Illustrated Story

LI:To write a pourquoi (tell me why or how) story that paints a picture in the mind of the reader.

Our challenge this week was to create a porquoi story that we would illustrate and share with our junior classes. A porquoi story tells us why something is the way it is. Our story tells why/how… This morning we shared our stories with Room 2 and Room 4, and they loved listening to them. I enjoyed doing this story because I got to work collaboratively with my friends and were very creative with our animated story.

Holiday decoration

LI: To design and make a holiday decoration that fits the client brief

For this term, The LS2 students designed and created Holiday Decorations using Hand Sewing. We started off  by asking questions to our client who was Mr Johnston.Then we created a DLO(Brainstorm) and a (Mood Board) with the information that can help us understand what we are going to make. Brainstorming the information helped us learn more about How,Why,What,Shape and Who. The Materials and equipment we used were Threads,felt,Cotton,String,Buttons,googly eyes and Paper.  We needed to make sure that our decorations were 10cm big, so we started off by getting a ruler and measuring the length and the width. For my first decoration I decided to create Hanukkah star  We used paper and a drawing pencil to help us create our first design. But firstly I needed to learn the type of sewing we’re doing. We learned three different types of hand sewing which is Blanket Stitch,Outline Stitch and a Running Stitch by learning how to use the different types of stitching we practiced onto a 10cm square(made out of felt). After practising more and more we decided to create our decoration by creating our decoration we planned about. Then after creating all the planning and understanding what we need to do we created our first design. The first design I decided to create was a I really enjoyed creating this decoration because it represented the holiday celebration we were creating, I really enjoyed working with others and working together to create the design. After completing my first design I decided to create a another one which was a fish I think I’ve improved a lot in my stitching, I think 

Art colouring book

This morning we tried one of this year’s Kick Start Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to experiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowed us to recolours famous painting or images of landmarks around the world. The art work that i did was could The Siesta.

Weighty challenge 1

 This week for maths we were learning measurments. In this subject we were talking about weight. The unit for measurement for weight are - grams, kilograms, tonnes etc. In groups we solved 3 problem challenges. For these challenges we wrote down answers in on pieces of paper. After we solved these challenges we created a DLO explaining our strategy and how we got our answer. For our strategy we used Place Value and a calculator because the numbers were too big for us to solve. In my group was Liletina, Fau, Jayden, Leroy and Diana. 

Main idea,Embarrassment

 

L.I To find out the main idea 

This DLO is about the Main Ideas in the book this book is called the Embarrassment poem. I worked with Makaili,Afa,Liletina and  Rj. We needed to read the book twice to find out the main details that will help others and yourself understand the main Idea. As you can see in this DLO that we think that the MAIN IDEA is knowing how to handle Embarrassment. Working with my friends was really fun and enjoying because we shared our ideas and we were collaborating,working as a team. The thing that i liked about this poem is how it tell us the secret to not be embarrassment like for an example you can jest laugh

it all out till the people that is laughing at you has left.

Guy Fawkes

LI: To use the words you highlighted to help you summerise the story behind fire works night.

 This week we have been leaning with the year 4, We were leaning about the real story about fireworks.What we had to do is lessen to hear the important words to write on out piece on paper.After that we had to write a summery about guy Fawkes. We had to write 20 words, 6 most words, and also make  a sentence using the  the 6 most words.

TEEL Paragraph

 LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs .

This week we have been revisiting  explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. I have been working with Hosea and Ellenora on our explanation about our PBS care values Confidence , Attitude , Respect and Excellence and Innovation we have witten 4 paragraphs of teel to every care value and teel stands for Topic sentence , Explain , Evidence and Link .  Me , Hosea and Ellenora use all of our opinion to come up with 4 paragraphs for  teel that represents each PBS care values and we have made an screencastify about our 16 paragraphs of our care values , something i found interesting about writing about an explanation is being able to understand how to write a TEEL paragraph and being able to share my ideas and communicate with others .

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Inquiry

LI . To think deeply about a change I would make

If you were Prime Minister, what one thing would you do to change NZ for the better and why?

If i was a prime minister, I Would  help people in need,I would help people  with the rent and make pay rates higher  for all workers, and all the kids to have free school lunches. Also give homeless people a home or reunite with their family.

Inquiry

LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice

This week we decided which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision.

