My Christmas Holiday,

Kia ora last period I did a google slide about what I'm doing on my Christmas holiday. I hope you enjoy it. 
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Summer Learning Journey.

To Emma.

Kia ora my name is TJ and I'm a student from Hornby High School, I'm a year 8 from 7/8Bh.  I like to play sports, my favourite sport is Football because it's really fun to play and it's also good when you have nothing to do at interval or lunch. My favourite subject is P.E and Maths, the reason why I like P.E is because in P.E you can go for a run and try a new sport that you haven't done before. The reason why I like Maths is because it has many challenges that I like to do.

I'm looking forward going to Jellie next week on Tuesday for a school trip. In my spare time at home I like to spend time with family because it's something good to do when you don't got any plans for the weekend. My favourite football player is Cristiano Ronaldo and Mbappe.

That's all from me I hope you enjoyed my blog. A question that I wanna ask you is how long having you been working at the Summer Learning Journey? Please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.

Tane Mahuta CIP

Kia today we have been doing more planting and more work. First when period 2 started we got straight it. If we had our P.E gear we had to get change into it so our school cloths don't get dirty. We started to dig holes for the start until the period was over. After interval was finish we had gym sports, for gym sports we played a quick game of octopus, until everyone was out.

For the next game we played kick long ball and dodge ball. Kick long ball was pretty fun but I reckon dodge ball was better cause we got to play more rounds and most of us had a great time as well. After gym sports was finished we had to get back in to digging out plants and doing what we did in period 2.

We did a lot of hard work but I reckon next time we could get more potatoes out of the ground. That's all what we did for it I hope you have enjoyed my blog. Please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.  

Digi Tech.

I have been working on a project for my digital tech class. I had a problem that I had to make something about. My problem is an ethical issue and the issue is sea pollution  I created a really good parkour stage in gamefroot it starts to get harder every time.

Its going well and is nearly finished. Trying to manage how it works and the coding is sometimes hard but it can be very easy. It was hard to make at the start as I didn't know how to use scratch but after getting used to how it works it was easy to do.

If I was to change anything about how I worked on this project and what the project was I would try and work with someone as I ran out of ideas very quickly and it took me a while to think of what to make.

I would also use a different site instead of gamefroot as it limits. Item adding site. I would probably use the site scratch as I saw a lot of people use it and it looked very fun to use.

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P.E Hurumanu

Kia ora today we are final finish our P.E hurumanu for 2019. Its been really great doing P.E hurumanu and really fun learning about different sports and the rules as well.

What we did today was mini games of basketball and it was a competition to what ever team won the most. Sadly we lost 1 game and won 2 games. Crispy Chicken won all of the game and was known as the winners.

When we had to share around last term we we teaching the other group how to play dodge ball, First we had to do our warm ups, It was running around the field once than going back inside and doing some more warm ups.

We played a lot of different ways in dodge ball. Some of the games of dodge was if you got hit you had to sit on the side line until a new games starts. We played another way that if you got hit you had to go down to the other teams and try catch the ball that your team mate has thrown to you.

Things that work was we all had a time to tell the other groups what's gonna happen. Things that we could of done better was making the teams a little bit even. 2 things what I've learnt about each sport is that you need to do team work to score goals and another thing is that don't been bossy with that ball and give others chance to have a turn.

My favourite part about P.E was that I got to try some different sport that I haven't really done before.

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DMIC Maths

Kia ora today we have been finishing off our DMIC Maths hope you enjoy.

  Matiu will get $1 for the first day he works, but for each day he works from then on his pay will double. $1 $2 $4 $8 $16 $32 $64 $128 $256  $512 $1024 $2048 $4096 $8192.

There's 14 days in a holiday and everyday he gets a double of that amount, so its double of each one so like 2 + 2 = 4 than 4 + 4 = 8, You add it up until until you get up to day 14 than you add it up all together than it = $8192.

Ariana will get $10 for the first day she works and two more dollars for everyday she works after that.  $10 $12 $14 $16 $18 $20 $22 $24 $26 $28 $ 30 $32 $34 $36. 

Because for the first day she starts with $10 than you double it by 2 until you gets up to day 14 so it will = $36 all together.

