Maritime Museum Trip | Recount

LI: To create a recount about the trip to the maritime museum.

This week LS2 and Room 5 had the opportunity to go and explore the Maritime Museum. We went to invest more of our topic of inquiry this term, Explorers and Adventurers. We were put into groups of 5 with an adult as a supervisor. We experienced new and interesting things about back in the day exploration. Way before there were planes, cars or trains people travelled by ships and wakas. People had different ways of navigation. Instead of using google maps people used the environment, drawn maps, compasses and more. We had to create a recount of the day.

Venn Diagram | Kupe and James Cook

LI: To compare and contrast.

This week for Inquiry we have been continuing on with explorers and adventurers. In our reading groups we created a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Kupe and James Cook. My group was called Kakapo. We did 3 things that were different about the two explorers and 3 things that were similar.

Summer Learning Journey Reflection

This week we had some visitors from the summer learning journy come and visit our school. They came to tell us about the blogging in the holidays and who got the spot prizes. 67 students participated in the summer learning journey. I came top 20. The people who came tope 3 were:

1st - Alex Grady

2nd - Victoria Johnson

3rd - Sakina Fayaz

Kiwi Can | Positive Relationships

LI: To give things a go!

This week for kiwi can we have been talking about giving things a go. Our theme was Positive Relationship. Our topic was called giving it a go also known as perserverance. Our activity was called 1 v 1 and our enigiser was called push up challenge. During those games we learnt how to listen and be patient, also giving things a go.

Tech Reflection | Robotics

LI: To make your mbots flash lights and make sounds.

This week for the Yr 7 session of tech we have continued with our robots. This session we focused on making our robot have lights and make sounds. Since I forgot my chromebook buddied up with Sulia. Me and her used mblock to create our algorithms for our robot. We could make our robot show different color lights, the lights me and sulia made it do were blue, red, purple, green and yellow. We could also make our robots have sounds, the sound we were trying to make was happy birthday. 

Collaborative Explanation | Plastic Pollution

How do you feel knowing that each year, over 1 million sea animals lose their lives from plastic waste? This is caused by the laziness of people who can't be bothered to throw their rubbish in the bin. When you litter, your rubbish leads to landfills, drains, and possibly to the ocean. 

Everyday approximately 8 million pieces of trash lead to the ocean. As the waste leads to the ocean it can attract the sea animals by mistaking it for food. The sea creatures can die by being suffocated from the plastic and can also be caught in the plastic. The plastic makes them have digestive problems and can cause them to die. 

According to National Geographic, by 2050 there will be 12 billion metric tonnes of plastic landfills. Right now there might be 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic in our ocean right now.  Chlorinated plastic can release harmful chemicals into the surrounding soil, which can then leak into groundwater or other surrounding water sources. This can cause a range of potentially harmful effects on the species that drink the water.

Marine animals' lives are at risk due to the plastic pollution in the sea, if we don’t take action now who knows what will happen next.

LI: to make a collaborative explanation about plastic pollution
In groups of five we created a collaborative explanation. This explanation was about Plastic pollution. What we did to get information was watch a video from love your coast. This video showed the love your coast community picking up rubbish. 

Tech Session | Mrs Ferguson | Robotics

LI: To learn about algorithms. 

Today we had our first ever tech session. We were working with Mrs Ferguson, who taught us about algorithms and robotics. She was our first rotation of the year. We used a google drawing to write down examples of algorithms. Algorithms are not just numbers, they are also instructions. 

Treaty of Waitangi

L.I to summaries and understand the Treaty of Waitangi.

In this activity we were asked to get into groups. In each group we were asked to create a short summary of the Treaty of Waitangi. We also had read a story about The Treaty of Waitangi and we also had to find words that we found important and add it into that summary. We also had to pick two words from the story that we found mostly important and find and try to draw an image of those words.

Kiwi Can

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings

This week we had our first ever session of kiwi can. This term our theme is Positive Relationships, and our topic was Empathy.

What does Empathy / Courtesy mean? 

Empathy means being understandable and being enthusiastic. Courtesy means being kind and respectful to others. Ways of being empathetic is showing an act of kindness with people. Ways of being Courteous are being respectful and helpful to others. 

Games:

The activity and energiser was changing places and role play. For the changing places we had gotten into a circle, mrs grace would call out things that we like or have done and we have to switch places in the circle as fast as possible. Our activity was called role play.

Kiwi Sport Reflection | Cricket

LI: To learn how to play Cricket. 

Today we started our first Kiwi Sport session of the year. This term the sport we are doing is cricket. Our coach's name is Brian, he is from Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club. We split into two teams. My team started with Bowling. 

Bowling:

In this section we learnt how to bowl/throw. We started off with getting into 3 groups of 4-5. There were a Tennis Ball, Wicket and 4 cones for each group. We had to use the tennis ball to throw at the 4 cones. To do that we had to aim by using the opposite hand your throwing with. Once we hit one of the 4 cones we need to put it on one of the wicket stands. Whichever team does all 4 cones win. My team won for this section. Our next challenge was to hit the wicket. If we hit the wicket we need to pull a pole out. If you have no more poles you win. 

Batting:

After the bowling session we moved on to Batting. For batting there were 4 people batting and the rest fielders. There were a line of blue cones for where the fielders can stand. The fielders job is to get the ball that the batter bats and run as fast as they can to put it back on the stand. While the fielders are doing that the batters run back and forth as fast as they can. They try to get as much runs as possible. 

                                                

  

Thinking Teams | Ordering Numbers

Today in maths we worked together in our thinking groups to find the answer to two maths questions. In the image you would see my group working together. Our group, The numbertricians group is working out the value in our name. To do this we used addition strategies and our place value knowledge. 

In the second activity we worked as a group to put the population numbers in order. To do this we used our place value knowledge. 

National Current Events

Today we were learning about current events. We used multiple sites to find information based on national news. Working in groups of 4 - 6 we created a google map site plotting the areas that have been affected or something has been going on there. We used 4 main sites called Kiwi Kids News, NZ Herald, Stuff, and Kea Kids News.