Richard Pearse

Today my class wanted to find a Kiwi inventor and research about this person. In my group were Brooklyn, Joshua V, Avalon and Angela. As a group we chose to research about Richard Pearse. After finding information about Richard we created a comic strip on his career. Richard was a New Zealand farmer. It took him one year to complete this task.    

Wash Day Victorians - What is Steampunk?

Learning about the Victorians was intriguing. I got to find out how the poor and rich was treated. For this task we each got into partners. Mele and I were partners. We decided to make a slideshow about the Wash day in the Victorian times. Both Mele and I collaborated and finished with a lot of knowledge about the Wash day.  Last week my class was learning about the history of steampunk. We found some images and created our own drawing after finishing the drawing we created a digital design on our Chromebooks. I combined different ideas from different images. We also learnt about the Victorians. This was really interesting because I didn't know what was steampunk and what was the Victorians.

Athletics

Today was Athletics day. Students from Tamaki College helped make the activity's easy to understand. Each student was put into their own color group there was yellow, green, blue and red. I was in red in group A. Green came first for group A my group came second. For group B yellow came first. Even though red didn't come first we used our collaborative skills to work as a team and win three activity's out of the all seven. At the end we did our sprints. I helped out by showing the young students which lane they would go to. Athletics was a really fun way for students to use team work skills and sportsmanship to create new relationships. I would like to thank Mr Ogilve for making everything happen.   

ReadTheory Report

Today my class created a graph that shows their grades over the year. I found this interesting because I could see how I have been progressing over the year. At the start of the year to my current grade I have really improved. In February I was on grade four then in July I was on grade six. My currant grade is seven. 

Meerkats

As it is book week my class has learnt about a book about Meerkats the author for this book is Emily Gravett. After reading about this we created a DLO that shows some facts about Meerkats.

Wolves - Myths and Facts

My class has done a fun activity as it is book week. Our teacher Mrs Anderson read us a book called "Wolves" the author for this book is Emily Gravett. Mrs Anderson has read my class three books of Emily Gravett and I really like how Emily has illustrated her book and the vocabulary that she has used.

Book Bar Graph - What Makes a Book Boring

This week is book week so my class decided to do a fun activity. For this activity we got into groups of three. In my group were Brooklyn, Joshua V and I. In our class there were two papers on each table that had questions about books. Each group got moved to one table we had two minutes to answer the question after the two minutes we rotated around to another question. After answering all the questions we each chose a question that we would make a bar graph. I chose, What Makes a Book Boring? I chose this question because it had some interesting answers. When I had finish gathering the answers I created a bar graph. I found out that most students mostly focus on the pictures and the vocabulary because this will hook them into reading the book.   

Armistice Commemoration

Today we had a special guest from the New Zealand Defense Force. To show our appreciation for all those who have passed for our country each class signed their names or wrote a message on a back of the poppy as well as the teachers. We sang songs and had one minute of silence to think about the soldiers. Armistice day is a really important day for most of all countries. Each class have also researched and learnt about the WWI. The special guest had come to my class and LS1 to talk to us about his journey throughout his journey.







 

Armistice Collage

The WWI ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day and the 11th month. This collage reflects on the celebrations that were held all over the world as the war finish I have also added some head lines of articles. A lot of people celebrated even royal family's and soldiers as the WWI had finally finish. Each student from my class has created a collage. 

Collaborative Comprehension

My class all did this task in groups of two or three. I worked collaboratively with Brooklyn and Nickaela.  Our task was to first read the text about the battle of the Battle of the Somme. After reading the whole text. We then read the questions then answered them. Before we answered the questions we made sure that each of us knew that the question was asking us. 

Blogging - Paparoa Ranger School

Today I have commented on a student her name is Jessica G. I like to blog comment because I get to learn more but I can also give Jessica some feedback and feedforward this will help her to improve her learning skills as well. By commenting I can collaborate with Jessica and she can help my learning better as well. 

Provocation

For reading our task was to research about the two theft who stole medals at Waiouru Army Museum. My partner was Fui we each wrote and combined each of our point of views. We wrote down each of our opinions about this situation and a whole summary of our DLO. 

