Summer Learning Journey 2

Panmure is my hometown, it is special to me because it has been my childhood place. It is also quiet and calm which makes it even more special to me. I describe Panmure as a fun and a faithful place. It is also a nice happy place with lots of polite people. Panmure to me is the dictionary of wonderful because all the things that were mentioned are true.

Summer Learning Journey Activity 1

1. The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud.
2. There are no snakes in the country!
3. 30% of the country is forest.

Today for the first summer learning journey we had to find three fact about New Zealand I find three interesting fact about New Zealand and I just found out that aotearoa mean the land of the long white cloud.   

Blog Commenting

This week I blog commented on Alex blog because I found his blog interstying.

Blog Commenting

This week I commented on Alex, because I found his work really interesting.

Read Theory - Progess

Today LS2 were checking in their read theory progress. When I first started read theory I was on grade 2, then on July I went up to grade 3 and on November I leveled up to grade 4. I am proud of my outcome results. As you can see, I have made paragraph showing my results. 

WW1/ Who were the Allied Forces?

Today we have been learning more about WW1. We have listed many questions we would like to figure out. Our main question was, who were the allied forces? This question was something our group talked about, and was something we could agree with to have a understanding to our answer. We also had photos of the countries that were allies with great britain to support the main subject of Who were the Allied Forces? 

Armistice Commemoration

Until the date of sunday comes upon it will be 100 years since WW1 ended. Today our entire school shared their respects towards Armistice day. We made poppies and placed it on a cross, all the poppies were given respect to the fallen soldiers. We also had to be silenced for a whole minute and had to think about all the soldiers who had fallen through  WW1. We will remember them, We will remember them and Lest we Forget.

Armistice Collage

Today we remembered the people who died in world war 1 and created a collage about when world war 1 ended. These photos show people and the soldiers celebrating when the war ended. We added photos of the newspapers that came out when the war ended. We learnt that 135 countries participated in the world war and over 500,000 unknown soldiers fell.

Shakeout

This week on thursday it was shakeout day, I was working with Josh and Aung Naing for this task. As you can see I have made a google presentation that has information about the first earthquake that hit christchurch and another earthquake that hit christchurch after one year later. I have also changed the cover for my presentation, the original cover can be looked up by Aung naing or Josh blog post. The reason why I chose a mountain for my cracks was because I wanted the sun to be covered a little bit and, the cracks look kind of realistic with a setting of a mountain. I also have 3 tips to avoid getting injured by an earthquake, Drop, Cover, Hold on. These 3 tips will help you get prepared for an another earthquake.

Basic Facts

This week for maths I have been practicing my basic facts up to 100 by using Mr Wongs challenge sheet. This was a little difficult because I was still getting warmed up from a huge 1 term break.  As you can see I have completed all of the question, I answered all of these questions in 7 minutes.

Tech/Tinkercad

This week for tech our group had to create a person on Tinkercad, this was my first time using Tinkercad. As you can see I have tried to make Julian and his chicken, but the outcome result were horrible. I still tried my best to use tinkercad, I think I did good job creating a person for my first time using Tinkercad. I asked people in my Tech group of how my chicken looks and they said, it looks really fuzzy and looks like a monster.

Spaghetti Bridges

Maths DLO

Today I have been working on maths, for maths I was answering questions on a google spreadsheet, this google spreadsheet was made by Mr Wong, and was to challenge our brains with basic facts. As you can see I have answered subtraction questions, I thought this activity was really fun. 

Basic Facts

This week I have been working on my maths, for maths we had to complete this basic facts. This basic facts was made a on a google sheet by Mr Wong. On this google sheet it has basic facts of subtraction and additions which goes to 1 - 100.

Using Colons In a Sentence

This week my writing group have been learning about colons. Colons are usually used for main ideas or lists. As you can see I have illustrated a beach. The first thing I did was, to open the example colons document. After I had to used colons and put them in the correct place. Once completed, I had to choose a sentence from that document, that had colons, then I illustrated it. I placed my colons at the word vacations, because the sentence, (Both were on the beach) was another idea.

Orchestra

Today,  Learning Space 2 went to a special trip, the trip was held at Auckland Town Hall. The performance was called the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the performance had a lot of professional musicians. There were also lots of amazing dancers from saint kents school and Ngatapawae.   

