Taneroa | Summer Learning Journey | Wk 1 A 6 Kick Start

L.I to use our creativity to create a Taeroa Pattern. 
                                   

 Panmure Bridge School, had the opportunity to compete in the Summer Learning Journey. SLJ is a organization that encourages younger students to keep their learning going, by doing assigned activities, with themes behind them. SLJ has been running for over 5 years, and this is the 6th year currently. 

In this DLO, we were asked to create a Taeroa Pattern, out of a koro. We were only allowed to repeat and resize, recolor and rotate these koro's to make the Taeroa Pattern. In my Taeroa Pattern, I repeated the process, and went for modern and tidy pattern. I really found it hard to come up with a idea that wasn't the same with other bloggers work. I found it interesting, how many different ways we could put a koro and use it to design our own. Here are the results. 

Te Reo Maori Atctivity 5 | Week 1 | Summer Learning Journey

 L.I to learn how to pronouce maori Sentences.

In this DLO at the top, LS2 had the oppurtunity to work with the Room 5 students to help them with their Te Reo Maori Knowledge. Mayshar and I had worked together to try find out which words best fit into the sentences. In this activity, we were asked to listen to an audio that conncluded a maori sentence. On the next slide we had to to match the words to create the sentence. Another part of this activity was to draw a picture of an activity that, me and my family members would do. I drew a image of me and family members at the beach. I drew this, because my family mostly likes going ot the beach, as it brings them joy and makes them remember how they lived in the islands. Here are the results. 

Fishy False teeth Activity 3 | Week 1 SLJ

  LI: To create your own comic strip of an imaginary conversation.

Panmure Bridge School, had the opportunity to compete in the Summer Learning Journey. SLJ is a organization that encourages younger students to keep their learning going, by doing assigned activities, with themes behind them. SLJ has been running for over 5 years, and this is the 6th year currently. 

In this activity, we were asked to read a article about four characters. 

This is story about two men who go fishing. the First man gets Ocean sick, so he sneezes. He sneezes until his teeth fell out and when it did, The second man started laughing. The second man then pulls out a fish that has teeth in it, and he remembers that person who lost their teeth. He then gives them back to Person 1, but it wasn't his. The Taxi Driver and his Wife had pulled a prank on them, which caused the second man to cause legal action. 

In this comic, we saw a video with the same article, so we put it into a comic. Here are the results

Insect Art | Acitivity 4 Summer Learning Journey

 L.I to get inspiration from Insect art, and use nature to express our creativity. 

Panmure Bridge School, had the opportunity to compete in the Summer Learning Journey. SLJ is a organization that encourages younger students to keep their learning going, by doing assigned activities, with themes behind them. SLJ has been running for over 5 years, and this is the 6th year currently. 

In this activity we were asked to watch a video that was created by Raku Inoue. Raku Inoue, is a Canadian artist who uses, twigs, flowers, leaves, seeds etc. to create complex portraits, of insects. 

LS2(& Room 5) had watched a video that explained how Raku Inoue, had created these small portraits. It was then our turn to try out these intricate portraits. LS2 had walked around through the school collecting whatever they needed. Most students got twigs, potentilla, wheat, lavenders & etc. After collecting our resources, we created our masterpiece. 

I chose to create a butterfly. in my flower, I filled up the wings with flowers as you can see. I used twigs to do the outlining of this butterfly. 

What is a Insect? A insect is a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.

Three Facts about a Butterfly:

1.  There are almost 20,000 butterfly species.

2. Butterflies only live for a few weeks

3. Butterfly wings are transparent

I found this activity very fun because we got to explore our creativity and got to explore the outside nature. I found it interesting that this was very challenging and how their are 20,000 different species of butterflies. 

Treasure Hunt with Nano-Girl 1 | Summer Learning Journey

 L.I To collect the resources needed to create our Superpower experiment.

Panmure Bridge School, had the opportunity to compete in the Summer Learning Journey. SLJ is a organisation that encourages younger students to keep their learning going, by doing assigned activities, with themes behind them. SLJ has been running for over 5 years, and this is the 6th year currently. 

In this SLJ activity, the Nano-girl had asked us to collect these items that she had listed in her video. I really liked the fact that she explained that these are items that most people would view as rubbish. Some materials we couldn't get, as they were in school-groups, which we just replaced them with things that are at the same use. These materials were created to prepare for tomorrow . Here are the Results. 

Comment Activity 2| Summer Learning Journey

L.I To write a quality blog comment on someone else’s blog that starts a rich learning conversation.