5,7,10 - The Bright Light

Today our task for writing was to chose a picture from this website I chose a picture called "The Bright Light" Click here to see the photo. First we have five minutes of writing after the five minutes we have seven minutes of talking to someone about our writing piece. Then 10 minutes of drafting and more writing. 

The Highwayman-Summary

For my reading group we have been focusing on a poem from the 18th century. This poem is called "The Highwayman" We read this poem individually then worked in partners to write a summary about this poem. Some words in the text was very old some words were new to us. We learnt the meaning of the words that we did not understand.

As the moon shaded the purple moor, the highwayman came riding to the inn-door. His cocked hat was placed on his forehead and the bunch of white lace wrapped around his neck with a red velvet coat, breeches made of deerskin. His boots were thigh high and he rode to the dark inn-yard. The dark inn-yard was closed and barred so their he rode to the landlord's black eyed daughter Bess. She stood plaiting her hair in a dark red love knot. She then took her hair down and the highwayman told Bess his plan for that night. Her long black hair let off a strong perfume scent. The highwayman kissed her hair as he then galloped to the west. Tim the ostler had heard their conversation and had felt jealous of this. He had warned the king and his men about the highwayman’s plan. So king george’s men marched up to the old inn-door and hid by the landlord daughter’s window. Then they had tied her up awaiting the highwayman’s arrival. She tried to wiggle her way out but King George’s men had placed a gun under her breast. They had awaited the highwayman’s arrival and until then Bess still had tried to get out. She found a way and placed her fingers on the rim of the trigger. She had a choice. Live or Die. She had hoped the highwayman would never came for his safety. But… Klip- Klop- Klip- Klop… The noise of the highwayman’s horse came riding to the landlord’s daughter. She had no choice. She loved him so much, she decided to shoot herself to warn her love…. Blood dripped from the landlord’s daughter… Their the highwayman went riding off with his horse far away from the noise. Then when the highwayman heard the news he rode all the way back for revenge. But on his way he got shot down…

    

Community Service

To help the community us school leaders (Tiava, Jeremiah, Mataio, Ofa, Sanujan and I) , Mrs Paige and Jordan (Social Worker) walked from our school, Panmure Bridge School to Pt England. While walking we were picking up rubbish. We went through Dunkirk where we picked up a lot of rubbish. Most of the rubbish that we picked up was recycled rubbish. When we had arrived in Pt England we meet some students from Tamaki primary, Glen Brae and Glen Tyler. We all sat down then we prayed after this we each lined up to get some sausage sizzles. After eating we played some sports. Then we all played some sports after these activity's we walked back to school. I would like to thank our sponsor Lion for giving us the food that was provided. I would also like to thank Mrs Paige and Jordan for supervising me and the fellow leaders.    

ShakeOut!

Today is New Zealand International Shake Out day. Shake Out day is a day where we get to learn about earthquakes and what to do when a earthquake happens. This will help us to be prepared if a earthquake happens. Joshua V and I worked collaboratively to finish off this task. We both learnt a lot about how earthquakes start and what to do when a earthquake happens. We used our smart searching skills to also find out about the big earthquake that happened in Christchurch and Napier.

Duffy Assemble ( Michel Mulipola )

Today we had a Duffy Assemble. The special guest was Michel Mulipola he comic illiterates. Which means he draws animation characters for school journals and comic books. Michel loved reading because of reading comic books. He's favorite superhero was Green Lantern because he was different from the other superheros. Michel is also a semi-professional gamer. He was so lucky that he got asked from WWE to illustrate a comic book for them. Michel likes wrestling he trained professionally he started wrestling 12 years ago. This made him close to famous people around the world.

Why do People Build Bridges?

In writing my groups task was write a explanation on why people build bridges. I have used some information from Inquiry as our topic is bridges. If we wanted bonus points we would add a sentence with a colon or semi colon and added a sentence with a sense verb. I had only put in a semi colon. I found it hard to add a sense verb into one of my sentences. I learnt how to use a semi colon and a sense verb. But I also learnt some interesting facts like the first car was built in 1885.  

