Chinese Characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether? 50,000
How many characters does an educated person know? 8,000
How old are Chinese characters? Chinese characters go back 3,500
Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs?
What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? woman and child.
What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? electric and vision.

Photos with meanings

Today I was looking at pictures my teacher gave me.
Here are the pictures my teacher gave me.

1.

This photo shows a film is nothing like a movie.
I think this because the book is more colour and bigger and the film has no colour and is small plus the iceberg growing at the bottom has more ice than the top.












2.

This photo shows leadership because the red man in the middle is telling the group to do a good job and the group are holding each others back also the group on the outside is a different than the inside.











3.

This photo shows a thousand memories because when you take pictures, it is a time to remember and you put it in your album because in your life you always want to remember something and you always want to remember something special.







4. My own picture.

Don't stop believing and go for it because a whole new life under water might be amazing and plus cats do not like water so he is going for it.

How to make your bed Homework

This will show you step by step how to make your bed.
ENJOY!

Facts and Opinions

How can you tell the difference between fact and opinion?

Fact is something true and opinion is what people think.

3 facts and 3 opinions about this topics:

Coca Cola:

FACT: 

Coca Cola is a fizzy drink.

You can put Mentos in Coca Cola and it will fizz up.

Coca Cola has sugar in it.

OPINION:

I love Coca Cola.

Coca Cola looks like coffee.

Everyone loves Coca Cola.

Airplane disaster

Here are some questions that I would like to know about the airplane disaster.

1. How many people were in the plane? 239 people.
2. What was the name of the plane? Malaysia Airlines.
3. Who was the pilot in the plane? Unknown
4. Where did the plane crash? Around the Indian ocean
5. What time did the plane crash? Unknown
6. Where was the plane heading to? Beijing
7. What country did the plane come from?
8. How did the plane crash? Unknown
9. Why did the plane crash?Unknown
10. Did the plane follow the directions? No

Sound Cloud test

My Favourite Computer Game

My favourite game so far is Minecraft.
So today I am going to tell you what you can do on minecraft.

Minecraft:

Minecraft is a game when you are in a 3D world and the whole world is made out of blocks.
In Minecraft you can do anything like: making a house, making a rollercoaster, make a dog family, going to the nether, playing with your freinds and many more.


How it works:
So when you first get Minecraft you have to make a world and a game mode.
The game modes are: survival, hardcore and creative.
The world modes are: default, superflat and much more.
Once you get into a world you have to start making your world alive.

Link:
If you want to know more or get the game go to this picture below.

Kia Kaha Lesson 1

1. What is bullying?

- Power and control
- Repeated
- To hurt our feelings or our body

2. What is bullying?

- Verbal
- Physical
- Cyber
- Threatening
- Signs
- Gesture
- Isolation
- Excluding
- Peer pressure
- Emotional
- Bystanders
- Humiliation
- Itimidation
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Homework its and it's

Number 5 It's means it has and it is.

13/14

Story with images

Today I am writing a story with images.

Here is a story I came up with.

Venn diagram about year 7 and year 8

Here is a Venn diagram about year 7 and year 8.

Pythagoras Theorem Homework

This video will show you step by step how to do the Pythagoras Theorem.

Enjoy

Homework Punctuation

The red border with the yellow highlight equals the missing capital letters.

The blue dots equal the missing full stops.

The purple lines equal to the missing commas.

The black diagonal lines equal to the missing apostrophes in contractions.

The four green diagonal lines on each side are the missing speech marks.

The orange outline with blue highlight are the verbs in the paragraph.

The pink circles are for the words that have been used incorrectly.

The corrections for the word that have been used incorrectly.

to = too

two = too

cover = covered

grow = grew

flower = flour

into = onto

eat = ate

Photo editing

Before

After

Fines for not wearing life jackets.

Wearing life jackets save lives so why do people not wear them. Today I read a newspaper article about people getting fines for not wearing life jackets. Here are some questions from the article.

Recall questions
1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?
Mr Norman the Hawke's bay Harbour Master.

2. What was the key event from the news article?
People not wearing life jackets on boats.

3. Where did this event take place?
Hawke's Bay Harbour.

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

5. Why did this event happen?
People weren't taking care of their lives on boats and don't really care of putting life jackets on.

Thinking questions
6. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?
Putting life jackets on only at the Harbour and hoping not to get caught.

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

Regulations: a rule or directive made or maintained by authority.