Leaving a quality blog comment on another  student’s blog helps us make connections to new learning by asking open ended questions that encourage a reply and motivate the blogger to ask their own question in return. This is how a comment thread starts and when that happens we make connections with a wider audience who we can learn with and from.

Today one of the activities that were apart of the Summer Learning Journey was to comment on anybody's blog of our own choice. I chose to comment on Jessie. Jessie is a Yr-4 student from Glen Innes School. I particularly chose Jessie, because I was really impressed with her blog and video. This blog post was about the First Summer Leaning Journey Activity.  

Christmas Board Game

 LI: To create a digital board game for the juniors.

Link to game

In this DLO show above, LS2 had the ability and opportunity, to create a board game using this Google Draws. The main purpose was to entertain the juniors. We first saw an exemplar of this, so we could get a clear idea of what we were doing. I chose to create a game of snakes and ladders. The only twist with these board games, was that we had to make them Christmas themed. The main characters for my story was an angel looking for the star. This connected to Christmas because of the star and how it very often used at the top of a Christmas tree. 

Operation Christmas Drop

 L.I to learn and inform others about Operation Christmas Drop.

The Operation Christmas Drop is the longest humanitarian aid, that has been created to help impact others life's from remote islands. The Anderson Force, Japanese and Australian forces, have allied together to create a box full of supplies that the islands will need to survive. These forces has also partnered up with businesses to get these resources. These boxes are mainly dropped to islands near Guam(a U.S Territory island). These are often dropped around Christmas. Fau and I had learnt a lot from this. We found it really interesting that it has been running for 68 years. 

Probability

L.I To create a probability tree to explain your thinking. 

Probability is the chance that something is most likely to happen. LS2 has been studying Probability for two weeks. Ong and I have been working together on this DLO to explain how Probabilities work. In small groups, part of LS2 had a maths session with Mrs. Anderson talking about Probabilities. One of the maths problems that occured through our session can be seen in this DLO. We used Probability tree to solve these problems. Here are the results. 

Last week of Tech | Science

 L.I to learn about the Leaf Structure.

This week, was the last week that PBS had at tech for the year. The last lesson that Mrs Sharma had taught us this week was about the Leaf Structure. In this image above, The Yr 7's went around the Tamaki College and collected different leafs. after collecting these leaves, we glued them into our books and wrote the description of each leaves(Size, Texture, Color, Thickness & Pattern). There are different parts of the leaf structure. First is the Photo Synthesis. The Palisade cells traps the light from the top, this is why there are are different shades from the upper and bottom part of the leaf. There are more partsto a leaf which you can watch in this video. Link. 

I really enjoyed this weeks lesson about a Leafs Structure, because I didnt know much about the topic, so it was very interesting. 

This was the last week of Tech, so we were slightly sad to have this ended, because LS2 really had a lot of fun at Tech.

I really enjoyed Robotics beause I have never done something like that before, and because of how we got to use Mbots. Thank you Mrs Ferguson.

I really enjoyed Food Tech, because I learnt how to make dinner for my family and it was very interesting, learning about Hygiene. Thank you Mrs Hecker. 

I really enjoyed learning about Science because, I really got to experiment new things and got to build up my knowledge of Science. Thank you Mrs Sharma. 

Art Coloring Book | Summer Learning Journey

L.I To experiment with colors. 

Original

My Version

Today, LS2 and Room 5 had used the Artt Coloring Book, to experiment with colors. On this site, we had the ability to recolor, some famous paintings. These images shown above are what I have done, and the original painting. I really liked this activty beacuse, we got to experiment with colors and got to use our creativity. Here are the results. 

Book Club

LI: to unpack the text together

Fau, Lukah, Chris, Vayan, Afatia, Azatulah and I were introduced to the activity, Book Club by Mrs Anderson.  Each member of the book club has a role to take each week. The 7 roles are, The Discussion Director, Connector, Summariser, Passage Picker, Word Master, Illustrator and Meeting Report. 

The book that we read this week was called “Bok Choy” by Paul Mason. The moral of the story was describing the differences between the chinese people compared to the english. This story unpacked the racism faced by chinese miners, who came to New Zealand in 1800s to seek their fortune in the gold fields. From this story we learnt it is important to accept one another despite who we are and how we look. 

Once we had completed the tasks for our roles, we reported back to the group and shared our thoughts and ideas . The Discussion Director’s asked questions and guided everybody to be on the right track. The Summariser, picked 20 most important words from the story, to 6, and used it to summarise the text. The Passage Picker would pick a part of the story and write why it’s important to you. The Connector had to make connections to themself, to text, and to the world from the book. 

