Here's How To Survive Being Stranded On An Island!

If stranded on an island here are the steps of what to do to survive.

These are all the steps you will need to survive, including steps of how to make fire and drinkable water.

1. Stay calm and think.
2. Find a source of drinkable water.
3. Build a shelter using wood, leaves, and sticks.
4. Create a fire for warmth.
5. Collect big stones and place them in the right order to show SOS. (Save Our Souls)
6. Find a edible food. (Fish, Bugs)
7. Create  tools  and weapons to capture fish or animals.
8. If not saved after 2 weeks, build a strong durable raft to leave the island.

Water Still

1. Dig a hole in the sand up near the edge of the trees. Deep enough to see damped sand.
2. Place a container in the center of the hole.
3. Fill the gaps surrounding the container with anything wet.
4. Place your plastic sheet over the hole and anchor the sheet in place with larger rocks around the edges.
5. Place one small rock in the center of the plastic.
6. Condensation will occur on the underside of the plastic and run to the center, and drip into the container which is drinkable water.

Fire Starter

1. Find a softwood and cut a groove in its base.
2. Place some tinder at one end that you will ignite.
3. Using a hard stick, plow the end up and down this groove to create friction.
4. The tinder will begins to smolder, blow on it to help fuel the fire catching process.
5. When the fire catches, place other small twigs on top to help it grow.

Are You Ready For Christmas!

    In R.E we have been learning and reflecting about how we can prepare for Christmas. I made an advent calendar, which includes, quotes, songs, pictures. Click the hyperlinks to explore.

Earth Friendly Car!

I have found an article on KiwiKids news. There have been mechanics in Australia designing and building solar powered cars for races. But they didn't just build it for races, they also made it to create clean, cheap and Earth friendly cars.

Join With The Church, Live With The Church!

Currently in our class we have been learning about the Living Church in Religious Education, I have found it interesting learning about how people's lives connect with the Church.
This helped me understand more about the role I have as a disciple of Jesus.

One Bite, I Thousand Deaths!

For our reading we read a novel that included big, deadly bugs and animals. We had to create a presentation and write facts about our chosen animal and present it to our group.

Ups And Downs To Reach God!

For our Religious Education, we are learning about pilgrims. Pilgrims are people who go on religious journeys especially to holy places. This picture shows what I have to go through until I get to the kingdom of God.

Here Comes The Earthquakes?

Room 8 was learning about Earthquakes. We wrote what we already knew about Earthquakes, we also asked questions and answered them.

Learn About The Church

Today for R.E. we were learning about the Church and the Mission Charism.

We connected information that we already knew from our study of Euphrasie Barbier who began the Mission Sisters whose Charism is part of our school.

Electronic Spreadsheets!

Today I constructed a pie chart and a bar graph using google spreadsheet.
* Firstly I entered my data in two columns.
* Then I selected this information and the graph

Triangles & 180 Degrees

This morning in Maths we investigated the angles of triangles.
1) Firstly I drew an equilateral triangle.
2) I tore off each point of the triangle leaving three equal parts.
3) I connected them like puzzle pieces and that formed a line.
4) This time we drew and cut a isosceles triangle.
5) Tearing off the angles again, I repeated the process and found that they too formed a line. 
6) 180 degree is also known as a straight line.
The angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.  

Degrees Of Triangles

Today I have been practising my numeracy skills in subtraction and addition as I have solved problems involving finding the unknown value of pronumerals with the angles in triangles

Holy Spirit!

Earthquake Learning Site

Our class went on an interactive learning site to learn about earthquakes.
In includes 2 earthquake and tsunami games to learn how to survive. Also includes a history of earthquakes happening in New Zealand.

Lets Care For The South Pole!

We have been learning all about Sir Peter Blake and his mission to sustain Antarctica.
This slide shows what happens in Antarctica and how we can carry on the mission of Sir Peter Blake, to sustain Antarctica.

Antarctic Map

We have been learning all about Sir Peter Blake and his mission to sustain Antarctica.
I have made an Antarctic map. This map has all the places of Antarctica, including stations.

Reading Is Simply Life!

This is my speech that I presented to my class about, why reading is important?

Why is Reading Important! Well here is everything you need to know why reading is important. Reading, there are different kinds of opportunities when you know how to read, jobs, education and sports. These can all lead to future jobs that are good and that will make your brain smarter. Just like country leaders they need to read a contract to be officially, president, mayor and prime minister. How could they have accomplished these things without reading?

There are so many possibilities of the benefits of reading. Reading improves everything maths, spelling, writing and all the subjects that you will learn.  

Before starting school you need to know the alphabets, numbers up to 20 and your name, you can’t do all this things until you can read. And when you start getting older and now a senior you will need to do tests and need to talk to each other to help you understand. Reading helps you find correct answers to lead to future education. Without learning to read there will not be education. When you reach university that’s when exams start getting harder, and you will need to read the questions properly.

You may not seem like to read a lot, but think again, reading helps to improve your English and with reading you can learn languages and different kinds of cultures. Reading can also entertain you, when you are bored and help you understand books and stories that you are reading. Once you get the habit of reading your brain memory will improve and you will get 100% absolutely brilliant.

Reading can also affect your everyday life! For eg: the roads, you should always be safe on the roads. You will need to check the lanes, cars, road signs, and stop lights, without reading these important objects on the road you might crash or get into a serious accident with other drivers on the road and might lead to life threatening injuries or even death. Again jobs, if you don’t know how to read the time then you will be late for your work, and even get fired. And if you get fired how are you going to get a job in time because you will need to provide for your family.

