The contribution of Mrs and Mr Gock

P - Point

E - Evidence

E - Explanation
L - Link

The contribution of Mrs and Mr Gock

P - Point

Who is Mrs and Mr Gock?.  Mrs Gock is Fay and Mr Gock is Joe, they are both chinese and have been married for 63 years since 1956. Joe and Fay were very helpful because they had provided fruit and vegetables for people in their area. They had struggled with some of the plants such as broccolis and Kumaras. They have been gardeners for half of their lives.

E - Evidence

The reason why they had to struggle with growing some of the vegetables and fruits was because of a nasty disease called black rot. Black rot is a disease that makes the vegetables and fruit rotten, and some of the kumara that they had been growing also had black rot.

E - Explanation

How did they contribute? They had contributed to New zealand about saving the kumara. They helped save NZ’s kumara and contributed to New zealand about  their service. They saved one half of New zealand Kumara. Joe and Fay had advice on how to save New zealand kumara.

L - Link

Since Mrs and Mr gock have been gardeners for half of their lives, they had really supported New zealand with the kumara and other vegetables. They have really done alot for New zealand, even though they are not here they have succeeded in life.

Why is Education imortant

My photo album about Fay and Joe

Taha groups maths

Earthworms/ Technology

A couple of weeks ago, the year 8 students including me have been learning about
earthworms.
Earthworms was our  topic  , Our first period was learning about the earthworms.
The facts about the worms were very interesting, after the reading and researching
about the
worms we had the opportunity to investigate the worms. It was a very interesting
experience to learn about the worms.

Plastic / Technology

In our first day of technology, we had learnt about plastic and the uses of it. We had watched clips and written down facts about what we had learnt for the video. After gathering all the information about plastic we moved on to our other task, which was a sentence puzzle. We had to put the sentences in the right places. Mrs sharma asked us if we could right down negative, positive and neutral. After all of that we went to our next task which was sorting out the plastic. For this activity we were split into groups and started planning on what types of plastics we had and putting them in their own places. I really enjoyed learning with Mrs sharma.

Independent Reading/ Text and Pic

This is my independent work for reading. This is linked to my bledsloe cup document. I hope you enjoyed my google drawing.

Taha - Maths

Reading enjoyment

   

                              Covid 19 has returned

There were two confirmed cases in New zealand. After 24 days of no cases of Covis 19 Director general of health Dr Ashley bloomfield had announced the news. The two new cases were from people that had arrived from the United states of America.

The news brings the confirmed amount of cases which is 1156,  and the combined total of confirmed and probable cases to 1506. The Prime minister had to act fast before the Covid 19 would spread. 

Explantion writing about Harakeke

The Harakeke has many uses in New zealand

Bianca

What is Harakeke? Harakeke is a type of plant that is used for many things. The plant also represents a moari family, there are three leaves in the middle of the plant which is called the (rito) which is the child of the plants. The outer leaves of the harakeke plant are called the (awhi rito) meaning the parents and the surrounding leaves are the tupuna (the grandparents and the ancestors).

Before harvesting the Harakeke plant firstly you need to say a karakia(prayer) before cutting the Harakeke plant. Secondly cut at an angle from the side never the center. Never Harvest the plant at night or eat next to the Harakeke plant. After that, create craft and return any unused harakeke back to (Papatuanuku). 

The harakeke plant also helps with health and different injuries on the human body. The seeds of the harakeke plant are highly edible and good for the human blood cycle. The harakeke is also made into different types of body products, for example: Soap and shampoo. It's also a wine too.

Harakeke(flax) is a very native plant that is grown across the world but it's mostly fresh in new zealand. The harakeke is a very special plant because it helped people from centuries ago meaning some of our ancestors.

Taha maths

This is Todays Maths

In the photo is the strategy I came up with my group.

First we add 1 1/2 with another 1 1/2 which equals to 3 meters.

So times the 3 meters by 10 and get 30 meters.

We counted how many 1 1/2 we added altogether and got 20.

So then that is how much ta'ovala Malakai's mother made and also how many boys that are in the Tongan group

Brainstrom about Mrs Gock and Mr Gock

Taha Maths

Math observation

Tiaki promise

Writing about Harakeke

Facts about the Harakeke plant

Flax was a valuable resource. People around the world use flax to make different
creations and is also made for clothing. Special flax plants
The plant was seen as a family. The central shoot or rito was the baby
and the leaves on either side of it the awhi rito or matua (its parents).
Only the leaves on the outside of the tupuna, or grandparents were cut, to
avoid weakening the plant. The Harakeke plant is a useful plant that some
people use for medicine and other health things. 

What its used for/ health

The Harakeke seeds are highly edible and are good
for the human body. The googy subscene on the outer side of the leaf is used
for infected
wounds and also used for weaving.

Harvesting

Before cutting the Harakeke plant firstly you need to say a karakia(prayer) before cutting the Harakeke plant. Secondly cut from an angle
from the side never
from the center. Never Harvest the plant at night and eat next to
the Harakeke plant.
After that create craft and return Harakeke
craft back to (Papatuanuku). 

The uses of harakeke in New zealand

Questions from Mrs tofa / inquiry/ Tiaki promise

Mother nature is speaking

History of book / enjoyment reading

Today the book I have been reading is Goosebumps Halloween, this book is about

a girl named Sarah who is tired of worrying about what her younger brother Sonny

has gotten into. He’s always doing dangerous science experiments, and it's up to her

to keep him out of trouble.

When Sonny and his friend Sam find a ventriloquist dummy labeled “slappy” in

an abandoned house, they decide to take him home. What they don't realize is that

they brought him to life and he’s evil. Slappy starts using his dark magic powers

to make Halloween decorations come alive all across town and they are not friendly.

Even worse, he kidnaps Sarah and Sonny’s mom, only Sarah and Sonny, Sam can stop

slappy before it's too late. But will he end up stopping the first ??

Harakeke slide

Technology - Science

Today, the year 7 and 8's wwent to technology. We learnt about Earthworms, Earthworms are a living animal that lies beneth our feet. These worms help bring air into the soil and carbon dioxide out of the soil. Our secound period we had to obsever the worms on how they move, size and behavour. We had our own lids with earth worms in it with a bit of wet soild so we could investigate the worms while they are still alive.

After observing the worms i made some notes on what i learnt about the worms. Most of the worms were females and that were carrying their eggs in the clitellum part of the body. Worms also get very angry when custerd and water is spilt on the soil it makes them come up to the surface to get air to make the soil fresh so that friuts and vegtables grow.

Thank you Mrs Sharma

Learning farctions

Today i have learnt alot about fractions, thanks Mrs tofa for telling and teaching as alot about fractions and parts of fractions. I have learnt so much about how to solve fraction problems.

Thank you Mrs tofa

My learning about Harekeke