Friday 30 August 2019

Commenting

LI: To comment and give feedback on someones work.

This week I had commented on Spelmans Blog. He had blogged about his advertisments and the different advertisments.


Basic Facts Boxes

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 | Beware the Snowman!

LI: To summarise a text. 

This week for SSR Selfie I had read a book called " Beware the Snowman! ". It was about a girl who had just moved a tiny village called Sherpia. SHe then discovers that a scary creature is haunting her. 


Proportion Facts | WIP

LI: To learn and show proportion facts. 

This week we have still been doing proportions and ratios. We had done proportion facts. In Proportion means when two ratio or fractions are equivalent to each other. Proportion means the amount two ratio or fractions are equivalent by. A ratio is a comparison of two things or more. Me and Sulia had created a proportion facts game. 

Our work is WIP. 

Netball Interschool Tournament

On wednesday 28th of august 3 teams from pamnure bridge school had particapated in the Netball Interchool Competition. The teams were Yr 7/8, Yr 5, and Yr 6. I was in the Yr 6 team. 

We first competed against Panama Rd School. We had won 1 to 4. We had communicated well and tried our best. We all worked together as a team. 

Next we had competed against Glenbrae. They were a very well communicated and very fast at getting the ball from one end to another. We unfortunately lost 12-0. 


Next we had played against Bailey Road. We had won with the score of  9-2. Bailey Road school played well but unfortunately they had lost. 


For the finals we had competed against Sylvia Park. We had won 9-1. Everybody had been co-operating well. 

Lastly we had went up against Tamaki Primary. It was a tough game was at the end we had won 8-7. There was a problem with the score cards because the other team forgot to add the scores that we had got. 

Swimming

LI: To extend the duration of your swimming.

This week we had another swimming lesson with James. There was another person named Nick, he was a helper.

We first had done streamlines. We had to put our hands behind our ears and dive into the water and do streamlines. We had to do it back and fourth to the platforms. Than we had done streamlines and when we need a breath we turn on our backs.

We had to learn how to swim and not touch the ground.

Then we had been diving for toys in the water. We all had a toy to dive for. It was pool toys.


Thursday 29 August 2019

Pulley | Simple Machines



LI: To identify what is a pulley and what it is used for. 
This week for Inquiry we have been talking about the simple machine a pulley. A pulley is used for pulling heavy loads with the use of a rope and a wheel. If we add more loops around it we divide the weight between the rope making it easier to finish the job. We had to list some things using a pulley. Our group had remembered the objects with a pulley from school trips.

Too Much Technology | Persuasive Texts

LI: To identify the main ideas in a text.
This week for reading we have been doing Synthesising and QAR's. QAR stands for Question Answer Relationship. We had to read a persuasive text talking about Too Much Technology. The author of the text was saying the bad things about technology and why there is too much technology. We had to make a flip grid about whether we agree or disagree with the text. With the QAR's we had sort out 10 questions based on the 4 QAR types, Right there, Think and Search, Author and me and on my own.





Advertising



LI: To learn about persuasive tools in advertising.

This week for writing we had been learning about advertising. We had to analyse a print advertisment. First we had got into our groups. Then we had to answer different questions based on an advertisment. We had to look at the picture and try to figure out what was being advertised.
We had to find the definitions for four words:
Service - An action of helping others
Demographic - Catergorizing different populations
Target Audience - A particular or specific person/group that something is made for.
Message - What you are trying to say and mean through words & more.
Then we had to answer different questions based on an advertisment.

Friday 23 August 2019

Commenting | Ayden's Blog

LI: to comment feedback on someones blog.

This week I commented on Aydens Blog. He was blogging about his swimming with Livvy.


Swimming | Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn how to rescue people in the water. 

This week we had been learning how to rescue drowning people. We had first found a partner. My partner was Sulia. 

We had to learn how to rescue someone if they were drowning. When you are rescuing someone it is vital that you don't make any physical contact with them because you can risk your life too. So you need to throw something out for them to hold on and pull them to shore. You need to lie flat on the ground and throw them the object, the object has to be something that can float. If you stand up you might fall in the water. 

Sulia had to pass me a noodle in the water and pull me out of the water. After that I had done the same for her. 

Then we had been doing streamlines. For the streamlines we had to kick from one platform to another. 

