Room 7's Birthday Survey

                                                Room 7's Birthday  Survey

This is a column graph about peoples birthdays in Room 7. 3 people had their birthday in
January, 2 people had their birthday on February, 2 people had their birthday on March, 4 people had their birthday April, only 1 person had their birthday on May, 5 people had their birthday on June, in July only 1 person had their birthday,on August only 1 person had their birthday, only  1 person had their birthday on September, 3 people had their birthday on October, 2 people had their birthday on November and 3 people had their birthday on December.

Manaikalani Film 2012 / School is Cool

In Term 2 we were learning a lot about movie magic, and how movies can influence our world. We created many movies. We started by brainstorming key messages we could include in our movies. 

We also made a movie that explains how to plant kumara. It was really fun to do. We created this movie to inspire people to learn how to grow their own kumara.


Our movie for The Manaiakalani Film Festival is called 'School Is Cool'. We made it to share all of the cool learning and fun that we have at school.

Our movie was also shown at the Tamaki Primary Academy Awards. We created a PMI about Movie Magic and shared what we liked, what was challenging and interesting.


School is Cool from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Room 7's Movie Trailer

In Term 2 our school's inquiry topic was about 'Magic Movies'. Here is a trailer of our movies we made throughout Term 2. 


Room 7 Movie Tralier from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Athletics Day 2012

Press play to watch a movie about our Athletics Day.


T.P.S NEWS- Athletics Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

My Explanation about how Electricity travels.

            Have you ever wondered how electricity travels ?

We need electricity to cook food, freeze meat and to clean.

Did you know electricity starts  in a power station and in the power station there is a generator. The generator is a machine that creates electricity.The generator is powered from different forms of energy like wind, water or coal.

From there, it goes to the distribution lines which carry the electricity to a substation. Then the power lines carries it to our homes where we use it to power our lights and more. 

My Explanation About How Electricity Travels

            Have you ever wondered how electricity travels ?

We need electricity to cook food, freeze meat and to clean.

Did you know electricity starts  in a power stations and in the power station there is a generator. The generator is a machine that creates electricity.

From there , it goes to the distribution lines which carry the electricity to a substation. Then the power lines carries it to our homes where we use it to power our lights and more. 

Room 7 Planting Kumara

In week 3 Room 7 planted kumara in our school kai garden. We would like to say a special thank you to Koro for helping us.

Press play to watch how we planted kumara. This clip was put together by Willy and Danisha.


Room 7 Planting Kumara from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Energy The Balance Of Life

                   This is what our key question and our key sentence for this term.

Energy Wordle

 This Wordle is also about my topic this term and it has all the words we are learning about.

Whanau Kai Garden Day

Whanau Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Yesterday was Whanau Day and it was about celebrating our Kai Garden.

There was also groups of kids telling the parents and students about what we have learnt this year
 they were Timotimo, Ko, Kete baskets and many more.

A kai garden is a garden where you only grow veggies.

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?
Energy is power like solar energy.

Where do humans get energy from?
Humans get energy from there food and water.

Plants

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll

c. glucose                                                                   d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)__water______________________
b)___Chloropyhll_____________________
c)____sunlight____________________
d)_____________carbon dioxide___________

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green?
Chloropyhll.

4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.

5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. It makes water in its leaves.
b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.

6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost?
A compost is a bin were you throw your scraps like fruit or veggies.


What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?
List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• banana skin
• apple Kore's
• avocado skin
• veggies
• tomato's

Sustainability

This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.



Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):_Vegetable and Fruit farming





Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy kai garden.

MY TOPIC REFLECTION

• What have you learnt about this topic?
• What did you like about this topic?
• What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at home, at school, in my community?

I have learnt that this topic is about plants and different types of energy and photosynthesis.

What I liked about this topic was that we got to do projects and planting.


My role in the community is making sure the environment clean and green. Keeping it nice so it doesn’t become ugly.

At school I can be sustainable by throwing rubbish in the bin, putting fruit scraps in the worm farm.