I enjoyed that each person had a role and everybody contributed to the group. I found it interesting that everyone had a rich learning conversation . I'm looking forward to doing this again.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

Panmure Bridge had the honour to have a Professinal Kapa Haka group come in and give us a performence. This group was from Te Whanau Raukura, and they have mostly performed at Auckland Museum. The performence started of with a Conch. This was a traditional trumpet, to welcome guests in. As they arrived at the stage, they first sang a song. One of the girls started to do very fancy moves with her Poipoi. A Poi was used by males to increase their flexibility, build co-ordination and upper body strength for battle, but as the Maori culture grew, it then became a female traditon as a form of comfort or welcoming. The next Item that was introduced was the Taiaha. The Taiaha was used in war. The feathery part of the Taiaha was used as a distraction, so taht they could use the would to bruise the enemy. As a gift in return the boys from PBS Kapa Haka group, peformed a Haka in return. After this Peformance, Becca, from the Kapahaka group, came into our class-room and taught us a game called Pukana. 

The Charge of the Light Brigade | Reading

 L.I to identify the backround story of poems. 

Alfred Lord Tenneyson, created the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. This Poem was about the Crimean War that took place in 1853 - 1856. This Poem was about The Attack of the Light Brigade, which unfortantly failed. In this DLO, Fau, Jayden and I had collaborated together to explain the poem. We had put in a glossary on some words that we didnt understand in the poem and some facts. I really found this interesting because I got to learn different words that were used in the olden days. I also found this helpful because, I think when we do English in High School we can get a head-start to understanding these poems. Here are the results. 

Maori translation for English names | Maori

 L.I to learn the Maori translation of Names.

In this DLO we have been learning the maori translation for english names. Some tips would be the letters in maori( example: p in english is b in maori, j,s is h v is w, l is r. Here are the results 

Summarising Guy Fawks

 L.I To identify the key words in the text.

L.I to use the words you highlight to help you summarise the story behind firework nights.

Keira and I have been learning about summarizing using Guy Fawkes as an example. We have summarised the story using this template. First we listed to words while listening to the story. Then we started to pick the 20 most important words then 6 of the most important words from the 20 words. We used those six important words to create sentences. I really enjoyed working with Keira because I got to teach her some basic steps for the next few years of her learning journey. Here are the Results. 

Why is it important to use our PBS CARE values?

 L.I To write an explanation using TEEL Paragraphs.

Link to Video

This week for writing we were focusing on using TEEL paragraphs in our explanations. As there are structures for different forms of writing the structure of a paragraph is known as TEEL; T for topic sentence, E for elaborate ideas, E for explain, and lastly L for linking topic to main question. We were revising explanations as next week is testing week. In groups we created an explanation explaining why it is important to use CARE values. I collaborated with Juel, Fau, Heavenly and Afatia for the session. In our groups we voice recorded ourselves saying the explanation showing our explanation on a piece of paper. 

Election 2 | Inquiry

LI: To think deeply about a change I would make.

If you were Prime Minister, what one thing would you do to change NZ for the better and why?

I would change the rent of some peoples houses, like $200 - $100 down, so for people who are having trouble providing things for their kids, they can focus on their kids and their education. 

Who will get my vote

 L.I To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed .

In this DLO, I had decided which Political Party I will be voting for. I read policies of different political parties, and I fairly agree with the Green Parties Decision. I really liked that Green Party would involve young speakers in policy decisions, if they are affected with the policy. If I was 18 I would vote for Marama because they will do a lot for NZ.

DARE to make a choice

 L.I to showcase our learning on drug awareness.

In this DLO above, Matthew and I have worked Collaborativly on this DLO. This DLO is 'Dare to make a choice'. In this DLO, we have explained the counsequences that come with drugs, the side effects, why it is important to make wise choices and legal ad illegal drugs. In one of our learning sessions, we had learned the legal and illegal drugs. We had been given 6 scenario's(connected to drugs), which in groups, we had decided what the consequences would be. We had also learnt about the 3 different drug classes is when getting caught by the police. We were really shocked of about the amount of money and time was spent in prison. I really enjoyed this activity because it showed me the consequences of making bad choices. 

MRS C GREN | Inquiry

LI: To understand the meaning behind the acronym MRSCGREN

Fau, Akuhata, Acien, and I, had collaborativly worked together on this DLO above. In this DLO, we had defined MRS C GREN. If you wanna learn what MRS C GREN means, please read this DLO. In this DLO, contains how it works, and why it is important. We used key trategies like, Skimming and Scanning, Collaborating, Smart searching skills, Collaboration and Using other words. Here are the results. 

