The Film Reveal

On Wednesday it was time to reveal our film to the rest of the Manaiakalani Schools. Almost everyone at this school attended the Sylvia Park Hoyts to watch films created by other Manaiakalani schools as well as ours. Every class from Ruapotaka School made a movie. Our film was one of the first ones. The film was based on rugby values such as sportsmanship and obeying the referees judgement. I enjoyed multiple films but ours was the best.

       

Term 4 Tests

Today Room 12 had assessments. Everyone had to separate our desks so that we couldn't copy each other. I was a little bit nervous. Firstly we were tested on our Maths skills. We didn't have a time limit because Mrs Golder had to read the questions out. It started off easy but then as we reach around question thirty two it became harder and harder.

Spinning Disc

Room 12 did an experiment using a spinning disc. The spinning disc is a circle with two colours on each half. Our focus was to combine two colours on a wheel and spin it as fast as possible so the colour change will be easy to observe. The colours we used were blue, red and green. With each wheel a new colour emerged.

When our circles were finished we punched two holes into the centre of the circle. We inserted a string through the circle. We turned the string until we couldn't turn it any more. We pulled the string and we noticed different colours in each of the following combinations:  blue and red made purple, green and red made yellow and blue and green made turquoise.  

Pacifika Study Performance

Today at assembly each class had an item based on our Pasifika Study. Every room had a different performance. Room 1 performed a traditional Samoan dance called Sāsā.

The most interesting performance for me was Room 6. They performed a catwalk. The students were wearing traditional Samoan and Tongan clothes such as ofu loku's, puletaha, puletasi and ta'olava.

At the end of every performance we would give each class  a round of applause.

Room 12 sang a song from Moana called 'How Far I'll Go'. We were nervous at the start of the song then as we came towards the end everyone started to sing louder. Everyone enjoyed the song.

Practicing Our Skipping

For the last few weeks, Room 12 have been practicing their skipping. Once everyone grabbed their ropes we did ten skips forwards, backwards then side to side for warm ups. When we had finished our warm ups, we went into our groups.

 The members in my group are Timote, Pate, Lupe, Dakbai and Saluselo. For our skipping routine we are practicing to do push ups. When the skipping session is almost finished, we do a skip off to see who will skip the longest.

Pests

For the past few weeks Rooms 12 and 11 have been learning about pest and how they thrive in our environment. We had to find out what the local pests are in New Zealand. At first I didn't know much about pests, but as we were learning about pests this is what I found out.

All About Pests

Pests are unwanted insects and animals that crawl into people's houses and attack farmers crops, food and livestock. They are creatures that hang around filthy areas.

Pests like rats carry different diseases. Its bite causes people to be sick. It causes fever and rashes on your body. Blood comes out of your mouth, nose and under your skin. Eventually people will die.

There are many types of pests but the most dangerous one of all is the mosquito. The mosquito carries the disease called malaria. This disease causes people to vomit, itch, fever, headache and nausea. The malaria could kill humans.

Armadillos also carry diseases like leprosy. It will cause muscle weakness, numbness in the hands, arms, feet, and legs and skin lesion. Leprosy rarely causes death but if untreated it causes much disability.

Pests are dangerous, carrying so many diseases. Their diseases are very deadly and could kill people. They overrun people's homes and damage crops. Every pest is cruel to humankind.

Where's Our Teacher

Today I came to school and noticed Mrs Golder's things weren't there. After fitness, Mrs Vickers told us that she had a headache and will not be attending school today. We got our chromebooks and bags ready. Me, Lupe and Timote Junior went to Room 1. When we arrived there I opened my chromebook ... It was dead. So we had to march back down to the Senior block and ask Mr Reid if we could borrow some of his chargers. We stopped at Room 12 to get our general books for writing. After morning tea we went to Room 12 to get our chromebooks. At the end of the day we had fun being in Room 1.