Personal best in high jump.

Athletics is a day of fun sports and games. The point of athletics is having fun and trying hard to be successful in a category. Coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd is a step closer to success and also going to eastern zone, for a challenge.

Do you have a goal that you want to achieve and make your personal best?

Well, today I am going to share with you about how to receive a personal best in high jump. Here is three qualities you may need to think about before attempting high jump.

High jump obviously includes jumping, and there is steps to winning a successful jump. First is your run up. Most people run up from the centre of the bar at 7 - 9 paces. You have to measure your jump and your timing right.

Secondly is your mindset. It’s really easy to make a plan of jumping the 1.95m, 1.98m, 2.01m, 2.04m, but you have to know where your mind sets and where your feet lifts off. So you got to measure your steps and left off.

Thirdly is patience. You have to be patience and do the training to learn what you are doing wrong and think of how to do it right. Patience is the ability suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay.

This may or may not help you in high jump and it will work on different people. Sometimes you need to take games and sports in a fun way and know when to take it serious. :)

End of year reflection

END OF YEAR REFLECTION!

This year as a student of PES, I am proud of the success of things I have conquered, like facing challenges that brought me to my doom (dramatic).

There are many things I will take with me next year, like the keroro's we have had during my time at PES. My personal favorite korero is right place, right time, right attitude. It basically means when you are caught in the wrong place at  the wrong time you have to at least have the right attitude like being respectful.

Three things I hope I do differently next year is firstly finishing off my work when it's scheduled to. Secondly carrying the right attitude every where and not changing. Thirdly hanging around the right people. You can’t hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life Seek right people to lead yourself in the right path.

Big thanks to the teachers who teached me throughout the years i’ve been there. You guys are so awesome.

Some advice for the year 7’s soon to be year 8’s, if you want to survive and have fun next year don’t play with Mrs Tele’a.

Advice .1. Don’t spend a lot of time out of class.

Advice .2. Surround yourself with people who will accept you for yourself and for nothing else.

Advice .3. Always keep your head down in class and finish your work when it's scheduled to.

Advice .4. Be relentless, Work hard, stay calm, be kind and remain humble.

Advice .5. Know when to muck around and when not to muck around.

Some advice for my friends next year:

1. Don’t change who you are, and don’t be weird when going up to college.
2. Take every opportunity that hits you because not everybody gets it.
3. Take the chances you have and use it in the right time at the right place using the right attitude.

Time lapse problems

WALT: Use our known strategies to work out time lapse problems.  

One thing I learned from these time lapse strategies is time lapse problems involve mostly subtraction and it helps you know your times in the real world. 

Child tooth decay

WALT: I am able to distinguish between fact and opinion by identifying relevant language features the author has subtly used.

I learned that tooth decay is targeting children at the age of 1 - 13.  Children around the world have been put into hospitalisation to get there teeth removed, also families are being warned to make sure there children have brushed their teeth every morning and before they go to bed.

BRUSH YOUR TEETHHHHHH!

You're the teacher.

WALT: Create maths problems for our friends to solve.

This week our activity was to create problems for our friends to solve. Creating them took a lot of time and took a lot of tension to make it as challenging as possible. In this presentation I have created some problems that need to be solved. Enjoy and help your self to these question.
MATHS IS FUN!!

Tonga's aftermath

WALT: Take care of the little things in our writing.

Tonga’s aftermath

Tonga climbed the ladder all the way to the world cup semi finals for the first time in history. Tongan fans had followed the Tongan rugby league team since the very beginning.

I have enjoyed watching Tonga’s success because they achieved their personal best in their history. Tonga maybe a small country but they do have hundreds and thousands of fans, who support them all the way and even when we loose the celebration never ends.

Tonga is a proud country where people can be crazy or sensitive. Tonga was always looked down on, but this was Tongas time to rise and show them what Tonga was made of and how crazy the supporters were and/or is now.

Tonga has been one of the most clinical teams of the tournament completing over 80 percent of their sets in the past three games. Throughout the tournament they’ve played for a full 80 minutes and they never given up. This is a really memorable game to remember because it's the first time since the warriors inaugural NRL season 22 years ago, Tonga’s supporters have flooded Mt Smart stadium.

It was a hard loss to take but we were very proud of our Tongan team. This has helped me as a young person to never give up even when things are hard. It’s made me remember where I come from and who I represent.

Explanation Writing

WALT: Take care of the little things in your writing.

HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR PERSONAL BEST IN ATHLETICS.

Athletics is a day of fun sports and games. The point of athletics is having fun and trying hard to be successful in a category. Coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd is a step closer to success and also going to eastern zone, for a challenge.

Do you have a goal that you want to achieve and make your personal best?

Well, today I am going to share with you about how to receive a personal best in high jump. Here is three qualities you may need to think about before attempting high jump.

High jump obviously includes jumping, and there is steps to winning a successful jump. First is your run up. Most people run up from the centre of the bar at 7 - 9 paces. You have to measure your jump and your timing right.

Secondly is your mindset. It’s really easy to make a plan of jumping the 1.95m, 1.98m, 2.01m, 2.04m, but you have to know where your mind sets and where your feet lifts off. So you got to measure your steps and left off.

Thirdly is patience. You have to be patience and do the training to learn what you are doing wrong and think of how to do it right. Patience is the ability suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay.