Family Te Reo Maori

 L.I To create a display of the Family Tree. 

As apart of completing one of the Te Reo Maori Challenge, I had to create a family tree. In this Family Tree, it required me to add moari names of relatives. I have only included Myself, my siblings, my parents, my parents siblings and my grandparents. I have also added a traditional pattern. Here are the results. 

Its Cool 2b Me!

 LI: To understand what you think is best about yourself.

In this DLO above, I have completed some things of Why "Its Cool 2b Me". In this DLO, I was required to write, What quilities I have in friends, What I wish, Great things about me, My best friends, My favourite food, Fun things I like doing, If I could be somebody else who would it be and my Goals.  I really enjoyed this, because I got other people to tell me what good things about me. Here are the Results. 

Observation Footsteps/Why is Science Emperical | Science

LI: To look for evidence in the data/an image and infer what might be happening.

In this DLO above, Fau, Juel, Heavenly and I, have collabrated, together on this Slideshow. Mrs Anderson, had first shown LS2, two images of different sized footprints. Within our tables, we shared our own opinions on what would be happening in the image. This task was to also experience how Science is Emperical. Science is Emperical, because it is based on observations. Here is the DLO we worked on. 

Vincent van Gogh Timeline

LI: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent van Gogh. 

This week in groups of 3-4 we created a timeline using Padlet explaining the life of Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh is a dutch artists that created paintings called 'Still life'. Still life is capturing a moment in time by painting it. We collaborated together to complete this task, the people in my group were Juel, Sulia and Heavenly. We all found out interesting facts and things about Vincent van Gogh. The thing that I found interesting was that out of a strong love for his girlfriend he cut of a part of his ear, because it is not very often someone cuts of part of his ear for a reason like that. During his lifetime he made over 800 paintings and 1,100 sketchings. His very first painting was called 'The potato eaters'. 

How to leave a Comment | Cybersmart

L.I To create a DLO that helps others become cybersmart.

Juel, Heavenly, Fau and I, had collaborated together to complete this Challenge. This challenge conducted us to create a video(30 seconds max), to help new parents connect to their child's learning through digital learning. We as a group had picked one of the options to help others to connect with their learning. we chose to help others how to leave a comment. YOu can watch this video to learn how to make a comment. 

Game Shopping Maths Challenge

L.I To find the most efficient strategy to solve problems. 

In this Slideshow, I have completed 3 maths challenges in this DLO, out of 5. These maths challenges were created by one of the students form LS2. The math challenges were based on gaming equitment nd concluded 6 questions. I found it really challenging, because I had to divded and multiplly big numbers. I actually learnt divded decimal numbers. You can see what I am talking about in the DLO. 

Rachel Carson | Biologist

LI: To use smart searching skills to find out about a scientist from the past who made an important contribution to their field of science. 

In this DLO shown above, I have completed a challenge on a very famous envirometalist/Biologist. This person is Rachel Carson. This challenge conducted me, to learn more about scientist. Rachel Carson was a Marine and Enviromental Biologist. Rachel Carson was mostly noticed of the books she wrote. Her books were a main part of her career. "Silent Spring" was a book that got noticed, and went global around the world, along with the meassage behind it. If you want to learn more about her and her books, be sure to read this DLO. 

Cybersmart - Using Images

 LI: To understand that images should add to the information in text by allowing the reader to make a visual connection.

This DLO shown above, Ong and I had collaborated to tell others why it is important to make your images match the content shown in Learning Posters. We think that it is very important for users to make their images match the topic, this is so that when others come across your Learning DLO, they get a better Visual. Ong and I had created examples in this DLO above. I actually found it really interesting, how much people don't match their images to the topic. 

Mary Anning Geology | Research Challenge 2

LI: To use smart searching skills to find out about a scientist from the past who made an important contribution to their field of science. 

This DLO showcase's the research that we found about Mary Anning. This research Challenge included me find one scientist from each area of Science. Including Geometry, I had chosen Mary Anning. Mary Anning, was known for her Major discoveries, including ichthyosaur fossils. Ichthyosaur is an extinct reptile which also means a lizard. This lead her to investigating and exploring more of these creatures. Until March 9, 1847, when she passed away. I found it really interesting that Mary Anning was the first person/female to find these sort of creatures. I really found it interesting because I would have never imagined somebody finding the bones of these long ago creatures. 

Chemistry Alfred Nobel | Research Challenge 1

 LI: To use smart searching skills to find out about a scientist from the past who made an important contribution to their field of science.

