Glenbrae Graduation.

Today, we have been talking about our graduation and a small problem has come up. We are ordering custom T-shirts and it's quite expensive. So, to solve this, we thought of some ideas like, Car wash, Sausage Sizzle and many other ideas. But the idea our teachers chose and thought of was, volunteering to clean up the creek at Glenbrae reserve and, hopefully get sponsored for it.

This event will take place next week Tuesday 6th December, if you want to, come and join us!

Another event we will be having is a car wash on Saturday 10th December, so please bring your car around it needs a wash :)    Never-mind about that, it's been changed, I'll update this blog post as soon as I get more information.

All funds will be put towards our graduation day and if we get more than intended we will put it towards next years camp. Cheers. ;)

Abstract Artist Research

Today, we are looking at the Abstract artist, Kazimir Malevich. The reason why, is, we are going to an Art Gallery next week and I need to pick a specific Abstract artist and write about them. I picked Kazimir, because his art interested me as he drew in a way I didn't know about, called "Suprematism".

Here's what I learned:

1. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement.
2. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture from 1904 to 1910 and in the studio of Fedor Rerberg in Moscow (1904 to 1910)
3. Malevich described himself as painting in a "Cubo-Futuristic" style in 1912.

And other than those small snip bits about him, I also learnt about what he drew, here's some small bits of his paintings:

1.  Here's the "Black Square" which is Kazimir's iconic painting and a painting which is frequently called by critics, historians, curators, and artists as the “zero point of painting".

2.The next painting and the last I'm unfortunately only able to to do because of time is "White on White" which was created by Kazimir in 1916. Malevich wanted the painting to evoke a feeling of floating, with the colour white symbolising infinity, and the slight tilt of the square suggests movement.
If you don't know anything about abstract art, here's an explanation: Abstract art can be a painting or sculpture that does not show a person, place or thing in the natural world. With abstract art, the subject of the work is based on what you see: color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale and, in some cases, the process. Abstract art started around the early 1900 as the first real Abstract Art was painted earlier by some Expressionists, especially Kandinsky in the early 1900s. Thank you for sticking through this long blog post today. Cheers

Kiwi Can 13/10/16

Today, we had Kiwi can, again, but I had come late and they were already playing a game, it ended when I arrived. Then we started walking back inside and we talked about values and what values mean to us. After having that talk we had our activity, which was - Role-play - we had to role-play a value that was given to us and it was a 5-per team activity. I was paired with 2 girls and 2 boys, and when we started planning the girls gave most of the suggestions while us boys were working on acting.

We had been given the value "Perseverance" and we had done a scenario where I am last in a race and the coach(1 of the girls) gives me encouragement and I persevere and make it to the finish line. After sorting out what we were going to do, the teacher called us in and we sat down waiting for instructions. They called out the number for each group, we were group 3. The first group to be called was group 2 and they're value was "Encouragement" and much to our embarrassment they had done almost the exact same scenario as us.

So, after their turn it was our turn and we had ended up performing almost the exact same as them and then the next group was up, to cut it short I'm just gonna say their value and then on to the next group. Okay, so we're now on group 4 and they're value was "Fairness", then the next group, Group 1, done the value "Appreciation" . Finally, we had games of GKQ which was basically a quiz game and then we finished and came back here. Cheers.

Kiwi Can Reflection

Today, was the last day of Kiwi can this term, we had a lot of fun in this last block. As today was the last day this term, we just went over what we had learnt and then played for the rest of it.

Here's what we learnt:

Topic 1: Goal Setting
This topic really resonates with me as I have set a goal of becoming a Software developer, so I can be paid heaps :]

Topic 2: Perseverance  
"Perseverance is the key to success" Is my motto (I guess) and this really relates to me as I think of the future and what I'm going to have to do in order to be successful.

Topic 3: Problem Solving
This final topic is a big one in my school as this school is a "Happy and Safe Learning Community" and we use this in our everyday school lives and at home.

And that sums up everything, Cheers

Science Intensive

Today, half of Room 7 was in Room 10 today with Mrs Moopanar. We tried a lot of experiments. Miss was doing Magnets for her science.The first experiment was Follow the Force, it was an okay experiment. The next experiment was The Decisive magnet. It was a short experiment but fun. After that, we tried another experiment called The invisible dance partner. We placed the magnet down and let the U shape magnet flow side to side. Our last activity was The jitters. We all placed all of the bar magnets and let the U shape flow all around the triangle. After that we drew a plane, car and a fish.