Comply: act in accordance with with a wish or command.

Irresponsible: A person, attitude, or action not showing a proper sense of responsibility.

Here is the link for the article:
http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/fines-wearing-life-jackets

To and Too

Today I am going to talk about the word too. Most people get confused of to and too. So I am going to talk about the difference about the two words.

Too has two meanings, what are they?
Well the one of the too's mean is like very.
The second too is like as well or also.

Four sentences using the two meanings of too.

1. This room is too hot please open the windows.
2. I ate too much.
3. Me and my friends are going to the mall, do you want to come too?
4. Okay Jack I will get you a glass of water, can you get me one too?

Practice too sites:

Grammar Exercise - Too or Enough

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_intensifiers.htm

Apostrophes

Today I will be answering questions about apostrophes because we learnt when to use it yesterday.

- What are the 2 times to use an apostrophe?

Contraction and possession.

- When should you use an apostrophe of possession?

You use a contraction when something means something like you are equals you're.
You use the apostrophe of possession when something belongs to someone.

- 3 examples of where an apostrophe go in a sentence.

1. Oh no you're going to be late for school.
2. Trey that is Jeremy's watch.
3. I've stolen Oliver's car.

- When should you NOT use an apostrophe of possession?

When you come to a random S you don't just randomly put an apostrophe before the S.
(eg. is not i's unless you are talking about the letter I.)

- When should you use an apostrophe of contraction? 

You use an apostrophe of contraction when you come to a word like:
I have you can turn this to I've and we are you can turn this to we're.

- Why do we use apostrophe of contractions?

To shorten long words.

- Where does the apostrophe of contraction go in a contracted word?

How to vomit in space.

Today I watched a video how do vomit in space.

After I watched it I wrote what was the pros and what was the cons.

Pros		Cons
You can throw up in something. You can wipe your face in the bag. You can push the bag down into the other zip lock bag.		You can accidentally wipe your face in the vomit. The vomit can bubble around. You would have to keep on using the bags since you live in space.

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6 other hard thing to do in space:

Brush your teeth
Have a shower
Cook food
Sleeping
Walking around
Going toilet

Animal fighting

Today I watched a video about a snake devouring a crocodile after battle.

Here's the video:




10 words explaining the video:

Five hour battle finished, snake devours whole entire crocodile amazingly.


This video is when a lion tells the people to stay in the car.


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10 words explaining video:

Relaxing lion telling people to stay inside your car

The Battle of gate pa Homework.

Today I listened to a sound track of the Battle of Gate Pa.
Here I have written 10 fact about the Battle of Gate Pa.

Here they are:

1. They call Heni te Karamu the angel of Gate Pa.
2. Heni was the only women in Gate Pa to fight.
3. The women and children were told to leave the Pa.
4. Tamate saved Heni's life at the war.
5. Heni was very angry at the pakiha from the first shot.
6. The guns roared all day in the war.
7. In the middle of the war it started to rain and all the bombs didn't blow but just slithered in the mud.
8. Many bombs when over the Pa
9. Heni gave water to the hurt soldiers
10. The war was around the 1800's

If you want to listen to the sound track click the link below:

https://sites.google.com/a/tauranga-int.school.nz/key-figures---the-battle-of-gate-pa/home/heni-karamu

NFC tags

There is a new type of technology called NFC tags also known as
Near Field Communication technology.

Facts:
These NFC tags have 137 bytes of usual memory.
The NFC tags come in many different colours and in different shapes.
You must have a NFC device to work the NFC tag.
To make the NFC tags work the device has to be on the tag or very close to the tag.
These tags are suitable for Android, Windows and Blackberry devices who are capable of NFC.

Features:
You can use it for...
Opening your car
Paying at a supermarket
Turning on lights
Sharing
Daily plan
Alarms
And many more.

What is good about NFC tags?
It has storage on it and you and to more complex things on it.

What is one potential weakness of NFC tags?
You have to be on the tag or a few centimeters away.

If you want to know more or want to be in the draw click on this link.

http://www.interfacemagazine.co.nz/competition/win-nfc-tags-launcher-pack.cfm?goal=true

Term 1 Week 6 Homework.

Hello, today one of the tasks were to make a video how to do the box method and estimate. The box method is when you have a box split into quarters. Now you would normally have a times equation to put beside or above the box so you split the numbers in place value and you write the number beside or above a square. Then you times each equation to get the answer for each box. Then you make an algorithm and you add up all the answers in the box and you will get your answer.

