Year 8 Formal 2021

On Tuesday, the 7th of December, most of the year 8 students here at Rawhiti went to formal that we had in our school hall. My friends and I (Naquita, Mailli, Kymaira and Kahukura) didn't tell or show each other what we had planned to wear or our hairstyles so when we all showed up, we all looked very different but all very beautiful. Formal started at six but as Nogo said "A lady comes late not early because if she's early that means she wants attention". 

The menu we for the dinner the adults made was 

- Chicken

- Pulled pork

- Beef brisket

- Potato salad 

- Pasta salad 

Then for dess
ert we had the choice of 

- Chocolate cake

- Vanilla cake

- Blueberry cake

- Ice cream 

The drinks they handed out were

- Juice 

- Lemonade.

After we all finished eating, we then had karaoke in the library and a dance party in the hall, the photo booth was running again. The girls and I all did karaoke and we thought we sounded amazing but compared to what the kaiako are saying, many people thought we sounded terrible. 

I loved seeing everyone dressed up nicely and having a good time. It was a very memorable moment that I will cherish forever. 

My End Of The Year Memory Time Capsule

 Today Whaea Jasmine sent out to us tuakana a 'End Of The Year Memory Book time Capsule'. Here is the work I did. 

Cultural Clothing

 For our inquiry this term, we've been researching about different cultures clothing and why it's important to them and their culture's history. This started with a stem challenge where my class and I got put into different groups as well as mixed year levels to then create an art of clothing based on space. A few day later, Whaea Jasmine then wrote down on the whiteboard cultures and the name of the cultures dancer/special clothing. Once we picked 3+ cultures to learn about, we had to make a slide and then start to research on what the clothing were made out of, when it's used and what it's used for. Below is the slide I created. 

Parihaka

 As part of literacy today we learnt about Parihaka. The narrative was told from a granddaughters thinking about the life of her grandmothers living in the Pa. The people of Parihaka started a passive protest against the government selling Maori land to pakeha settlers in 1879. I personally think that we should celebrate Parihaka on November 5th instead of Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes has nothing to do with us as New Zealanders. Parihaka is apart of our New Zealander Maori history and everyone should know about what happened. 

Space Science Project

 For the past few weeks of this term Ata Hāpara have been doing a space science project. We first had to complete a few slides last term about each planet as well as the asteroids, comets and the Moon. After that, we had to choose a question to then learn, create and share. The question Kymaira and I chose was “Why Do The Planets Orbit The Sun”

Once we gathered our information we started to create our planets, Sun and we also painted a box black then flicked white paint on to it.

Here is my video I recorded explaining the facts we found.

What do you know about Space?

My Writing Of How To Play Netball

 

What we've been learning for our writing in class is cause and effect for about three days. We then had to write a story about something that we're really good at, I decided to write about netball. 

Here is the link to my doc. 

Whakatauki

The task I chose to do for Te Re Maori was to find a kiwaha or a whakatauki that relates to my whanau's experience during this lockdown. The whakatauki I chose was "Ka pu te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi" which means "As a old net withers, a new one is made". This realtes to my whanau because lately during lockdown we've been finding my Oma's really old baking/cooking recipe's and adding in new ingredients as well as sorting through her old teaching stuff. 

Jupiter, Mars And The Great Red Spot

How much do you know about Jupiter and Mars? Do you know about the Great Red spot? 

 Mars is the fourth planet away from the Sun. The distance 248.93 million km. Mars is nicknamed " the red planet" because its surface is covered in a mineral called iron oxide which also tends to have a red colour to it. Mars is the second-smallest planet in the Solar System being only bigger than Mercury. Mars is also apart of the terrestrial planet group. Mars's diameter is also 4,212 miles. Mars is about half the size of the sun. The temperatures on Mars can range from 80 degrees to 67 degrees'f. It takes Mars 687 days to orbit around the sun. The axis rotation for day/night on Mars is only lasts for 24 hours and 39 minutes which is very similar Earth's axis rotation. 

