Next Foundation - Summer Learning Journey

Today we had a special assembly. In this very special assembly there were people from the Next Foundation and also Rachel and hazel for the Summer Learning Journey. Rachel from the Summer Learning Journey program told us how wonderful and successful the Summer Learning Journey was and how it helped the students with their reading and writing. Then Bill Kermode from the NEXT Foundation talked to us about how the NEXT Foundation and how it became a big company in New Zealand and how they pay it forward to people. The movie about the SLJ was then published for the whole school to watch. Daniel was the main person in this clip, he is in my class. It was fun having the film crew come into our classroom. After the assembly we went out onto the field and had a delicious lunch, thanks to the NEXT Foundation!.

Canadian Christmas Traditions

To celebrate Christmas we got into groups of four and worked collaboratively to find out about Christmas in different countries all around the world. My group worked on Canada and we found a lot of interesting things about Canada and what they do differently from New Zealand. In Canadian another name for Santa is Joulupikki or Father frost. To show our learning we recorded our google drawing using screencastify. I worked on this DLO with Shannon, Freeman and Magenta.

Summer Learning Journey

On Friday we got a visit from Hazel that helps program the Summer Learning Journey. She told us if you participate in the Summer Learning Journey and come First, Second or third, we get a prize at the start of the new year. This was a great opportunity for us because it can help us with our learning while we are not at school. The prizes we will receive is fidget spinners, slime, Lego and other cool toys. I am looking forward to doing the tasks on the summer holiday. 

Google logo game

Today we played a game scratch game that google has made. To play this game we had program the rabbit and move it with the arrows on the bottom of the screen. This task was easy for me because of digital tech.

Tech Reflection

Every week, on a Friday morning the year sevens and eights go to Tamaki College for tech. So far this year, we have had three rotations. For the year 7, our rotations were, Woodwork, Cooking and Art. In art, we learnt how to carve out designs and transfer it onto a piece of paper. In woodwork we learnt how to use a chisel, Saw and a Mallet (Hammer). In Food tech we learnt how to use a stove we also learnt how to bake food and cook food.

Tech: Social Studies

Dear Mrs Anderson we have been researching different locations for you next holiday. We think you should go to.

1. Tower in bologna/ Italy because This is a peaceful place and it is relaxing there is also amazing things there like the Two towers you can also walk up it. It is 97 meters high.
2. Brooklyn bridge in New York City if you walk across the bridge it will take you 1 hour it is 1,825m long you also get a skyline view of the buildings.
3. Sydney tower is in Australia and it doesn't cost that much to go their.

Clean Up Crew

Today for maths we have been doing Geometry. Our task was to draw a dog using coordination and had to link the lines together. For this task we used a called the ladder rule. 

If you see a grid like the one above that's when you should use the ladder rule.

This task was a bit tricky however it got easier when we kept moving forward there is a ladder rule goes like this. First you have to go across then you have to climb up.

Tech: Last Day

Today was the last day for Tech. My art work is almost finished I need to do a lot of work on my art work since the 2-3 lessons I have been away.

What was the process of making the art work.

First at the beginning of art lesson we had to draw a few of our cultural patterns and pictures. 

The patterns and pictures were to be divided into 5 squares or space.

After that step we had to transfer our pictures and patterns on to wooden block. 

Then we had to carve out the pieces that are not important or the patterns that you done need. Then we had to add a paint to it. My first paint was yellow. Everyone start on yellow.

Then I carved out small pieces of yellow that was sticking pieces that I didn't need. 

I kept do this step over and over again. However I had to have different colours after carving everytime. 

Royal Family Tree

Today LS2 have been working collaboratively with Learning Space 1 to create a DLO about the royal family. We used our research skills to find out who are the members of the royal family. And made a family tree of all the members. This activity was difficult for me because there are a lot of royal family members.

Fire Safety Message

Today Tai and I made a DLO about fire and how to be safe around it. If there is a fire in your house get and either call 111 or shout out Fire Fire Fire. After you have done that run to your neighbors and tell them to call 111. I worked collaboratively with Tai.

Maths Strategy ScreenCastify

This week Josh and I created a DLO about a problem solving. Mrs Anderson gave us a problem that we need to solve. We can use any strategy to solve this maths problem. Our problem involved times tables, adding to solve the problem. The most challenging part about this was to recorded and to pick a strategy to use. l like doing this activity with Josh.

Police Vist at Panmure Bridge School

Today at Panmure Bridge School got a huge surprises from some police officers in the Community. Three police officers came down is the helicopter to explain to us how a helicopter works. Most of the school was wondering what the big thing attached to the helicopter was, the police officer explained to us what is was he said it was a camera it cost $850,000. It can also find people that are lost at day and at night. Did you know that the police helicopter has 2 engines? We also got a visit from the police dogs. They showed us a few tricks on how they track people.

Learning to motivate

This week we have been learning about leadership because next year our y7's are going to be our school leaders. Today we found out what motivation means. We then all worked collaboratively to make role plays on what motivation is we had a group of 4 my partners were Savelina, Lyric, John we used a site called Tagul.  

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2017 - 10 Anniversary!!

Yesterday our whole school went down to Sylvia park to watch movies that different schools had made it is called Manaiakalani Film Festival. Our class were there for two sessions because the bus came late. the schools where very creative while they were creating there movies. LS1's movie was about the zombie apocalypse they did very good on the graphics and on the lighting. Yesterday was the 10 years celebration there were over 13 different schools their. 

Jaguar Adaptation

Today I have been learning about animals that starts with the first letter of my name which is J. I have chosen a Jaguar. A Jaguar is a type of cat that is found in North Central and South America. Did you know that Jaguars maximum 100 250 pounds?

