The Eye

This week for writing I have created a illustration about a five seven ten writing. I choose to do The eye because I love to draw about mysterious things. Can you guess what the drawings mean?. I tried to be very creative with the pictures. I used the curve tool, Polyline Tool and the shapes to draw my pictures. My favourite slide is the first slide because it gets my attention of what will happen. 

Spaghetti Bridges

This week Mrs. Kirkpatrick's Inquirys group have been working on Spaghetti Bridges. The materials we used was Rubber Bands, Tape, String, and Spaghetti. In my groups, there was Sky, Mele, and Magenta. Together we worked collaboratively to finish it off. We used bricks as an experiment to see which bridge was the strongest. Our span was 28 cm. Unfortunately, our group only got 1 brick. We had only one brick because our bridge kept falling down. I think we should have changed how our bridge stood by itself. Overall I thought this process was really fun.

Design Models

Today at tech with Mrs Ferguson we have been making models of phones stands. We used plastecine. I thought of different designs to create phone stands. I done three models. My favourite model was the hear one because I thought it was cool. How does this design support my phone? It supports it by holding the phone to make sure it won't fall forwards. I think out of all the phone stands Alex's chair case is the most smartest and coolest. How can you improve it? I would improve it by making my case look more better by molding it properly.

Problem Solving

This week for Maths I have been solving a problem with Chavda and Fui. It was a bit tricky but we got some help from Angela. We have created a DLO that showed how we solved it. We think the answer is 20 to the equation

Basic Facts

Today I have changed my Basic Facts to up to 20. I done addition today. I think this one was much easier. I am better at addition the subtraction. Thanks to Mr. Wong for creating this amazing DLO using his great coding skills.

Michel Mulipola

Today was Duffy Assembly. We had a chance to meet a comic book artist named Michel Mulipola. Michel is not only a Comic book artist but also has been Wrestling and he is a Semi-Professional Gamer. He also illustrates School Journals, one of his books are called Frog. This story is a comic inside of a journal. I had a great experience learning about his life. It was fun to know about him and I learnt today that he wrote a story for the WWE.

Basic Facts

This week for basic facts I have done my subtractions for up to 100. It was very hard but I kep t on trying. The really eay box for me was Box 10 because the main number we were subtracting ended with a 0. This DLO was created from Mr Wong. He used is great coding skills to create this awesome DLO. I  got a lot of try again.

Lynley Dodd

This week for Reading I have found information about a New Zeland female author. I choose to do Lynley Dodd. I know Lynley Dodd by her amazing Hair Maclary childrens books. I remeber that when I was small I would always see the Hairy Maclary books and choose out on of the books to read. I think the Lynley Dodds books are very adventourse. My favourite books our of her Hair Maclary Books is the Hairy Maclary form Donaldsons diary. If I had a childrens book to read for the rest of my life it would be one of her books.

PMI Chart

This week for our create activity I have created a PMI about Horses. The P stands for Plus and it means good things about Horses. M stands for Minus and it means bad things about Horses. Lastly the I stands for Intersting and it means Intersting facts. I learnt today that Kaimanawa is a name that New Zealand uses for our wild horses. I got my ideas from looking at Pons and Cons about horses on a site.

Why We Build Bridges

This week for Writing we have been learning about bridges. So I have created an explanation showing why we build bridges. I learnt that some bridges are not only used for cars but they can also be used for crossing. We have bridges so we can get to another destination. It is very useful to use people from today onwards. Here is the link to my Explanation : Link

Wheel Words

This week for Wheel words my center letter was A. This game was a bit hard so I used four hints. Those hints gave me four letters to the full letter. I used other mixed up letters and I got the word Nuisance. This word means a person causing trouble. Altogether I got 19/ 30 words. I found only 2 obsecure words.

