SLJ Week 1 Activity 5

 L.I To create a kowhaiwhai pattern to represent summer

Today I learnt that when it is very hot and the air is shimmering Tānerore performs the haka for his mother, Hine-Raumati. This happens in summer as the land heats up. Our challenge was to think about this while we designed our own kowhaiwhai pattern to represent summer. My pattern shows the heat of the sun. I found this activity fun because I made my own designs.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 4

L.I To create a piece of insect art

Inspired by art creations by Raku Inoue we went outside and collected leaves, twigs, and other plant debris to create our own insect images. Three facts about bees. Bees have stingers, Bees are black and yellow and bees have six legs.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 3

LI: To create your own comic strip of an imaginary conversation.

My comic strip shows the conversation I imagine these two people had after one of the men had sneezed his teeth into the sea during a fishing trip. I found this activity fun because it was funny.

SLJ week 1 Activity 2

LI: To write a quality blog comment on someone else’s blog that starts a rich learning conversation. 

Leaving a quality blog comment on another  student’s blog helps us make connections to new learning by asking open ended questions that encourage a reply and motivate the blogger to ask their own question in return. This is how a comment thread starts and when that happens we make connections with a wider audience who we can learn with and from. The Person I commented on was Malachi at Ruapotaka hopefully I get a reply.

SLJ week one Activity one

 LI: To collect materials needed to successfully complete our weekly superpower building missions with Nano Girl.

This morning we started off by doing the summer learning journey task with the year 7’s and 8’s.They helped us by understanding what to do. My partner from LS2 was Liletina and she helped me understand what to do. I really found it fun and interesting to work with her. 

Christmas Board Game

LI: To create a digital board game for the juniors.

This week we designed digital board games with a Christmas theme to play with the junior students. To play the game successfully they will need to read and follow the instructions, then use their counting skills to move around the board. Today we showed our Year 4 students how to make their own games.

Operation Christmas Drop

L.I To wright a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words.

The impact that OCD  has on the remote islands is the off Guam is that the crates that the Airforce drop out of the plane is filled with food and learning supplies.
 For the last 68 years the men and women of the US Airforce who are based at Andersen Airforce Base in Guam have been using a pilot training drill to drop much needed supplies to the people who live on the 50 remote islands that surround Guam. My opinion is that when they drop the crates I would like to donate some things like.

Tech Reflection for the end of the year

 This year has been one of roughest year as we got into lockdown and things about as Covid-19 hit. On weekdays every friday the year 7’s and year 8’s students at Panmure Bridge School goes to tech, At tech we have 3 rotations, The year 7’s rotations went from Mrs Fregson,Mrs Heka and Mrs Sharma, Mrs Fregoson is all about doing robots and moving them around as playing with coding, Mrs Heka is all about making food and trying them out, lastly Mrs Sharma is all about having fun in science.  I think tech this year was the best as it was our first year doing tech, I really enjoyed finding out new things every friday with them. I think tech really helped me with learning different facts.

Tech Reflection

  This week is the last tech session for this year. For tech the year 7's students learned about plants and food. We learned about plants by answering questions  and finding out information about plants. We also really enjoyed going outside and only having 2 minutes to find 10 different leaves. One of the elements of science for plants is Size and Colour. I also really liked finding out the different  leaves between.  I also really liked enjoyed working with my buddies and understand different facts about leaves. I really like going to science at tech this year my favourt thing we did was picking the leaves today.

Care award collage

 For my silver Respect Care Award I have created this is collage about life at Panmure Bridge School. At PBS we are lucky to experience lots of different learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom.  I  have included photos from cricket, kiwi sport, basketball, food tech and class learning.

Art colouring book

 LI: To experiment with colours.

This is the Big Ben clock and it is located in London. My Big Ben tower that I coloured is the top one.

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. I think that the colouring activity book is really good because it helps people to to learn how to colour and it is also really fun.

Kapa Haka

Today Te Whanau Raukura preformed at our school they sung lots of songs and also danced. Te Whanau Raukura also preformed at the Auckland Museum but because of the lock down the Auckland Museum is closed. The dances they did were amazing. They used te rakau witch is a stick used to warm up before a battle. They also used a taiaha to fight. Bekah from Te Whanau Raukura showed LS2 how she use the pois the game she showed us how to play was pukana. The thing I found interesting was all the dances that they did.