                                                  

This DLO showcases, the life of one of the past Scientist. Alfred Nobel; most likely known of his inventions towards explosive devices, which has been used around these modern days. Alfred Nobel can be put under Chemistry, in addtion to him working a lot with elements. This DLO includes how he started inventing explosive device's, and his personal life he had on this earth. Nobel, gathered all of the knowledge he had at age 9 about Explosive devices, to create something, as we now know as Dynamite. I really found it interesting that Alfred was the founder of the Nobel Prize, and I learnt that at the age of 9 yrs-old, he worked with Explosive Devices. 

Mapo Pork & Egg Plant | Tech

L.I to learn how to create a dish. 

This week at Tech, LS2 Yr 7's, had learnt how to create a meal. This meal goes by the name of Mapo Pork & Egg Plant. In pairs of 2, we were both spilt to make the meal. I myself and everyone else, enjoyed their meal. Here are images from the day. 

Career Pathway - Actor

L.I to find your Career Pathway.

 THis DLO seen above, is showcasing WHat Career I would like pursue in the future. THe Career I would like to do in the future is Acting. I have always intreged in acting. To be an Actor, their is not specific of Secondary School. Here are the Results. 

Manaiakalani Survey

L.I to help the juniors out with a Manaiakalani Survey. 

LS2, had helped out the junior classrooms with learning how to take their first survey. In this survey it contained questions which connected with the Manaiakalani. I really enjoyed doing this, because I got to connect with the little kids and got to be a role model towards them. 

Life Education

LI: To learn the safetys of Life Education.

In the Image seen below, LS2 has attended 2 sessions of Life Education. Life Education is a charity that educates and empowers children to make healthy choices so they can live full and healthy lives. In the 2 Life Education Sessions, we had learnt about the side affects of drugs, alcohol and smoking. We also learnt about the brain and Body. I really learnt alot from Life education, as of trying to chose the right things and avoinding peer preasure. 

Main Ideas Science | Reading

LI: to find the most vital ideas from the information to help us answer the question “What is science?”.

This DLO is identifying the ideas of science we have learnt from the information we have gained. To find the vital information, we negotiated by collaborating and communicating with our team. We shared our opinions and ideas, we took notes and from them we selected and rejected information to get to our final conclusion. 

For us the 3 main vital ideas are:

1. Science is the discovery of What, Why, and How events happen

2. The three main branches of science are Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

3. There are two main categories of science, and they are Basic and Applied Science

Science Summary | Reading

L!: To Summarise the information.

This DLO is highlighting our summary about what we know about science. In our groups, we have been sharing our ideas on posted notes and found the key words. To then create a summary about the topic. We needed to skim and scam for the main ideas to create this DLO. We also had to join our ideas to create a more efficient idea.

We used our new question dice to help us construct some questions we want to find more about. The three questions we made using the dices were

When did science start?

How will science progress in the future?

Who was the first scientist?

Hauora | My Connection

L.I To learn about your connections about Hauora.

In this DLO seen below, I have wrote down words, that remind me of the topic. The 4 topics were basically the 4 walls, "My family, my community, my connection and Hauora. I have wrote at least 5-10 words in each topic. I have also added a image of myself in the middle. This was also connected to the an other activity that we did with 4 pieces of paper representing Hauora. Here are the results 

Hauora Challenge 2 Collabrative Working

L.I to try and make the 4 walls stand with paper. 

In this DLO, Fau, Juel, Heavenly and I, had worked together collaborativly to make the 4 walls of paper stand. We had Collaborated and tried out options. We tried to find the most efficient strategy. This activity was fairly easy, as we talked and listened to others opinions. In this little Paragraph, I have wrote down what would happen if the walls fell. 

Hauora Poster Explanation

L.I to explain the 4 walls of Hauora. 

In this Poster seen, I have explained the 4 walls of Hauora using Canva. In this poster, I have explained the 4 walls. I have also added images to explain the main part of the walls. Here are the Results. 

Making Connections to problem solving

L.I To Explore Problem solving through Tangrams. 

In these images seen above, LS2, has worked together to create something called a Tangram. A Tangram is a Ancient Chinese Puzzle, which was likely known around the 1800's; and used to help out with boredom.  We first started with an A4 paper and scissors. With nothing written down, we just listened, to follow the instructions, with the last pieces we had our first challenge was to make a square with those pices. At first it was very hard, but we worked together as one to collaborate, try out options, ask questions and tried our best. The main point of this was to listen and follow the instructions. It was also to hep us out with figuring out the main points of problem solving.

Adding and Subtracting Negitive Numbers | Maths Challenge

L.I To add and subtract positive and negitive numbers.

