Mitchell - BedMas - Math Problems

Hey Bloggers! Today I finished this BedMas presentation our teacher has provided for us. Here is my solving. Enjoy!

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By Mitchell.M
28/11/18

Student Blog Prompts - Astria Game

Hey Bloggers! Today in Extension Class we had played a new game created called the "Astria Game".  Our task was to complete certain levels to obtain documents to complete the game. We had to blog about some of the blog posts that they have given us. 

Blog #1 - A student in another school has recently blogged that:

“Students don’t learn much playing this game called Astria – Countdown to Impact: Their time could be better spent doing other things”.

Do you agree, disagree or partly agree/disagree?

Blog about what you think using evidence from the game to backup your views.

With this statement I partly agree. I think that this game is only based on targeting a certain audience not a whole mass. I think they could improve this game by making it a little less complex and more entertaining.

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With increasing online and digital content, it is difficult to know real information from 'fake news'. Using evidence from the game you played (Astria: Countdown to Impact) write a blog to list the top 5 things you think people should watch out for to help identify fake news.

(* no story spoilers please!)

1. Sources that do not use complex language

2. Sources provided by characters who aren't experts on that factor

3. Fake News could be from sources you personally think that are not trustworthy

4. News could be fake if you identify unusual information

5. Irrelevant Information

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On a scale of 1-5, how successfully did you problem solve with your partner today?

Please include any ways you would collaborate differently with them next time you play.

I would rate the scale an 3. We both quite weren't interested at first but after playing for quite an while we found it quite interesting. That was our/my opinion.

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By Mitchell.M

28/11/18

Authors Purpose and Point

Hey Bloggers! This is my presentation about an Authors Purpose including questions that explain whether the text is to inform, persuade, or entertain. Enjoy!

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By Mitchell.M
13/08/18

Find a Fraction of a Set

Hey Bloggers! I have completed my Find A Fraction Of A Set today from Week 4! It just includes information and answers of questions my math teacher has put on the presentation. Enjoy!

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By Mitchell.M
30/05/18

Current Events - Article

Hey Bloggers! Last week we had been asked to go on a news website that gives information and to write about an article and answer questions! Enjoy!

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By Mitchell.M
14/05/18

Mitchell - Extension ( Doctors ) 2018

Hey Bloggers! Last term the Yr 7 & 8 Extension group were asked to choose groups and research about how pollution can affect the human body and the environment. Our group were the Doctors and had to research how pollution affects the human body.

We also created a small mini movie to show how this can affect parts of your body including an interview with our school nurse and mini animations we created on our Hyperstudio Stacks. 



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By Mitchell.M
02/05/18

Mitchell - Fiafia Night Experience

Hey Bloggers! We just came back from our 2 week school holiday which was really fun for me! Anyways 3 weeks ago we had our annual school Fiafia Night! It was really amazing. The evening before the night the teachers had already set up the stage and more. Everyone had to arrive at a certain time which was at 6:00 pm. Families of the school had been hosting food stalls such as selling island foods, cakes, drinks, sausages and much more!

Fijian Group!

Then finally the night came! Every group had to get changed into their costumes for their Fiafia Group and had to sit in their lines. It was kind of raining so everyone was kind of getting wet! The first performances started with all sorts of groups including : Kapa Haka, Asian Burmese, Cook Island Group and heaps more.

My group was the 11th group to peform before the Ukulele Group. Finally it was our turn. Our costumes were perfectly on, had our fans in our hands and then the music started!
( if you didn't know i was in the fijian group :D ) We started dancing and it was so much fun!

The lights were shining bright as we were dancing. Also I dedicated my dance to my great grandparents who recently travelled back to Fiji after 33 years! After our really cool dance we headed off stage and celebrated! We went back to our dressing room and got changed!

We finally left school! It was a really cool night but it was worth all of the practice.

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By Mitchell.M

30/04/18

Mitchell - Angles Angles Angles

Hey Bloggers! Here is my angles presentation slides I have created and finished. This includes answers to questions about angles and how I figured out these answers.

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By Mitchell.M
09/04/17

Holes - Activity 2 ( 2018 )

Hey Bloggers! Here is my Holes Presentation I have completed. This includes facts about characters in the Holes Book and Movie.