Then we had been doing duck divings. We had to duck dive for toys in the water. We had to throw them in the water and try to swim to them and get it than throw it again. It was super fun to do. We were throwing each others toys. 

Than we had to hop out of the pool and get changed into our school uniform. 




Basic Facts

LI: To learn your basic facts.

This week I had done my basic facts up to 10 speed demon. My time was 4 minutes and 6 seconds. I had got 2 incorrect answers. 




SSR Selfie | Tutankhamun

LI: To summarise a text.

This week I had read a book called "The life and death of a Pharoah". This book shows the life and death of an acient pharoah named Tutankhamun. Tutankhaman was a young pharoah, he married his half sister and his succesor ay claimed that he was dead so ay can claim the throne. Centuries after a archeoligist Howard Carter and his crew had found themselves questioning if Tutankhamun was actually dead?






Wednesday 21 August 2019

Incline Plain | Simple Machines

LI: to indentify an inclined plain.

This week for Inquiry we had been learning about Incline Plains. For this activity we worked in groups of 2-3. I worked with Charlize for this. We had watched two videos based on incline plains and what they are used for.

We had made our own incline plains with Cardboard, Woodboards and anything else you can find. We tested them with small toy cars.

Then we had created a DLO talking about which is easier, an incline plain or lifting something straight up in the air and why. Then we had to draw an exaple of an inclined plain that we use in an everyday basis.

Proportions word problems

LI: to understand a range of proportions.
In Proportion means when two ratio or fractions are equivalent to each other. Proportion means the amount two ratio or fractions are equivalent by. It could be a whole number or a fraction. I worked with Sulia and we had created a Proportion word problem game. 


WORK IN PROGRESS!!!

Ihumatao | Have a say

LI: To identify the main ideas in a text.

This week for reading we have finished off our last slide for Ihumatao. We had to write down what we think about the Ihumatao and we had to write down our say in it, we had to choose a side and back up that side. I wrote down what I think and my reasons backing up my opinion. Than we had to create anything, but showing what side you support. I am working with three other people and we are creating an animation based on the timeline of Ihumatao.


Cybersmart | Print Design Rules

LI: To apply the print design rules to a poster.

This week for Cybersmart we had to fix posters on the print design rules. The print design rules are Layout, Compisition, Text and Color. We had make them suitable to read and see. We had used google slide to finish this.


Kiwi Can

LI: To learn how to self control and cope with challenges.

This week we have been continuing with Self control and Self discipline in Kiwi Can. Self control is also like control your emotions and Self Discipline is like choosing the right choices for yourself.

The Four Challenges!
So for our activity we had split into 4 groups of 4-6. For this activity there were four challenges that we had to work in a team with to accomplish in 1m.

One of the challenges were, Fitness. For the fitness activity we had to do 5x Push ups, 5x Sit ups, 5x Squats, 5x Bur pees. If we finish one round of that before 1m is over than we need to try do another round. In my group we did 1 round and a half. In this challenge I felt pressured to try and do 2 rounds before 1 minute was over.

Another challenge was sorting Maori words and English words. For this challenge we had to try and sort out the Maori colours and pair it with the English meaning, for my group we had finished 6 colours. I think this was the second hardest because we never really knew the Maori colours that well.

For this challenge we had to try recreate the Kiwi Can catchphrase with our own actions. The Kiwi Can catchphrase was " Kiwi Can says! Control yourself, Don't Shout, Over and out!". It was hard trying to recreate it because some of us had ideas and other people didn't and we didn't know what action to do so we just chose the actions made by some of our team members.

The last challenge we had to do was writing the alphabet backwards. In my opinion this was the hardest out of them all because we had to start from Z and we always had to sing the alphabet song. We had only got up to the letter T.

After our session our score was 44 out of 50. We need to work on Respect and Positive Additude next week. After that we walked back to LS1.

Tuesday 20 August 2019

Speech Competition 2019 | Micaela & Mele

LI: To choose a favourite speech or poem finalists.

This week we had our first annual Speech/Poem Competitions for 2019. There were 12 lucky contestants ( including me)  from year 1 to year 8. The yr 1 to 3 had done a recital ( aka poem ). To judge the contestants was a special guest who came all the way from Tamaki College, Mr Stevenson.

