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.

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.