End of Year Blog Post Analysis

This week LS2 have been creating their blog post goals for 2019. I have created a graph showing how many blog blog posts I have posted this year in total. In January I have set a high amount of blog post for 23 posts. The reason why is because I have posted some of my Summer Learning activities. My goal for this year is to try and post more than 300. To achieve this goal I should post 5 posts a week. Unfortunately I did not achieve my goal since I had some drafts in my blog. I know have an amount of 139 blog post this year. I have also created a video with the help of Mele that talks about my goal for this year and the amount of posts I had in total. Blog Post Analysis

The Colombian Exchange - Summer Learning Journey Day 3 ( Activity 3 )

For the last activity for day 3 activity 3 I am to talk about a person that bring a significant impact on my life. This was a very hard decision because I have many people I want to talk about. I choose to talk about my mum. My mum is a very hard working women. She is a kind women and choose to become a teacher for the disable people. Working their has also put a big impact on the children that don't have the abilities to do things we can do. She always is very busy especially with her business. She is getting many orders and has to cook dinner lunch and breakfast for us everyday. She is always helping me in so many things. I look up to her in so many ways and I am proud to call her my mother.

Interviewing - Summer Learning Journey Day 3 ( Activity 2 )

This week it is the Summer Learning Journey teaser week. I have completed activity 2 for day 3. For this activity I have interviewed 3 friends and asked them what they are proud of. Me and my family are proud for myself. The reason why is because two weeks ago I got baptised. It was scary but I got through it. The next day out of 50 people I was chosen to read the word for the preacher. I was really shy but I am so happy that I accomplished this goal that has been waiting for me for about 3 years. Here are the three people I have interviewed:

Mele: " I am very proud of my mum who graduated from university to become a midwife, because I too believe that i'll be following her footsteps sometime in the future. People think that I do this, just because my mum is, but the reason why is, because I know that i'll be able to manage the working conditions, skills and knowledge. As a young child my mum didn't really have enough time to give us a great living style, but as I get older, I'll have the ability to give take care and give her the best future".

Taheesha: "I am proud for being confident and saying my speech in front of 2 judges and other students"

Joel: "I am proud of my sister finishing college and going on to university because she has worked so hard to get a scholarship and she has stayed committed to her subjects."

Water Project - Summer Learning Journey Day 3 ( Activity 1 )

This week is the Manaiakalani Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week. The theme for this year is called "change makers". This theme will help us learn more about incredible people who have changed the world. For this activity I worked collaboratively together with Eyaka, Ellenora, Mele and Angelene. To complete this activity we were challenged to answer a few questions about the water project: what is the goal of the organisation, where do they work and what they have achieved. Before answering these questions, we watched a video to find out more about the water project. Something interesting that I found out was that approximately 1 billion people have no access to clean water.

The Greatest of all time - Summer Learning Journey Day 2 ( Activity 3 )

This week for the Summer Learning Journey it is the teaser week. We have decided to do the teaser week for practise for the real activity's. For this activity I was to pretend that I was Garry Kasparov. He has been the top-ranked chess player for 15 years straight ( 1985 - 2000 ). He is also known as G.O.A.T which means greatest of all time. He had started playing chess when he was 17 years. He practised every single day and hour. Here is mys story:

Greetings,
I am Garry Kasparov and I am and chess player. I have been top-ranked chess player for about 15 years straight. Which is from 1985 - 2000. The fun part was that my family let me stay home so that I could keep on having practise but I didn't get time to see my friends. I lost them but my biggest regret was not spending time at all with my family. I have come so far but I know that all of my practice was used when I won my first chess game. Playing chess is not easy but it also is a game where you think a lot. When you play you have to make sure you make the right move. Winning 15 years in a row is my biggest accomplish.

Pay Gap? NO WAY! - Summer Learning Journey Day 2 ( Activity 2 )

It is day 2 for the teaser week of the Summer Learning Journey. For this second activity I was to talk about weather or not it is fair or the men sport team to get paid more than the women sport team. I think that it is totally not fair. Women try their best in all sports like the women black ferns rugby team. They have won the Women Rugby World Cup 5 times in a row. They also have just turned into a professional rugby team. They have tried so hard and to make it worse, they get less paid then men. I think that this should change. What do you think?.

Similie - Summer Learning Journey Day 2 ( Activity 1 )

This week is the teaser week for the Summer Learning Journey. It starts on the 16th of December ( Monday ) and finishes on the 28th of January. It is day 2 now and for the first activity I am to create different similes but I need to be creative. A simile is a sentence that include the word "like" or "as". Here are my 4 simile sentences:

• The moon is as bright as the stars
• My drink was as cold like the Ice
• Her shoes were like a clean sponge
• His legs were as long like a giraffe's neck.

