Sponsors for Year 8 leavers Gear

Greetings Glenbrae school community,
I am a student at Glenbrae school and we will be volunteering to clean the Glenbrae Reserve for our Year 8 leavers T-shirt.We will give our 120% to make sure the reserve is clean. We will also be holding a sausage sizzle in our school on the 2nd and 9th of December 2016. We a hoping that our community will sponsor us.  

Touch session

Today we had a touch lesson with our teacher. We had a lot of fun times. We did different types of touch skills. We did a passing game, Two man settle. The 2 man settle is used with two people. This is to make the game speed a bit faster. After all skill training we had a game of touch. In this game of touch, The teams were cool. But unfortunately our team lost.

Reciprocal reading

This week we have been working on Reciprocal reading. This has been a massive help for our reading group. We have been talking a lot and discussing a lot about Argentina. I've learnt that in Argentina there is a lot of crimes.  Also I have learnt that the population of people under 15 years old are getting lower and lower.

Maths

Today we had maths lesson about Carries cube. This was fun because you had to find witch corners had 3, 2 and 1.  We had a lot of fun trying to solve this problem, it was also hard to figure out.
Here is the problem:

Carrie has glued some cubes together to make a large solid cube with nine small cubes showing on a face.

She paints the large cube red.

How many of the original small cubes have:

1. three faces painted red

2. two faces painted red

3. one face painted red

4. no faces painted red

This is the cube:

Glenbrae Kids

Today we went to the Early Childhood center. There was alot of little kids and they were so cute. We went read some books to them and they loved it. We also played games with them witch they also loved to do. The last event we did was walk around with them and have fun talking to them.
This was the best time of my life.

Argentina

Sam's Birthday

Today I'd like to give a shout out to my best friend Sam because it is his birthday. Today will be his 13 birthday. Wish you a happy and safe birthday. Yours Truly Taki.
God Bless

Abstract art

Abstract Painting

What is abstract art?
Abstract art is art which is represented by shapes, colours, lines and many images painted on top of each other.

Where did the first abstract art come from?

The first abstract painting was made in 1910 by Wassily Kandinsky. He was born in Russia. His first art piece was called Blithily. Then he changed the name to Abstract painting.

Tamaki Tech

Today we had our first day of tech, First week we had cooking. Good way to start the morning. We had to make chocolate chip cookies. It was a fun time because we had to follow many Instruction to get the end result. The whole class made there one look like cookie time, guess what, Our one looked Like the Budget cookies.

I like the way our cookies tasted. It was really NICE!!.

Cheers

Kiwican

Today in  kiwi can we learnt more about respect. Our topic for today was For Our School. They Asked us what our values were in our school.We replied and said Respect, Integrity,Yourself and Property. We played a game called 4 corners. In the 4 corners there a names. Truth, Integrity, caring and honesty. The teacher had to call 1 of 4 names and the one he calls we have to run there. But there were taggers trying to get us. I learnt that we can show these thing anywhere we go.

Writing

The haka was performed with the most energy in the world. They preformed it with all there energy that you could hear it miles away. The amount of people that got scared. It was the most shocking thing I have seen.

They came out with shocking cloths.They were wearing really short pants. They had tattoos on there faces. They looked like the scariest thing I've seen in my life. I didn't want to see another haka in my life.

Last of all they finished. That definitely made me want to not watch another haka in my life. I was so terrified. They said there purpose was to scare there enemy so when they vs them all they see is fear.

Writing

The haka was performed with the most energy in the world. They preformed it with all there energy that you could hear it miles away. The amount of people that got scared. It was the most shocking thing I have seen.

They came out with shocking cloths.They were wearing really short pants. They had tattoos on there faces. They looked like the scariest thing I've seen in my life. I didn't want to see another haka in my life.

Last of all they finished. That definitely made me want to not watch another haka in my life. I was so terrified. They said there purpose was to scare there enemy so when they vs them all they see is fear.

