TPS on WHAR NOW?

What Now - Manaiakalani Film Festival from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Cheek out our episode WHAT NOW? Reporting on the Manaiakalni Film Festival that TPS was a part of.We are so excited to share our flash mob movie with our community.Mavis and Tim even got an interview! Cheek it out!

Melons Heart Presentation

From my data I can see that my fitness laps are getting better every week.

My fitness goal is to try to run 17 laps.

My Beautiful Place

Far beyond the edge of the world is my beautiful place...

Aitutaki. I could see beautiful bright clear water with beautiful clear scaly fish swimming around. I could see light brown coconuts falling from tall coconut trees. When I looked ahead of me I could see a beautiful sunset looking right at me.

I could hear waves smashing in together as it got to shore. I could hear booming coconuts falling from the tall coconut tree as the wind went blowing past. As I walked by I could hear doors opening and shutting.

As I felt the breezy beautiful clear water, it was warm. The touch of a nice smooth coconut tree gave me the shivvers. A touch of a beautiful brown house that feels like flax. As I felt the coconut it had rough roundness.

As I walked by a smoothie store I could taste the juicy coconut. I could taste the wind that was going by. When I was walking by I could taste the sad that was washed by. I could taste the coconut dessert people were making.

I could smell fresh coconut while I walked by. I could smell the nice fresh clear fresh water and the sand that got washed back to shore by the big waves. I could smell the fish in the fresh clear water.

This beautiful place will exist for ever in my mind and heart. I hope you get to visit my beautiful place one day.

Ireland Information Report

The Ireland report

Are you aware that vikings found the capital of Ireland? The name of this capital city is Dublin.

Irish people eat healthy food like cabbage and potatoes and heaps of canned food like corned beef and spaghetti with pasta.

Glen Hansard was Born 21st April 1970. He is famous because he is a musician, songwriter and an actor.
Jimmy MacCarthy was born 1953 he is famous because he is a singer and a songwriter.

Some fun activities in Ireland are: Girls Night Out, that's the fun bit for girls and dressing up as a leprechaun in Ireland.

Have you ever discovered the longest name in Ireland? It is... Muckanaghederdauhaulia.

Describing Piri Weepu

Bella David-Simon
It was windy as I looked out from the stadium to see Piri Weepu...

Doing the haka like a furious angry lion. He has got Maori tattoos on his arms.He has a beard and he looks like a furious man when doing the haka.He looks good in his All Black jersey number 9.

Piri Weepu has good hand move ments when he is doing the Haka his hand moves rapidly hard.He moves as fast as a cheater and quickly as a mice.Mr piri has hard defends.

Did you know that Piri Weepu shaved his beard and put it on trade me to get money and give it to charity for this little girl who had a brain tube.He is a good athlete because he leads the Haka for the all blacks.

When he is in action he is playing for his country (New Zealand) and he’s making us proud for who he is.

One Scary NIght

"Dad can you hear that scraping noise ?"
"Shh, I'm trying to watch T.V. "
"But there are too many scary noises, I cant go to bed. Someones tapping on the window."
"I can't hear anything now go to bed."
"Can you hear it scraping now?"
"Ohh it's just the branches wiping across your window."

Room 8 learn about QR codes!

QR code means 'Quick Response' it will take you to a blog or website.  We have them because it is a quicker way to get to your website.  You can see them anywhere around your city like on walls or behind shops.  

Seasons in Maori

I am learning the Maori names for seasons. Check out my Google Presentation I created.

What Makes A Good Speech?

All Black Presentation

Author Study Role Play - Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett

This week we studied Emily Gravett. She is an author from Brighton. Did you know she used to live on a bus? Emily Gravett writes and illustrates her own stories. Here is a movie of my reading group presenting a role play of Orange Pear Apple Bear. I hope you like it!

feelings slideshow

Buddy Writing

Today we did some buddy writing with room7. We helped them to re-craft their writing samples. This is me and my buddy Lavinia. I hope to do this again, It was Fun!

Tsunami Disaster

I could see people crying because there is a tsunami breaking buildings. I could see people screaming,hugging and helping each other. People on top of buildings. Houses floating away with this force of nature.

I could hear people screaming for help. Water smashing over buildings, people crying for their loved ones and power lines electrifying the water. I could hear children crying for their mums or dads because they might be at work or even out shopping for food of clothes. Electric lines were snapping like a crocodile. Houses getting crushed into rubble by the tsunami and people speaking to each other saying “Are you OK?” “Help me! I'm stuck on a building!”

I could smell and feel salty water. I could see people feeling frightened and the fear of the screams from people. I could smell smoke and feel the force of the wind and damp water. People are terrified and lost, some hearts were broken and frozen. People were scared and worried, but there are hopes to rebuild again.

Layers of the earth

WALT:make a model of the layers of the earth out of play-dough.

So...that when we learn about natural disasters we can use our knowledge of the layers to understand them better.

To...help us in topic and science and learn about the earth around us.

THE CRUST:has a thickness of 15-75km.The crust also holds our countries and seas together.

MANTLE:there are two layers within the mantle.There is a upper and lower mantle.The upper mantle 400km thick and the lower and the lower mantle is 2300km thick.

OUTER CORE:The outer core is 2300km thick.The outer core has liquid.There is nickle,minerals and sulphur.