Virtual Reality

This week on tuesday Yvonne and her research team came to Learning Space 2. They gave us virtual reality to use, the virtual reality was about bridges, structure and other things to learn about. I thought this was cool because, after the session Yvonne and her crew shouted us a bunch of pizzas. I think this was a great opportunity for Learning Space 2 and was really fun.

Sensory Verbs

This week I have been working on my writing, for writing I was answering questions about the 5 senses. As you can see I have answered all questions correctly.  

Evaluation of my Animated Story

In the context of in the neighbourhood I will design and produce an animated story for Panmure Bridge Students ( age 5 to 13) The purpose of my animated story is to inspire people to stop littering and what they can cause for being responsible for it. My animated story was not able to relate to the topic of littering.

My animated story is still currently under construction.
May you please help me by giving me feedback on my conceptual design of my animated story.

Care Award Challenge

This week I have been working hard to archive my silver care awards badge, I have been working on a challenge, which was to enter an art, science, or other competition. The next challenge I will complete will be, create a DLO on how to stand up to bullies, or how to be cyber safe.

Care Awards Silver Challenge

This week I have been working hard to archive my silver care awards badge, I have been working on a challenge, which was to present a duffy book at assembly, the next challenge I will complete will be, enter an art, science, or other competition.

Care Awards Challenge

This week I have been working hard to archive my silver badge for confidence. I have done one of the challenges, which was to lead a school assembly. The next challenge I will be working on is present a duffy book at assembly.

Analogue Time

This week I have been learning about analog time, as you can see I have created a google document, this document talks about how to use a analogue time and the specific words used to tell an analogue time. I have learnt many things about analog time which is really amazing because i didn't understand that much.     

Analogue Time

Is it worth learning about analogue time? Sometimes it can save somebody's life, and avoid you from getting fired from your boss.

There are two ways to tell time, analogue time and digital time, but as for today, we will talk about analogue time. Analogue time has 12 sections of numbers, the maximum hour of a day is 24 hours. The 24 hours are divided into two periods of time named am and pm. Am tells that its morning which has one of the sections of 12, and pm tells it is night which has the other pair of 12.

For an example 6 am is early in the morning, 6 pm is early evening. These 2 types are opposite from each other. There are also hands in a Analogue clock, there are 2 hands, the big hand and the small hand, the big hand tells minutes and the small hand tells hours. There is also an second hand that tells the second. The easy thing about time is that each of the 12 sections from a analog clock are divided into 5s, which means if the big hand goes around the whole clock, that is exactly an hour past. An whole hour is 60 minutes in total.

Now I that I have taught you about the basics of an analogue time, let's talk about specific words used to say these time, here are the types of talking languages that people use, quarter past, half past and past. “It is half past 4”. Which means it is 4:30. If you say it, “it is quarter past 7, it is 7:15, because 15 is one of the quarters to make 60 which is an whole hour. There is also past, past is like saying it is 8:05 but you are saying this, “it is 5 past 8”.

Now I hope you have learnt how to tell analog time it is not too difficult to tell analog time although it is not too simple to learn it, analog time can make miracles happen, it can save you from being late on a special occasion and avoid you from many problems.

DLO/Decimals

This week for maths, I have been learning about decimals, on this DLO i have shown 2 differents strategy, that I use to answer math questions that are part of decimals. I have also added an Word problem to add a bit of taste to my DLO. I learnt how to add decimals and subtract them to get my answer. One of the strategy are part of subtraction and the other 

Scale Drawing/Pony

Last week, LS2 created scale drawing because it was maths week. I chose to draw a Pony, because I thought it would be simple and colorful. This was my first time experiencing scale drawing. Scale drawing was really fun because you get to draw a photo of your choice that's appropriate. I also learnt what enlargement means, enlargement is when you find a picture, and draw that picture but enlarge the size, and draw it similar how it is laid out. On my pony, my enlargement between the the original pony and my pony weren't exactly that similar, but I still enjoyed the view of it. As I did scale drawing I found the face of the pony difficult to draw because of how my hands were shaking. I found the hair simple because the hair was just a straight line curving. Next time I create a scale drawing, I will improve the choice of my picture, and challenge myself to draw a more difficult picture. The length of my was grid 9cm squares wide, and the height of my grid was 12cm high. The scale factor was 2, which meant we had to multiply our grid cm by 2, to increase the size, increasing the size and making the squares exactly the same as the original pony is laid out, this is when you can call your drawing a enlargement.  

