Biscuit Box

 Kia ora bloggers,

Our maths lesson started with us taking a lucky dip into an old PAK'nSAVE shopping bag. Inside the bag, there were chocolates and biscuits wrapped in tin foil. I picked out the biscuits. Mrs Davies told us that we could only eat these once we had shown somebody at home. But we couldn't take them home unless we had made a paper box or paper container to hold the treats.  I made a box because the shape would tightly fit around the biscuits.

This was the paper box that I made.

If there is anything that I could improve on please comment.

Bye!

How to Hangi

Kia ora bloggers,

We watched a video about how to cook a traditional hangi. We had to take what we understood from that video and make a poster about how to cook a traditional hangi. The difference from hangis today from in the past are way different. Nowadays we have metal boxes that we put the kai in and it cooks way faster.

Here is my poster about how to cook a traditional hangi in a pit.

I hope you can read the words on the poster.

Kia ora, ka kite ano.

The leaders trip

 Kia ora bloggers,

On Monday and Tuesday on the first days of the term, we went on a leaders trip at PYDT and learnt a lot about leadership and about the seven habits of highly effective teenagers. Here are some photos. We had to write a speech at the end of the trip I was stressing quite a bit about it. But then I realized it wasn't that big of a deal. The speech was about what we had learnt and what we understand. I really enjoyed the year 8 leaders trip and I made lots of new friends.

Habit 1: Be proactive

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

Habit 3: First things first

Habit 4: Think win-win

Habit 5: Seek first to understand then to be understood

Habit 6: Synergize

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw

Bye!!!

Sign laguage week

Kia ora bloggers,

I learnt the alphabet up to the letter k next week I will learn the rest. I also learnt how to sign some names of food like apples, orange, juice milk and water. I can count up to ten with my fingers in sign language. I made a video saying my name Josh in sign language you don't say the I. 

Bye.

Genre Script

 Kia ora team,

About 3 weeks ago Mr Shaw notified us that we were going to be writing and recording video essays. We had 5 weeks to do so. I have written 1111 words and it is about 8 and a half minutes long. I am now onto the recording and gathering of information for the video. I'm doing my video essay on Wevideo. sorry I can't give away any spoilers. I am doing a video essay on the genre horror.

Rocket challenge

 Hey team,

This term we did something called rocket challenge. Where we have to think like engineers. we had to ask, imagine, create and improve. we had to design a rocket and make it and then take it for a test flight. we had a good time in rocket challenge. My team has Jack, Reilly and myself in it. We came across a few problems as a team but we ended up sorting it out in the end. Our rocket is the shape and colour of a shark. 

Here is what it looks like;

BYE!

Coding with python

 kia ora bloggers,

We were working on Codester that is a platform for python. we had to create PSA's mine was  

"litter is bad for Marshland school." 

I chose this because there is litter everywhere in the school grounds and in the hubs. 

Bye!

Learning About Gambiling

Dear readers,

For maths, Mrs Davies has been teaching us chance and probability when it comes to gambling. the consequences of gambling and that the house always wins. Mrs Davies was not teaching us how to gamble but the consequences. there were some online math games that taught us probability. 

Here was the link of a card shark game that is very fun.

Have you ever gambled? Hope not.

Bye!

film noir studies

Kia ora team,

for our literacy, we have been studying film noir which translates to black film. we had to make a plot for our film noir narrative. please tell me if there is anything else I can put in it. for our literacy, we have been studying film noir which translates to black film. we had to make a plot for our film noir narrative. my narrative is called: Missing; out of town. Please tell me if there is anything else I can put in it.

Bob was a businessman he was under a lot of stress at work and he went to the bar and saw a man sitting in the corner staring at him every time bob went to the bar he would be staring at him and one day asked the bartender who he was the bartender said his name was one-toothed jack an ex-detective now he works for himself as a pi.

Melissa had an affair with bobs brother. One day bob and his wife went on a road trip to Kansas and stayed in a cabin. bob woke up and found that his wife was gone and he called the police to report a missing person report the police came to the batch to examine where they had gone they found nothing. Bob hired one-toothed jack to find where his wife was he then found out that his brother and his wife were together and disappeared to be with each other. Bob saw all of his money was missing from his and Malissa’s bank account.

please make sure to tell me if there is anything that could go better.

