Robotics at Tamaki collage

Last week on Friday was the last week of tech so we stayed for a bit longer this time we got split into groups robotics PE and social science. i got put into the robotics group we got to a big hall where Mr Dunn was he split us into four groups my team mates where Sanujan Jericho. Mr Dunn thought us how to program the drone with an i pad. My team one the mars packet because we managed to program our drone to go under a table and the over the table then land on it.

The Royal family

Today we stared a little project on the royal family we got into groups of 6 my partners where CJ Dallas Joshua W and Jericho. We all did different google slides each. Some slides we collaborated and did them together, The reason the teacher told us to do this is because Prince Harry just got engaged to Meghan Markle.

summarising

Today AJ and i have completed our summarising DLO for reading. The book we are reading is called rocket shoes. Aj and i find the book very interesting and will read more of it.

Fox Adaptations

today for inquiry we were learning about how animals adapt into there habitat and how they survive the animal that me and my partner Fraidoon chose was the fox we got lots of information of lots of different sites. the information that we gathered was very useful we have the sites we used on this dlo 

Badminton

Last week was my first time playing badminton today is my second. So today is our second time playing badminton this time was a lot funner we learned some new things about badminton that I did not all ready know about. We did so much first we had to juggle with the shuttle I did some cool tricks as well. Then we had to get into pairs my pair was Cj we did good I think we bounced it back to each other our highest score was 20 i think we did really good. I like badminton I hope to play more of it.

How children learn at school

How do you think children learn at school? Maybe they learn by talking to each other and by listening  teacher or by other children's ideas. Sometimes each students always learn from their or someone else's mistake. 

Role models are a good example for children because they always need some to inspire them through their learning journey, people and kids copy of each other so they can learn more information from each other so they don't have look up websites.

Children listen to find out information then kids could copy and then they could research and find out more information. Then children can copy off them so they can learn new things.

children take risks to learn new skills and practice of of others then they do it over until they have Learnt it. Children take risks to find out other information.

How do you think children learn at school! I think children can explain there learning by listing and talking to each other, I think children learn by following role moles.

Yesterday we were sent of to think how do children so we got into partners, My partners are Tai and Harlem H read this if you want to know more on how children learn at school.  

dance production

Last night was the first dance production i am the DJ it was really fun because if have my own booth i thought it was really cool and lots of people were clapping for me it was so fun i cant wait for tonight it will be such fun my mum and my sisters are coming to see me tonight it will be one of the most fun things i ever will do.

Cross Country

Last week we did a fun run witch is basically cross country i was so proud of my self but not to proud because i came fourth for the year 8 boys if only i ran a little bit further i would have come third and made it into the inter school sports but fourth is ok at least i did int come last thats for sure i think i have improved my running because last time i was second to last. I was lucky to be fourth i just bet Cj and most of the time he is normally faster then me.

scale drawing

this week we have been working on our scale drawing what this is its where we had to rule a smaller version of our paper that was all ready printed we make a grid on it with one center meters per square then our enlargement was 2 center meters. my design was the face of venom and spider man.

princess bride film study

today we have finished our film study on the princess bride with a DLO about opening sequins shot types and many others i chose opening sequences.

tamiki over drive

this afternoon we went onto the tamaki over drive it is a site were you can borrow books and read them on your computer the story i chose was mall it is about two girls that work in shops at the mall then something terrible happens in the mall. I cant wait to read more of this story. this site is really good because i can read books that most of the time i cant find.

Year 8 Day at Tamaki College

Today the year 8s went to Tamaki college to see what a day in Year 9 looked like. The first activity was maths. It was a lot of fun. We played battle ships against Mr Jones, our teacher for maths. Luckily we won the battle ship game. The next thing we did was science. Our teacher's name was Mr Stoddard. We learnt about static electricity and physics. We did experiments to help us understand. First we made water bend by rubbing a plastic tube on a piece of material and running the taps slightly. When we put the rubber tube next to the water it looked like it was bending. After our yummy lunch we had English. Our teacher this time was Mr Stevenson. We were finding visual images connections with new vocabulary. Last but not least was PE. For PE our teacher was Mr Moyes. We played turbo touch. We had 3 teams, there was non-bands team, a red team and a yellow team. I was in the non-band team but I never found out the final score or which team had the most tries. I think it was the red team but it does not matter because we all had so much fun. A big thanks to Tamaki College for showing us their awesome school and a big thanks to the teachers that taught us in the time we were there. I am looking forward to being a Year 9 student there next year!

Kate Sheppard Sketch note

The other day we made a sketch note of Kate Shepard there is a lot about Kate Sheppard in this sketch note i found it quite interesting what we found i hope you do to there was alot of sites with a hole information we put as much info as we could on the DLO.

Kate Sheppard

Kate Sheppard was the leader of the suffrage movement so we made a DLO about her we had to find 4 things about her who shew was what did she do why she is famous and personalty quality's it was fun looking at the web sites we found about her sometimes we put what we already knew in there. 

M bot

today at school we made a m bot from when i won it at the google tech summit so far we have built it got the remote for it and the m bot can drive its self and we can control it with the remote the last thing we need t do with it is program it to speak we have to use scratch to do it can wait till its finished.

GEG student summit

Last week Shannon Tiava Daniel  Jeremiah and I went to a school. We got to chose what activity we wanted to do. There was a fun activity where we had to find clues to find the key to get into a suit case. Sadly we ran out of time then we went to lego robotics Daniel and Tiava and I were in a group. We also presented how to make an animation. I thought we did really well. I won a prize. The prize I won was an m-bot! It is a robot that you can play with, you can make it move, it also has recording eyes.

Women's suffrage movement

In reading we have been looking at the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand which was led by Kate Sheppard over 100 years ago. Our task was to write a 25 word summary about what the suffrage movement was about. To finish this task my group and I had to work collaboratively, talk with each other and ask questions. We learnt that Kate Sheppard and the rest of the women that were apart of the suffrage movement had a huge impact on the way New Zealand is today.

Design tech

 to day at design tech we have finished the 3D printing and we are know onto painting. My design is the bat signal and i have put my first layer of paint on next time i will put my second layer of paint on we have 4 weeks left of tech so we have plenty of time to finish my design.

25 word summery

Today we had to make a 25 word summery of why we need to keep moari story telling alive.We got into pairs my partner was Calvin,we had a chose to do it on paper or on our devices me and my partner chose to do it on ours devices.

Ordering fractions