Tech

Today was my first day back at tech. I had a lot of fun learning with my new teacher Ms Ferguson. With Ms Ferguson we do  Graphics. To our activity was to make a copy of 2 DLO's. The first one was Phone stands. For this DLO we have been finding different type of phone stands and put them in the right box. Our second DLO was a Design Brief DLO here we listed under the 5 w's and h some questions. Our last activity was to create different 3D ( 3 Dimension ) shapes. I was very good at making the shapes because I took my time to look at the shapes. Overall I had a lot of fun at tech with Ms Ferguson.

Vectors Wero Whitewater park

Yesterday some of the year 7 & 8's went to Vectors Wero Whitewater Park. There we learnt saftey in water. We learnt how to cross rivers and Rafting. We got splited into groups and went to different instructors. Our team name was llama bears. It was a very good experience learning how raft and crossing rivers. Everyone also got to jump in the river and fust float down the river. My favourite part was rafting because when we went down the river we had some waterfalls and it was such a enojyable experience.

Kiwi Can

Today was my first day back at Kiwi Can. Our theme was Resilience and our topic was Perseverance.  Perseverance means to always keep trying in tuff times. Resilience means to bounce back up in difficult times. We can use Perseverance in time of school, sport and the challenges you face. To show perseverance is Kiwi can we played some games that would show us to not get frustrated but to always keep trying.

Fractions Problem

This week for maths I have created a DLO showing how to solve a Fractions Problem. I has 3 text box that showed the Problem, How to solve it and the problem in numbers. I solved 4 /9 of 27, the answer I got to this problem was 12 so altogether Fui had sold 12 cups of yummy lemonade.

Basic Facts

This week we had received a Maths challenge DLO that Mr. Wong Created. Today on the DLO I practiced my 100 basic fact addition. I used different strategies to work out the questions. I had a lot of fun doing this by myself because it shows how good I am with my addition and it also helps me think faster. In this DLO there are 10 addition boxes.

VR Research

Today Yvonne and her research team came in and tested some people.Yvonne and her research team came in from the Augmented human lab at Auckland University. They gave us a google cardboard goggles. We looked through the cardboard goggles and saw a world that we could build bridges and do missions. I was one of those lucky people to test it out. I thought that it was very fun and smart. My favourite part was building my very own bridge because I got to see a boat come and drop of my materials. VR stands for Virtual Reality

Wheel Words

Today my letter for Wheel Words was M. Surprisingly  I managed to get 23 words some of the words were hints. I used 2 hints and they got me the 9 letter word and the 7 letter word. Some words were just me doing random letters because I got a bit stuck. I was timed 10 minutes to get as many words as I could. I got 23 out of 40 words altogether. 

Greetings - Koeleafakaapapa

This year for Tongan Language Week LS2 and LS1 have collaborated in different groups to learn words for Tonga. I worked collaboratively with Suilia and Angelica and together we have created a DLO showing a conversation in Tongan and translating it into English. We also have created a Tongan character with the DLO. My favorite part about this task was working with people I don't really know and getting to know them better.

Colons

Today I have illustrated a sentence that has a colon in it. If you see a colon in a sentence this means a list will come after that colon. I drawed my own stage with a microphone and and audience to show what the sentence looks like in my head. My favourite part about this activity was drawing and being very creative with my picture.

What are sense verbs

Today I have done a quiz about sense verbs. I looked at the questions and on the bottem were options of the answers. I looked carefully and closley to the questions.  There were 11 questions and I managed to get all of them right.  The questions to me were easy because in Writing we write a lot of Explanations.

Wheel Words

This Week Ponui have been doing Wheel Words. My letter today was E.  I think at this game I have got better because I usually practise at home and when when I have finished my work for reading. Wheel word is a game that can help you with your vocabulary. It helps you learn new words and if you are stuck you can use a hint to help you. Altogether there were 35 words and I managed to find only 14 words and in those 14 words I found all the words for the nine letter word, seven letter word and the 6 letter word. Junior was the person who timed us.