Aurora lights

Kia ora bloggers,

This Friday for art we have been learning about the north and south auroras also referred to as the aroura Borealis (Northern lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern lights) these light would probably be the most beautiful sight you have laid your eyes on. These lights are made by the magnetic fields surrounding the northern and southern poles. The sun has auroras that travel 780km per second. Other planets in our galaxy also have their own arouras at there north and south pole.

We have made art that has the aurora and a silhouette of a mountain and we used pastel chalk for the lights.

Somebody put their artwork over top of mine and smudged Matariki, but I think it still looks good. 

Spray painting

Kia ora bloggers,

These last few weeks we have been making artworks that have to do with a serious global issue. I have chosen racism as my topic. I have wanted to spray paint my issue on a plank of wood. I have cut out my stencil and I am on to spray paint.

Here is what I have done so far,

My Matariki poem

Kia bloggers,

How are you today? Have you had a good week so far? These last four weeks we have been doing tasks for Matariki. The Maori new year. I have made a poem about Matariki. It is about the stars in the sky and the discussions about next year. Here is my poem,

Hocus pocus and binary

Kia ora bloggers,

This week we made a poster of the movie Hocus pocus. Hocus pocus is a pg rated horror film. We had to make an advertisement poster for this film. they had to have aspects of horror. We had to include dark colours and something to do with the movie.

We also made binary bead bracelets where we learned how to turn letters into binary code. My initials are J.S. so I made a bead bracelet that said J.S. I had the choice of choosing colors I chose red and orange just because they were available. We learned how ASCII works with binary and how it works. This was very interesting to learn 

See you next time,

Josh

Literecy and Cross country

Kia ora readers,

Today I'm going to be writing about my literacy and Cross country tasks for this week.

This week we have been working very hard on our websites because we had to hand it in on Thursday. I was pretty happy about my end result. If you are wondering what my website is about, it is about the wizard of oz. We had to work on different parts of the website including themes, characters and symbols. Here is my website link (if you can't gain access it is for privacy purposes)

We also worked on our fitness for our cross country. In three weeks time. We will be doing cross country we have to run three laps(3km) of our school grounds. Every day for the next three weeks we will be running about 2.3km in order to train for the big day. Today we were focusing on pace. Pace is a speed we set ourselves in order to run distances using endurance.

I will keep you updated on my times(I forgot to time myself today)
See you next time,
Josh

Irony and global issues

Kia ora bloggers,

we had to make a comic strip to show that we understood one of the types of irony Greer and I made a comic strip showing verbal irony she was the camerawoman and I was the balancing prodigy. (that was verbal irony too)















We also took a photo of global issue graffiti and wrote about why it stood out to us. I chose the graffiti where there is a nurse and she was wearing a mask with the superman logo on it;

I chose this picture because I respect Nurses and doctors around the whole world for sticking up for us and helping fight COVID-19. In NZ there are no active cases of COVID-19 in NZ. the nurses and doctors are superheroes. They save lives and helping others.

Week seven maths understanding

Hey bloggers,

This week for maths we have been learning about angles and recapping on triangle rules. We learnt algebraic rules about the interior angles of a triangle. it wasn't a test but it was a recap on our knowledge of angles. we used protracters to make a Pentagon and we learnt about polygons.

Here is my pentagon it is drawn with a compass,

Here is my working out of interior angles for my polygons((N-2)x 180*),

Here are my triangles with a compass I made this by drawing a straight line with a ruler going straight across the page with the length of the longest side of the triangle that you want to make than extending the compass the length of the second-highest putting the point onto the left end of the line and making an arc above it now do the same with the last length. the arcs will intercross with each other where they intersect make lines from the intersection to the sides of the longest line,(I hope you understand)

See you next time

Woz Website and map

Kia ora team,

On our first week back we have been given the literacy task to make a website about Woz (wizard of oz) my website explains about the theme, the characters and conspiracies as well as symbols. We made this on google sites. Symbols are objects used in the book. We were learning how to add pages and delete them. This website will fulfil the purpose of an essay. I have not completed it but it is a work in progress. It is quite easy but there is a lot of writing we need to put in it to make it look appealing.

For maths, we have been learning about maps and the scale on maps. on every map, there is a scale in the corner and it might say 1:200 000 which means 1 cm on the map is 200 000 cm in real life. That's quite cool if you think about it. here is a picture of a map scale,

Thank you see you next time.

