My High lights and Low light for this year

High light:

* My Highlight for this year will have to be maths because I learned a lot from Mr Barks my teacher.

* My first highlight for this year at Pt England School is going to the Auckland Championship tournament representing our school.

* My second highlight is prize giving winning a prize makes me and my family proud of me and also being the player of the year for netball means a lot to me.

* My third highlight for this year would have to be looking forward to graduation i’m really excited for graduation because it my first time and i’ve never had a graduation for my self before.

Low Light:

* My low light will have to be reading because I don’t like reading

* My first low light for this year would have to be leaving Pt England School and leaving the teachers the way they taught me now.

* My second low light is my friends splitting up and going to different schools for college.

* My last but not less my low light would have to be leaving year 8 camp

My Netbook Reflection

My two highlights and low light about my netbook:

* Having a netbook to my self

* Learning online

* Disconnection online

The great things about having a netbook is easier to learn online not just that getting through the internet connection is very difficult to work through.

What I like about my netbook is that it’s easier to learn and type better to use than books and pencils.My learning online has been very easy using a netbook and also asking friends for help.

When it comes to help my friends always support me even doe I had problems online with maths questions or problems and also if we get stuck on what we need to be learning.I will always help them the way they help me.

I have trouble sometimes with my netbook when it’s disconnected or when it’s on the lag.

The good things about my netbook is there are some skills that I learnt from using the keyboard and there are some smart ways to make interesting facts like games, stories and some basic maths skills on a account that our teacher Mr Barks gives us for math.

Every day after our morning tea break we have to get our netbooks out and do our have to’s which is Xtra Math and Math Whizz.

The Xtra math account is to help us learn our basic facts and skills to accelerate our learning.

Math whizz is a maths thing that we have to do for 20 minutes and learn our math problems. Home work my mum tells me to do my left over work that I haven't finished from school I do it for a hour only.  

Serena year 8 camp reflection

My Highlight at camp was going on the Skyline and going on the Luge.

My low light at camp was running every morning for fitness.

Day one:

On the first day of camp the year eights were all in mufti everyone was sitting down in the hall getting ready to go on the bus. After when I arrived late ,  Mr Burt said our pray before we left. We were getting ready to go to Rotorua.

It was a very long drive it took us three and a half hours for us to get there. Everyone was hot and sweaty so we stopped off for a break at the beach to eat our lunch and also to get fresh air.

Then we hopped back on to the bus to make our way to Rotorua at our campsite Keswick. It took us an hour to get to Keswick from the beach.

As we arrived to Keswick we dropped off our bags and our luggers and put them in our rooms and had to get change for a run at nature walk. Nature walk was a long walk it took us 4ks up and down it was pretty trying I was really exhausted as we started the walk and really lazy.

As everyone hopped back onto the bus my mum popped her knee at the bottom of the bush walk.

Day Two:

In the morning everybody had to wake up at 7:00 o’clock am for fitness three laps around the camp site. Then we had breakfast and got change to go to geyser. I didn’t know what the geyser looked like until we walked down the path way and saw the picture of the geyser exploding.

As we arrived there , there were chairs around in a semi circle for us to watch the geyser but the chairs were already packed. It was 25 minutes later and one of the man that works there had a brown bag of soap and he poured it in the geyser.

After he said his speach 2 minutes later the geyser was starting to erupted so he left.

After we took photos we spent a little bit of time watching the geyser. After that we went to our other event which was the sheep show there were cows and dogs there as well.

My Book

                                                        This book is called Secret Friends
                                                   It's about a little girl called Rafaella that doesn't
                                                                find it easy to make friends.                                          

DLO ADDITIONS AND SUBTRACTIONS

Serena Maths DLO

All about Michael Jackson

           Plan:

How did he become a king of pop?

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer-songwriter, dancer, businessman and philanthropist. Often referred to by the honorific nickname "King of Pop", or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

How did he become famous?

Michael Jackson is from a musical family and has been performing since the age of four.

He started out as the lead singer of the Jackson Five, a band made up of his brothers and sisters. He was the youngest in the group but he got to be the lead singer. By the time he was 10, the band had a record deal. Their first four singles all went to number one in the US charts - they were massive. The Jacksons made 20 albums - the last was in 1984.

Michael stayed in the band but also had a solo career. His first solo hit was in 1972.

Why is he in the news?

Michael Jackson has appeared in court because of claims that have been made against him by a child that he was friendly with. A warrant for Jacko's arrest was issued, and the singer handed himself in. The police in the USA say that Michael is accused of child abuse. Michael has told the court he is not guilty. It's a very serious crime, if he is found guilty he could spend up to 20 years in prison.

Para (1): How did Michael Jackson became famous?

‘’ Well ” he came up with a band called Jackson 5 with his brother and sister and also he made 20 albums.

Para(2): How did Michael Jackson became king of pop?

