Sewing Machine

   The Tension Disk:. The Tension Disk is never to be touched by anyone including yourself

Hand Wheel :

This has direct contact with the needle.

You must always turn the hand wheel

towards you.

      

                          Pattern Selector:

      The Pattern selector is to adjust

    The different patterns you choose.

Stitch Length Selector:

It would be  controlling the length

of the stitch.

Textiles at tech

On a normal thursday at tamaki college we had to be in our tech groups because we were changing rotations for our group so we had changed into Textiles which are a combination of cooking and sewing so at textiles we are learning how to/use a sewing machine so later on we are going to sew a pillow as well so I hope I like Textiles other than Cooking!

The Reasons why I wanted to Visit Europe

So this term is about exploring or visiting different continents and learning about them. So Mrs Stone was telling Room 4 homeroom things about Europe including the European Empire in the 14 or 13th century but The European Empire was only around those times then he/she had passed away but before this happened that Empire was brutally hurting/abusing their slaves which are very sad. So after that happened the slaves were only beaten up if they didn’t listen to the Empire. But the real reason why I wanted to explore Europe was because of how the continents were pretty much popular especially Asia but I had just wondered how it would actually looked like. Their animals were kinda different to the ones we have in New Zealand like they have Tigers/Cheeters,Bears,Deer,Monkeys and Foxes which are nice. So the other reasons are that I had wanted to know/visit the most popular places/towns in Europe also know the whole histories behind them.  

Things About Europe

So at class we had to do inquiry which was about longitude and latitiude which are about the directions and which way they are but we learnt about Europe and the countries that are connected to them but Europe has a lot of old and special history behind.

Vaka Voyagers

Today for reading we had to read a book called Vaka Voyagers which is a nice story to read and it was all about the old times like when we had ancestors.

Tantalizing Transformations

Year 7 Team Building

Last week on Wednesday most of the year 8's were going to camp with only a few teachers went with them but only 4 people stayed with the year 7's.While they were gone all the year 7's had 3 different rotations to do. But my favorite activity was making truffles with Mrs llaoa.The reason why is because even though it was hard to make it was still a fun thing to do. The next game that was kinda fun was doing a murder mystery with Mrs Moala. The main things to do was talk to ur table,Figure out who is the murderer and we had to use Mrs Moala's clues to help you.The game which was a nice game to do was with Whaea Kelly. Her game was minute to win it you have 6 people in your group and your group gets different things to do. But each person got to be either in groups 1,2 or 3 and I was in group 2 which group name was changed to Crazy Horses while the pt england Og (Group 1) And Little Homies (group 3). At the team buildings we have learnt about stepping up and being leaders to the whole school.

The Skeleton Coast

Today at literacy for reading we had to create a task after reading about the skeleton coast also the National park which only lets 800 people a year.

At Tech

Today at cooking our  teacher Mrs Hecka had decided to tell us to bake brownies since every station only had 3 people.Each person had things to do for baking. For an example person number 1 had to get the butter and thice it into little cubes. But the last person has to get their measuring cup and there small bowl to put  2 cups of sugar and flour but the brownies were amazing as  well even though it was a bit too hot.

The Girl In The Woods

The Girl In The Woods

Once there was a  girl named Destiny she had green eyes,dark brown hair and she was wearing a long blue dress. Her parents had let her go in the backyard to play but Destiny had noticed that there was a forest behind the house. so she had decided to go into the forest by herself without her parents,friends and the others. When Destiny had walked into the forest she was quite nervous,scared at the same time. During when Destiny was walking she heard some growls right behind her. so when she had turned around Destiny had seen a few wolves behind her so she quickly ran away but those wolves were running behind her so she kept running and running until she had lost them. Destiny was relieved so when she had turned around there was a mysterious tree house which looked new but without thinking she had climbed the ladder and walked inside. Some furniture's looked old and others were broken so when Destiny had slowly walked to the balcony she saw some abandoned trees with leaves falling out slowly so she had decided to explore the tree house. Destiny had seen a weird creepy bedroom which was weird and the tree house was mostly like a house instead. The bedroom was with black and red things inside so when she had walked inside the red actually looked like blood instead. It looked Like it had nice and old fashioned stuff from the 1980’s. So behind the door was something that looked like a closet but with red stains like a person was here before. But when Destiny had heard footsteps by the door she quickly walked into the closet and said “Hello...” but no response so the door suddenly opened so she stood there quietly and didn’t talk at all. So she had started to get upset and scared so she had started to cry she had destined to leave now.. When the unknown had left but Destiny wanted to call her parents so she had tried to find something but there was no luck at all so she had looked to see if the unknown man or woman was gone. And she or he was gone  so she slowly walked to the bedroom door unlocked it and still slowly walked again to the balcony. But she was lost because the tree house had multiple rooms so she didn’t know where to go. It was almost night time so Destiny walked into a room which had a door that looked different than the others so she went by the door but little did she know that it was the front door so instead of knocking Destiny had just opened the door. After the door was opened she had walked into a maze with nothing but leaves. So she couldn’t cheat or jump over since the hedges are too big. When Destiny had finally escaped the maze there were still multiple games to do but Destiny wanted to find a way out .The next one was very dangerous because it had Lava and stone placed at random places with space so it was very tricky to do. But Destiny was destined to go through but she had became strong and she had made it.But there was 2 more challenges to complete. Suddenly there was a voice right behind her which sounded like her dad but it was just her imagination.So Destiny had a another task to do but it was the trickiest one to do and it was that she had to swing across the deep shallow water with vines.Destiny had swung across with the vine and nearly fell and she kept getting scared in case she had fell in the shallow water. So destiny had made it to the last part where she had to run away from more wolves so that she can go home.

Grey Angels

North,East,South,West.

Today in inquiry we had learnt about the directions which were North,East,South and West. We had to figure out where we are and other places as well.I had learnt what latitude and longitude means latitude means the line facing east to west and Longitude means the line facing North and South.

Harry's War

Today for reading my group (Kina) had read a book called Harry's war which is based on a world war book that is like a comic except it's a bit different and was a nice story to read.

WALT: use prior knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of a text using specific vocabulary.