If I was 18 I would vote for National because they have caring for animals.This means if Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi .Won the election in my electorate Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi would be our member of parliament and Jacinda Ardern ardern would become the Prime Minister.

Tell us something you found interesting and why.

Tech: Science with Mrs Sharma

LI:To identify the different types and uses of plastic 

This week for tech the year 7s at Panmure Bridge School  learned about the different types of plastics. We also learned about Plastic, material, wood, paper and metal which helps us understand more about  plastics. We also played an activity that will give us more information on plastic. The activity we played was about looking around the class and trying to look for the different materials that we could see. The most interesting fact that I learnt was that every year 17 billion rubbish gets thrown away in the ocean.

Tuakana teina

 Today were were working with Ruma kotahi/Room one and Ruma korua/ Room two what we had to do was help draw/design patters create string art panels. We used chalk to see were we are gonna glue, then we glued the string.

Making Connections to problem solving

LI: To explore problem solving

Today we had bad connection to the internet, instead of using the internet we went old school and used paper. We made Tangrams from a piece of A4 paper and a pair of scissors. We didn't read our instructions this time as we had to listen carefully to each step. A Tangram is a square cut into seven pieces which can be arranged to make other shapes.  Did you know it is an ancient Chinese puzzle? The hardest part was to make a square with all the 7 shapes. We had to problem solve to put the shapes together to make the different animals.  We collaborated very well together.

6 sentence story

L.I. Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative

Add verbs, adverbs and adjectives to a text to make it interesting for the reader

Xodus kept many keys, but he couldn't find the one he was looking for. He got angry. He had memorized all his keys and knew exactly which key opened which lock. No friends, no family, he was lonely. Luckily he had his imaginary cat.There was a knock on his door but when he approached, nobody was there.

Today my group wrote 6 sentence stories to help us take risks with our writing. We did this by sharing our ideas and writing sentence that drop hints about what was happening in the picture we chose to write about. We helped each other by suggesting ideas to each other to make our stories more interesting. 

Volly ball

                                                           LI: To use the skills of volleyball in a game situation.

This week for kiwi sport we were learning to spike first we started with doing serve 3x to our partner then we had a lot of games of king of the court it was fun and challenging i. We got into groups  of 4 it was group 1 2 3 and group 4 i was in group 2 and group 4 started of by being king of the court we.

Tech

LI: To make pizza

Today at food tech we followed the recipe to make a beef and bbq  pizza with Mrs Heka. For the meat my group used vegetarian sausage because one of my group  members is vegetarian that mean's he can not it mince/meat.  We diced the onions, The onions were the worst part out of all the veges we cut because it was hurting our eyes. We got 1 label spoon of oil and poured it in the pan. Then we sliced the mushrooms after slicing the mush room we fried the onions then we put the pasta sauce then we put the cheese. after that we put the onons in the pizza bread then we put the sausage on the pizza bread. Then we put it in the oven to cook. When we ate it, it was amazing. 

Venn Diagram

LI: to create a DLO of tool for harvesting.

In this Venn Diagram it shows how people used to celebrate matariki, how people celebrate matariki now and how do now and then do the same thing. I worked with Heavenly and Liletina as a group and we found information about what people do on matariki now days. As we created this I learned some new interesting facts about matariki such as maori people make things out of flax like kites.

Goldfish in a bowl

LI: Is to Complete a simple task to make gold fish and bowl

This DLO shows what we made and how we made it. This game was really enjoying to play because it looked like  the fish was jumping into the water. We created a dlo that shows how we made it so you can make it a home as well.  

Optical illusion

LI: To explain what an optical illusion

Mr Johnston came into our class to show us photos about illusions and talking about camouflage, He was talking about the britsh wearing bright red and the cross in the middle could be a good target. Then he shows us a photo with two arrow and said with one is longer. 

Matariki Stars

L.I: To explain what is Margarita is and why we celebrate it.                                                                                                                                                                                                           This DLO shows what is Matariki and information about matariki. We used our searching skills to find these interesting facts and information.  This DLO will help me and others that don’t know what is matariki and information about matariki.

Matariki Harvesting Birds

L.I: To use our knowledge and find three interesting information and fact about these matariki harvesting harvesting birds. 

                                                

This DLO shows interesting facts and information about 3 matariki harvesting birds. I worked with my group to find these interesting facts and information.  The three matariki harvesting birds we picked a Tui, Huia and Kereru. 