 My favourite poem out of the juniors ( yr 1 - 3 ) was my sister, Micaela. Her poem was called
"Humpty Dumpty". I chose her because she had just started the school this year and for a 5 year old she was pretty confident and spoke very loud. I was very proud of her for coming 3rd out of all the juniors who had been chosen.

For the seniors we had done speeches. My favourites contestant out of the seniors was Mele, her speech was about the Ihumatao protesting and why we should support them because what if that happened to you. Mele had done a great job and added a lot of emphasis and gravitas with her speech. Mele had came 1st place out of the year 7 to 8.


Friday 16 August 2019

Commenting | Mote's Blog

LI: to comment feedback on someone's blog.

This week I had commented on Mote's blog. On his blog he posted about his maths, for his maths he was learing about the area and perimeter.






Basic Facts | Up to 5

LI: To learn your basic facts.

This week I had done my basic facts up to 5 speed demon. My time was 2 minutes and 28s. I had only got one wrong in a rush.


SSR Selfie | Ghosts

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

This week I had read a book called " Ghost's " by Raina Telgemier. This book is about a girl named Cat, her and her family moved to the coast of North California so they are just settling in. I really enjoyed this book.

Swimming | Kiwi Sport

LI: To learn how to stay swimming in the water without drowing.
This week was week four for our swimming. We first down streamlines, to breath we turn on our backs. Then we were swimming on our back poking our stomaches out to float and kick. Then we had learnt how to do survival strokes. For the survival strokes we had to float on our back and tuck our legs in, open that up then kick them together. Then we done dolphin kicks and dolphin dives.





Persuasive Speech | Speech Assesment

LI: To create a persuasive speech.

This week we have finally finished our speeches. My speech was about suicide. I talked about how we could prevent it in a good way. We had a rubric for our speeches to mark all the things we did on trhe rubric. There was a speech assement with the rubric and our scores. I had got 41.5 our of 50.


Wheel and Axle | Lever

LI: To learn what a wheel and axle is in a simple machine.
LI: To learn what is a lever in a simple machine. 


The wheel in connected to the axle rotating each other when a forces are applied on either of them. A lever is a long rigid body with fulcrum along its length.  It rests on a pivot. We had to create a paper wheel and a lever. We created a DLO on a lever and a wheel and axle. We worked in partners for the wheel and axle then we partnered up with another pair making four people.For wheel and axle activity we made a paper windmill by using a straw and paper and seletape. We had to follow instructions. I completed this with Charlize. Then we partnered up with another pair and we made a lever using a stick and an object that we could lift.





Ihumatao | POV



LI: To identify the main ideas of the text.

This week we have finished the last four slides. We had to read different articles and write down the article writers point of view and what we thought. We had read many different articles by different writers. Some of them were saying what they thought and also talked about what took action.


Kiwi Can | Resilience

LI: To learn how to self control and self discipline in different situation.

Over the past weeks we had been learning about understanding emotions. Now we have a new topic, our new topic was Self Control and Self Discipline. Mrs Mack and Miss Paige were on releave so Mr Latu was our Kiwi Can leader.

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!

For our enigiser we played heads, shoulders, knees and toes. We had to find a partner in the room and get one cone per partner. We had to squat, then Mr Latu will say " Heads.. ( Then we touch our heads) Shoulders... ( We touch our shoulders) Knees.... ( We touch our knees) Then when Mr latu says toes we have to try snatch the cone as quickly as possible. The winner of the round was Afatia.

Acting Scenario's:

With the acting scenarios we had split into four groups of 6-7. In my group was Charlize, Afatia, Hosea, Sione and Andrew. We had got a card that had a scenario for us to act. After that we had to act our the scene. Our scene was about two friends arguing about something that happened in the weekends, and how they could self control/discipline. We made it out that  one of the friends stole something form the shop when the one friend said no, then they argued and the friend returned the item that was stolen.






Ratio Problems | Quiz

LI: To learn how to solve ratio problems.

This week for maths we have been learning about ratios. A ratio is comparison of two things or more. I worked with Sulia to finish the quiz. In the quiz were ratio problems simplified and non simplified. We made a total 15 questions and 19 points. Our work is still in progress. Take the quiz to test how well you know your ratios, Good Luck!

