White Water Rafting//Reflection

On Wednesday year 7&8 students from Glenbrae school went to the White Water Park. At the White Water park we got to do River crossing,Rafting and swimming. We started off the day by going on a bus to the White Water Park, when we got there we ate our morning tea. Straight after morning tea we went into a theater room, it showed a trailer of what we were going to do while in the water. After that we went to change into our togs, then we got to wear life jackets and helmets. Next we got into groups, each group had a teacher and they are gonna help you with rafting and river crossing.

First up we had river crossing. It was fun and terrifying. There were currents and waves crashing down the river, we had to start balancing our body while crossing the river. We started to get into a duo and we held each other's life jackets while crossing the river. The technique was to bend your knees like your about to tackle someone and hold still while crossing the river. Next we got into a triangle and crossed the river while still in a triangle.

Soon after that we got into our rafts. It was an inflatable raft. Once we were in our rafts we started to paddle across the lake, the people in front of the raft were controlling our movement. We went up a ramp that had a convertible slider that got us onto the river. Once we got on the river everything turned into a dream the waves were pushing our raft down. We went down the river three or four times and it was fascinating.

Lastly we had swimming and you won't guess how cool it was. On the river there are parts where we would fall into the water and once we were under water it was fun. The current and waves were pushing us down the river fast and it was astonishing, Awesome and amazing that was the best part of the trip. The trip was amazing and I'm thankful my school thought of a trip like this.

Dear Vector//Thank You Letter

Dear Vector,

Thank you for paying for our trip to the White Water Park, I'm sure that every single student that attended had fun including me. Going to the White Water Park was awesome. We got to go rafting, river crossing and swimming. We learned a lot. We learned how to cross a river safely while balancing and we got to experience rafting. Trust me, it was fun . We got to go down the river in our rafts and it was ASTONISHING!!! because the waves were pushing our raft down the river fast. If our raft was about to bump into something our teacher would say "get down" and each time we did we all started to burst into laughter. When we were river crossing our teacher taught us a technique and that was to bend down like you were about to tackle someone and hold your body still while you cross the river so you can balance without falling. Lastly, we swam down the river. It was fascinating when we were getting pushed down the river by the waves. It was fun because there were parts where we fell into the water and when we did we would come out of the water excited for the next one.

Thank you

Viliami T

Genes

This week for reading we were studying Genes. I was working by my self to create this. In your genes you have chromosomes, In a human body it holds 46 chromosomes. So you have 23 chromosomes from your mum and 23 from your dad. Although theirs one problem it's that if your mum or dad has a disease or anyone on your family timeline then you could get that Disease because it's apart of your genes. But you still have a fifty percent chance of getting it.

How Does A School Operate?

How does a school operate?
You might be asking how schools operate. If you went to school you would know that every school separates their classes by age and grades. They help you learn more about the world. 

In Primary schools ,Intermediate and Secondary schools students get to learn more about the world. Some schools around New Zealand are called Full Primary Schools because they both have Primary and Intermediate students. People in schools get to learn about social learning, English, Science and everything else. In Secondary Schools they do exams which are basically tests. Every school has a principal. Without one the school will be a mess. A principal is a person that is in the command of leading the school. She or he helps students become  future leaders. 

We need to go to school because it helps students out with their education. You need to learn because if you don’t you don’t really have a future ahead. I hate going to school as well but as soon as I finish university I hope to be a scientist and a sports player. So people who stay home playing video games don’t focus on their future in life. I get that people can get successful playing video games but think about it do you want just that or a better future.

When you are in kinder garden or anything do the teachers ask you what you want to achieve in life?. You would probably answer stuff like I want to be a rugby player and everything but think what does it take to be a player like that. It takes knowledge and everything to be able to pursue your future.

If you go to school you can learn a lot of things like computer science,Social Skills, Sports,Science,Math,Reading and writing. Being an active learner leads you to success and everything.

Teachers help students focus on their work and teach them more about every subject. A teacher aid is a helper that is not a trained teacher but is a helper from the community. Cleaners help clean bathrooms and everything if they didn’t I wouldn’t want to go to the toilets if I were you. Office staff operate enrolment forms, Packages and help students when they need help. A caretaker is a person who goes around the school and fix stuff that’s broken.

