Richard Pearse

Today we created a Powtoon about Richard Pearse. Our group collaborated to finish this task.This task is about New Zealand Inventors. Other groups had a different New Zealand Inventor. While our was researching, we learnt a lot of information about Richard Pearse. Richard Pearse was the first person to fly and had his first attempt of flying on the 17th of December. After finishing our task, we then show our presentation to the class. Other groups  also had cool presentations to show and we learnt a lot from them.

Steampunk DLO's

This DLO shows you my drawing from paper and using tools in google drawing. Iv'e come with an idea to draw a half robot and samurai drawing. Iv'e written a short meaning about steampunk. I have learnt a lot of information about steam punk. Iv'e also enjoyed doing this activity. In this activity we worked in groups and our group we choose to do the Mining during Victorian time. In my group I have been working with Joseph, Carl and Freeman. There are lots of young people working that time, one of the easiest job that they can do is the trapper it is the easiest job for young people they just open and close the door so there is a fresh air coming in the mine, but there is one negative thing about this job, it is going to be boring if you open and close the door everyday. 

Jack Albert

This week for Inquiry, I have created a DLO about Jack Albert. He was in the Maori Battalion, World War 1. I have drawn this medal by using the tools in google draw. This DLO also shows a picture of Jack Albert. This medal is for Jack Albert. While doing some researching I have learnt some facts about him. I enjoyed doing this DLO about Jack Albert.

Maori Battalion Timeline

For Inquiry, Miki, Julian, Nevaeh and I worked together as a group to complete the Maori Battalion Timeline DLO. This shows the timeline of the Maori Battalion's time on the battle field. We all show a lot of respect to the people who have fought for our king and country. The white skin and the dark skin people were separated. They also have different jobs the British got the better jobs and the Maoris got the worst and least paying jobs after the war. In the battlefield they worked as a team and became friends. Then went their separate ways.    

Athletics Day

Today the whole school did Athletics. We were split up into four group colors. The colors were green, blue, red and yellow. I was in the green team.There were 9 stations (Activities) that groups were needed to go to. All of us took part in the activities. The 9 stations (Activities) were Frisbee, rob the nests, long jump, shot put, hurdle and sponge run, hula hoop throw, and egg run. Thanks you Tamaki college helped to demonstrate the games and collaborated us. In group A, green team won. In group B green teat, green team was in the 4th place.  

Maori - Whurutu

For Maori, today I created a poster that shows a Maori names of fruits. While doing this activity I learnt some of the fruit names in Maori. Some of them sounds the same in Maori. The task was to just use the Maori name so we can understand by looking at the photos.

Read-Theory Analysis

I have created this DLO to show my improvement of read theory. I have worked hard on reaching to level seven. I have enjoyed doing read theory. This year I have improved a lot. I was at grade one at the beginning and now I am at grade seven. I will work harder to reach level nine to ten.

Wovles

This week was Book Week Mrs Anderson gave us a task. First we read one of Emily Gravett's books called 
Wolves. Our class enjoyed the book. After reading the book we made a DLO based on  wolves. We were to make 
a table: One side which had what we think about wolves and the other side saying what is true about wolves.
 For example if the myth was Wolves and dogs are related we were to search up if it was true or not and tell why.
 I really had a fun time doing this.

MeerKats

Today the teacher read to us a book written and illustrated by Emily Gravett. The book was about MeerKats and the life that they live. By listening to the story we took information from there and made a blog post about MeerKats. We have learnt a lot about MeerKats including where they live and what they like to eat. They like to eat snakes and eggs, but they prefer scorpions because their nice and crunchy. They are cute and friendly animals that almost nobody know about. The next blog post is going to be about wolves and we're going to do the same thing that we did with this blog post, listening to the story and creating a blog post about them.

What Was The Food In WWI

Today, San Kyaw and I created this DLO to show what soldiers ate in WWI. This has also helped me learn some new things. I have researched the food that they eat. This activity was really fun to make because we collaborate to complete this work.

What Chemical weapons did the soldiers use in WWI?

 

Today San Kyaw and I created a DLO showing the Chemical used in WWI. We have released two chemicals that has been used in WWI, and they are Mustard Gas and Tear Gas. While doing this research San Kyaw and I learnt interesting facts about chemicals used in WWI. We have enjoyed doing this activity.

Book Week Challenge 3 - Difference between Fiction and Non Fiction

This week we have been given and task to do for the book week challenges. My group was Josh, Sanujan and reneir. What we did for this activity was we created a google draw trying to find the definition of the Non fiction and Fiction. This was a fun activity working with my group because it shows that we know about Non fiction and fiction.