Big Friendly Giant - Summer Learning Jounrey

This week is the teaser week for the Summer Learning Journey. LS2 have decided to give it a go and have practise with the activity's but this will give s no points. For this activity I was to draw a image of the BFG ( Big Friendly Giant ). The I was to write a short explanation about what I think BFG looks like. This story was written by Ronald Dahl and the story was also made into a movie. 

Pepeha - Summer Learning Journey Day 1 ( Activity 2 )

This week is the teaser week for the Summer Learning Journey. It is day 1 and I have completed activity 2. For this activity our challenge was to create our own Pepeha. a Pepeha is like a mihi that tells other people more about you. I have also created a video of myself saying my Pepeha. For the background I used a picture of Moce Falls which is a river in my Island. I have also added in a drawn picture of myself.

Lorde - Summer Learning Journey Activity 1 ( Teaser Week )

This week LS2 have been working together with LS1 and room 5 to practise the Summer Learning Journey. It starts on the 16th of December Friday but we wanted to have practice and try out  the teaser week activities. For this activity we were to create a informational poster about Lorde. In my DLO I have added facts about her. The fact I found most interesting was that her real name was Ella Yelich-O’Connor but on stage she calls herself " Lorde ". At the moment she is 23 years old and when she was 13 years old her first record deal was offered to her. I also learnt that her best friend is Taylor swift which is also a singer. Her mother ( Sonja Yelich ) is Croatian and her father ( Vic O'Connor ) is Irish.

Mayflower - Letter Animation

Every year a special event is held in the United States. Thanks giving is a national holiday that is celebrated in the United States, Canda and many others. Last week LS2 focused on why and how thanksgiving was important. Together in groups we worked collabritively together to finish this animation. After reading a site of information we were challenged to retell the story in 5 sentences. Therefore, we created an animation to show our retold story. 

Market Day Evaluation

On Friday Panmure Bridge School had their first ever Gala. It was a great day and many people went around the school buying hand made things. Instead of using real money to buy things we exchanged our money for tokens. For example $10 will give you 10 tokens. LS2 created hand made rainbow crayons. To do this we went around the school collecting/asking for broken crayons. We then melted them and put them into different shaped moulds. Everyone liked it and brought as much as they wanted. It was $1 for each crayon which we think was just priced right. We managed to sell out our stock. Our gross profit was $96.00, Our cost to buy things were $8.00 and our net profit was $88.00. I think that our idea was viable because the colours were attractive, it was cheap and it was at no labour cost. Maybe next time I think that our market should be on the courts so it would be easier for people to get to different stalls. 

Tessellations

This week for maths we have been learning about tessellations. Tessellations is when a flat surface, like a piece of paper, is covered with repeating geometric shapes. For this task we were tessellating shapes but we were allowed to only use one shape to tessellate. This challenge was hard because there must be no gaps in between the shapes. Gaps were only allowed on the outside. I choose second to last shape which was the L looking one. I found this also fun because we got to make the shape we choose any colour at all. 

Shakespeare

This week for Writing LS2 have been learning about Romeo and Juliet. This is one of Shakespeare famous plays. Firstly we watched a video about the story and then wrote a summary about it. We then turned that summary into 10 syllables. Our challenge for this week was to create a video, DLO or animation that tells us about the story but we could only choose one scene. Our group choose to do the Fighting scene because we found it most interesting. During the fighting scene Tybalt challenges Romeo to a fight but he doesn't accept it. So then Mercutio comes and but suddenly he dies. Romeo gets mad and then kills Tybalt. We used the app Chatter Pix to help create out videos and then used I movie to edit it.

PBS Sports Days

On Friday Panmure Bridge School had our Sports Days. Everyone dressed up in their colours. I was in team blue. We went around the school playing fun activities. Each team vs each other. Green came first, then blue, Yellow next and lastly Red. My favourite activity was the Sponge Relay because it was a fun challenge to trying to squeeze as much water out of the sponge. After everyone got to eat sausages for lunch. We then had our sprints. A well done to everyone that tried and congrats to everyone that placed somewhere.  Another big thank you to all the supporters and Mr Ogilve for planing our fun day!.

Kiwi Sport

This week for tennis we have been playing rally but with a partner. My partner was Victoria. On one side it was the champion side which only had two lives to try and win. On the other side was the side were partners would try to get 2 points and get to the other side. If you lost on your first try you would go to the back and line up. At the end of the game the champions would vs each other. Me and Victoria vs Jack and Karlos but unfortunately we lost.