Kiwi Can//Week 3//Learning Though Mistakes

This week at kiwi can we started off by playing a game. The objective of the game was to pair up with a person then you sit in front of each other with a cone in front of you, whoever grabbed the cone first the opposite partner had to do one push up. On the last 3 that partners had to do 5 push ups if they lost. Then after that we talked about winning and losing, How does it feel like when we lose or how does it feel like when you win. When I lose to me I'm just learning off a mistake. When I win I think about whats more learn. Later on we played another game, in this game theirs a murderer,Investigators and civilians. So theirs three investigators they go outside of the classroom and then the people inside the classroom pick a murder. Then after they pick one then the investigators come back in and then the civilians along with murder walk around the classroom once the murder winks at you then you have to drop down dead. Then the investigators have to see who did the murder or other known as who winked. Who ever does the best death gets to be investigators next round. After that we were raping up our kiwi can session.

Tech//Food Technology

Last week was our first day at tech. The year 7's did science and the year 8's did food technology. I did food technology and we cooked stir fry. We cooked it with mince, Rice, Red Pepper, Green Pepper, Orange Pepper Carrots and zucchini along with onions.

Pepeha

This is my pepeha on it, it explains who I am whats my name and culture. For instants "Ko tamaki river te awa" which means my local river is the tamaki river.

Addition, Subtraction

This week for maths we answered some word problems, We first got into groups of 3 then we started by creating a slideshow and copy and pasting the word problems on their. Then we started to solve the word problems. We had to write down our strategy so when people are solving problems they use it.

Addition and Subtraction 2

This week we had extra maths work it was word problems and it was easy and fun. Solving was hard but I managed to solve it. It was very difficult to understand the question but in the end I managed to get it.

Los Angles Inkers Story

While Levi was watching on the bench watching his team suffer *LAI* His team is  trying to get one more goal to have a tiebreaker. The score was 112 to 114. LAI was losing by 2 points. Coach subbed Levi in with 1 minute left. Levi throws the ball to the Kolt Unit. Levi dashes past the defender to the three pointer line, Kolt, Passes the ball Levi catches it and shoots and he hits a two pointer not a three pointer due to a push by the defender . As the seconds go down each team is trying to get a goal. Coach and everyone was waiting for the clock to go down. 10 seconds on the clock and Nick Gitson steals the ball for LaI. He passes it to Levi, Levi shoots a half court shot with 1 second on the clock as the buzzer goes off . Levi gets it in. The whole crowd went wild when it went in. Players on  the bench ran to the middle of the court and lifted up Levi and cheered him on. As that was Los Angeles Inkers up against Lifted Blazers.

 I remember that day Dad was amazing thanks for reminding me about that. It’s ok Hinata the High school championship final is tomorrow and it's your big day there's gonna be scouts just be yourself Hinata. 1 day later. It was Easteneren Flakers vs Arsenal. We were late in the 4th quarter  with 1 minute and ten seconds left. The score was Easteneren Flakers 97 to Arsenal 100 as the minutes went down scouts were curious to see which team would win as the time hit 7 seconds. Hinata was in the Eastern Flakers so it was their throw in as his teammate Alex Sanchez passed the ball to Hinata, Hinata shot on the three pointer line but was fouled last second due to the defenders bumping him off but he still managed to hit the three pointer and everyone in the crowd was yelling “SWOOSH” but as he was fouled The Easteneren Flakers got another chance to break the tie so it was 100 all. Nicko from the Easteneren Flakers threw the ball in Hinata caught it and shot but as he shot he missed the target but then Nicko dashed pass the free throw line and dunked the ball as soon as he rebond it everybody was like “YAY” as the buzzer ran out . But there was one Problem the scouts didn’t have and interest in Hinata but on his teammate Nicko. Hinata went home sad but as his dad got home his dad said that the scouts didn’t sign you because you were already signed buy LAI. Los Angles Inkers my old team said dad. Hinata was so happy he got a chance to join a team.

Water Fun Day

Today we had our annual Water fun Day at school. We had four groups and they were called Nikau,Kauri,Kowhai and Rata. Before we started the water fun day each group had a conference to talk about what to bring and everything. We each had a group with 2 year 8’s as chieftains. I was the chieftain of Kauri. Then everyone in the school was active in their group colours . I wore green. When the bell rang everybody rushed back to their classrooms and waited until the teachers called us.