Last Covid-19 friday tasks

Kia ora and welcome to the last Covid-19 blog post,

As most of you know yesterday was the first day of level two. On Monday most schools will be going back to their normal routine but they have to be spaced one meter away for hygiene purposes. I'm really excited to be getting back to school. Even though COVID-19 is an epidemic I am glad to be part of a historic time in life.

For my literacy tasks this week I have made a level minion to do my evil bidding. It is a cheetah mixed with a gorilla a chimp, a chameleon and an eagle. this minion is fast strong smart has the ability to blend in with anything and has wings so it can fly.

for my maths task I had to do a figure out where the treasure was on a map that the teachers gave us and then we had to make our own trees hunt starting from p12. Here is what I got;

And for my Friday task,' i had to watch a short film and then draw a house on the back of any animal that I chose. I chose a turtle as my animal so we could go underwater and explore under the sea and go down Mariana trench. please excuse my lack of artistic skills.

lastly, for my tech task, I created my dream bedroom it has stairs two mats. My double bed and my desk and chars are on the top floor.
here is the bird's eye view;

Here is the side view again please excuse the horrible artistic skills;

Thank you for listening today and I cant wait to see most of you guys back at school.

See ya.

Covid-19 friday tasks coulor push

Hey team,

Today for my second blog post I have made an abstract piece of art on a website called colour push 90-second art I made several colour push 90-second artworks and I put them on a slide we got asked some questions and we needed to answer them. Here is my slide the questions and the answers

I hope you liked them and please tell me what you like and what you didn't like down in the comments below thank you, guys. Until next time.

Covid-19 Friday Tech Task

Kia ora bloggers,

Today I have made a sock puppet named Kolly on the tech site. We had to choose a category and then make something in the category.  I made Kolly because making a sock puppet was appealing and it was interesting to make. Last week I made a board game called mini mini-golf. Here is a photo of my puppet.

Kolly is crazy she had a concussion that has lasted since her maker dropped her on the head. Poor Kolly. Thank you for listening and hope Kolly gets better.
See ya.

Covid-19 task why no purple flags?

Hey team,

today for our second Friday task we had to watch a video explaining why countries have no purple flag the reason is that the purple die was expensive and only the royal family could wear purple. we got asked some questions so here are the questions and the answers:

Why didn't countries use the colour purple on their flags? Is the same reason still true? What does a flag represent? If you could design a flag to represent you what would it have on it? How about your family? What is important to the people in your bubble? 

Design your own flag for your house. Think of the different people that make up your bubble, the different personalities and what would be a good representation of you all.

the countries didn't have purple on their flags because the dye was considered royal spiritual and expensive. the reason is not still true because purple is now cheap and some countries that have purple on their flags. I think a flag represents where you come from. my family likes surfing and going to the beach my flag would probably be black with a blue cross, surfboard and medical enamel.

this is the video that I got all of the information on:

Thanks for listening see ya.

Covid-19 Tasks Mini mini-golf

Kia ora team,

Today for our Friday must-do tasks we had to chose an activity to do I chose the boredom buster. the boredom buster is where you make a board game and you share it with your tech teacher the board game that I made was called mini-mini-golf.

This game will need to be played on a piece of paper but you can make your own template it's easy. I got this idea from my dad because he and his mates played this when he was in school. He taught me and my brother how to play this. and I made an even bigger template than his game.
See ya.

Covid-19 Anzac cookies... sort of

Hey team,

As most of you guys know Anzac day was here. My brother decided to make Anzac cookies which I thought was very sweet of him. When I was doing my work he surprised me with a treat, Anzac cookies... sort of

on the bright side, the crumbs tasted delicious and I would definitely have it again, thanks Will. What did you guys do to celebrate Anzac day? let me know in the comments, see ya.

Covid-19 Tasks Wizard of oz minecraft

Kia ora bloggers,

The task for today was to make a creation whether it was on paper on a computer or on Minecraft. The creation we had to make was oz. We had to make oz in our perspective. I did my creation on Minecraft. here is my world;

I have got a jungle, a poppy field, a truck, a deep ditch, the yellow brick road and the emerald city all of the things from the book. Have you been on Minecraft lately if so let me know what you have made and don't be shy to rate my work from 1-10 in the comments it would really help?

