LI: To create a skin profile
This week we made our own skin profile. We used an app where you could create your own skin. The app we used allowed us to choose our gender and what our pants, body and head looks like. As you can see My main Skin character is the one with the
super goggles, red robot arms and military clothes.
LI:To create something that shows what you know about this part of of pacific history in Aotearoa.
LI:To create a DLO to advertise the pasific.
LI:Create something that shows and explains where ‘home’ is to you and why
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To see and understand the connection between the written code, the block code and the flow chart.
This is the comparison between the Python coding, the blocks and the flowchart for making the Microbit act like a dice
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a meditation that calms our body and our mind using a mindfulness bell. It also allows us to focus on now, and leave the past and not worry about the future. There are two zones of mindfulness which are red and green. The red zone is when you are angry, frustrated, distracted, anxious, etc. The green zone is when you are calm, clear, peaceful, engaged, etc. This also lets us remove our negativity from our minds, and control our thoughts and emotions. To have a mindful mind you will need to have your legs crossed, hands on knees, close your eyes then breath in and then breath out while your back is straight.
After doing this mindfulness session I felt more calm, and had a clear mind.
L.I how to add decimals.
For this DLO , Afa and I worked collabortivtley , shared our opinions , to understand the stagatey we are working on, For our groups we were understanding the stragtey we learnt for the past few days.
I really enjoyed learning this activty as I learnt how to use decimals also knowing how to use it. We also worked collabortivtly to understand where we start from and how we can get the answer. We first watched videos to understand what we first needed to do , to try and get the correct answer to the right question.
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To understand how flowcharts relate to coding blocks.
To understand how to get the microbit to talk to another microbit using radio signals.
Here is my flowchart practice document.
L.I : To compare then and now with the Olympics Places.
LI:To learn to code the microbot in python
This first one shows the Python coding for a flashing heart. It flashes between a small heart icon and a large heart icon. The main thing to notice between the Python coding and the blocks is that the forever loop is at the top and bottom of the content in both.
L.I To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.
Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers.
David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about Greek Mythology vocabulary and identify Greek places on the map.
I found this activity interesting because i've learnt more about the places and details of greece history.
L.I to organize and research, words that connect to ancient greek.
This week, David as been teaching and expanding our knowledge about greek mythology. Greek Mythology is a large collection of stories, started in Ancient Greece, about the beginning of the world, and the lives and adventures of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines.
In this activity David has explained that we were acquired to organize these words, into the categories: People, Places, Government, War and Culture. The list of words can be seen on slide three, as well as the organization. We all collaborated together to get this done.
I really enjoyed this activity because it has taught me so much new words. I also enjoyed learning and growing my knowledge on greek mythology.
LI: To write a abstract noun senses poem
LI:To learn how to code microbots to play rock paper sizzors and understond how to use a flow chart.
Link To DLO
LI: To write a abstract noun senses poem
Our task was to create a poem using metaphors and abstract nouns.
A metaphor is a comparison of two things, saying one thing is the other without using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Abstract nouns are things the we can see but we can't physically touch it.
The 5 senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell and feel.
First, we chose a word from the list, our group picked success. After picking the word,we looked for the structure in the example given to us. Then, we created a poem with the structure. After writing the poem, we created a DLO about the poem.
The word that our group chose was Success.
We really enjoyed this activity, because it taught us how to create metaphors and poems, using abstract nouns.
LI: consider both perspectives.
Today for inquiry my group and I read information about Kuirau Park, Rotorua, New Zealand we then looked if the information was true or false if the event took place or not by looking at one place in New Zealand.
Something I found interesting was that some of the information written was real but at the end it was not true.
LI: To identify the main ideas in a text
This week for inquiry we retold how Maui slowed down the sun using main ideas.
First, we watch a video of how maui slowed down the sun. After that, we wrote multiple ideas about the important ideas in the story. Next we wrote 4 very important ideas from the important ideas. Lastly, we wrote 3 vital ideas.
Something I found interesting was that the most important ideas
LI:Find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and the text of “The Beginning”.
For inquiry my group read the beginning of how the Rangi and Papa got seperated. We then made a venn diagram about what the differences or the video version and the written versions. Then we looked if we could find any similarities about the book and the video. Lastly we wrote what we prefered between the video and the written version of the story. I prefered the ...
Something I found interesting was how many similarities we could find between the video version and the written version
LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about.
Today for inquiry my group has done a summary about retelling the story about how Rangi and Papa got seperated.
Storytelling is a huge part of the culture and history of Aotearoa. This taonga from our ancestors is the heartbeat that will keep our whakapapa alive for those who are still to walk in their footsteps.
