Migration, push and pull factors

Push and pull factors are when someone wants to leave the country because their is a reason why they are leaving. The reason could be economic, political, cultural and environmentally. My Nana had left Raro Tonga when she was 16 because she needed to get more money for her family back at Raro Tonga. She also find out while in Raro Tonga their was a job awaiting for her. When she arrived in New Zealand she had the job but she didn't really know how to speak English, so she went school in New Zealand and in a year she was really good at speaking English.

Tokelau

Tokelau is on the northwest of cook Island, Tokelau is a country located on Southern Pacific Ocean. It is also 500 km away from Samoa and they had found the name in 1976 and the official name was Tokelau Island. Most of that live their travel by boat to Tokelau or to another country like New Zealand or Australia. Tokelau has 3 atolls with no harbours and theirs is not much space for the animals to live so they travel out to the see onto little rocks and travel back when the tide comes in and also when they fish. When they fish they go early in the morning then when the sun rises they go back to the village but it is really hard to get onto the shore. They have changed by their technology from people who travelled to give them signal for them to call people from all around the world. They are also learning more culture stuff from other country's like Samoa and the Tokelau are now Citizens of New Zealand.

River talk

On Thursday we walked a small way to see a river, we had went to see the river because it was getting polluted and was getting really smelly. We were also talking about the animals they were getting harmed in this river. Also we were lucky to see one animal that lived in the lake and it was eels. We were also got to see amazing performance from cultures and from Tamaki College students. We got a look at some of best views that I have ever seen and saw some really cool animals there as well.

Box with Finger Joint Research

  

This is my blog post about (Box with Finger Joint), this can be made out of wood and also you could put your tools in the box. This would be used for builders. 

Graduation 2016

On Wednesday the year 8's had Graduation at the Pakuranga sailing club, we had first taken photo's of the class, than we had eaten and also had dessert. Than Mr Grady had handed out the graduation certificate's and also had to go one at a time. Then we had to dance with a partner to music and also had to switch with a new partner.

2016 - Reflection

This is my 2016 reflection of Ls2, this is a college about what had happened in 2016, it also has photo's of our class out of school grounds as well. Zahn and I had made this and we had chosen our favourite photo. This year has been very great because we had done a lot of stuff over the pass year. These photo's are meant to be one of my favourite times as well has Zahn's favourite photo's this year and had the best time this year.

Labyrinth

Today we had watched the finally part of the movie before making this DLO, we had watched the movie Labyrinth which is great family movie watch. This DLO explain's pretty much what I was going to say and was easier to make, The movie was a good movie and everyone was excited to watch the movie.

Tahuna Torea Trip

On Tuesday we had went to Tahuna Torea to learn about Godwit/Kauka and this DLO shows what had happend at Tahuna Torea. We had walked into the bush lands to look if we could see our topic Godwits and had went in a hole class to see if we could found some. The weather was nice and the view was beautiful, it was a fun trip and we had also went with Ls1. We had explored the wild and found a lot of other insects in the bush walk.

Tamaki College - Collage

This is my collage about what we were doing at Tamaki College, we were with Mr Dunn all day making rockets, we had made different types of rockets, as we made straw rockets and paper rockets. Mr Dunn had also launched his paper rocket, which was a miss fire, then didn't really go high and then we tired out Mrs Ferguson rocket which was 3D and that went really high after a while we couldn't see it any more and it didn't come down. 

Rockets - Tamaki College

 On Friday Ls2 had to  make rockets with Mr Dunn at Tamaki College, we also had to stay at Tamaki College for the hole day. First we had to make straw a straw rocket that we shootout with another straw. On some of the slides it has information about the results that we got for the straw rockets, Mr Dunn had measured it in centimeters. 

Hockey

On Thursday we had another session of hockey we had done some warm up games, with Carly which was our instructor, Carly had tought us how to dribble and how to steal a another ball, from someone else. Then we had a another challenge to see how much juggles you can do with hockey stick and ball. Then our last game we had to steal another peoples ball of them and hit it out of the square, everyone had a lot of fun.

Athletics Day

Today we had Athletics day, we had played fun actives with the Tamaki College students, who helped us do Athletics. We had been split into 3 groups for year 8's and had to go to the same activity, the first game that we had played was rob the nest, luckily our team had came first. The 2nd game was fill your bucket up with a sponge, and we luckily won again and the 3n d game was long jump, but we came 2nd. The 4th game was shot put and we had came last.  Then our last game was to, throw the hula hoop, onto one of the 3 objects, it was a bucket, cricket stumps and then a stick. Everyone had to encourager people to have a turn and also have fun, we all had positive attitude, a special thanks to Tamaki College, teacher and Mr Ogivlie.

Godwit/ Kuaka

Today the year 8's were working with Mrs Anderson about the Godwits, we had to make a story board about there to Alaska and back to New Zealand. First we had to make sketch noting about what they do and how they are so interesting, and how they can do it. This mostly about how they migrate and how they do it, this was also made on Story Board That.

Hockey

Today we had hockey, it was our first session, for our warm up we played a game of octopus and also did dribbling and passing side to side. We played traffic light it was a fun game and then for our last warm up we had to bounce the hockey ball of the hockey stick. We had learnt to hold the hockey stick and then for our last game we had played a game of hockey, we got spilt in half, then they had to call out a number than the first people in the line had to go.

Godwit/Popplet - Facts

Today we were doing inquiry and were had to learn about one of the most interesting birds I have ever learned about. It was the God wit bird, its a very cool bird iv'e ever seen and one of the most best flying birds iv'e seen. I really liked to learn about the God wit because it is very interesting to learn about and I also made this on Popplet.

Manaiakalani Commenting

Today I had just commented on some of the Manaiakalani films from schools, I have commented on Room 1, from Panmure Bridge School and Room 7 from Glenbrae. I had commented on these blogs because they were very funny and had me caught into the film. All of the manaiakalani flims were great, but I commented on these because they were my favourite.

Paper Plane

Today my group had redesign the best flying plane in our group than vs other groups, in my group Oh'sen had remade his plane from last week. Also I was the one who was the best thrower in my group. So my group had chose me to throw the plane and Thomas had also won the paper plane game. This was also for maths, I also had came 3rd and it was measured in meters and also thanks to my group we wouldn't have won if we didn't work as a team. We all had a load of fun.

Paper Plane Activity

Yesterday Mrs Anderson had made groups than we had to make paper planes as a group and fly them. Our group had test flights to see who paper plane would go furthers and we also saw which plane would go into the hole in the park. We all had fun and also our topic this term was flight so I hope we do some more fun activities. We were trailing our planes testing and our challenge was to see who plane would go the furthers.

Neil Armstrong Timeline

Today I have just finished doing my work and this time I choose Neil Armstrong because he as done something really cool for his country. If you don't know who Neil Armstrong, he is one of the first person to walk on the Moon. It has most of the facts that he had done in his life, I had also made this on popplet.

Jean Batten Timeline

Today I had just finished doing the inquiry that was set for us, we had to make a timeline about Jean Batten. The topic that was set for this term was flight and how she accomplished the world record, I had also made this on popplet.