Wednesday 14 August 2019

Print Design Rules



LI: To identify the four areas of print design.

This week for  cybersmrt we were learning about the print design rules. We had a google slide that we had to sort out. There were different slides that were based on the print design rules. In the print design rules there are four areas, Layout, Compisition, Text and Colors. They all represent the types of a good and bad quality of a DLO. We had to look at the slide and see which print design rule it goes under.

Friday 9 August 2019

Adding and Subtraction Fraction Word Problems



LI: To learn how to add and subtract fractions. 

This week for maths we were learning how to add and subtract fractions. We learnt how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominater and different denominater. To add and subtract fractions with the same denominater you need to add the numeraters or subtract the numerators. To add fractions with the different denominater you need look for the least common multiples.We worked in groups of three to finish this task off but unfortunately it is still a work in progress so everything might not work so well. 


Rube Goldberg



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LI:To learn about the man behind the machines. 
LI: To complete a task in an over complicated way.
This week for inquiry we were learning about Rube Goldberg and his inventions. First we created a slide deck talking about the 5 W's and the H on Rube Goldberg. We had watched an ad about the Honda and it was an invention from Rube Goldberg, it took them 600 and over tries. Next we had to try made our own invetion like Rube Goldberg but using our body motion and movement.
 

Swimming | Kiwi Sport

LI:To learn how to swim a long distance without drowning.

This week our swimming instructor was James. We first started off with Streamlines.

Streamlines:
For the streamlines we had to remember arms behind our ears and head facing down then push of and kick.

Kicking with the Board:
We had to kick with the board straight with our head up. Then next we had to hold the board infront of us and kick.

Swim with your stomach touching the ground:
We had to dive into the water and swim with our stomach touching the surface of the pool floor. If we needed air than we would swim back up.

CHALLENGE!
We had a challenge to see if we could swim from one end of the pool to the other without stopping. I had successfuly accomplished it by sculling my whole way.












Lion King Show | OJC

Experience: Watching and experiencing year 7 to 10 students performing the Lion King.

On wednesday 7th of August a small group from LS1 had the opportunity to experience a live show, of the Lion King hosted by Ormiston Junior College. They had made their own props and had break times. My favorite character was Rafiki, the person who was acting Rafiki was Tanya. Also the person who was acting scar. My favorite characters did I very good job.



Wednesday 7 August 2019

Kiwi Can | Resilience

LI: To understand other peoples emotions.

This week for Kiwi Can our topic was understanding emotions and our theme is Reslisience. We talked about how we can understand someones emotions and knowing what emotions they could be feeling.

For our enegiser we had done an activity based on the level of intensity of the emotion. Mrs mack had given out cards that had different emotions on them and we had to find other people with a card with the same type of emotion as us. They weren't all the same we had to try find different emotions that mean the same thing as our emotion. Then in our groups we had to lay out the cards and place them in the level on intensity.

For our activity we had split into different groups. We had gotten a card that had a role of what we had to act. When we were doing the act the other people had to try figure the emotons we were feeling.










Tuesday 6 August 2019

Ihumatao | Articles



LI: to identify the main ideas in a text.
This week we had finished four more slides as a group on the Ihumatao event. We had read articles and watched videos to find our the information about when it happened. We had listed them in chronological order of the timeline. We had found the information from Otago Daily Times and a videos from 1 News. I worked with Bella, Farzana and Charlize.

Thursday 1 August 2019

SSR Selfie 2019 | Dawn Raids

LI: To summarise and retell a text.

This week I had read a book called "Dawn Raids". It is about a 13 yr old Girl in 1976 named Sofia Savea experiencing the Dawn Raids. She is Samoan and English with four siblings. She also earns pocket money from Milk Runs to save up for the popular Go-go boots that all the girls in her school are starting to wear.


Ihumatao

LI: To identify the main ideas in a text.

This week for reading our topic was about the Ihumatao protesting. We had to find the meaning to maori words that is related to the protesting. We had finished off 4 slides and we had to see the relationship with the people and main people with the land. We also had to figure out the distance to Ihumatao on a bus, bicycle, car, or walk. We also had to find the meaning to the words related to the building of the houses.
The Ihumatao is a tribe that is protesting for their land to not be built on because it is sacred and historical and their ancestors and the tribe will always be guarding the land.