As Term 3 has started, we have now carried onto learning about Adding and Subtracting Negitive Numbers. LS2, had a practice round with trying out Negitive Numbers, and did very well. Mrs. Anderson had then set up 4 Megitive Number Word Problems for us to solve. In groups, Fau, Sakshi and I, had worked together to find the Answer for Question 4. Here Is the DLO. 

The Sunrise | Writing no.2

L.I ot use your creativty to finish 10-5-7-10-10.

As seen down below, I have used my creativity in 35 minutes and 7 minutes to check my work. Mrs Anderson and the Class, had agreed to make some changes, as we felt that we needed to be more comfortable to plan and write our ideas. We had went from 5-7-10 to 10-5-7-10-10. In this image seen down below, we had used our skills to write from this image. Here are the results. 

The Sunrise Climb 

Finally, it’s my time. The Climb I have been waiting for is now here. Once I get to the top, I’ll see the breath-taking view, where I won’t be found, and my hard-work will now pay off. Climbing, as high as the Sun went along with me. Since the day i’ve started climbing, I've finally found my hobby. He sure will be jealous, and now I can get my money that he owed me. No one will be able to underestimate me now. I can’t wait for the results. 

The warm colors wrap around me, and the sun glances throughout the rocks. My heart starts to tremble towards my feet and my legs seem to not work; but that won’t get in my way of completing this. The rocks, feeding of my hands, as I couldn’t climb, as long as I lived; Until I took the turn for the worst. Climbing the left direction wasn't a good idea. While my chest was just as similar as the sunset, I noticed my view from the bottom has started to fade from my eyes. “Ahhh! Oww!” I exclaim, as the rocks hit my eyes. 

I’m guessing that one of my fingers had let go, just as my head did. I was eager for the money, that I didn’t even notice; I might risk my life for this. As I fell into a conscious hole, full of mindsets. Just a couple more steps, a couple more. With a whole rock coming outwards, blocking my space, to climb up to the bright side, I noticed I have been thinking about all of the negative things, of what “I can’t or “I won’t be able to do”. I thought to myself, “I don’t need to climb this whole mountain to achieve my goal, I have a whole life line for me. 

Experimenting with Ultraviolet light

L.I To find the most efficient UV filter. 

LS2 has been trialing the elctronic sensor for the Kiwiriuos Project. We are working with Sarenga, Sonya, Evan, Dawn and Yvona, from the Auckland University. I found that the sensor's could sense what the day was like was the most effective filter to keep Zally safe from the UV light. My DLO will show you how I did this. 

Lightning never strikes twice, does it? | Writing

L.I To use 5 - 7 - 10 to write creatively.

As seen down below, I have used my creativity in 5 to 10 min doing this, which can be shown as 5 - 7 - 10. In pairs, I have collaborated with Fau to try and give my opinions on how she can make her writing better. She has also done the same for mine; where we spent 7 minutes giving each other feedback. This was a good activity, as we have come to the beginning of the term. This activity also had helped me with being creative. To do this activity, Mrs. Anderson had used an image and a beginner starter to our story/narrative. I had learnt from this to write creatively and to try to share my opinions on others work. 

Lightning never strikes twice, does it?

That was the question that occupied their frightened minds as they crouched, huddling 

together, next to the pile of dusty sacks in the base of the windmill.

Where we were forbidden to cross. As we could smell an unpleasant scent that occurred inside our nose, KAPOW! Our eyes were lifted towards the dash of light that crossed the field. As time flew by, it l wasn’t safe for us. Jason and I struck through the storm searching for Elizabeth and Jerry.

 A Windmill also wasn’t a safe place for us to stay since it concluded electricity. This also wasn’t once a bolt of lightning I have ever seen. “It’s time to go now we should be safe!” Jason informed me. With an unsure face of mine, he grabbed me by the wrist; and we ran through the deadly lights. THAMP! BASH! BOOM! 

Through our way out we get pulled into a bear trap full of trees. ZAP! BOOM! Trees trapped both ways into an unknown path leading into a mysterious Trail of footprints that seem to be unknown. Running as we follow this trail, that leads to an unknown house.  It was at least half a kilometer away from the house. 

We were also in the open which exposed the lighting to Jason. I didn’t turn back thinking that it was just a small tree that had fallen. The question that occupied my mind was “Are we gonna make it out of this alive? Am I gonna live?”. As I made it through the natural disaster; turning around thinking that 

As I walked through the doors of this unknown house, therefore beings stood beyond me. “Elizabeth! Jerry!” Exclaiming in relief. Relieved to see that they were still alive and Quickly went outside to see Jason outside of the front door. 

