How To Be A Scientist

This is the movie that group 3 created on "How to be a scientist".  Our group decided to choose Oobleck as our experiment. The steps and methods were explained. Our movie was edited using iMovie to add the title and effects. 

Describe The Character

This was our writing for my group this week.  

We had been given an image to describe the character.

First we had to brainstorm our idea's in a Google Doc of what we saw, then write a story using your brainstorming ideas.

The sun rose behind the hill at the park, Mrs Gorilla hiked through the green grass, wearing her blue dress and her romanian flag scarf.  She stopped to look at something, it wasn’t pleasant.  She had an angry expression on her face and did not seem pleased.

Home Learning Wk 8- The Grand Palace Of Bangkok Thailand

This is my and my partner Mia's homework for week 8.

This week we had to travel to 'The Grand Palace of Bangkok' which is located in Thailand.

Did you know that if visitors want to enter the palace they have to be modestly (fully) dressed, and the Grand Palace has been the home of the Thai king, the Royal Court and the government of Thailand.

The Lost Thing Venn-Diagram

This is my groups Venn- Diagram from a story we read.

In the story there was 2 different worlds that a boy traveled with a lost thing her found.

Our task was to create a Venn-Diagram of the different things in both worlds  

Flag Vote

LI: To make an informed choice (based on information)

Today LS2 made an informed choice based on information on 'why we should change the NZ flag or why we should not change the NZ flag.  

We had to get into our thinking groups and decide why we should and should not change the NZ flag. I think we shouldn't change the flag because it will respect the ANZAC soldiers who fought for it.

Describing The Scene

                                        

On a winter day, a class of kids were heading towards the trees.  Everyone could hear each other's footsteps when they were running, and they could see each worried expressions on the other kids faces.  

This is my beginning of my narrative.

I had to describe the picture by using the clues that were given to us by the image.

Gold Care Award- New Zealander Who Has A Positive Attitude

                            

This is a DLO for my gold care awards activity book.

I had to research a New Zealander who has a positive attitude despite difficulties they have faced.

Gold Care Award- What Confidence Is

For own task: created with my teacher I chose to create a DLO explaining what confidence is.

In this DLO it explains how being confident can make your life easier.

Word Cline's- Big

This is one of my Reading can do's.

I had to create a word cline for big.

My words went from Big to Mammoth.

I used Wordhippo for some of these words.

Gold Care Award- Make Dinner For Your Whole Family

This is a task from my care award booklet.

I had to make dinner for my family.  

I chose to make pizza, I had t use scratch to make the pizza.

Math Bingo

This is a game that I played with my friends Nesi, Jane and Jasmine for our Maths.

We chose to play math bingo because we wanted our multiplication skills to improve.

PBS Flag Vote

This is my graph on the PBS flag vote.

Most children from PBS chose to not change the flag.

More Juniors wanted to change the flag though less children from the seniors chose to not change the flag.

Gold Care Award- New Zealand Respected Leader

This is my presentation on a resepcted New Zealand leader.

This was another activitie from my 'gold care award' booklet. 

In this presentation I have explained why I chose Richie Mccaw.

Gold Care Award- Tutor Someone

This another one of my 'gold care award' booklet activities.

I had to tutor someone who needed extra help with a skill.

For this I chose to help my sister read her books that she bought for the weekends.

Gold Care Award- Thank You Letter

This is a thank you letter to my teacher Mrs Anderson.

As part of our Gold Care Award booklet one of the activities were to write a thank you letter to a teacher or staff member.

Gold Care Award- Stan Walker- CLIMB

This is my 'gold care award' activity.

For this activity I had to research Stan Walker's song 'CLIMB'.

In this DLO I have explained what the song is about.

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

Gold Care Award- Positive Attitude Video

This is one of my activities from my Gold Care Award booklet.

I had to create a video explaining 'how to show a positive attitude'.

I created this video using Powtoon.

if you would like to visit my video click here for the link.

Gold Care Award- Life At PBS

This DLO shows the life in Panmure Bridge School.

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

Spelling Game

This is another un-root word spelling.

This was a word search.

I managed to get 5 out of 5 words under 40 seconds.

Gold Care Award- Personal Passion

This is my personal passion.

My personal passion is playing Netball because it build trust between you and your teamwork.

Gold Care Award- How To Stand Up To Bullies

This is one of my tasks for my Gold Care Awards.

This DLO is about how to stand up to bullies.

Music- Recorder Karate

Today me and my friend Charlize graded in our recorder karate.

After 1 term of practicing our recorder we finally managed to receive  our yellow belts.

NZ Navel Flag DLO

This DLO is about the NZ Navel Flag.

We were given a task about the NZ Navel Flag, and answer the questions in this DLO.

Science Rotations- Baking Soda And Vinegar & Oobleck

This is my DLO on our experiment that we did for our science rotations.

A activity we did was 'baking soda and vinegar experiment'.  

When we moved to our first rotation for thsi week we had to create DLO's for the 2 experiments we had done.  My partner Cecillia chose to do our second experiment Oobleck.

If you would like to visit our DLO's click here for the baking soda and vinegar and here for the Oobleck

Spelling Game

This is another one of my spelling game screenshots.

The aim of this game is to try to tap on the letters in the bubbles to make a un-root word.

My highest score was 317.

Pumpkin Story

Pumpkin Story

One of Zac’s favourite foods was pumpkin soup. He asked his father to take him to the supermarket to get pumpkins since they were in season, for pumpkin soup.  

