Kahoot | History of rugby

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

In this extra literacy task we could either pick to make a kahoot or an animation based around the rugby world cup and rugby history. e.g Where would the next rugby world cup be held? It was an option to use a true or false question or/and multiple answers on a kahoot. Unfortunately we couldn't make it public because we are students so we just took a screenshot them.

Swimming | Life Jackets

LI: To learn how to stay alive and float in life jackets.

This week was our final swimming session of the term. We had combined groups and wore life jackets. We have been learning about how we could stay alive in the deep sea with groups of people and/or alone.

We first had worn our life jackets and entered the pool safely. We first swam to the the end of the pool. Then we had got into small groups and made a chain with our life jackets. We had to hold someones life jacket where there shoulder is. The person at the end of the chain was helping make everybody move and the other end of the chain was the director who moved around to different places. This was to learn how to stick together in deep water.

Then we had got into small groups, we all huddled each other forming a circle. This helped with keeping everyone warm, if somebody was injured or old they'd go into the middle of the circle so everyone can keep the person old/injured warm and each other.

HELP
After that James had told us about HELP. HELP is not just a word it is also an acronym. HELP stands for:
Heat
Escape
Lessening
Position

Next we had to dive with our life jackets and touch the bottom of the pool. This was hard but if we put energy and strength into it we'd succeed. We had to dive down with our legs up towards the ceiling and our faces down. My idea was to dive like a mermaid. I had succeeded multiple times but in the start I was clueless.

Last but not least we've done something like pencil dives. We had to put our right hands across our chest to the other side of our life jackets and hold the back of our heads. Then we had to take one big step into the pool and drop.

Finally we all stood in a long line on the rail. Since it was the last day of swimming for the term we jumped off the rails and High Fived one of the swimming instructors.

Time, Past & Future | RWC

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

In this extra math RWC tasks we have been researching and finding information about the Time, Past & Future for RWC. We had to answer different questions about the time,past & future. e.g When will the 11th RWC will be held? and how old we would be when it is held? Each rugby world cup happens four years after each other. We used a pencil and paper to calculate when they were going to happen.  

  

Rugby Events | Literacy.

 LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

In this literacy task we had to use your literacy and researching skills and find information about the rugby event and write what happened on the day the date of when it happened and what kind of event it was. The three events that we used were RWC 2011, RWC 2015, and RWC 2019 and we found videos about what happened in the event.

CLICK ON PHOTOS!!

Rugby World Cup | Match Making

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

This week we have been combining all of numeracy and literacy skills to complete multiple tasks about the RWC this year. For this literacy task we had to match a player in the rugby world cup to a position that they play. We had to add pictures to show the players and some facts about the players.  e.g Richie Mcaw played as a flanker in the All Blacks and also was the first ever All Black to reach 100 caps.

Rube Goldberg Machines

LI: To make a working rube goldberg machine by using the 6 simple machines.
Over the past weeks, in groups LS1 had to make a Rube Goldberg Machine. We used the 6 simple machines, wheel and axle, Lever, Pulley , Inclined Plane, Screw and Wedge had to be included in the machines. The challenges were tipping dice out of a cup, hitting a putter, and onning a chromebook. Our scenario was onning a chromebook.

On the last week our group had managed to get the machine finished. We used 4 different types of simple machine, a wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane and a lever. For the wheel and axle we used a toycar. For the pulley we applied a string from a yo-yo to a window latch. For the inclined plane we had a marble roll down a ramp. We used dominos as the lever.

The most challenging task was creating the machines and trying to apply the 6 simple machines and communicating with our group to know what is going on and how we could help. I'd change the amount of seletape used in our machine.

Places to visit in Japan | Inquiry Task

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

This week we have been combining all of numeracy and literacy skills to complete multiple tasks about the RWC this year. For this inquiry task we used our researching skills to find out information about 5 different places in Japan. We had to look for some facts about 5 different places in Japan of our choice. We also had to add pictures of the place  with a map showing where it is. With all of this information bout the places in Japan, I'd like to go visit japan someday.

World Time | RWC Challenge

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

This week we have been combining all of numeracy and literacy skills to complete multiple tasks about the RWC this year. For numeracy we had to use our researching skills to convert the time in Japan to different times zones in the world. We had to convert the different times to AM or PM. AM is also known as anti meridian, PM stands for post meridian. If we had to try find out the time zones in larger countries we had to find out the times in the east coast and west coast. We used a site called " Time converter". We have shown the times in the 24hr clock for some countries.

Commenting | Lukahs Blog

LI: To comment and give feedback on other peoples blog.

This week I have commented on Lukahs blog. He had blogged about his Kiwi can.

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retell a text.

