Persuasive text by Junefia

 Persuasive Writing

“Students should be allowed phones at school”

Every school is different, so in my opinion I agree and disagree at the same time. Students need phones for a reason, for example, they might need it for research apps for learning or to make a call to their parents about personal reasons. Students also don’t need phones otherwise they get distracted, for example, they would view apps like youtube and netflix… they would also go online to do cyber bullying.

Reasons why they need it-pro’s

 Emergencies- Students would be allowed phones/devices in class according to the rules of the school. They would need it in case of an emergency call, for example, the student must have forgotten their medical kit (if they have medical issues) so the teachers would call the parents/caretaker to deliver the medical kit! Other emergencies could be that the students are going through tough situations that are personal!

Research- I think that students should be 100% allowed to be using it for school research, for example, calculators for math equations, apps for reading (history books), music (for a good reason), and useful apps that relate to learning or that the students need mostly. In my opinion, I agree that the students should use their phones mostly for school work research, in my school, no one needs phones for research because some classes use chromebooks and some classes use ipads.

Reasons why they don’t need it-con’s

Distractions- Every single kid gets distracted by devices easily. They would avoid listening to the teacher so they would rather take selfies and send it to other people, they would message each other in the middle of learning or they would play LOUD music while the teacher is talking. Getting distracted from devices 

Conclusion:

So those are the reasons why my answer is YES and NO. Every school is finished so other people’s answer could be yes or if not NO like my school! (WE ARE NOT ALLOWED PHONES IN MY SCHOOL).

Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra Trip recount by Junefia

 Trip:

 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra- Kiwi Kapers 

It is finally the day for our first trip to the APO (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra). Before stepping on the bus, Room 8 read a pamphlet about what we will see/listen to at the orchestra, read about the different famous composers that wrote the songs that will be played by the musicians, Kiwi Kapers. After reading INTERESTING facts about these composers and reading the information of the amazing songs, the students had a quick 20 minute morning tea and then we marched to the school hall for a fast conversation. Mrs Sharma & Mrs Ashley talked about expectations from students, showing school values, and the groups we’re in. Now we take our first step onto the bus…

(After half an hour of riding to Auckland city...) Rm 8 and Rm6 lined up in a crowded queue, heading towards the Aotea Centre. My eyes were amazed and my head was full of fun stuff to do at this fancy, humongous, crowded place but my fabulous imaginations faded away being awakened up by Mrs Ashley’s voice echoing in the distance. Tamaki Primary students all got splitted and sorted in their groups, pushing themselves through the overcrowded audience. After getting sorted into our groups, we all got led by the ashers, following our supervisor (my leader was Mrs Ashley’s lovely mother) inside the expanse spaced room that was technically a 2 tiers floor building. (To be honest, the chairs were very uncomfortable because the feeling of the material made my body tick!) 20 minutes later, the lights slowly began to vanish away and the audience began to settle down… and then the musicians started to play a very nice melody that sounded super COMFORTABLE (it also made me sit still!). Our first music that got played was by Rossini-Overture, the music hyped me up more because I was gonna take a quick nap. The concordant music was interrupted by a weird looking male who was dressed up as a superhero, his name was Fernando. I would say that his job was to say an intro of the songs and the composers, I liked the way that there were some people acting out the story!! The musicians played some more music by Rossini.

The information that was given by Fernando was very interesting. Our next music was by Straus-Waltz. Fernando tried to conduct the musicians to play a tune for us but it turned out to be a catastrophe! “Clap, clap, clap…” the audience gave a huge round of applause for a very talented young man named “Tchaikouky” who was inspired by the famous composer that played piano, his fingers/hands were rapid. I couldn’t even see where his hands were going so instead of looking at the genius kid, I decided to close my eyes and listen to the perfect high-pitches that the piano made! The piano was relocated in stage left after being used by Tchaikouky in the centre stage.

The audience’s clapping got stopped by Mr.Fernando because now it is now the instrument families turn to reveal what they all sound like altogether. Families: String, Brass, Wood wind, and percussion. People from Tim Bray Theatre Company marched onto stage to act out the four seasons which were only Winter and Summer. Our last song was by Grieg, and then a song about Finlandia. The audience and the special members of the team earned a big THANK YOU from Fernando.

*Conclusion*

My favourite part was all of the AWESOME performances. I liked the way everything was sorted and planned, I can’t wait to see the next performance!