Writing

I ran across stage to see a lot of people staring at me. I looked at my cloths and I was wearing clown suit. I don't know what happen to me. I felt to like running back of the stage.

When everyone was laughing at me I ran back of the stage. I went into the corner of the backstage and sat there for along time. I wondered who put me in this suit well I was asleep.

I went to walk around backstage looking for someone that looks suspicious. I came across a guy that was staring at me in a weird way. So I went up to him and said was it you that put me in this dress. He answered "No that guy over there starring at the stage put you in that dress".

I walked up to him and told him " Why did you put me in this dress", He replied " Our show needed something funny to come out so we dressed you up while you were sleeping". I told him that it was ok but next time tell me that you going to dress me up.

Bestfriend

As I was standing back stage waiting for my cue I saw my best friend.I haven't seen him in a long time. He was standing at the door on his phone. I told myself that when I get to the front of the cue and finished what Im doing Im going to go and talk to him.

A few minutes later...
Finally that's over with, I can go talk to Ben(Bestfriend). I went to go look for him, He was standing outside.I walked up to him and I greeted him, he greeted me back. We talked for a really time, We were talking about life and what jobs we wanted. He said he wanted to be a builder. I thought that it was a great job. He asked me what I wanted to be I said I wanted to work in the places like facebook. He said that that will be a good job.

Last of all he told me that he had to go, He wanted to go and see if he could get a job as a builder. I let him go and then he came back. A few Minutes later..... Ben walks up to me and and says I got the job. So that night we went out and celebrated.

Kiwican Reflection

This term we had 3 topics for Kiwi can Problem solving, Perseverance and Goal setting. This has helped me a lot this term.

Problem solving had me thinking about what happens in our school. In our school there is a lot of fighting that happens, so I though I might help the teacher as a leader my self to solve all the problems around the school. This has helped me by teaching me how to solve problems.

When we learnt perseverance, it has help me with a lot of school work. It made me learn to never give up on any of my school work. Also to never give up on rugby or any sport that you play.

Last of all we learnt about goal setting. When we learnt about it, it made me think about a goal that I want to reach in the future. The goal was to be the best rugby player.

Rocket

Today we had another science day. To day we made heaps of experiments. This one of the experiments we did:

Method:

1. Get a bottle

2. Put Pencils on it

3. Tape the pencils

4. Get some baking soda

5. Put the vinegar in the bottle

6. Go outside

7. Put the baking soda in the bottle

8. Close the bottle and shake it

9. Put it on the ground.

Observation:

Today we made our rocket and it didn’t fly that high. It didn’t work because we didn’t follow the instruction. Also we took a long time to put the baking soda in the bottle.

Magnet

Today we have been learning about magnets. Magnets is a very strong source of energy. When you connect it together it can stick to any thing metal. I learnt that you can stick a paper clip to your paper car and us the magnet to move it around. I also learnt that when the magnet meets north to south and south to north it is going to attract the other magnet. When they are the same, they repel each other.

Science

In room 9 we were learning about light.

Light is the fastest moving thing on earth. Without light we would not be able to see anything. Light is a strong source from the sun. The sun creates Energy and light.

Reflection is  a light that bounces of a mirror. The mirror reflects the light and bounces it off (to) in a different direction. To find out reflection you can stand in front of the mirror and you can see yourself in the mirror. That is the same as light, if you shine the light into a mirror the light comes back to you.

Refraction is when a light reflect of a prism and bends like a rainbow. Just like a rainbow. The rainbow forms when the sun shines its light when the rain comes down. The light of the sun shines into the raindrop. The raindrop acts just like a prism. When a white light shines through 7 different colours come out the other side. Just how the rainbow is formed. The sun shines through the raindrops and create a beautiful rainbow.

Colour is the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.Colour is a beautiful thing. Without colour you would not be able to see the the things we see now. Without colour everything will be black and white.

Save your money

Today we had a lesson about how and why you should save money. We need to save money so we can get the things that we want in the future. We made a list about what we want. I wanted a play station 3. Now I have to save a lot of money so I can get it. Some ways I can get money is helping out you parents, Selling some food, Trade stuff on trade me. We also learnt that We need to use our money Wisely. 

