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Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Is It Alive?

Walt: for a specific purpose

Is it alive?

All living things move in some way, a pencil on the other hand can not. Movement is important in life as you need to move to different places. But! As a pencil all you must do is write. But is it still alive? The answer is NO! Pencils have no type of way of moving, but if being controlled by a human it can move.

Respiration is the next life processes. Respiration is a chemical reaction that happens to release energy from food. All living organisms breathe and at a normal pace to keep alive. Pencil’s don’t have a nose or mouth to breathe in and out of, so they have no type of way of respiration which leads to a non living organism.

Sensitivity. The ability to detect changes in the environment around us. All living organisms have sensitivity to detect changes, as a pencil it doesn't have sensitivity. Pencil’s don’t need sensitivity but some pencils are created to have sensitivity like pencils that are used on screens.

All living organisms start from small things like eggs, and seeds that grow into bigger living organisms. Pencils actually grow smaller exactly the opposite to how other living organisms grow. This is because you use a pencil to draw.

The fifth life process is reproduction. Reproduction is the ability to reproduce babies to create generations. There is asexual reproduction and sexual reproudction. Pencil can’t reproduce, their made to draw but not have babies.

Living organisms excretion, getting rid of waste inside of your body. This is to release gas or waste from your body to clean the inside to keep healthy. Pencil’s don’t have waste inside of their body’s to get rid of. They can shed once sharpened but that’s basically not excretion.

The very last life process is the most important process to keep alive. Nutrition. Food is one of the very most important sources on this world. This is because food has nutrition that keeps all living organisms alive and healthy. But does pencils need nutrition? The answer is no! The reason that backs up this statement is that pencils don’t need nutrition and it can’t eat any sort of food. Pencils are made to do specific things but it wasn’t made to eat. 

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Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on the seven life process, this can also be called " Mrs Gren. ". Our task this week was to understand the seven life process clearly, and write a following piece of writing that included information about what we understand about the seven life process. But there's a twist! We got the opportunity to choose an object in class and see if that object was living or not by using the seven life processes!

Tuesday, 30 July 2019

What Is The Perimeter!?

Walt: Find the area and perimeter of shapes. 

Task Description:
Today we focused on perimeter! Our task was too understand what perimeter is and to answer multiple questions so our teacher can know if we understand how to do perimeter or not. 

I really enjoyed this weeks work as it was simple and easy to complete! 

What am I?


What am I?

I am red and juicy! Many people enjoy me in smoothies, treats, and for many occasions. I am slightly cheap at the shopping market! BUT! It depends on how good looking I am! You can find me at a large field underneath large green bushes! I can be hard to find especially if you want me nice and juicy. I’m yummy, tasty, and really juicy! You can’t go wrong with me! I’m the best fruit out here, no one can beat my juiciness!

I can come in all sizes, but the big ones are the best! I have white dots around my body that gives a weird texture in your mouth when you bite me. I can be found everywhere, it’s hard work finding me though. I can also be a reward in ice-cream!

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Task Description:
Today we got to create a quick write about what am I? Our task was to choose a fruit or vegetable and write a description about that fruit or vegetable we choose! 

Friday, 26 July 2019

Measurement! T3W1

Walt: familiarise ourselves with units of measurements

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on measurement and converting main measurements. I enjoyed our maths task this week because I got to learn different ways to convert measurements. 

Thursday, 25 July 2019

M&M Craziness!

Walt: Write for a specific audience 

Have you ever tried to break a guinness world record? Pisirina, Eden, Delijah, and Leilani attempt to break ONE guinness world record! They tried to eat 21 M&M in one minute, but! There’s a twist, they had to be blindfolded while eating M&M with chopsticks! Crazy right.

The four girls tried multiple strategies to eat 21 M&M in one minute. But how did they get to this stage? Mrs Tapuke ( a loving teacher. ) provided the materials the group needed to complete this record. These materials included a large pack of tasty M&M , a few chopsticks, bowls and of course blindfolds.

All four girls had a bubbly emotion as they prepared and practiced to break a guinness world record. Each girl had a chopstick and tried their best to eat as much M&M’s as they can WITHOUT a blindfold. As time went by the challenged had begun! Delijah ate 12 M&M’s with a blindfold! Their top record! This was their highest record of eating the most M&M’s.

Pisirina, Eden, Delijah, and Leilani all enjoyed attempting to break a guinness world record. Each one of them enjoyed working as a team and getting the opportunity to eat tasty M&M to break guinness world record.

Would you try this challenge?

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Our Fishie Assembly!

Walt: To let others understand what a immersion assembly is. 

Immersion Assembly


Our first day was full of bubbly and happy emotions during all events we did. On this exciting day we got the opportunity to attend an exciting immersion assembly!


Each year group presented a presentation to explain what each year group will be focusing on this term. Team 5 is focusing on how are all living organisms connected. As for the rest of our school they’ll be focusing on examining underwater creatures.

Year seven and eight students will be doing science and learning new information about underwater creatures. As for the team five teachers they presented a song about cells that connect each living thing together. The song that the team five teachers presented was extremely exciting it was also unique as other team teachers only presented a presentation.


This term I'm excited for many journeys coming ahead. Mostly excited to learn many facts about living creatures.

Thursday, 4 July 2019

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

Walt: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. For reading our task was to understand our text this week and answer and hand full of questions and complete some tasks. I enjoyed this weeks work because I got to learn about GPGP.  

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

Awareness About GPGP At Pt England School!

Walt: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on GPGP. For our reading create task we had to insure that we understood and to answer questions. Hope you enjoy!

Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

Our task was to read a a story about GPGP ( Great Pacific Garbage Patch. ) Once we got the opportunity to read the story we had to highlight key information.




Once we had highlighted all of the key information we took each words and noted them all down. After we took our notes onto this grid we had to create a summary about our notes we took. 

Plastic Free July - Full Presentation!

Walt: for a specific purpose. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on finding a specific purpose for a topic that our teacher gave us. This week's topic is about Plastic Free July. Our task was to find key information about create and create a detailed poster about the information that we already found. 

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Plastic Free July!

Walt: for a specific purpose. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on Plastic Free July. We had to find key information about Plastic Free July. Or task was to create a poster answer main questions about Plastic Free July. One was " The purpose of Plastic free July. " Another one was @ Why has the NZ government ban single use of plastic" and the last question I answered was " What are at least three habits you and your family can adopt to reduce the amount of plastic/plastic bags you use for a day? Week? Month? ". Plastic free July is a very helpful thing towards our world. 

If you would like to get a closer look of my poster! Click Here!

Word Problems - Fractions!

Walt: Solve problems with fractions, decimals, and percentages. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on learning fractions. We got given multiple questions that we had to answer. This weeks fractions were hard as most questions were hard to answer.