All About me

Malo e lelei my name is Sulia, I am a year 7 and attend Panmure Bridge School. I am from a small island called Tonga. I was born and raised in New Zealand. I have two brothers. In school my favourite subjects are Reading and Writing. My learning goals for this year is to complete at least one or two books a month and learn different types of methods in maths. My favourite band is Bon Jovi and my favourite singer is Celine Dion. I am good at playing Guitar, Ukulele, Piano.

Maths Questions ASB Marathon

L.I to cooperative as a team to achieve a something.
In our thinking groups, we were asked as a team to cooperate to finsh a task. The task that was given to us was a list with number facts of the ASB Marathon. We had to create 5 different quedtions using those facts. here is what we have come up with.

Kupe and Cook's Voygae

Today in our Reading groups, we are learning about Kupe and Captain James Cook. Kupe was the first Polynesian voyager. Captain James cook was a British Naval Officer, Explorer and Navigator. For this activity we were asked to map out the places that Kupe and Captain James Cook have travelled to NZ as a group. Three people from our team worked on Kupe's Voyage and the other three worked on Cook's Voyage.

Captain James Cook & Kupe Venn Diagram

This week in our reading groups, we were asked to create a Venn Diagram between Kupe and Captain James Cook. A venn Diagram is getting two things(or people) and finding the differences and similarities. Kupe is a the first Polynesian Voyager and the founder of NZ. Captain Cook was a Britain Explorer and was one of the first European to step on New Zealand.

Summer Learning Journey 2020

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 leaderboard for Manaiakalani. On Friday assembly we had the Summer Learning Journey team come to our school and give out gifts and certificates to people.

Giving it a Go | Kiwi Can

This week in Kiwi Cna we talked about giving it a go. We should give things a go because you mght not know what would happen. The Theme and Topic for Kiwi Can is Positive Relationship and Giving it a go. Giving it a go means taking risks. Positive Relationships means having positive communication with a person. Our Engineer was called Push up Challenge. In this game we got into pairs. In the middle of us was a blue cone. Mr Semanu had to say the magic word and when he said that word, we had to grab the cone. For our activity it was called 1 v 1. In this game we had to get into partners. Mr Simanu had told us something to do and we had to verse each other to see who was better.

I enjoyed this Kiwi Can session because it got us out of our comfort zone and we tried some new things.

Tech Reflection | Algorithms

Today was the second session for Tech. Our teacher for the whole term 1 is, Miss Ferguson. In Miss. Ferguson's class, we are learning about Algorithms and Coding. Algorithm means a set of Instructions. Miss Ferguson asked us to go on to a site called  Mblock. This site is a coding site where you can connect and control miniature robots. With this site, we learnt how to make the mbot flash lights and make sounds. Here is presentation of what we did.

Algorithm & Robotics | Tech

Today we had our first ever tech session. We were working with Mrs Ferguson, who taught us about algorithms and robotics. She was our first rotation of the year. We used a google drawing to write down examples of algorithms. Algorithms are not just numbers, they are also instructions. 

Collaborative explanation | Plastic Pollution

How do you feel knowing that each year, over 1 million sea animals lose their lives from plastic waste? This is caused by the laziness of people who can't be bothered to throw their rubbish in the bin. When you litter, your rubbish leads to landfills, drains, and possibly to the ocean. 

Everyday approximately 8 million pieces of trash lead to the ocean. As the waste leads to the ocean it can attract the sea animals by mistaking it for food. The sea creatures can die by being suffocated from the plastic and can also be caught in the plastic. The plastic makes them have digestive problems and can cause them to die. 

According to National Geographic, by 2050 there will be 12 billion metric tonnes of plastic landfills. Right now there might be 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic in our ocean right now.  Chlorinated plastic can release harmful chemicals into the surrounding soil, which can then leak into groundwater or other surrounding water sources. This can cause a range of potentially harmful effects on the species that drink the water.

Marine animals' lives are at risk due to the plastic pollution in the sea, if we don’t take action now who knows what will happen next.

L.I to create a collaborative explanation.

In groups of five we created a collaborative explanation. This explanation was about Plastic pollution. What we did to get information was watch a video from love your coast. This video showed the love your coast community picking up rubbish. 

Positive Relationship | Kiwi Can

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings.
Today was the first Kiwi Can for this year. Our Teachers Mrs Grace and Mrs Mac taught us about three words, Courtesy, Empathy, Common Sense and Consideration. The theme for this term is Positive Relationship. Our energiser for this week was Switch places. This game worked by, one of the teachers saying something like this(example: I like chocolate), we had to switch places with a person that liked that thing that they liked(including you). For the activity we were playing role play. In this game we had to do a role play of the word Empathy. Empathy means having respect and understanding peoples feelings.

The Treaty of Waitangi Summary

L.I to learn about Literacy Weaving
L.I to summaries and understand the Treaty of Waitangi.

In this activity we were asked to get into groups with anybody we would like. In each group we were asked to create a short summary of the Treaty of Waitangi. We also had read a story about The Treaty of Waitangi and we also had to find words that we found important and add it into that summary. We also had to pick two words from the story that we found mostly important and find and try to draw an image of those words.

                        

Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed on the 6th of February 1840. It is a treaty between Aotearoa and the Crown. The treaty meant that Aotearoa would be under the sovereignty of the crown.  It was signed by over 500 Maori chiefs who wanted to live in a peaceful nation. The Crown started to betray the trust of the Maori people which caused violence and conflict between the two cultures. The New Zealand land wars that began 5 years after the treaty was signed, which resulted in many Maori losing their land. In 1872 after the Native Land Court was set up, the land was still being taken. Something that many generations have tried to put right.

Juel, Alayah, Sulia, Fau

Kiwi Sport Reflection | Cricket

L.I to learn how to play Cricket.
For kiwisport, term 1; LS2 is learning how to play cricket. Brian from HPPC(Howick, Pakuranga Cricket Club) was our teacher for cricket.

The first thing we did was Bowling. What we had to do is get into a group of three or four. After we got into groups , in front of us there was four cones and wickets in front of each team. The goal as a group was to, bowl and try to aim for for those cones. I we had hit all of the four cones, we had to try to aim at the three sticks on the wicket. We had done this about 4 times.

The next thing that we did was Batting. For this activity we also had to get into group, on person will stay and bat the ball and the others on the team had to try get the ball back to them, each person had to do this. I did this two times.

I liked doing Cricket for Kiwi Sport because, I got to learn about different things while playing and just learned the basics of the game. The hardest thing for me was probably Bowling.

Ordering Numbers/ Place Value | Maths

Today in Maths we worked in our thinking teams to find the answer to two maths maths questions. In this photos you will see my group, The Wizardly- Addition, working out the number value of our group name. To do this we used addition stratigies and our place value knowledge. 

In the second activity we worked as a group to put the population numbers order. To do this we used our place value knowledge. 

National Current Events

This week we were learn about Current Events. For this activity we had links to four different news sites. from each news article we read, we had to go onto google maps, and locate where these events were happening . We also had to figure out if these news article's: Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone famous or important, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something Negative, Continuity, Emotions, Progress.