Wood tech

Today In wood tech this is what my partner and I did. We had to look and photo's of clocks and wrote down one word in each of the hexagons. After that, we had to stick the hexagons on which the words were on a blank piece of paper but in different types of groups. We also had to write the reason why we put these hexagons together into that one group.

Year 9 Stars Camp Highlights

At our camp that we had a few days ago was really fun. It was good getting to know a lot of the other year 9's that I didn't know and experiencing activities I haven't done. My favourite activity that I found fun was the cargo net and also the team building activity because we were actually working together as, we involved everyone so that no one felt left out and we were communicating using positive words. I also enjoyed the food and the talent quest that we had the night before we left.

Personal Migration Story From Samoa

Yesterday during social studies Ms Robertson's mother came into our class and spoke about Migration. She spoke about how her family had a wish/goal to build a Pakeha house in Samoa and how they achieve and accomplished to build that wish/goal.

Year Mid-Term Exams 2017

On the first day of exams, I felt scared and nervous, I felt like I already failed exams, because I was too busy doing things I wasn’t supposed to do and I also missed a lot of days in school. But as it started I was thinking hard about all learning that I was taught during my classes. So I had to think and remember everything that I learnt during term 1 and the few weeks of term 2. For my Maths exams I do not think I did good because I didn’t understand a lot of things, I felt lost but I still tried doing most it. But I think that I did not try hard enough for this exams. I think I would have done better than I what I got.

My Bio Poem

Matangaro

Sporty, Musical, Generous

Daughter of Relieve and Metua, sister of nine

Loves singing, listening to music, spending time with the fams, camping, meeting new people, going to church, going out to places and traveling

Who feels happy when she is with family and friends

Who needs a hug when feeling down.

Who fears death

Who would like to meet all my cousins from both my parent's side and travel everywhere around the world?

Who dislikes people who put other people down when they know it hurts them

Wuatai

My Pong Game

This is my pong game I created. Please enjoy the game I created.

Scratch Game - Design Ideas

This is my idea of creating the scratch game I am going to make.

Maths - Carries Cubes

Today we did a Maths equation based on shapes in groups 3. The was the equation had to work out.

We counted the squares to find out how much cubes faces we could be painted. This was our model we used to help us find the answer.

Design Brief For My Scratch Game

Conceptual Statement

In the context of Challenges I will design and produce a Game in Scratch for People 9 and above to be used for challenges, entertainment, using a game that doesn’t contain violence in the game.

Attributes or Specifications

Attributes	Specifications	Evaluation
Game Title
Instructions
Start and Stop
Objects or Characters
Levels
Controls (Spacebar, arrow keys etc)
Colours
Background themes or background colours

My Design Brief tells me what I am creating, who I am creating my game for and why I am making the game. The Attributes tells me what I am need to include in the game.

Science Intensive - Magnet Room 10

Today we had another day of science-intensive. We learnt about Magnets with Mrs Moopanar. I learnt that there are two different types of magnet. The first one is natural/gravity which was already made way before man-made magnets. The second is a lodestone and that's when men came up with the idea of making magnets. I also learnt the three different names of the magnets, it's called bar magnet, donut magnet and also horse-shoe magnet.

I really enjoyed learning a lot of new things about Magnets and also experiencing things I've never done.

Netball Session With Anne

Today we had a netball session with Anne from Auckland Netball. She 

came to our school to teach us some netball skills and also some new 
fun games. 

First of all we played a warm up game called shadow follower, and what I 

learnt from that  game was to always stand one feet away from the person 

who has the ball.

Next, we did some drills on intercepting while someone has a ball in their 

hands, what I learnt from that activity was that when your intercepting 

someone always watch the person who has the ball and not the person 

who is receiving the ball.

After that we did another activity which is called four corner attack/

defending, and what I learnt about that activity was to always stay

with your partner and always be in front of them if you are defending.

Last of all we played a shooting game. So we had to split into two 

teams and then one person who is isn't playing has to called out a 

number and then that number grabs the ball which is in the middle 

of the court and passes it to the first person in line, then the who person 

grabbed the ball from the middle has to run in the semi-circle under the 

hoop and then the last person in line has to past the ball to the person 

under the hoop and shoot it. If they get the first ball in then they get

two point and if they get it the second time they get one point.


In the end my team won  24 - 16, we all were proud of ourselves and also 

the other team that lost also proud themselves to. 
I really enjoyed that netball session we had because I learnt a lot of 

new things about netball and also because it was fun.

Native Trees - Silver Fern

Hope you enjoy my presentation about the Silver Fern. Thank You.

My Pepeha

My Pepeha hope you enjoy. Thank You.

Chocolate Bars - Maths

WALT: find fractions of whole and fixed numbers

Today we are participating in a real life problem. Our group will need to work out how to find the fraction of whole and mixed numbers in order to keep everyone happy.

Yesterday we were left with 6 chocolate bars split between 13 children. How much chocolate would each child now receive?

Each person will get 6/13 each

Miss stone doesn't feel like chocolate today. How much chocolate would each child receive if their are seven chocolate bars.

Each person gets 7/13

There were supposed to be 14 children in our group, how much chocolate would each child receive if there were 7 chocolate bars.

Each person gets 7/14

Rippa Rugby Session

Today room 7 had a Rippa Rugby session in our school hall with Coach Matt from a club called Varsity. At our Rippa Rugby session we learnt and to cut through people and how to do a proper pass. We also played a game called unlimited tag and another game similar to cat and mouse, but instead we had team colours like yellow and white. I really enjoyed playing unlimited tag because everyone participated in the game, shared the ball properly to everyone and when my team won the game the other team cheered for our team and also ended the game happily.

By Mata

Steps of Art

On Tuesday 23 of March we had an Art session with a man in the hall. He also told us some steps about how to draw.

By Mata

Mata's Pepeha

Tena Koutou

Ko Mt Wellington te Maunga

Ko Tamaki te Awa

Ko Waitemata te te

Ko Takitumu te Waka

Ko Aitutaki & Nassau te Iwi

No Glen Innes ahau

Engari no Aitutaki, Wale, Nassau and Rarotonga oku tipuna

Ko Wuatai,Mataora and Papa Aa toku papa/koroa

Ko Ritia, Ruta, Ngakiri toku mama/kuia

Ko Jimmy,Scholar and Akairo toku Whaea/matua

Ko Matangaro toku ingoa

Today

Today Chris,Sam and I watched a couple of videos about people drawings flowers from our class site and we also did a couple of writing and drawings on a paper pieces about where plants, vegetables and fruits are from. I really enjoyed learning and watching where plant, vegetables and fruit are from.

By Mata

Mannu Samoa vs The All Blacks

Wednesday 8th of July 2015

Today at 1:30 I was watching the rugby game and the teams that were playing was All Blacks vs Manu Samoa. The game was held in Apia stadium in the island of Samoa. The game was interesting and intense. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch the whole game because I fell asleep but I was told by my family that All Blacks won. They won by 10 points. Score was 26-16. 

By Mata. W

Poetry Recital In The Hall

Today Glenbrae School had their first Poetry Recital in the hall. Each class had 3 presenters who were introduced and thanked by members in their class. In our class the three presenters were Maara, Moses and Angelica they were introduced by Dora, Alfred and Linda and last of all was the students who thanked the presenters were Mata, Fraser and Sam. I really enjoy listening to those funny, happy and sad poems that they said.

By Mata.W