Exploring our national current events

L.I To identify author’s purpose.

 Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map.

Provocation: Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?

L.I To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me.

 A provocation is an action or speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Today we considered both sides of the provocation, ‘Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?’ We then used that information to help us form an opinion that we could justify with evidence

Maths

 LI: To create a DLO to explain how we solved the problem. 

This week for maths we were learning measurement's. 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, Hosea, Jayden, Fau and Diana.

LAWS OF INERTIA

 LI: To create a DLO explaing the Law of Inertia. 

This week for reading we have been continuing with science. For this session we were learning the Law of Inertia. The Law of Inertia connects to physics in science. In groups we created a DLO explaining what the Law of Inertia is and who created it. Isaac Newton was the person who found out and created the Law of Inertia. I collaborated with Fau, Ellenora, Karlos and Matthew to complete this DLO. Isaac Newton made 3 laws:

Law of Rest

Law of Direction

Law of Motion

Choices Explanation

L.I To right a explanation.

Why did you drop that piece of plastic? Do you know what you are doing by dropping a piece of plastic?

Did you know that the sea animals are dying and we are the ones killing them. If you want to be eating plastic and chips then keep dropping your plastic & if you want to eat fish and chips then stop throwing your plastic on the ground because it will go to the ocean.

Birds are getting strangled in the nets and eating the plastic that we throw on the ground. We have to help the sea birds by putting our plastic in the bin and taking the plastic out of the ocean.

Even sea turtles are changing their shape because people are throwing the plastic can holder on the ground and the wind blows it away into the ocean and is getting stuck around the body of the turtle and the turtles are eating the plastic we are putting in the ocean.

Most of the sea animals are mistaking the plastic as food. Did you know that a turtle got a straw stuck in its nose and a vet  had to get it out.

If we keep dropping our plastic we won't be able to swim or have fish and chips again we might have plastic and chips. I don't want to have plastic and chips. We have to prevent the plastic from going into the ocean so we can care for the sea animals and the ocean.

Inquiry

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

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

If I was Prime Minister I would give every homeless person a house and give every child lunch at school. I would give every homeless person a house because no one will mock them. I will give every child lunch at school so they are not tired.

Inquiry

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

To decide 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 party because they want to introduce new regulations for shark cage diving this means if national party won the election in my electorate Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi would be our member of parliament and Judith Collins would become the Prime Minister.

FootPrints

 

This DLO is about Observation and Science. I looked for Images that I could use to help the readers understand the DLO. I completed this DLO by sharing my ideas and helping each other. The most important thing I learned was that Science is  empirical which means it is based on something.

MRS C GREN

For Reading we continued learning about Science. This week our topic was about Biology, biology is the study of living organisms like humans, animals and micro organisms. We were learning about MRS C GREN. MRS C GREN is the life process for living organisms. They stand for movement, repatriation, Sensitivity, Cells Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition. We worked in groups to to make this DLO.

Te Reo Maori challenge

L.I To do Te Reo maori challenge.

This week for the Te Reo challenges we were doing are family trees.We stared to do on a peace of paper and then some of LS2 toke there family trees home,and we showed are parents.Then we made are family tree on a google drawing.Then we wrote dawn are family members names but we only write dawn the names of are family members that we know and we also had to write dawn the moari names.

Its cool two be me

 This week we did a DLO that talks about ourselves the most. It talks about what our favorite food,Our best friends,quality I look for in friends,I wish,great things about me,my goal,Fun things I like doing and if I could be someone else who would I be. My favorite thing about this DLO is that I can write what ever I want and no one can judge me because this is about me.

Sunflowers/Vincent Van Gogh

L.I To paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh.

For art we were painting sunflowers. We had to draw what we see. Before painting we started to practice painting sunflowers.We also learnt not to overload the brush with paint.

Tech Reflection

 LI: To identify what we know about science

Today for Tech we had science with Mrs sharma. First we got new booklets from Mrs  sharma.        and on our booklets we wrote what we think science is and if we have a question that we would say to a scientist then we got A3 paper. After that we folded our  A3 paper into quarters then we wrote the most science words we can write in 2 minutes . Then we drawed a picture of what we think scientists do there that we got photos of and we picked one each and after that we wrote about what the photo is about. 