“You know Zac, instead of having to go to the market every week, you can grow your own pumpkin in the garden”, exclaimed his father.  

“What a great idea”, thought Zac.  The sun dropped from the sky, it was time for Zac to go to bed.  

At dawn, he rushed to get ready for the morning. Jumping out of bed he walked to the bathroom.  Zac ambled to the kitchen, he saw his mum and dad.  Feeding himself on a bowl of cereal, he reminded his father that they were going to plant pumpkins.  It was too early in the morning so his dad suggested to start planting around 10 o’clock. Hour by hour passed, until it was the right time to plant the pumpkin seeds.  

His father went to his little rusty shed and brought out a little bag that was full of pumpkin seeds.  Zac’s father instructed Zac how to plant them.  First he dug a little hole, then pushed a seed in, and finally tipped more soil on top.  Everyday Zac would water the seeds.  A few months later he noticed little yellow flowers where he planted the seeds.  In order to make sure the pumpkins grew healthy he looked after it better than anything else he had.

3 months later the flowers transformed into pumpkins.  But they were not ready yet so he had to wait a few more weeks until they were ripe.  One day Zac’s father recommended that it was time for the pumpkins to be harvested.  They slowly and gently harvested the pumpkin and took it to the kitchen to be cleaned.  After washing and drying the pumpkin they placed it on a board to cut it into slices for pumpkin soup.  They had to wait for the soup to be ready. When it was done, mum got home really hungry.  Dad brought the soup to the table.  

“This is the best pumpkin soup I’ve ever tasted!” Zac said after the scrumptious homemade soup.

This is my writing about a boy who likes pumpkin soup. He grows his own pumpkin in his backyard at home with the help of his father. He had to wait a really long time for the pumpkins to be ready. When the pumpkins were ready Zac and his father made pumpkin soup.

Group Three Oobleck DLO

This is my and my partners Cecillia Oobleck DLO.

We had to create a DLO for the experiments we did in our science rotations.

How To Survive A Cow Attack

This is my presentation about how to survive a cow attack.  I was learning to evaluate and inference.  

This will help you when you are in a cow attack.  

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Word Cline- Cold

This is one of my Word Clines.

We had a whole choice of can do's on our reading tumble and had to finish down.

As the arrow goes down your words have to get harder.

Click here to visit the links to my other DLO's.

How To Be A Scientist Jigsaw

This term our topic is on Science.  

Learning Space 2 has began their science rotations.

Part of the rotation includes 'how to write in science'.

This is group 3's DLO about all of the famous scientists. 

How To Be A Scientist

This term our topic is on Science.  

Learning Space 2 has began their science rotations.

Part of the rotation includes 'how to write in science'.

This is group 3's DLO about everything you have to do in science.

Leadership Qualities

This a DLO made by me and my partner Jessie.  

The year 8's had to learn what it takes to be a good Leader.

We had to choose a leader who is/was a agent of change.

                                        

Science Rotations

This are the photos from our science rotations.

The whole class was split into group 1, 2 and 3.

Group 1 started with Oobleck, group 2 did Baking Soda and Vinegar and my group learnt how to write in science.       Oobleck- is a mixture of water, food colouring and corn flour.

Baking Soda and Vingegar- is a mixture of baking soda and vinegar.

Home Learning- Mona Lisa Painting

This is a PowToon made by me and my partner Ana for our home learning this week.

Our home learning this week was about the Mona Lisa painting.

We both co-operatically to finish this DLO.

First we had to create a DLO together then Ana out it on a PowToon

If you would like to visit our DLO's click here for our presentation and here for our PowToon 

Tech- 3D printing

Today at tech we were learning how to use Tinker cad.

We had to use a egg shape and shapes for add features to it to make it look silly.

Story Scavenger Hunt

This is my DLO on a 'story scavenger hunt'.

This is a part of our reading can do.   This is article is about a baby who's mother was pregnant on valentines day on 2015.  2 days after the baby was born her parents started noticing a heart shape on her fore head.

Doctors believe that this is a birth mark and will go away at the age 4 or 5.  I think the authors purpose behind writing this DLO is that there can be different people who have different kinds of problems and some can be pretty interesting.

If you would like visit my DLO clink here for the link.

Rewena: The Queen Of Bread

This is my DLO about the 'Rewena: The queen of bread'.

I think the authors purpose towards writing this was to teach the readers a new recipe.

Word Cline- Shy

This is one of my Reading can do's.

I had to create a word cline for shy.

My words went from shy to reluctant.

I used Wordhippo for some of these words.

Reading- Word Clines

These are all of my word cline's. 

As part of our reading there's and activity that you have been  given 9 words and you have to create clines for them.  First you have to start with easy then harder words.

Using Draft In Our Writing

L.I: To write a stretched sentence.

Who: The bird sang.

What: The bird sang fluently

When: As the sun rose behind the snowy mountain, The bird sang fluently,

                    

Where: As the sun rose behind the snowy mountain, The bird sang fluently on a long tree branch,

Why:As the sun rose behind the snowy mountain, the bird sang fluently on a long tree branch to wake up the birds. BEFORE

L.I: To use DRAFT to check our sentences.

Why: As the sun rose behind the snowy mountain, the bird sang fluently on a long tree branch to wake up the other birds.

                          to awaken the birds, yet they were a mile away. AFTER

This is mine and my partner Ana's stretched sentences.  We had to write a simple sentence and stretch it out using DRAFT, AAWWWUBBIS, FANBOYS and the 5 W's.  Next we had pick another partner to edit pur sentences.