Chinese Characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether?  Over 50,000 characters

How many characters does an educated person know? Knows about 8,000 characters

How old are Chinese characters? 3,500 years

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Because some of them are pictures and not letters

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? Woman + Child = Good

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’?  Electric vision

Photos with meanings 2

1st photo: This photo represents people as the match sticks and all the red people are the same but the green stick represents a person that is different to the red stick, because it is green and stands out from the others.

2nd photo: Life is worth living so live every day to its fullest. You have to take risk and you never know what will happen. There is never a dull moment in life. This is because the people are jumping of of the bridge because they are taking risks and living life to its fullest.

3rd photo: Never give up and be stuck in your own little bubble for the rest of your life. You need move on and be brave and open up to the world. I think this because the fish is jumping from his little bubble to a big bowl as we would to the world

Photos with meanings

1st photo: The photo is saying that a book has more meaning than movies because there is more iceberg under the water than on top.

2nd photo:The photo is showing that the red man is the leader because he is the one in the middle that is different and all the others are the same and are afraid of change so the red man is helping the others out for change.

3rd photo: A picture can explain a thousand words because every picture has millions of words in in and all those words have a meaning to life.

My photo: Here it is saying that people these days are a lot like couch potatoes. We sit on technology all day, and we need to become more active and get moving or we will turn into a potato. 

Analysing poems

Yesterday we learnt how to analyse a poem, we also learnt about enjambment and hyphenated adjectives. We will now be able to analyse a poem on our own.
We are looking at poetry because it will help us during collage.
3 Facts about the author:
He died 16 August 2009 (aged 84)
He was born a Rarotonga
spent his childhood on Penrhyn island

Fact and Opinion

How can you tell the difference between fact and opinion?

The difference between fact and opinion is that a fact is true and that you can show someone that what you said is real and opinion what you think about something eg: cats are the best pet but that is what you think.

- Frogs, 

Opinion= Frogs are the best pet, Frogs are so cool, They are beautiful.
Fact= A frog has four legs, a frog's tongue is about 1/3 of their body, Frogs don’t drink water they absorb it through their skin.

Sound Cloud test

Favourite app.... SNAP CHAT

Snap Chat is an app which allows you to send pictures to your friends and families.

You can make your picture last for how long you want from either 1 second to 10 seconds. Once you have played the snap chat you can only replay it once more, and you can only replay one snap a day. 

There is also a page which allows you to set your pictures as a story which your friends can keep replaying but it only lasts 24 hours.

There are also special features with in the app like once you have taken a picture you can change the effect also change the font and add the time to your picture.

So Snap Chat is a great way to send beautiful pictures to people or maybe even the odd silly selfie.
                                                                    SNAP CHAT

Kia Kaha

Lesson 1
Constable Den 

1. What is bulling
-Power & control
-Repeated
-To hurt our feelings or our body

2. Types of bulling 
-Verbal                      Intimidated
-Physical
-Cyber
-Gesture
-Religious bulling
-Per pressure
-Death threats
-Emotional
-Isolation
-Humiliation

Airplane disaster

What happened?  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 made extreme changes in hight and direction and disappeared from radar screens 
Where a bouts did the plane go missing? Unknown
How many people died? 5
What was the plane? Boing 777
How many passengers were on bored the plane?  239
Who is looking for the plane? Planes and ships from across Asia
When did the plane go missing? March 8 Saturday
How many crew members were on the plane? 12
What were the weather conditions like? The weather was fine 

Sentence story

Proofreading task

1: It's about time you showed up! √
2: It was my first time out of the cage. √
3: Its feet were covered with sand. √
4: Get up, it's time for school. √
5: I’m glad to see you; it's been a long time. √
6: It's important to study hard for tests. √
7: The bear protected its cubs. √
8: It's my turn to go down the slide. √
9: The dog felt great with its new hair cut. √
10: It's too late to eat dinner. √
11: My car is old and its paint is peeling. √
12: The bird realised that the wind had blown its nest away. √
13: The game came to its conclusion. √
14: Turn down the music, it's hurting my ears. √

14/14

How to do the LCM HGM

Vendiagram year 8 vs year 7

The little red hen

Capital letters are in RED 
Fullstops are in PURPLE
Apostrophes in contractions are in BLUE
Commas are in DARK BLUE
Speech marks are in YELLOW
Words that have been used incorrectly are in PINK
10 Highlighted Verbs GREEN BOXES

how to do the box method

Photo editing

Before:

After:

Fines for not wearing life jackets

Recall Questions:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? Mr Norman the harbour master and the Hawks bay community  

2. What was the key event from the news article? People are getting fined for not wearing life jackets

3. Where did this event take place? Hawks bay

4. When did this event take place? March 11th 2014

5. Why did this event happen? To promote safer boating 

Promote: Further, Advanced in rank or position 

Thinking Questions:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article? That the people fined were seen putting their life jackets on only as they entered the harbour in the hope to not get caught.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Promote: Further, Advanced in rank or position 

Regulations: Act of controlling, management, direction

Fine: Punishment which involves the payment of a specified sum of money 

To and Too

When to use the word too:

To show something extra or to express excessiveness. By replacing “too” with “also” or “excessively,” based on the situation.