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By Mitchell.M
06/04/18`

Attitude Talk - 2018

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Hey Bloggers! Today the Year 7 & 8 Intermediate Block at Pt England School had an talk today at school with a representative from an organisation "Attitude". His name was Tony and he talked to us about how we can change our choices, what kind of personalities we match to, and what kind of choices we make. 

We filled out this personality test and depending on what our hobbies are we got matched to an animal. Here are the different kind of animals : Otter = funny, bored easily, class clown. Lion = confident, leader, and competitive and much more. Golden Retriever (Dog) = Kind, Caring, Loving. Beaver = smart, clever, get's work done, multi-tasker! 

I got matched to a Beaver and I do kind of think this is true. I like getting work done and studying my school work which is fun for me! But I also do love being crazy and having a little bit of fun sometimes! 

If you would like to fill out this quiz then visit : https://www.attitude.org.nz/personality-test/ and find out which animal you match to. It's great fun!

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By Mitchell.M
27/03/18

Mitchell - Pollution Animation

Hey Bloggers! Here is my Pollution Animation I have created for this Term! Enjoy!

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By Mitchell.M

23/03/18

Mitchell - PS4 - Math Working Out

WALT : Ask questions to clarify my thinking/understanding

Hey Bloggers! Here is my PS4 working out problem I solved out today. This presentation includes my working out for how much more money a boy needs to get a PS4.

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By Mitchell.M
23/03/18

Holes

Hey Bloggers! Here is my holes presentation for Week 6. It includes a poster guide of how to survive in this camp during this movie and facts about some of the characters. Enjoy!

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By Mitchell.M
09/03/18

Swift Playground - Extension

Hi Bloggers. Today at Extension we had the opportunity to experience the coding of Swift Playground.  Swift Playground is a coding app you can download on any mobile device or an ipad. We used an ipad! We first opened up Swift Playground and choose a level to complete. It was named “Bug Squash Practice”. I used it with my friend Kyron. We then figured out the code for the avatar to collect the gem to complete the next level.

There was a set of code for us to complete it. Turn Left, Collect Gem, Toggle Switch, Move Forward. Toggle Switch was for you to jump on a button which gives you points. Not only that but we decided to code our friends, recording with ipads and telling them what to do to find something you have hidden in the room.

It was a good challenge. The most difficult part about using Swift Playground was that there was limited moves of code so in order to turn right you had to press Turn Left about 3 - 4 times. The most fun part about doing it was figuring out how to code it.

21/02/18

Pt England School - 2018

Hey Bloggers! I haven't been active since the summer holidays. School has been really fun. New teachers, new people, also new learning. I can't wait to see what this year has to come. It sounds exciting. ...well see you later!

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By Mitchell.M
15/02/18

My Extension Reflection - 2017

From Coding, taking buses to go to special events, going on trips, and heaps more we did this year will be memories. This year 2017 I had the great opportunity to be apart of the Year 7 & 8 Extension Group! We had so many privileges this year such as: attending the GEGNZ Event, coding with Zoe from OMG Tech, creating cool games and so much more!

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(Co - founder) Zoe - from OMG Tech decided to help us code for the past few terms. She also brought in some supplies in to help us with coding such as: makey-makey kits, play-dough,aluminum foil, plastic cups and lots more! We created our own games using Scratch accounts made by us and it was a really fun experience!

GEGNZ - Google Summit!

We also had the opportunity to attend the GEGNZ Summit at Ormiston Junior College in Botany. We explained to the students how we run our very own News Network here at our school and how it gets edited, filmed and played every day (except for fridays). We also did explain how to use the coding programme Scratch for those who didn't know!

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This year in Term 3 our school topic was " Guardians of the Galaxy". It was all about space life, planets and other galaxies still being discovered! Since we were learning about space we had the amazing privelage to attend the Hoyts Movie Theaters to watch a new release: Hidden Figures which was an amazing sequel based movie created to acknowledge 3 great historic women who changed the way people look at space today.

