Te Reo - He aha te Taima

 

Equivalent Fractions.

Task Description: Today for maths we investigated equivalent fractions, we had papers and coloured in 2/3s of the paper, we then had to shade in some of the boxes and add the answer. We also had to make a video

 

Te Horeta's Nail

Writing

Traditional Tongan cooking and food: Coconuts and the Umu

The Coconut is an indispensable ingredient in Polynesian life, it is also dried into cobra or used in cooking oil or body oil. But most of all it is the base of nearly all Traditional dishes in the Polynesian
dine.
Taro Leaves are like spinach mixed with Onions and Corn Beef, it is wrapped in banana leafs and the coconut milk is added last.
The bundles are placed in an underground oven or a umu along with Taro roots or Yam, when it is full the umu is covered with banana leafs and old mats to keep in the heats hours later the bundles/food is removed from the umu.

Pieces of Cloth Pieces of Culture, Tapa Making and Community Collaboration

The Tongan islands lie 23 degrees south of the quitter in the pacific a tropical nation comprising over 100 islands Tonga still has its own king who is not only head of state but his head of the state church, Tonga was never formally colonised by any European nation and therefore its cultural practises today reflect ancient tradition and modern Christianity.
In 1773 Captain James Cook a British explorer described and named the Tonga island as the friendly islands, one of the greatest embodiment of Tongan history culture and religion is Tapa Cloth.. Tapa Cloth is a treasured textile which is made from Natural materials that grow in the Tongan islands no religious ceremony is complete without tapa cloth.
Tapa Cloth is especially prized as a covering for the casket of a deceased person, after a funeral ceremony has been conducted. The casket will be taken to a burial ground.
( Tapa Cloth are made by Bark, The inner bark is taken from several types of trees or shrubs, often mulberry and fig, and designs are applied with paints and vegetable dyes of light brown, red, and black ).

Chadwick Boseman

In the loving memory of Chadwick Boseman.

Facts about Chadwick Boseman:

1. Chadwick Boseman was born
on the 29th November, Anderson
South Carolina, United States.

2. His height is 1.83m

3. He was raised a Christian and was baptised.

4. He had stated that he prayed to ve the Black Panther before he was cast as the titular character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

My Step up highlight

Last week when the Year 8s went to camp the Year 7s had a chance to step up and be leaders while the yr 8s are gone to camp. We all were in groups and we had to make Chant, a Name and also pick our two leaders, I was with Ms Tipene my group had to choice to choose a name our choices were: Pe Leaders, Leaders, Crazy G.IZ, and Duck Life. We all had to put our hands up to choose our name, nearly everyone put their hands up for Duck Life, so our name was Duck Life, after we chose our name for the Step Up challenge my table couldn't decide what chant to do so Lorenzo and Moui made a Chant for us: ( Chant: Quack x3 we're gonna quack this challenge, Quack x3 we're gonna clap you fullahs Quack x3 that means Duck Life's Matter, DUCK LIFE OUT ).

My highlight for the Year 7 Step up was doing the Cup challenge with the whole of the other Year 7s. and competing with other people, my other highlight was doing Just Dance in our Rotations when we were split up into our Tahi,Rua and Toru groups for when the Year 8s go down to Tamaki College for Tech.

That was my favourite highlight of the Year 7 step up because  when doing the Cup challenge because it was pretty fun doing when competing with other Year 7s and some of the Year 8s. Doing Just Dance in our Rotations was pretty fun I was dancing with Quincess and Punaiuru and we kept on making up our own dance.