Our Little Garden

We made our little gardens. We planted lots of different vegetables. We planted chilli, eggplant, watercress, cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cress, chives, fennel, parsley and dill.

We read the instructions and we put our soil tablet on the saucer and poured some water on top of the soil tablet. The soil tablet grew, and we put the soil into the pot.

We planted our little garden in a little cardboard pot and put them on the window sill so they will get enough sun.

By Angelina & Hilmah

Sustainable Energy Talk

Two weeks ago a lady came from Vector to our school to teach us about the sustainable energy. So she talked about renewable energy like solar energy,water energy and wind energy.

Two boys used light from the lamp to make the helicopter fan go spinning 

around. It went really slow then it went faster.This was solar energy. We get solar energy from the sun.

After that, we went outside and she showed us a solar powered car. The vector lady put down the solar powered car and the sun reflected on the car and it started moving. After that the vector lady gave us a sustainable energy booklet to use. 

We need to be careful with energy because we can't live without it.

By Ahi Rm 1

Year 7 Trip to the Zoo

On Tuesday 23rd August we went to the zoo trip with rooms 2,27,11 and 13 on a bus. We went there to learn about sustainability and we went to the central lawn. Then we had to go and look around.

First we saw the red panda- it liked to play and it was climbing and hiding. Next we got to watch the meerkats and they were so cute. Some of them were sleeping and some were staring at us. Then we got to look at the orangutans. They were huge and furry.

So my favourite animals are the red pandas and the orangutans and meerkats. I learned about the animals habitats and how they can survive by not chopping down the forests and the jungles.

 In New Zealand we have to protect the kiwis by making them safe from the predators like wild cats and dogs. 

By:Amna Room 2

Making Vegetarian Pizza - Year 7 ESOL Group.

We are making vegetarian pizzas. We are reading a story about how to make pizzas.

We used crumpets for our base.

We put tomato sauce on our base and spread it out.

Then we put tomato, onion, mushrooms, pineapple and peppers on our pizzas.

We put cheese on the top of our pizzas.

 Then we put our pizzas in the oven for 15 minutes.

 While our pizzas were cooking we wrote a procedure about our pizza making.

Then we ate our pizzas and they were so tasty and yummy.

We checked to see if our procedure worked.We wrote about that-our pizzas were delicious and yummy.

By Amna and Sid

Art Week at Mt Roskill Intermediate

Our hall exhibition

We had Art Week at our school where we could make and do lots of different Art activities.

Some of the activities were string art, wearable art, henna design, tapa cloth making, sculptures and Mondrian Art and stone carving.  It was really amazing looking at what people made. 

We set up all the artwork in the hall for the exhibition so our parents could come and see what we did for art week.

 Our group painted the wall in the Library.
We got the idea from the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. We painted blue, yellow, red,white and black squares and rectangles with black lines.

The wall looks wonderful. It is bright and colourful. We feel really proud of it.

By Kalkikdan Birku and Yousif Faisal.

Our Hangi Night

We dug the pit for the hangi.

  We lit the fire to cook the food.

Some of the ESOLs came to watch

                                                We saw Mr Ormsby and Whaea Jackie prepare the food.

We danced and sang.

Our parents loved our haka.

By Tuifua R. 6

Pasifika Fono

               

On Thursday 12th we did the Tonga and Samoan dance the Samoan boys did the fakaupaki.
The Tongan girls dance was tau'oluga. 
We used our computers to do a Kahoot quiz with our parents. 
We had lots of good things to eat and we had to get ready to change to perform our dance.We had a good time at the Pasifika Fono. By Paea Room 2.

We are Learning About Inventions

Today we learned how people used to wash clothes.They used a wash board.

We use a washing machine to wash our clothes now.

by Jack Room 27

Our Trip to One Tree Hill

Maungakiekie-One Tree Hill

The name of the volcano on One Tree Hill is called Maungakiekie.

In the gardens they grew lots of kumara.

It was the home of Kiwi Tamaki a Maori chief.

One Tree Hill was the largest earth fort in the world.

One Tree Hill is one of Auckland's volcanoes.

The volcano made three craters.

We went to One Tree Hill to learn about volcanoes.

We saw sheep,trees and a big city.

We climbed the mountain.

We went to the Stardome and we sat on big chairs and we saw moons and the Earth.

We played with the ipads. We played a game to find things about the stars and planets. 

I had a good time, because I learned about volcanoes.

By : Kailu  Room 16 

Year 7 Trip to MOTAT

We went to MOTAT to learn about Inventions and Innovations

We went to Museum of Transport and Technology.  I went to MOTAT on Tuesday with my class and room 30 and 11 and to learn old things and new things and we rode on a tram and learned how old they were.By:Amna. 

On Wednesday Rm1,29 and 27 went to MOTAT to learn about Invention and Innovations. We saw some stuff from the past and we got to ride on the trams. My favourite part of MOTAT was the Laser Maze because it was fun and it was quite scary.By:Ahi

We visit the old school and we pretended that we are in school now.By:Ahi and Amna.

We went to the Victorian Village and it was interesting and marvellous. By:Amna and Ahi.

      We went inside the laser maze and we had to jump over the laser and we had lots of fun.By:Ahi and Amna.

We got to wear an old fashion clothes which the girls wore to look after their clothes. It was quite different from todays but anyways it was  

fun and we enjoyed our trip. By: Amna And Ahi

We Ate Feijoas

What is a feijoa? 


A feijoa is a fruit and is a very popular fruit in Brazil,Bolivia, in South America, New Zealand and Argentina.

Where did feijoa's come from?
Feijoas came from Brazil parts of Colombia,Uruguay,Paraguay and Northern Argentina.

Where do feijoa's grow best?
Feijoa grow best in South America and New Zealand.

Today I ate a feijoa and it tasted delicious and sour. By:Amna

What is a feijoa? 

A feijoa is a fruit that is green and inside the feijoa is yellow. Feijoas come from Brazil and it was introduced into New Zealand in the 1920s. Feijoas  grows best in autumn and winter. Today I ate a feijoa and it taste really delicious and it was really sweet.
By: Ahi Pahulu

Muslim Girls Swimming

Every Friday we do Muslim girls swimming with Mrs Colling.We are really lucky to have this opportunity because most of us are not able to swim with our classes.We get to learn new swimming skills and it's really fun. 

By Hebah rm 11

Classroom Chrome Books

We are using our chrome books in class with our teacher.
We love using the chrome books and doing our work in class.
 Sometimes I do my homework on it. We always have chrome books
in class if its reading, spelling, writing or maths.
We like our class :)

By Hamdi and Amal

ESOL Group Year 7 2016

Our Year 7 ESOL Group

We come from China, Tonga, Pakistan and Malaysia. 

We come from  Tonga, China and Somalia.

                                             We come from Samoa, India and Indonesia.

Year 8 Camp 2016