 The year 7 and 8 students started their session off with swimming we all had a little bit of fun like throwing a stick underwater and diving down to pick it up. We did those tasks until the bell rang that’s when we swap activities. So we were now on a activity where you were supposed to stand in a line but in our group colour lines, then one person goes to the other side and they would throw a water balloon at you and you have to catch it, after that we have to catch it cause if you do then you have to throw back to the person who's throwing the ballon so our teammate’s can catch the balloon, when everybody in your team  catches it then the last person to catch the water balloon has to put it in our buckets then there would be a cup inside of it and you had to refill then run it down to your group bucket and refill it.

After that we played a different activity. In this one you were supposed to refill these small cups with water then run up the mountain and refill your bucket the more you run and spill the water in your cup the more points you lose. Next we played a different activity where your cup has a whole in it and you have to refill it with water then you have to run to your group bucket fast before the water spills. After that activity we were on our second to last activity and you were supposed to refill your cup then slide down the slide without spilling your cup of water. It was fun and also funny. A few  people were glissading down the hill. Most people were laughing at an absurdity situation where most people slipped.

Next we were on our last activity and you were supposed to dip your sponge into the water then run up the mountain and squeeze the water into your bucket just like the other activities. After that we were announcing the places of the groups. So kowhai came 4th,Kauri came 3rd,Rata came 2nd and nikau came 1st. Everyone in Nikau was partisan to their teacher group chieftain for helping them win. Everyone  enjoyed it because it included teamwork and courage, it was fun. Now when I wear the colour green it's like a memento of the water fun day and for my team. Everyone in the school had the audacity to represent the group colour proudly. I relish the teachers for what they set up.




Viliami T

Kiwi Can Reflection//Week 2 //Learning Though Fun

This week at kiwi can our topic was positive relation ships. So we first started our session at kiwi can by playing a warm up game. The warm up game was called Twenty one in the game we had to count in a circle up to twenty one, If the number twenty one lands on someone then their out if you also make mistakes like say three numbers your only allowed to say two numbers if you don't say two numbers your out. The girls won in that game.

After that we talked about how people play fairly. Is it good to play fairly or not?. We answered some of them by saying that cheating is not fair and all that. So when we play games we always need to play fairly not cheat.

Next we played a game called human bowling so we had to go outside so we started to split into two teams one boys one girls so basically you have to bowl the ball into someones legs. You have to hit the persons legs by Rowling the ball to hit the other teams legs and if you get hit your out. In this game the boys won.

Then we payed a little Q&A our teacher tells us questions and if we answer them correctly that's points for our team. So after that we played end of the rope in this game your suppose to answer the questions in a line. So in our game we had two lines each time some one stands up and the other person in the other line answers the question right then you have to sit down. Who ever's line reaches the end then your team loses so basically you lost. Well the girls won and we managed to put up a challenge.

Kiwi Can Reflection

Today at Kiwi Can we played a lot of games . So we first started by playing a game I forgot the name of the game but the rules were one person goes in the middle and the rest of the class in a circle facing the person in the middle with a cone in front of them then the person in the middle says what did they do for the holidays and if he says something that you did then you have to move the person with no cone in front of them has to say what they did in the holiday.

After that we started to sit on the mat and we started to learn about rules. So there were three words on the board Learn,Encourage and Share. So one person has to say a rule and then the whole class has to decide where it would go out of the three words and then if our teacher picks the word we choose then we would get a point.


Next we played a game called defender. In the game we had to open our legs wide and then you have to try and not get the ball between your legs. So if it goes though your legs your out and I came top two but time was running out so we had to play another game.

The Next game we played was GKQ and we had to get in two lines one boys one girls and starting from the front of the line we had to answer questions and if the girls answered before the boys then the next person from the boys will go up against the girls.

Being Sunsmart

This week I made a poster on being sun smart for example I wrote down what could happen when the sun shines on your skin and all how to protect your skin.  

Dear Mrs Tofa

This week we were just starting our years off by writing a letter to our teacher saying what we want to archive this year and also introduce our selves a selves a little. So we started by introducing our selves in the letter then we started to write what we want to archive and how are we gonna archive it.