Fighting with Ratios?!?

WALT: identify the relationship between numbers

Task Description

This weeks task is all about ratio. Ratio isn't only in Math's, it is in Cooking,Work and more. It is a helpful subject in Math's that we should all learn as a kid. As I have already has some experience it was easier for my brain to understand more than others due to the connections I've had. I got a bit confused on the Relationships on the Year 9 level but I pushed through and just clicked also sorry if it doesn't make sense on that slide. Anyway, I really enjoyed doing this and I hope you enjoy my presentation.

Learning is like playing games!

This is a blogpost about games.

My favourite games (digital and non-digital) are:

• Speed ( Card games)
• 
  2048 (Online)
• Hit the nose ( Card game )
• Cheat ( Card game)
• Graveyard ( Card games)
  
  

The reason/s why I enjoy playing these games are:

• The reason why I like games are because they are competitive game.
• It is very fun and entertaining.
• You can play these games by yourself, with a pair or more!

Learning could be made much more fun and interesting if it included these elements of a
game:

• It would be fun if we had a prize or earned points during the game so the people will be
• hooked onto the learning like when we play a game.

• If we had a time limit or a funny punishment at the end to get people to do their work on
• time or to make it more entertaining for more people.

• If our learning was gamified I’d love it to have some obstacles courses or some
• challenges along the way to make us more excited for learning or for what’s next.

Visual Mihi 2019

Walt: Draw our Visual Mihi and explain our four important things in life.











Task Description
Above this you will see 4 pictures and myself. In the top left corner is a cross and the bible it represents that I believe in Jesus which means I am a christian. In the other top corner you will see the word 'Family'. My Family is very important to me, they are my loved ones and my everything. The corner with the red flag is about my culture. I value my culture very much, the flag is the Samoa flag and the words above it say which island in Samoa I am from. I am from the Island of Upolu in Samoa. Obviously, I had to add in a flower to show that my culture is pretty and soft like a flower. Finally, the last corner is about how I admire Music. Music has always been apart of my life if its at school, at home or even at church you will see me singing,performing and listening to all types of music including foreign music! K-pop is my favourite genre as it helps me be more active with other languages. That is all I have to say about my Visual Mihi. I hope you enjoyed me explaining my 4 important things in my life. Have a great day!

Doing Year 9 Math's!

Walt: apply a range of strategies to solve multiplication and division


Task description
Here is the week 2's work. It is the same concept as last weeks. This weeks work wasn't challenging but it was a fun ice breaker for math's.Enjoy!

Margaret Mahy

Walt: write about our group name.


Task Description
For this task we had to write facts about our Literacy group name which is based on a new Zealand author Margaret Mahy. Here is the presentation above, this is what we did.

Room 4 Maths

WALT-  Getting used to Room 4 Math's Norms. 


Task Description
In Room 4 Math's, we are learning how to get more comfortable in math's. In the top corner ( in my presentation) you will see a year seven, eight or nine depending on how far you want to push yourself in math's. When it says year seven in the corner it means the math's is at the level of an expected year 7's math's and so on. I pushed myself all the way to see how far my brain could go in Math's. It was really fun but I'm hoping to do work that is higher for a level for a year nine. I really want to see how far I can go with Math's this year!

The Pt England Way and The Treaty of Waitangi

Walt: State the differences and similarities about the Pt England way and The treaty of Waitangi.

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Task Description

For this task we had to work in a group of 2 or 3 people. Zaeeda and Chastyti were in a group with me. We had to write what are the differences and similarities between our schools way and the Waitangi way. Enjoy!

Breaking out!

This morning we did maths! We played an exercise game which was Breakout EDU DIGITAL. It included Teamwork, Cooperation,Commuication and your brain. It was a Digital Break-out game. I was in my DMIC group with Zaeeda and Eden. We took a lot of time because it was our first time doing this and we had less people in our group. Overall, we had a great time doing this.

Predicting a chapter

This morning, Mrs Tele'a read Room 3 Literacy a book. 

It was named Unreal but the short story we read is Lighthouse Blues. 

We read 2 chapters and we had to predict what will happen next in Chapter 3.  I didn't get to finish this but this is the draft version. 

This is what I wrote.

Anton’s POVMy knees started shaking, I was terrified. “ Well, I think we’ve had enough time here. Let’s get going!” I said. We walked back quickly as I was petrified. On our way back we started talking about Stan’s family. “ Is it true that you can play the flute?” Stan asked. I replied “ Yeah, why do you ask?” “ Oh it’s just that everyone in our family plays an instrument but flute. So it’s cool to know someone that plays flute."

My first week at school for 2019!

On my first week at school I got to meet up with my friends again and I also got to meet my teachers for 2019. My home room and Literacy teacher is Mrs Tele'a and my Maths teacher is Mrs Stone. We got to do our Visual Mihi Art which was cool. We had lot's of fun for the first week. I wonder what is planned for us next week! Check out our team's Site for more information about this term.

This is me!