Today was a really fun day.

Writing

People a being killed by trains.Passengers should be aware of trains because trains a really quiet. We need to look at the poles that signal if a train is coming. If the signal doesn't work you still might have to look.

When you going on a train you need to make sure You got everything you need before you leave house or your car. If you do forget you got to make big decision. You also need to check if you have everything that you have with you.

When you get on the train you make sure your earphones is of because you might not see the signal or hear. You might just walk across and get bumped of by the train.

If you're are at the train station and you see the train coming and a person is about to cross, yell out to that person and say ‘’ Stop and wait for the train’’ or you could tell the security. If they don’t listen you could go and pull them back.  

Science week

On Monday we had 3 hours of science. In this science lesson we were talking about Isaac Newton. We learnt about 3 laws of his. Law 1 was Intertia, Intertia is the resistance of a person that prevents force. Law 2 was The amount of strength you kick something and law 3 was when 1 thing gets pushed the same comes.

In Science we also played an game that involves with Law 2. We had to make a car that was powered by a balloon. The bigger the balloon the longer the car goes. But for us our car did a wheelie so that made the girls win.

Monday was one of the best science lesson that I have had in my life.

Tech

Today we had tech. Today's tech was about graphic design. In tech I finally made my own design and printed it out. It was a lot of fun steering at my design print out.

Duffy Assembly

Today after morning tea there was a Duffy Assembly. This Duffy Assembly was fun because they put now day songs into the performance. The subject was about time travel. Duffy travelled back in time to save Ruby dad that went into WW2. He got saved by Duffy. Duffy was a kid that like to help people to read. He helps people learn how to read a book. He also tells us to stay in school

Toa Samoa

Here is our haka that our class is going to do. We will be preforming on Thursday. Le Manu Samoa e ua malo ona fai o le faiva Le Manu Samoa e ua malo ona fai o le faiva	The Manu Samoa, may you succeed in your mission The Manu Samoa, may you succeed in your mission
"Le Manu Samoa lenei ua ou sau"	The Manu Samoa here we have come
Leai se isi Manu oi le atu laulau	There is no other Manu (team) anywhere
Ua ou sau nei ma le mea atoa	Here I come completely prepared
O lou malosi ua atoatoa	My strength is at its peak
Ia e faatafa ma e soso ese	Make way and move aside
Leaga o lenei manu e uiga ese	Because this Manu is unique
Le Manu Samoa	The Manu Samoa
Le Manu Samoa	The Manu Samoa
Le Manu Samoa e o mai I Samoa	The Manu Samoa reigns from Samoa
Le Manu!	The Manu!

Warning

This is my creating work for reading. I had to make a warning for people that is going to Rio:

Kiwican

Today we had another Kiwi can lesson. This lesson we had the same teacher as last week and His name was Mr Afutoto. He taught us what resilience means. Resilience means to try your best and Never give up. he also taught us about goal setting. He said that there is long term goals and sort term goals. Short term goals is the little goal that you will complete to become better at your long term goal. Long term goal is your goal when you a finished school. He also taught us that we need to plan out our goals and make shore you stick with that one goal for you whole life.  

Volleyball

Today we had another session with Tony for volleyball. Today's lesson was about doing the right passing drill. We worked on our servings. We had to catch the ball every your partner serves the ball to you. The other challenge is when your partner serves the ball you have to try and make it get throw your legs. It was so much fun.

The last thing we did was a game. We got split into 6 team. The team I was in was group 3. This group was a little weird because their were 3 girls and 1 boy. I was the only boy. But I was a very Powerful boy. When the ball came to me I hit the ball very high. This was a cool experiments because There were girls all around me.

kiwican

Today we had Kiwi can. Kiwi can was different because Miss Tuia and Mr Nomia were not here because of personal reasons. So we had another teacher and his name was Afutoto. He was a cool teacher. He taught us all about goal setting. He told us to practice our goals. Our topic this term is resilience and our topic was goal setting for the next 3 weeks. It was a great day.