The life of a shoe - Marieta

I knew today was the day. I glared at him as he picked me up and walked along with me. I could see the other pairs yelling out to me. It was dark and I didn't know what to do. Finally, I see light, I could feel his warm toes tickling the inside of me. My hair was being nicely tied up into pigtails. I felt like I was in a fashion show. We went along and I could see so many things! but suddenly as he took another step I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. OHH NO!! "splat" eww I felt icky and sticky. It tasted disgusting. I felt like I was  glued to the floor. My body shouted for help but no one heard me. I looked around and saw other pairs staring at me. I felt embarrassed as soon as I kept going. I can feel his sweat along my body as he stomps faster and faster. All of a sudden I see something yellow heading towards me. I close my eyes, I was too scared to see. As I slowly opened my eyes I felt clean and fresh. I thought to myself "that wasn't so bad after all".

This week for Writing we are learning about Personification. The meaning to personification is when human qualities are given to no-living objects for example " The chair ran using its legs ". I have created a story using the five senses. The five senses are: Taste, See, Feel,Hear and Smell. I choose to write about the life of a shoe. The challenge for today was to find a partner and face back to back. You were not allowed to talk to each other. One person would write one sentence while the other partner would check for their mistakes, then he or she would write a new sentence.

Reading Presentation

This week as apart of our reading Mele and I have been learning about Terrible Tudors. Together we have created a presentation about the Kings and Queens of England. Today we got the chance to present our DLO to the class. The person I found most interesting was King Henry VII ( Eight ) because it was very shocking to find out that he had 6 wives and he would divorce, behead or kill his own wives until he got a son. The reason he wanted a son was because he wanted to keep the Tudor line going. Once he had got his very own son which was Edward VI ( Six ), he sadly passed away at the age of 16 due to a disease called tuberculosis which is an infection on the lungs. In total he had 2 girls and 1 son. With his other wives he wasn't able to have children. The only wife that had survived was Catherine Parr ( Queen Consort of England ), this was also his last wife.

Transformation

This week for maths we have been learning about Transformation. Transformation means when you change something. This DLO shows all the different transformation you can do with shapes such as Reflection ( a mirror image ), Rotation ( turning something around ), Enlargement ( making something small bigger ) and Translation ( moving a object a certain distance ). Using the shapes tools I have created a basket. The challenging part was thinking of what shapes I could use to create the basket.

Film Festival

On Wednesday Panmure Bridge school went on a trip to the Manaiakalani Film Festival. It was a great experience. We saw all the amazing movies created by all the Manaiakalani cluster schools. LS2 took a younger student and looked after them until we started watching the movies. Our school made instead ads and the other school would guess what ad it was inspired from. I liked LS1 ad where Andrew taught us how to teach kids.

Kiwi Sport - Tennis

This term for Kiwi Sports we are learning how to play tennis. Tennis is like table tennis but you play with your body not your hands. This week we have been learning about how to volley. Volley is where you angle your racket a bit to the sky and the the net and you hit the ball, but you must count how many times you hit the ball without it touching the ground. The challenge was to try and stay still, hit the ball softly and beat the scores you got. Next we then had a rally where we see who would hit the ball properly. I think that I have improved from the last time I tried tennis. Next time I think that I should have the right body position. For this task I have created a comparison to a famous tennis player body position to mine.

Financial Literacy

This week for maths we have been learning about financial literacy. Our task for today was to play a game that revolves around a market day. We had 2 dices, one had numbers up to 6 and the other one had letters JB ( Juggling balls ) HS ( Hack sacks ) and BB ( Bungy Balls ). The purpose of this game was to helps us make a profit. Profit is the money you have earned.  My outcome was -$13 including the money I lost and paying for the stall.

Literacy Weaving

This week in reading, for the book, protests in NZ, we created a literacy weave. We chose 2 words from the book, to retell it. On the top and bottom, we added the pictures and in the 3rd and 5th boxes, we added the words. The words I decided to choose was Environmental and 2003 GE ( Genetic Engineering ). After making the literacy weave digitally, we printed it out, than weaved it together. To me, I think that the literacy weaving was fun to make.

Firework Saftey

Today Chavda, Fui, Nyjah and I created a firework safety presentation as today is Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes is a fun and special day celebrated by many people. Although, people from all ages should stay safe. We have listed 5 steps you should follow on this day. After creating the presentation we presented to LS1 and Room 5. 

Protests in NZ

Our summary- The history of New Zealand protesting started years ago. What were they protesting? One of the first New Zealand protests were between the Maori and Pakeha in 1881. Government were taking land for settlers - destroying fences to make way for new roads. The people of Parihaka used passive resistance to peacefully protest. The Women's Suffrage was a significant protest to New Zealand. Countries from all around the world in 1893, were discriminating and giving titles to women. It wasn’t an equal argument between men and women. Kate Sheppard was a brave woman who stood for her right and opinion. The petition had more than 500 pages and was signed by over 25,000 women.