We are going to do more but this is what we have done so far.

Cheers

3D Printing Jewellery Design

My Career Choice

Science Intensive

Yesterday, after returning from presenting at the Aotea Centre (I think),  I was sent to another class to start some Science work. After arriving, we were told to sit down and follow the instructions that the Teacher was giving us. What we had to was get a plastic plate, pour milk in that plate and then add food coloring. After doing that you have to get a earbud and dab it in a bit of dish washing liquid. Then, dab that earbud, with the dish washing liquid side down, into the place where the food coloring is and BOOM! Color everywhere. My friends and I then tried to get get the liquid out of the plate into a bowl rather than taking it outside and the result was us spilling it on the table, which we cleaned up right away.

This is just a bit of what I learnt. I want to leave the rest for later

Siva Tau (Toa Samoa)

Here is the Samoan cultures Siva Tau, also known as the Samoan Haka.

Here is the lyrics all the words of it so you can practise and perform yourself. We are also performing on Thursday for our Culture Festival

:

Le Manu Samoa e ua malo ona fai o le faiva Le Manu Samoa e ua malo ona fai o le faiva	The Manu Samoa, may you succeed in your mission The Manu Samoa, may you succeed in your mission
"Le Manu Samoa lenei ua ou sau"	The Manu Samoa here we have come
Leai se isi Manu oi le atu laulau	There is no other Manu (team) anywhere
Ua ou sau nei ma le mea atoa	Here I come completely prepared
O lou malosi ua atoatoa	My strength is at its peak
Ia e faatafa ma e soso ese	Make way and move aside
Leaga o lenei manu e uiga ese	Because this Manu is unique
Le Manu Samoa	The Manu Samoa
Le Manu Samoa	The Manu Samoa
Le Manu Samoa e o mai I Samoa	The Manu Samoa reigns from Samoa
Le Manu!	The Manu!

Going to Google's Presentation

Waking up early is not my thing, so when I was told to wake up by 7:15 I was rolling around in bed trying to go to sleep as fast as possible. I woke up at 7:15 and jumped out of bed, sped around the house cleaning myself up and trying to get ready as fast as possible. When I finished getting ready I calmed down and sat down, waiting for my ride to come. But you know what happened, she hadn't come so my Mother called a taxi which I had to ride to where I was going to be picked up. When I arrived I was worried that they had already left, but luckily I saw the others that were going with me, so I jumped out of the taxi and rushed to them.

I got there in time so I just sat back and relaxed. After riding for a while I started getting nervous for my performance, so we spent the rest of the ride in silence. After arriving at the presentation place we got prompted on what to do and where to sit. We then started to pull out our netbooks and then tried to connect to the Wi-fi - which wasn't successful for me. Next, the event started and we had to go and present - I'm not bragging but I think the other ambassadors and I did good.

After presenting, we went to the back and sat down and started to blog, at that time I was half finished with this blog post. After another presentation from Mrs Dorothy Burt, we had Break time. In which, I was able to get  a fruit cup, burger and glass bottle of water.
 

I also took a picture with a Teacher from there


After break time, we received a gift back form google which inside had a google cardboard, A google pen, a google note pad and instructions.After that we headed back to school while singing songs and discussing.

Manaiakalani Hui

Right now, I am at the 5th Annual Manaiakalani Hui. Sitting next to me are other school ambassadors, eagerly talking to each with teachers in front of us also talking with each other. This event is quite an eye opener as all these teachers debate and discuss their opinions on children learning.

Duffy Show

Today, we had the chance to watch a show performed by Duffy. We were able to watch  them and able to learn a lot including how lucky we are, being able to go to school, read, write and calculate. The duffy show showed us many different things in a hilarious fashion. I hope I will be able to see a show like it in college.