Summarise Problem Solving Definition

This week I summarised a definition of what Problem solving means in 25 words. The reason why I did this was because our topic is about Problem Solving in Kiwi Can.

Its when you have a problem, and are trying to find different methods to solve it, there are lot of different ways to solve problems.

Kiwi Can

This week Learning Space 2 Group B, had Kiwi Can. At Kiwi Can we talked about resilience which is our theme, resilience is when you, never give up, for an example, its when you have difficulties with a challenge that you set up and recovering back from the high energy you had before. Our topic was goals, goals are something really special, because they are something you want to archive. When I grow up I want to be a basketball player, for me to become a basketball player I have to set up the smaller goals, to achieve the bigger goals. The smaller goals is like saying shoot a 3 pointer everyday, that will help you because, you are setting up a challenge for yourself, that challenge will help you improve on your bigger goals. We also had 2 games, our first game was called snatch, in the game snatch, you have form a circle, and there will be cones around the circle in the middle. When Mr Matt says go you have to try snatch a cone, but also try not to get manipulated, because Mr Matt will say something like toe moe gol which is similar to go. We also played Destiny Child which was a really fun, we had to split up to 2 equal teams. One team had shoot the ball, and the other team had to run, running team had to run around the courts before the Shooters get a hoop, if the shooters get a hoop while someones running, then you have to stand still. The last player is called Destiny's Child, the Destiny Child is used to unfreeze the players who got out from the shooters. Our team was the winner in Destiny's child, as we had all our players return to the finish line.

Cook Island Language

This week is cook island Language week, as you can see I have a DLO which has information about the vocab and facts about cook island. We also have a flight time of how long it takes to get to cook island from new zealand. Today I learnt that Ae means Yes in cook island and Kare means No in cook island.

Carrer/Jobs

This week in LS2, we were learning about our future jobs and career, what i wanted to become was a Basketball player. In LS2 we were also finding out what career we suit in the most and enjoy, after that searched up how much money we earn every year, month, week or day.

Algorithm

This week for maths, my group was learning how to use Algorithm and explained how to use a Algorithm. We also have a question, why do we have to carry any digit number to its right order, like for an example, why does 10 have to be carried in the tens column. I have created a DLO to show how to use a Algorithm and why we have to carry numbers.

M&M DLO

This week for maths, LS2 have been working collaborating by being splitting up to 9 groups. Our topic was about M&M. As you can see our DLO has facts and the history of when M&M were made, and how it started as a thing. Did you know that Mars, the owner of M&M, saw soldiers eating smaries during the spanish civil war. Then mars thought of an idea, Mars thought of covering the Smarties with a special type of shell, which would prevent the smarties from melting from the sun.

Matariki

This week on wednesday I have been working on my Matariki DLO. As you can see , there is a photo which shows the people I have been contributing with for this task. For Mataki we are celebrating it by having sausage sizzle, this sausage sizzle event is hosted by Fire Odi, kapa haka will also be performing. In our Matariki information poster, we had to explain what matariki is, when it happens and why its important maori.

Casey and Jeff/ Animated Story Example

This is an example of an animated story that i recreated from a progam called stratch. As we were using the progam stratch it was diffiucult  to use coding. The compoents used to create this story includes: Speech bubles, Characters, Backdrops, Coding, Effects. This animated story was also incompleted but was purposely posted for a example of how a Animated story works using stratch. The codes I used to recreate the story include: Event,  Looks, Green Flag, Red Flag, Script. The looks script to enable the sprites to talk,  Events script to start the story, Control script to enable a pause bewtween a Character or to repeat a word a Characters said. I enjoyed using stratch, as I learnt how to code.

Tech - Reflection

This week for Tech, LS2 year 7 went to Digital Tech, we created a DLO and brain stormed places that are within the area of the tamaki community, then we created a document and typed about what our topic is going to be about in tamaki community, my topic was about students that are age 5 to 13, and how they had to stop littering as it will create a world with polluted air, once thats happen our world would be extinct as everyone would of been killed of what they had been breathing in and out. After that we created a google sheet and had a list of things we had been planning about.