Depression Riots 1932, A lot of people were unemployed and struggling. That's what made people think that the government wasn’t providing them with enough help and that's what started the protest. As Marches became Riots, messages became violence. A few months passing ahead, unemployed men fought with policies and smashed shop windows.


This week in reading, we read a book called "Protests in New Zealand". While reading the book, we did reciprocal reading as a group. This book is about all the protests that have happened in New Zealand, in the recent events, like women suffrage and the great strike. To understand more about the protests, we created a summary of it as a group.

Guy Fawkes - 1605

Since, Guy Fawkes is taking place soon, LS2 has been creating a number of different DLO's about the reason behind why we celebrate and who he really is. Marieta and I worked collaboratively together to find out who Guy Fawkes was and why he was an important member of the group. To add on we, also included information about his personal biography and interesting facts about his crime. Did you know that , St Peters in York does not celebrate this event ? 

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Tech

This week for tech the year 8 have been continuing with finishing off their designs. We are doing wood work with Mr Grundy. I used the a chisel and the mallet to cut off the wood to make a joint. I have  decided to create a phone holder for my brother because he needs something to hold his phone when he is watching a movie

Owning a dog

This week for maths we having been finding out life time cost for our pet dog. In my group were Mele, Avalon and Angela. The breed dog we choose was Border Collie. The life time cost for our dog was $65,839.60. We brought a leash, Bowl, Bed and a Lead for our dog called Coco Murphy Winston. We also had to buy the registration papers which were $70.00 per year,grooming and food. I found out that Queen Victoria loved Border Collies.

Budgeting Challenge - Maths

This week for maths we were given a challenge to complete together as a group. We were given a budget of $200 to do a weekly grocery shop for our maths group. We used an abundance of money to provide our group with enough healthy food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for one week. The challenging part was trying to decide what dinner was going to be, because most of us thought of different ideas, but at the end we chose which one was the best and cheapest.

Summarising the Main Ideas

Article

This week for current events, we were asked to find an article that interested us. After reading it Mele and I summarised it in our own words, before making it short and statistic in five 10 syllable sentences. 

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  sub- headings	New words I need to look up
Engagement ring, Upper endoscopy, X - ray, stomach.	Swallowed, Engagement Ring, Accidentally	Upper Endoscopy

Write down 20 important words from the text	Engagement ring, Upper endoscopy, x -ray, stomach, dream, realisation, doctors, stomach, dreaming, hand, intestines, horrifying, sleep, remove, Jenna Evans, woke up, US woman, accidentally, real, image.
Chose the 6 most important words.	Engagement ring, Upper endoscopy, x-ray, dreaming, stomach, sleep.
Turn into a few sentences.	Jenna Evans swallowed her engagement ring, thinking everything was a dream. However when she woke up, she noticed her ring was no longer on her hand. She went straight to the doctors and ordered an X-ray. The x-ray showed her ring was right in her stomach. She was put to sleep again, as she was given an upper endoscopy to remove the ring.

10 syllable sentences: Jenna Evans swallows engagement ring. Evans thought she was dreaming the whole time. She ordered an x-ray at the doctors. Her ring ended up in her intestines. She was given upper endoscopy.

How I will be an asset to my new school

How I will be an asset to my new school ?

Have you ever wondered about the different things you will be doing at your chosen college?. That's me!. I am going to Tamaki college and I'm pretty excited about it. Tamaki College is a great school. I like the teachers there because they are welcoming and kind. Going to a new school can be hard for people because you are around new people and new teachers. Although for me I like to try new things and set goals for myself. Meeting new people is not hard for me at this college since I've experienced what life is like there.

Tamaki College has many opportunities for students that go there. They teach a driving course, many different subjects to does many celebrations. I like to celebrate a lot of festivals so I can be useful and help by convincing people to come!. Going there will not only make me happy but also help me understand my learning more too. I am a good student to go there, because I am very hard working.

I am determined to work hard and achieve the goals that I have set for this year. I have achieved all my silver C.A.R.E award badges and am still working hard to achieve my gold badges. I have joined a variety of sports such as touch, cricket, after-school netball, inter school netball, and softball. I have also received my 500 blog post badge and am trying to blog more to get to my 1000 blog post badge. I am sure that I will try my best at this college despite the hard times I go through.

When I go to Tamaki I will give 100% and commit to working hard and achieving my goals that I have set for the year. I try my best at all sports I sign up for. I try to join a lot of sports and ensure that I am listening to the teacher. One subject I am very good at is writing because I understand what we are learning and I am very fast when it comes to finishing off my task. In reading, I am good at communicating with others about the articles that my group reads. With maths, I can solve problems using different strategies.