The Haka

Today, we were tasked with doing the Haka. Now, I know, that may not seem that challenging but we also needed to do a Samoan and Tongan haka's. Sadly we only got to the Samoan and Maori Haka's. Doing this required practice because  most of us were embarrassed. We will be presenting this in our cultural festival at school ;)

Reading Week 1

Potaco Recipe

Potaco recipe

Ingredients:

• One large potato
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon of butter, softened
• 1 tablespoon of milk
• ¼ cup grated cheddar cheese
• salt and pepper
• Sour cream 1 teaspoon each half potato
• 50 grams of mince (pre made)

Instructions:

1. Rub potatoes with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and poke a few times with a fork.
2. Microwave it for about 10 minutes (5 minutes on each side)  or until a knife slides easily into the center.
3. Cool for 10 minutes
4. Cut potatoes in half and scoop out the center leaving about ¼ inch around the sides.
5. Mash potatoes, butter and milk together.
6. Stir in half the cheese
7. Fill potato cups with the mash and mince.
8. (Optional) Fill potato cup with a layer of sour cream
9. Sprinkle remaining cheese on top and place under the grill until the cheese has melted.

To make the mince filling, heat the olive oil in a heavy-based saucepan over medium-high heat and cook the onion for 5 minutes, or until translucent. Add the mince and cook for 4-5 minutes, breaking the meat up with a wooden spoon. Add the tomato paste and water and season to taste with chilli, salt and pepper. Stir the mixture well and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and cook at a gentle simmer for 20 minutes.

What type of Music calms the brain ?

Old Maths Question's

Hey, My blogs have been recently falling behind, so I thought I might as well blog some old maths questions

Here's the first:

Levi’s Train

                             We are learning to use appropriate units for time

A train leaves the station on time. After it has gone 8km the driver looks at his watch and sees that the hour hand is exactly over the minute hand.

The average speed of the train over the 8km was 16KpH.

When did the train leave the station?

11:30  

What if the train was traveling at 20KpH?

11:25

Today's Book Review

Today I read a Level 2 Avengers comic, I thought I might as well review it. The book is good, short and easy to read. Though to me it felt a bit too short, of course, since I'm 12. It gives you a good summary of the movie Avengers in the perspective of Captain America, Aka, Steve Rogers. It is a 30 page small book (not including a few pictures) it's good for small children if they're interested in superhero's, It's also a good book to read to them while they go to sleep. That's my opinion anyway.

Cheers!

Nerf Football

Today, in interval, we played a new game, at least, to me. Anyway me and my friends played Nerf football as in American football, on the school's court. We played for 25 - 30 minutes straight, it was hilariously fun as I fell over onto some bark as I caught the Nerf football thing. It left me half exhausted and half sore. Still it was fun, no doubt.

Cheers! (Got this phrase from a friend named Moses)

Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi Can we got to lean more about Accountability and Integrity. We all were able to trust each other and play games that involved a lot of trust. It was really fun we all learnt a lot of Values from it. Sadly my class is 5 points behind Room 8, and because of that we won't be able to get a prize.

Glenbrae School News!

Yesterday, we were asked to do a maths problem which required us to rearrange and figure out what temperature is with what. (Weather Maths Problem) After working it out we were asked to present our maths problem in the form of a weather forecast.

Poems

Today, My classmates and I were asked to present our poems in front of the class. I was preparing my poem along with everyone else, I wasn't able to get it down in time for me to present as I was taken away to take a test. From what I heard everyone had a go and did well. After I finished my test I walked back to class and was asked to thank a classmate of mine in assembly as she was going to present her poem.

Netball Training

Today, The whole of room 7 got to participate in Netball Training. We first walked onto the courts and greeted the coach, we then got into pairs to simulate Attacking and Defending. After that warm-up we got into groups of four, we had to intercept the ball between a pair that was passing. This continued on for the next 10 minute.

After that, we were pulled into a bigger group of six and played 4 corners - if you don't know what it is, it's four people in four corners and one receiving a ball from each, one defending the ball from getting to the one receiving and one calling the numbers of the four -. It went on for a while and then finally the last activity.

The final activity was a shooting game, in preparation the class got split into two big groups.  The coach called number and the corresponding number would run in from either of the two groups and grab one of the balls in the middle and then pass it around the team until it reached the last person, who passes it back to the shooter, who has now gotten inside the semi circle and ready to shoot.

The activity was pretty fun, even though my group had lost. In the end it was 18 - 22 (I forgot the actual score but this is pretty close) our score was pretty good for us as we all hadn't played netball much.

