What is DNA?

Task Description:
This presentation is about my understanding of DNA. I know that DNA is short for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. This is the second stage of our genomics topic. Enjoy!

Bus Stop - Hustle

This term we are learning about dance and drama we have rotations to go around the team and learn different dances from the globe. In room 3 we are learning about the Bus Stop which is one of the earliest line dances.

The Origin Of Life

This week for Inquiry we are learning about The Origin Of Life and how all life on earth began. In this poster are just a little bit of facts on the Origin Of Life. These are some of my favorites from what I learnt. This is the first week of learning in Inquiry. Under the image below is a small caption and if you click it you will see the real poster. Thank You.

Here is the real Google Drawing

Genomics

Task Description:

This slideshow is about my learning about Zebrafish and Octopuses. I recently did 2 blogposts about the Zebrafish and Octopus. This google slides has a few videos which helped me gather information to create the previous blogposts about the Octopus and the Zebrafish.

Octopuses

Walt: Identify the meaning of a Octopus

Task Description:

This is a poster of a Octopus. This week for inquiry I got to learn about these 3 brained molluscs. An interesting fact about a Octopus is that there blood cooper-based that's why it's blue unlike human blood which is iron-based.

Zebrafish

Walt : Identify meaning of a Zebrafish

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Task Description:

This is a Zebrafish. This week for inquiry our learning was based on learning about this fish. On each stripe of the Zebrafish there is a fact. Here are the two videos that helped me learn these facts: Video#1 and Video #2.

Edens-Welcome to Asia

Task Description:

This presentation is about Asia. Here in these slides gives you some information/facts about Asia. In Team 5 each class is given a continent and we have to research about that country. Room 3's chosen country is Asia. In the slides we also had to choose a country and research about it, also to choose a topic associated with that country,continent. I chose Korea but I am mainly focusing on South Korea. My chosen topic is K-Pop because I am passionate about that topic.

My Term 2 Animation

Task Description:

This is my term 2 animation. When you click the green flag it will take you to the world map. When you click the keys 1,2 or 3 it will take you to my three chosen countries. All backdrops I drawed on Hyperstudio. The funnest thing was looking over my finished backdrops. I am really proud of my game. Enjoy!!!

Edens Cybersmart Task

Walt: Be Cybersmart online

Task Description:

In the google slides above our task for Cybersmart learning was to respond to a email formally and with correct punctuation. Whaea Kelly sent us a email to inform us that we have a filing problem. Meaning that we are not labeling our work, not finishing our work and not putting it into the right folder. So we had send a email formally to give some suggestions to fix this problem.

Term 2 Immersion Assembly

It is a new term of hard work and learning and our topic is I Like your Latitude. We will be learning about Navigation, Compasses, How to read maps and more, is it sort of like doing Orientation. Each Immersion Assembly each team will share with the school what there team will be learning about.

There was something strange about this assembly Mr Jacobson was nowhere to be found.Mr Somerville showed us this cool robot from star wars he was R2-D2 (Instead of blue he was white).Mr Burt and Mr Somerville were talking about how we can get technology to do things. They tried to get the robot to do stuff but nothing really happened until they used a remote then it went forward but almost off the stage.Mrs Telea then suggested to use voice activation and to say kind things to get it to do the things she wanted. It then started squirting out water then it did it to the kids, suddenly out of nowhere a rubbish picker poked Mr Burt when he wasn't looking. The robot is then revealed it is Mr Jacobson. He has been found YAY!!!

Each term each of the teams in our school share videos or plays to show us what there team will be learning about. Team 1's movie was about how bees are dying that is called CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). So Team 1 will be learning about why they are dying and how they can prevent them from dying.

Term 2 shared a video about them doing an Easter Egg Hunt. And how when you do a Easter Hunt you have to look Up,Down,Left and Right. They will be doing a lot of fun hunts and more. The video showed Mrs Gaston asking the kids who found chocolate eggs questions she was asking questions like "How did you find the egg" or "Did you look up or down".

Term 3 also shared a video and from my perspective it was about choices and paths because it was like a pick-a-path story. The coolest thing is last year Mr Goodwin did pick-a-paths with us it was really fun, here is the link to my pick-a-path last year The Attack Of The Crocodiles. The video showed a girl who was actually Miss Scanlan, she was walking to school but she found it boring so this sort of fairy popped and made her walk to school more interesting. On the screen there was two arrows one lead her to the beach and the other to the forest she decided to go to the forest. Walking in the forest she saw another two arrows one lead to the beach and the other to the shops. Boom! She popped up walking on the beach and once again the fairy strikes her magic there were two arrows again as per usual one lead to one place and the other to another. So one arrow lead her to the shops and the arrow on the right would lead you to the school playground.

It is now time for Team 4! Team 4's video was about the 5 teachers: Mr Goodwin,Miss Tuia,Miss West,Miss Parrant and lastly Mrs Sio. Mr Goodwin said for the other four teachers to meet him at Pak n Save in Glen Innes. All the teachers came except Mr Goodwin the person who told them to come but here was nowhere to be found the teachers then got a video message from him. He said that they had to find there way back to school without any modern day apps,tools and equipment, they were to use 90's type of navigation gear. They grabbed the gear and tried to find their way to school but they went different directions they then followed Miss West. Now in G.I shopping centre Miss Parrant,Miss Tuia and Mrs Sio thought to stop for some hot chips while Miss west was still trying to figure out how to get back to school. They were now going in circles and were lost until Mrs Sio then began to lead the way using the sky to help her but she just leaded them to Great Tong (Takeaway) to have some crispy chicken. Miss Tuia and Miss Parrant then got them to school "Hooray!!!". But when they saw Mr Goodwin he was happy but they weren't so they took his phone and told him to navigate.SO altogether Team 4 will be learning about Navigation.

