Tokelau Language Week.

Malo ni everybody, it is Tokelauan Language and the theme is 'Apoapo tau foe, i nā tāfea i te galutau. Ke mau mai, ke mau mai' which in English translates to, 'Never give up hope, even amidst chaos and much uncertainty. Stay united, stay strong'. Hope you all enjoy another favourite time of one of our pacific languages. 

Task Description: To celebrate Tokelau Language Week we have done a poster about this Island and culture. Also we have learnt some new facts about this Island and went on google finding answers to them all.

Hope you enjoy!

Maths: Chance and Probability.

WALT: Explore chance and probability and read graph data.

Task Description: For maths this week we are learning probability, which means a chance of getting something. But also we have learnt that there is a chance of getting the least or most number of something, and we have done a graph data. 

Create Task: Power Alternatives.

 Task Description: My create task is about power alternatives and the environment, I have made a poster showing the problems with power alternatives and the solutions. Also I have shared extra information about this book that I have read and what it is about.

Niuean Language Week: Niuean Alphabet.

 Task Description: This is a poster about the Niuean Alphabet, also how many vowels and consanents there are. I have watched some videos too about Niue and their beautiful Island, hope you learn about their language and more.

Niuean Language Week: The Naming Of Niue.

 Task Description: For this task I have made a poster about how Niue got there name, also why I am holding up two coconuts. We have learnt why and how Niue got their name and it is really cool and interesting to learn about new things everyday and peoples culture.

Water Sustainability.

Water Sustainability

Have you ever thought about where our water comes from?

Keeping our waterways clean and healthy are important because people don’t really take is serious when we are actually drinking the water. There are many reasons to help our water stay clean, make sure you  don’t throw rubbish in the water, use water wisely and don’t waste, keep the waterways clean so we can have fresh and healthy water.

Turning off water while brush your teeth can save up to 4 gallons each minute. Take shorter showers each minute less will save you 5 gallons. Use paper as less as you can, use email and electronic sources more.

Groundwater and water from marshlands is used to irrigate the fields .  In countries with a dry and hot climate this is especially problematic. Once pumped out of the ground the water doesn’t come back. Government and societies need to change their attitudes towards water.

Two thirds of the countries rivers in New Zealand are now too polluted to swim in.  Water gets polluted not just in our rivers and lakes but in our drinking water too. Sheep has been seeping through the polluted water and thousands of people got sick from it.

There you have it three reasons why you can keep our water clean, don’t throw rubbish in the water,don’t throw rubbish in the water, use water wisely and don’t waste, keep the waterways clean so we can have fresh and healthy water. This is why you should keep our water clean and make sure to be mindful of water we drink and use for our health.

Sustainability: Water.

WALT: Write an explanations about Water Sustainability.

 Task Description: Our writing task is about writing an explanation about our water (water sustainability). Working on how we can keep our water clean for our environment and our body's. Also we have written our see paragraphs on different slides and our introduction and conclusion at the bottom.

Maths: Adorable Algebra 2.

Task Description: Maths this week is all about Algebra 2 and we are learning how to find unknown values. We have all worked together as a class figuring out how find the area of triangles and how many triangles too.

Niuean Language Week: Facts About Niue.

 Fakaalofa lahi atu! Everyone, it's Niuean Language Week and the theme for this year is 'Faliki e tau momoui he tau atuhau ke he Vagahau Niue ' which in English means, “Lay the foundations -give rise to Vagahau Niue for generations". Hope you all have a lovely week and make sure to keep the Niuean culture alive and celebrate.

Task Description: Our afternoon task is all about Niue or shall I say 'the Rock', we have learnt some interesting facts about Niue. I have created a poster sharing you some facts about Niue and some words that you can learn and use everyday. Hope you enjoy and learn something interesting from my poster.

Renewable Energy.

 Task Description: This reading task is all about renewable energy and we are learning what the problems with this is and what solutions we could use to help it. Also we have listed down what we have learnt from the video and highlight the important phrases and words.

Element of Art - Art Alive.

