Emergency 111/Natural disasters

In room 1 for Reading, we have been learning
about Natural Disasters

Victim Support

In room 1 we were learning about groups in New Zealand. Me and my partner
has chosen Victim support.

Info about my mother

I look up to my Mum, she was always there for me. Whenever

I’m hungry she always feeds me.

When I’m sad she will be there to comfort me.

Her name is Joyce Sinifa Prescott.

In September 12th 1978, Joyce was born in Vaiola Tonga.
She has seven siblings. Their names are Villiami, Hengi Hengi,
Leatuu I Pangi, Taliauli, Luceane, Samiu Deakin, and Nokileti.
She loves them with all her heart. My grandmother’s name was
Alaisiunga Namomo Prescott. I have never heard or seen my
grandfather in my life. After my mother graduated from St
Andrews College in Tonga she came to New Zealand. In
June 1998, she gave birth to my oldest sister. In the early
2000’s my second sister was born. She left to go to America
when she was three years old. In 2008 my mother gave birth
to me. During the time when my siblings and I were growing
up my mother has been working with a friend of hers. Then in
2015 she was a cleaner in the North Shore. In early 2016 she
owned a restaurant called Pacific Ocean Takeaway, at the
Northcote Shopping Centre. My mother has been there for
nearly 3 years.

I admire my mother for working really hard during her life.
She would never quit her job because she loves being a chef.
She is my unsung hero. I hope one day I aspire to be just like
my mother.

Toolkits

Tuesday 28th May 2019

Christ The King School, announced that there will be a TOOL KIT DAY! For all the year 6,7 and 8’s. There has been a word that there will also be Waikowhai School, Wesley Primary and Intermediate, New Windsor, Mt Roskill, Owairaka, Hay Park and last of all May Road. We had it in Hay Park school. For my 3 sessions, I had Animation on Google Slides in room 9, Chrome Musiclab in room 6, then Statistical investigations in room 9.

Why we need toolkits?

Well, we need it to see if students can work together as a team and to let them learn different things on digital devices with different people.

I was scared at first but then I felt confident to meet some new people from different schools.

MY MARVELLOUS MUM!

Joyce Seminer Jennifer Pelesikoti

Daughter of Alisiunga Namomo Pelesikoti

Mother of Joshonda, Kina, and Toakase

Partner of William Unga

Born on September 12, 1978

Who likes baking, cooking

Who enjoys Peace and quiet, sleeping, long

weekends

Who works as a restaurant owner

Who is tough, caring, short

Who dreams to go and have a Family time

in Tonga

MY MARVELLOUS MUM!

Trip to Motat

MOTAT RECOUNT: Museum of Transport and Technology.
By Toakase

I couldn’t believe that the whole school got to go on a trip for the whole
day. It was my second time going to MOTAT. I felt like my emotions would
come and cry. We had parents helping and our helpers were
Miss. Paton (our Teacher), Joy O ( Patrick’s Mum), and Tiffany (Athena’s
mum).  We met Kent, he was our educator for the day.

The first thing I went to at MOTAT was the village. The village reminded
me of how New Zealand used to look like in the 1800s. I went into a scary
old cottage and there were mostly dummies. Some dummies had one eye.
My group said that some dummies were moving, even the one sitting in
the bathroom reading his book. There were nice attic seats and tables
from early last century. We saw a school. In my group, we were standing
beside the desk’s and sang the New Zealand anthem then we sang it in
Maori. There was a really bad mistake. The mistake we made was singing
the national anthem in Maori. There was a sign that said: “No speaking in
Maori”. Miss Paton did some maths for us and it was fun in there. I saw a
small chapel. We went inside and I was like “WOW it was so tiny from the
inside”. The chair could only 10-16 people. I was thinking would people be
allowed to marry today in the chapel at MOTAT.  

In the Inventor’s room, I felt cold like ice. The first thing I saw was the
rocket launcher, it was much taller than me. There was a trampoline
game that I had a turn on. The object of the game was to jump on the
trampoline to kill the aliens. After jumping on the trampoline we
went into a room that had iPads. The iPads had an application in
which you could create your own robots.

After that, we went to the Technology room. There were caged displays
of old computers, old telephones, old cameras, and old televisions. My
favorite machine was the selfie machine (that projected yourself onto
this screen. There was another room with old games called Donkey Kong,
Pac-Man, and Turbo the game. There were other games but I didn’t know
them.

The scavenger hunt was the next activity we did. We went into the fire
station. We had to find-hoses, helmets, telephones, and ladders. It was
so much fun looking for things. After this, my group and I wandered
around until we saw a  printer room. There were printers that were
even as big as the room. Everyone met up at the meeting area ready to
eat lunch. I had pancakes with honey. They tasted yummy. Suddenly my
friends and I were screaming because there was a bug crawling on me
and Reyna.

After lunch, my group and I went to the tram station with Ms. Wu and
Tiffany. The tram came. We saw Rob our driver. It was funny because one
of his favorite rules was allowing the ladies to go in first. Once we went
passed the Auckland Zoo we saw Pukekos. There were even baby ones.
They were so cute and tiny.

I was excited to see what was happening inside the Above and Beyond
exhibition. There was a huge TV, where there were birds. We had to
follow and copy the bird that was in front of us. It was fun because
we had to pretend we were flying. Another game we played was
that we had to stand on a stool and look at the TV and make sure no
rubbish hit us.

The last place we went to was the experiment room. We learned about
planes and how they fly. The four terms we learned about was Thrust,
Weight, Drag and Lift.

There were some experiments we took part in. My favorite
experiment was when we had to try to hit the target.

The experiments were:

Ping pong ball with a hairdryer. You needed a cup, and
a hairdryer and a ping pong ball. We turned on the hair
dryer and put the ping pong ball on the hairdryer. We
had to try and put the ping pong ball into the cup.

We were given two items. We held each one in our
hands and dropped the items at the same time. We
tested to see which item fell the fastest and which
item fell the slowest.  

We made flying objects that were light so they could
be put into the wind machine.

We also tested out cardboard on a string in
front of this big fan.  We watched it propel its
way to the top.

I enjoyed my time at MOTAT. I hope my group had a great time. I was
happy to see our parent helpers faces light up like heaven. Most people’s
faces were so happy when we were playing on the trampoline. My favorite
thing of the day was the session about flight. I would be happy to visit
again. When I visit again I hope there are new things to see and do.  

Symmetry art

This is my Symmetry art.

What would I need to do better? I would change and add more bright colors.

What did you find easy when you created your

Symmetry art? The coloring was really easy for

me to do.

What did you find challenging when you created your

Symmetry art? What I found hard was the rotating bit when we would have to rotate around.