Navigating by the Stars | 5 Matariki Challenge

L.I to learn more about the navigation of Matariki. 

As apart of completing my 5 Matariki Challenges; Fau, Juel, Vayan and I, had worked togehter tho complete this. In this DLO we reasearched the Navigating by the stars, including the Moon, Stars and the Sun. 

Opstical Illusion | Inquiry

L.I to understand the meaning of a Opsticla Illusion.

Mr. Johnston came into LS2 to come and teach us about Optical Illusions. One of the most famous examples can be shown in this DLO. One of the most famous artist, know for their amazing Optical Illusion was M C Escher. O

3 birds | Matariki 4 Challenge

L.I to create describe the 3 birds that are included in the Matariki Harvest.

As apart of completing my 5 Matariki Blog Post's; Juel, Fau, Vayan and I, had wokred ollaborativly to complet our fourth DLO. In this DLO we have included the 3 birds that hvae partcipated in the Matariki harvest. The three birds Kereru, Tui and Common Myna. 3 

What is Matariki? | Matarik Challenge 3

L.I to learn what Matariki is and why its Celabrated. 

As apart of completing the 5 Matariki Maori Challenge's; Juel, Fau, Vayan and I, have worked collaborativly together, to find out the meaning of what Matariki is. Throughout Aotearoa, for many years, during late May and early June, The Matariki Stars will appear. It can also been know as a cluster of stars known as the 7 sisters Here are the Results. 

Harvesting | Matariki Challenge 2

L.I to create a DLO explaining how people Harvest food to celabrate Matariki.

Apart of completing one of the 5 Matariki Challenges, i have now completed two DLO's. THis DLO is showcasing the equitment that is needed for Harvesting food, in the Maori Tradition. This includes three main equitment known as: Ko, Timo and Kaheru. I had worked with Juel on this task as apart of Collaboration. We got this information from https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/. 

Optical Illusion | Inquiry Light & Sound

L.I to identify what an optical illusion is. 

As apart of learning what light and sound is, one science genius, Mr. Johnston, had taught LS2 about an optical illusion. An optical Illusion, can be identified as in something that deceives the eye. As apart of learning this, we had done a small little science experiment with two cardboard,cut out circles and a pencil. On one-side, we had drew a fish, and on the other, we drew a fish bowl, full of water. We taped this to each-side of the pencil facing outwards. As we spun this around, you could start to see the fish in the water. 

Matariki Drawing Star Constellation | 1 Te Reo Maori Challenge

L.I to celebrate the Matariki stars. 

As apart of celabrating and  accomplishing my #1,Matariki Maori Challenge, I have created my own version of the Matariki Constellation. In this Constellation, I have named and added as much detail as I could. Here is the Results of the Challenge. 

Long Division | Maths

Learning Intention: To find the answer to the questions using long division, To be able to explain the steps of long division.

As apart of my Maths learning, I have been practising how to solve Long Division problems. Vayan and I have been working together to accomplish this challenge. Mrs. Anderson, had set up a bunch of Long Division equations, for us to solve. We had picked one and here is the results. If you wanna learn the basic rules and what is long Division, check this DLO above.

5 light

L.I To talk about 5 light facts.

In this DLO that is presented, I have completed a DLO about 5 light facts. For these light facts I used my reaseraching skills to find these facts. The most interesting fact for me was that, We cannot see a majority of light. 

How a Peri-scope works | Inquiry

L.I To explain how periscopes work.

Mr Johnston came and taught us what periscopes ares, how they are used and who uses them. We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at a 45° angle it reflects light back at a  45°. It was a fun session because we experimented with mirrors and tried to write our name by looking in the mirror.

17 Pipiri | Maori

L.I to learn the language of Maori. 

Whaia Odie, came into LS2 to teach us about Maori numbers and sentences. During the few weeks, LS2 has been improving in Maori. In this Google Document, Whaia Odie had set up some activities for us to complete. These activities had included Numbers, Guessing the word in Maori(by image) and creating Maori sentences(including the weather). Here are the results:

Subway Combo Challenge | Maths

L.I to find the most efficient strategy to solve a maths challenge. 

Sakshi & I, had worked together to solve this maths problem. The maths question, can be seen at the top of this DLO. The main question that we had to solve was "How much money will PBS meed to pay for all of the orders?". Sakshi and I had different strategy, but we picked the one that we thought that was most efficient. The Strategy was Long Multiplication. We also included the main information that caused us to get the answer. Here are the results. 

Polynesian Panthers | Reading

L.I to use the information from text, to create a DLO about the "Polynesian Panthers". 