 

Kiwi Can

This week at kiwi can, we have a new value which is called accountability. For an example if you are using accountability to a person, you are owing up to something you caused, if you aren't using accountability, you would blame someone for something they aren't responsible for. There are also tips that should be used when having accountability, waking up before the bell rings when tech begins or school time, getting prepared for school time or stationary, getting your chromebook charged before school starts, using agent of change to become someone new. The game we played was called green lights, first you had to pick a partner, then you had to choose between you or your partner who's going to become number 1 or number 2, after the partner that was slotted as number 1 would have to be at the front and the partner that was slotted as number 2 had to be behind.  As you played green light, if  green lights was called out everyone had to switch places with their partners. If called red card every number 2 had to jump on top pf number 2 back and had to be stabilized for  3 seconds. When Yellow light was called out, slot number 1 had to knee down and the number 2 had to set on the number 1 knee. Then, if called out fruit salad, number 1 had to run around the circle and back to their spot. 

           

   

Colloquialism and Slang DLO

 During reading today our group learnt about Colloquialisms and Slang. By creating this dlo we were able to make a stronger connection about these two language we have learnt about. We have worked together by talking about our understandings together as a group.

Parent Interview

On thursday afternoon, I went to the parent interview with my mum. Before I went to the parent interview I had a shower, then brushed my hair and then off to the interview. The first thing I did as I went into LS2, I stopped and said Hi to Mrs Kirkpatrick and Mrs Anderson. Then I got my script and then showed my mum around the classroom telling her examples of things we have been learning about. I then introduced my mum to Mrs KirkPatrick and Mrs Anderson. After few minutes between my mum and the teachers talking to each other, my mum was pleased off what I had shown her and proved her that I am trustable.

DigiTech

This week for Tech, we were using a program called scratch. Scratch is a something I had difficulties with as it was my first time using it. I learnt that when you use scratch, you can make animation and you can make simple games. If we needed help, we could go on Mrs Anderson DLO about Scratch and get help if needed. Mrs Anderson also demonstrated us with tools to make simple animations or short clips.

Tech

This week, at tech we focused on Digital Tech as our new subject. As we focused on Digital Tech, we had played a game called moana which is game similar to a pencil code. At tech I found listening to the   following tips hard because I was unknown from some sites.

Mine Explosion 1879

As you can see I have created a DLO which tells you what happened in 1879, about the Coal Mine explosion in Kaitangata. If you didn't know what kaitangata is, kaitangata is a town located in New Zealand near the coast of otago. If you check my DLO I have explained what fire damp means, fire damp is a new word I learnt from reading the news about the mine explosion.

9 Time Tables

This week for maths, our focus was about 9 times tables. As you can see I have created a DLO to explain how work 9 time tables. In our my DLO I have answered all the 9 times tables to 9 and also showed in other slide groups of 9, like for an example groups of 1 to 9.

Iphone Texting DLO

This week, for writing our focus was about using punctuation marks by using a website called iphonefaketext which is useful for our learning, because its like were talking to people. I have also created a DLO and have typed differences between a inform message a DLO message.

Body System - Skeletal System

This week, our focus for inquiry was about body systems, as we were learning about the body systems  we played a game which tells us where each of our bones go into place. I found this game challenging because i didn't know where to place our bones into place. This game was also fun because it was a challenging thing to complete. My score was 29, can you do better.

The Unfinished Drink

This DLO is all about a man who unfinished his drink, he died and didn't get to finish his drink, he died during the war, this story is also a narrative. I felt sad and happy about this story, i felt sorry for him because he died during the war and didn't get to finish his drink, I also felt happy because his friend kept his promised.

Family Tree

This Family Tree is from a book called memorial. This book is about Memories, this book also about world war 1 and 2. As you can see I have a family tree which contains all of the narrator family members in this book.

Animal Roles

Did you know in WW1 many of the mascots were animals. The mascos were also like a best friend or a companion to a soldier and did a great job at lifting people's spirits. Horses, Donkeys, Dog and others were really helpful back at WW1.

Measuring and Types of Angles

This week on Wednesday I have been working on my Angles, the thing that challenged me was how I had to lay out the picture for an example of each types of angles. The thing that was just a angle to me was explaining how each of the angles work.

