Tagging Is Bad

Tagging is Bad from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

This video is about not tagging because if you did it at school it will look like it is a bad school for people to go to and that is why tagging is bad.

Be A Buddy Not A Bully from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

This video is about being kind to each other and not being a bully, but be a buddy

Honesty Is The Best Policy

Honesty is the Best Policy from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

This video is about being honest.It means to tell the truth and never lie.

Energy Brochure

This is my brochure about 'Energy'. I used Google Drawing for the first time to create my brochure and I had fun making my brochure. During the process of making my brochure I learnt how to blog it in 2 different ways.I  have learnt how to check the quality of my work with a partner.I have also learnt how to change the font and make it bold instead of highlighting my brochure. 

Room 7's Favourite Singers

This is a Google Presentation of my statistical investigation I did with my buddy Briant.
We did a statistical investigation about Room 7’s favourite singers.
We followed a statistical process to help us complete our investigation successfully.

Manaiakalani Netbook Reflection 2012

This presentation is about reflecting on our journey with netbooks this year.

Wordle Of Statistics

This wordle is about statistics.I made a brainstorm to show you  words related to statistics.

The Journey Of Life

This presentation is about electricity.I wonder how does electricity travel through plugs.

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 fruit.4 students like Apples.2 students like Bananas.2 students like Peaches.2 students like Oranges.10 students like Strawberries.0 students like Pears.6 students like grapes.This column graph shows that the same amount  of students like strawberries whereas no one likes pears.

Faith and Ma'asi Guy Fawkes

As fireworks and stars danced in the dark, dark blue sky, I felt excited because I could see the colorful curtains that draped over the sky, the laughter of our loved ones, different emotions on everyones faces, but most of all the enjoyment of our loved ones.

I could hear furious explosions of fireworks that lit off a booming sound in the darkest of time, the cheering voices of our family as their body’s filled up with amazement just as if they were watching a rugby game from stools up in a stadium.

I could taste the bitterness of smoke that drifted through out the air, but the smell of B.B.Q was like an alarm that told me it’s time to rest. With a plate of food resting on my lap, I look out the crystal clear window and reflect on all the enjoyment we all had.

Room 7 Planting Kumara

In week 3 Room 7 planted kumara in our school kai garden. We would like to say a special thank you to Koro for helping us.

Press play to watch how we planted kumara. This clip was put together by Willy and Danisha.


Room 7 Planting Kumara from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Renewable And Non-renewable

This presentation is about renewable and non-renewable.I wrote my reflection on renewable and ,there are also differences to renewable and non-renewable.

My Video-Log About Energy

This is my first Videolog about Energy. I talk about what I know about energy and what I am wondering. 

Energy

This is my wordle related to energy.Energy is our inquiry topic.

Mara Kai Garden

Whanau Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Yesterday was whanau day and it was about celebrating the Kai garden.The students in the community showed the Parents and teachers the Mara Kai garden.We were also ready to plant our Mara Kai garden full of veggies.

Ma'asi And Tiere - How To Plant A Kumara

What you will need...
1.Soil
2.Water
3.Gardening Tools
4.Kumara that is already grown.
5.Sunlight
6.Shovel

Methods\Procedure

1.Dig a hole with a gardening tool.
2.Put the kumara that has already grown in the hole.
3.Cover the soil on the kumara.
4.Water the kumara once a day.
5.Let some sunlight help the plant grow.

Remember a kumara will take 4-8 weeks to grow.

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?

Energy is traveling throw our body that gives us energy.

Where do humans get energy from?

Humans get energy from health foods we eat, and humans also get energy from exercising.

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)Chloroplasts

b)Chlorophyll

c)Leaves

d)Photosynthesis

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

Chlorophyll

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 about making soil and it is also about putting the right ingredients in the compost.

What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?

List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• Meat
• Bones
• Fish
• Seeds
• Dairy products

Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy kai garden.

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 learnt that this topic is about sustainability and that you need to keep the environment clean and green.

The thing I liked about this topic is that we got to do a wordle and a popplet.

To be sustainable at home I need to keep neat and tidy and nothing dirty.