To be  sustainable at home I need to throw my recycling in the bin.Take the trash to the bin instead of just throwing it on the ground. Cleaning my property.

LOUD SHIRT DAY

  Today is ' LOUD  SHIRT  DAY'  This day is about supporting deaf kids. All the money will go to the deaf society so that technology can be provided to help kids hear better.

We think that this is an important charity as the money will help kids like  Charday in our class who is partially deaf.

New Zealand Native Trees

Kumara

My Wordle About Fractions

  This Wordle is about my
   maths and what we are
   learning about   for maths is Fractions.

Simple Fractions

The Last Fruit Bowl

                
One sunny bright day in the Cook Islands there were two kind and generous kids named Chris and Mary. They were best friends. People sometimes thought Chris was Mary because they always wore the same things, but just so you know chris is a girl. They were at the beach on a hot blazing sunny day then Mary said to Chris “ Oi go grab us a drink and some fruit ” then chris replied “ Ok”. Mary said “ She was the boss of Chris ” and Chris replied “ No you’re not the boss of me ” when he got her stuff.

When she got there they had no fruit left not even a crumb he walked back and told Mary “there was no more fruit left” she had thought that Chris was lying to her so she said “ I’ll go look myself then you liar” so she had seen that she wasn’t lying so they packed there stuff and went to the markets. when they got there they went in and looked around the market all there was were fish, pig, chicken and they hated fish, chicken and pig. they searched everywhere for fruit then Chris remembered a secret her dad told her. Then she told Mary that there was a secret bowl of fruit.  Then Mary said “ Lets go search for it then where is it”  Chris replied “ Um I think it’s in the jungle”. After she had told her about the fruit bowl they started talking about what they were going to do then Chris had an idea and told Mary “ We will sneak out of our house when our family is asleep ok” Mary replied “ yep I got it ”. Then they had only one place to go and meet at it was  the beach they up. The next day Chris’s parents had woken up and went into her bedroom to wake her up for school when they got into her room she wasn’t in there at all so they thought she went to Mary’s because they always walk together when they go to school. Then mary’s parents went into her room and said mary get up for school now but she didn’t wake up so they went over to her bed and she was gone so they thought that she was already gone with Chris. So the two families met up and talked about how wonderful there kids are at school and at home after they had finished talking Mary’s parents said “ it is so wonderful for your daughter to walk mary to school because there such cutest friends” .“WHAT” said Chris’s parents I thought mary picked up Chris “no she didn’t though”. After that conversation they wondered where there kids were they went to their school and asked there teacher if she had seen them come to school this morning the teacher said “no I haven’t seen them since last friday why what's the matter”. “Well our children are missing and we need to find them now” then the parents got really upset about where there children were and if they were okay. They were gone for days the parents started to get upset. Meanwhile the kids where searching for the fruit bowl then they came across an old abandoned fale they had nowhere to sleep so they went inside and found two lavalavas so they slept in them and used them as blankets then Mary woke up and got Chris and told her “what if our parents will miss us plus i’m so hungry and this place gives me the creeps”.
The next day they had set off and walked passed some bushes there was a pathway they walked back and there sitting on a huge rock was the biggest fruit bowl they had ever seen it would have to take two people to carry it they were gleaming at it with there bulging eyes . Then Mary walked closer  then Chris grabbed her by the arm and said “ something doesn’t  feel right ” then she looked for a rock then she found  a rock and threw it over then there where two  guards they where skeletons they looked like they where puppets and they had swords like pirates.The only way they  could get past  them was either to kill them our sneak past and Mary was a little freaked out but what they did was sneak past was from. Sneaking from the back they got the fruit and replaced it with some rocks and an old coconut shell then traveled  back  home and they celebrated and they planted the fruit seeds and the parents where so grateful to be reunited they lived with heaps of fruit they where all delighted to have fruit again.
                           The End

My Compost Wordle

              This Wordle is
about my topic which is
 energy this is also part of
 my topic because
 it also represents energy.