You don't learn to read, you read to learn! And one more thing is that if you don’t read you will be illiterate. That means you won’t be able to learn to read and write. Without reading you will not learn, maths, spelling, writing, science and technology. So that means reading is extremely, intensely important. To my conclusion reading is simply life!

The Camp Of The Year!

This video shows what Room 8 did at Camp in Long Bay. We did all the activities at MERC, (Marine Education Recreation Center)

Empowred By The Spirit!

We are learning how to create a presentation about the strand Te Wairua Tapu.

Do You Know These Facts?

Learning Journal

This is my Learning Journal for our Garden Inquiry. This presentation has the dates I have been working on and questions I have answered.

Learn Te Reo Maori With Me!

TE REO MAORI SENTENCES

Ka taeā e pai i he rihi parāora

He pai i buttering paraoa

E hiahia ana ahau ki te hoatu pata i runga i toku tōhi

Ko te kai tino o kiore tīhi

kāore i rite ki te reka o te rētihi

i aroha kai, ka te parai i te reira, no te mīti i ona rawa crunchy

tōmato maoa i te tae parakore whero

te tote he reka rerekē soury

Kei te whakamahia te pepa mō te tunu ki te hoatu i te reka ki te kai

He reka rawa ki te reira harāmi hanawiti

Get To Know My Buddy!

 Matthew

Favourite... 

Colour: Red

Toys: Red toys

Best Friends: Chester & Ezekiel

Age: 5

Food: Sandwich

Games: Rock Paper Scissors & Running

Siblings: 1 Big Sister

Be Empowered By The Holy Spirit

L.I. We are learning how to use the steps of Lectio Devina to reflect on scripture.

Try To Be Like This Man!

BEST ADVERTISEMENT EVER

This ad was awarded for the best advertisement for 2014.

The author has presented to me emotionally about giving to people who have nothing. He/She has started the ad with a caring choice of a man that placed a dead plant onto some pouring water. The author has used a mother and a daughter living in the streets, and a man comes up to donate money to the girl. This catches the audience's attention because people will think the man is so compassionate and generous. At the end everyone changed. All the people who the man helped is now happy.

The author has cleverly repeated the same actions the man did to see the change of the people who he helped. The writer has written that the dog is an abandoned dog and the man came to help the dog to eat. At the end the dog was a loyal pet to the man. The author has made the man help all the people who needs help. This gets the audience attention that there are people who have a lot and should give to the poor.

Make Sure They Make Sense!

L.I. We are learning how to place sentences in order in the correct place.

WORLDS BEST AD FOR 2014!

The Best Advertisement Ever 2014

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The author has presented to me emotionally about giving to people who have nothing. He/She has started the ad with a caring choice of a man that placed a dead plant onto some pouring water.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	No
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	The author has used a mother and a daughter living in the streets, and a man comes up to donate money to the girl. This catches the audience's attention because people will think the man is so compassionate and generous. At the end everyone changed. All the people who the man helped is now happy.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	Yes	The author has cleverly repeated the same actions the man did to see the change of the people who he helped.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	The writer has written that the dog is an abandoned dog and the man came to help the dog to eat. At the end the dog was a loyal pet to the man.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause	Yes	The author has made the man help all the people who needs help. This gets the audience attention that there are people who have a lot and should give to the poor.
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;  this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations.	No	The author gave his/or own perspective about giving or helping.

Very Oily Maths!

We are learning to analyse word problems involving units of mass, volume, time, and money
Oil Toil

a. Joan and Dave harvest a total of 1 200 kg of olives from their grove.-(FALSE) 600x20=12000

b. The olives from 2 trees fit into 1 bin.-(FALSE) 20/2=10

c. If they had to store all their harvested olives, Dave and Joan would need 1 200 bins.-12000/10=1200

d. In an 8 hour day, the press can process 2 000 kg of olives.-(TRUE) 250x8=2000

e. It takes 8 days to process Dave and Joan’s olives.-250x80=20000

f. If all 10 growers in Joan and Dave’s group have the same sized groove, each produces 1 440 L of oil.-(TRUE) 1440x10=14400

g. Joan and Dave’s olives produce 5 760 bottles of oil.-(False) 5760x20=115200

h. If Joan and Dave pack all their bottles of oil in cartons, they’ll need 188 of them.-14400/12=12200

i. Each carton holds 5 L of oil.-(TRUE) 5x20=100  L

j. If Dave and Joan sell all their oil, they will earn $115,200.-$20x$57600=$115200

k. Each tree earns around $19.20 each season.-(TRUE) $19.20x4=$76.80

Delicious Eggs!

L.I. We are learning how to catch our audience's attention by using ethos, pathos and logos.

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The writer very cleverly uses the phrase “DON'T GET CAUGHT!” To open the advertisement and repeated throughout the ad.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	Yes	This ad has the name Cadbury which is a New Zealand company that is world famous for its production of quality tasting chocolate.
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	The author uses the word “Angel” to the little girl, to catch the audience attention because people will think she's innocent.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	Yes	The writer has described to me about what's inside the egg and how irresistible Cadbury Creme Eggs are.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	The writer has written that the little girl(Angel) has a secret love, which people will think who and what is her love.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause	Yes	The author has spoken to the audience that the eggs will ultimately kill you away, which means you will love it.
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;  this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations.	No	No research