Ballet workshop recount by Junefia

 Title:

Ballet Workshop

Today, Rm 8’s routine will be different because we will be learning how to do ballet. We HAVE to do this because it is related to our next trip, which we will be seeing ballerinas acting out the Ugly Duckling.

It is Monday morning, another day of school. Rm 8 went through their morning routine really quickly because we have a ballet workshop. We relocated in the school hall and when we arrived, our guest’s name was Lauren and she works for the RNZB (Royal New Zealand Ballet). She came to teach us some important positions and moves of ballet that we will see the dancers do when we go on our trip to watch the “Ugly Duckling” that  was performed by the ballerinas. 

Our first task was to take off our shoes and start learning our positions. First position: legs together and feet apart, Second position: legs apart and toes pointing out, Third position:  right foot in front of left foot , Fourth position: heel touching toes, Fifth position: Same as fourth position but closer. After learning the main 5 positions, Lauren started playing songs with beats that we can dance along to.

When everyone gets used to getting into the ballet positions, Lauren teaches us how to do the leap:run and then jump, landing on the toes. We also learnt the way we should stand while waiting for the music to play. Lauren started to talk about different moves that we will see in the performances, she started to play other random songs for each line to dance along to. After dancing for minutes, Lauren decided to teach us the Kia dance. We will also see the ballerinas do this dance. Directions: walk up to the stage and jump, and then pretend to brush feathers off, and then act like a bird while leaping into the air.

*CONCLUSION*

This ballet workshop was better than I thought. I hope I will recognize the dances that we did when we go see the performances!

The history of NZ

Script written and movie created by Lori, Lemeki, Kymani and Boisi.  

The history of the Karen people!

By Eh Htoo Wah and Htoo Say Wah  

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The history of Samoa!

 

Written by Junefia

Did you know that Samoa is the 5th biggest culture in New Zealand? There are over 180,000 Samoan people living in NZ (2018 Census). How did Samoa people get here? Why did they come? Let’s find out! 

Samoans current history is connected with the histories of Tonga and Fiji, Which are the same region. How many villages are there in samoa? There are 265 villages in Samoa, the 12 biggest villages/cities are Savai'i, Apia (capital city of Samoa), Asau, Mulifanua, Faleula, Siusega, Malie, Fasito’outa, Vaiusu, Afega, Nofoali’i, Solosolo, and Vailima (AKA a beers name). There are so many legends and myths about the ancient samoa, for example Sina and the eel, the turtle and the shark (story of a chief), the story of the stone that blocked the road round the cape of Matauea, Safotu and much much more of INCREDIBLE STORIES!

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Samoa officially spoke their language, Samoan. Samoan is the oldest and most spoken Polynesian language with an estimated 510,000 speakers worldwide. Samoan islands were settled 3,500 years ago as part of the exploration of the Southern Hemisphere and South Pacific.

                                 

         Traditional Life 

In 1722, a non-polynesian (European) named Jacob Roggeveen was the first person to find Samoan island. Jacob is a dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis (The great southern continent) , but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday). Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. 

German companies set up coconut plantations in Samoa in the late 1800s, and the next 99 years Samoa was colonised by Germany (1899), and then Samoa was then under New Zealand's control. 

 

A long time ago, all the islands of Samoa were one big country. Then in 1899 the United States of America took over one island, calling it American Samoa. The other islands became known as Western Samoa.  Between 1900 and 1914, Germany took over Western Samoa and it was called German Samoa. In modern times, it is just called Samoa and it is an independent state. 

Missionaries/Religion

The first missionaries to Samoa were Rev. John Williams and the Rev. Charles Barff in 1830. Missionaries introduced christianity in Samoa in the early 19th century. In modern times, more than 80% of Samoas are still Christian (Nz Census 2018). This is a direct result of these early missionaries. 

In Samoa medicine has been handed down through the generations for 200 year’s and nearly every samoan family will have some knowledge of traditional folk remedies. As a profession, however, traditional healing is now a dying art and more and more people are looking to Western medicine.

Traditional healers are typically women who learn their methods from a long apprenticeship. Normally, their training begins in early childhood when a girl assists her mother or a close female relative in craft. During this apprenticeship, they must learn to recognise several hundred species of rainforest plants, each of which has its own specific medicinal value. Modern healers are taught to take notes and to keep a close and accurate record of each patient’s symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and response.