I am going to Tamaki college and I'm pretty excited about it. Tamaki College is a great school. I know that I have the qualities to go to this college and impress the teachers with my skills. Going to a new school can be tough for most people, because you are around new people but for me meeting new people is easy because I can interact with people pretty fast. This is how I will be a great asset to my new school.


This week LS2 have been writing explanations. The year eights are writing about, " How we will be a asset to our new school" and year sevens are writing about " Why they make a good leader". I am going to Tamaki College and I'm pretty excited about it. I think that I'll make a great asset to my new school because I have many great skills.

Possum Problem

This week in reading, we read an book about possums and how they were brought to New Zealand. As we were reading we made notes about what we wanted to know, what we already knew and the information we found out. After we read the book, we created a screen castify about possums. We created a DLO and scripts for each person to read.

Showing our values

Showing Our Values

What do you do when your not being treated right?. Everyone has their time when someone's not being kind or showing empathy. Those words are called "Values". There are many different values such as: Respect, Kindness, Empathy, Tolerance and Positive Attitude. Each word has a different meaning to it but I have chosen 3 very important values I think that is very important to show everyday because it's important to be respectful to each other.

The first value is Respect. It means to treat everyone the way you want to be treated. If you treat someone else badly than it is most likely for that type of attitude to be shown back. Receiving respect from someone else makes us feel good and safe. Having respect in your relationship with somebody builds trust, safety and well being. Respect is kinda like showing kindness too, you need to be nice to one another in order for you to get treated the same way back. 

The second value is Kindness, meaning to be nice to each other and not being mean. Kindness in a relationship is also very important because it makes you feel good about yourself. Doing things for other people such as helping them or even giving a gift to them makes you feel warm that you accomplish doing something that's right and not wrong. Just like empathy, you need to be kind to each other when someone is not feeling happy.

The last value is Empathy. It is when you put yourself in other people's shoes and feel what their feeling. It's always important to show empathy so we know what to do when someone is feeling sad about a certain situation. When you show empathy it also shows how much you care for that person and even helping them through their situation is even better. This is why it important to how empathy.

All these values are important to show to everyone each day. Yes you may not be treated nicely sometimes but just remember treat them how you want to be treated, be kind to them and show empathy cause they might show it back. By doing this it will show to everyone that you are able to show values. This is why using our value daily is important to us.

This week I have wrote an explanation about why it is important to how our values. I have chosen three important values I think that we need to show everyday which is respect, kindness and empathy. Respect means to treat everyone the same you want to be treated. Kindness is to be nice to one another and empathy is to put your self in other people's shoes and feeling what their feeling.

Water Filtering

Early Maori Enterprise

Enterprise and Economics was first introduced, by our Maori ancestors, before the Europeans settled in New Zealand. Coastal Maori sold Seafood (Kaimoana), while the In-lands preserved birds and berries. The Maori's would often trade valuable items, not knowing it's true value. Maori had grew a number of plants that had been bought by the first arrivals. By the 19th century Maori's ownership passed out.

My 10 syllable sentences:

Enterprise was introduced, by Maori's. Coastal Maori and In-lands preserved food. Good items were sold with cheaper bargains.  Maori plants were brought from the first settlers. 19th century they gave ownership.

This terms inquiry is all about enterprise and economics. We have been learning how the history of how enterprise and economics all started. It is not new because when the early settlers came they introduced enterprise. This week's task was to create a 5 sentence writing about enterprise and then turning each sentence into 10 syllables. We took words out and added words out.

Advertising Challenge - Rugby World Cup

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of RWC activities to support this event that is going on around the World. We have been learning, to identify persuasive language features in advertising. Above shows the advertisement poster that Marieta and I created about the merchandise that we chose to sell from the RWC shopping online site. We either chose to sell the hover bike/ a RWC merchandise. Mele and I decided to sell the Canterbury backpack. 

Rugby World Cup Problem Solving

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held this year in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of activities based on the Rugby World Cup. Today we worked out the measurements of a Rugby Pitch. Mele, Angela and I worked collaboratively together to work out the maths questions. The strategy that we used the most was the Place Value columns, because it helped us  through everything, especially when using the long multiplication strategy.Above shows a DLO of our favourite world problem/strategy. Feel free to comment down below your answers. 

Question: 
A rugby pitch has an area of 5400m2. What could the dimension of the filed be?

2019 Rugby World Cup Stadium Capacity

This week our activities are based around the Rugby World Cup. So for this DLO I worked collaboratively with Mele and Sakina and we worked out maths problems about the stadiums in Japan. We used different strategies such as division, times tables and fractions. We have created a DLO that shows one of the maths problem we solved. We choose to do question 3 which was " Tokyo Stadium is only 3/4  filled. How many people attended the match ". We used division and times tables to solve this problem. Check the DLO to see how we solved this equation.