Team 5 shared an item where they were a travel agency and Miss Tapuke wanted to go around the world so Mrs Ilaoa showed her the world map and with her magic button she clicked the country she wanted to go and she popped in Paris. Mrs Stone came along speaking french and warmly welcomed her to where she is from. Ms Tapuke then made her way to America and was lucky enough to pop up in Disneyland and out came Mrs Moala (She is actually from America and if you listen to her speak you can hear her American accent). She was also warmly greeted to another new country. For the last time Ms Tapuke clicked on a continent and ended up in the 2nd most popular continent Africa. She was on a safari and touched lions and saw cheetahs. Overall team 5 is learning about the 7 continents of the world.

The Human Body

Unfortunately Whaea Kelly (Our Teacher) is not here but we have Mr Nayle instead. After lunch we did a biology test. Look below to see the questions and answers.👇👇👇

1.What is the proper name for the funny bone?
ANSWER : Humerus

2. What is the smallest bone in the body? Where is it?
Answer : The smallest bone in your body is called "Stapes" it is in the ear. And it is less than three millimetres long.

3. How long are your intestines?
Answer :8 Metres

4. How many teeth does the average person have?
Answer : 32

5. How many bones, ligaments and muscles are in your foot?
Answer : There are 26 Bones,120 Ligaments & 20 Muscles

6. How much of your brain is actually water?
Answer : Three quarters of your brain is water.

7. WHY IS LAUGHING GOOD FOR YOU?
Answer : 600 Muscles are in your body and when you laugh that is when you use the most muscles more then any other activity.

8. How many times do you breath in one year?
ANSWER: 8 MILLION

9. How many hairs are on your head?
Answer : 120,000 On your head and lose about 50 a day.

10. How many times do you blink in one minute?
Answer : 25 Times a minute. So you basically have your eyes closed half of the day.

Getting a visit from: Jason Young,Fiona and Tanielu

Today we were very blessed to have a visit from three special who do amazing things in our communtiy.The three peoples names are 1. Jason Young 2.Fiona Bakulich and 3. Tanielu Telea.

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This is the company that Jason works for.

The first person we met was a man called Jason Young.He was introduced by Mrs Telea and then did a mihi in maori to talk about his background.He then began to talk to us in english about the special things he does.First he told us that he was a builder at Dysart.But now that he is older he sits at the desk getting quotes for the company. He also told us that he did this triathlon called Iron man where you have to ride a bike for about 180 kilometres (I think) and you have to run for 40 metres. And he did all this alongside Ms Tito, she is a former teacher at pt england and we all love her very much.He said that he did the triathlon at the total time of 16 hours.After that we got the opportunitie to ask him some questions. What the coolest thing about Jason was that he created a program called "Big Buddies" and it is where he helps boys with no fathers or no male role models to look up to. He said that he was raised by only his mother.He is also a close friend to Ray Tele'a ( Mrs Telea's husband)

This is the tv show she is on.She is the person on the left

The second person we met was Fiona, she is familiar to us because she is Mrs Telea's sister and she is on the T.V show "The Casketeers".She said that she is a Funeral Director at Tipene Funerals. Fiona has one child and he is about 18-19 years of age. She is really funny and I know that because I watch the show.Mrs Telea is older than Fiona by 1 year so they are really close. She went to go study at Wellington and got a diploma in Funeral Directing.She graduating about a month ago.We learnt that she was good at sports like rugby and that she was a really good sprinter. She went to Grey Lynn primary and also went to Mangere College. She loves Mrs Telea's children and treats them as her own. She worked at the hospital and at Work and Income to help support the family.She then got a job at Tipene and is happy.What inspired her to do what she is doing was her parents.Her mum's name is Malua and her dad's Stanley.She was really funny and I enjoyed her visit.

This is the team that he plays for.

Finally our last visitor, Tanielu. He is a former Pt Englander and is representing Auckland in the Blues team. He was saying to us and he said that what we learn here and now at Pt England is very valueble for when we get older.And also that the friends we make now will stick around until we are old. He said that the college he attended was Saint Kentigerns College. Some questions that were asked was whether he gets nervous talking to the famous people in his team.And another one was which parent he liked the most but we left that question unanswered because his mum was right there. He told us that he was one of the first seniors to be in the block we are today.Hesaid that he enjoyed doing animations and said all the things that the teachers are doing for us now will really help us in the future.

Thank you to the three visitors who shared words of wisdom.They would be very useful in the future.

Attitude Talks with Jannah

Today we had a visit by a  lady from Attitude her name is Jannah.Before we even started we got to talk with her as we were sitting down. The year 8's were catching up with her because sh came and talked to them last year. She seemed really positive and like her positivity would spread across the whole building.She told us a bit about herself we learnt that her name is Arabic and that it means "Gracious Gift".She shared a few funny stories that got my mouth and cheeks sore.She explained to us the different types of friendships there are like Girl girl friendships,Guy guy friendships and Girl guy friendships.We were told what not to do in friendships and that girls are such good friends because we talk alot like alot alot. We learnt 6 key tips in friendship they are to 1. Be Friendly 2.Be Positive 3.Be Yourself 4.Don't Be Shy 5.Don't show off 6. Remember the special events (Birthdays etc)

My Polyfest Experience

Walt:Explain about a fun event like Polyfest