At school I can be sustainable by achieving my goals and using the feedback and feed forward I get from my teacher and pears to achieve my learning goals.

Poultry Farming

Loud Shirt Day

Today is loud shirt day.This day is about supporting deaf kids.All the money will go to the deaf 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. She is one special girl who we love having in our class. 

Information Report

We are showing you some examples of an information report.

EARTHWORMS

Do you know what earthworms are?

 Earthworms have no eyes, no nose and no ears.There are tiger worms and tiger worms are colourful and stripy.Earthworms are very cool, because they can see without their eyes.
Have you wondered how all sorts of worms dig from the ground. That is very hard, worms pee is good for plants
Do you know what worms like to eat? Worms like to eat all sorts of fruit except oranges and kiwifruit.
Do you know what defusion means? It means two things joined together.Worms are very slow and slimy.Some worms are very long and look dried. Some worms are very important to us.   

Compost

                                   This my wordle about compost.

Fractions

This is my wordle about fractions.

Simple Fractions

Energy

                                  This is my wordle about energy.

Photosynthesis

                             
                               This is my wordle about photosynthesis.

Room 7's Movie Magic Trailer

PMIS Movie Magic Evaluation

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. 

My Speech - Chocolate

How did you feel about presenting your speech to the class?

I felt confident and ready to present my speech.

What was the hardest part about preparing a speech?

The hardest part to prepare for my speech was to get everything ready and making sure that I had important points in my speech. 

What did you enjoy most about speeches?

I enjoyed presenting my speech and getting feedback from my teacher and friends in the class. 

How could you improve your speech making next time?

Use gestures and to try and prepare a Google presentation that identifies the points that I will be talking about in my speech.

Narrative Writing T.O.P.S

Rubies - Our Weekly Text Review

Making Inference Using Pictures

Syllabification

Teamwork

This presentation is about reading a book and this is a book review.

My Learning Goals For Term 2

This presentation is about my learning goals and it is also about achieving my goals.

TWO BOYS WHO WENT FOR A SWIM                                                                                                                 

WALT-write a narrative story based on our artwork.

One day in a small village there were two boys.Their names were Mark and Jack. Jack said to Mark, ”Put your togs on now we’re going for a swim at the beach”. When they went outside they both said ”it is so hot out here”. After that they walked up the hill. When Mark got up the top of the hill,  he jumped off and shouted ”WOW!”. When Mark got out of the water, he yelled to Jack.”That was fun”. When it was Jacks turn he jumped off and he shouted ”WOW!”.Mark was waiting for Jack. When Mark went in the ocean he looked and looked for Jack, but  he still couldn’t find him anywhere.

When Mark got out of the water, he looked for his phone and dialed 111. Jack was still at the bottom of the ocean. When the ambulance came , two people from the ambulance swam all the way to the bottom of the ocean as fast as a speeding car. They found Jack struggling to stay alive. They untangled him and dragged him back to the shore.

They took him to the ambulance as fast as they could When he woke up he was  happy to be alive. The doctor gave him a drink of water. The doctors told Jack to stay with Mark at home until he feels better and to not forget to take your medicine.When he felt better they decided to go to the pools instead of the beach.

They played happily and safely for ever.

This story is about two boys who went for a swim.

Art Words

This presentation is about art words that is a A-Z chart.

All About Me

Malolelei  my name is Ma’asi.I am 9 years old. I was born in Tonga in 2002. I have long black hair, brown smooth skin and the colours of my eyes are dark brown.

I live with my two beautiful sisters,my cheeky little sister,my funny little brother who is named after my uncle and my two adorable parents.

I am Tongan and I am very proud to be Tongan. When I think of Tonga, I think the delicious food,palm trees, lavalava, coconut trees, flowers and the Tongan patterns.

I enjoy playing cards with my 13 year old sister. I enjoy helping my mum clean up and I enjoy helping my mum chop the vegetables.

My best friend’s name at school is Lauren because she is very friendly to me  and she plays with me sometimes at lunchtime or morning tea.

My goal is to achieve all my Writing goals for this  year.