The Last Thirteen - James Phelan

This term LS2 have a Reading Challenge. This challenge is when we read books that are different for exmaple Mystery, Comic and more. But that's not it, at the end if you finish you get a good decent amount of money for a voucher. I have read a mystery book. This book is called " The Last Thirteen" and it is written by James Phelan. This bok is about three special people that somehow are having weird dreams that come to life. In one of their dreams they see a black shadow saying over and over again " I click my fingers and everybody dies". These people are named Sam, Alex and Eva. People around the world are trying to kill them, People like the Enterprise Agents. They come to think that they can never trust anyone even their parents or the police. Its up to them to find the last thirteen, Are you one of them?. I would definitely recommend this book if you are into mystery books because it is very intersting and you would always be eager to find out what happens next.

Kiwi Can

This week LS2 has had another great session a Kiwi Can. Our instructors are Mrs Paige and Mr Alabati. Our topic for this term is Positive Communication and our theme is Positive Relationships. Positive Relationships means getting along positively with other people. Positive Communication means talking kindly to other people. We have are learning about our tone of voice. Our tone of voice and show our feelings so if we are angry we have a loud or a angry tone of voice. Kiwi Can says " Talk to me, So you can see, Someone with positivity". We played some games that would show our communication and relationships with others. The first game was called fruit salad. To play this game when the teacher says apple we go left, Pear is right, Banana is forward and watermelon is backwards. Another game we played was called negative and positive role play. This is were we got into a group and we had been given a card that showed our role to play. In the role play we all got given a negative role to play but at the end we did add a solution to the problem.

3D Sketching

Today the year 8A have finished another session of graphics with Mrs Ferguson. We are learning to create clocks so this photo shows our practice on 3D drawings/ Sketch . This will help us draw our clock designs. I learnt how to shade my 3D shapes using my pencil/colouring pencil. To create those white spaces in the shapes you will need to create a 3D box. Then while shading leave a skinny space on the top and side. Next you will need to create a darker shade using pencil on the dark coloured box. Lastly you draw shade near the dark shade. You draw this so it will look like the square is sitting on something.

Summer Learning Journey

This week we had the Summer Learning Journey team come in and present the first, second and third, Spot prizes and participation certificates. There were so many amazing prizes that had been given out. Spot prizes went to Chris, Sulia, Sakina, Florence, Chavda and I. First place goes to Alex, Second place goes to Mele and Third place went to Victoria. A big thank you to Hazel and Sophie from the Summer Learning Journey team and another thank you to Evelyn from New Zealand Sailing trust who gave out a sailing voucher to Mele and Alex. Alex was the top blogger in our school, The Manaiakalani cluster and the whole of the Summer Learning Journey project. Surprisingly Panmure Bridge school got 1275 post from the Summer Learning Journey and manage to get 2376 comments.

Technology Lesson 1

This week for tech it was our first say back. The Year 7 are with Mr Grundy, Year 8A is with Mrs Ferguson and the Year 8B is doing metal. I am in Year 8A and with Mrs Ferguson we are creating clocks. This DLO shows all the different type of clocks that I have found. Creating this DLO it gives me different ides on what type of clock I want to make for a specific person.

Design Brief

What

What type of shape are you going to design?

What type of clock do you need?

Who

Who are you going to design a clock for?

Where

Where are you going to use the clock?

Why

Why do you need a clock?

Why are you giving the clock to this person?

How

How is the clock going to be made?

How is the clock going to be designed?

How long will it take to make?

 On this DLO it shows questions that reflects on what type of clock we are going to use, The design you are using and who you are going to make it for. We all communicated with each other the figure out some questions.

Kiwi Sport

Today for LS2 it was our first kiwi sport session. Our sport teacher is called Shenise and our sport this term is Ki o Rahi. At first we watched  a video about Ki o Rahi. This game was created after Rahi went to find his wife who had been taken by another tribe. This game was created to solve our problems and gives us peace instead of conflict. We played some activitys that are similar to the actual game so it can give us a better understanding of what this game is about.

Kiwi can

This week was our first time back at kiwi can. This year we have new kiwi can leaders, Their names are Mr Alabati and Mrs Paige. Our theme for the term is Positve relationships and Positive Communication. Positive Relationship this means being kind to one another and playing kindly and Positive Communication means talking to one another positivly for example if I was working in a group for a game we would communicate to try and win the goal that has been set. We played a couple of games that would show us how to get along with different people and to communicate well.

E-ako - Additive Thinking

Today I have finished additive thinking on E-ako. E-ako is a mahs site that helps you fgure out some maths questions. It really helsp a lot. There is different types of problems to sort out like timestables, additition and more.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

 This week Villami, Matthew, Sakina and I worked together to create a DLO of a story called "Te Tiriti o Waitangi". In other words The Treaty of Waitangi. For this task we first read the story then moved on to doing the DLO. For this DLO we did a few reading activities which were vocabulary, summaries and seeing it from both sides. For the seeing it from both sides we needed to choose a question from the learning conversation slide.

Explanation Sketchnote

This week for Writing we are learning about explanations. Miiana and I have worked on a sketchnote. This DLO will help us remeber the things we need in a explanation. In the DLO we wrote down the things we wrote from our paper sketchnote. The photo on the bottom of the DLO shows us speed dating. Speed dating is where we were in 2 lines and one line had been switching so that we hve different partners. This also helps us combine our ideas together to say what we have and what we missed. 

E-Ako - Problem Solving & Additive Thinking

Today I have been on e-ako doing some problem solving. This problem solving includes frogs. I get to move the frogs around so that the green frogs are on the right and the red frogs are one the left. Throughout the way there is more frogs and I have to guess how many moves would there be for example if it only took 3 green frogs and 4 red frogs to get moved 15 times how many would there be if there were one more added to the green frogs. To get some help we click on tutorial and we learn how to solve it. 

What is a Leader

This week we've been learning about leadership. Alex, Joel, Sakina, Miiana, Viliami and I worked together to create a DLO on what a leader is, what goals we have as leaders this year, what responsibilities we have as leaders this year and what makes a good leader. For what makes a good leader we wrote things like Someone who can step down and let others have a turn, someone who can take the initiative and someone who can learn from both their mistakes and successes.

Sketchnote Team Challenge

Today Alex, Sakina, Joel and I worked together to create a sketchnote on what a team is, our definition of a team is a group of people who work together to achieve a common purpose. In teams all members must respect one another, make sure everyone is included and respect all opinions. Three things that people need to do in teams are: Communicate, collaborate and participate.

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Panmure Bridge School - CARE Values

Today Alex, Joel, Sakina, Viliami and I worked together to create a DLO on our school's CARE Values. In it we needed to include how we could show the values and what they mean, an additional task was to brainstorm how we could use pictures to show what the values would look like. For the confidence value we chose to have someone standing up and pretending to present their work which would take confidence and for other values we had raising one's hand to answer a question, picking up rubbish around the school and completing a set task.