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C.I.P

Kia ora today we have been working on the garden, we have been taking out all of the weed that's been in the gardens since we left it last term. first we had to take all of the plants that we didn't need to grow. We did it until period 2 was finish.

Second period we did gym sport, our first game we did was kick long ball we got into 2 teams and one team had to kick the ball and make sure they don't catch the ball that it was time for the other team to do the same thing. Second game we played was multi sport, but the other team won the game. When we finished gym sport. Went back to do what we did at period 2.

It was really fun at the end. I hope you have enjoyed my blog, please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.

Chapter 12 (Fantastic Mr Fox)

Kia Ora today we have been working on our Fantastic Mr Fox book. We had to get in a pair with someone else in our group. Me and Jesse had to do a roll play and read a few sentences. I hope you enjoy the video, Click the link to watch the video.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14IdJWyox_L3A5SyoIkh0zbWsWU1cQMt7/view?ts=5da782c3 

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Mega Air Experience

September 25th 2019 the year 7's & 8's went to Mega Air for a fun day. My experience about going to Mega Air was that there's a lot of trampolines and that it's heaps of fun too. The classes that went to Mega Air first was Bh, Ts, Tz and Sh. 

2 classes went down to Mega Air a time. When we finally got to Mega Air we had to take our shoes and socks off because it's one of the rules at Mega Air, when we took our shoes and socks off we had to wait until one of the leaders from Mega Air to turn on the TV so we can just watch a quick video. After the video was finish we had to walk into the trampoline area and not run because someone could of badly hurt their foot if they were running.

Things what I really liked about Mega Air was that I could do flips that I haven't done in a long time. we were there for 1 hour but most of the times I was just doing flips with some other friends. I hope we can go to Mega Air again cause it's really fun and I enjoyed. Nothing was boring there because there was at least something fun to do there. When it was finally finished we had to go back where the shoes were and put our shoes and socks on than head back to school.

I hope you have enjoyed my experience at Mega Air. If you went to Mega Air who would you take with you to have fun?

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Orana park

Kia ora everyone today I'm gonna be telling you's about my experience in Orana park. The Monday started with Bh and Tz getting into group 1 or group 2, group 1 was the first at group to go on the bus. Some of the people in group 2 went into the van with Mark.

The rest of the people in group 2 went on the bus with the other group. When we got to Orana park heaps of people we excited to see all of the animal. When we got into Orana park we got told that there were over 400 animals to see.  2 of the leaders from Orana park was leading us to all of the animals that we could see.

One group went with the first leader and than the other group went with the other leader. There was all kinda of animals that I haven't heard of before. One animal that I really like was the lions, when we got to see them they were really massive and most of my group were surprised how big they were. We got told that there was 9 in the cage and all of the lions were all cousins.  Around the end of the day we got to see the gorillas and 2 of them were outside and 1 was inside we went to go see the 2 outside.

We were lucky enough to feed to giraffes at the end when we got back to school we were aloud to see our new classes. I hope you have enjoyed my blog please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.

Hurumanu P.E

Hello everyone today's blog will be talking about our experience in Hurumanu P.E so far. First  I'm gonna talking about body warm ups, 5 minutes, jogging 1, squats 10, side steps 20 and grape line. (To the first line and back) it was hard because we always and time to do it twice or more.

After we finished doing our body warm ups we had a few minutes sorting our game and doing some practice as well. After that was finish that period it was time to do some maths for the other period. The maths so far has been really confusing at the start but than it got a lot easier to understand.

I learned that there's a lot of different ways to solve the question instead of just guessing because you might get the question wrong. The question that we had to solve was how much money you would need to paint a whole football field and how many cans you would need to paint the football field. 

I reckon that working with the people in my group for the maths activity was really good because we got most of the answers right and we all had different ways to solve the question, I hope you have enjoyed my blog.

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Digital Tech

Kia ora today for the past couple of weeks we have been focusing on our Digital Technology. We have been answering questions and putting our thoughts and doing a little bit of researching.

We had to pick an issue and I picked ethical because its something to think about and that it is a topic that I can relate to what did your first source say? 

Chemicals dumped from Factories.

I reckon its a bad idea because then people will get angry and deforestation happens when forests are permanently destroyed and the land is used for other uses. And that when the trees are destroyed and there’s nothing left it would be just be like a normal field.

