Tikanga-a-iwi - Being globally minded

 

Economy 

Economy, Economy is the state of a region or country offering goods and services of good value for money. Economy is an area of the production and trade, as well as consumption and distribution of goods and services.

Trade 

Trading can be defined in many terms, Trade is an act of selling items in exchange for another. So in other words giving someone something for something of theirs.

Globalisation

Globalisation is everything sold around the world, everything that is bought and sold whether it's online or in person. Globalisation is the process of markets across the world becoming more integrated thanks to the exchange of goods and services. 

 

We all have been researching different exported products. We all had to find where it was made and where it was exported to. I decided to research alcohol. It is a very popular product worldwide and is sold everywhere. This product first existed in early Egypt and has expanded incredibly from there. 

NZ export products

This term in social studies we have been learning about NZ export products. We had to research and track different export products that connect to New Zealand. I choose to research alcohol because this is on of the top NZ products in NZ. We had to track our product and find out which places it was sold using Google Maps. This term I have learnt more about globalisation, economy and trade and look forward to extending my knowledge on NZ Export Products and following the lead from my kaiako Whaea Muritere. Kia ora.

See Ya Simon (Scene)

 

See Ya Simon 

For the past few weeks we have been working on a scene from the book weave been reading "See Ya Simon", we had to animate it using scratch, Mahuta and I did a scene from the cross country event. 

Term 1 Social Studies Assessment - Waitangi what really happened

 For the past term we have been learning about what really happened during the time the treaty of Waitangi was signed. We watched 7 episodes that showed us what happened before, during and after the treaty was signed. We worked in small groups of 2 and 3 to make a slide that explained what we learnt throughout the term.  Here is my work

Word art speech

  For the past few weeks in English we have been writing speech about ( A community issue, A school issue or someone we admire) in this case I chose a community and school issue which is smoking, I tried to pick a topic that I had no idea how to write about so it was a little bit challenging.  I really enjoyed writing my speech and saying it first on Friday.

Here is a poster I made about my speech:)

About me

 About me :)

 Hi my name is Ebony I am a year nine student at the Bay of Islands college, I have 4 sibling (1 brother and 3 sisters).  I attended Kawakawa primary for 8 years.

My favorite sports are netball, touch and ki-o-rahi.

I enjoy PE and Math and I am good at Math's.

My goals for this year are to try and come to school everyday and stay on task so I can finish all my work.

This year I’m looking forward to all our school  trips that we will be going on.

T.A.C.O

Today we have been learning about different types of tenses ( past, present and future ) . In Te reo Maori we had to write sentences using the three tenses, We used a thing called TACO which stands for tense, action, character and object. The easy part was knowing the sentence structure and knowing how to write it how I wanted it. The hard part was trying not to have the same sentence as others. Next time I want to try and use other actions instead of haere and use better vocab.

Surf lifesavings

Last week on Wednesday Nga Rau Tipuranga,  Nga Rau Rangatira and a few kids from room 16 went to the surf lifesavings in Ruakaka. Well we were there we  learnt about rips, beach safety and what we should and shouldn't do on the beach.  My favourite part was when we got to get in the water. My least favourite part was when we had to leave.

Problem solving

Today we have been learning how to do 100 times tables using problem solving.  The hard part was understanding where to put the zero's. The easy part was finding an answer. My next step is to learn how to times by 1000's.

Sc: 

•  add right to left start at ones column 
• When times by 10 add one zero ( into the ones column )
• When times by 100 add two zero's ( into the ones and tens column )

First encounter

For the past few weeks we have been learning about first encounters. My group did James Cook. We were given ipads to work on to make objects like People, Waka, Boats and lots more. With thoose objects we put the into a 3d world. The easy part was deciding who was going to make which objects.
The hard part was finding what app to use to make my objects.

Math eyes

Today I started my first day of our holiday blogging activity's.  The easy part was writing what I could see. The hard part was finding the right appropriate image to use.

Matariki

Matariki

Last week Wednesday we had our Matariki whanau day. The part I enjoyed was seeing my grand parents because I got to show them my work and my class.  My least favorite part was performing because I got stage fright.

Persuasive writing

Today we are learning persuasive writing. I learnt how to structure a peace of persuasive writing in the order. Opinion, reasons, examples and opinion restated or OREO. 

We were told to write about why we think we should or shouldn't have animals as pets.

Then we all got in groups if we agreed or disagreed and we gave each other reasons why we thought that we should or shouldn't have animals as pets. The skills I was learning are things such as structure of a persuasive,  reasons and putting them into a graphic organiser, look carefully, recognize a reason and a example and also to take a stance on your thoughts.

A day as a cat ( Narrative writing )

For the past 2 weeks I have been learning how to write a narrative. We were all given a topic (A day as a cat or a dog) 

The easy part was picking what animal I wanted to be.

The hard part was trying to pick the right kind of theme.

My goal for next time is to use more adjectives 

Angles

Cultural festival

On Friday last week we had the cultural festival. The cultural festival was about whanaungatanga and kapa haka.  Other schools came to perform and show us what they do in kapa haka. My favourite part was the food stall because they had things like donuts and pancakes. My least favourite part was performing because I got stage fright.

Waitangi trip

Waitangi trip 

Did you know that this year marks the 250 year since the Europeans came to New Zealand? For the past two days we have been spending our days at Waitangi treaty ground learning about the past when the Europeans came to NZ. 

My favourite part was when we got to play with the dash robots, VR goggles and the museum.

My least favourite part was finding the right app to use to talk about my learning. 

T2 assembly reflection

T2 assembly reflection

My favorite part was making the doc where everyone linked there work. My least favorite part was the Waka thing because I was squished and Sonny and Xavier kept hitting my hoe. Next time for improvement I want to ask the teacher to let us pick some of our items.

Recount Reflection

Recount reflection

This week in writing I have been learning how to write a recount with the proper punctuation and other stratify. We were given the topic something that happened in the holidays and we had to write about it. Before we started writing we sat on the mat and talked about what strategy we had to use and why?

I picked the topic babysitting. The first day we had to write our planning and the first two paragraphs in blue pen. The next day we had to finish our writing in red pen and on the last day we had to polish our writing with blue pen.

The hard part was finding a topic because I have been doing lots. The easy part was orginising my plainning. My next step is to use different punction like " ! and ?

The Royal Extraterrestrial Exploration Society

The Royal extraterrestrial exploration society
By Peter Friend and Alicia Ponder

For the past 2 weeks we have been reading a book called The Royal extraterrestrial exploration society. It is about people going to Mars wanting to collect samples and natives for the museum in U.K. Half way in the story they meat a martian called Zorah who things they came to become a colony of Mars but she was wrong. In the end they went home with nothing but few photo's of the martian.