Volleyball

Today we had a session with a lady named Antonia. She was teaching us how to play volleyball. The first skill she taught us was how to hit the ball. She said you have to put your left over your right hand. The next skill she taught us was the set. You have to make a circle and hit the ball like that. It was fun because me and my friend Moses went for a long time. Last skill Toni taught us was how to spike. Now spiking was kinda cool because we got to smash the ball. Toni said that we had to take 1 small step and then 1 big step. Ten you have to jump up and spike the ball.

Last of all we played a volleyball game. Tony split the class in to 4 groups. The group that I was in was group 3. Our group was good because our team knew what we were doing. The first team we versed was team 4. I don't know who won in that game. The next team we versed was team 2. I had to join team 2 because one of their players didn't want to play. When I joined their team their team started to play properly. Toni said that we need to work on our listening skills. We also needed to work on getting to the teacher on time.

Current Event Quiz

Today there has been a very sad incident that had happen. A 70 year old lady has died while she was crossing the road. When she was crossing the road a car had hit her.

Science

Today we did an science experiment with our teacher Miss Stone. Miss Stone gave us a little jar and a balloon and we had to cut the balloon so it can cover the jar. After that we put sugar on top and we had to hum and see if the sugar will move.

But it was still not confirm that the air or sound moved the sugar.

This is Mafoa humming:

Bill Mclaren East

Today had probably been one of the most amazing day for me because we came first out of all of Auckland.It was a really good game because the other team were trying there best to stay in the game.

I liked this day because I got picked to go to the Auckland reps trials. This is the best opportunity I will be getting in a long time. This has been an really fun day.

Term 2

Term 2 had been and awesome and wonderful term for me and my class. We have been learning alot in all our subjects.

During term 2 we had a group called kiwi can come to your school every Thursday to teach us about what being a leader of the school is. They have also been teaching is to respect teachers and people that you talk to or know. The thing I liked that they teached  us was fair play. Fair play means you don't get angry if you lose a game and when you win a game you don't put people down. The thing I liked about Kiwi Can is that they teach you about your responsibility of being the leaders of the school.

This term had been a great time because we got to learn in maths, reading and writing. These are the subjects we do in out schools. To me I have been learning a lot in reading, writing and maths. Sometimes I would be so excited to take reading because reading my best subject.

Last of all I liked to play sports every morning. The sports always got me because they get you really pumped to run and got me really sweaty. I had sweat really hard.  This term was a lot of fun now term 3. I AM READY!!

Volcano Experiment

Today we did a volcano experiment.

In this experiment we used baking soda, Vinegar and dish washing liquid. It was cool because the volcano exploded but it came out as slow as a snail. We tried putting more  baking soda but it didn't make a different. Then we tried less Vinegar.

The reason why baking soda and vinegar react is because carbon dioxide molecule. The bubbles forth gas.

SHINE A LIGHT

Today after morning tea we had to go and watch a show that was called Shine A Light. This show was really interesting because they had told a lot of books that they were going to act out. There was one part that was fun. The fun part was when the mirror came to life. The mirror was the bad guy in the hole thing. He as saying bad things to people.

Glenbrae weather

Yesterday we had a maths leasson. In our maths lesson we learnt about temperature. We had to solve some clues to show what the temperature of each city in New Zealand.

Here is Video our class mates did:

Poem Recital

Today we had to present your poem we made our self in front of the class. I was nervous because I have never done a poem about gangs. My poem was about gangs. The reason why I wrote about gangs is because gangs a bad. Gangs always kill people and take kids away from there family.

I am going to show you what I wrote:

Gangs make everything bad

No education, devastation, violence

Taking families and making them sad

sorry for your loss

Running after a man and his name was Chad

I look at a gang

Guns, colors, tattooed faces

All I hear is bang bang

Blood everywhere, fear, loss

I wish I had my iPad

Stop me thinking about all of this madness

Looking at all these things just bring sadness.