Too:

When to referring to a verb in general or                                                                                                   when mentioning directions 

To express direction; to identify the recipient of something

The meaning of the word too:                           The meaning of the word to:

In addition; to a higher standard                          To express direction; to identify the recipient of                                                                                         something

                               

Examples: 

Too:

1. I’d like some pizza too.

2. I'd like to go swimming too 

To:

3. I like to go shopping to

4. The temperature is hot, and it is windy to.

LINKS:

to or too
too, to or two

Manuka podcast - Gate Pa

• The shell killed 2 men instantly.
• Rain turned the ground into mud so that meant that the bombs did not explode.
• She made a pledge that if the enemy asked for mercy she would give it.
• The pot full of water was so heavy she spilt half of it on the way to the dying soldiers.
• 3 years later she found out the name of the Kernel.
• The name of the kernel was Kernel Lou.
• 20 years later a friend sent her a pic that an artist had drawn the scene of her and booth.
• The artist was dumb and drew her as a man.
• Heni Karamu the angle of gate pa.
• Married  a pub owner Denis voli way after gate pa.

Apostrophes

- Explain the task of teaching apostrophes yesterday

The task of teaching apostrophes yesterday was to teach others were and when to put apostrophes into 

your writing either it was a contraction or a word of possession.

- What went well?

What went well was that my student listened and did very well in placing the apostrophes in the right place and she did well with the contractions

- What didn’t go well?

What didn't go well yesterday was when the word Mr Mills came up we weren't sure were to put the apostrophe.

- What were one or two things you realised?

We realised that because Mr Mills has an s at the end of her name you place an apostrophe behind the s and place another s so it would be Mr Mills's

- Find 5 online practise links for apostrophes which would be useful for your student.  

PRACTISE LINKS:

  Where does the apostrophe go?

  Beat the clock

  Apostrophes-online language 

  Penalty shoot out

  Apostrophe quiz

How to barf in space

Name 5 other difficult tasks which are to carry out in space:
Going toilet
Eating
Sleeping
Moving
Crying

Snake devours crocodile

Snake strangles and devours crocodile after 5 hours in Australian outback




 Lion flipped 5 meters into the air by a buffalo

NFC tags

What are NFC tags?
They are a near field communication application, made by Samsung, that you can use with mobile smartphone devices

How do NFC tags work?
NFC tags are considered passive devices,which means that they operate without a power supply of their own and they come in range before there activated. Also with one touch NFC tags can turn the volume down, disable vibrate mode, deactivate bluetooth and set the brightness.

Where are NFC tags used?
They are used with NFC systems.They also combined into all sorts of products: posters promoting circus tour dates, ski lift passes, stickers, business cards, prescription bottles and even ruggedised labels meant for outdoor use. Also with one touch NFC tags can turn the volume down, disable vibrate mode, deactivate bluetooth and set the brightness.


What is so good about NFC tags?
Whats good about NFC tags is that they can be locked so once data is written onto it, it can not be altered. If you want to disable WiFi to save battery when you leave home? Put a tag near your front door. One other thing is that if you put a NFC tag in your car you can just swipe and go and it will unlock your car 

What is something bad about NFC tags?
Sometimes the phones struggle to pick up the tags 75% of the time , you have to close for it to work, if you drop your phone someone can go up to your car and unlock it.

Homophones

A)Your and you’re are homophones. Why are they homophones?

Your and you're are homophones because they have the same pronunciation but different meanings 

B)Explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS! (no copy and pasting) when should we use your and when should we use you’re?
You're: You use this when you are describing someone else
Your:You use this when you are talking about ownership of something

C)Write 3 example sentences using your and 3 example sentences using you’re.
"Your mirror is smashed"
"Your cat is to fat"
"Your windows need cleaning"

"You're an amazing swimmer"
"You're so good with kids"
"You're such a nice friend"

D)Write 2 sentences OF YOUR OWN which contain both your and you’re.

Your cat is so fat and needs to go on a diet but you're an amazing owner.

You're such an awesome friend and your house is super cool!

12 Year old Slave

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American historical drama film. It was directed by Steve McQueen and produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Aron Milchan, Anthony Katagas. This movie is based on a true story in the 1840

There was an African American man called Solomon Northup, he is a freeman working as a excellent carpenter and fiddle player, and he lives with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is also an excellent violin player. 

Scoot Mcnairy and Taran Killam two men offer him a two-week job as a musician, waking up in chains they had drugged northup, about to be sold into Slavery 

Solomon got renamed "Platt" and shipped to New Orleans and is , the identity of a runaway slave from Georgia. He was beaten repeatedly.

Imagine picking up 200 pounds of cotton every day, or be beaten just like the slaves. A young female slave named Patsey daily picks over 500 pounds and is praised lavishly by Epps, who also repeatedly rapes her. Epps wife frequently attacks her and humiliates her.  

This film is 134 minutes and just remember this is based on an extraordinary true story. 

Link to film : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiw1cYXQw4g&safe=active

3 mini dialogues

Parents: "Yay your back how was camp?"

Me: "Ummm it was so much fun and soo hot".

Parent: "What activites did you do?"

Me: "We did rockclimbing, Abseling, Paintball, Kayaking, Flying fox, Go kart, Swimming, Mountain biking and loads more!"

Parent: "Thats AWESOME what was your Favourite thing you did?"

Me: "Well that would definatly have to be Paintball and high ropes".

Parent: "WOW sounded like camp was a blast!"

Me: "It was it so much fun and i wish we could go again!"

Me: "Miss C when do we start technology?"

Miss "Campbell: Well we start today middle block."

Me: "Who do we have in our groups and what is each group doing?"

Miss Campbell: 'Ok you just need to go to your google dive and search up room 42 technology groups and you will see what what you are doing and who is in your group"

Me: "Thanks Miss C"

Me: "We had nothing to eat at camp I was soo hungry when I got home!"

Joy: "But we had tons of food!"

Me: "No i mean snacks like after each activities like a piece of fruit in between because we had to wait from 12 - 3:30 for afternoon tea then wait another 3-4 hours till dinner!"

Joy: "Ahhhh now I get what you mean, Yeah we totally should of had some more snacks in between".

Me: "Luckily we get to eat as much as we want tomorrow when we go" !:)))))