A question that I wanna ask you is if you had to deal with a problem like this and what would you do about it?

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Research Template

Hurumanu P.E.

Kia ora everyone I'm gonna be talking about what we did today in Hurumanu P.E.  First when we got into the gym and did our warm ups for a start. For our warm ups we did a little bit of jogging for a start than we did gate stretches after that it was period 4.

Period 4 we all had to sit down in the old gym and we had to listen to our teachers. We started to do our throwing and catching. After we finish doing the throwing and catching we got straight into our dodging for 10 mins or so. It was really fun working with others that we haven't work with before.

We also had to have a buddy so we can throw and catch at the same time, Me and Jesse were buddy's, we were throwing and catching the ball for 5 mins or longer. I can't wait to get in P.E next I hope you have enjoyed my blog so far please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now. 

Chapter 5-6 Fantastic Mr Fox

Today we have been reading about Fantastic Mr Fox and the main events about it. For chapter 5-6 Mr fox and his wife and kids have been digging so far that you could fit a house in it.
The 3 farmers have been trying to dig them out for a night. 2 farmers were getting angry because the other farmer idea didn't work at all.

So he decided to have another idea and it was the bring 2 big tractors to dig them out. One farmer stayed behind with his shotgun waiting for them to come out. None of them came out, so 3 hours later the rest of the farmers came down with the big tractors and was ready to dig them out.

Mr fox wasn't gonna give up on digging. Until another day came, heaps of people was going to see what was going on. The farmers told them to get angry but instead the people were laughing instead this made the farmers angry and that's the end of chapter 5-6.

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Tane Mahuta

Kia ora everyone today I'm gonna be telling you guys about what we did today and what we got completed today. First we started to finish off all of the work we didn't last week. Me and Kody were smashing the tables. Both of us got to use sledge hammers so we can destroy the tables down.

After me and Kody finished smashing the rest of the tables, Both of us decided to destroy some of the metal that the teachers told us to do, we got it completed on time for interval.

After interval a few of the year 7's and 8's had gym sports first we had to run to the field and back to mark near the courts. We had to do some exercising for 5 minutes or so. Than we had to go back inside of the gym and do the beep test, it was really hard but me and my other partner got up to level 11 it was hard effort but it was fun as well.

When all of us finish doing the beep test we went to have 2 games of dodge ball. Most of the students enjoyed playing dodge ball. At the end of gym sports we had to back to our classes and do some blogging.

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P.E Hurumanu

Kia ora everyone, today we have been doing the beep test, it was really challenging and hard working for most of us. One thing that I want to improve is my long distance running because I use to be really good at it but now I've stop running for a while.
My score for the first day was.

Vertical Jump
    M1: 2.1

     M2: 2.51

Sit and Reach:

15.4

Sit Ups: 25

Grip Test:  20

Beep Test:7.1

It was hard keeping up to everyone else when it was getting harder, I'm gonna practice more in P.E hurumanu and in the weekends, and hopefully I get a better result next time. I enjoyed doing the beep test a lot but wish I could of done a little bit better, 

I hope we can do another hard challenge like this next time, I really wanna improve heaps by doing a jog at a park or just around the block. I wanna do more running in my free time, so I can get better at my long distance running again.

 A lot of people did really as well and had a good score too. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Kia ora Today I'm gonna be talking about Fantastic Mr Fox, For chapter 4 I've been answering questions about Fantastic Mr Fox, Here's a photo about my questions and what I had to answer.  I hope you have enjoyed my work please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.

Tane Mahuta

Fantastic Mr Fox

Kia ora I've been working on my novel study and we have been answering the questions I hope you have enjoyed what I have for my chapter.

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CIP

Kia Ora for the last couple of days we have been working in the garden, there's 3 groups, me and my group is working in the green house. 1 of the groups is making a new garden and the last group is cutting the small brunches on the tree, some of us changed groups to help the other groups.

The first group I was in was working on the green house and we were cleaning up the green house and moving heavy stuff. We were carrying all of the heavy stuff until it was interval.

Hurumanu Science - The Water Cycle

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	3	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small 

3 = large 

Other comments: 

1, Bag 1 cycled water.

