Holiday Reading- Make A Recommendation

I have read a book and I recommend this book for the year 7 & 8's.  The name of the book is making bombs for Hitler.  I think they will like this book because it is based on WW2.  The author of the book is Marsha Skrypach.  The book is about a young girl who is really close with her little sister.  The two sister and some other kids were raised at a camp.  One day they were sending the children away to another country.  Before they did the kids had to take an x-ray of their body.  The girls sister was scared so they sent her with 3 other kids standing in a corner.  The sister get on separate trains and were sent to different places.  The train that the little girl was on got stopped by Nazi German Forces.  The kids were forced to slave at a factory for the Nazi  

Holiday Reading- New Cover

This is a task from my holiday reading challenge.

The task was to create a new cover for a book that you've read.

I chose to create a new cover from a book that I just finished.

The name of the book is King Of The Cloud Forest and is by Michael Morpurgo.

The type of book is mystery.

I think my cover is better because of the different colour's that I have used to make it look more interesting.

Blog Comment Screenshot

These are my blog comments that I have made to people in LS2.

I commented on their learning tasks that I thought were interesting.

The people I chose to comment on their blogs were Nesi, Cecillia, and Micaiah.

Word Wall- Spelling

This week LS2 had to practice smelling.

We had to get words from the dictionary starting with un.

We also had to find 25 words.

Music- Dance

This is my and the other groups dance.

Our dance was based on the Elephant Toothpaste experiment.

Jewelry Design

Today at Tech in Tamaki College we were putting all our sketches and Tinkercad designs together in a presentation.

Spell Zone- Un-Root Words

This a screenshot of my spelling game test.

This week we were practicing un-root words.

 This spelling test had 4 words to do with un-root words.

Word Search- ABCya.com

Today in earning Space 2 the year 8's got introduced to a new spelling website by our teacher.

The name of the website is called ABCya.com.

This website is fun and in the same time it helps us to look for words and helps you get quicker at searching for the word.

E-Ako Math

This is one of my E-Ako math activity.

I chose to do a place value task.

E-Ako maths helps kids become more confident in math.

In this task I was learning to use my place value knowledge.

ANZAC Poetry Main Idea

This my partner Silivia's and I's DLO's on a poem.
Our Poem was on 'The soldier who never returned'.
The first screenshot is the poem and the second one is what the poem is about.

Gold Care Award- Transum

This is one of my Gold Care Award activities.

I had to practice 6 days on Transum.

Transum helps kids to get a better understanding in maths.

If you would like to visit Transum click here for the link.

Elephant Toothpaste Experiment

This is my and Silivia's Science Planning House DLO for a demonstration of an experiment we did yesterday.    The experiment was called the Elephant Toothpaste experiment.   

Tech- Design Process

Today at Tech we were making a collage for our initial design, Plasticine design, tinkercad design from our tech sessions.  In the past 6 weeks at our tech sessions we have finished our: 

Design Brief

Research-Jewelry

Concept Idea-6 Different

Design Development (change) Drawings

Positive Improvements

Plasticine Model 

Tinkercad Development+screenshot.   

Music- Dance

Today LS2 explored the dance moves from the poem 'fire'. 

We needed to create a a dance that include 2 air pathways and 2 floor pathways.  We had a few different options of how to form our dance so everyone's looked the same.

E-Ako Maths

This week my maths group was introduced to a maths game that would help us in our math. 

My LI was:  How much a number is worth depending on its position.

 I was learning my place values, teen numbers, and making groups.  

E-Ako math starts of easy then gets harder as you move on.  

E-Ako helps us understand place value, teen numbers, making tens etc.

Building A Deck Narrative

Building A Deck

 The sun rose behind Adrian’s window. He woke up excited because today was the day. His mum and dad were planning to build a deck in their backyard. “Adrian, son” screamed his father reading his newspaper, as he entered the kitchen. Adrian’s mum had phoned the builders a few weeks ago and today they were going to build the deck. Around 11:30 o’clock the doorbell rang. Adrian rushed to the door to see who it was. When he opened the door he saw three men standing there with tools in their hands. Andrian's father came rushing to the door and lead the men outside. 

An hour later Andrian decided to go and see what they were up to. The builders had made the deck pillars. Now they were on to cutting and smoothing the wood for the deck. After cutting and smoothing they were finally ready to start arranging the wood onto the deck framework. Piece by piece they placed the wood carefully on the half finished deck. Then they nailed each piece down. 

 The deck took about five hours to build. The builders packed everything up and were about to leave, when Adrian’s dad decided to have them over for dinner. Adrian, his dad, and the builders were chilling on the brand new deck when Adrian’s mum brought out the delicious lasagna that had just been pulled out of the oven. Adrian's family all had dinner together on the deck and had a memorable night with the builders who built the deck.

This is my writing.  We had to write a narrative about 'building a deck'.  My characters in this narrative are the three builders, and Adrian's family.   

Bus Strike- Exploring Both Point Of View

This is mine and my partner Nesi's DLO on the bus strike that happened on the 19th of February.

I was playing the role of the Boss and Nesi was playing the Bus Driver.

Our LI was to was to: understand that there are different sides to a provocation 

We used Ifaketext to make the texts.

If you would like to visit our DLO click here for the link.

Current Event- Bus Strike

This is my and my partner Silivia's 'bus strike' DLO.

Our LI was to: Find and summarize information about a current event.  

I think that the bus drivers should get paid more because they work hard and don't get much days off.
I think that this article gave out a big message to the bus drivers bosses, to pay them more money because they work hard. 

Maths Game

Today at maths my group was introduced to a new game that would help our place value and fraction skills.

This game will help us move to the next stage in our maths.

An Embarrassing Experience

LI: To write a paragraph using the PEE chain

This is my embarrassing experience story.  

We had a choice of: an embarrassing, a frightening, a memorable experience.

My story is about when a boy pushed me and I fell on my back at our Hockey sessions.  

E-Ako Math

These are some of my E-Ako Math activity.
I was practicing to work with bigger numbers.

Gold Care Award- SWIS

This is my SWIS DLO for my Gold Care Award. I had to research the role of SWIS in schools. 

SWIS helps kids who are struggling with their education.

Gold Care Award- Read 3 Novels During A Term

This is another of my Gold Care Value activities.

I had to read three books during a term and summaries it onto a DLO

Reading Can Do- Current Event

This is one of my Can Do's from my reading.

I chose to do current events for this DLO.

I used Kiwi kids news to find this articale

Tech At Tamaki College- 3D Printing

Today at Tech at Tamaki College we were finishing our final outcome of what we were going to print out in 3D.  We had to use Tinkercad to make our simple shapes.

Spelling Test

This is my spelling from today.

Our teacher introduced us to a website that can help us with our reading.

PBS Flag Vote

This is my Panmure Bridge School flag vote.

Our LI was to learn and analyse data.
More people from our school chose to leave the current flag, and less people chose to change the flag.