Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, director, actor and comedian. He has produced and/or directed a number of popular films including “Boy,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” As a child, Taika Waititi lived in Raukokore (a small town on the East Coast of New Zealand). When he graduated from secondary school Taika moved to Wellington to study drama at Victoria University. Despite moving away from home, he has never forgotten his family or his roots (where he comes from).

Speaking of roots, Taika comes from a culturally diverse family. His dad is Māori (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) and his mother is Russian-Jewish. I, on the other hand, am Pākeha (New Zealand European). Most of my ancestors come from England. When I talk about who I am, and introduce myself to others, I sometimes use a pepeha.

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DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

‘Lorde’ is a New Zealand singer who rose to fame in 2013 with the release of her song Royals. She currently has over 6 million followers on both Instagram and Facebook and close to 8 million followers on Twitter. Lorde has won many awards and influenced many people with her music and her original dance moves.

Lorde’s real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor and she was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. Her mother, Sonja Yelich, is Croatian and her father, Vic O’Connor, is Irish. Lorde’s parents encouraged her to read a lot as a child. They also encouraged her to follow her passion. Lorde started performing covers (other people’s songs) when she was at intermediate school and started writing her own original music as a young teen.



For this activity, we would like you to do some research and find out all that you can about Lorde. Once you have finished your research, please create a Profile Page for her. A profile page is a digital info graphic or poster that shares information about someone.

Here is an example of a profile page about Taylor Swift.

On your blog, post a copy of the profile page. Please include at least five interesting facts about Lorde on the page.

Remember to attribute any images that you borrow from the internet or from other people.

Making Chocolate Cake @ TC Tech!!

Today is our 3rd to last TC Tech rotation for 2019. The meal or should I say desert we made today was CHOCOLATE CAKE!! I have been waiting for this day since the start of our cooking sessions. The ingredient we used to make is delicious cake were:

• 2 cups of Plain Flour
• 1 cup of Sugar
• 1/3 cup of Cocoa Powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence 
• 1 cup of Oil
• 1/2 cup of Milk

Dry ingredients in red & Wet ingredients in blue

Our method we followed was:

1. Pre-heat  your over to 180
2. Add all the dry ingredients into one bowl the mix well
3. Add all the wet ingredients into another bowl then mix well
4. Boil 1 cup of water in a pot 
5. Next, combine all wet ingredients with the dry ingredients then mix well
6. Pour the mixture into a cake tin then insert it into the oven 
7. Cook it for 35 minutes then your cake is done

Genomics

Walt: create a presentation showing what we learn't for Genomics.

Task Description:
This week for Genomics we had to watch a couple of videos that explained what DNA is. After we watched those videos we had to create something to show what we learn't/understood about it.

Museum trip!!

On the first of November Pt England school, Team 5 got the opportunity to visit the Auckland museum with KPWG!! This day was extremely exciting as we arrived and got split into group's. And as we arrived we we're able to have the sight of sculptures.

This day all started with a bus ride to the Auckland museum. Once we got there we meet 46 helper's from KPMG, Not to long after all the museum rules we're set we got put in our museum group's with a helper from KPMG.

During this day we visited all floors of the museum and looked at old thing's from the past. And different sculpture's that we're throughout the whole museum, My favourite part of the museum was rolling down the hill, Also the winter garden.

My favourite part in the winter garden was looking at all the different flower's. And also going on a bush walk in the winter garden with people from team 5 that I saw at the winter garden. Also from here and there on our bus ride's they we're also both amazingly clingy.

On behalf of team 5 we would like to say a big thank you to  KPMG for your help and our tour's, Thank you to all our teacher's.

Genomics fun day!!

Genomic’s fun day!!



Today Team 5 got the opportunity to have a fun day with two different school’s, Glen innes , Glen brae. You may be wondering what we we’re doing, Well keep scrolling to find out more.

The day all started of with a mihi and karake presented by , Skye and Villiami. Then our principal Mr Burt welcomed Glen innes and Glen brae. He started of with a whakapapa. Before we started our genomic fun day we sang a waiata. After we finished singing our waiata we then got instructions from our team leader Mr’s Ilaoa.

Then glen innes and glen brae got split up into our remaining classes. In the instructions we had to get into 4 groups of 6,7 or 8 people. In my group we had a number of 8 people, Maiah , Lilo/Francesca and Candice,Rosie, Leilani, Angel, Calais, And me.

As a group we did different challenges and we also got asked questions and win spot prizes. And these different challenges were quite hard actually. Our group placed 1st with the hp girl’z for questions. By the way our name was Dynamite's.

Over all the genomic fun day turned out to be a success, It’s actually quite surprising. Thanks to all the teacher's for organising this genomics day. This day was well spent.

Chicken curry

Today at Tamaki college we made chicken curry. 

This meal is very easy to make at home. With these simple ingredient's. We had until 11 : 30 - 12 : 30 to cook this amazing tasty dish . / And I had an amazing time here cooking at Tamaki college. My partners today were , Tehillah and Angel. We worked together as a team.  

Step 1 - 

- dice onion 

- dice chicken 

- Chop potatoes 

- Fry until it is cooked 

- Add curry and spices 

- Add vegetables and potatoes 

Cheek DNA test!!

Science cheek DNA test

Have you even seen your cheek DNA before??
Well yesterday room 5 got the opportunity to see our DNA.........

A few days ago we had the opportunity to do an experiment. We scraped the inside of our cheek with a popsicle stick. And we were also able to see what our cheek DNA looked like under a microscope.