This may or may not help you in high jump and it will work on different people. Sometimes you need to take games and sports in a fun way and know when to take it serious. :)

Guest Speaker

This morning we had a special visitor, who came in for a special talk about our future. His name is Mr Patterson and he works with year 9's achieve their goals and dreams.

One important thing I took away from his presentation, was to be a giver and not a taker. What is a giver? A giver is when you care about others and yourself. Than what is a taker? A taker is when people who just want to keep things for themselves and not for others. 

A experience he shared with us was about, a 11 year old boy and his name is Willie. Willie was just casually walking to school one day and meet a homeless man who was crying. He stopped by the homeless man and gave him his lunch and lunch money for two weeks. After a while the homeless man now has his own job and has his own home. 

Mr Patterson is a inspiration to students, and he helps others achieve their goals and dreams.

Our support to the flounder catchers

Today at school was different. In the morning we had team 5 assembly then we walked onto the hard courts and sang a song along with our school karakia.

Soon after we walked down to riverside ave and onto the muddy and mushy grass down to Riki Rd. We then sang a waiata  and chanted some support to our Pt England flounder catchers. Such as "Catch some flounders oii" and "Go flounder catchers". I saw 12 Pt Englanders getting ready with there giant net moving towards other tides to where flounders maybe catched. We then sang another waiata that was mean't for blessings and protection also faith that they may be able to catch some flounders for our tank.

Not long after, we had to leave back to school, when we got to school we sat back down in to our team 5 street and was thanked from Mrs Tele'a and the teacher for being a great role model going down and coming back. We than headed into our literacy and sooner than we knew 1 hour was already gone by.

Perfect Punch

WALT: Solve word problems involving ratios and justify our thinking.
Today at class I learned about ratios. This presentation was about ratios and it contains how to my Mr Wiseman's perfect punch (as he calls it). The meaning of ratios is, how much of one thing there is compared to another thing. For example: If there is 1 boy and 3 girls you could write the ratio as  1:3 (for every one boy there  are three girls) Or 1/4 are boy and 3/4 are girls. Enjoy my presentation, and feel free to try a question)

Our slow motion scene

Every year we make a movie for the Manaiakalani film festival. This year our class is making a slow motion film. I was in a group with Sita and Machelle and the scene we were in charge of filming was bubblegum  popping. This is what our slow motion scene looks like.

Manaiakalani Film Festival Planning

Manaiakalani film festival is coming up. Manaiakalani is when schools get to make movies whether its about what they do, Something funny or something from the old days.

Room 1 is making a Manaiakalani movie, all about slow motion. We are creating a bunch of scenes, For example: Dropping a egg onto a mouse trap in slow motion. Slow motion is the action of showing or playing back a video more slowly than it was made or recorded, so that the action appears much slower than in real life. We are making a whole lot of scenes that conclude to slow motion. We hope you are excited to see our movie.

Speech finals in team 5

Here is my favourite speech on Friday 25th of august.

First was Amelia. Amelia's speech was about when she attended Riverina primary school. Her nana worked there as a cleaner during the school breaks which was called "Spring clean", she loved working there. Amelia didn't get why she loved coming to clean at school. Sometimes her nana wouldn't come to work so then her mum would fill in for her or her mum would come and help her, until her nana never showed up to work, the reason why she stopped coming to work was that she became very ill. Eventually Amelia stopped seeing her nanas happy smiling face. Amelia gets it now it wasn't about the cleaning job that made her happy, it was every time she saw Amelia. Her beautiful cheeky granddaughter. 

Here is a piece from her speech. " I miss her dearly and i'm happy that our heavenly father  have her in a safe and happy place."

Enjoy her speech.
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Measuring mates

WALT: Measure accurately and to find the difference between two numbers.

In class I learned about measuring and the difference between two number. For example:

Me and my friend measured the height of ourselves I was 1.65 m and she was 1.64 m. 
Then we had to subtract the smaller number to the bigger number like, 1.65 - 1.64 and the difference between these two was that she was 0.01 m off. 

Fraction Challenge

WALT - Participate %100 as a member of a group
            - Find fractions of a whole

If you are wondering what is this fraction challenge. This challenge is basically about working as a team and the team members participating in the entire challenge. Not only is it about working as a team, it is about finding a fraction of a whole and to see how we would represent a fraction.

Here is our movie we put together about the fraction challenge.

Tenths/Hundredths Blocks

WALT: Represent decimal numbers and solve equations using objects.

Cooking at Tech

Today my group of year 8's did cooking at tech. We were making Oreo milkshakes, the ingredients we used were 3 cups of milk, 1 teaspoon of syrup and for our decoration we use chocolate syrup, chocolate sprinkles and one Oreo that goes on the left side across the straw.

Popsicle Decimals

Today in maths I learned about decimals using Popsicle sticks. There are many ways you can learn your decimals. I learned that you need to memorise the basics before you start, For example: Ten tenths is 1 whole. We were using numbers that have one or more digits to the right of the decimal point in this unit of lessons.

Statistical Literacy

WALT: Interpret information from graphs.
What is statistics?
Statistics is a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.

The duel: Curric 3- The Inventors Awaken

WALT: Integrate several sources of information and use my prior knowledge to work out an unknown word, cross - checking using context.