Jupiter is the fifth planet away from the Sun. The distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 483 million miles. Jupiter is made up from helium, hydrogen, ammonia and methane. Jupiter has 65 satellites. The closest one is Io and the farthest away is Europa. Jupiter is on of the gas giant planets. Jupiter's diameter is 86,880 miles. It is the largest planet and is twice the size of all the other planets combined. Temperatures on Jupiter can differ greatly. The average temperature in the clouds is - 234 degrees'f. The temperature near the planet's center is much hotter, 43,000 degrees'f. It takes Jupiter 11.9 years to orbit around the sun. The axis rotation for day/night on Jupiter takes only 9.9 hours.

The Great Red Spot is the whirlpool of storms in Jupiter and can also be seen with a telescope. There is a permanent (but is always changing) whirlpool of storms in Jupiter. 

Pinwheel Scones

 Today I decided to do one of the technology activites Whaea Jasmine sent, there were plenty of activities to choose from. The first activity I chose to do was to name different foods alphabetically, after that I then translated the ones I could, into Te Reo.

 After that I decided to look on the cooking site and I found recipes for the foods. I made a Pinwheel scone with some help by my Mum. At first I had no idea what I was doing but that was because I didn't really read the instructions properly, I just skimmed the text. I made a ton of mess but I enjoyed the task. 

When they were finally cooked I gave one to my Oma, Mum and sister. The pinwheels, at first tasted a bit doughy but in the middle it tasted like a apple type scone. 

Here is the link for the recipe. 

What Do You Know About Saturn?

 

How much do you know about Saturn? 

Before we got into lockdown, the tuakana in Ata Hapara had to choose a planet from the solar system and find out some interesting facts about it. I chose to do Saturn because I of how Saturn looks, choosing Saturn taught me a lot of things about it that I didn't even know about. 

Below is the doc with things I found out about Saturn.

Te Kuri Matekai

 Today as part as poutama, we read a pukapuka about a a hungry kea in Te Reo, we learnt the sentence structure "ka kai ia i te..."

Then using that structure we made our own pukapuka by choosing a different animal and different kai.

Here is the pukapuka I created. 

Punua Kekeno

 Today I learnt what punua kekeno means, it means seal pup. I also learnt a new way of how to describe or use different Maori structures. Whaea Jasmine read us a story this morning and we had to then re-create it.

Link to story

Korean Ahurea

 In the past week we’ve been learning about different cultures. In my group I had Pippin, Te Paea, Mana and Eva. As a group we had to choose what culture we wanted to do and we chose Korean. We had to research their traditional things they do/have such as Traditional clothing, music, games, kai, holidays, location and then beliefs and values. 

After we had out information we shared on a slide, we had to make a poster about it with the information about the topics we had to research about. We also added photos.

Waka Mahi

 Today for our mahi we got put into groups with the year 8,7,6, and 4's. The people in my group was Te Paea, Pippin, Mana and Eva. The other groups had to find out stuff about the other waka but my group had to find out about the fleet which is the 7 different waka. For the first 2 blocks we had to research about the 7 waka and at the end of the second block we started making a sheet of all the research we found and had to add a border with Maori patterns as well as pictures of waka. 

The Great Explorer, Tupaia

 Today we learnt about Tupaia who is a Maori voyager that also went on the HM Endeavour. We also had to compare Tupaia to James Cook. I learnt that Tupaia was more likely# to have been here before Cook and that Tupaia also brought and helped Cook to get to Aotearoa.

Below is the slide I made and recorded all the information that I found. 

Tupaia vs Cook

Biography - Stan Walker

For our writing, we've been given to choose a range of different Maori people to do a biography about. I chose Stan Walker. I've found out a whole ton of new things I didn't know about him. I learnt that he had a hard time within his childhood. I also learnt that he's gotten most of his music inspiration off Beyonce and that most of the songs he's written are actually about his stories, tunes, melodies, words and him.

link to doc

Reading

Yesterday for reading we were given a task to do a ven diagram and to re tell the Kai Tahu story and original story of how the world formed by Papatuanuku, Ranginui and their children. For me, it was quite fun because I know that story off by heart and I love using ven diagrams.

Do you know how to use a ven diagram?

Link to work

Panui

Today for panui, we read "Rangiriri - And The Maori King" (Te Kingitanga)

It's about Wiremu Tamihana. We had to search facts for his early years, Christianity, a Maori king, Te Wherowhero, Gore Browne and the settlers. 