Anyway that's how this morning went, thank you for reading.

Plant Observation

Hypothesis:

Method: I predict that by taking out the soil will cause the plant to lose life overnight

The plant I will be observing is: Mint Plant

Observation day 1: The Mint Plant has lost its strength and is now flopping over

Observation day 3: The leaves and stem have turned brown

Observation day 7:It is now completely dead with it’s leaves and stem brown.

Explanation: Why did this happen to my plant?

It didn’t have any nutrients or water. The sun also had its negative effect by drying up the plant faster than normal.

Math's Work

Make a copy of this Document and Share it with your group and Miss Stone

Sharing Lollies

           We are learning to identify equivalent fractions

Maara and her three friends are going to share a licorice lace. If the lace is 12cm long, what length of the lace will each friend get? What fraction will they get? 1/4 3 cm

2 other friends approach Maara and would like some of the lace too. How can they split the lace (which has already been cut into quarters) between 6 people equally.   2/12

What would happen if yet another two friends wanted a share? 3/24

How many cm of the lace would they recieve? 1.5 cm

Moa and Ostrich Comparison

Today's Math

Today I was able to answer every single maths question I had for the rest of the day and now I am getting extra chocolate ;) Here are the questions

WE ARE LEARNING TO find fractions of whole and fixed numbers

Yesterday we were left with 6 chocolate bars split between 13 children. How much chocolate would each child now receive? 6/13

Miss stone doesn’t feel like chocolate today. How much chocolate would each child receive if their are seven chocolate bars.

There were supposed to be 14 children in our group, how much chocolate would each child receive if there were 7 chocolate bars. 7/14 equivalent to 1/2

Yesterday's Math

Yesterday we had these maths questions and I don't mean to brag buuuuuut I finished this faster than anyone else ;) Anyway have a try with the questions. P.S you better not peak at the answers if you do.

WE ARE LEARNING TO find fractions of whole and fixed numbers

Levi and Jayden have tickets for Rainbows end. Their tickets allow them to go on 20 rides each. In the first hour, Levi goes on 7 rides while Jayden goes on 6.

What is the fraction for the number of rides Levi goes on compared if his total number of rides?

7/20

Write the fraction for the number of rides Jayden has.

6/20

Write the fraction for the total number of rides the boys went on in the first hour compared with their total number of rides.

13/40

What fraction of their rides do they have left?

27/40

Moses has 17/4 of a bar of chocolate in his school bag. He gives Taki 5/4 of his chocolate. How much chocolate does Moses have left over? 3 wholes

Fusi also has some chocolate. After she gives Linda Kiki ⅞ of a bar she has 63/8 left.  How much chocolate did she have in the first place? 70/8 8 wholes and six-eighths

Potato Experiment

Today my classroom and I are conducting experiments on potatoes. The experiments we are conducting are to see if a potato will not grow without light

My hypothesis is that without light and soil it will not grow.

Holiday Summary

Since I've lost my recounts of the holiday I've decided to summarize it all up.

Ok, so after three nights Levi decided to go home and I then got the chance to go down to Rotorua, which I excitedly took, I mean who wouldn't want to go down there and spend time with family. My ride down there was my Sister-in-laws father. After arriving - which by the way was pretty late - we came inside and were told which rooms we were assigned. I put down my back and checked my stuff only to find my holiday work gone! (I still haven't found it, even now)

The 1st day past nothing really happened other than chilling out with my Brother and Sister-in-law. 2nd day, we went out swimming, which was really fun, then came back and had a mean feed. 3rd day, Me and my brother got to catch up quite a lot and we also went to Rainbow Springs where I was able to have fun with my Brothers child and go on the Log ride! which was the highlight of my trip. 4th day I went down to their Saturday night markets - which were filled with people - and got me a couple of Crepes and kebabs.

I then played around with my little nephew at the park which was just behind the Markets and played there for a while, we then headed back where me and my brother went out for a night drive. After that we came back and went to bed exhausted from the events that played out.

The next day was when I came back, though sad I was about to leave I was excited to get back home. After saying good bye and exchanging words, we left.

Now back home, I greeted everyone then went straight to my room and jumped on to my computer, only then forgetting that I had school in the next few days. The End

Holiday #3

Hi guys, The day just finished and I'm a little tired so I'm gonna be fast.

