Learning and understanding fractions

 L.I: To learn how to group and split in fractions.

This week is our last session with Mr Fisi’iahi for this term as it was last week. For this week my group and I worked on fractions and played a game called Play tower of hanoi. We also used Multi Link cubes to help us understand fractions and to help us solve the questions. I really enjoyed playing with my partner solving fraction questions. We also played a game called Dicy numbers which got us into parnters. This game was really fun and competitive as we had to see who was the first one to win.  Understanding fractions helps us understand the groups,twice and the double. Double means twice as example 6+6=2 or 6 x 2=12. 

Why is it important to make wise choices?

 LI:To structure and write an explanation.

Why is it important to make wise choices?

Did you know there are 8 million tons of plastic that end up in our ocean every year?

Because of this millions of  sea animals die every year. How would you feel if there was a plastic net tied around your neck and stopping you from breathing,how would you feel if a plastic straw is stuck up your nose,how would you feel if you were swimming in plastic.. How would you feel if you were eating plastic. Do you like fish and chips if you do then there might not be any more fish because they're dying from the plastic and if you want to save them and many more sea animals jest by throwing your our someone's rubbish in the bin and remember if you throw one rabbis in the bin you are saving one sea animal.

Blub:

we had to write a paragraph  that had to do with plastic pollution did u know that we dropped less plastic than last year .did u know last year we dropped 5 trillion pieces of plastic and this year we dropped  5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean.

Inquiry

 LI: To think deeply about a change I would make

I will make every kid in NZ that doesn't have lunch to have lunch the reason i am going to do that is because if .  to make every homeless person to not be homeless anymore. After that I will help people that are struggling with paying the bills and rent. I will make sure adults will get a good amount of money they deserve. I will pay for people that can’t afford school equipment and sport equipment. I will make sure that we will have more Maori and Pasifika teachers to teach the kids about there coulters and other coulters.

Inquiry

 LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice 

This week i decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision.If I was 18 I would vote for Jasinder Ardern because she is going to make sure that every kid that don't have lunch in Nz will have lunch This means if Jasinder Ardern Won the election in my electorate Jenny Salesa would be our member of parliament and Jasinder Ardern would become the Prime Minister.

DARE To Make A Choice

 LI: To learn about making good choices.

Today, we were learning about drugs. A program made by the New Zealand  police called the Dare program, teaches kids about drugs. We learnt about drugs being bad, and the effects it has on our future. We also learnt something new about drug classes, A, B, and C. This was interesting, because we thought most drugs were illegal than legal. But only  about ten drugs were illegal, because of the harm, and effects. The first activity we did was sorting our drugs that we thought were legal, and illegal. Next we sorted them in order from most harmful, to harmful. Our most harmful was cocaine, and our least harmful was Milo. Next worked together in a group on a scenario activity. There were six scenarios, about kids being involved in drugs or beer. For the activity you were to give a punishment for each situation. The one we found most interesting was number five. Two Seventeen year olds were drinking at a bar. We thought that this was wrong, because you have to be eighteen and over to drink. They are also drinking at a bar, which meant that someone must have given them the alcohol. So we all agreed, and decided that the kids would have a warning, and the owner of the bar (the person who gave them the alcohol) will lose their job, get a fine of $1000, and lose their license. This is a good enough punishment, because the owner should be asking for an id, and should only be selling to people eighteen and over. Lastly we went into partners, and talked about questions that had to do with what we learnt, and about things that surprised us. One thing to remember is that you are the most important person in your world.

Tech/Science with Mrs Sharma

 LI:To identify the different types and uses of plastic.

This week for tech the year 7s at Panmure Bridge School  learned about the different types of plastics. We also learned about Plastic, material, wood, paper and metal which helps us understand more about  plastics. We also played an activity that will give us more information on plastic. The activity we played was about looking around the class and trying to look for the different materials that we could see. The most interesting fact that I learnt was that every year 17 billion rubbish gets thrown away in the ocean.

Kiwi Sport

 LI:To read beats with our body parts 

 This week, The year 7s and year 8’s had Kiwisport, This term Panmure Bridge school is doing Dance for this term. We are working with Rebecca, Rebecca is our dance teacher. This week our theme is about getting into rydem and making the same beat at the same time.  I enjoyed making beats with my hands,feet and other body parts. I also really enjoyed dancing to one of my favorite songs, Say So by Doja cat . Moving around with my friends and dancing to the music was really funny and fun to do.