Duffy book in schools

This week Panmure bridge students got given Duffy books.  I was happy and excited to take these books home and read them.  The Duffy books I got given were the Avengers and the Invincibles. These Duffy books will  help me with my reading.  A huge thank you to  Duffy for the books that I got given. I am looking forward to read  these books and read them to my brothers. The Avengers book is about Iron man,Caption America,Hulk,Thor,Hawkeye and black widow who  fights for those who are good. 

Vincent Van Gogh Timeline

 LI: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

My group worked collaboratively using Padlet to create a timeline about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh was an artist from the post impressionist movement which meant he liked to paint still life paintings that captured a moment in time. We found it really interesting that while he was alive he didn't sell many paintings but in 1990, 100 years after his death, a painting by him sold for $82.5 million!

Dance Class#1

Miss Rebecca is our dance teacher. The topic is me and my body. We did dance  to express me by doing movement and by creating shapes with our body to the song. we had to dance around until the music stopped then we had to be collaboratively with our group and make a shape with our body. The fun thing about dance is  that there are no wrong ways to dance. you can dance however you want.the finish this is that we needed to work together to see what letters we can get in to we had four groups of six and in that six people we all had to try do the alphabet with the whole group 

Science: Summarise the text

L.I: To summarise the information.

This week for reading our focus is science. For this second activity my group and I skimmed and scanned our notes and shared ideas to create a collaborative summary explaining ‘what is science?’. We divided our lengthy summary into 3 following paragraphs: an introduction on science, the 4 main categories of science and the two types of science.

What is science

LI: to find our 3 most vital ideas from the information answering the question 'What is Science'.

This week for reading our focus is science. In groups we watched a YouTube video explaining physics, chemistry, and biology (the things that are connected to it) and why science is important to us. After watching it twice, my group and I wrote down notes about some of the information that we took and remember from the video. We negotiated on the most important 7 of the notes to separate from the rest. We left 4 of those notes as ‘very important ideas’ and picked out our 3 vital ideas.  In our opinion we thought that the 3 most vital ideas were:

Science is divided into 3 branches, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. 

Basic science is knowing something and applied science is using what we know. 

Life education

At Life Education we learnt about Making wise choices. At Life Education we talked about Hauora, and the four walls. We also talked about our brain. We also talked about non - wise choices, and things that trigger non - wise choices. The bad choices we talked about were Drugs, Smoking, and Vaping. For example people might start smoking or vaping because of peer pressure from friends or to help stop smoking or trying to act cool it is really bad because of the vape go into your lungs.

Making connections to problem solving

L.I To explore problem solving.

Today we created a tangram puzzle with LS1 because we had no internet connection. So we made a tangram puzzle. It is an ancient Chinese puzzle. We used  A4 paper and scissors. Then we were listing to the instructions to make the tangram. After that we work were together as a group to make a square. It was really challenging. We were problem solving and communicating. the problem for us was that we that it was hard to make the square but the solved it by asking for help and communicating to each other.

6 Sentence story

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

I couldn't believe my eyes when my best friend James put his hand up and answered a question. James is usually shy and always asks to go to the toilet just to get out of the room. Unfortunately I was the one who got told off because, I never answered a question the teacher asked me. I am sweating and my heart is pounding while the teacher is yelling at me. The next day I told the teacher that I was sorry and that I was shocked.

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.

Experimenting with ultraviolet light

L.I To find the most effective UV filler.

LS2 has been trialling the electronic sensors for the kiwrious project. We are working with Suranga,Sonia,Evan,Dawn and Yvonne from AHL at Auckland university. I found that green cellophane was the most effective filter to keep zally safe from the UV light. My DLO will show you how I did this.

Volleyball

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.

Food Tech

L.I To make pizza.

Today at food tech we followed the recipe to make a beef and BBQ pizza with Mrs Heka. First we got our measuring cups  and measuring spoon's after that we got 4 tablespoon's of souse and our rap for the base. Then we got our cheese after that we we got our souse and added it onto the rap then we got our mince and made it into balls then we added our  cheese on to the pizza. After that we gave it to Mrs Heka and told her our number which was 4 then we pact up for the day and got our bowls and added our pizza onto the bowls it was fun and delicious.