Thanks,
Josh

Covid -19 Anzac day task lanterns

Hey team,

As most of you know Anzac day is coming up. I made two lanterns that we can light on Anzac day. The prime minister Jacinda Ardern said that on Saturday at 6:00 am we all should stand at our mailboxes for the soldiers that died that day. Here are my lanterns:

As you can see there are poppies on each side of the lanterns and a cross on each side of the lanterns that have written on it L.W.F that stands for 'Least we forget' I hope you liked it please let me know in the comments below.
And I will see you by your mailbox,
Josh

Covid-19 tasks what it means to have a 'Brain'

Kia ora team,

Today our online task that we had to complete was we had to write what it means to have a 'Brain' In our characters traits they have different personalities. The Scarecrow has no brain or at least he thinks he has no brain. The Scarecrow does most of the thinking for the crew. The Tinman has no heart or at least he thinks he has no heart. When he stepped on a beetle he started crying. The Lion has no courage but when he said that he would jump with the scarecrow across the step ditch he showed courage. Here is what I put down;

This is what I think a brain is to me it gives my body function and helps me think. i hope you liked it.
see you next time,
Josh

Covid-19 tasks Tin man

Hey team, Today for our literacy task we had to create the tin man from the wizard of oz using household items I made mine out of toilet paper rolls, cylindrical container and a yoghurt container. Here is my art. I hope you like it. see you next time, Josh

Covid-19 tasks The circle

Hey team,

First of all, just a big thank you to the front line workers the doctors and the police and the people that work in supermarkets. Today my math task from Mrs Davies is to make a slide explaining the different parts of a circle. I made An animation that showed the information I hope you enjoy it.   

Now you probably know more about circle than you ever did. hope this helped and I hope you enjoyed it see you next time.

Good luck with the coronavirus

Covid-19 tasks Design yo' witch

Kia ora bloggers,

Yesterday we were set a task to design our own witch. Draw it and make the creepiest back story of it and why it is an antagonist. An antagonist is a bad guy the protagonist is a good guy. my witch was called Evanora and here is the creepy back story.

This witch's name is or should I say was melody, she use to be a girl but when her parents died in a tragic fire that was made by her she turned into Evanora. she lives in the darkest of forests she, I mean it creeps up on people slowly and says boo this might not sound scary but when it says boo the people disappear so think twice about when going into a forest. The last sight seen of her was when her brother watched her light the fire. Some say she lit the fire because she was angry some say she was a devel and some even claim that she was never even born.

if you liked my backstory or if it gave you goosebumps please tell me down in the comments below.

Thank you see you next time,

Josh

Covid-19 task timetable

Hey team,

What we have done today for our COVID-19 task were to make a timetable for our literacy tasks. this was surprisingly not easy. I think that might be because of the long holidays being inside. Here is my timetable.

at the moment we are doing studies on the book; The wizard of oz. As you can see there are no tasks for Monday and Tuesday that's because of the Easter holidays. have you got a planner for your work?

See you next time.

Covid-19 task Sudoku

Kia ora bloggers,

Today I have completed sudoku, this was quite challenging because it was online I prefer it to be on paper. My level of difficulty at the moment is on easy but the more sudoku I do, the harder I want to challenge my self by going up a level.

This was my sudoku result. See you next time, Josh

Covid-19 task Green fingers

Kia ora bloggers, Josh here,

Yesterday we were quite bored so we ended up going and getting a trailer load of soil and some vegetables. First, we had to dig out a flower bed for the soil to go into. We drove down the road to our friend's house. They own a farm so they have lots of soil. They unlocked their gate and let us take some of the soil from their soil heaps.

We loaded the potting soil into the beds and then dug little holes for the plants to go into. I asked my dad if I could plant the vegetables in the soil and he said: "yes, sure". I first asked him what vegetables go into what holes. I started with lettuce and ended with tomatoes. we planted lots of vegetables and we found a lot of weeds but it was fun and we did get vegetables for free.

See you next time, Josh.

