2013 Reflection

This year for me has been very fun and cool. I have enjoyed being in room 20 and I have learnt a lot from my teacher, Mrs Squires. It’s been a fun, educational experience playing sports and learning. I played Rugby and Soccer earlier in the year, it was fun and pretty cool playing with my friends.

I liked being in this class working with my mates, Waata, James, Raenan, Kingston and them. Term 1 Fiafia was also a another great experience being in the Niuean group. Learning P.S.I in term 2 was fun and in Term 3 we learnt about Life’s a Stage. It was also fun and cool. But my favourite term, term 4 was the best for me because it was fun and our topic was What in the world is going on?

This year for me has to be one of my favourite years at school for me, and I have only been at Pt England since last year when I came at Term 2. I have learnt lots and made new friends while being here, I reckon this year was good. Next year I'm off to Glendowie College. I am looking forward to it, to starting something new.   Although my friends and I are going to different schools I think we will still keep in touch.

Kendrix Netbook Reflection

Having netbooks to learn is a great,cool and effective way to work at school. I like having netbooks cause it’s fun and I still learn lots. Xtramath and Math Whizz are very educative and fun to use to learn maths. I’ve learnt things from adding and dividing large numbers to timesing and minusing small decimals.

I think using this technology is really effective to our learning. I enjoy learning like this more better than pen and paper because this is more open and easier. Being online, I have learnt more than just maths, literacy and work. I have also learnt how to do things easier online, like shortcuts and stuff.

Being able to share docs and work with classmates is also very cool, and it also helps with group tasks. We are very fortunate to be able to learn in this digital way. My netbook has helped me learn more and it’s a better learning experience for me. But still, sometimes I can get distracted and go off track and do other things such as games.

The netbook helped me learn with maths easier, with Maths Whizz. Maths Whizz is a great maths learning site which you do tests and lessons to help improve your maths skills in heaps of areas. On maths whizz I’ve learnt how to do things better like adding,multiplying, subtracting and dividing large numbers, or decimals.  Xtramath has helped with simple addition, multiplication, subtraction and division.

Being connected online helps heaps because you can also research your work at the same time. Being able to research can help a lot if you don’t really know what you’re subject is about. I also like learning about the actual netbook, like what else we can do on it. I’ve learnt even by learning with netbooks.

Yr 8 Camp Reflection

Last week we had our Year 8 Camp. It was down at Rotorua, a campsite called Camp Keswick (Kesick) Tuesday was the day that we headed down to Rotorua on the buses. We got into groups and sorted stuff out on Monday. There were about 7 groups, I was in the KB’s (The Kick Backs) After school on Monday I brought down my bags and stuff.

On tuesday we were all prepared to go on our journey to Camp Keswick. I was curious to know what the camp was like. We all assembled in the hall in our groups. All our bags was laid out in the hall. We got a talk from Mr. Burt about the camp, and too be respectful. After we left to the buses. There was two buses waiting. We chucked our luggage into the luggage area below.

Heading to camp, i was still curious and thinking about what it’ll be like. I was at the back with the boys, singing songs and stuff, while Dillon played the guitar. After a while it. To Be Continued.

Kendrix Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela the great revolutionary man, who once was the president of South Africa. Not long ago he passed away, known all around the world he died at the age of 95. Born 18 July in South Africa and he passed away December 5.

At the time South Africa was in poverty and it had a apartheid thing which separated races. He focused on breaking up the legacy of the apartheid. He helped heaps of people, and it is sad to know that he has died. He had a hard life, but still it was worth it. He was imprisoned for 27 over years, and still came out to be the first dark skin president South Africa has had.

His name Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, is actually Rolihlahla Mandela. The name Nelson was actually given to him by a teacher in one of his schools as a child. He was sick before his death and he was also very old. It is still sad to see him pass away, he will always be remembered as a great man.

Mihi

Mihi

Kia Ora Koutou,

Kua haere mai nei,

Ki tenei kura,

Ki te mihimihi,

I nga whakaaro pai

Ka nui te aroha,

Mo to koutou maia,

Ki te haere mai,

Ki te ako,

I nga kaupapa,

E pa ana ki tenei wananga

Mihi (english)

Greetings to you all\

(who) have come here

to this school

to greet

the good thoughts

Great is the love

for your strength

in coming

to learn

the topics

concerning this school of learning.

Maths Problems

Q1. James had $83.50 and he wanted too buy this thing. But to get this thing needed $120.99. How much more money does Kingston need to get to have enough for this thing ?

Q2. This boy Zyrin was saving money up for this game he wanted for some time. He had $749.259 in total after saving up. But then he got robbed and lost nearly half his money. The thief stole $324.131. Now how many much dollars does he have now ?

Q3. There was 35.5L of water in the small pool. They needed 6 x this much too fill the pool up fully. How much more litres does the pool need ?

Q4. John had $84.60 and he needed to share it out evenly between with his 3 mates, because he was rich. How much money does each friend get ?

Q5. There was 6 pies. and Kingston ate ⅔ of them. What fraction of the pies are left ?

Q6. Raenan is a Tagger. She has been painting a huge Graffiti behind a building. For the main colour he used a 30 litre pail of white mixed with a 60 litre pail of blue. Unfortunately he ran out of paint before he finished the graffiti. He thinks that he will only need 10 more litres in total to finish. How much blue and white paint does she need to mix up to get the 10 litres of paint she needs that is exactly the same colour she has been using?

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