officially married. But do you want to celebrate with a wedding or just a keep it down low one?”

“We want a keep it a down low one please!”

“Well Mr and Mrs Greenwood, I now pronounce you husband and wife.” They both ran off into the sunlight of happiness and forgiveness and they never forgot that moment. Not even when they both passed away!

Maths:

Learn your basic facts, times tables and division.

1+1=2

2+2=4

3+3=6

4+4=8

5+5=10

6+6=12

7+7=14

8+8=16

9+9=18

10+10=20

1x1=1

1x2=2

1x3=3

1x4=4

1x5=5

1x6=6

1x7=7

1x8=8

1x9=9

1x10=10

2x1=2

2x2=4

2x3=6

2x4=8

2x5=10

2x6=12

2x7=14

2x8=16

2x9=18

2x10=20

3x1=3

3x2=6

3x3=9

3x4=12

3x5=15

3x6=18

3x7=21

3x8=24

3x9=27

3x10=30

4x1=4

4x2=8

4x3=12

4x4=16

4x5=20

4x6=24

4x7=28

4x8=32

4x9=36

4x10=40

5x1=5

5x2=10

5x3=15

5x4=20

5x5=25

5x6=30

5x7=35

5x8=40

5x9=45

5x10=50

6x1=6

6x2=12

6x3=18

6x4=24

6x5=30

6x6=36

6x7=42

6x8=48

6x9=54

6x10=60

7x1=7

7x2=14

7x3=21

7x4=28

7x5=35

7x6=42

7x7=49

7x8=56

7x9=63

7x10=70

8x1=8

8x2=16

8x3=24

8x4=32

8x5=40

8x6=46

8x7=54

8x8=62

8x9=70

8x10=80

9x1=9

9x2=18

9x3=27

9x4=36

9x5=45

9x6=54

9x7=63

9x8=72

9x9=81

9x10=90

10x1=10

10x2=20

10x3=30

10x4=40

10x5=50

10x6=60

10x7=70

10x8=80

10x9=90

10x10=100

11x1=11

11x2=22

11x3=33

11x4=44

11x5=55

11x6=66

11x7=77

11x8=88

11x9=99

11x10=110

12x1=12

12x2=24

12x3=36

12x4=48

12x5=60

12x6=72

12x7=84

12x8=96

12x9=108

12x10=120

12x11=132

12x12=144

13x1=13

13x2=26

13x3=39

13x4=52

13x5=65

13x6=77

13x7=90

13x8=103

13x9=116

13x10=129

14x1=14

14x2=28

14x3=42

14x4=56

14x5=70

14x6=84

14x7=98

14x8=112

14x9=126

14x10=140

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Reading:

Define the words:

Incredible

Forensic

Atic

Heart

Cat

1. Incredible means when your good. Incredible is just another and better word for good or amazing e.g. Cool job Lizzy!

2. An Attic is another room in some houses not all.

3.Forensics are a bunch of teams who investigate crimes and find clues to reach the person who committed the crime. Like a person shooting someone else!

4. A heart is a shape and the thing in your body which keeps your blood pumping!

5. A Cat is a type of animal. Another name for a Cat is Feline(Cat).

Writing:

What do you think should happen to the weekend? Why?

Write it below:

- I think that Monday should be added to the weekend. That way we get more time to spend or do what we want to do in the weekend!

Maths:

2+15=17

29+16=55

20 divided by 4=5

20+20=40

Half of 80+120=160

100+1,000=100,000

1,000+1,000=2,000

18 divided by 3=6

Inquiry:

CyberSmart

What is CyberSmart?

CyberSmart is being SMART when you're online. Using suitable and correct language when you're online and saying nice things to others because if you don't want it to happen to you, then you have to stop so that it won't happen to you!

How can you be CyberSmart when you're online?

List 3 ways to be safer online below:

1. By knowing that what goes around comes back around.

2. By seeing how people feel about what's happening to them.

3. By knowing that people might kill themselves because of you.

Why is being CyberSmart so important?

You should be CyberSmart because you can make sure that nothing happens to anyone and no one will get hurt then.

What are the effects of CyberBullying online and the police are welcomed into it?

You could get arrested and planned guilty for what you have done.

Can you tell me one person you know who has been CyberBullyed? If not just leave this question blank!