First of all, I woke up 2 in the afternoon, after me and Levi stayed up all night. After waking up I had breakfast, then got back onto my computer either reading, watching YouTube videos or playing games with Levi, This continued on for the rest of the day. Sorry for it to be so short but I'm getting tired as I'm writing this. Anyway thank you for reading and goodnight. Day 3 end

Holiday #2

Hi guys, I'm at home the day just ended, so I'm a bit tired right now. Other than that here the update.

First of all, I woke up, had breakfast and then jumped on my computer. Sadly this is usually how my life goes so be expectant of me just sitting on the computer. After a few hours of me browsing the internet, I had a friend come over, It was Levi - okay, if you don't know, there's another Levi at my school, well there's two other but the other one has his name pronounced differently - I greeted him, he greeted me and then he got on another computer in my house and we talked played games together such as Agar.io and other free browsing games.

The day went on like this for hours and after that I asked him if he wanted to stay over, He said yes, so I asked my Mum she said yes as well. I told him and he then fist bumped me and said " All-nighter?" I agreed and now here I am writing this blog. Day 2 end

UPDATE:

Due to internet problems I had to draft all my stories into another folder, had trouble recovering them. Some were deleted and now I'm a bit late at uploading them because of that

Holiday #1

Hi guys, I just got back from school, the holidays just started and I'm really excited. Here's what happened after I got back from school

First of all, I got home after buying me some food at a fish and chips place, I then greeted my Mum and walked into my room. I got onto my Computer and started watching YouTube videos. It carried on like that  for the next hour or so until I started reading old books I used to read.

It didn't change much after a few hours of repeating my earlier actions. But after reading the book, I filled out my Holiday form with the book I read and then went to bed. Day 1 end, I'll update you soon on what's happening. 

UPDATE:

Due to internet problems I had to draft all my stories into another folder, had trouble recovering them. Some were deleted and now I'm a bit late at uploading them because of that

My Drawing of Deadpool

Today, I was able to draw Deadpool and actually make it look good! Thanks to the instructions from Easy Drawing Tutorials Here it is ;)

My House plan

This morning I got to create my own house plan and here it is ;)

The site I used was http://floorplanner.com/

Overnight (Update)

I know, I know. I haven't uploaded anything on my blog relating to Overnight I've been busy ...... and bored this past 2 months and I really didn't want to do anything unless I had to. Anyway sorry for not doing this, even though I'm sure nobody's interested in this.

(Story Start)

BOOOM! A door shuddered as a figure burst through, he had been running for 15 minutes now, he stopped hoping, praying, that the thing that was following him had stopped the chase. He was sure he had seen that thing before, he was sure, but..... but all that could come to mind was his deceased friend.

‘If only...’ Shaking his head, he slapped himself ‘No, no bad Jacob, stop getting depressed’  Jacob had only been 8 when the incident happened, so it had been a bad time for him and the rest of the crew. Jacob’s thoughts came to a halt as a shadow flickered passed, he had just barely registered it. Jacob nodded to himself, albeit fearfully and slowly prepared to break out in a full sprint.

He slowly made his way down the school’s empty -abandoned- hallway, glancing frantically left and right. Jacob found himself in the school’s hall, looking up he saw a sign, he could barely make out what it said. ‘Looks like directions, wish I hadn’t dropped my glasses’  - while running from the thing he had tripped and dropped his glasses. ‘Great, now what?’ Jacob thought sarcastically, walking closer to the sign

To Be Continued (More Coming... Hopefully)

(Story Cliffhanger)

Seriously though I haven't done anything on this so I'm just updating it.

My RPG Personality!

So, I was going around on the interwebs and found a site! In this site you will be given 7 questions and your personality will be told...... at least RPG wise. Anyway I'm a REGENER, click on the image to test it yourself  :)

My Pepeha

Photoshop Explanation

Would you like to know how I created an image using photoshop?

Check out my youtube video to learn how I edited a photo so that it could be used as a button on my class website:

https://youtu.be/kW9kWVpB0kc

My Photoshop work on Perspective

Today, I worked on Photoshop to complete a project on perspective. At first it looked a little bland so I then decided to add Mario! Here take look ;)