For our Art Alive inquiry we have learnt the different elements of art and it is

- Line

-Shape

- Colour

- Texture

- Form

- Value 

- Space

The simplest one out of these 7 element is Line, because it could be any kind of line and lines come in all sort of ways. Down below is our worksheet we have done to show different line and emotion picture using lines too. 

Immersion Assembly.

Immersion Assembly! 

It's Term 4 and we have had our Immersion Assembly, and the theme for this term is 'Art Alive'.

Team 1: They have created a video of themselves as famous artists, and recreating famous paintings. So they are learning to create famous artist and come up with ways on how to be that person.

Team 2: Are learning about different portraits and what ways they can draw their portraits with different kind of things around them. Also learning about different cultures around the world and learning how to do art in that culture.

Team 3: With the water guns and squirting out tie die, they have made a cool sheet with the art skills they used and painted a rainbow over it and made even cooler. So they are learning on how to be creative with cool things that they can create on their own.

Team 4: Having a google meet as their discussion on what their going to do for this term, and they each created a picture with different culture designs and decided to have that as their topic for this term. So they are learning to draw different Pasifika culture designs and patterns from around the world. 

Team 5: The teachers as cool sculptures and paintings in a Art Gallery, we a learning how to create art that is important to us and also act like we are in an art gallery of cool designs. Creating and drawing the things that are special to us and our Whanau.

Mr Burt has decided we are going to change our school logo, because he doesn't know the special reason on why we have a fantail on our logo as our bird. But a bird called the 'Kuaka' which mean in English  the God wit, is soon going to be on our logo. Because this bird is commonly seen in our area Point England and around Tamaki too, but also did you know that it can travel from New Zealand all the way to Alaska in the United States. The Kuaka bird travels there and back because it comes to our area in New Zealand to rest and eat, then travels back all they way to Alaska from about 7,512 miles. 

Amazing!

Art Alive: Alberto Giacometti

 Task Description: This is our second post for our Art Alive rotations, we have moved clockwise to Room 2 and we have learnt about the famous Alberto Giacometti. I have made a slide deck all about this famous sculpture and he has made a lot of very inspired sculptures. Also I have put one of his famous work and even some important and fun facts about him and his journey.

Line Graph Maths.

WALT: Interpret the information presented within graphs.

Task Description: This week our maths has been based on Line Graphs, we have learnt how to tell line graphs by the y axis and x axis. We have answered the slides given and one each slide we have answered what we can tell about the slide. 

Hope you enjoy!

Plastic Fantastic - Pollution.

WALT: Identify a world problem and come up with solutions. 

Task Description: Our reading task this week is all about plastic affecting our world. But also finding solutions on how we can prevent plastic from polluting our world too. We have also made a poster on what we can teach you's about how to stop polluting plastic and stop harming our animals and ourselves.

Swimming Lessons @ PES.

Swimming Lessons Term 4!

This morning we have been talking about why it is important to learn how to swim, because this term we have 4 lessons of swimming. 

Here are 3 reasons why swimming lessons are important:

1. When we go to the beach or pools and someone is struggling to swim, we could go over and help because we have learnt how to swim.

2. If you dive in the bombing pool and lot's of water goes through your nose, you would have to use one hand to pinch your nose, then when you jump off what you would need two arms to help you swim.

3.  Your family is swimming and your are all the way at the from of the beach or pool, and you want to go over and have fun too. But you can not really go over to them because you can't swim that far to the deep side.

Swimming lessons are really helpful because one day a might save a person nearly drowning and swim right over to help. Also it's good fro your safety when swimming anywhere and making sure you have fun too.

Art Alive - Georges Seurat.

 Task Description: This afternoon we have done a poster about a famous artist named Georges Seurat. We have looked at some of his paintings  that he has painted and he  uses a special technique called "Pointillism". I have worked with Hannah and we have made this poster below together with some facts about Georges and his cool art work. 

Enjoy!

SLJ - Activity 4: Tuvalu Facts.

 Spring Learning Journey

Task Description: This activity is all about the great Tuvalu Island and I have listed some facts and some of them are from our teacher, so were asked to put down 2-3 facts more. Also I used a map on the poster and listed all the islands of Tuvalu too. Hope you enjoy my poster and 

Happy Tuvalu Language Week!.