Push Play

The Push Play! group will show why exercising is important.

Push Play! from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Stay healthy and get fit so watch this movie about push play.

Clean And Green

The 'Clean and Green' group in Room 7 put together a movie about keeping our environment tidy.

Clean and Green from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Never ever pollute the world stay clean and green.

Honesty Is The Best Policy

Honesty is the Best Policy from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Remember kids honesty is the best policy.

Be A Buddy, Not A Bully

Be A Buddy Not A Bully from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Watch this movie about being a buddy and not a bully.

Tagging

Tagging is Bad from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

This is our movie about tagging is bad hope you enjoy.

Holiday Brochure

Energy Brochure

This is my brochure about 'Energy'. I used Google Drawing for the first time to create my brochure and I had fun making my brochure. During the process of making my brochure I learnt how to customize the background, how to change the text and we also learnt how to make a brochure on the drawing and it was interesting.

Statistical Investigation

This is a Google Presentation of my statistical investigation I did with my buddy Shantai
We did a statistical investigation about Room 7’s favourite sport.
We followed a statistical process to help us complete our investigation successfully.

My Wordle About Netbooks (laptops)

This is my wordle about netbooks which we use as a learning tool at our school.

Cypress And Ricky's ENERGY presentation

I worked with Ricky from Room 3. I helped him create a google presentation  about what they have learnt this term's topic - ENERGY. I enjoyed working with my partner because I got to teach him how to use a netbook. (laptop) We developed skills like reading skimming and scanning.

Wordle About Statistics

This is my Wordle about statistics and it was a new thing I learned in class.

Electricity Explanation

What is electricity

Electricity is power that can help us survive. if we didn’t have electricity there would be no buildings, no cars, no TV, no radio, no houses and no airplanes. Also children use electricity to learn.

How do we use electricity?

Electricity is used to turn on TV’s, laptops, ovens and other stuff that runs on electricity. People use it to charge things and research important information. Also builders use it to build houses, dig up dirt, make cars and to make buildings so thats why its important to have electricity because if we didn’t, life would be harder.

Have you ever wondered how electricity travels?

As strange as it may seem electricity travels really fast. First of all electricity is made from power stations then electricity is brought to the generator and so on. Do you know how electricity gets to the power plugs? Well if you cut the cord you should see little wires made of metal, inside those wires are electricity, that is how electricity travels to the plug.

What Are The Different Sources Of Electricity?

There are many types of electricity like solar energy, hydro power, nuclear energy, wind energy and more. If there were none of these sources we wouldn't be able to use electricity.

Athletics Day

Press play to watch a movie about our Athletics Day.


T.P.S NEWS- Athletics Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Rewinding Back To June 2012

In Term 2 our school's inquiry topic was about 'Magic Movies'. Here is a trailer of our movies we made throughout Term 2. 


Room 7 Movie Tralier from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2012 School Is Cool

In Term 2 we were learning a lot about movie magic, and how movies can influence our world. We created many movies. We started by brainstorming key messages we could include in our movies. 

We also made a movie that explains how to plant kumara. It was really fun to do. We created this movie to inspire people to learn how to grow their own kumara.


Our movie for The Manaiakalani Film Festival is called 'School Is Cool'. We made it to share all of the cool learning and fun that we have at school.

Our movie was also shown at the Tamaki Primary Academy Awards. We created a PMI about Movie Magic and shared what we liked, what was challenging and interesting.


School is Cool from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Room 7's Favourite Fruit

This column graph show's Room 7's favourite fruit 4 students like apples, 2 bananas, 2 peach. 2 students like oranges, 10 students like strawberries. 6 students like grapes. This  column chart also shows that the same amount of students like banana,peach and orange.The majority students like strawberries where no one likes pears.

Guy Fawkes

As the three egg men raced down the road, I saw them holding exotic ego fireworks
Bad Boyz, Moon Striker, Boombox, Show time, Sparkler Box and Cascades combined with roman candles.
I wondered if by the time I got to my house they’d be fireworks. I ran to my house and it was then twelve seconds to six.
10,9,8,7,6,
I zoomed across the hallway to the front yard. 3,2,1. . .