Wiremu was born in Tamahere near Cambridge around 1804. The name he was given was Tarapipipi Te Waharoa but he was given a new name when he became a Christian as a young man, his new name give was Wiremu Tamihana. 

Below is the work I've completed.

Maths

 Today in pangarau, we were working on division. Whaea Jas wrote down 10 questions, we then had to use reversibility to solve the problems. 

Mailli and I finished our division so we got given another task to do with doing times tables.

Below is the work I achieved. 

Blog Post Graph

I made a graph to show how much I post on my blog a year.

In 2018, I only blogged once, 2019 I blogged 5 times, 2020 I blogged 25 times and this year, 2021. I've blogged 17 times so far. All together, I've blogged 48 times.

My goal is to start blogging every time I finish my work or finish doing an activity such as winter sport because it's coming up soon.

 

Histograms

In math we've been learning about a range of different graphs. Yesterday we were leaning about histograms which is a graph that displays grouped continuous data. It is different to a bar graph because a bar graph has spaces between the bars and displays discrete I didn't really find it difficult and I quite enjoyed it

A graph always needs; 

- title, x and y axis - labelled, even scales misleading.

Mother's Day card

 Today as a ropu we researched Mother's Day quotes we could use in Te Reo Maori. The quote I chose was "Ko te whaea te takere o te waka" which means "Mothers are like the hull of a canoe, they are the heart of the family"

We then followed instructions to make an origami flower to attach on to our cards. I struggled with finding a good flower and ended up copying one of my friends one. 

In our year groups, we made a sugar scrub and added the year 7&8's chose the scent peppermint and the colour red. My favourite part was pretty much all of it because it was a really nice and artistic activity to do.

Have you ever made a soap scrub before? 

 

Tech

 Today we had tech. My classes are woodworks and sewing. We've been making a frame in woodworks but today me and Naquita was cleaning around the drills because it was really messy. In sewing we did this fun test thing where we had to hand sew a button on to some fabric. The other task we did was hand sew a piece of fabric then glue or staple them on to a piece of paper got given. 

On the back of the piece of paper we got given, was a drawn dog and drawn hat. There was a box with two squares and we had to copy the dog on one then copy the hat on the other. Once we finished that, our teacher, Mrs Pretty asked us if we wanted either chocolate or chips. Me and Kymaira chose to have the doritos which was one of them.

Sumner Surf

Last Tuesday morning a group of us in tangaroa went surfing in Sumner. We had to be at kura at 8:15 and then we left at 8:30. The drive took basically half an hour because we got to Sumner beach at 9. When we got there we had to get changed into our togs and wet suits but me and Lily took a while because the wet suit I had didn't fit me, I tried to put it on but it took like 15-20 minutes. Finally we got out of the changing room and walked down to where everyone else was and Mr Redmond was walking towards us. The people that was running it for us had extra wet suits we could use so i used one of theirs. We all got handed surfboards that was theirs. they also taught us some things we can use while we were surfing and how to stand on the board properly. After that we got to go in the water, a small group of us paddled out to the back and tried catching the waves. The waves were quite good but it was also quite calm. Me and Lily brought some chips after like and hour of surfing and had some food from our lunch boxes. At the end there was a competition/game where we had to do a coffin which is when you lay on your back and cross your arms over your chest, I forgot the other ones. I didn't do the comp but it looked really fun. 

I would recommend going if you're year 7 or 8 next year.

T-shirt Graph

This is a graph of how many coloured shirts are in my draw and the amount of each colour. In Sharon's math group we've been working with graphs. There's been people asking "how many pets do you have" and things like that. I decided to do a graph of how many shirts I have in my draws.

We learnt about what a y axis and a axis is. The y axis is the line that is going from the bottom to the top of the graph and the axis is the line going left to right on the bottom.

 

Town

 On Monday half of the kura went into town. The year 8s in my class went to Victoria Square. We had a sheet with things to do and find out. I learnt what weeping willows were named from and who brought them. Another activity on the paper was to try re-draw a pou that's there. After we did the stuff on the paper, we got to eat the lunches that Paul brought and the other schools came after too. My class lined up after we ate and walked round to the town hall to watch the Tumahana show. It was about takaroa, rakinui, papatuanuku, and their children. 

Making Graphs

 Making Graphs

This week we have been learning how to make graphs. I made a graph about my math test scores.