2016 Reflection

This is a collage showcasing the events that happened in 2016. I really enjoyed this year because we worked in a new learning space and we had a mixed class. I am going to really miss this school because I wont be able to see some of my friends. My favorite part for this year was going on a trip with the whole class. 

Graduation

On 14 December the year 8's had their first graduation held at Pakuranga Sailing Club.  First we got the opportunity to take photos followed by dinner.  After dinner we were handed our  graduation certificates.  Lastly we had the dance.  I think that everyone really enjoyed graduation and will miss PBS.

The Labyrinth

For the past 2 days we have been doing a film study on The labyrinth. The reason why we were doing this was because David Bowie was acting in this movie and he just passed away early this year. We looked at some of the shots they did and some clues in the movie. In the DLO above it shows all the characters and my favourite part. I really enjoyed this movie because it was really funny and there were lots of different characters. 

Maths ( Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To )

For todays math we have been looking at Grater than, Less than and equal to. One way that made me recognizes the difference is ( < ) this is less than because the point of this is small and ( > ) this is greater than because the big side is facing this side. We had to complete these question to get a bit of practice on how these work. I really found this easy because I already knew about these things. I also found interesting that none of the equations needed an equal sign. 

Tahuna Torea

Here is my prezi about our trip to Tahuna Torea. The reason why we went on this trip was because it was linked to our topic flight and all senior classes had been looking at the Godwit / Kuaka. The view was really beautiful and we saw lots of interesting things. I also enjoyed playing on the park because there were lots of playground equitment to go on. I really enjoyed playing on the high ropes, the swings and the swirly thing. I really enjoyed my time here. 

Photo Collage @ TC

This is a photo collage on what we did on Friday. This collage tells a story in time order on what we did. We first had a revise on the scientific words like hypothesis, variables,  and way more. My hypothesis was that I thought my straw rocket would go far, but when it was time to test it out my straw rocket didn't go as far as I wanted it to go. My favorite part was after lunch when we were going to make a real rockets and launch them with real engines. We didn't get to finish them so we are going to finish them this friday. 

Kuaka Migration - Reading

For the next 2 weeks of school we will be working on a multi-model. The task is about the Kuaka Migration. In today's session we were using our prior knowledge ( facts we already know ). We had to find out some ways of how people might of traveled today, 30 years ago and 100 years ago. We had to use our own knowledge so that we can understand what we are doing.  We also looked back at our question matrix and changed some questions and finished in the gaps that had nothing. I think this was a good way of learning because we all worked as a group and we all understood our learning that was going on.

How to make Straw Rockets

Here is a presentation on how to make straw rockets. This is really easy because there weren't much steps.  I really likes this activity because it was fun and it didn't really take up lots of time. The first step was to cut the straw in half and put some tape on the end of the straw. The second step was to test out your fins and record your results. To find out what to do next you will have to read the presentation. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Rockets @ TC

On Friday, we spent the whole day at Tamaki Collage making rockets. The first thing we did was make straw rockets. These were really fun as we got to create them and blow them ourselves. Plus, they were really easy to make. After we had lunch, it was time to create the real rockets with real engines and to launch them into the sky. We first had to design all of our rockets and then have to launch them.

Hundertwasser Art

Heading	Fact	Picture
Birth	He was born on December 15, 1928, Vienna, Austria.
Childhood	Earnest ( his father ) passed away in 1929 leaving Friedrich and his mother behind.
From	Hundertwasser was born and raised in Vienna for most of his long life. Hundertwasser was enrolled to Vienna academy of arts ( where hitler was denied to study.
Education	He studied at Academy of fine arts vienna and took art.
Art x 3	Some of his famous arts are called Blue Vortex with teeth, Globulin,  104 Cathedral I , 557 houses in the snow in a silver shower and 227 a raindrop and which falls into the city.
Connection to N.Z	Passed away in N.Z N.Z has the Hundertwasser Public toilets in kawakawa.
Died	He passed away on February 19, 2000, Pacific Ocean

On Wednesday we had a full day of art. We were focusing on the Hundertwasser arts. We created a google doc of some facts about his early life to connect with the art. I thing I learnt about his art is he doesn't like straight lines and he always thinks about the hot and cold colours. After we found the information we  started our piece of art work. The picture above shows my finished piece of art. I am really proud of the outcome, because of the choice of colour of hot and cold.