“Dring-Dring- Dring” I wondered what had happened.
“Oh.” It was the alarm for Guy Fawkes Day.
As the moon zoomed across the big wide world, I could see fireworks dancing with the stars There were Bad Boyz everywhere. The Sparkling Sparklers sparkled so high, I could even chuck it into a bucket of water and would still be sparkling.

My neighbor asked me if I could get toilet paper for him.
I arrived at the market and asked a young tall man for toilet.
“Can you get me some toilet paper please?”
“what color would you want it?” he asked (shopkeeper) “I’ll colour it myself” I replied.
I zooed out side and felt the cascades doing the “cha-cha-cha.” I still couldn’t wait because I was so excited to light the fireworks. When The fireworks were lit I heard cascades crackling, dogs barking and babies crying. I smelt ash from nits of fireworks that were all reading lit. I also smelt gunpowder and BBQ’s being used. And fruit pies for a light snack. I got ready to go to sleep and got all tucked up in bed.

Room 7 Planting Kumara

In week 3 Room 7 planted kumara in our school kai garden. We would like to say a special thank you to Koro for helping us.

Press play to watch how we planted kumara. This clip was put together by Willy and Danisha.


Room 7 Planting Kumara from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Wordle About ENERGY

This is my wordle about energy.

What I Know About Energy

This is my first V log about energy.

Sign Language

This is how you spell my name in sing language.

My Holiday Description

My Holiday

When I got to the beach at Point England, I was so excited when I got to the beach me and my two sisters decided to make a sand castle. We started collecting water from the sea with a bucket, then started building when we finished it looked really cool then my nan took us home.

When we got home I was allowed to to go on the computer. As soon as I got on to the computer I played an online game called Epic Duel. After I signed in, I saw my friend Etu online. I asked him if he wanted to have a challenge and replied yes. After the challenge have finish, I won the match, I decided to go sleep and waited till the next day because I was so exhausted.

Beef Farming

School Garden Day

Whanau Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

This video is about our school garden day.
We had to explain to our parents what our kai garden is about.
Some seniors up stares had to go to different stations to explain what those stations was about.

Reverse Key

Name 12 things a spade cannot be used for.

1. Cannot be used for shampoo.
2. Cannot be used as toilet paper.
3. Cannot be used as hair spray.
4. Cannot be used as microphone.
5. Cannot be used for shower.
6. Cannot be used as a toy.
7. Cannot be used as a towel.
8. Cannot be used as a DVD.
9. Cannot be used as a steering wheel.
10. Cannot be used as a bin.
11. Cannot be used as can opener.
12. Cannot be used as a sponge.

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?
Energy is power to help our body move and other animals as well.

Where do humans get energy from?
Humans get their energy from food, drinks and water.

Plants

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll

c. glucose                                                                   d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)_Light Energy_______________________
b)_Water_______________________
c)_Oxygen_______________________
d)_Carbon dioxide_______________________

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green?
Chlorophyll

4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.

5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. It makes water in its leaves.
b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.

6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost?
Compost is a soil that is used to help plants grow and instead of buying compost you can make it using your own compost bin.

What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?

• juice
• chips
• oranges
• acid food
• fizzy

List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• Grass
• Food scraps
• Water
• Dirt
• Green and brown stuff

Sustainability

This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.

Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):____Beef Farming_________________

MY TOPIC REFLECTION

• What have you learnt about this topic?
• What did you like about this topic?
• What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at home, at school, in my community?

This term our topic was about energy I have learned how to plant food and I also learned how to use old fashion Maori tools. I liked working with my friends and learning different things. I think the main thing about this topic was what is the future of or school is going to look like. My roles, rights and responsibilities is recycling at home by putting recycled materials into the recycling bin so we can use it to make other stuff for the community like toys, bottles, machines and paper. At school I can be sustainable by achieving my gaols and doing my homework every week.

Plants In Te Reo Maori

Sustainability

This is my popplet about sustainability.

Compost

This is my wordle about compost.

Fractions

This is my wordle about fractions.

Cypress And Sau Simple Fractions

This is my me and Sau's presentation about fractions.