Many healers specialise in particular diseases and come to be known for their expertise. As a general rule, there are four types of samoan healers: the fa’atosaga or midwives; the fofo or massage therapists; the fofogau or orthopaedists (who are normally men who can set broken bones); and the taulasea, who are herbalists who use a huge range of Samoan rainforest flora in their treatment of disease. Other related types of healers include those who make love potions or banish troublesome aitu (spirits).

20th century

Like it was mentioned, Samoa was colonised by Germany, New Zealand twice, and even Britain. In 1942, the United States built the first airport called Faleolo Airfield. The United States built the airport on every island during the war (between US and Japan) so that the United States can get to Australia and New Zealand (we are allies with the US) so they can fly to Japan.

In the 1950’s and 60’s, New Zealand encouraged people from the south pacific to migrate to New Zealand to meet the need for cheap labour. By the 1970s there were 45,000 + Pacific people in New Zealand. In the early 1970s , lots of people lost their jobs which led to lots of crime and social problems. Police carried out “Dawn Raids” to remove overstayers. Pacific people were mainly targeted during these Dawn Raids, even though people of other ethnicities overstayed their visas as well.

Statistics/ When Samoa people came to NZ

According to the 2018 NZ Census, more than 45% of Samoan people arrived in New Zealand and stayed for over 20 years and more. This is a direct reflection of the migration of Samoan people to meet the labour needs in NZ. 

Nearly 80% of Samoan people stayed in the same house for more than 1 year (2018 Census). 

There are 182,721 samoan people who live in New Zealand, 

The history of Tonga!

 Explanation text about Tonga

Title: Tonga 

In the 1950’s and 60’s, New Zealand encouraged people from the South Pacific to migrate to New Zealand to meet the need for cheap labour. By the 1970’s there were 45,000+ Pacific people in New Zealand. In the early 1970’s, lots of people lost their jobs which led to lots of crime and social problems. Police carried out “Dawn Raids” to remove overstayers. Police would go to a house before sunrise, and bust in to surprise the family and arrest any overstayers. Pacific people were mainly targeted during these Dawn Raids, even though other cultures overstayed their visas as well.  ,

The first Tongan person to come to New Zealand was the late Queen  Salote who often visited New Zealand and a few tongans were brought over to look after her. She also brought some relatives and the children of chiefs to be educated. Some of these early visitors stayed and got married in New Zealand, others stayed and found work.  

Many Tongans still live in village communities following traditional customs,especially on the outer island. The distinctive traditional dress ta’ovala (woven waist mats) are commonly worn, and the ceremonial tradition of kava drinking, the traditional polunesion drink is a very real part of Tongan life. Also about Tongan people, they don’t allow certain things such as going on any electronics, using the internet and playing outside.  They do this to keep their Sundays holy. Yet a game that most of your parents must’ve played in Tonga is Ta’fue (Skipping). The materials that they use are either leaves that they plat to make a longer thing like a rope, or they actually use real rope. Girls in Tonga most likely to braid their hair.

In 1826 when Wesleyan missionaries arrived in Tonga, they began a successful campaign to convert Tongans to Christaint. But as they were landing there was a civil war that nearly lasted half a century as two kings fought for control of Tonga and Tongan christians fought non - christians. Chief George Tupou won control of Tonga in 1845 and introduced a code of law.Unlike most of the nearby Poynesian nations,Tonga was never a colony of another country. In 1900 the king signed a treaty of friendship with Britain, which gave Britain a job to protect Tonga from other nations that wanted to take over Tonga. Yet the first successful group of missionaries made a very huge step to Make the royal family and the people of Tonga to make them believe in God. And made wesleyan an official religion in Tonga and monarchy.

Here is their 'CREATE' task - taking their first paragraph and making it into a video.

"Haunted" by room 8 and Room 5 - Film Festival 2020

According to legend, a looooooong time ago when the fairies ruled the land - the land where Tamaki Primary was later built upon was once haunted by a mysterious beast. Some say it looked like a dragon, some a lizard, some a frog. The truth is, it was a shapeshifter. 

In the year 2020, the shapeshifter was back. This time, in the form of a human baby. It had been a looong time since the beast had eaten. It was hungry. Ravenous. Starving. It needed to feast… on human children… 

When someone passes the beast, they disappear back into the old fairyland and are never seen again.. Eaten by the beast.. 

How many children will it get this time?

