I am a Year 8 student student at Pt. England School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 3 and my teacher is Mrs. Tele'a.
WALT: Understand and solve problems with time.
Task Description: Today for Maths we are doing Time, I worked with a Buddy Victoria . We Worked together as a team and finished our task,our Maths is about putting the arrows to the right number to connect it with the time it suits, another task was to place the hours and minutes and to the right answer.
Title: My Thoughts about Leaders.
First of all, confidence is the best quality. A leader must have strong self-confidence. A person lacking in confidence can never be a good leader and a person must be confident enough to ensure others follow him/her. The leader must have confidence in his/her decisions and actions.
A good leader must certainly inspire others and a leader must be a role model for his/her followers. They must motivate them whenever possible. Also, in difficult conditions, a leader must not lose hope.
A leader must have Honesty and honour because it is very important to earn the love of followers. Above all, honesty is needed to win the trust of the people.
Good communication is a must for a good leader. This is because poor communication means the wrong message to followers. Furthermore, good communication will increase the rate of work. Also, the chances of mistakes by followers will be reduced.
So now that you’ve finished listening to my story about “ Leader” are you strong, confident and have good communication enough to be a good leader? Everyone has the strength to be a leader. So use your strength and become a leader.
Task Description: For Writing we've been writing speeches, and my speech was about "Leaders", Today I gave my speech to the class ( Literacy, Rm3 ). I was really nervous, I got my score and it was "19/25" which isn't really that bad.
Task Description: Today for Te Reo Maori we are doing "Ki te aha" which stands for ( What For ), our job was to complete the questions on the slide and also do a Create Task to finish it off.
WALT: Understand different units of measure and the context in which they are used.
Task Description: This Week for Maths we are learning to convert units of measurement, and also calculate the Areas and Perimeters of the equilateral triangles, parallelograms and rectangles. In two of the slides we are measuring Jugs and how much they weigh.
Task Description: Rm 3 Literacy had 3 choices to make, I chose to do another Kiwi Kids News article, the article I read was "Tornado hits South Auckland ( aka Papatoetoe )".
Task Description: Today for Cybersmart our job was to make an slide animation. This task was easy and fast to do, this is an mini clip of my slide animation.
Task Description: For our reading task we had to read an article from Kiwi Kids News, before we had to do the Kiwi Kids News we had to finish our reading from last week and then do our Kiwi Kids News task. The article I read was Blue win Trans - Tasman Rugby title, the only word I didn't know was the word "Momentum".
WALT: What are Fractions?
Task Description: Last week and this week for Maths were Improper Fractions. Our Job was to finish the tasks on this slide deck.
Task Description: This Week is Samoan Language Week. In Literacy we had to create a poster about Samoa
Task Description: On Wednesday night around 11 pm the moon turned red. which is also called a lunar eclipse.
The year 8 leadership camp will be a memorable experience.
Wednesday the 19th of May was the first day of the Year 8 Leadership Camp!. We all gathered in the school hall and Mrs Tele’a explained to us about the “O le ala i le pule o le tautua” ( To severe others in different ways). We got on two different buses, I was on the bus with the other team Thames, our drive to camp was 1.5 hours but it felt like 3 hours.
On our first day of camp ( Wednesday ) we got introduced to a person named Zac. Zac explained our boundaries and some other things, everyone then walked to the camp hall and we played cross games.
( Cross Games is a fun activity we did, all the teams had to make a chant, we had a ref off, and we also did some other activities ).
Our first night at camp was really terrible because the cabin I was in kept on talking and most of us girls in the cabin kept laughing. We had two or three teachers come to our cabin more than twice because my cabin kept talking.
My first Highlight has to be Go Karts because it was a fun experience to do. At first I was nervous to go onto the Go Karts, but my team Coromandel B was very supportive to each other and we all had a go even though we were all nervous to go on, everyone all had four turns on the Go Karts.
My Second Highlight is Camp Search because ( Coromandel B ) worked as a team, we had a strong communication with each other, and even though we had a member in our team that was injured we never gave up. Our team was also very shocked of our time because we broke the record, Kauri team girls was coming with first with 23 minutes and our team
( Coromandel B ) had won by 14 minutes.
My third highlight would be the Polynesian dinner night, this is another highlight of mine because it was an enjoyable night. What I enjoyed the most about that night was the food and the karaoke we did. The food we had was Nachos. It was amazing !For dessert we had Churros and vanilla ice cream. This was my favourite highlight out of all .
Year 8 leadership camp was a fun experience. The point of this camp was to step up and be a leader, to get out of your comfort zone and try new things you haven't tried before.
I would like to Thank all the teachers / parents who gave up their time to let us Year 8s have a fun camp.
Task Description: Today in literacy we had to write a recount about the Year 8 Leadership Camp. We also had to go on a google drawings and write down the Key Words for Camp. We had this camp to step up and be a leader, this camp is to go beyond your comfort zone and be a leader.
Task Description: This term theme is " Watch this space " which means for the whole term we will be learning about the planets / our solar system.