Pencilcode 3D Rectangular

This week on Wednesday I have been working on pencil code for maths, today I have drawn a 3D rectangular, this was very difficult because I had to calculate the distance between moving forward right, moving forward left and others.

Treaty of Waitangi

   Today at reading Mataio, Jeremiah and I  were reading the treaty of waitangi books and were researching about it, to find out about the benefits about the the treaty of waitangi and the negatives. This task wasn't challenging because the resarching was easy and fun.

Character Description

As I see a tunnel in a forest I begin to think harder and harder. Why is there a weird looking tunnel in the middle of the forest? Although there is a tunnel, the tunnel doesn’t really look a tunnel due to the fact that the tunnel is made out of wood, twigs and vines that are not fully connected to each other. I found the tunnel scary. As I looked at the tunnel I found out that the wood and vines from the tunnel were actually wet and old. I wondered if there could be something close by. I heard a girl voice coming closer. “Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy”

Wood Tech Art

This is my work from tech, if you have been wondering what it is, the picture represents a dog. At tech our teacher is Mr Grundy, Mr Grundy teaches Woodtech, which is something fun to make out of wood to metal. For an example I am going to make this dog, the reason why I chose a dog for my picture, is because my mum loves dog and this photo, has a right angle of detail. So what Im going to do is i'm actually going to have to trace around this dog by place a thin piece of wood that is shaped as a square, then I am going to use a special sawing machine to cut my piece of traced art. After Mr Grundy will ask if it looks great, then he will pour in some melted hot metal, Soon you have to wait for about 15 minutes, then the picture that you made is perfectly stoned.

Agents of Change

Have you been wondering how to be a Agent of change, well I've got a few tips or tricks, you could say. that would help you. Everyone has a goal in life time, by accomplishing your goal, you have to be a Agents of Change, even if you have to be a Agent of Change at Home, Public and Anywhere, you just need to learn how to behave like a Agent of Change. For an example you could help your mom clean her room or help your sister dry her hair, its simple.

Whakatauki

What is our Panmure Bridge School Whakatauki, well that's the same question i've been wondering. So if you've been wondering i've found here it is, Manaaki Whenua Manaaki tangata Haere Whakamua, so this is our Whakatauki.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Kiwi Can

At Kiwi Can we warmed up with an energiser. The engiser was called get in the hoop.  We had to be in a circle like the shape of a hoop.  Then we got into 4 groups by Mr Matt putting us into 4 groups by counting 1, 2, 3, 4.  After Mr Matt had to call a number, if the number that Mr Matt said was yours  you had to walk or speed walk around the circle until you got back at your spot . Then you had to run through your spot and jump into a hoop. The last person standing in the circle was the winner.  After our game we talked about fairness and fairplay and the importance of having Rules.

The reason why we have rules at Panmure Bridge School is so students can self manage them self. If there was no rules in public, there would be people killing each other, stealing and other crimes.

Maths Strategy

This week on Tuesday I have been working on my maths with Aung Naing. We had to solve an equations which was addition. The way we solve this was by using place value. Aung Naing and I also had to help each other to solve addition problems using place value.

Winter Olympics Comparison

This week on Wednesday I have been working on my Inquiry as told by Mrs Kirk Patrick.

The task was about winter Olympics and winter Olympics mascot. In this DLO I chose Powder, Copper and Coal as decided with my group team Mataio and Freeman. 

Comparison Winter Olympics

This week on Tuesday I have been working on my inquiry that Mrs kirl Patrick told LS2 to complete in her inquiry groups. In Mrs Kirl Patrick group we had to type about the modern Olympic and 1924 olympics. 

Remembering our Summer

I heard the ocean splashing on the sand like an earthquake, although the ocean splashed like an earthquake it felt like nothing but weak splashes.  

I heard the seagulls squeaking around the ocean .

I saw the beautiful sunlight glistenings down at me.

I felt so relaxed with how the sunlight was shiney.

I felt lazy in the heat of summer.

I wondered how the sun even exist in the world.

I wondered if the sun flame could ever die out.

This week on Wednesday everybody in Learning Space 2 had to complete an document which we had to type about what we did in the holidays, starting off with either I felt, I heard, I saw, and I wondered. We also had to choose what made sense in the first line.