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.