In this task we picked out 20 important words from the sand art that we watched some are Maori, parents, free, darkness, etc. Then we picked out 6 most important words to sum up the video that e watch into fewer sentences.
Something I found interesting was how the man could draw a lot of information with sand.
LI: To understand how to use descriptive words to make your writing more interesting.
Our focus for writing this week was to use descriptive writing, which means using words that are powerful, making your text more exciting to read and add more detail into your writing. We were tasked to work collaboratively in pairs to complete this task.
Our task was to describe one of the two pictures that we were given. To make this task easier we would use our prior knowledge of sentence structures, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and descriptive words to create a piece of writing that uses descriptive words to make the text exciting to read.
LI: To find information about simple machines
We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. There are six simple machines.
Pulley: A pulley is a simple machine that is very useful to lift up heavy objects. For example: If you were in an elevator the pulley pulls you up to take you to the next level floor.
Lever: Lever helps to weigh the mass of something unknown.
Inclined plane: An inclined plane is a ramp that helps heavy wheeled objects move up.
Wedge: A wedge is a simple machine with a sharp tip and a thick edge. The tip is used to stop a door from moving
Wheel and axle: A wheel and axle is used to pull something that is heavy.
Screw: A screw is used to help grip on the surface it is screwed into so that it could hold together.
Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams (information pictures) to show our understanding of the information for each simple machine. We also summarised our facts in 25 words.
LI:To follow the rules and expectations, expected from teachers.
Learning Intention - To understand how the mBot is put together so that I can fix it when something goes wrong.
Today, we took an mBot apart and then reassembled it. We then tested it with some code to make sure that it worked correctly.
Here are the parts of the mBot that I took apart.
LI: To prefect the word anti.
LI: To understand difierents cultures
In the past 2 week’s our reading group has been learning about the culture Afghanistan. The text we read was called All as One. This is about how one culture comes together and pray in one room with men and women divided.
After reading this text we wrote some questions that we thought we wanted to know. When writing the questions we needed to use might, could, should, or would to make our questions better.
Some examples we wrote were:
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What might have happened if an adult eat during fasting?
What might happen if a muslim said something wrong during praying?
Who might have the idea of introducing the scarf for woman
When might have the quran been written?
Where did the muslim culture start?
What might have happen if a muslim said the wrong thing during praying.
LI:To celebrate reading.
LI:To share our learning with our families.
This week LS2 had our Student leader conferences. I showed my Mum around the class and showing her my work she was happy because she got the opitinity to look at my work and see what kind of work I do In clas. She said to me that she was proud of me.
LI: to code a robot to try and make it move forward and back withoutb touching it
My robot will wait until i have pressed the onboard button before it does anything. We used an "IF - THEN - ELSE" block as this gives the robot two choices of things to do. We are using the ULTRASONIC SENSORon the of the robot and we need to sense if something 10cm in front of it. IF something is 10cm or LESS in front of the robot , it will move backwards. IF something is NOT less han 10cm in the front of the robot, it wil move forwards (ELSE). This is all put into a forever block so that the robot constantly senses what is in front of it
LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star
We have been learning to write cinquain poems to help us strengthen our connections to description. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.
I enjoyed this activity because i got to use words with more meaning.
LI: To show my personal journey through books
LI: To use technological practices process to design a toy.
For Mrs Fisi’iahi’s Inquiry lesson, we were focusing on the three last technological processes. They were: build, test and evaluate. We used the required materials in order to build the AUV rover. After this, we tested and compared each group’s rover to see which group was able to scramble across the floor the furthest. Evaluating our results was the last step.
I found this activity and and cool because i got to work with my group and have fun.
L.I: To represent my school at the football interschool
On wednesday half of LS2 and other PBS student when to Madills Farm to play football. When we arrivied to Madills Farm we saw other schools that we knew we were going to face soon. My first game was against stone fields. Although the game was very fun we lost 1-0. Our next game was against Rapotica. We had heaps of fun and they were quite tough but we ended up with a lose. Our third game was against Sylvia. They did put up a good game but we lost 3-1. Our fourth game was a by . Our final game was against the other group of Panmure bridge. We lost to them and the points were 3-1.
At the end of each game we payed respect to the other team. We had heaps of fun and we were happy and proud about the result that the other team had. Special thanks to Mr Ogilvie for orginizing our team and coaching us. Another thanks to Mr Pao and the other parents for supervising my team and the other teams throughout the day.
This week for writing we where learning about verbs and nouns. Verbs are something that u are doing or a action. A noun is a name of a person or a name of a place like for example my name is Afa and i go to Panmure Bridge school. I found this activitie fun and cool.
