Personal Hygiene site

Mt Robert Photos - If you have good broadband service you will be able to have a look at the photos Theo's dad took!

Gear list for Mt Robert Tramp

Gear
It is really important that the students have adequate clothing for the tramp and we have included a gear list to give them plenty of time to organise themselves.  We will not be taking students who do not have the correct gear.  It is also our expectation that all parents are well equipped.
Day pack - this needs to be a small back pack ( school use back packs are fine)
Wear sturdy shoes/sneakers and socks ( no jandals, sandals, ballet flats or other thin soled shoes)
          shorts or suitable pants to be walking in
          t shirt
spare pair of socks
Also bring polypro long sleeve top
                   polar fleece
                   wet weather jacket
                   sunhat.
                   woolly hat
                   gloves
AND  morning tea/lunch,drink bottle,scroggin or other cereals/high carbohydrate snacks
Not Needed cellphone, ipod,

Last Homework for 2012 !!

There are some  tasks that need to be completed before the end of the week.  Check on the list below and complete  any unfinished tasks by Friday.

Year 8 students only

Finish personalising your treasure box for The Year 8 retreat day on Thursday.

Finish the affirmations for ALL of your year group by Thursday Morning.  (Remember to be specific and focus on what makes them a kind, friendly, caring person rather than behaviours or memories please.)

YEAR 7s
Put your advertisement for your imaginary product into good copy with an explanatory paragraph about why you designed it the way you did.  If you want to you can do your advertisement digitally and save it onto your google site, otherwise do a good copy into your literacy book
  
ALL Including year 8s
Finish your draft of your explanation text

YOU ALL NEED TO HAVE ONE GO AT MAKING YOUR MARKET DAY PRODUCT AT HOME (BE NICE TO YOUR PARENT AND ASK THEM TO HELP YOU).  THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN BEFORE NEXT THURSDAY.

click here to read about writing an explanation

Go to the link below to take part in a webquest about advertising techniques.  You may find some ideas for your own product advertising task and also for the final task of advertising your market day item.

 WEBQUEST LINK

Term 4 - The Mighty Microbe- Yeast!!

Term 4 Task In groups of 2/3 you will have the task of designing and creating a yeast product ( non alcoholic!) .  With this product the aim is to make about 10 of them to sell at a market day in the last week of term.  You will have to market and advertise your product, and create a package to sell it in. In your groups you will need to  Research the product you want to make with yeast. Come up with your own twist.  Name your product Advertise and market your product.  Create some packaging for your product to sell it in. Make your product - (A few days before selling)- This may be done at Garin and then frozen. Sell your product to the school in week 9 at a market day. Create an information leaflet that will be sold to the public with your product which explains  what your product is and how yeast has been used to make it. As you can imagine planning is essential. You will be given time in your groups tp research and plan.  ( your plans and work needs to be recorded on your googlesites.) Create a new page to do all your work on. Each week from next week you will share with the class your progress.

Louis pasteur from kotukukotuku

How fast is fast Google presentation

shared reading google doc: Bad Bacteria!

click onto this link to go to freerice and earn rice grains to feed the starving people around the world

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the holidays visit this link as many times as you can to answer questions and earn 10 grains of rice per correct answer.  Go to 'subjects' to find questions from a range of areas.  LOGIN IN WITH USERNAME kotukuclass  and password  whiteheron

Click here to go to the link for the short short story competition

The Basic Structure of a Speech

All speeches contain at least three parts:

An Introduction
A Body
A conclusion

In the Introduction, you state the topic of your speech. You tell the audience the main points of your speech. In other words, you say what you are going to speak about.
In the Body, you speak about each point in detail. For each point you must give the audience some evidence or information that will help explain and support each point. The Body is the longest of the three parts.
In the Conclusion, you should summarise the main points of your speech, and emphasise what you want the audience to remember.

Making a Simple Outline

An outline is a way to organise your ideas logically and clearly. Without making an outline your speech will probably lack structure, and so be difficult to understand. By using a presentation outline, you can "see" the structure of your speech. In addition, It can also serve as your speaking script.
The following presentation outline is a very simple way to organise your material into a speech format. . When making an outline you should not write full sentences, but just key words and phrases.
1. Introduction

What is the topic of your speech?
Why should the audience listen to your speech ?
What will your main points be?

2. The body

What are your main points and ideas (sub-topics)?

What is your supporting evidence and information (sub-sub-topics)?

3. The conclusion

What were the main main points of your speech, and what do you want the audience to remember?