My Favourite Celebration

Let me tell you about Christmas in my family. Personally in our family Christmas is not only about presents, but for me it's about spending quality time together and praying.

This year Christmas is on Wednesday December, 25th. I wake up in the morning yelling, " MERRY CHRISTMAS!". I ran to the Christmas tree as fast as I could bothering my mum asking her if I could open my presents but, she always says " no, wait until after we celebrate". 

During Christmas our family does, a lot of things such as: play games, eat food, have devotion and open our presents. Every year we call to Nadi, Fiji to see how my relatives are doing. They're always smiling and greeting me with such a positive attitude saying, " Hi Marieta, Merry Christmas!".

My family are always thankful with what we receive. I love seeing my family laugh, smile and enjoy this day. Presents can be something good, yet one thing that I really enjoy is spending time with my family. This is why Christmas is my favourite celebration.

This week for writing we have been learning about commas and where we put it in our writing. We use commas in a List, to separate dialogue, for date/year, introductory words, before FANBOYS and city/suburb. Our challenge today was to write about our favourite celebration using 5-7-10. We get 5 minutes to write, 7 minutes to give feedback and forwarder with a friend and 10 minutes to edit it or finish it off. My favourite celebration is Christmas. I talked about what me and my family do during Christmas and what it means to me.

International News

Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make decisions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening around the world. We thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Marieta and I worked collaboratively together to find articles that related to these groups. The most interesting article that we found out was,74 year old lady gives birth to twins to set world record that took place in India, Guner.

Duffy Book Assembly

Today we have had a visit from Jamie Wall. He is a sports commentator for the All Blacks. We came to talk to us about what he does for a living. Tomorrow he will be going to Japan for the world cup to report on the rugby for the Maori Television. A book that inspired him was called Men in Black of NZ rugby History. He told us that he kept reading the book so that one day if he got asked questions about the All Blacks he would already know the answer. One day a couple of people were looking for someone to be a sports commentator. He was asked to go and was asked a couple of question, using the knowledge from the book he got all of the questions right and got the job. The same thing happen a few years later but instead he was asked to write a book. He said it was challenging but at the end he got through it all. The book he wrote is called Brothers in black and it is New Zealand best selling book. After hearing his story it really inspired me to keep going and never give up. A big thank you to Duffy for providing the books for us, we are all happy with what we got and will be definitely reading them tonight.

Pop-up Globe Visit

Last Week Rita and Reuben came to visit our class. They are from the Pop-up globe that's in Ellerslie. Rita and Reuben are actors at the Pop-up Globe. They talked about the amazing things they do when acting. I found it interesting that they mix genders when acting. The first Globe was hit by a canon while acting.So they made a new one with holes for light. They told us that a tragedy plays would end with death. They also said that comedy plays would end with marriage. Rehearsal would take 6 weeks for the actors to get learning. William Shakespeare used a ten pattern beat in a play. Their plays would weave Maori Language and culture in plays. The narrator would use the fourth wall to include audience. During plays it would take one to two hours long. The best place were in the front of the globe. The cost of tickets were about $10 dollars per person.

Shakespere

This week LS2 have been learning about William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare writes English poet, playwright and actor. He is famous for the stories he tells us about. Did you know that William Shakespeare created 6000 words that we use today. This DLO talks about William Shakespeare and the story Macbeth. Macbeth is about when a Macbeth killed the King just because he wanted to be King.

Exploring our National Current Events

Each day, newspaper editors make a decision everyday about which current event story they will run. This week LS2 have been exploring different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand. We also thought about why the story made the news. I worked with Mele and collaboratively we created a google map and searched for different news. We would have different news and plotted the location on a google map. The news I found interesting was when Wellington decided to create a hand sculpture with a face because I think it's pretty weird to have a hand sculpture on top of a building.

Provocation and Opinion

A provocation is an action or a speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. This week a supermarket will no longer be selling energy drinks to people under 16. I have created a DLO about this topic and wrote different perspectives. I think that this supermarket has made the right choice because energy drinks can cause a lot of health problems. These drinks are especially not good for kids as we are still growing. What is your opinion and why? leave a comment down below.

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Plastic Straws!, People around the world like plastic straws but some really don’t. In my opinion, plastic straws are awful, dreadful and harmful. Ever realise, why the word plastic straw has plastic in it, let me give you a hint! It's PLASTIC! which also means it takes a long time to degrade. Straws are harming the marine life. How would you feel if you were a turtle going along the shores and ate a plastic straw, thinking it could be food. Straws release toxic that could harm these sea creatures.