Badminton

This term for kiwi sport we have badminton. Our coach for the rest of the term is called Kevin. This week and last week we learnt how to control the racket. The names that are used to control the racket is called forehand grip and backhand grip. For today we played rally. To play this game you would need a racket, a shuttle and a partner my partner was Jericho we got 39 hits.

Explanation - How Children Learn at School

How Children Learn at School

“Did you know that everybody on earth learns? They learn at different times, different places they even learn different things”. A child’s learning process begins when they start following role models or people around them.

A child starts their learning by observing the things people do around them children are great observers they spark curiosity and experiment with new things. To help them learn about more the things they want to learn.

Children explore the world and the role plays people around them do. For example, a child sees a police officer and as soon as he get home or to school he dresses up like a police officer and pretend to be like them.

A child have the ability to learn numerous things and they take risk to research about something they want to learn about.

A natural process of a child’s learning journey begins when they start following or doing the things people or role models  around them do.

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This week we were revising to write an explanation text. First I had to find a partner to work with. My partner was Sanujan. After that we had had to to write an explanation on a piece of paper about How Children Learn at School. Then we had to find another pair and give each other Feedback and feedforward.

These are the feedback and feedforward we received

1. ( Feedback ) - HI Sanujan and Joshua. Well done on writing a really good explanation.

2. ( Feedforward ) - Maybe next time you could write simple sentences.

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1. (Feedback) - You have excellent ideas and, explained them we

2. (Feedforward) - Make sure to check for errors.

Screencastify - Multiplication

On Friday Mrs Grant came to our class to talk to us about screencastify. We were learning how to record our maths strategies using screencasitify. For this, we first had to write our scripts, then we had to click on the Screencastify extension. After 3 seconds we started recording.

Panmure Bridge School: Cross Country

Last week on Thursday we did cross county at Dunkirk which is a cross the road from our school. Our class did five laps witch is around 2.6km. It was really hard running up the hills because we stepped in mud and we started to sink which made it harder to run.

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kahoot

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/689fe9ca-83fb-401a-b9ac-976fc291e1c5
Following last week we were learning about Elections. This is a Kahoot, Joshua W, Jericho, Calvin and I've made. We've put in some question about prime ministers, percentages of votes and more. Click on the link above to play the Kahoot. Hope You Enjoy It And I Hope That You Get Most Of The Them.

Instructions
These are the instructions for playing the Kahoot.
1. Click on the link above.
2. Press play. (Note you need to have more than one person)
3. Then press start now
4. After that press Classic mode or Team mode. (Optional)
5. After that it will show a code and give that code to a friend.

How Friends Join?
1. Tell you friend to go on this link => https://kahoot.it/
2. Put that code in it.
3. Then put the username and you are ready to go.

T3 Dance Production

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/689fe9ca-83fb-401a-b9ac-976fc291e1c5
Following last week we were learning about Elections. This is a Kahoot, sanujan, Jericho, Calvin and I've made. We've put in some question about prime ministers, percentages of votes and more. Click on the link above to play the Kahoot. Hope You Enjoy It And I Hope That You Get Most Of The Them.

Kiwi can

Today is the last day for kiwi can because the holidays are coming up.

Today we played a game of hand soccer after we played hand soccer we had a game of team down.  Team down is a game played with a soccer ball you have to pass it to ten of your team mates and they touch the ground with the ball. 

Election Challenges - Democracy

This week we learnt about the elections. For this task we had to find the definition of democracy and demo. Democracy was originated from Greece.

Election Challenges

Toady we had to finish all of our election challenges. Jericho, Dallas, Zane, Christopher and I worked on Michael Joseph Savage. Their is information about Michael Joseph Savage on slide 3. Fun fact 50,00 people walked passed his coffin.

Party Vote Jigsaw

Party	leader	Picture	Logo	Electorate
National	Bill English			Clutha-Southland
Labour	Jacinda Ardern
Green	James Shaw
United future	Damian Light
Act party	Kenneth Wang

This week we are learning about elections. For this activity we had to figure out the party names, the party leader, what they look like, the logo of the party and the locations of the signs for us to vote for them.  

Ebook day

Today we went on a brand new site . Using Tamaki Overdrive we could read E books and there are also audio books if you wanted to listen to any books not all of them have audio on them. The book that I was reading was called Torrent this book is very interesting because it introduces different types of characters and things happen to them.

#EBOOKLOVE

Say it tika

This week is Maori Language Week. Since it's Maori Language Week we were went on to a website call Say It Tika. This website is created for people to pin the names of places in New Zealand (Aotearoa) that google maps say wrong and the google maps would try to fix it 

Tech art: Drawing patterns

Today for art we started sketches and drawing you could draw anything you want from images. I decided to draw a snake, skull and flowers it was hard to draw the snake because their was multiple steps. 

Dork in disguise book

Today we have been on a website called Tamaki overdrive is a website where you can read books online and listen to any book. The story I read was called dork in disguise it is about a person who wore glasses he would always take them off when his mum drops him off at school and try's to be cool. To find out what happens next go on the site search dorks in disguise and start reading.    

Kiwi can: hand soccer

Today we had Kiwi Can sessions. This week our topic was Taking Risks. Taking risks is basically doing something dangerous for example, sky diving is dangerous you never know when something is going to happen like a your para suit might not come out or your strings my tangle might come loose. Mr Malu and Miss Latoia gave us a warm up game called Bip Bop Bounce.

Then we went into the activity. The activity was called hand soccer. Our goal for this activity was to participate contribute and support our team and try get a goal I got 2 goals .