This week I had read a book called a series of unfortunate events book the third. It is about 3 siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny who are kindhearted children but their lives filled with misfortune and misery.

Basic Facts

LI: To learn more basic facts.

This week I have done the Brainbox. I had went up to 20 in my basic facts.I had took a png of the slide. 

Swimming | Kiwi Sport

LI:to progress on backstrokes and streamlines.

This week we had another swimming instructor, her name was Maddie. She was very nice and she desciplined us well with some rules.

We first done streamlines. We had to do streamlines from the platform and back two times. That was very tiring so next we had done kicking on our backs.

We had done kicking on our backs for only one lap to the platform and back. This was to keep our bodies warm and let us rest from the two laps of swimming.

RACE!!
Next we had got into groups of 3-4 to have a race. in our groups we compete against each other to see who gets in the finals. I had gotten into the finals for my group, and two other people. At the end 3 people competed in the finals, Me, Afatia and Makaili. We were all good swimmers but Makaili was very fast and so he won the race. We was titles the fastest swimmer of the week.

Artwork | Geometric Abstract Art | WIP

LI: To create an artwork inspired by different types of geometric art.

This week I have been finishing off my artwork. My art is still a work in progress. I have used circles rectangles, squares and cubes. My width was 33cm and my height was 50cm and my area was 1650cm squared. My art is a geometric abstract art.

Thneed | Print Ad

LI: To create an advert using the knowledge and skills we have learnt.

This week we had created an advert on the thneed in groups of 4. I worked with Charlize, Chris and Andrew. We had made a print advert for a thneed. A thneed is a fictional object from "The Lorax" which was origanally a book created by Dr Suess, that can be used for anything type of clothing and accessories. We had to figure out how we can show our item by just using images and a little bit of text. We had also made a name for our company called "Suess Manuess".

Faulty Reasoning

LI: to understand faulty reasoning.

This week we have been starting with faulty reasoning. There are 4 different types of faulty reasoning, Illogical / simplified Assumption, Circular Reasoning, Over-generalization, Biased Argument and Contradiction. Illogical / simplified Assumption is Providing evidence that does not directly support the claim (Hint: There are probably other influences / factors), Circular Reasoning is Supporting a claim with the same claim Hint: Look for synonyms!), Over-Generalization is Making a global statement when there are likely exceptions. (Hint: everybody, nobody, always), Biased Argument is Making a claim that is influenced by your own personal feelings or experience and Contradiction is Providing evidence that goes against the original argument.

Kiwi Can

LI: To cope with challenges.

we learnt how to face our challenges and experience/attempt them. We looked at 3 different types of challenges and wrote down about our feelings when we face those challenges. We figured out coping strategies in groups of three.

Deannes Blog | Commenting

LI: To comment and give feedback on the work.

This week I had commented on Deannes blog. She was talking about the Who and What questions for her book called Zap.

Basic Facts

LI: To learn your basic facts.

I had done the speed demon challenge up to 10. It took me 4m and 48s. I had gotten all of them correct. 

SSR Selfie

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

This week I had read one of the books from the BSC book series called " Kristy's Great Idea". It was about how kristy and her 3 friends Stacey, Claudia and Mary-Anne created the BabySittersClub.

Swimming

LI: To learn how to swim without touching the ground and turning your head to breathe.

This week we had a new swimming instructor. Her name was Keryn. James is going to be our instructor next week. Keryn had some rules for us:

1. When we are on the platform we have to have our heads above the water.
2. Listen carefully
3. If you aren't trying your best than we need to do the swimming again.

We had first done streamlines to the platform and back. If we needed to breathe than we just turn our heads.

Then we had done armstrokes. We had to do armstrokes and if we need to breathe than we turn our head and we needed to kick our legs and if turning your head isn't helping with your breathing than you need to turn and kick on your backs.

Then we had done backstrokes. We had to do the same thing we had done for the armstrokes but we had to make our arm strokes straight.

Artwork WIP

LI: To measure different art works based on geometric.

This week we had been starting and finishing off our artworks. We had to divide the space we had measured evenly with our group members. We had to decide if we want big or small space or, landscape or portrait. I chose portrait. The theme of my art is geometric abstract art, my art is showing back in the day compared with now. I am still finishing off my artwork.

Advertising | Television Advertising

LI: To learn about persuasive tools in advertising. 

This week for writing we have been continuing on with advertising. We had to find ads that are showcasing NZ products with NZ celebrities. Then we had to analise an ad and answer using 5 different questions. The ad was called "the unsell". The purpose was to help people choose the right types of cars for their own safety. Then we had to use the 5 questions with an ad of our own choice.