Plastic straws are too small to be recycled so they are either thrown into the landfills or blown away to a nearby river, lake or beach which could harm the sea creatures living in these oceans. Think about it, 65,000 straws were found during clean ups on beaches!, what if that many straws were filled up on your favourite beach? Did you know that it takes about 5 human life times just for plastic to break down? Wow that is a lot of years. Once plastic straws break down they turn into many little micro-plastics that can easily enter our environment. If straws are being taken away it will decrease the amount of plastic that is being used.


According to the National Park Services it is said that straws are the 11th most common piece of trash found when doing ocean clean ups. About 172 million straws are being used everyday and thrown away. During 2015 a small helpless turtle had a 15 meter straw stuck up its nose. Think about the pain he was going through at that time, how would you feel if that was you?. Marine life has been hurt, trapped and even died from the amount of plastic we are throwing away. I am glad to see that people are making a change and bringing in metal, paper and even bamboo straws.

Did you know that drinking sugary drinks using a straw can actually cause a problem of cavities and tooth decay on your teeth. One stream of your own beverage, can run through your straw and into a small area of your teeth and just by that action it can damage your enamel and cause cavities and tooth decay. Drinking out of a straw can also be harmful to children. Little children can even choke from straws. You might even choke from straws one day!.



What’s the point of having straws?. When it's obviously going to be thrown away and used once, which can end up in the sea. What if you heard the turtles painful cries and moans? Think about your home, you don't want rubbish in your house so why do this to these sea creatures. We have listened, we have learned so now let's save the turtles, thank you!.

Tech

This week was another great week back at tech. Today our group were showcasing our movie that we created. The judges were Mrs Anderson, Ms Anderson and Mr Dunn. Everyone did a great job creating their movies. In my group was Angela, Chavda and Fui. We created a movie about to program your mBot to follow a line. Everyone tried their best and the results were that Alex's group came first, Then our group came second and Nidhi and Eyaka came third. A big thank you to Miss Munoz for teaching use how to program robots, we had a fun time learning.

Kiwi Can

This week was another great time at Kiwi Can. Our topic is Resilience where you keep cooping back up and never giving up. Our theme is self control where you control the things you do. This week we learnt about how to be focus and not distracted when doing a task. Sometimes when you get distracted it can be caused by chatting with friends, Notifications, Different Priorities and not paying attention to what you are learning or doing. Sometimes we can solve these problems by sitting somewhere where you won't be distracted, Turning off your notifications and try to focus on finishing your work. All of this links back to our topic resilience. Making mistakes is alright because we just need to know to never give up.

Marieta Point of view: Plastic Straws

This week for writing we are talking about persuasive text. Our topic was about plastic straws. We watched videos and talked about if we should or shouldn't ban straws. We looked at different facts and opinions, facts is a true piece of information. I have created a DLO about different perspectives as to why we should and we shouldn't ban straws. I learnt about provocation, this word means when someone does or say a speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. My opinion is that we should ban plastic straws because it's causing to much harm to turtles and it takes a while to break down. Opinion means your point of view. A perspective means the way you see something for example in depth or distance.

The Rise of the Dawn

This week for reading we have been learning about the Dawn Raid. Waiheke have been reading the story of the Dawn Raid and asking questions to each other so we can have a learning conversation. Then we separately created DLO about the perspectives on this story. My opinion about this story is that I think that it was really unfair. New Zealand needed people so they called the pacific people and once Robert Muldoon came in he took them away just in a blink of and eye. Once the Polynesian Panthers were formed, they fought for their rights to stay here in New Zealand. People wanted to work so they can provide for their family.

Swimming

This week we have had a great time back at swimming. Our instructor was James. We learnt how to do the stream line, back stroke, free-styling, breast stroke and floating. For the freestyle we were to swim and try to breathe while swimming. Then we learnt safety rules, one was to always swim feet first when you are doing a back stroke.Soon after we learnt how to do a breast stroke where we move our legs and arms at the same time. My Favourite swimming move would be freestyle because I enjoy trying to swim without standing on my legs.

Kiwi Can

This week for kiwi can our topic is emotions. Emotions can be showed by many different ways for example facial expressions. Emotions are important because we feel each day and it helps us to take action and influence the decisions we make about our lives. Our theme for this term is resilience which means cooping back up in hard challenges and never giving up. To show this we were spilt into groups of 5 and got a role play to act out. Everyone had different ways to show their emotions.

Swimming

This week LS2 had there first lesson at swimming. Everyone had a great time and learnt new swimming moves. We were splitted into 2 groups and done different tasks. My group first started off with swimming and trying to touch the floor. Next we tried to go on our backs from 1 minute. Soon after that we tried doing tumble turns which is doing and back flip and a front flip in the water. I found it hard to do the back flip because water kept going into me nose and because I couldn't push myself back wards. Most people could do the front flip. Then we done a few challenges and talked about some safety rules about when you are in the water. Lastly we done dolphin moves which was to swim all the way down to the floor and have our hand touch the floor then go back up, swim then go back down.