Trouble Makers

Troublemakers

In a tropical island called Tonga there lived two brothers named Siale and Sione. They lived on a wonderful beach called Tahi. The brothers were orphans because their mum and dad died from a dangerous tsunami. The two brothers were poor they had nothing to eat and they couldn't afford to buy food. They couldn't buy shoes so they only had to wear shorts. Siale liked to play rugby and as for Sione his favourite sport was soccer.

One roasting, sunny day Saile and Sione were sweaty and they wanted to eat some food so they walked down to the super market. One of the fruit was staring at Sione as he was sweating. Sione decided to kidnap the fruit and run home “Hurry up Siale lets go home!” Sione screamed. Suddenly The owner of the shop appeared out of nowhere and called the security. The two brothers ran as fast as they could to get away from the security but ‘nec minnit’ they bumped into a fat man and fell on the ground. The man they bumped into got angus and started to chase them. Sione found a place to hide so he sprinted as fast as he could while Siale followed. Sione waited for the people to go away and then he would go. “Three, two, one, GO!” shouted Sione. They ran as fast as they could to get away from the security including the fat man. All of a sudden a lady jumped out of a bush but this wasn't just no lady this was the owner of the market she caught them and told them off. Everyone was angry at each other “THOSE KIDS BUMPED INTO ME!” yelled the man. “THOSE TWO ARE THE KIDS WHO STOLE MY FRUIT!” screamed the market owner.

The boys apologized for bumping into the man and for stealing the fruit. The lady that owns the market gave the two boys a drink and some oranges to take home. The man that got bumped by the two boys forgave them and told them he was sorry for chasing them. When they got home they were exhausted but on the bright side they got free food.

The End!

6 Hats Current Events

This is my presentation about rowers Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan 

Photosynthesis

This is my poplet about photosynthesis click on to take a look.

Four Seasons In Maori

This is my presentation about the Four seasons in Maori.

Photosynthesis

This is my wordle about photosynthesis.

Room 7's Movie Magic Trailer

Room 7's PMIS - MOVIE MAGIC

PMIS -MOVIE MAGIC

Positives

What did you like about this term’s unit?

• Using a camera.  
• Having the opportunity to edit a movie. Some of us are now confident to edit a movie and are now going to be helping our teacher edit T.P.S News.
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• Working as a group to plan our movies.  
• This unit helped us build stronger relationships with each other especially when we were working as a group to produce and edit our movies.  
• Speeches! - doing and preparing a speech helped developed our presenting skills. 
• We have become confident in sharing our ideas without being shy. 
• Learning about movie making equipment like the tripod, imove programme, flip cam etc.  
• Enjoyed learning about the movie making process - brainstorming, planning, script writing, storyboarding, filming, editing, presenting.  
• Learning about the different effective camera shots.  
• MAKING A MOVIE! 
• Everyone in our class was in a movie.
• Finishing the movie off with a whole school Academy awards. This made us feel very proud of our hardwork! We felt like REAL professional film makers.
• Our whanau and friends being proud of us - they really appreciated our movies.
• We have definitely expanded our knowledge about movie making and have developed good movie making skills that we want to share with others. We look forward to continuing our Movie Magic journey and learning more fun ways to extend our movie making skills.

Minus

What challenges did you have with this unit? 

• Waiting for our turn to film because there was only one flip-cam and a tripod.  
• We had some groups using the same filming location so we had to wait for them to finish filming and sometimes it ment we couldn't film because they were taking too long. For example the staff room, corridor, reading room etc.
• We couldn’t film sometimes as some students were away and the weather was not too good as well.  
• Memorising our lines for our scripts. 

Interesting

What interested you about this unit?

• The editing process.  
• Adding sound effects and music to our movies.  
• Learning how professional film makers make movies and trying to develop their skills throughout the process of our film making experience.  
• Learning the movie elements helped us to make our movies interesting to watch! 
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• Solution
  How could we improve on this unit next time. 
•   More flip-cams and tripods.  
• Have the Imovie programme on our netbooks so that we could edit our movies instead of waiting for a group to finish. 
  