Today was LS2 first ASB Getwise session. Our Teacher from the ASB Getwise was teaching us about how we can save money and how a card works. We then got into teams for this activite, each group got 1800$ we then were working as a team to think of a group name and we picked The last kava benders. When then had to to pay our passport to fiji and the flights, the passport was 200$ if you would pay it if you wanted it now, if you wanted it later you would have to pay 400$ my group choose the 200$ then we gave our money in and my group was left with 1600. We choose the 200$ opsion because it was the cheapest one there and we wanted to send the rest of the money on the activites, hotel,food This was a fun and cool activite hope we could do more like this in the future i liked the way we were working as a team.
LI: To strengthen connections to technology.
Publish your group DLO on your blog.We have been learning about technological practice. This week we have been learning about the 6 processes of Technological Design and how each one is important in the process of designing a product.We are using the processes of technological practices to design and build a rubber band- powered rover that can scramble across the floor.
L.I: To have a fun experience during the Duffy Role Model Assembly.
Today was Panmure bridges schools first Duffy assembly of 2021. Marc and Karen from duffy in schools came in and Marc was telling us a story about how his life was hard, when he was young and how it was hard for him in his school days. He told us that when he was young kids used to bully him because the teachers used to put him up in front of the school and make him read. Marc used to read from his right to his left he got bullied for that. This was a fun and cool experience to learn about his story.
L.I : To compare the Key Competencies we think we will use on camp and the Key Competencies we actually used.
LI: To collaborative brochure that tells others why kokako lodge is a great place to go on camp
LI: To create a collage of your camp highlights
LI: To create an infographic using google draw that tells your audience facts about the kokako
LI: To learn how to make edges.
Today for wood tech the year 8 were learning how to make edges with the wood. we first got our wood and we got our measurements from our paper where we were put our measurements in and we put those measurements on the wood we had . We then got our tools and maid sure our measurements on our wood were straight. Then when we where finished with cutting the wood we then maid sure it was nice and smooth. When we are finished we started to make our edges. This was fun and cool learning how to make edges in wood work and how we were working independent when we were drawing our measurements.
LI: To learn how to tackle in AFL.
Today for AFL we went to the field to learn how to tackle in AFL. The people that teach the AFL told us to put a finger on our solder and a finger on our hip then he told us those where the only place was inside where the fingers were. it was fun and cool learning how to tackle in AFL.
Today the student leaders got there leader badges. we went to the hall and set up for the assembly. Then we sat down well our principal came and was calling our names there are three leader position which are head boy, head girl, the manaiakalany leaders, and the sport leader i was a sport leader so when my name was called i got my sports leader badge.
LI: To plan out our wood work.
Today for wood tech we were seeing what we are going to make. i am making a M&M dispenser i first made sure i got my wood and paper then i made sure that i measure my wood. Then i started to draw what i think my M&M dispenser would look like. This was fun and cool to make my M&M dispenser
LI: To understand the reciprocal reading process.
LI: To make a DLO about being cybersmart
This week for cybersmart we made a tutorial to show how to bookmark websites. There are two ways to bookmark, one way is to click the star on the search bar. Then click done so you can show up on your bookmark bar. The second way is pressing ctrl + d, then do the same thing.
This activity was enjoyable because we got to teach others about how to make a new tab.
LI : To get motivated and concentration for me to learn about PB4L.
Today for our home learning we did our PB4L in this activity we maid a DLO about keeping safe when there is a fire alarm.Why is it important to let the teacher know you are going to the bathroom, why is it important to use hand sanitizer, what to do when a fire alarm goes off and why is it important to let the teacher know before you leave the classroom.
One reason why it's important to let the teacher know you're going to the bathroom, because if you don’t it could cause many problems. Like if there was a fire alarm the teacher wouldn’t know where you are, which would make your teacher and your parents worried.
This activity was fun and cool. We had a really enjoyable experience doing this task.
L.I: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the Giant Panda
First we used our smart searching skills to find information about the Giant Panda. We noted down where they live, their threats, and what they eat. Also we wrote down facts we found. We used our notes to help us with the DLO that we created.
We found this activity fun because we were researching together to find information about the Giant Pandas. It was a really enjoyable experience with each other.
What we found quite hard was not understanding what to put in the DLO but we got help from our amazing teacher Mrs Anderson.
We enjoyed collaborating together and getting the note making finished.
We found three facts interesting. One fact that we found interesting was that Giant Pandas are carnivores but their diet is like herbivores. The next fact we found interesting was that pandas have to eat 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo so they can get by(manage with difficulty to live).