Role of S.W.I.S

As part of my care awards one of the activities was to research the roll of the S.W.I.S company and how they are helpful in schools. This activity was under the Attitude award. I learnt that S.W.I.S stands for Social workers in school. The SWIS company helps other families in needs or are going through problems. They also help parents to get the right education for there child and to help them with school life events.

Dear Term 1 & 4 Nesi

At the start of Term 1 we wrote a letter to our future self in Term 4. In my letter I included questions that I would think about in Term 4 and some of my goals. Now that we are in Term 4, I had to reflect on my 1st letter and reply. In my 2nd letter I included the things I achieved and the great things I have done. From today, I have 172 blog post. I am very happy of the way I have turned out this year, because at the start of the year, I was so shy and scared, but now I am confident and independent. I really liked this way of writing.

A Group Reading Challenge

For last week and this week were split into read groups and had to complete some challenges based on the pigeons that saved the soldiers in the war. Most of the tasks were if they were special of pest. I think they are very special because they risked there lives to save other people and  helped them with other important information. We also synthesise our main ideas to create one statement and used it to back up our information. Our learning intention was to identify the main ideas in the text.

Hockey

Today we had our first session of Hockey for Kiwi sport. We first learnt how to dribble the ball and how to control the stick. Our first warmup game was octopus, we played this until we were warmed up and ready to play. We had to dribble the ball to the other side of the room  and had bounce the ball on the stick as many times as we could. After we learnt all of the skills, we played a game of hockey where the instructors called out a number and that people had to go and try score it. I had a really fun time at sport because I learnt some new skills,  

Library Visit

Today the librarians for Panmure Bridge School went down to the Panmure local library to see how they run things and how it is different to a normal school library. When we first got there, they told us some of the things the do and what types of job there are in a library. Once we finished that, we had a little tour of the library. My favourite part of the tour was when the lady ( Anita ) showed us upstairs where they had 2 lounges and how sometimes they would have a movie time. The next task was to order the books and use the skills we learnt. I really liked using the scanner because there was a little mat which we just put the book on and it will scan it for you. We also had to give them some ideas of some activities to do for the summer reading challenge. Once that was all done we had morning tea provided for us and it was time to go. I really enjoyed learning about what they do at a local library and what types of jobs they do. 

Speech Marks

Our focus in writing today was to understand how to use and punctuate dialogue. Followed by creating a DLO that helps others learn exciting ways of using dialogue in writing. I worked with Mia, We had to add examples followed by clip art images , 8 synonyms with the word said and explain how to use it. I found a video that can help others use speech marks correctly. I enjoyed working collaboratively with Nesi because we came up with some really good ideas. 

Reading Online Challenges

Today we had to play some online reading challenges. For these games we were practicing most of our reading skills, like inferencing, synthesizing , questioning, making connections, and visualizing. All of these games were really helpful because it made me think about all the skills I have learnt this year.

God wit / Kuaka Facts

 

 For this week's inquiry we are looking at the god-wit bird. I had to complete a grid of the habitat, appearance, diet, and predator and use that information to create a popplet that shows us what a god-wit is. I really enjoyed doing some research about this because I have never heard of this bird before, and because I found out that they can fly all the way to alaska without stoping for weeks.

Film Festival Comments

Today we went to Sylvia Park to the Film Festival 2016.  We had to comment on the film that were shown to show our support and our feedback. Here are my 3 helpful and kind comments. I really enjoyed watching Tamaki College's films because it was funny and it made us get hooked in straight away with the music and the effects. 

Hyperbole

This Week we have been learning about Hyperbole. Hyperbole is pronounced as Hi - per - buh - li. Hyperbole is used to create affect in our stories and not make them boring, you also exaggerate to make it more interesting but is not meant to be taken seriously. One example is I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. By this phrase they meant that they are really hungry they could eat lots of food.

CyberSmart Activity

This week, we had to trail a new cyber smart game to give them some feedback to improve it. This was the first task I tried. I had to explain 2 ways on how to hold a chrome book My first way was with you hands, you have to be really careful if you are walking around with it because it could drop and damage it. I think this was a really fun way of learning because we had to roll the dice and what ever number it says we go to that activity.  