Matariki

LI: to learn more about Matariki

For Inquiry we learnt about Matariki. In our DLO we summarised the general idea of Matariki and its story. We picked out twenty important words related to Matariki, then from those twenty words, we picked the six of the most important words. Using those six words we summarised the general idea of Matariki using only a few short sentences to make it simple.

Fish in a bowl

This week Mr Johnson visited the class.He tolled us all about how are eyes can deserve us.And how blinking can clean your eyes.And keeps it moused and if you wave a pen in front of your face.It looks like it's made from rubier.It is a trick that your eyes play on you.We also made a toy with one picture on one side,and one on the other side. sometimes your eyes see one thing but it needs time to imprint it in your memory.And we had to drew on those sides a fishing bowl and a fish and when you spin it around you can see the fish jumping into the fish bowl.

What is matariki

L.I To use your smart searching skills to find information that tells others what matariki is.

For our Inquiry we were learning about Matariki, since its June. On this DLO it presents what is Matariki, the seven sisters, and their names. Matariki is a Maori New Year, and it is a celebration. Matariki is also a star cluster with seven sisters, or some people know it as six daughters and one mother. Matariki is about gathering with family and friends, and talking about ancestors in stories.

Optical Illusions

L.I:To explain what an optical Illusion

This DLO shows what is a optical Illusion and how an Optical Illusion happens. On this DLO it shows what Optical l Illusion means. We used one Optical l Illusion and found out what wrong with it. I worked with my group to find interesting information about optical l Illusion information. Mr Johnston also came in to help us with this

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 Makaili RJ Leroy and Akuhata 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.

Three 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.

Sagwala

L.I To follow the recipe to make sagwala.

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.

Te Reo Maori

LI: To draw and label the Matariki cluster of stars.

This week our Te Reo challenge set by Miss Pryde was to draw and label the Matariki cluster of stars. Matariki is the Maori new year, a time for family and new beginnings.

Maths

L.I To practise defining maths vocabulary(words).

To help us practise the meaning of maths words. Mrs Anderson taught us a game called maths word challenge. I worked with Heavenly and Afa 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. 

Security Guard

L.I To explore a career that interests me.

I took the career quest quiz to help me find a career that interests me. At the end we had the three options I chose security guard,Road construction worker and building contractor. We had to find information about the the job we chose. This DLO explains what i might want to be in the future.

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.

Blog Post Analysis

L.I To analysis the data and set goals.

To help us set learning goals this year we analysis our blog post data over time. To achieve my goal of 100 blog post by the end of the year. I need to make sure I am publishing 3 posts  each week.

Periscopes

L.I To explain how  periscopes work.

Mr Johnston came and taught  us what periscopes are, how they are used and who used them. We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. that means if light hits the mirror at 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 degrees. It was fun because we got to play with one.

Light Facts

L.I To share 5 facts about light that we find interesting.

We worked collaboratively to create a DLO about light. One fact that interests me is light travels in waves because it is used in a microwave.

Maths

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

This week our group practiced finding the answer to written maths 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.

Evaluating a Text

LI: To read the information in the text, think about what you have read and form an opinion  

We read the story ‘The Protest March’ then made connections between what is happening in the world now. We used the information in the story and our prior knowledge to help us form an opinion.

Hotcake 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.

How to stand up to bullies

L.I to stand up to bullies.

Today for our Care Awards we were doing a DLO about standing up to bullies. First we used our wits which means walk away, ignore, talk it out, and seek help. Then we wrote about how they can hurt you like for an example Bullies might hit, kick,tease, or push to hurt people, or use words  to call names, When they pick on someone else, it can make them feel big and powerful.

Food Technology

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. 

Elephant Dung

L.I To find and write three interesting facts from a non fiction text in my own words.

For reading we read about  Elephant dung paper. I found lots of interesting facts. Did you know Elephants drop 16 dungs a day?. The paper dung maker picks up  sacks of dung which is cleaned in a boiler before the paper is made.  Elephants can produce 50 kgs of dung each day!