Tree of life

Our initial thoughts The wolf is connected to the A water lily is connected to an orchid and a sunflower This is the evolution of sea creatures Its about animals and insects Its like a timeline and family tree Its what they use to stay alive Its what they eat The green thing is what they eat It's about where they live It's about animals There’s heaps of animals It's about how the animals and stuff evolved Its a tree of nature Different categories of animals Different food chains What we learnt 3.6 billion years ago - first living things started to exist (origin of life) All the organisms on the purple branch live in the ocean. The blue branch turns into insects and crabs. The green branch is the plant kingdom. 42 million years ago wolf,lion,Bear and kekeno in car nvores. Lion is in the animal kingdom. The last flower was a sunflower. It started 3.6 million years ago. The first organism archaea. Bear is in the animal kingdom. There are more in the animal kingdom. The first plant was a sea lettuce. There are 5 kingdom. The second to last plant is a carrot. They is 6 colour There are less The second organism is a spirochaete. Litia- Kingsnakes are medium size nonvenomous snakes that kill by constriction. A crocodile is related to the dinosaurs and birds - Kymani A flamingo is related to a T-REX. The Sunflower is the last flower to be born. Litia- Kingsnake colored in repeating patterns of Red, White and black Railey:a flatworm is a kind of worm that's from the lophotrochozoans family. Wesley:A platypus is the only animal that gives birth Mariah - Platypus is in the kingdom of animals. And a platypus is in the color Red. It is in the family of tetrapods. It existed 170 million years ago. chimpanzee are closely related to humans. EH Htoo Butterfly are beautiful bugs they have a extraordinary life the first kind involved in about 160 mya Michael: Hippo is inside the animal kingdom. isi - Hope - A Carrot Daucus is in the dicots family Maria - The clown fish is in the vertebrate family Stanley - A Aardvark is connected to a pekapeka, an aardvark is also family with the Elephant.

Term 3 Week 6 Genomics (during lockdown) - ZEBRAFISH

This week for Genomics we are learning about Zebrafish.

First we watched a video, filled in the missing words from the transcript of the video, defined new words and answered questions.  

 Next the group who were online that day (Kymani, Davlyn, Eh Htoo Wah, Wesley, Railey) created this profile of a Zebrafish.

On Friday we read through a text about Zebrafish and wrote the meanings of new words, and a summary of the main ideas in our own words.

This led us to a discussion about how cells grow over time to become a bigger fish. Miss Ashley gave the example of human development using these pictures to help explain.

You can see in this picture that when a baby is first conceived (made), it is just a bunch of cells. Over time, these bunch of cells grows different body parts. You can see in this picture that the bunch of cells grows legs, then a head, then arms, then the head starts to change shape as the brain grows etc. We talked about how after about 26 weeks the baby can survive with the help of oxygen machines at the hospital. We talked about if a baby 'comes out' at like 6 weeks, it can't survive and this is called a miscarriage. 

We also talked about how big/small the baby is at each stage of development. We used this picture to help us understand.

Here is our Zebrafish information - 

Zebrafish text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AfZGT3Fw8xj7Mh_A0OxjRzK_qOIYHrko/view

New words: .

• Anatomy- study of the body.

• Post-fertilization  - after the boy part and girl part come together to make a baby (when the cells combine)

• Himalayas - mountain range that separates China and India

• Embryo - a group of cells that turn into a baby or egg

• Genetic - relating to your DNA

• Himalayas - A country that has a lot of Mountains

• Ganges  - a long river in India

• Organs - body parts

• Juvenile - child/teenager

•   Sections - slices  

• Stained with dyes - putting different coloured liquids onto it so you can see different parts 

• Coronal -  cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back 

• Transverse -   cutting in half horizontally, E.g. cutting the head off the body

•  Sagittal - cutting in half  vertically - E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side.

Main ideas in our own words: 

Mariah - Zebrafish live in the river in india.And zebrafish are transparent and they have fresh water.And scientists study about zebrafish.Zebrafish is 2.5cm to 4cm long. And It takes 2 to 3 days for the egg to hatch and it’s lifespan is 2 to 7 years.

• Coronal -  cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back 

• Transverse -   cutting in half horizontally, E.g. cutting the head off the body

•  Sagittal - cutting in half  vertically - E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side.

Hope -  Zebrafish is transparent and they live in Ganges river in the wild, in India where they have fresh water. Scientists study the zebrafish because they are transparent so the scientists see inside it. Zebrafish is 2.5cm to 4cm long, Embryo is the egg of the zebrafish and has three layers which are single cell,yolk and chorion. After the scientists breed about a hundred or thousands of zebrafish they kill them and look at them under a microscope to study them. It takes 2 to 3 days for an egg to hatch, the zebrafish lifespan is 2 to 7 years.

