Weekly Grocery Shopping | Maths Collabrative Challenge

In Math, we were given a collaborative group challenge to complete for the week. We were to imagine that we had a budget of $200 to spend on weekly shopping for our ‘family’. The amount of people in our family would be the same amount of people in the group. In this case there were 6 for Avalon, Fui, Te Pounamu, Nyjah, Joel, and myself. We had to choose a supermarket site to look for groceries online, and make sure we bought enough proper food fit for 6 people. We chose Pak n Save because we were all familiar with that market. We started off by creating our breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was also decided that every group could have one fast food or takeaway dinner. We chose Burger King which we spent $30 on by getting everyone a stunner meal. After that we started writing down the list of ingredients and items of what we needed to make each meal. With somethings we found it was easier to buy it pre-made like waffles, spring rolls, garlic bread, pizza and etc because if we didn't that would mean more ingredients to buy money and more money would be spent. As we went along writing the prices, we were adding them up. We decided to round the cents because otherwise it would be too hard and take longer to calculate. We were told to buy at least one bathroom or cleaning household item that we might need. For us it was bar of soap and a packet of sponges. Sometimes when we were trying to stay in budget, prices would go over too much and sometimes only by a little bit. After taking out some things we really didn't need, and getting good quality for good price we were sure we had it. As we finally totalled up the prices we found we could get maybe 2 or 3 more items but we decided not to. In the end our total price was $184!

Kokako Bird Drawing (Excellence & Innovation) | C.A.R.E Awards

This is a drawing I created personally for Mrs. Anderson after camp for thank you letters. Nyjah also created a drawing of the Hunua falls, which they were both put together in the end. Being a created with teacher or custom, this counts as another and the last completed challenge to earn my silver Excellence & Innovation badge.

3 Motivational Posters (Excellence & Innovation) | C.A.R.E Awards

This was another one of the 5 challenges I've done for my silver Excellence & Innovation badge. For this, I had to create 3 motivational posters out of quotes used by inspirational people. I decided to use a google presentation since I would be easier to put them all together. These people were Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, and Albert Einstein.

My Personal Passion (Excellence & Innovation) | C.A.R.E Awards

For this challenge to achieve my Excellence & Innovation silver badge, I had to identify my personal passion. I would say reading and not only just books. I read in and out of school, and it helps me so much mentally to better and add to my knowledge. I personally enjoy fictional books because they are most interesting whether it be about a green eggs or a bunch of talking animals.

Research a New Zealander with this aspect (Excellence & Innovation) | C.A.R.E Awards

As another challenge for the Excellence & Innovation silver badge, I had to research a New Zealander who has show excellence and innovation themselves. I've chosen, popularly, Sir Edmund Hillary because of the obvious influence and impact he made from reaching Mt. Everest. Others are inspired in their own way from this act proving how he shows excellence and innovation by challenging himself.

Reading 3 Novels (Silver Excellence & Innovation) | C.A.R.E Awards

As one of the challenges for the Excellence & Innovation silver badge, I had to read 3 (graphic) novels. A graphic novel is a novel with pictures set out in the format of a comic strip. The books I read were Matilda by Roald Dahl, Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier and StoneKeeper by Kazu Kibuishi. I think my favourite of all of these novels is Ghosts. It's about two sisters and their family who move to another place in idea to better the younger one who has a disorder. This doesn't stop them from exploring the place, and meeting a boy who coincidentally is connected to their family through their parents. He shows them spirits and ghosts, which make them unsettled. When Dia de Muertos (Day of the dead) comes, the seeing of spirits isn't new and they realise they had no intent to harm them. 

The Possum Problem

This week in Reading, Waiheke group read a book called the "Possum Problem". It's about the beginning of the possum population and how/why they are endangering New Zealand's forest and native animals. In groups of four we created DLO's and recordings to show our understanding and learning of the book. I worked with Angela, Joseph, and Julian.

4 Qualities - Explanation

THE 4 QUALITIES - WEALTH

Respect, empathy, tolerance and kindness; What do these mean to you? These 4 qualities are more important than they really seem to be. They show how we are able to connect with each other and make relationships/friendships. When talking to friends, family or even strangers. But we forget them sometimes, and let the worst get the best of us. Especially when it comes to serious problems, like wealth and money.

Some may have more or less currency than others, but that doesn’t and shouldn’t make us different. People deserve to be treated the same for their rights as a human. Respecting someone else’s privacy and business isn’t difficult, but it ends up being a major problem in schools and such. Trying our best to be tolerant and understanding of their problems whether they have less to no money at all is vital.


Having more money than someone should not be a topic of conversation, or to be made fun of. We should be showing empathy and see things in their eyes. We're all no less than each other, almost all exactly the same. We definitely must not make fun of how they look, or the money in their pocket/wallet. Kindness is the most important thing we can show to another person no matter how big or small, how tall or short, or how much money.

When hearing about someone else's money, these 4 qualities are the most important things to have. Not only in yourself, but others too. To build relationships and connect with others on another level. Showing respect, empathy, tolerance and kindness could change a life...even the world.

At the start of the year LS2 were introduced to 4 qualities being - respect, empathy, tolerance, and kindness. And this term we wrote explanations about them through a topic that is important for us to show them in. I chose wealth, since it has and still is a problem in society. These qualities strengthen and support good relationships. And I was really trying to express how important they really are.

Water Filter Testing

Last term for inquiry we created our own water filters to improve the state of dirty water.  We worked in small groups, to research how to create filters using a small amount of materials. I worked with Taheesha, Eyaka, Marieta, and Alex. Following our plan, we used charcoal, dirt, grass/gravel, cloth, and our bottle. Our water improved slightly when we compared it to the grading strip probably because we were missing the proper material we needed. And it seem like it wasn't going to work by how fast the water was filtering. 

Early Maori Enterprise & Economics

This week for inquiry we've been looking at Maori enterprise and economics. Learning about when it started, and how it started. In small groups we made a short summary of what we learnt in 5 sentences. Then we made those 5 sentences shorter by using only 10 syllables in each. To do this we used clapping and stomping methods to count them. Everyone's finished summary was recorded and preformed in-front of the class. Here are the both of them:

Original Summary:
Early Maori enterprise started years back. Maori were the first people to start economy in Aotearoa establishing bartering and trading systems between each other. They began to produce and sell more items and market mainly with food. They grew selling livestock and crop. Unfortunately their sales dropped when they lost most of their land and ownership to the crown.
Changed Summary:
Mao-ri en-ter-prise star-ted years a-go. Mao-ri in-tro-duced econ-omy with trad-ing. Pro-du-cing and mar-ket-ing more i-tems. U-sing live-stock, crop, and farm to bar-ter. Un-for-tu-nate-ly sales dropped from lost land.
(The lines show when we stomp, clap, or pat when it's another syllable)