Math game

LI: To practice Defining Math's Vocabulary 

To help us practise the meaning of maths words. Mrs Anderson taught us a game called maths word challenge. I worked with Lily and RJ on this game.  To play the game 2 players found a word from the maths word game,  then had to give a clue to the person trying to  figure out the math word who was sitting with their back to the other players. 

Summarising

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about

This was our second matariki blog post about matariki. We had to summarize about

matariki we had had to pick 20 important words from our knowledge about matariki.

Also we had to pick 6 most important words, then we had to summarize those those words

in sentence.  

Matariki

LI:  To Make a DLO talking about matariki.

This DLO shows what is Matariki and information about matariki. We used our searching skills to find these interesting facts and information.  This DLO will help me and others that don’t know what is matariki and information about matariki.

Security Guard

LI: To explore a career that interest Me.

I took the career quiz to help me find a career that intrest me. At the end the three options i chose were being a Security,Heavy truck driver. and a Driver. This DlO shows how much the job is paid, and show the knowledge of security guard. Also how to enter the job. 

Food technology/ Sagwala Dish

LI: To make a sagwala dish

Today for food technology we made a Sagwala dish first we got our medium bowl out and

added the curry powder into the bowl then we gave our medium bowl to Miss Heka to get

the rice. After that we got our measuring cups and measuring spoons. Then we put our

tomato into one of the measuring cup and the other measuring cups were use  to add our

yogurt then we added all of our ingredients. It was amazing and fun.

Volley ball/ How to dig

L.I to learn how to dig

Today for kiwi sport we Learned a new skill that was digging. we recaped about what we did.
Then we got in groups 4 digging to each other. After that we got into groups. The groups were 1

2 3 4. Once we got in our groups we played king of the court. For example  we had a court each so
group 1 and 2 were on two courts and group 3 and 4 had two courts. After that we played some games.
The group that won the king of the court was group 4 It was challenging and fun.

             

Statistical Investigation: Kowhaiwhai designs

LI: To carry out a statistical investigation across PBS to find the most popular kawhaiwahi design.

 

Our group worked collaboratively to carry out a statistical investigation to help Miss Pryde choose the winning kowhaiwhai design for our PBS Te Reo blog. When we asked the students the designs on the DLO were the most popular. If you click on the link you will see all the kowhaiwhai designs our class created.

Here is a link to all the kowhaiwhai designs

Hosea blog post analysis

LI: To analysis the data and set goals.

 To help us set learning goals this year we analysed our blog post data over time. To achieve my goal of 80 post by the end of this year I need to make sure i am publishing 3 posts each week. 

Persicope

LI: To explain how a Periscope work.

Mr Johnston came and taught us what Persicopes are, how they are used and who uses them. We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at a 45 degree it reflect the light back at 45 degree. It was fun doing this activity.

Light Facts

LI: to share 5 facts about light that we find interesting.

We worked collaboratively to create a DLO that shows facts about light. One fact that interests me is did you know that the most common light is white light. White light is the only light that is visible to the eye. White light is also made up of the colours of the rainbow because white light is made of the rainbow.

Food Technology/ Veggie noodles

L.I To make veggie noodles.

Today for food technology we made veggie noodles, first we got our veggies and noodles then we got
our big pot and added 3 cups of water into the big pot and then Mrs Tuipulotu came and lit the oven.
After that we added our noodles into the hot pot and stir it then we got our veges. Than  we diced  the
veggies.Then we got our big pan and added 2 tablespoon of oil into the big pan. Then we turned the
element off then we drained the noodles.The hardest part for us is to cut the onion and the garlic. The
onion made our eyes sore that we cried.

Maths Strategy

LI: To find the most efficient strategy to answer the question

This week our group practiced finding the answer to written math questions. To do this we needed to first find the numbers we were working with. We decided the most efficient strategy was to use our times table knowledge. Being able to find how many groups of a number made this strategy efficient. 

Hot Cake Recipe

LI: To structure and write a procedural text

For writing we have been learning how to write a procedural text. To do this we used the recipe we followed at Tech. This procedure tells the reader how to make hot cakes. Before we wrote this we worked collaboratively to order the pictures Mrs Anderson took of us making the hotcakes. Once we had done that we matched each photo with a verb. A verb is an action word and tells anyone following the recipe what they need to do. After that we use the verbs as sentence starters and collaboratively wrote a list of instructions.