Covid-19 Anzac day art

Kia ora bloggers,
Wow! the first day of total lockdown! We still have a whole three weeks left to go, hope you guys aren't bored. Today I have made another Anzac day artwork I have made a this by using a sponge, an empty toilet paper roll, pipe cleaners and red pieces of paper. Here is my artwork:

please let me know what I could work on and I will keep you posted on this week
see you next time, Josh

Covid-19 Rortation Symmetry Art

Hey team,

As all of you should know, we have been put into lockdown as of today. that means no seeing other people out of your bubble. You can get fresh air around you, you can still go for walks but there is a chance that a policeman might ask you some questions. If you meet up with your mates in public you could also be arrested. stay home but stay safe.

Today I have made a piece of rotational symmetry. I made this by folding a square piece of paper into a triangle, writing my name and then unfolding the piece of paper then making a mirror image of my name.

Have you guys made anything to do with symmetry? I hope you like my art. let me know in the comments below.
See you next time, Josh.

Covid-19 task Books, books and more books!!!

Kia ora bloggers,

Before the big lockdown my Mum, my brother and I went to the warehouse to find some things to entertain us during the lockdown. Before we went to the toys and puzzles section. Mum told us to go to the book section and get some books. William and I walked into the books aisle and saw David Walliams books.

There had been so many that we haven't seen. we both had a pile of books in our hand. I had the book 'Fing', 'demon dentist','Ratburger', 'Awful antie' and so much more. My favourite book is the midnight gang it's about a boy named ben he wakes up in the hospital and meets other kids in the same ward as him, George, amber, robin and sally all five of them go on adventures at midnight when everyone is sleeping. I can't spoil the rest for you, you will have to read it yourself.

As you can imagine my bedroom is full of books. My time in isolation will not be full of boredom, It will be full of books, books and more books. Do you have anything to do in isolation or any cool books to read? if so let me know.

See you next time, Josh

Covid-19 Anzac day task

Hey bloggers,
since we have been indoors and in isolation because of the Covid-19, we have been set some tasks by the teachers. My task that I will be blogging today will be my Anzac day artwork. I made a coloured poster with a silhouette of a gunman and a caption that says 'lest we forget'. here is my artwork.

I hope you like my Anzac artwork. what have you guys been doing in self-isolation? let me know. Good luck for the next weeks to come and I hope it's not too boring.
see you next time, Josh.

Mean, median and mode

Kia ora bloggers, Josh here,
This is my scratch for mean, median and mode. If you want to learn about mode type in "mode".  do you know how to code with scratch?
See you next time

Samoan 1-10

Hey bloggers, Josh here,

Today I will be sharing with you what we made with Mrs Osborn. we made using scratch an interactive picture that will teach you how to say 1-10 in Samoan! the instructions are simple. All you need to do is put in the number you want to know from 1-10 and you will be told what it is in Samoan!
 
Thanks for playing. Do you know how to count to ten in another language? Is there anything I can work on? let me know in the comments. See you next time.

My sweet sestina

Hey team,
This is my sestina for NZ writing. A sestina is a six-word on every line six-line poem. We will be sending these to a school in Hamilton we are looking forward to reading their's as well.

came to India in a taxi,

We drove past a curry shop-

the driver's name was limi laxi,-

I was in a soda pop,-

I came to learn some hindi,-

And all I learned was murg makhani

Cool Conversations

Hey team, Josh here,

For inquiry this term we have been looking at how to have a good conversation and we watched a video and we had to take what we had written down and made a Powtoon or animation here is my Powtoon;






I hope you like it. and I hope you can have even better conversation. Have you used Powtoon before? if so let me know.
see you next time

Pretty Portraits

Hey Team

Welcome back to term one of 2020 blogging. This week we have been making portraits of our self but an animated version. On the background, we have our culture and things we love. I'm not the best at drawing so please don't judge me, here is my portrait;

As you can see I like pizza, I like to surf and skateboard, I'm from South Africa, I am Christian and I love coming to school.
Do you guys like going to your school too?

Better Bar Graphs

Hey bloggers,

at maths time we have been given the task to make a bar graph with the knowledge that we already have and then correct it with a checklist with the following;
* scale starts at 0 and goes up in equal amounts
*gaps between bars
* labelled axis- x and y
*detailed title to tell us what the graph shows
*frequency on the lines not in the square
*use a ruler

my first attempt was not great but I did have a few checked off here are my attempts

you can probably see which one I did first and the one I did after have you started maths at your school if so let me know

see you next time, Josh