INNER CORE:The inner core is 1200km thick.The inner core is 6650 degrees Celsius (wow that is hot!!).  It is also solid.

City decription

As I walked out of the plane and through the city New York I saw saw,heard,and smelt.....

As I walked through a big city,I saw towering buildings. There were traffic jams and I saw crowed of people that seemed to be doing nothing but walking around the street.

When I walked down the street, I heard little babies crying and horns from cars beeping because there were too many people on the road. As I walked through Mac Donald’s, I could hear the booming sound of Jessie J (Price Tag) and when I walked out from MacDonald’s, I heard people yelling out from their cars.

I could smell MacDonald’s butter chicken and Burger King. It smelt delicious.

I hope I go back in time again, to that amazing city.

My Tps uniform

I used the prediction key to think about what the TPS uniform will look like in 50 years

why the sun moves slowly

In the beginning when the earth was set down, the sky was lifted up,some things were not quite finished but there lived a hot blazing sun.

Every day the sun zoomed through the sky and that meant that the days were too short and plants weren't growing well.Te Marama, the moon was so tired from appearing early at night and he was angry because he need some rest.

Ethiopia was sick and tired of the sun moving so fast across the sky. So she asked her friend Te Marama the moon for her help to slow down the sun. She said “Yes I’ll help you.”
So that night, while the sun (Tero) was fast asleep, Ethiopia ran to sea where Tangaroa was. She asked him “Will you help me and Te Marama the moon please?”
“Yes I’ll help you.” Replied Tangaroa in a deep voice.

So when the sun come out from his hole. Te Marama was behind this big white cloud were Tero couldn't see him. Te Marama jumped out from were she was hiding and Ethiopia was hiding and Te Marama had a rope. They both tied a rope around the sun (Tero) and Ethiopia said “If you don't slow down when you travel through the sky, I will cover your hole and you will not come out again!”

They had a deal. So from then on, Tero the sun travelled through the sky slowly, plants grew well, days were long and kids had time to play outside.

That is why the sun moves slowly.

A-Z alphabet key

Do an A-Z key listing for topic words to do with whanaungatanga.

Aroha
Building relationship
Citizenship
Determination
Encoragement
Friendship
Gratitude
Honesty
Interghty
Joy
Kindness
Leadership
Marae
Neat
Obey
Perserverance
Quality
Respect
Self-displine
Thrustworthiness
Usage
Voluntary
Whanaungatanga
Xtra love
Year of love
Zap you are safe now

My Maori village discription

When I opened my eyes the light shined from me like I was a star. In the past this is what I saw,heard and smelt...

As I walked through a small village I saw dirty floors that were damp. I saw a Tohunga visiting families’ houses. Fresh plants grew all around. I could see a Marae with twirling poi inside. I could see the men making a hangi for their family which was what they usually do for their family.

As I walked past a little house made out of wood, I heard tamariki playing hand games, string games, knuckle bones and laughter. I could hear children praying, haka chants,trees swaying, piupiu swing and Maori language (no English spoken). I could not understand their Maori language every were I went.

I smelt warm fiery smoke that came from the hangi I could smell fresh air coming towards me and blew my hair away. As I walked towards the Maori people I could smell the Hangi food they ate. It smelt delicious.

Harakeke Information Report

Harakeke is a type of rongoa that was used by the early Maori people. Some still use it today.

In the middle of the harakeke lives the baby, then as the blades grow, they grow into teenagers, parents and grandparents are on the outside of the harakeke just like your own family tree. From my point of view the adults protect the younger ones.

Harakeke is used to heal many, many sicknesses. Ashes are for boils, splints for broken parts for your body and the fibres can sew wounds. The gum at the base of the plant is used for your burns. The juice of the harakeke is used to clean for wounds as a disinfectant. In case you get a tooth-ache, you might need a little bit of juice. Just choose a blade and squeeze it into the part that you need healed.

The roots of the harakeke are roasted on hot rocks and the leaves are boiled. Many people don’t know that the fibre of the harakeke can be used to sew wounds.

In many countries today, for different kinds of people from the north of the world to the south, there are different traditions for healing. But for Maori, only a touhnga (priest,doctor) can heal many people’s sores.

Inquiry Presentation - Governance Group

Our group was researching Maori governance as part of our topic Whanaungatanga. Did you know it were the tohunga that upheld Maori laws before the missionaries arrived? Neither did we! Watch to find out more!

My First Movie!

Miss Hansell set a challenge of making our very first movie using iMovie! We had to take the pictures, add transitions, add music and edit it all ourselves! Here is the end product, I hope you like it.

My Goals for term 2

Term Two Learning Goals
My learning goal for Reading this term is:
To read one chapter of my book each night.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Make sure I have taken a book out of the book shelf and read it each night.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
They could read with me,they could challenge me with long words.They could take me to the library on time.They could remind me when to take it back.

My learning goal for Writing this term is:
To make sure I write a story, proof read it when I am finished and fixing my spelling mistakes independently.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Proof read my writing every day when I have finished writing a story. I could work with a friend to do this.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Helping me proof read any writing I do at home.

My learning goal for Maths this term is:
To learn my division facts and get better at recalling my division facts.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Learn my division facts at home.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Geting me division facts chart.

My personal goal this term is:
To type faster on my net-book.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Put my fingers on the home keys.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Reminding me to put my fingers on the home keys.

This is Me

I am Bella and I like my netbook because every day we are learning new skills.