My Plant Wordle

My Energy Wordle

This Is My Wordle

ROOM 7'S MOVIE MAGIC TRAILER

PMIS - Movie Magic Evaluation

PMIS -MOVIE MAGIC

Positives

What did you like about this term’s unit?

• Using a camera.  
• Having the opportunity to edit a movie. Some of us are now confident to edit a movie and are now going to be helping our teacher edit T.P.S News.
• 
  
• Working as a group to plan our movies.  
• This unit helped us build stronger relationships with each other especially when we were working as a group to produce and edit our movies.  
• Speeches! - doing and preparing a speech helped developed our presenting skills. 
• We have become confident in sharing our ideas without being shy. 
• Learning about movie making equipment like the tripod, imove programme, flip cam etc.  
• Enjoyed learning about the movie making process - brainstorming, planning, script writing, storyboarding, filming, editing, presenting.  
• Learning about the different effective camera shots.  
• MAKING A MOVIE! 
• Everyone in our class was in a movie.
• Finishing the movie off with a whole school Academy awards. This made us feel very proud of our hardwork! We felt like REAL professional film makers.
• Our whanau and friends being proud of us - they really appreciated our movies.
• We have definitely expanded our knowledge about movie making and have developed good movie making skills that we want to share with others. We look forward to continuing our Movie Magic journey and learning more fun ways to extend our movie making skills.

Minus

What challenges did you have with this unit? 

• Waiting for our turn to film because there was only one flip-cam and a tripod.  
• We had some groups using the same filming location so we had to wait for them to finish filming and sometimes it ment we couldn't film because they were taking too long. For example the staff room, corridor, reading room etc.
• We couldn’t film sometimes as some students were away and the weather was not too good as well.  
• Memorising our lines for our scripts. 

Interesting

What interested you about this unit?

• The editing process.  
• Adding sound effects and music to our movies.  
• Learning how professional film makers make movies and trying to develop their skills throughout the process of our film making experience.  
• Learning the movie elements helped us to make our movies interesting to watch! 
•  
• Solution
  How could we improve on this unit next time. 
•   More flip-cams and tripods.  
• Have the Imovie programme on our netbooks so that we could edit our movies instead of waiting for a group to finish. 

Pmis Movie Reflection

PMIS -MOVIE MAGIC    

Positive What did you like about this term’s unit?	Minus What challenges did you have with this unit?	Interesting What interested you about this unit?	Solution How could we improve on this unit next time.
Using a camera. having the opportunity to edit a movie. learning editing skills acting in a movie working as a group to plan our movies. Acting in a movie. This unit helped us build stronger relationships with each other. Learning about movie making equipment like the tripod, imove programme, flip cam etc. Enjoyed learning about the movie making process - brainstorming, planning, script writing, storyboarding, filming, editing, presenting. Learning about the different effective camera shots. MAKING A MOVIE!	Waiting for our turn to film because there was only one flip-cam and a tripod. We couldn’t film sometimes as some students were away and the weather was not too good. Memorising your lines for our scripts.	The editing process. Adding sound effects and music to our movies. Learning how professional film makers make movies and trying to develop their skills throughout the process of our filmmaking experience. Learning the movie elements helped us to make our movies interesting to watch!	`More flip-cams and tripods. Have the Imovie programme on our netbooks so that we could edit our movies instead of waiting for a group to finish. Practise lines at home with our families.

My Speech about Money

I am learning to create a cloze task that includes my spelling words for this week.

Can you fill in the gaps by using the words in the box provided?