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In Term 3 we also took part and participated in the 40 Hour Famine funded by World Vision. It was created to help children in the Middle East suffering from recent bombings in their area and simply moved to safe camps. We simply raised money from close family, friends and teachers who all put together money to support this campaign. We also got to feel like what it was for the kids by eating no food or drinking no drinks - ( except from Just Juice and Barley Sugars :D)

Well this year was sure jam packed full of lots of amazing stuff that happened, trips, events and so much more. I also wish the best and want to thank Mrs Lagitipu for the hard work she has put towards this group. This wouldn't be possible without you. I also will miss the Year 8's as the leave for college next year!

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By Mitchell.M
06/12/17\

P.S - Have A Happy Christmas! :D

Mitchell's - Musical Madness 2017

Hey bloggers! Here is my animation for this term! We have been asked to create an animation on hyperstudio, based on different emotions. We also had to create music on Garageband using French Horns and make happy music, sad, angry or music based on your emotion created.

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By Mitchell.M
28/11/17

Mitchell - Musical Madness ( Reflection ) - Extension

Hey Bloggers! Here is my reflection this term for our projects based on Musical Madness! :

This term this term/school wide focus was “ Musical Madness “. The term was all about creating music, playing music, and using music throughout our school work. Well, this term the Yr 7 & 8 Extension Group had the opportunity to create our very own band in groups of 4. My group concluded of Simon, Kyron, Noah and myself.

We first had to pick a genre to match the music we were going to be creating. My group chose the genre “ Rap “ and also everyone agreed to make/create and research for the genre, planning, lyrics and music beats. We decided to pick a few bits and pieces from our favourite rap songs and mix it all together to make a great masterpiece.

So then we started! Every wednesday we would make progress into our projects. Adding text to lyrics, research and planning. For our planning we had to plan what kind of lyrics we were going to make, research history about and where rap started, we had to also make beats/music for our track.

The most difficult part I found was creating the lyrics. Everytime we rapped the lyrics with the music it was always not right in time or the beat was just too fast. In the end, the solution was to change up the beat slower and in time, and to mix up and change a few lyrics so it was easier to read.

The most challenging part was creating the research. I surfed the internet for so many different facts and history about rap! It was very challenging because I had to find pictures of rappers, I had to find out specific dates for example: when rap was created and heaps more about the history of rap.

Another challenging project in the process was the scratch and coding process. We had to get out different kinds of sources such as play-dough, aluminum foil, small pieces of cardboard, tape and paper cups to create an energy source for our scratch game. We also had to get some coding pieces of music from “Scratch” to create a similar beat to ours on Garageband.

Speaking of garageband we created our beats/music on garageband using different kinds of instruments such as electric guitar, piano, drums and electric techno beats all provided from Garageband. In the end we made up a cool, funky beat for our project!

It was a really fun experience.

I think one thing we had to work on was focusing and spending time on our work alone!

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By Mitchell.M
22/11/17

Mitchell - Research of Rap

Hey bloggers! Here is a presentation and informational text about Rap! It's all about the history of rap and how, where, and what it was created. Enjoy these slides full of informative information and facts about Rap!

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By Mitchell.M
22/11/17

Celebrating Niue Language Week!

Fakalofa Lahi Atu Bloggers! Hey bloggers! Today in the school hall performed the Niuean Dance group which has roughly been practising their dance for 1 week. Did you know? In New Zealand it is Niuean Language Week! Yes! We are celebrating the culture and language of Niue and Niuean People which is really cool!

Niue Language Week Dance!

The huge group of children who performed today were amazing! They did special and cultural dances and also did a haka in Niuean at the end. The boys were also shouting from the stage too, like fierce warriors. The theme for the week is "Koe Vagahau Niue Koe Atefua, he tagata Niue" which means The Language of Niue is The Heart Of the Niuean People! 

The children were wearing and dressed in Niuean costumes and clothes. The girls were wearing a lava-lava, a white t-shirt and a necklace or a lei. The boys were wearing a lava-lava and a niuean sisi which is a white shredded costume you can wear around your neck and your ankles. 

Their performance was great! Thanks to Mrs Lagitipu and Ms Teleso for teaching the dance. Also parents too who also helped! 

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By Mitchell.M
20/10/17