‘’Well the reason why’’ he was king of pop is because he came up  with his own music, dance, and fashion ‘not just because of that’’ he also recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records.

Para(3): Why is he on the (NEWS) ?

Baby dangling: Michael Jackson put a towel over his son's head and dangled him out of a hotel window to show him off to a crowd of fans. Michael has told the court he is not guilty. It's a very serious crime, if he is found guilty he could spend up to 20 years in prison.

(If you are a fan of michael Jackson and you would like watch Michael Jackson Memorial

Please click on to this link Thank you.

Michael Jackson memorial highlights

Next steps...

Our teacher Mr Barks has given us our own next step strategies on our tracking success.  It’s a video to help us accelerate our maths learning. We had to chose an area that we would learn about the maths strategies. The area that I chose was my divisions and

multiplications. Here are the links that I will be learning from and where you could get some ideas from.

Strategy 1

Strategy 2

Strategy 3

Strategy 4

Strategy 5

My maths problem

This term my goal is to learn my fractions, decimals, percentages, divisions and even my subtractions. I want to achieve my goal by making sure that I never play around drawing class time by keeping on task on the right track at the right time. To do that I will need to participate in my learning and learn some new strategies and keep my focus up and never get disturbed from my friends. I have difficulty with my subtractions and divisions mostly because I get stuck

on it , on a website called xtramath.

Serena Reflection - Creative Strand - Polynesian Woodprints

Yellow Hat - The things I enjoyed? The things that I enjoyed in art class was learning how to speak samoan and also how to draw samoan patterns. which is carving, draw expiring things like island patterns and learning how to carve and how to use the tool in a good technique.

Black Hat - Which things didn’t I like? On this last beautiful sunny Friday writing this description and instead of carving and painting our beautiful art work. We had to write about what we like about art class.

Green Hat - What was something interesting about this week? What the patterns mean and what is it to us , I think it is a culture spiritual pattern.

White Hat - What did I learn? What the patterns mean in Samoan and what is it to them.

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Serena & Eleva Super Woman

The city where I live is treacherous. The buildings and windows are damaged, the road has cracks and some of the shops have signs on them that read ‘lease’. If I were a superwoman I would save my city Glen Innes so that people will have a better life. I would have superhuman strength so I could catch every single criminal. In Glen Innes there are many criminals, such as the scary murderers who try to kill others, the horrible thieves that steal expensive jewelry and the most terrifying gang in town - the ‘Black Power.’ I would be able to turn invisible so that if I was in a fight I could easily escape or attack at anytime time. I would catch the scary murderers, throw the horrible thieves into prison and use my superhuman strength to take all of the Black Power to the island ‘Messybush’. It is an island far, far away that has only one house, one shop, one tree and has no way of escape. Now our city is free. Ten years later the the gang on the island built a raft. During those ten years they had planted trees so that they had wood in order to build. They gathered everybody on the raft they had built and said farewell to Messybush. They were out at sea for two long days and could almost see Glen Innes straight ahead. Just when they were almost there they heard a thud underneath them and the raft capsized. Everyone fell into the water and looked around for what had hit them. It was a hideous shark! The Black Power swam for their lives as fast as they could. They were desperate to get away from the sharks and wanted to get revenge for being thrown on Messybush by the superwoman. As they arrived on the shores of Glen Innes they noticed that something was different. There were new buildings, flash apartments, the road was smooth and shops were rebuilt and had lots of customers. The gang was surprised that everything was brand new and saw how happy everyone was. From the corner of their eye one of them see an old lady trying to cross the road. Suddenly one of the gang members rushed towards the old lady and held her hand as she crossed the road. Suddenly another member joins in and helped, then another member came in to block the cars, then another member and then another until the whole gang is blocked the road so that the old lady can cross. They all look at eachother and smile, one by one they take off their patches and throw them in the rubbish. The superwoman looked at them from a building top nearby, smiled and then flew away into the distance. THIS IS WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WERE A SUPERWOMAN.

Decimal Games

Example: So we know that we have 1 Ten and 2 Ones, which makes 12.

This could also be written as 1 × 10 + 2 × 1.

Example: "35" means 3 Tens and 5 Units, which is also 3 × 10 + 5 × 1

What I love about my decimal game is that I learn a lot of skills about decimals and fractions and I give it five stars because you learn lots of decimals.

If you want to play this game I will leave a ( Link ) below

http://www.math-play.com/decimal-math-games.html

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The Massive Tornado In Oklahoma City In the US .

On Tuesday the 20th of May there were a huge tornado that hit Oklahoma city in the US. Many of the people that lived in Oklahoma city didn't expect this tornado to happen very often. This tornado was 1.6km wide when it hit Oklahoma and destroyed many homes and buildings. This tornado was so dangerous that it injured 145 people including 70 children and at this stage 91 people have been confirmed,around 20 of these were children at a local school. I chose to write about this article because I was very amazed in how massive and wide this tornado was.