Talofa lava, Kia ora, Malo e lelei and greetings to you all. My name is Pisirina and I am in year seven at Pt England School. I am 11 years of age turning 12 later in the year. I was lucky enough to have Mrs Tele’a as my home room and Literacy/English teacher and Mrs Stone for Maths. My favourite subject at school is Maths because it is the subject I tend to have more fun in and have no confusion about the equations. My hobby is singing, playing netball and listening to music such as Pop songs, Rnb music and lastly K-pop! My goal for this year is to finish a book every three weeks or less and hopefully at the end of the year my reading level  progresses and I have read around 10 books. I’m looking forward to the trips at the end of the year and the overall results of my learning.

Spending Christmas at Samoa! (and staying there for 3 weeks!)

My trip to Samoa!

Pisirina

Photos taken by my sister

My 3 week trip to Samoa was amazing and long!, and when I say long I mean LONG.

It was literally a month. All was good, we left on the night of the 23rd of December

and we arrived around 3’o’clock in Samoa meaning it was probably 2 am in NZ
since Samoa is an hour ahead. I went with my older sister and my dad to Samoa
if you were wondering. Well, I can’t travel by myself!

When we arrived at Samoa, it was like being in another world.

The heat hit my whole body when I stepped out of the airplane when we arrived at
our destination. As I was walking, I had to take off my cardigan. That’s when I
found out that there was a lot of humidity in the air which is weird because
in NZ we don’t have a lot of humidity everyday. Skip forward onto the week.

On Christmas, after all of my cousin’s got given presents we went to the beach at
Savaia to go swim, which was quite far from my village but it was worth it.

All of the kids had fun, the water was beautifully clear and clean compared to our
oceans. But the beach near my village is really dirty but it’s still okay to swim in
it because we have a pool area. I didn’t expect Samoa to be polluted
but the place is still beautiful.

On this week was my cousin’s wedding!

That’s the real reason why we were there at Samoa.

Her wedding was on the 29th of December almost a week after we arrived.

My older sister was a bridesmaid and I was a flower girl even though I’m 11. On the day I

had to wear makeup which was new but in a good way. The whole day was tiring

because I had to wear high heels and I was sweating. My highlight of this day was

at the Reception when we had a family item which was really fun with everyone

dancing on the dance floor including the bride and groom.

Now I am going to talk to you about the struggles in Samoa.

Hopefully this paragraph doesn’t go on for long because I have a whole list.

The first reason is communicating, it was easy to talk to the younger children since my

Samoan skills are average, but when it comes to speaking with adults, OH they’re
talking in another language! They talk so fast that I have to reply with an answer
THREE minutes later because I have to calculate or ask my sister what they just
said.

Reason two, the heat! It’s so hot that I would jump inside a car and go for a drive with

my cousin with the windows closed but the air conditioner on.

When it’s night time I’m not allowed to sleep with the fan on because that’s how I
get sick. Even when you’re getting changed you will eventually sweat.

Next reason!

Being teased by your cousins. Every morning we would go outside of the house and

pick up the rubbish except Sunday because that is the Aso malolo(Rest day).

Once(when we were picking up rubbish), my cousin’s were calling me a Teine palagi just

because I lived in New Zealand.

What most of my cousins didn’t know was that I was born in Samoa, they didn’t
believe me at all. That goes to show that Samoan families love to tease
and mock each other even when they’re sad because our jokes are so funny.

There is nothing other than those three struggles that made me pity myself all
the time. I might’ve made it sound like I exaggerated too much but
there’s no going back now but I love them so much, no words can explain
how much I love food. I’m just joking, I love my family to the core of my heart.

Enough of that smoochy stuff, for the next week we just stayed at my Mum's
house which is in the same village as my Dads house. They had an open
house at the front and a normal one behind.
What I loved about my Mum's house was that it was windy there.

A downfall in Samoa is that they have dogs but they look hungry and

they die of starvation. My country is blessed with beautiful dogs but they
choose to not to give them love and care. When we went to town in Apia we
saw pigeons but they aren’t

like the pigeons is NZ, instead they were so skinny, they looked so lazy
because they weren’t waddling with their head bobbing.

Oh, their life is a struggle! I pity the dogs and the pigeons.

I will also talk to you about the life of a pig.

Warning: Make sure you have your tissues ready.

The Piglets look so happy whenever I go past them but their futures are all the
same. Once they are old and fat that is when their owners lock
them up in a big cage. The family will feed the pig their leftovers and BAM!,
the pig gets even more thick. Eventually someone will have to end their life,
and people will devour the forgotten pig.

That is why I, Pisirina will always remember them.

Forever in our stomachs.

The last day was sad with everyone at the airport to send us off.

My sister and I were wearing matching dresses.

My dad and my other sister also wore Samoan clothes.

Some of my family members cried. It was an emotional mess. It was so boring
and long on the trip back home.

Although, they’re were some K-pop music so it was really
easy to fall asleep on the plane.

The trip was amazing and I am so lucky to reunite with my country and my family.

There were a few struggles but all that matters is that I put a smile on a lot of
peoples face. Christmas was the best because even though I didn’t get much,

what I got to see was a lot of smiles which really made my day.

I was glad that I filled their day with happiness.

I suggest that you go for a holiday in Samoa because I guarantee that you will gain more

knowledge, lose weight and become more tan.

Task Description

This blog post is about my trip at Samoa! I'm so sorry that I didn't post this earlier. So many things are going on this holiday. Unfortunately I didn't have time to do the Summer learning Journey but I will aim for posting during the winter break. I hope you enjoy my writing!

Photos below!