Recount Quiz

For today's reading task we had to explore the clusters website and find some example of some really good recounts. I had a quick search on all the websites and found a really good one. I  then had to put the link of that writing and tell why I enjoyed that piece of writing. When I finished that, I filled out an quiz about some of the features of a recount. We were doing this to re think of an narrative since we hadn't done this topic in a long time. Some of the questions that were on this quiz was , ( In Which present would write a recount in or What tenses are recounts written in and excetra. I got 2 wrong which mean I need to work more on that.

Pigeons

For this week's reading, we tried a new way of learning. Here is how it looks like. In this, it includes all the things we need to know which is easier because we can all find it in one place. I really enjoyed learning on this site because I could find all of the things in one place.

Paper Planes

Yesterday, we had a collaborative challenge. We had to read the instructions carefully to find out what to do. I really liked this activity, because we all got to design our own plane. We had no help, our teacher told us what to do on the presentation, and we could ask her anytime for help. I really enjoyed it, because it was really fun and interesting.

500 blog post

For my whole life at Panmure Bridge school I have finally reached 500 blog posts. Our teachers are really proud of this achievement . I am really proud of this too, because we were the first one to reach 500. By having 500 post this means I always posted my work and always completed the task. I first counted all the blog post I had for the past 4 years and it equaled up to 500.  I am really happy about this and I am trying my best to get a higher number. At the moment I have 509. 

Jean Batten Timeline

In the picture above is a screenshot of a timeline I created. It has all the information about Jean Battens life. I found out some really interesting facts when I was creating these. I had to really think about what she did and when she first flew over the Tasman sea.

Short Film by students in LS2

The Shake Out from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.

This is a shot film made by some students in my class that they were entering for a competition. Congratulations to Jasmine, Sylis, Daniel, Latham, for coming in the top 20th for this competition. I really enjoyed watching this short film they made.

The Dodo bird

For the last week LS2 had to do there own little mini inquiry. We first had to pick a letter from the alphabet and had to choose some topics that fitted under that letter. My letter was D, I picked a Dodo bird which was a flightless extinct bird. I had to use the sites that we learnt from Mrs Ogilvy and use 3 different sources. I really enjoyed this task because we got to choose a topic that we are interested in.

Reading

For reading we were playing a game which helped us look for the main idea. For this game we had to read a short passage , look for the main idea and then drag it into a paper. After we done that, we would have more passages and had to look for more main ideas. I think, by playing this game it really made me think about the question and look for the main idea. I found this game really fun and helpful.

Touch Rugby

Today was our second session of touch rugby. We first started off with some running warmups and then got into some team excersizes.  In my group we had to tap the ball with our feet and run to the second set of cones and place the ball down and run to the other side. We kept doing team exercises as a group so we could work together. Then we split into 2 groups boys and girls,  the boys went to play a game while the girls worked over on the field with Trevor and learnt some new strategies.  Then we swapped over. I really enjoyed playing Touch with Trevor and Mr M.

How to narrow your research

Last week Mrs Ogilvy taught the year 8's and some year 7's some research skills we then had to come back and teach the year 7's the learning we did. We then learnt as a class some research skills and had to create a DLO on how we could remind ourselves on how to narrow our research. We were learning how to narrow our research. Some steps I learnt how to do was use keywords instead of using the full question. I learnt some really interesting ways on how to narrow my research.

Cyber Safe with Mrs Ogilvy

Today Mrs Ogilvy came from the National library to talk to the year 8's about cyber safe. Mrs Ogilvy was the partner of the teacher in LS1. She taught us some really interesting ways on how to search faster. She talked to us about using key words and how google is not a machine so it can't understand everything you are typing or wanting. The next thing she taught us was  how we can rely on the internet. We used the C.R.A.A.P test to help us out on this. She also showed us two very helpful websites that we could use instead of google. These 2 websites were really helpful as we don't have to attribute the image. The 2 websites were Kids info bits, and Britannica. We then had to come back and teach the Year 7's what we had learnt at cyber safe in the library. I really enjoyed this as we got to learn some new tricks and some new websites.