Just to help here is a video I have made.
Enjoy!

Homophones

Today my topic is homophones.

Your and you're are homophones. Why are they homophones?
A homophone is two or more words that can be pronounced the same as another word but spelt differently.

So when should we use your and you're?
Well you're means you are so you would use this like you're amazing at soccer. You mainly use you're when you are talking about a person.
Your is when you are mainly talking about an object like your clock is broken. To help you can replace your into my just to check.

Three example sentences about my life using you're.

You're going to school today don't be late.
Wow Aunty you're beautiful.
You're going to his house in the weekend, can I come too?

Two example sentences using your and you're.

Your drink bottle is leaking, You're going to pick it up aren't you?
I wish I had a house like yours because it is amazing.

12 years a slave

12 years a slaves is an oscar winning film based about a true story in the 1800's. The story is about the main character Solomon Northup an African American who lived in New York with his wife and two kids. One day two men gave him a job as a musician playing the violin but they drug him up and he wakes up confused in chains in Washington D.C. about to be sold for slavery. He worked on a farm in Louisiana for twelve years before his release. While he was there he was a skilled carpenter and a good fiddle player. I would like you all to watch this because it is an inspiring and emotional movie. Also when you watch the movie think what if this was still going or you were the slave.

Here is the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQNjfhlREk

The Annual 86th Oscar.

Every year United States of America hosts the Oscars. This year was the 86th annual oscar. Today I am going to show you some of the awards.

Best Picture Award:

The best picture award goes to 12 years a slave.

Best Actor Award:

The best actor award goes to Matthew McConaughey

He won this award in the movie Dallas Buyers Club.

Best Actress Award:

The best actor award goes to Cate Blanchett

She won this award from the movie Blue Jasmine.

Extras:

Jared Leto won best supporting actor.

The supporting actor means an actor who performs a role in a film of a lead role, and a of background  parts.

Best Animated Movie:

The best animated movie goes to Frozen.

Best Short Film:

The best short film goes to Mr. Hublot.

Best Music (Original song):

This award was in the best movie frozen called "Let It Go" from FROZEN.

Best Film Ending:

The best film ending award goes to the movie Gravity.

Describing the Oscar trophy:

The Oscar trophy goes to the people who win their category.

The Oscar trophy is a small statue on a pedestal made of real gold. That's why everyone wants it and why it is so precious but only the winners get it.

Two movie nominees who were in the best picture who did not win:

Gravity

and

The American Hustle.

Well I couldn't do the best dressed because I don't do fashion. 

Dialogues

Hello there, today I am going to tell you a few dialogues.

The first dialogue I am going to do is a dialogue when I came from camp and I was talking to my mum.


[ Me ]  Mum how come you took soo long!

[ Mum ]  I was mowing the lawns and I called the office and they said to come at 3pm.

[ Me ]  Don't listen to the office people because they always tell you the wrong time!

[ Mum ] I should of knew anyway how was camp.

[ Me ]  I was fun I can tell you when we get home.


The second dialogue when my teacher talked to us about technology this week.

[ Teacher ] I forgot to tell you that we get to do technology this week!
[ Students ] Yes ! (mumble).
[ Leka ] What group are you in?
[ Me ] I seriously don't know but I will look it up.
[ Teacher ] Quien down everybody now if you don't know what group you're in I shared a document with you.

[ Students ] What if you don't have the document?
[ Teacher ] Okay I will share it with you again.


The last dialogue is about a conversation with one of my friends about the food at camp.

[ Me ] Oh this is delicious!
[ Jack ] I know even this cake!
[ Me ] I did not see that I should of got that cause it looks so yum.
[ Jack ] what is that in your hand?
[ Me ] I think it's red velvet muffins?
[ Jack ] I should've saved it because now I'm feeling hungry.

Camp advice

Last week we went to camp and it was so fun and I really enjoyed myself but I have some advice for the next people to go to camp.

• Do everything at camp because you will regret it if you don't do it.
• If you are afraid of hights still try it because it is really cool if someone overcomes their fear even if it's getting to the top of ladder.
• If you are not doing paintball still bring your notice because you might change your mind.
• Try not to drop a paint ball because you will get hit by one.
• Do not scream when you are doing the overnight stay.
• Don't be noisy at night.
• Wash your hand before the bell goes so you can get your food first.