My Cake Image

Every Wednesday at Tech we always do cooking. Last week we had to decorate our cake.  Every group got chocolate, icing and other stuff to adorn our cakes. After we dressed up  our cake we gave our cake to Mrs Tuipulotu so that she can take a photo to put it on our reports. Everyone’s cake looked really sweet. After I decorated my cake I thought it looked  yuck but when I tasted it,  it was amazing.

Waste Performance

On Monday the 25th of May we had a Waste performance at school. The performers' names were Matt and Andy. Their performance was about waste. 
Matt always puts his unfinished food in the fridge. So the next day he goes and buys the same food again. One day a worm called Andy was hungry so he went looking for the person who was putting his food in the waste bin. So Andy finds the person and tells Matt to put his food in the  food bin so that he can eat.  Matt did what he was asked. 
We learnt that we need to SAVE YUMMY LAND AND MAKE A PLAN.

SAVE YUMMY LAND MAKE A PLAN

Preventing Illness

                                        Preventing Illness

Preventing illness is a way of stopping the spread of germs to people. Illness is a sickness that can be treated and cure.

If you don’t wash your hands after going to the toilet and not using tissues  to sneeze in you can cause illness. Also, poor hygiene as well as not  using tissues to blow your nose can spread the illness around your family house.

You can get any kind of illnesses like asthma, chicken pox's, colds and coughs.  It’s good to be in touch with your doctor frequently.

An illness is different to a disease because an illness can be cured and treated but a disease can be treated. An illness is not that bad but a disease is very bad because if you have diabetes you will have it for your whole life.  

You need to cover your nose when you are sneezing, block your mouth when you are going to cough, and keep in touch with your doctor. When you  have a sore throat go straight to your doctor because you might get rheumatic fever and that can harm your heart.  

Keep In touch with your doctor so the illness you have won’t get worse.

Solving Word Problems

During Term 2 Room 12 have been doing addition. We had 5 strategies. Each person had to make up their own word problem and choose one strategy.

Strategy 1 -  Stranded Place Value
Strategy 2 - Tidy numbers same compensation.
Strategy 3- Increase and decrease
Strategy 4- Place Value Partitioning
Strategy 5- Combine compatible Numbers
Strategy 6- Use algorithm

Ten bottles of water have 550 litres, another five  bottles have 450 litres and the last bottle of water have 8000 litres. How many litres were there altogether?

550+ 8,000 + 450

= (550+450)+ 8,000

= 8,000+1,000

= 9,000 litres of water

Can you guess which strategy I used?

Water Usage By Humans And Plants

                      

Every living thing in the world needs water to survive. All living things use water in a similar or different way. Every form of life needs water to live. Humans and plants both need water to live.

Humans need water to drink. Humans use water to shower,  toilet flushing, dish-washing, cooking, drinking and gardening. Our body is roughly 60% of water. Our brains has 70% of water and our lungs has 90% of water. Humans waste a lot of water by washing their dishes,, car washing and bath time. Humans need to drink lots of water to stay hydrated. Whenever humans do exercise they lose a lot of water.

Like humans, plants also need water. They need more water than any other living things in the world. Plants need water for photosynthesis. That's why plants need water because photosynthesis is what create food. Plants also need water to grow and create food and sugar. Plants use more water than animals. Plants use 90% of water. The water controls the plants temperature.  When we water the plants the water goes down the leaves to the stem. Plants need a lot of water like humans.

Humans and plants use water differently. Humans drink water and plants consume water. Humans need more water than plants. Plants need water for different things and humans need water for different things too.

Humans and plants both need water to survive.

Water is important to all living things on earth.

Gathering with the other schools

Getting Together With The Manaiakalani Schools

Noisy people,  children shouting and a really cool event.

    Last week, on Tuesday we went to Pt England for the Hokule’a Landing. Our four fabulous leaders who represented our school went to the front of the Haka group to do their actions. Every school had more than one leader.  Before we sat down we took  photos.

We weren’t sitting for long until the waka came. When the waka came we starting to sing one of our songs. Our leaders started off the song and then we joined in.  We saw smiling faces, calm waves and a lot of people talking. There were 11 schools and only one college which was Tamaki College. After we sang our first song this man from the waka started to talk to us. We were listening to the man speaking because we had to show manners.  When the man finished talking we started to sing our other song.

Some people from the waka came on this little boat and then they carried on bringing  other people to where we were  standing. Not that much people talked to us, it was mostly the men talking. This man said, “We are the children of the navigators."

The day was a special event and we got to high five the special guests. Room 12 were the first ones to high five them from our school.. It was really fun. At the end of the day we were THE CHILDREN OF THE NAVIGATORS.

St Kents PE Day

On the first day a St Kent's teacher came to pick up some students to go in the van to St Kent's. Sini went in the van with Miria, Cypress,  Anvae, and other students. When they arrived at St Kents she parked at the car park and walked us to the hall. 

 Some St Kent's students asked Sini and others if they wanted to play basketball with them. Sini said, "Yes." 
So they went to play with the St Kent's student.  When the rest of the school members arrived, they were already in their teams. They came to sit next to us. Sini’s group were playing basketball with one St Kent's students. Before they got into the game they had to warm up. After they warmed up they got to play.  

When they were getting into the game Mikayla went to play against another group and Sini went to play against Cypress and Simon's group. They had to mix the teams so Sini and Cypress were in the same team.

They had a lot of fun at St Kents.

                 Sini is as  sporty as a dolphin.