Book Week Challenge 2 - Poster For Juniors

Today, we have completed our second challenge for Book Week. Sanujan, Reneir and I created this DLO showing you how to take care of your book. We have worked collaboratively to completing this poster to show Juniors how to take care of their books. 

Book Week Challenges

This week we have been celebrating Book Week. I have crated a DLO showing the time line of the books that I have been reading. This was the first challenge that we have been given. My most favorite book it Bad Guys. This is my favorite book because, it  hooks me in. They tried to be heroes and be good guys. But sometimes fail. 

Armistice Commemoration

Today our school replaced the school assembly into our own Armistice Commemoration.This marks the 100th anniversary in Armistice Day. We celebrate this to remember those soldiers who fought for their country in WW1. A soldier from NZ Defense Force came to our school. A soldier from the NZ defense force talked about things he did. Ms Kirkpatrick spoke a poem about In The Flanders Field. Then the soldier came to our class room and talked about what he did in the army. Our class then asked some questions about the soldier. The soldier started the army in 17 years old. When he was 19 he was deployed to help out Afghanistan people.

Armistice Day

This DLO shows you a collage on what happened in the Armistice Day. These photos shows people celebrating and being happy that the war was over. On the 11th of November and the 11:00 am, the war was stopped because they signed the treaty which ended the war. 

WW1 Facts

Today for Inquiry we have created a DLO showing facts that we remembered in WW1. I worked with Joshua, San kyaw. We have made this DLO to show you the facts about WW1 and what happened in the war.

Collaborative Comprehension - Battle of the Somme

This week everybody our class worked on the same topic. We each get a partner to work with. I worked with Joseph. For one of the collaborative comprehension activities we read the Battle of the Somme event and then answer 10 questions based on the story.This is really sad because lots of soldiers died.

Kiwi Sport

This term for Kiwi Sport we doing Boxing with Pax Patel. This was our first session of doing boxing. We first warmed up and we did an activity and it was about touching your partners shoulder or knee. If you get touched you will need to do a burpee. Today we learnt two types of moves which is jab and cross and our first combo was Jap - cross. We learnt that we can protect our face with gloves.

Kahoot

For Writing Sanujan, Miki and I worked together as a group to make a kahoot about writing an explanation. We made 12 different types of question. It was a bit hard to make question because there was 12 questions and we tried to come up with a tricky questions. We ended completing the kahoot and presented it, to the class. We had fun doing this activity.

Tech - Reflection

Today for tech we carried on doing our work from last week. Mr Pineda is away for today and Our group is creating donation boxes and designing it. We each have our donation boxes and it is made out of paper. The topic that I was doing was protect sea life. I have almost complete the drawing and i'm up to coloring it. Some people have completed the task, It was fun doing tech.

Informal To Formal

Today for reading our group turned informal words into formals words. This DLO explains on what I did to change the informal language into formal. The sentence on top is the formal language and below it, it is formal. For example - formal language is used when talking a teacher, boss and writing a letter. Informal language is when you are talking to you friends. 

Narrative Poem

For reading our group have made a DLO about Pam Ayres. She is a comedian, English poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of radio and television program. I wrote 3 facts about Pam Ayres and my favorite joke about the narrative poem she made.

Peace

This term for Inquiry we were learning about Peace. The reasons behind it is simple. We were learning about this to as an commemoration all the soldier that fought in the World War 1 and 2. Did you know that it has been 100 years since World War 1 ended. I learnt that peace symbols were designed in 1958 by the British artist and designer Gerald Holtom. We think peace is important words to have because 'Peace is when there is freedom from war, argument and live together without violence. Also respect values and get a long together with each other'. For this activity I worked with Miki and Aung Naing

Kiwi Can - Reflection

For kiwi can we were talking about respect for our school. Our rules are - not bringing phone at school, don't talk while the teachers are talking, pay attention on what your doing and don't leave school grounds during school time. We have rules to our school, so we can be protected and a safer school.  Should we drink fizzy drink at school? No, because it is the rules and it can make yourself safe. Should we have rules at school? Yes, because it can make people follow rules and be good students. Our care values are - Confident, attitude, respect and excellent and innovation.  

Tech - Charity Box Planing

For tech our activity was about writing a plan about our Charity box. We answered some questions about shapes and we planned the slogan, color, shape. The color that I chose was blue, white, yellow.

New Zealand Shake Out

Today it was the Shake Out day. Our group have collaborated to complete this task. This DLO shows you things that cause earthquakes and explains how to Drop - Cover - Hold. We have wrote about things that happen on Christchurch and Napier.. We visited this site called shakeout.govt.nz. This site is tells us to practice, Drop - Cover - Hold and drills. What I have learnt is, there was 185 people died during the Christchurch earthquake and Napier was the deadliest earthquakes that has killed 256 people.