1.  I blew a big ____________ to my dog to come back.
2.    I saw a ______________ at the airport.
3.    I went to the _________ to say good bye.      
4.    I rolled down a wheel ________.
5.    I blew a big _________.
6.   I ate some dark _________
7.   I saw a ___________at my house.
8.   I saw my sisters ___________ in her knee .                                                                       
9.   I touched the  __________ to open it.
10. I was really _____ to see  my step brother Tony from auz.
11. Someone was calling me so I had to _______ it.
12. I saw a __________ of the smurfs.
13.  I was  _________ my favorite program.

whistle airport barrel engineer handle preview aircraft bubble chocolate flesh keen mute recording

Writing Reflection

                                                                                 



I have decided to write a speech money because it can useful also because it buys you food and people who are crazy about money and want more usually go to prison for stealing and robbing banks. so if you are crazy about money and want more be careful .   

Spooky Halloween Nights

                                          Spooky Halloween Nights 
Orientation:
 One day in America two best friends lived in a big city named HollyWood. Sophie and Nikki loved Halloween and always played together they did everything like play and do each others makeup and if Nikki was upset Sophie would cheer her up by doing funny faces and being silly and tomorrow was Halloween they were so excited and they always went together when trick - or - treating . The next day was Halloween Sophie yelled at nikki “ It’s Halloween get up already nikki ”. Sophie and Nikki always did everything together.
Problem :
They got dressed and headed off they came past this weird looking house then Nikki said “hey let’s go check that place out Sophie !” Sophie replied “ sure then but don’t forget this was your idea”. Nikki replied “ yeah yeah whatever now come on !”. When they got to the house they knocked on the door and then a weird looking man appeared at the door and said “ what do you want ” he looked as if he was in a bad mood and then Nikki said “ uh why do you think were here ! ” not soon after she said that the man said in a very cross voice I will kill you in your sleep then Sophie and Nikki ran all the way home with terror.
 Solution:
 After that terrible Halloween night they had told their parents about everything and they rang the police and told what street what house and the police had told the two friends that they were safe and that they caught a criminal and murderer and their parents were relieved those two little friends were safe .

Narrative Writing.

Spooky Halloween

                                                                                Wednesday 23  May 2012                    

  Orientation:
One day in America two best friends lived in a big city named HollyWood there names were  sophie and Nikki they had loved  halloween and tomorrow was halloween they were so excited  and they always went together when trick - or - treating . The next day was halloween Sophie yelled at nikki “ It’s halloween get up already nikki ”.

Problem :
They got dressed and headed off they came past this weird looking house  and then Nikki said “hey let’s  go check that place out  Sophie !”  
Sophie replied “ sure then but don’t forget this was your idea”.  
Nikki replied “ yeah yeah whatever now come on”. When they got to the house they knocked on the door and then a weird looking man appeared at the door  and said  “ what  do  you want ” he looked as if he was in a bad  mood and then Nikki said “ uh why do you think were here ! ”  
not soon after she said that the man said in a very cross voice  I will kill you in your sleep.

Solution:
After that terrible halloween night they had told their parents about everything and they rang the police and told what street what house and the police told the two sisters that they were safe and that they caught a criminal and murderer and their parents were relieved  their two little girls were safe.















































































































                                                                                Wednesday 23  May 2012                    

  Orientation:
One day in America two best friends lived in a big city named HollyWood there names were  sophie and Nikki they had loved  halloween and tomorrow was halloween they were so excited  and they always went together when trick - or - treating . The next day was halloween Sophie yelled at nikki “ It’s halloween get up already nikki ”.

Problem :
They got dressed and headed off they came past this weird looking house  and then Nikki said “hey let’s  go check that place out  Sophie !”  
Sophie replied “ sure then but don’t forget this was your idea”.  
Nikki replied “ yeah yeah whatever now come on”. When they got to the house they knocked on the door and then a weird looking man appeared at the door  and said  “ what  do  you want ” he looked as if he was in a bad  mood and then Nikki said “ uh why do you think were here ! ”  
not soon after she said that the man said in a very cross voice  I will kill you in your sleep.

Solution:
After that terrible halloween night they had told their parents about everything and they rang the police and told what street what house and the police told the two sisters that they were safe and that they caught a criminal and murderer and their parents were relieved  their two little girls were safe.

























































































































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