The Design Process

In room 22 we have being learning about a design process. The design process has six steps to it, identify a need, research, Generating ideas, finding a solution, reflect and then evaluate. One of

Generating Ideas is one of the most important steps out of all of them. It is because if you’ve tried one of your ideas and they don’t work then you can go back to your other ideas.


There are all different materials you could use like metal, plastic, wood, cardboard.


I feel very confident about how my sign is going to work
out. I hope I have different ideas to others in my class

Swimming Lessons

For the last two weeks the year 7&8 students have been going swimming. During lunch time we would walk down to the G.I pools. Our teachers that took us were Ms Tito and Miss Dempster. We always go swimming in term 2 and term 4. The reason why is because if we are in a real life disaster then we might know what to do.

Second day of swimming was the best. It was probably the best day out of all of them because I hadn’t been swimming in a really long time I just felt over excited. It is very important to learn how to swim because In the future you might not know what will happen while your at sea.

I really like swimming. Its one of my strengths hopefully we have a great time at swimming in term 4.

My Grandma

I really think my grandma is a success not only because she has lived to 83 years, but many other reasons like this. My grandma married a Samoan priest and became what is known in Samoa as a ‘faletua’ which is in English the priests wife. The faletua in Samoan culture does all of the jobs in the church and runs the Sunday school. This is a very hard job in Samoan culture. She also survived her husbands death as well as one of her sons death. This was heart breaking for her but shes still with us stronger than ever! I love my grandma . I love her heaps!!!

Geometry

This week we have been learning about geometry. Geometry is the study of shapes, sizes and position of 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional figures.

We've learnt how to make perfect circles using compasses. Compasses are really useful and they come in handy in a lot of things for example if you needed to draw a face you could use the compass. Some of us have good spatial awareness that's why our circles look great like mine.

Geometry are one of my strengths. I really enjoyed it.

Taonga Time

Every Friday the year 7&8 students have a thing called Taonga Time. It is a time of learning about different passions of our teachers. If you don’t know what ‘Taonga’ means well it means treasure”.


We have different teachers for each group. Mr Harris takes science, Ms Vaafusuaga takes sports, Mrs Telea takes ICT, Mrs Lagitupu takes art, Mr Barks does team buildings, Mrs Nua does te reo maori, Mr J (the tall one) takes music and Miss T takes the kapa haka group. The group I’m in is Mr Barks .

Taonga time is a really special time for me because I get to spend a lot time with different teachers then my own.

Our First Netball Session

On Thursday the 5th of May we had a netball session with Emma. She is a helper from the Auckland netball courts. When we got to the hard courts Emma was waiting there. It looked like she was ready to teach us some super netball skills.

First we learnt some dynamic stretches like high knee’s, but flicks and the great vine. I already knew those stretches because those we’re some of the stretches we would do before our netball game.

After we learnt some skills we had a game of corner ball. we we’re split in to two mixed groups boys and girls. Our game was really fun it went really well . It was similar to netball but instead of a hoop there we’re cones.

I really enjoyed our netball session. I am really excited for our next netball session.

My Values DLO Term One

Last term we had a class project about the values. The values that I chose was 'HOPE'. First we had to create a story board for our slide show. I created mine on picasa. I hope you enjoy it.