I walked down the road

Gang on the side

I had a big load on my mind

Thinking of why this happen

I saw an old lady, she was really kind.

The old lady was nevious

Then I saw a gang, we tried to keep our feet on the surface.

Netball

Today we had another session  netball. This session was fun because we got to learn more about netball. First we had a game called shadow follow. In this game you had to follow your partner and while there walking we ta there shoulder and then they turn around. When they turn around you have to get back 0.9 meters away from the other guy. That was alot of fun.

After tat we had a game that was called Intercept activity. In this game you had intercept the ball while the 2 people were throwing the ball.That game was a lot of fun to play because you can hit the ball from the other players hand when they throw the ball.

The next activity was four corner attack. This game was fun because the caller had to say a number between one and four. Then the person in the middle had to run to that number and get the ball then pass back. Then it got challenging because a defender came in and started to block the person in the middle.That was fun

Last of all we had a real game that was called Shooting game. Anne gave us numbers from 1 to 13 (I was 13). Anne called my number our first. Then I would have to run to the middle and get the ball, pass it the first guy in the team. Then I run into the circle and wait till they pass the ball to the end of the line then they pass the ball to me. Then I will shoot the ball in the hoop. This game was a lot of fum.

NETBALL

Today we had a session of netball for kiwi sport with a lady called Annie. She was teaching us how to jump and catch the ball and pivet. It was cool because we had a game after that and it was called Rugby netball. The rules to this game was the same as netball but you start of in a line out and when you get a goal you don't shot the ball you throw the ball down into a box. It goal was to get ten points. It was really fun.

PLANT

Our plant has still survived thought out 7 weeks

maths

Make a copy of this Document and Share it with your group and Miss Stone

Sharing Lollies

           We are learning to identify equivalent fractions

Maara and her three friends are going to share a licorice lace. If the lace is 12cm long, what length of the lace will each friend get? What fraction will they get? 1/4

2 other friends approach Maara and would like some of the lace too. How can they split the lace (which has already been cut into quarters) between 6 people equally.

2/12

What would happen if yet another two friends wanted a share?3/24

How many cm of the lace would they recieve?

3/12

Maths

Equivalent Fractions!

We are learning to add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators.

Levi has ¾ of a bag of lollies. If he is given another 3/12 of a bag, what fraction of a bag will he have?  1whole

If there were 32 lollies in the whole bag, how many lollies does Levi have?

32 lollies

Bob has a 3 3/4 metre of length of wood. He cuts off 2 1/3 metres.

What length of wood is left?

3 9/12

2 4/12

1,5/12

VIDEO

Today we video a script  about our recount from our trip to Arataki. It was really cool because we learnt a lot of facts about the Arataki forest.

Best Holiday

This holiday was a lot of fun because I went to a family meeting. At the family meeting all my family was there. I got to meet up with all my aunts, uncles and cousins.The meeting was about our house in the island.

The meeting was cool because all the kids went outside to play rugby.The kids were` playing since 12.00 in the morning till 4.00 in the afternoon. While all the kids were playing rugby, all the adults were inside talking.

In the middle of our rugby game the adults called us inside to come and eat. All the kids rushed inside to eat because all the kids were really hungry.The food that was there were really nice,also there was a lot of ice cream. After all that eating all the kids went back outside to play some more games. The food was really nice. It made me feel really full.

When all the boys came out they said if we want to go to the beach and we said yes. So all the boys jumped in the car, then drove off to the beach. The beach we went to was Mission Bay. The beach was packed with people so we went to the wharf. All the boys started to jump off. It was the best time ever.

There was 1 little problem. And that was someone got cut in the leg and was crying. So we took him to the car and put a plaster on his foot. Then he stayed out of the water for the rest of the time. All the boys were mocking by jumping in the water in front of his face. My cousin was feeling really sad. To me I felt really sorry for him.

Last of all everyone went back to their houses and had a rest. It was a really long day for all of us adults and kids.