Monday 19th October 2016

Here's your clue!

* the key is where you keep your tech.

Happy hunting!

Build with Chrome

Today we are experimenting with Build with Chrome for the first time. Here is Theo's creation:
https://www.buildwithchrome.com/build/UYY9E-AQA

I am looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT - DAY 1

Today Andy from Food for Thought came to see us to help us learn about healthy eating.

We talked about the food pyramid, and different types of food.  Foods that you can have occasionally, and foods that you can have each day.

We talked about different vitamins and how they help your body.

We ended the session with a quiz - Girls VS Boys!  The competition will continue over the week.

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Here are somethings we learnt today....


* You need 2-3 servings of milk per day (Aden)
* You need 2 fruit servings and 3 vegetable servings a day (Dayton)
* Vegans are people who don't eat any animal products (Rongo)
* Vitamin A is good for your eyes and you get it from carrots (Nathan)
* Vegetarians don't eat meat (Michelle)
* Pescatarians only eat fish (Liam)
* 5 good carbs are crackers, rice, noodles, pasta and kumara (Kyle)
* The palm of your hand is a  good serving size of red meat (Makereta)
* You should have 5-6 servings of carbs per day (Cam)
* Fat is bad for you (Riley)
* Vitamin D is good for your skin.  You get it from the sun and leafy green veges (Sandy)
* The good ways to cook fish are steaming, in the oven, smoking (Thomas)
* A serving of chicken is your palm up to your first knuckle on your fingers (Theo)
* It's healthier to eat chicken without the skin (Tyronne)
* The size of your hand is a serving of fish (Tuti)
* Your bones stop getting any stronger once you're 20 so drink lots of calcium (Elliott)
* Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it wakes your brain up and feeds it ready for learning (Erin)

Kainah and Rongo - WERO recount

Erin and Thomas - Samoan Language Week Research

Riley and Cam's Samoan Research

For Samoan Language week we are learning some new facts about Samoa.

Year 7 / 8 MAGGI COOKING COMPETITION

The Year 7/8s have entered into a cooking competition run by Maggi.  It's called the Maggi Showdown.

The rules are:

* 2-4 people in a team
* You have to cook a meal for 4 people
* Your meal must cost less than $20
* You have to use a Maggi item from the following list:

• MAGGI Lamb Ragout Recipe Base
• MAGGI  Beef Stroganoff Recipe Base
• MAGGI Beef Goulash Recipe Base
• MAGGI Lamb Casserole Recipe Base
• MAGGI Tomato & Herb Lamb Shanks Recipe Base
• MAGGI Apricot Chicken Recipe Base
• MAGGI Beef Bourguignon Recipe Base
• MAGGI Satay Chicken Recipe Base
• MAGGI Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe Base
• MAGGI Mince Cottage Pie Recipe Base
• MAGGI Mediterranean Meatballs Recipe Base
• MAGGI Creamy Chicken Recipe Base
• MAGGI Chicken Chow Mein Recipe Base
• MAGGI Tuna Pasta Bake Recipe Base

We are cooking our meals next week!  Keep an eye out for the masterpieces.  

We are providing the meat and the maggi sachets and the cooking oils, salt and pepper etc.  The chefs will need to bring the rest of their ingredients.

Thank you for your help and support!

A S S E M B L Y

Every Friday we have assembly.

The Year 7 and 8s host the assemblies and it is their responsibility to organise it and choose a song we are going to sing.

This week it was all about Liam, Rongo and Nathan.  It was a new step as it was our first day of GAFE and therefore Google Slides.  Not a bad effort for their first presentation!





Kahikatea's stars of the week are Porsha, Tyronne and Thomas!  Awesome work :-)

We got GOOGLIFIED!

Friday was a pretty exciting day in Kahikatea.  We finally got our GAFE (Google Apps For Education) accounts and had a good play around.

The process went like this:
1) fully understand the rules
2) read and understand the citizenship agreement and sign if we agreed to follow what it said
3) we got given our email addresses and our passwords so we could log in.  We then got to choose our own new password following the choose a good password guidelines.
4) We had a search around our google drives and found the work Whaea Danielle had set for us.  That helped us learn how to use Google Docs.

Check out some of our exploring below.....

Whaea Danielle's inbox filling up with emails...


Kyle's example



Theo's checklist

Term 1 Reflection

Please can you fill in this reflection and let me know when you're done!

Tuakana/Teina today in Kahikatea

Today we had the lovely little people from Room 3 join us.  It was our job to teach them some computer skills and make a poster.  We weren't supposed to touch the keyboard too much, but instead be a good teacher and show them how to learn new skills.

Our poster had to have:
* a background colour
* a border
* our names in different fonts and colours
* a picture of our favourite animals and a speech bubble with some facts about our animals.

Here are some pictures of how awesomely we were working and teaching:

Descriptive Writing

Last week the awesome writers of Kahikatea were shown a 360degree photo of a beach.  Their job was to write a description of what they could see, hear, smell, feel and taste.

The 360 degree photo worked really well as we could manipulate the video to look up, down and behind us.

Here are photos of the published work.  Whaea Danielle was super impressed, and we hope you will be as well!

Writing Week 7

Here is the image we are going to use for our writing in Week 7.  You will need to click on the 4 headed arrow to open the webpage, and then you can navigate around it.

We will be learning all about describing a moment in time.



Driftwood near Haywoods beach

Kahikatea's Got Talent

Kahikatea's Got Talent - our very own Jacob being awesome playing basketball!

Kahikatea Assembly

We had our first school assembly for the year on Friday.  The senior students in Room 1 take the assemblies.  First up to host was Rongo, Sandy and Kainah.  They had to plan the assembly, make a presentation and choose a song to sing.

They did an amazing job and everyone agreed that it was a much more exciting assembly than normal.

Whaea Michaelene announced the star house captains.

Liam, Jacob, Rongo, Kyle, Theo and Cam (absent from photo) were announced.  They were told to make sure they step up and show awesome leadership!!

Liam and Rongo had first honours as winning house captains of Piwakawaka!

R.E.S.P.E.C.T....find out what it means to me!

Our first school value that we are looking at this year is respect.  It's something that we all need to work on to make sure we're the best that we can be.  Here are our first thoughts on the subject:

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Reading

Each week in reading we have been given a contract.  We choose a certain number of activities out of the contract, and complete them in the time frame.

This week our reading has been about Earthquakes.

One of the activities in the contract was to create a tower that would withstand a Whaea Danielle earthquake.  The tower would be made out of spaghetti pasta and blu-tack.

Very interesting to see the different base shapes and different techniques to build a tower.

Check out our creations. On Monday Whaea will shake them to see if they pass the test...bring it on!

Digital Citizenship Rules

From discussions and websites, and in class conversation Whaea Danielle came up with our 6 rules that we will use in our classroom.

Our task was in 2 parts.  We put ourselves into 6 groups and were given a rule each.  We had to solve the jigsaw puzzle of our rule, and then we had 24 hours to write and practice a presentation to show what that rule means.



Keep checking back for the presentations!

Digital Citizenship

We are spending this week learning to be great digital citizens.  We started off by talking about the different types of technology we could use in our learning, and as well as the rules we need to have when we use our technology.

Here are our collaborative brainstorms we did today.

If you have any thoughts please feel free to add them on!

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