HIIT

This week LS2 have been doing some HIIT which stands for High interval Intensity Training. We got all got a partner and together we would take turns doing the workouts we were given. My partner was Florence. The first workout we did was the pull ups, where the partner would hole the sides of the stick and you would pull yourself up so that your chest is alined with the stick. Next were pushups. Here we got to do knee pushups and regular pushups. We would have 30 seconds each for a workout. The last workout was high knees and we had the choice of either doing it on the floor or the stage here my heart rate moniter got to red and so did everyone elses. We then done our stretches and then soon done a challenge where we were to do sqauts and go up with the music said go up and go down when the music said go down. The song we listened to was called " Bring Sally up". I found these workouts a bit hard but also very fun because it pushed my to do much better and to keep believing in myself. A big thank you to Mr Ogilve for setting up the equipment, picking the motivational songs and teahing us how to do these workouts.

Times Tables Game

This week LS2 have been working hard towards creating a maths game. It was like Learn, Create and Share. The learn part means the maths we have learnt so far for example long multiplication or place value. The create part is when we get to create our maths game and get creative with it. Finally share where we get to show other people and get there feedback about our game. My maths game is about solving your times tables and once you've finished playing the times tables you have a opinion to do long multiplication strategys or not, I've decided to use Maori as my language. Using a gif maker site I have created a little monster so if you get the answer wrong you can press on the help box that will take you to a video about about to solve your times table but if you get the answer right you will be able to get to the next question. I used dark colours and created visible writing font and colour. After creating my game I asked a friend to test out my game and give me some feedback. The feedback I got was to make my outline of each text box transparent so it could blend in with my blue and purple background.

Rhythm Interactive's visit to PBS

Today Panmure Bridge School has had a special visit from the Rhythm Interactive where " Together we can make a change". Johnny from the Rhythm Interactive had helped us learn the different types of beats we can make on the drums, he taught us that " if we can say it you can drum it!". We followed the rhythm that Johnny had done. His skills were amazing. Johnny had been using a South African drum called the Djembe. A Djembe is a bigger version of the little drums that we had used. Did you know that Djembe means Joy?. LS2 had gotten someone from either room 1 or 6 and helped them play the drums. Coming to the end, Panmure Bridge School played a game where we were to guess the instrument and if we had gotten it right the Rhythm Interaction would donate a Drum to us. At the end of the game we got a total of 7 drums. I think that today was really fun because not only I learnt how to play the drums but I also learnt that " Together we can make a change" and " If we can say it we can drum it". A big thank you to the Rhythm Interactive for taking their time to come and teach Panmure Bridge School how to play the drums. You can visit their site here: Rhythm Interactive 

Tech

This week at tech we have been doing robotics. During robotics we programe mini m-Bots to do things. This week we programed our m-Bots by using algorithm to let our robots mvoe in a square and a circle. Algorithm means making steps or rule to do something. We used the site called " Make Block" to code our m-Bots. It was a bit challenging for some of us since we were new to this but Miss Mazino did give us some hints on how to make the m-Bot do a square.

Inference in Maths

This week in maths we are learning to inference. Inference means to read the text and skim and scam for the hints that tell you what is happening. I worked collaboratively with Ellanora to create a DLO that tells other peolpe Inference in maths. We have put in a example of how to infere when you are asked a maths question. Our question talks about rows in a chocolate bar.

Royal New Zealand Ballet

This week LS2 has had a great opportunity to do Ballet with Chole who is from the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Chole is a dance educator which means she travels around New Zealand to different schools and teaches them how to do ballet. The RNZB's current show is the "Black Swan, White Swan" and this show is based form an original show called " Swan Lake". Chole taught us a contemporary dance sequence from the Black Swan, White Swan. Everyone did really great and tried their best. Chole's tip was to commit to the movements to get the best effect. The music we danced to was a classic called " Tchaikovsky ".  A big thank you to Chole from the RNZB programe for taking her time out of her day to come and teach us ballet. Another big thank you to Mrs Jones for organizing this.

Waltzing Matilda - Main Idea

 

This week LS2 have been inpacking the literary devices and languages in Banjo Paterson's most famous poem " Waltzing Matilda ". In this poem their is old words like: Jumpbuck ( sheep ), Waltzing ( Walking on foot ), Matilda ( swagbag ), Swagman ( Sesonal worker ) and Billabong ( water hole). This poem was a ballad poem which is a peom that tells a story. I have worked collabotively with Avalon to identifiy the main idea of the story and found 3 facts to back the main idea.