2, Bag 1 had a small amount of water,

3, The acidity in a bag low.

4, Bag 2 had a lot of water.

5, Bag 3 had less water.

6, Bag 2 had amount of water,

7, Bag 3 had amount of water.

8,The acidity had a small amount of water.

9,The acidity in bag 1 was low.

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Acid rain
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Defirestation
8. Water vapour
9. Transpiration
10. Flooding

Conclusion: Big 1 had a small amount of water and it means that we got to try fix it, Bag 2 has a lot of water and that's a good thing because now we don't gotta worry about it for a while, The acidity in bag 1 was really low and that we will need to focus on the acidity.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Today we were reading Fansatic Mr Fox, we were reading up to chapter 1, there was there 3 people that were mean all the time, the charters names were Bean the tall person, Boggis the fat person and Bunce the small person they all had a big farm together!!!

The story was mainly about the fox who stole a chicken from the farm than the 3 farmers got rage and wild because the fox stole the chicken from them. I have enjoyed reading this book so far its got a lot of details about the story,

1. What are we doing this term for Reading?  Fanstastic Mr Fox
2. By only looking at the cover, what can we infer or guess about the story? It looks like there's a happy fox and it looks like its gonna be a interesting story.
3. After reading the back cover, what do you think the story is about? Make a prediction on what will happen.  A fox that steals the 3 farmers food than the farmers get raged at the fox
4. Using your prior knowledge, why do you think I have selected this book for us to read! Cause its a chapter and both of our group haven't readied a chapter book before. 

I hope you have enjoyed it so far I will be talking a little bit more when we read the next chapter please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below.

To be continued!!! 

Narrative writing!!!

Kia ora everyone I have recently been working on my narrative writing and we have been writing a story about just a random story here is what I have been doing!!! Manaakitanga

It was the middle of the day, josh, jesse, Ashton and TJ On a nice sunny warm day were playing on the field, me and ashton were vsering jesse and josh in a game of 2 v 2. We were winning our game by 5-4 but than the bell ring. We needed to get to class quickly but than we were in a hurry, somebody left the football on the field last. We didn’t know who left the ball on the field last, but someone didn’t wanna tell the truth! We asked our teacher if we can go look for our football, we all went out to go looked were it was we thought we had it with us but we didn’t.  So we were looking for the ball for a long time, because we wanted to play with it at lunch. We had no idea where it was last, we all talked about who left it on the football field. 

None of us didn’t know, so we had a vote who we thought who left it there last. There was 1 vote for me, 2 votes for josh, 2 votes for jesse and 3 votes for ashton, we all asked ashton if he left the ball there and if he did forget to bring it back, we got told who it was! It was (AShton) he told us where it was last, he didn’t wanna tell us because he thought that we weren’t gonna be his friend anymore. 

So we decided to be friends with him again because he’s really kind and nice to talk too. So after we said that we would be his friend again. He said “Okay I won’t do it again” after we got the ball we went to the field to start playing football again. We didn’t know he wanted to be in which team. We all agreed to play the first person to score a goal will be the first captain than the second person to score a goal will be the other captain. The person who scored first me. Than the second one to score was jesse!!! I got the first pick so i ask if josh wanted to be in my team, so he said yes please. So it was me and josh vsering jesse and ashton in game of football. We played for 15 minutes because we spent 5 minutes asking where ashton putted the ball. So we got in the game straight away. We played full field because it was better than a lot more fun to play. My team were winning by 5-3 and it was in the first 8 minutes in the game.
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Science Hurumanu

Today we have been focusing on Science so far, Its been very interesting question Heres a photo about what I have done during this Hurumanu so far!!! 

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Hurumanu art - Clay Making!!!

Kia ora everyone, What we have been doing is working on our clay since last term!!! Me and my group are focusing on painting to back ground and making the rest of our characters, the only characters that we gotta finish off is Goku and Thanos.

Me and Tamani are finishing off Goku and Thanos and Hamid is finishing off the back ground. Our theme of the back ground is of the galaxy because one of our choices what we decided on was a unknown galaxy, we have a portal that takes the characters to a unknown place.