Rate that web page!!

Rate my page!!!

Manage your time and rate both websites!  Practice Ako!

Group 1:

http://www.abbyleedancecompany.com/

http://www.olympic.org.nz/

Group 2:

http://www.london2012.com/

http://www.cattletoday.com/

interactive site for 'Forces' - click here

A true story of inspiration!

kitchen safety link

http://www.juniorcitizen.org.uk/kids/homesafety/kitchen.php

Kotuku Class Olympic googlesite

2012 LONDON OLYMPICS

 OLYMPICS STARTER ACTIVITY

SAMPLE ESSAY WRITING

hellew everyone we have finished the machine now! just running tests and all that now. ive now been to t he fifth biggest dam in the world which was coool! going to watch the Avengers today with the boss' kids. and i still have to get the keys to the boss' dads Hummer! will be coming home on tue methinks. your fav classmate shannonG!

key competency link

Having great fun mimicking american accents! But they are mimicking ours too! Grrrrrr...
Its sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny.

The packing shed when we (uncle, cousin, dad and me) first started on the new machine we're putting in.

 Our flash as rental car that me and alice (my cousin) take for a spin after work every day!!! Its a Chev. Real flashy and you can start it from the keys outside of the car.

 

Me drilling holes in the legs to put rivets in there was a flamin lot of rivets used!

 Where we are staying its pretty flash as well. It has cookies after 7 that we always raid, a hot tub, an exercise room and a swimming pool.

 Me in the local Walmart holding a mean machine gun.

What we have done so far which is 3 days work.

Hope your all having fun halfway across the world in St Pauls!

We're planning to go pretend we want an old dodge ram at a car yard so we can take it for a spin round town just saying.

will update you guys after that!

By the way we go out for tea every night!

From your favourite classmate Shannon.G!

Bye!!!!!

Magazine task Google Docs

Yay I've figured out how to work this on my iPod! But I dunno how to do pics:(

PHOTO COMPETITON

You are invited to take part in our Intermediate Photo competition.  Your task is to take an artistic photo of an example of weathering and/or erosion.  This might be a landform created by weathering or the effects of weathering/erosion on the landscape.
All photos will be displayed on the blog and the year 7/8 students will judge the best photo via the class blogs.  The photos can be supplied on a memory stick or emailed to school.
There are fabulous prizes to be won.
All entries must be in by Week 10.

Weathering and erosion

View more PowerPoint from whiorox

The Titanic Disaster - yr 7/8 resource booklet

Features Of Persuasive Writing

View more PowerPoint from mungo13

Food tech intro

puppet show

 Material Technology on PhotoPeach

Material Technology on PhotoPeach Food Tech At Garin College. . . on PhotoPeach

How to Write Excellent Explanations

Whenua -Iti team building day

Whenua-Iti on PhotoPeach

TOPIC TASK

RE Integrated Unit Task. "The Spark of God"

Placemat creation in Week 3

Working on placemats in Kotuku Class on PhotoPeach

Audio Clip about evacuation

Evacuation from the point of a view of a child

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FRANCE

maths strategy games

Maths Games - Maths Activity2

Problem solving - Maths Activity 3

ipads - _Play the Touch Maths game -  Maths activity 4

Maths and Science activities - Maths activity 5

Timetable and other notices

I promised that there would be a timetable on the blog tonight but am having some technical difficulties posting it!! Watch this space.  I hope to have it posted tonight.

Some Notes for this week

PE is timetabled for Friday afternoons so everyone needs to bring the correct gear.  

Tech at Garin starts on Monday 12 February.  Students need to be at Garin by 8.30am and should meet outside the tech block which is to the right of the main office.  We will buddy up new students so that they have someone to walk down with for the first day.  We walk back to school together, leaving Garin at about 10.20am.

There is a Powhiri for new students and their families at the Catholic Church in Richmond on Friday 17th February and more details about this will be sent home via the newsletter and email

Key Competencies in Kotuku Class

Click onto this link for a google docs slideshow where you are invited to share your views of what the Key Competencies should look like in Kotuku Class

Hello Everybody
Welcome to the 2012 school year.  My name is Ms Philippa Hood and I am the Year 7/8 teacher in Kotuku Class this year.  This will be my 4th year of teaching at St Paul's and I really enjoy this fabulous school.  I am looking forward to getting to know the 30 students in my class and extend a special welcome to those year 7/8 students that are joining us from other schools.  I am sure you will have a fantastic time here!