The first instruction was to find a pair. My pair was chance (AS A PAIR WE WERE THE BEST) Then we also scraped the DNA on our cheek. Next we put our DNA on a slide. After that we waited a little while. Later on we set up our microscope. Then we went group by group to the microscopes to see our DNA

End of term.....

Plant Cell Poster - By Lilly , Lei , Skye

Term 2 & 3 Highlight's.

Chocolate muffin's

Skye Tigers on the Prowl

WALT: picture what words in a text are saying

Octopus science summary

The N,E,D show

Task description : On Tuesday we got the opportunity to see a performance, A n,e,d performance by the way. 

Zebrafish science Summary

Task description -

• Today in room 5 we learnt about science. These are a few thing's that we've picked up. We also write down fact's and thing's we know about zebra-fish. We created this poster with google drawings. 

Fragile web of life...

Task description: This term we are learning about science & in science we are learning about the food chain and the fragile web of life. This blog post is information that I have learnt these past week's. Feel free to leave a positive comment.....

Skye T3W2 Area

WALT: Find the area and perimeter of shapes

Team 2 animation!

This term we learnt about the 7 continents. We have been learning about the longitude and latitude. And we also had to find some information about the three country's we have picked for this project. This is a short Video of the 7 continent's.

Skye T2W5/6 Multi-choice word problems

WALT: Explain the steps we took to solve each problem.

Skye T2W9/10 Fractions word problems

WALT: Solve problems with fractions, decimals and percentages

Skye T2W7 Adding and subtracting decimals

WALT: Use various strategies to solve decimal word problems.

7 Contnites

This week we had the opportunity to pick between 7 continents.

Skye How the Turtle Got its Shell!

Skye T2W4 Word problems

Investigation

Skye Tautai

This week we have been learning about how to respect one another and to not be bully's. Yesterday as a group we were talking about this text and as well as reading the story as a group. Please feel free to leave a positive comment.

Walt : make inferences about a text

I like you latitude

 Today is the start of Term 2 ! This morning, the school comes
together to have our Immersion assembly.


Team 1 started us of with a movie. There were 4 teachers that put a movie together To share with us what they are going to be learning and discussing in groups. They will be learning about bees. Have FUN.


Team 2 were having an experience learning there direction up and down and all around. With a Easter hunt in there class room. It looked like they had a lot of FUN




Team 3 Decided to travel all around Glen innes. Miss Scanlan got the opportunity to explore the forest and Point England beach. She also got the control to choose between 2 paths and choices.




Team 4 had to navigate there way from pack n save in Glen innes. They had 2 objects compose And a map of Glen innes. To find there way back to point England school.

Team 5 performed an act. Team 5 are going to be learning there directions. And virtual travel agency longitude and latitude. And about countries and places.

3 amazing Guest speakers!

This week we had the oppertunite to get talked to by these three amazing people.

Book Review!

WALT: condense key ideas and rephrase in my own words!

 

Story:Pinata Day
By: Jill MacGregor
Story Review by: Skye




A Pinata is made of card boxes, balloons, cartons. They are used for special occasion. They make Pinatas for Birthdays and special occasions. All ages will enjoy smashing the Pinata. Inside a pinata is sweets, Chocolates. I agree that people use Pinatas for different occasions. Making a Pinata is hard because you have to wait a few days to decorate the pinata because of the wet glue.

Skye T1W6 Statistics Mix

WALT: read and interpret information from different graphs

ASB Polyfest 2019

Team 5 had a fun trip to ASB polyfest it was years 7 - 8. Well as you have heard we attended ASB polyfest. This week we went to poly fest on Wednesday the 13th of march. We had 5 groups of boys and girls. I was in pod 5. Room 5 had 3 helpers. I was with Miss Haare. We had a group of 7 girls.  There we a lot of stores. We were waiting in a line for about 20 minutes. We visited different stages. The Maori stage was really packed.

We saw this yellow stand. We all got attracted to it so we wanted to find out what it was. We all ran over. We all saw every one walk away from the stand with a tattoo. We all were so excited to get one. We all got a moko on our chin. Mokos are for boys and girls. Even if you are not Maori you are always allowed to participate.

Skye Tivaevae

WALT: paraphrase ideas in a text

What kind of tivaevae would you like to see?

Brooklyn and Skye T1W5 Mixture of problems

Week 5

WALT: do our best at the test by practising word problems

My Career Malaga Shield.

Task Description :

This week we have been writing down our dreams and aspirations.

What I wrote down was my hopes dreams.

the Middle part is about my Interests & My Skills & My Values and My Qualities all four is about me.

And my job is wanting to be a beautiful model I think it is amazing challenge for me.

Modelling is one of my my dreams jobs when I was younger and it is still is I am going to try my best to achieve my goal.

And my support crew includes my family Because they mean the world to me and they have supported me through our my whole life.

Visual Mihi Room 5

                                                     This term team Five have been
                                             working on there visual mihi. Our korero for this
                                    term is kia pai te kotahi. As you can see I have completed my own.
                          This here describes a bit about my self. And this is my beautiful teacher
                                       Mrs Llaoa. Please feel free to leave a positive comment

Skye T1W2 Problem Solving

WALT: Solve problems (where part or the whole is unknown) using multiplication and division strategies.

Skye Intro to Room 4 Maths!

WALT: Work collaboratively to solve problems

Information web!

WALT: Find and summarise key information

Skye Lights! Camera! Action!

WALT: Find and summarise key information