These are different kinds of cuts.

• Coronal -  cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back 

• Transverse -   cutting in half horizontally, E.g. cutting the head off the body

•  Sagittal - cutting in half  vertically - E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side.

Scientists kill the zebrafish at different ages(hour/days post fertilization). Scientists take photos of the different stages of how the organs grow. They use different kinds of dye to see different kinds of body parts and they take pictures of it to see the difference between zebrafish. 

                                               

This is a 48 year old coronal, the big round part is going to                This is a 48 transverse and the two big                  Be the body part                                                                                   circles are going to be the eyes

Zebrafish has three layers in its egg: the single cell,the yolk and the chorion. They live in India inside the Ganges river in the southern himalayas. Scientists kill the zebrafish with chemicals then cut them in 3 ways Coronal,Transverse and Sagittal. Scientists kill them in different ages (hours post fertilization). 

Michael - Zebrafish live in a river in india. And zebrafish are transparent. They live in India where there is freshwater. Scientists study zebrafish because they are transparent.  Zebrafish is 2.5cm to 4cm long. In its larval stages it is transparent and as it matures to an adult it develops stripes that run along the length of the 

body and look blue in colour. The zebrafish are called embryos; the egg has three layers: The single cell. The yolk and the protective membrane. And it takes 3 or 4 days for the egg to hatch and the zebrafish lifespan is 2 to 7 years. After scientists breed about a hundred or thousands of zebrafishes killed them and looked at them under a microscope to study them. E.g cutting the head off the body, sagittal means cutting in half and vertically E.g cutting the left side away from the right side. Different types of dye to see different body parts like

the eyes then the scientist do pictures

Davlyn - The zebrafish lives in india rivers. Scientists like studying zebrafish because they don’t take that long to hatch or take long to grow up but with humans we take long to grow up, they also like to study them because the zebrafish are transparent so the scientist see inside it. The zebrafish eggs are called embryos; the egg has three layers: the single cell, the yolk and the protective membrane. It takes 2 to 3 days for the egg to hatch and it’s lifespan is 2 to 7 years. To see the inside of the zebrafish they cut the fish to see what is inside of the zebrafish, they cut the zebrafish in 3 different ways, Coronal means cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back, Transverse means cutting in half horizontally E.g. cutting the head off the body, Sagittal means cutting in half and vertically E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side. Different types of dye to see different body parts like the eyes then the scientists takes pictures.

This is a 3 day old fish, cut in the coronal way. The top part looks like it is the brain and the bottom looks like that is going to be the tail.

this a three day old transverse cut zebrafish. The center part will become the brain the and the two holes on the side will become the eyes. 

Railey - zebrafish lives in a river in india, and they were known to be transparent/see through, and scientist study them because zebrafish don't take long grow and because they see through the egg so they didn't have to use xray and it only takes 2 to 3 days to grow or hatch an egg and they can survive for about 2 to 7 years depending of where they are. Scientist cuts them in different way to see or learn about them

These are the kind of cuts: 

• Coronal -  cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back 

• Transverse -   cutting in half horizontally, E.g. cutting the head off the body

•  Sagittal - cutting in half  vertically - E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side.

Scientists also cut them in different ages(hour/days post fertilization) and take pictures or use dye of what they look like when they grow up and how long they are or see their body part like eyes and body.

this is picture shows how a zebrafish looks when its a 3 day old fish cut in coronal way.

this is zebrafish cut in a traverse it has a length of 3.5mm

Eh Htoo - we are learning about zebrafish. They are transparent and live in India's Freshwater lakes or rivers. Scientists study them because they are transparent and reproduce fast, scientists breed hundreds and thousands of zebrafish to study them.Then Scientists kill the fish in chemicals and cut it up. If they cut it in different shapes like coronal, cutting in half vertically, separating the front and the back, transverse cutting in half horizontally, cutting the head off the body Sagittal cutting in half vertically, cutting the left side away from the right side. When they cut it it will show different parts.Scientists kill way too much of the zebrafish. 

 

These fishes are a year old and and they are cut Transverse you can see a lot of meat.

EXAMPLE

This is a 48 hour old fish, cut in the coronal way. The two big purple circles will become its eyeballs. The big red circle on the right will become its body.

This is a 12 month old fish. You can see its organs on the inside of its torso. It is fully developed with a long tail. It is cut in the coronal way.