Bee Movie Presentation

Movie Making Evaluation

My Speech about Recycling

My Speech Evaluation

How did you feel about presenting your speech to the class?

I felt nervous because everyone in the class was staring at me. I thought I was going to forget my speech. 

What was the hardest part of preparing the speech?

The hardest part about preparing a speech was trying to memorise the words and adding good facts and information to support the key ideas in my speech. 

What did you enjoy most about speeches?

The presenting part and getting it done. 

How could you improve your speech making next time?

I could elaborate more on my ideas by using interesting, descriptive detail. 

My Weekly Group Review

Writing Reflection

This week for writing we are focussing on speech writing. Today in our writing lesson we learnt about speech presentations and the structure of a speech. We also brainstormed different topics for speech writing this week. I have decided to write a speech about recycling because if you don’t recycle the earth gets polluted.

Camera Shots

To Be A Drum

Syllabification

Alphabetical Order

Movie Magic Thinkers Key - The Reverse Key

Today for Reading I completed a Movie Magic Thinkers Key called the Reverse Key. I had to name 12 things a microphone cannot be used for. ;

Here are the 12 things a Microphone cannot be used for:

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1. You can't eat a microphone. 
2. You can't jump on it.
3. You can't swim on it.
4. You can't cook it.
5. You can't drive with it.
6. You can't write with it.
7. You can't use it as a phone.
8. You can't wash your hands with it.
9. You can't kiss it. 
10. You can't ride it.
11. You can't run on it.
12. You can't use it like a gun.

Jandal Man

Jandal Man

We watched movie called Jandal man. We think you should watch this movie because it is funny.This movie has good comedy where the characters tell funny jokes. The sound effects in this movie sounds very real which makes this movie great to watch. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes comedy.

Spelling T2 W2

The Evil Drinking Fountain

My Learning Goal For Term 2

My Holiday Description

Dear Simon,

On the holidays I went to my Aunt's house on Tripoli Road. I saw my cousins and two sisters. When I got there I felt excited because we would have fun. We played at our friends house and went to the shops to buy some lollies. When it was nighttime we went outside and had a barbeque. It taste very nice after that we went to sleep.

The next morning we woke up and had some breakfast.Then we went back at our nana’s house and had a little rest.

From Cypress

Homophones

My classroom Mural

The Adventures Of The Saver

WALT write a narrative story based on our artwork.

In one humongous city there was a superhero called The Saver. He was as handsome as a model and he can fly, sprint as fast as flash and was very strong. He was one of the famous people in America and was very bulky as a wrestler.

One day, everybody in Chilly West that was relaxing heard an exotic noise that sounded like
an alien. This wasn’t any alien, it was was The Mizz. “MO HA HA HA!” as he crushed down all the buildings. “No need to fear The Saver is here” yelled The Saver as he hovered in the air. Everyone screamed “Go The Saver!” The Mizz was frightened when The Saver Came. “Look who showed up” said The Mizz as he sharpened up his horns. The Saver started to fight with The Mizz so they started punching and kicking each other. The Saver had a plan so he sprinted around The Mizz and made a huge tornado. The Mizz shouted “WHATS HAPPENING!” The Saver answered “You’re going down!!” Then the tornado started to go very far away with The Mizz and he could never get out.

The Mayor of Chily West gave The Saver one  shiny, sparkly Gold medal for saving New York City and for defeating The Mizz from destroying everybody in the world.                                  

                          

Art Words

All About Me

Kia ora my name is Cypress I am 9 years old and I was born in February. I am tanned and still a little bit on the short side. I have black hair, brown eyes and short hair.

                                                                                                                                                               I have two sisters named Cerenity and Chasity. I live with my Nana and my two sisters. My parent's names are Rangi and Timothy.

I am half Maori and half Pakeha. I am very proud of my culture because we respect the flag and take care of it . My culture represents hangi, seafood, Ponamu, Koro and kiwifruit.                                                                                                                                                                            

I enjoy playing games on my PS2 and watching rugby. I like watching movies on Sky TV.

My best friend’s name is Simon. We go to the same school. We sometimes play at home. He’s tall and has brown skin, black hair and brown eyes

When I grow up I want to be a builder as I like construct different things.