Vector Wero Park

Today was exciting and fun because 29 students from my class including me was so lucky that we got to go to Vector Wero Park. Vector Wero Park is a water park that has river and water courses for rafting. When we first got there we all went into a theater where we watched a video about the legend of Maui then we watched a safety video this made me more confident to get started. After this we got changed into our togs then we all put on our wet suits, jackets, life jackets, helmets and water boots. We each checked our gear with the instructors then we got our paddles. We were ask to get into groups of five, four our six. In my group was Mele, Nyjah, Joel, Viva and our instructor (Joe).

Kiwi Can

This morning my group went to Kiwi Can. Our theme was resilience and the topic was perseverance. Perseverance is never giving up and always trying your best even if what ever your doing is your weakness. For example when I was playing cricket I knew I was bad at hitting the ball with the bat but I still tried my best. In Kiwi Can we also talked about what we do when we get frustrated and what we could do to keep ourselves calm. 

Maths Challenge

Today my maths group was lucky enough that Mr Wong had made a Maths Challenge for his class. He had

shared the maths challenge with our teacher Mrs Anderson then Mrs Anderson had told us about this amazing and fun activity. Mr Wong had made this Maths Challenge on a spreadsheet he had used codes to create the Maths Challenge. This Challenge helped me practice my addition. I also got to solve addition

problems by using strategy's.

Rugby Inter School

On Wednesday some students went down to Collin Maiden park for rugby inter school. The year five and six girls joined Rippa Rugby, Year seven and eight had competed in the Rugby. The year seven and eight joined the development which means we learned different types of rugby skills.  

Orchestra Trip

Today some senior students had the opportunity to go down to the Town Hall to experience some amazing music from the Orchestra group. The group preformed three pieces of music. There was some different types of instrument which was really exciting to see.  We also experienced a great piece of dancing from students from St Kents.

Sentences Using Colons

After learning about sense verbs my writing group have also learnt about colons and semi colons. We all had been sent a document with sentences that is missing a colon. Each of us did this task individually I added a colon to where it had been missing. Once I had done adding all the missing colons I then illustrated one of the sentences. 

Sense Verbs

In my writing group we have all have went on this site which helps to remind us what the five senses are. For this activity we were to fill in the blanks. I picked the best answer I thought was right. Unfortunately I have got two wrong. This means that I need to learn and focus more on the five sense verbs.    

Josefa and the Vu

My reading group each picked a book that they would study on. We could also be in partners. Nyjah, Fui and I have been reading Josefa and the Vu. We have picked this book because it is based on pacific cultures which we found interesting. We are now up to chapter four. We have completed the character review and the author review and now up to creating our setting review. This book is mainly about Josefa who goes through a lot of trouble to get his Grandfathers Tabua back from his bully Jacks Bucksworth. I predict that Josefa would get his Tabua back from help from his fellow class mates.  

Adding Decimals by Rounding and Compensating

In maths my group was practicing adding decimals. We did this by rounding and compensating numbers to help us to solve these decimal problems. I have created this DLO to show others how to solve decimal problems. By learning how to solve these decimal problems it can help me to improve and to learn other strategy's.    

Gothard tunnel and Watterview tunnel

In Inquiry Brooklyn and I have made a Venn diagram on Gatthard Tunnel and the Water tunnel. We researched some information and we also watched a video to help us both. We worked collaboratively to finish this task.

How to Tell Analogue Time

To start off the day my class have done writing. In my writing group we were focusing on writing an explanation on how to read analogue time. We all had reminded ourselves on the structure of an explanation. We all shared our hook in our introduction and also shared how we changed it in our conclusion. Next time I will be working on what type of hook I would be using.

Different Types of Tunnels

For Inquiry Brooklyn and I are pares. We have worked collaboratively to finish off this task. This presentation gives you information about different types of positions & shapes of a tunnel.

Tech - Pizza

Today my tech group was in Cooking tech as it is our tech activity for our time of period we have. Sky and I first put on our aprons and washed our hands. We then read the instructions on the white board so we knew

Today my tech group was in Cooking tech as it is our tech activity for our time of period we have. We then read the instructions on the white board so we knew what equipment we had to get. We followed the instructions on the board and both of our pizzas came out great.