Master Chef at Tamaki by Hope

Talofa lava and welcome back to our class blog!

Today for Technology the Kia Manawanui Syndicate went to Tamaki College and we were split into our groups. The group that I got put into was cooking. In cooking class we made Silver Beef with Vegetables soup. So its like a soup but with vegetables and beef.

Here is a simple step by step process including ingredients:

Step 1. Slice your meat and boil with cabbage and potato.

- First we peel and cut the carrot before putting it into the pan.

- Next peel the onion, cut the onion then put into the pan.

- Thereafter we cut the cauliflower and put into the pan.

- Then we cut the broccoli and put it into the pan.

- This was followed by adding tomato to the pan.

Step 2 -  use spices - put salt into the pan first.

- Put a little of pepper into the pan. You may add chilli powder according to your taste.

AKO hour at Tamaki Primary✌🏽💛Peace Activist - Ron Kovic💛✌🏽

WALT: Research Peace Activists.

Kia Ora and welcome back to our class blog! For AKO hour at school, our group decided to focus on peace. For those wondering what AKO hour is all about, it's a time set aside whereby we share our learning with the rest of the school as well as the broader community. 

During today's blog I will be sharing with you all which peace activist I've chosen to explain to you all how this person influenced peace talks in their country/people. Example while researching peace activists I choose Ron Kovic and here is what I found out about this peace activists:

"72 Year Old Ron Kovic is an American anti-war activist, writer, was former United States Marine Corps Sergeant, and of course is a peace activists, who was wounded and paralysed during the Vietnam War. On January 20, 1968, Ron Kovic was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and courage during the Vietnam War, he was shot in the spine and was paralyzed from waist down."

My group (Lydia, Hiria, Hope) and I (Hevani) all chose one peace activist:

Me - Ron Kovic

Lydia - Nelson Mandela

Hiria - Samantha Smith

Hope - Leymah Gbowee

After explaining how each peace activist lead peace or caused peace to their country we then all added our own meaning of peace at the end of our presentation,

Here is our peace activist presentation:

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Question of the blog: What does Peace mean to you?

Growth Mindset by Syraiah-Lee

Today, we asked to reflect on what having a growth mindset means and how this has an impact on our learning. This year, we have been doing a lot of discussions around “growth” versus “fixed” mindsets. To briefly summarise, individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts). 

What is really cool about our school is that having a growth mindset is not only important for students, but our teachers also embrace this concept. This has resulted in students taking greater ownership of their learning which encourages a focus on effort rather than intelligence. Our learning takes place in a fun, relaxed environment where our opinions and perspectives are valued. 

I hope that you a learnt something from this brief post. I have included my "growth mindset quote" for the week. Hope you enjoyed reading.

Improving Blog Comments by Alyssa

Today, in the Kia Manawanui Syndicate, we did a Cybersmarts lesson on how we can improve our blog comments.  The important thing that I learned today was that everybody can improve on their blog commenting skills and that we always need to be asking the following questions. "Is it positive, thoughtful and helpful?" 

More than anything we need to double-check our sentences to make sure that it is grammatically correct and that it makes sense. 

We also had to reread (edit) our comments have share it with a friend before posting it. The google drawing on the right has some key elements of effective blogging criteria. 

Some useful food for thought! WHAT YOU DO TODAY CAN IMPROVE ALL THE OTHER TOMORROWS! Hopefully you find the hints and tips useful and can apply that to you own blogging checklist. I look forward to and appreciate any feedback and feedforward that you may have to offer.

Kia Manawanui Syndicate - Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Collaboration Post

Good Morning Everybody! Today we had a special guest, our Manaiakalani facilitator, Ms Heather Collins. We were so excited to finally get our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogging on the way but had to discuss our group norms first.

Ms Collins reminded us that as Cybersmart bloggers, it is important that our comments are reflective. Other than that it has to be positive, thoughtful and helpful. As a class, we had the opportunity to look at our buddy class's blogs to get a better idea of who they are. We really enjoyed this part as we got to share part of their learning journey thus far.

Next we put our teacher's typing skills to the test as we collaboratively created this blog by sharing our ideas and comments on a google doc. We found the google doc in our Cybersmarts Folder. The instructions were that we had to view and explore the class blogs of Group A and B. Thereafter we shared our comments with Mr Janse and had to wait for the green light before posting our comments.

We also had time to do a sort of scavenger hunt as we searched for the location of our buddy classes. Our buddy classes are in Christchurch and Greymouth. The last instruction was that we needed to do a reflective blog on what we had done today.

We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and can't for our next connection.

Exploring Algebraic Equations by Lydia Bloomfield

📘➕Algebra - Learning Something New in MATHS!➕📘

IALT: Solve an Algebraic Equations.

Malo E Lelei and welcome back to my blog! Today in Room 9 for Maths, I learned how to solve an Algebraic equation.

I asked Mr Janse to give me ANY equation and I thought he was going ask, "34 x 14" or "128 x 6" But instead he said, "2x + 14 = 80" and my job was to find the value of the 'x'. On my first attempt to solve this equation, I divided 80÷14 and Mr Janse said that's not quite correct yet. I was really confused so Mr Janse made it a bit easier and said, "Okay, the value of the 'x' is 33. Find out how and why?" This made it a lot easier and I looked at the equation and said the x is 33 because 33 x 2 = 66 and 66 + 14 = 80!" I was really happy that I had found the answer and Mr Janse then taught me how to formulate it. 

This is how you would write the answer to the equation:

There is supposed to be a dot/space between the 2 and 'x'. 

This looks like:

2.x

The dot means to multiply so basically you're multiplying                                         the 2 by the 'x'.

2.x + 14 = 80

What we're first trying to do is get rid of the 14 so to get rid of the 14 we have to subtract 14 away from 14 which equals 0. 

(14-14=0)

Then we have to do the same with the 80. For example:

2x = 80 - 14

When Mr Jay explained how to solve this he always wrote '2x =' before he would continue. This looks like:

2x = 66

Which also means 80-14=66

Next you have to divide 66÷2 which is the number before the x. This should look like:

2x = 66÷2

And then the answer will be the value of the 'x'.

x = 33

Wait! We're not done yet. The 33 will the become the substitute of the 'x' and this will make the equation:

2.33 + 14 = 80

Because:

2x33=66

66+14=80

I am really glad I learned how to solve Algebraic Equations and I am very happy that I was able to show Ako and teach Hevani and Grace how to solve these questions! One thing I need to work on is explaining WHY I have to always write 2x=, and WHAT does it do to the equation, but this just shows how much more I have to learn! 

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I can't wait to learn more about Algebra! I hope you have learned something!

QOB: 

Have you ever learned about Algebra? 

What is your favourite subject in school?

Thank you for reading this blog! Bye :)

Be Big Hearted by Willy - Manaiakalani Film Festival 2015

Here is a movie put together by our STAR blogger at TPS. 

Be BIG HEARTED by Willy. 

Willy worked very hard to put this movie together with his peers in Room 10.  

Click here to view Willy's movie trailer for this movie and the bloopers