Farewell Year 8's

At our Leavers Lunch the year 8 students watched short clips that the school made to say good-bye to them.  Here are some comments from the students specific to Shanika, click on each link to hear what they had to say.

Vern      Chiedza       Hayley     Raine      Alice         Haylee

Why so much plastic

In Room 6 we are writing speeches. We were allowed to choose any topic we wanted. Here is my opinion about plastic and the sea... I hope you enjoy, hopefully i can change your mind.

 ❌Why is there so much plastic?❌ Why is there so much plastic in the ocean well stay tuned? What can we do to help our sea animals? How can we help the environment? What causes there to be so much plastic in the ocean, you may ask? Well what happens is that people drop their rubbish then when it rains the sea water will rise up and then pull back all that rubbish into the water then it will finally break down into trillions of plastic particles, which are called micro plastics. All of those plastic particles will be all floating around in the ocean causing pollution and then when the sea animals like fish getting there food they will get all the harmful plastic in the fish body system that is all around the water so the fish have all these small plastic microbeads,plastic pellets,microfibers in their body and when they get there food there body will be filled with all that bad stuff, That causes death. What can we do to help our sea animals? Here are some facts about my reasons and how to help you... 1.You could use only a few plastic products. -choose to buy products with minimal plastic wrapping eg fruit in plastic box or pick loose and put in reusable produce bags. Choose cardboard boxes with food like cookies,Crackers,Tea,Coffee,Eggs,Juice boxes,Ice blocks,cereal boxes and lots more some are not always in cardboard. 2.Have Ocean Friendly products or environment products brands like Eco Store and Earthwise or use less plastic and more metal and reusable bags 3. Go and volunteer in a community to help the ocean -Volunteer 4.Use fewer plastic more biodegradable that will break more quickly and help the environment that can break down into natural materials that will not harm the environment as much. 5. So be careful what you buy coral jewellery,tortoise shell hair accessories. And also don’t throw plastic out your car window or in the water around you just remember if that was you you wouldn’t like it if your house got destroyed or people dumping rubbish on your house NO! So don’t do it to the sea animals home! So next time you see rubbish on the side of the road go and pick it up. Think twice before you do litter rubbish just think about the earth in 20 years time and the animals before they are all gone for new generations.

Maths DLO

In Term 2 my maths group were learning about how many tens are in twos and three digit numbers We created this slideshow to help us. See if this can help you to figure out how many 10s are in 2 and three digit numbers.

Persuasive Writing

In Room 6 we have been working on persuasive writing. I chose to try and persuade others that I would rather be incredibly smart. Please enjoy my writing and consider if you would rather be incredibly smart or incredibly funny. I would love for you to comment your opinion and why.

I would rather be incredibly smart then incredibly funny.

Here are my reasons why...

If you were smart you could get into a good University and high school students in America, have to get good grades or do sports like football and cheerleading or other sports to get into a good college/university. But if your smart you won’t have to worry about getting a scholarship or good grades because it just happens for you naturally.

And if your incredibly smart after a few good years of university and good grades and exams and tests you can get a job you want and also a good high paying job like a lawyer,computer hardware, Scientific and Technical Nutritionist, engineer,Information security analyst,electrical and electronics engineer,aircraft pilot/flight engineer,marketing and sales manager,environmental scientist/geoscientist and many other high paying jobs.

Becoming an adult moving out of home then getting a house loan and a car to go to work, then getting a job to pay bills is very stressful for most young adults because some young adults don’t have enough money to pay all of their bills then they get very stressed which is not good for your health.

Would you be incredibly smart or funny?

Shanika Taylor

Jet Boating On The Buller

On Tuesday the 5th we went on our camp to Murchison and on that day we went to the natural flames then on Wednesday we went to the Buller Gorge and did the comet line, swing bridge and the loop walk and of course jet boating. Here's my poster on the jet boating.

Camp Certificate

Pet day fake text

In Room six we had to write fake texts our about our pets for pets day.   We used a text generator to make the conversation.  Gizmo is my dog who I made the text about. I'm the blue colour text and Gizmo is the grey colour.
 
Here is my fake text.

Mihi Video

In Room Six last week we were learning to say Maori for are Mihi then record then we shared are Mihi on are blog.
It took a few days to learn Maori for are Mihi that we made on a slide about us.


Here is my video and google slide Enjoy. Sorry couldn't get the Mihi google slide just the link.
Mihi

Movie star activity one

In Room six we have been doing lists of activities on this book we read called movie stars we read last week. For the activities we used boom. Their are heaps of activities we have six to do. This is the first activity. Hope you enjoy.

Holiday reading challenge 2019

This holidays we had a task to read as much as we could and make a google drawing about one of the books we read. You got to choose what book you wanted to talk about on a google drawing. We had to put a book blurb and are review about the book and what we like about the book or if we disliked the book. On a google drawing I put the Success criteria and all my work about the book on the google drawing to get you interest in the book I read.  I hope you read this book it has everything for you if you are interested in Love,Mystery and secrets.

Reading Activity (Anthrax Disease)

In Room Six we have been doing Activity's on the book Recruit yes we are still reading the same book but we have nearly finished the book recruit "nooooo!". Last weeks activity was to research about Anthrax Disease ( We could choose what Activity you wanted to do) which that is why i'm sharing it to uses so you can read more about the Disease. And if you have it you will know what it is. This disease is very rare so don't freak out about this poster.

Tip
(You can still touch your cows and animals)

Anzac Timeline

In Room six we have been researching about Anzac soldiers for weeks and we got to choose an Anzac object than we went on walkingwithananzac site and the object we had was about a soldier that died or got injured at war. Then the object we had, we researched about the soldier mine was Thomas Harry Kinder. Then we got all our information on our slide then we put the information on a timeline in order.

Here is my timeline:

Vocabulary activity

In Room Six we did activity's based on the book 'The Recruit' by Robert Muchamore. We had to get up to 20 points each week.  We could be in buddies my buddy, was Chloe-Rose and we got up to 20 points. I'll put her link up so you can see our other post about London underground which was another activity we did. Please comment.


Here is mine and Chloe-roses vocabulary slides

Vocabulary


Chloe-Rose Blog

Anzac poster

In Room six we have got introduced to thinklink we have been doing a poster for Anzac day on thinglink we got facts then put it on the thinglink for a poster then we shared our poster with Room two to see if they have learned anything about Anzac day.

Research about cherub organisation

In room six we have been doing a chapter chat activity I picked research about Cherub organisation.

Book the Recruit

Author
Robert muchamore

Bio poem about me

In Room six we have been doing a bio poem about us. First we had to use a template about who are our brothers and sisters, Favourite food,What we fear,Who gives,Three wishes,Who needs. Then we had to do a creation, I choose a slide show and added my template work on a document then after I added my work on the document I then started my slide I added one sentence on a slide then added pictures.

Here is my slide of my Bio poem enjoy.