Summarising

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about

This week for reading we completed a work task which was summarising. We needed to summarise the text and what the text was all about. After that we wrote down 20 important words and then chose 6 main words, and used the 6 main words in a sentences to write our summary.

How to stand up to bullies

I did my care award about how to stand up to bullies and i worked with my friend Rj and makaili and he helped me with my care award and we attributed the photos and we had to write about what to do

and how to stand up to bullies

Teaching a group how to play a game

This here is one of my  care awards this is about playing  a game with a group and i was teaching them how to play invisible touch.

Food Tech

LI: Was to listen to instruction on how to cook

 Today for Tech we did food technology with Mrs Heka. We made a curry rice salad, first we got

our bowls, measuring cups and measuring spoons. Then we got our ingredients it was 1 tablespoon

of curry powder, 2 tablespoons of corn bits and 1 tablespoon of beans. After that we got our bowl of

vegetables and then we cut our onion,red cabbage and peould our carrot. Then we put our onion in a

big pot then we got our oil and added it to the pot with the onion. Then we got our cooked rice and

mashed it then Mrs Heka came and started the stove for use to cook the curry. After that we added our

chicken into the pot with the oil and the onion then we waited for the chicken to turn  white then we

added the rice and misk the rice and chicken together and then we added the curry powder with the

chicken and rice till it turns yellow and that's when we added the beans and the corn bits it was fun to

make.

Provocation

L.I to create a DLO explaining if NZ should be a cashless society and your opinion?
This week we created a DLO explaining if NZ should be a cashles society. We explained why we should, why we shouldn't and our opinion. One reason why we should is because it might be so much easier. Why we shouldn't is that people tak the time to process and make our cash or money. Our opinion is no NZ shouldn't be a cashless society, because if we use credit cards, most people won't know how to or if we don't become a cashless society, everyone can buy stuff, even kids.

Gourds

This week for Cybersmart we learning about Smart searching. The steps to smart-searching are: Key words or phrase within your question, Skim and Scan, Crt F to find the words and select or reject. The things that we searched about was Gourds.

Past & Present

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For past and present we had to write about what happen in the past. We had to compare the past to tense present as example what happen in the past and what happening today we had to work a group for this activity

Kupe V Captain Cook

This week for inquiry we had to make a Venn diagram. We had to write all our ideas about Kupe and Captain cook.We had to work collaborative in our group to get the Venn Diagram done.

Kiwi can

Today for kiwi can we learn about positive relationships. Our topic was fair play. We started off with our energizer called up and down. We had to try and put the cone up or down depending on which team you were on. I was in Mrs. graces’ team, and Hosea and afa, were in Mr,Cemanus’ team. Next we were doing acting. Karlos was the actor and We had to try and make him happy again. I managed to make him happy twice and our team won. Next were street fighters. We had to be the first person to complete the amount of moves before the other player versed you. If you make the sound as well and the opposite person doesn’t, you win. We had fun and enjoyed ourselves playing the games.the names of the kiwi can teachers where Mr Cemanu and Mis Grace.

Tech

Today was the first session of year 7’s first session at Tech with Miss Ferguson. We learnt to program a robot to move. We learnt how to use a program the makes the mbot move we also learned how to change the color on the mbot

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we learned about positive relationships and empathy. We played 2 games that involved acting and teamwork. One of the games we played was that we had to get in a group of 4 or 5 .The groups had role plays that were either bad or good. Our group was acting out on the bad side. Our idea was that one of us will be a teacher, and 2 of our group members would go in and slam the door on the rest of our class members, even the teacher. This was a fun activity and our group
worked well together.

Cricket - Kiwisport

This week our kiwisport was cricket. We got put in a groups 1s and 2s number one was  the bating team and  number two was the bowling team. The bat team was to  hit the ball on the cone. There were two balls that you had to hit. When you hit both of them you had to run and hit the blue cone as fast as you can. Also you  have to count when you go back to hit the blue cone but when the person with the twos balls you had to pick it up to put it back on the cone.

The bowling team was to get in 3 groups we had to bowl the ball and trying to get the cones. When you hit the cone you had to put the cone in onw of the sticks of the wickets. The other one was to hit all the the cone. When you hit all the cones you have to try hit the wicket everytime you to hit it you have to take one stick away from the wicket when all of them are gone you win.