Reading Challenge

For the past few days for reading we had to work collaboratively as a group to complete the task. First, our teacher told us nothing, instead of saying anything she wrote what she needed to say on her laptop, from there we worked as a group to figure out what to do. We first had to read a big book as a group and write what happened in the story in exact 25 words. Our next task was to fill in the blanks for these 2 other stories, the first one we got was slightly easy but the second one was slightly harder because it used harder words and it had an longer story. As we worked as a group we got the task finished and filled in all the gaps by trying it. We had to follow the instructions and understand the meaning of the story. We were learning to skim and scan so we could find the word that best fitted in the gap. I really enjoyed this task as we had to follow the instruction because it was an different way of doing the activity. Our learning intention was to follow instruction and making sure we had to read for meaning and understanding.

Rhythm Interactive

Today we had rhythm interactive with Johnny and Lucy. They came from all over the world to teach kids and adults from all ages to play the drum. They told us that actions speak louder than words. Everyone got to play on there own drum so everyone got to experience the drum personally. We first had to copy the rhythm Johnny and Lucy was playing and had to use our palm and finger tips to control the sound. Lots of us, really enjoyed this session because each of us got a drum to play on which meant we didn't have to share it around. Teachers also got a drum to play on. Johnny and Lucy did not speak through out the whole session because they wanted us to learn that actions speak louder than words. Everybody really enjoyed Rhythm interactive. 

Hydration & Dehydration

Starting from this week Panmure Bridge School had to come with water to school to keep hydrated. My partner and I created an DLO on why it is important for kids in school to drink water and to see what the difference is between hydration and dehydration. I learnt that hydration is when you have enough water in your body to keep you healthy and clean and dehydration is when your body doesn't have the right amount of water which causes headaches, makes you dizzy, feel moody or just in a angry/lazy mood. It is important for school to have water because we need to stay hydrated so we can focus on our school work. 

Dance Session

Today the Year 8's  had there first dance session with Sonja. We first started off with a rock and roll cha cha cha. I really enjoyed working with the other people because I got to try the dance a new way. We had an 1 hour session, and we managed to get a lot of stuff done. I really enjoyed our first session. 

Flight Maths Challenge

For this Week's maths, LS2 have been working collaboratively on a flight challenge to do with maths. We had to follow the instruction on the T.V and had to read it carefully in order to do it carefully. Our first task was to get into our groups, then we had to make our own planes and test out which person flew it the furtherest. We then had to discuss as a group who plane we were going to use as a team plane and have a competition with the groups. Once all the teams had there design we had a competition on who would chuck it the furtherest. We changed one of the variables which was the wind, once we did this some of the students planes went far than before and some went a shorter distance. We also measured how far the planes went. The top 3 was Thomas, Tai, and Zahn. I really enjoyed this task because we had no help but if we wanted help we would be able to ask our teachers. I also liked how our group worked as a team to finish off the design. For our group we got 6.44 for our first throw, 6.20 for our second throw, 4.25 for our third throw and 5.19 for our 5th. 

Quizizz

Today LS2 was playing Quizizz. Quizizz is a maths website where you have a competition between your class mates. We had to pair up in partners so we could work together. For this website the teachers have to create a quiz and we complete it in an amount of time. We were practicing our times tables. I was practicing my basic facts a swell because I wanted to get faster and faster. For the first round I came 7th as I kept on playing I came 5th and for the last round I improved so much that I cam e3rd. I paired up with Silivia. This is a fun way to practice your times tables, fractions, decimals, timetables and excetra. I learnt how to do some of my 9x because of this game. I really think this can help me with my maths, because I can remember my basic facts and helps me remember all my times tables.

Library Visit

On Friday the senior school from Panmure Bridge School went down to the library to meet a narrator that reads Andy Griffins books. Everyone got hooked in for what he was saying because  he had an funny entrance when he came in. I also got hooked in because he used lots of expression which made us all want to listen. He was talking to us about how he became a narrator and how reading made him become an actor. We played an warm up game which was called sausages. The aim of this game was to say sausages to everything he said. He also told us that we could use the borrow box which is a website where you could borrow books from the local library for free.