Statistics with Mr Fisi'iahi'

 LI:Identify patterns and relationships between data

Today for maths we did statistics with Mr Fisi’ahi. We created a DLO for our bar graph that we made to count how many people on our data cards. We used the data cards to count how many pre-teens and teens watch T.V and the most was the pre.teens. While I was doing maths I learnt that when you're thirteen you're a teenager and when you turn twenty you are an adult. Another thing I learnt is that 0.5 is bigger than 0.25. I worked with my buddy Afa and we both completed this DLO.

Math

 L.I to work out the elapsed time. 

Today for maths our group used the maths clocks to help us work out the answer to the elapsed time questions. Elapsed means the time has gone by. what i enjoin was that we can work as a group and that we can learn about time and what Elapsed means.   

Family Tree

 LI:To create a Family about your Family 

This week for our Te Reo Challenge, I created a DLO that talks about my family tree DLO that shows my family members' names. I used Maori words that could help us understand  more about my  family tree. The family tree includes our siblings, parents, grandparents and great grandparents and also it has designs I traced and created. The most interesting fact I learned well making this DLO was that another word for Family Tree is Whakapapa. 

Its cool 2b me

L.I: To complete this task that will help you understand things about me.

This DLO is about me, This DLO can help you understand some things you may know or may not know about me. The  Dare program helps us and inform us with things  that can kill us and helps us make wise choices.  What I really enjoyed was writing down My goals for this year. One of my goals is To become a famous rugby player. For example I want to be like Andrew Fifta when I grow up.

Biology

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

This DLO is about Observation and Science.  I worked with Jayden. Jayden and I worked together to get this task completed.  We looked for Images that we could use to help the readers underst our DLO. Me and Jayden completed this DLO by sharing our ideas ,Helping each other, Looking for images. The most important thing I learned was that Science is  empirical which means it is based on.

Art

 LI: To paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh 

last week we did art we painted a a still life of sunflower in the style of Vincent van Gogh. First we did our base which is the middle black bit then we did layers of paint then we build them up Mixing and blending colours to make different shades of the same colour. When we did this we had to not overload the brush with paint when we were painting the sunflowers we dabbed the brush it was fun and cool my favorite part about painting the sunflowers was that we took our time.

Math with Mr Fisi'iahi

 LI:To solve and create Algebraic equation 

  

Today my group and I  learnt Algebra with Mr Fisi’iahi. We started off by finding out the values of the animals. The animals we did were Piwaiwaka,Gecko,Kiwi,Tuatara and Pukeko. We summed up an answer then we  simplified the answers to make it easier to understand and explain what's happening. We created a DLO with our algebraic equations that we had to create for Mr Fisi'iahi. I really enjoyed working with my partner and my group to answer the questions we’re trying to solve.These tasks and questions help us understand and explain what Algebra is. We also learned how to balance the animals to make it equal and even. I learned how to add and subtract on Algebra.

Tech Reflection

 LI: To identify what we know about science

Today for Tech we had science with Mrs Sharma. First we got new booklets from Mrs  Sharma.        and on our booklets we wrote what we think science is and if we have a question that we would say to a scientist then we got A3 paper. After that we folded our  A3 paper into quarters then we wrote the most science words we can write in 2 minutes . Then we drawled a picture of what we think scientists do there that we got photos of and we picked one each and after that we wrote about what the photo is about.

Duffy Books in Schools

Today we got our Duffy books from Duffy books in schools. They want to inspire us kids to read more books. Duffy in schools give us free books. We get 2 books, and I chose the Avengers book, and the amulet book. I am looking forward to reading about the Amulet book. The reason why I am looking forward to reading the Amulet book, is that the cover of the book looks really cool. I would like to thank the Duffy in schools for providing our school with our Duffy books.

Vincent Van Gogh Timeline

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

My group worked collaboratively using Padlet to create a timeline about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh was an artist from the post impressionist movement which meant he liked to paint still life paintings that captured a moment in time. We found it really interesting that while he was alive he didn't sell many paintings but in 1990, 100 years after his death, a painting by him sold for $82.5 million!