I have enjoyed making clay because its really fun and you can do all shorts of clay too. One of our other team members hasn't been here for a while now so when he gets back we will tell him what has the be finish we should be having this finished by Friday. After we have finished making the clay and the back ground, we have to use stop motion the record our finished work.

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CIP-Week 10

Kia ora I am gonna be talking about my passions what I have done this term, the first passion what I have choosing for the term was Gym sports. Gym sports has been really fun because we get to run a lot and get to do games. My favourite game to play in gym sport is multi sport because there's 4 different sports to play in multi sport,

My second passion what I choosing was rugby, because sometimes we get to go to the gym and most of the time we go on the field the play some rugby. I have enjoyed the passions what I have done so far because sports is one of my favourite subject to do in school.

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Hurumanu

Today we have been doing hurumanu SCIENCE and so far it has been good. WATCH THIS VIDEO AND COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION.

THE BIG PICTURE

• What animals keep our jackets warm? They use duck feathers so our jackets keeps us what
• What animal makes our boots waterproof? Ducks because ducks get dry really quick and it doesn't get that we if we wear our boots. Leather boots are made from cattle.
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• Where does the water in our rivers come from? The mountains and the snow. 
• Why do we need healthy rivers? because if we don't it will just get really dirty and nothing would want to go in the rivers. Fish need to be living in clean, healthy rivers.
• What are some of the good things about mosquitoes? They keep our rivers nice and clean.
• Why are bees dying? Because losses Because many agricultural crops worldwide are pollinated by the western honey bees. Insecticides kill too.
• What do bugs do to our leaves? They sometimes eats our leaves but not much of them do.

• Reduce make a smaller amount or size amount.
• Reuse means use more than once.
• Recycle to collect rubbish and put it where it is mean't to go 
• How much dung would we be in if there were no dung de- composers? 7 feet
• Who runs this planet? We would need a lot because we need trees and air so we can peeve. That's all for today please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below bye now.  Mother Nature Rules!

Art-Hurumanu!!!

Kia ora today we have been doing art for our new hurumanu, Tz and Bh has been doing alot of drawing about a lot of writers. I have enjoyed it so far because I really like doing it and its fun as well. Today we have been doing a lot of drawing about small characters too.

My favourite put about this hurumanu so far is that we can do a lot of drawing and sometimes we get a choice about we want to draw. Things that I want to do in art is we can maybe make a story and put a little bit of art in it too so it stands out a little bit more,

That's all I'm gonna be talking about for today please leave a positive, helpful and a thoughtful comment down below.

Hurmanu Science

Hurumanu - Science Badges: Introduction

Science Badges:

  

'Conservation'  

• Climate Science
• Global Warming
• Recycling
• Renewable Energy
• Fossil Fuels
• Ecology
• Our Planet
• Water
• Plants

1. 15 Points are needed to get a badge
2. A high standard of work.

• All experiments are written up ( Aim, Materials, Steps, Conclusion)
• Two photos of your experiment
• 6 sentences at least for a conclusion

Science will be twice per week.

• Lesson 1: This will be an Experiment that involves blogging. You will be expected to open a new post, copy Mr Palmer's blog and paste it on your new post.
• Lesson 2: This will be an Investigation that relates to the topic from Lesson 1. It will be own choice and displayed in a way that you prefer. For example - PowerPoint, Doc, etc

BLOGGING.

All the blogs and science lessons will be displayed on Mr Palmers blog: 

http://mrpalmersscience.blogspot.com/

Bookmark it!

Expectations:

• 1 blog must be completed per Hurumanu lesson.
• A completed blog must have the four headings ( Aim, Method, Findings, Conclusion), correct writing and punctuation under each heading and be published. No post, no points.
• 2 images of the experiment / investigation on the blog.

Using the Scientific method of investigation:

Aim: What the experiment / investigation is about.

Method: Instructions on how the experiment / investigation is carried out. This includes the equipment.

Findings: What have we learnt or found out from our experiment / investigation. This is called Data, Information or Facts. It is displayed in a chart, table or picture.

Conclusion:  

My Hurumanu Science Goals:


1. To wear safety equipment if we are in a science lab.


2. Listen to the teacher who is teaching the experiment instead of talking to my friends.


3. Making sure we got all fullstops and capital letters.