Chris & I had collaborated together to create a DLO about the Polynesian Panthers. The Polynesian Panthers is a Movement or Group of poeple that have been protesting, to eduacate other's on the Polynesian History. This DLO talks about how polynesian panthers started and talks about the Dawn Raids Situation. 

Evaluating the "Dawn Raids & Polynesian Panthers | Reading

L.I To read the information in the text, think about what you read and form an opinion. 

In this DLO, The Kakapo's have been Evaluating the Situation that happened in the Mid 1970's, known as the "Dawn Raids" that had happened in Aotearoa. The Dawn raids was a action that took Polyneasians by suprise. The New Zealand(Auckland) Immigration had took the decision of Police officers to Deport Polyneasian's from NZ back to their country. This also included the terms of "Over-stayers". This word was described as Polyneasians. As this went on, These young University Students, stepped up, and protested against this tragedy, known as the "Polyneasian Panthers". The reason that the Polynesian Panthers were included, was to educate others and to get polynesian's to be traeted equally. 

 As a Polynesian person my-self, In my opinion, I don't think that Dawn raiding shouldn't have been a thing, because their are other ways to solve this peacfully, either then tearing families without even saying a goodbye. 

Canlender Maths Challenge | Maths

L.I to find the msot efficient strategy to solve the problem.

As you can find below this blog post, Sakshi & I, had worked together to complete and solve this Maths Challenge. you can see the question in the first text box at the top. We both had diferent strategies, but we picked the one that we thought was most efficient. Here is the Results. 

Food Technology | Chicken curry Salad

L.I to learn how to make a chicken salad with rice. 

As apart of going to Tech in Tamaki College, we have been learning how to cook, Chicken Curry salad with rice. In our assigned groups, Afatia and I had got jobs to do to make our dishes. Afatia worked on the vegtables and I worked on the Powerders(Curry powder, Corn and Beans). We then put them in the big potwith the oil and let it sizzle when it was ready.We then added rice to it and we had finished our masterpiece. 

I really enjoyed this and I hope to learn cooking next week. 

How to be Cyber Smart | Confidence Badge 5

L.I to make a DLO on how to be Cyber-smart. 

As apart of achieving my goal to receive my Confidence badge, I took the opportunity to make a DLO on how you can become Cyber-Smart. As I have been taught on how to be cyber-smart, I also wanna spread awareness. I have created a DLO showcasing Cyber-smart. Here are the Results

Cyber-Smart is when you are being smart with the choices you pick online or digitally. 

Leading School Assembly | Confidence Badge 4

L.I to lead a school assembly.

As apart of achieving my goal to receive my Confidence Badge, I used this opportunity to lead a school assembly. Chris and I had worked together to make this work. We memorized and encouraged each-other to carry on. I really enjoyed doing this because I got to have a head-start of doing this in the future and because I also made a connection with my partner. I hope to do this next time. 

Joining a Competition(Summer Learning Journey) | Confidence Badge 3 | CARE AWARDS

L.I to join a competition(sports, science, etc).

As apart of getting my Confidence Badge, I had the opportunity to share a competition that I have competed in. I chose to pick the Summer Learning Journey. This wasn't really a competition but it was indeed for the prizes. 

The Summer Learning Journey is a Program that helps children keep track of their learning in the holidays. My school(Panmure Bridge School) has been participating in the Summer Learning Journey for 5 years. Each year we have been at the top of the leader-board for Manaiakalani. 

Blog Post Analysis | Maths

L.I  To Analyse our blog post data to help us set blogging goals.

I use the statisstical imformation on my blog to help me set goals for 2020. Before I can publish my blog post I need to complete the task. I worked the average number of posts I made for each month and used this data set a realistic and achievable blogging goal. 

Maori Challenge no2

LI: Design a Kowhaiwhai pattern for our Te Reo Blog. 

This is a Traditional Kowhaiwhai Pattern. A Kowhaiwhai pattern is a traditional pattern used to tell stories. 

The meaning behind my kowhaiwhai patterns represent Rangi and Papa. The Heart represent Rangi and the Koru represent Papa. 

The small dots represent the children that they have had. 

Teaching my Mom about a Quality Comment | CARE AWARD Confidence 2 | Teacher Created

L.I to teach a parent or caregiver how to create a quality blog comment.

As a part of getting my Confidence Badge, I have taught my mom how to create her very own quality blog comment. She commented on my blog about the Cityscape of Los Angeles. It wasn't that hard to teach her because I just asked her to go on the quality blog comment DLO. Here are the results.