Beat Bullying | Synthesising | QAR Questions | Flipgrid

LI: To identify the main ideas from a text. 

this week we had read a different article called " Beat Bullying". It is about how cruel and bad bullying is. I agreed with the article because bullying can cause violence behaviours as adults  and teenagers. According todosomething.org approximately 160,000 teens have skipped school because of bullying. I had made a Flip grid on whether I agreed with the article or not.

Jamie Wall | Duffy Role Model Assembly

This week we had a special visitor, Jamie Wall. He is an author and works for news websites in NZ like, news hub, stuff, RNZ, and Maori TV. He writes down the new about Rugby games and some other sports. He made his own book called " Brothers in Black" which was inspired from "Men in black" which is about the all blacks games and scores and each and every player. For his job he travels around the world to watch UFC boxing, Rugby, Super Rugby, Fifa world cup and cricket to write about it on different types of news websites.

Kiwi Can | Resilience | Dealing with Challenges

LI: To deal with challenges.

For Kiwi can we had been talking about dealing with challenges. We had to understand how to deal with a challenges easily in the future.  We had done a bus stop activity explaining the challenges in the pictures we had got given.

Commenting | Siales Blog

LI: To comment feedback on someones work.

This week I had made a comment on Siale's blog. He posted about the archimedes screw and a dlo about it.

Basic Facts | Up to 10

LI: To learn your basic facts.

I had done my Up to 10 speed demon challenge. It took me 3m and 56s to complete it. I had only got one wrong. 

SSR Selfie | The Celtic Myth

LI: To summarise and retell a text.

This week for SSR Selfie I had read a book called " the celtic myth". This book is about treasury myths and legends of the Celtic myth.

Geometric Abstract Art | Area & Perimeter

LI: To manage fiances and profit by creating maths.

This week for maths we have been working on our art. We first learnt about area and perimeter and how to measure them. Perimeter is the outsides of an object. The area is the whole space inside the perimeter. We had learnt about this so we could measure the wall where we are putting our art. We had to measure the height and width  of the space we were going to use. We had chose an art that related to maths. I chose Geometrical Abstract Art, I had made an example of what I am going to do for my art. My measurements are 30 height and 25 width.

Advertising

LI: To learn about persasive tool in advertising.

This week for writing we have been continuing with advertising. We had worked in groups of 3-4. I had worked with Charlize, Afatia and Farzana. We had found different examples of advertisments and the hacks that they use to make their food look good but in reality it is a mess. We had also looked at slogans and the different types. Then we had a try to make our own slogan about Panmure Bridge School.

Stop this horrendus CRIME!

LI: To identify the main ideas in the text. 

This week we had read an article called " Stop this horrendus crime!". It was about experimenting on animals and why that shouldn't happen. I had to make a flipgrid on whether I agree with the article or not and why. I had found out that defenceless poor animals are being tested on and prodded with poison from needles and before their death they are forced to inhale toxic fumes. 

Archimedes Screw | Inquiry

LI: To identify a simple machine. 

This week for inquiry we had learnt the last of the 6 simple machines, the archimedes screw. A screw is a simple machine that can transfer soft and liquid things from a low point to a high point. It is bent on an axle depending on the force. We had made an archimedes screw using plastic pipes and a wooden stick. We worked in groups of fives to create this. We had used a bucket of water. Our goal was to get the water from one end to another by rotating the stick with the pipe.


 

Lever | Cybersmart

LI: To apply the print design rules. 
This week we had created a poster using the 4 print design rules about one of the 6 simple machines we have been learning about in inquiry. I had chosen the Lever. We had to give information about a lever. A lever is one of the 6 simple machines and is a long rigid body with fulcrum along its length.  It rests on a pivot. It helps us lift loads with less effort. 

 

Kiwi Can | Puzzle

LI: To complete challenges and understand what is a challenge.

This week for Kiwi Can our theme was Resilience and our topic was dealing with challenges. We first had our greeting. Our greeting was " Malo E Lelei " for Tongan language week. Our catchphrase for the week was " Kiwi can says, When your dealing with challenges, Don't go over it, don't go under it but go through it and just do it!"

Energiser!
For our energiser this week we played a game called Commands. We all had to stand in a circle and Mrs Mack with say 6 commands that we have to follow. If she says one command and we do a different command then we are eliminated.

Then we had a discussion about how challenging that was .

Activity!
For our activity we had to go into groups of 3 and try and solve a puzzle using a piece of paper and a pen. We had to use different shapes to create one whole shape. This challenge was definitely difficult because we didn't know where all the pieces went. At the end we all found out the answer and realized that if we thought outside the box than we would accomplished it.

Bonus Challenges!
At the end of Kiwi Can Mrs Mack gave our teacher an Idea to give us a challenge. The challenges was to do the exact same puzzle we had done for our activity and give instructions. If you would like to do this challenge than make a copy of this link - Puzzle DLO