How have camels adapted to their environment

How have camels adapted to their environment

Are you aware that camels can survive for a long time without water? In the
desert it is 42° which is extremely hot. Physical changes have helped camels
survive in the desert as they have adapted to their environment.

In the desert it is very hot and dry. A strong wind of sand can make you blind,
it is called a sandstorm. Camels have hair inside and outside of their ear to prevent
sand getting in the ear. They grow 2 sets of eyelashes and have nostrils that close
to protect them from these conditions.

The sand is really hot during the day so camels have adapted to their environment
by having thick pads on their feet to walk on hot sand and a thick pad on their
chest to lay down. Camels have webbed feet so they won’t sink in the sand.

Water is very rare in the desert. Camels get water from the cactus plant which
is why they have thick lips as this helps them to avoid sharp thorns that get
in their way. Food and water is not easy to find in desert conditions so camels
have a hump that stores fat. This fat is later used for energy and hydration
when the camel is tired and thirsty.

A desert is a hard place to survive in so over time camels have adapted to this
environment.

This week for writing our group have been writing an explanation about Camels and how they adapted to their environment. We have also been looking on how physical changes have helped the camel survive in the desert. Our group watched a video showing parts of the camels that help them survive and we wrote some notes about it.

Basic Facts - Challenge

Today for math, I have practiced my up to 20 addition and subtraction, basic facts. I have done well on practicing my basic facts. I'm looking forward on doing on, up to 100 basic facts challenge. I have enjoyed doing this activity.

Today for reading we learning about informal words and formal words. Our task was to delete the informal words on the first letter to Mr Johnston, then delete the formal words on second letter to James letters. You can use formal letters by writing a greeting card, email a work mate or your boss, parents and grandparents. I understand that informal letters is use to message friends and family and glossary list.  The top example is a formal letter because it uses ' I am writing to complain', 'condition of the playground' and 'a great deal of litter' and the bottom example is an informal letter because it says 'How are you', 'dead busy' and 'to get ready'.

Willow - Film Study

Willow -

Opening Sequence

L. I. - To understand how narrative elements are used in film

Watch the opening sequence...

Answer these questions:

What is a prologue?

A prologue is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background detail

Who are the characters introduced in the prologue?

Princess Aloradenan,Queen Bawmorda  

What is the setting of the main story?

The setting of this story is the Moses story.

How is humor used to stop the scene from being too over the top?

Don’t touch it, we don’t where it came from.

Yesterday we did a film study. The movie that we watch was Willow, this movie is a about an evil queen tries to kill the baby princes because she is the only one who can defeat the evil queen, but fails. I have answered some questions based on the movie. I have enjoyed doing film study.

1865 Panmure Bridge - Label

This term for Inquiry we were learning about different types of bridges and how are they strong. I created a DLO that shows a bridge with labelled diagram. For this activity I learnt that Iron came from Sydney in Australia because in 18th it doesn't have enough Iron in New Zealand. 

How To Use An Apostrophe

Today for writing Miki and I collaborated to complete this DLO. We were learning about when use an apostrophe and what they mean. Then We made a DLO that shows what an apostrophes is and I wrote some examples on when to use them. I learnt that apostrophes are used for 2 ways . I had fun doing learning about Apostrophe.

The Man Made World - Labeling

Today for reading our group Pakatoaa and Ponui have worked together to complete this task. We labeled a book which is called The Man Made World. Both groups collaborate and communicated to complete labeling this book. There are a lot of things in this book that we have labeled. We made sure that we have put the right label in the right place. I have fun doing this activity  because we learnt some new words while doing this activity. 

Math Challenge

Today for Maths Mr Wong. We continued doing Mr Wong's challenge. This time I have different questions.  I also did the subtraction questions. This has challenged me a lot and fun at the same time. This challenge is fun because you can use different strategy's.

Why Is The Panmure Bridge Was Built

Why Is The Panmure Bridge Was Built

Panmure bridge was built to help people get across the Tamaki river.  In 1835 before
the bridge was built a punt was used. To be able to cross you will need to pay 3 pennies
which is 3 cents. The punt was not able to be used in bad weather. So the petition was
signed to build a bridge.

First Panmure Bridge was built between 1864 to 1865. It designed by WR Collets. The
first Panmure bridge was not strong and could not carry heavy things. It was made with
kauri trees and tortara trees.

The second Panmure bridge was built in 1916. This Bridge was also a beam bridge and
was built with kauri tree and iron. The iron came from the Sydney Australia because in
New Zealand they didn’t have lots of iron

In 1957 the third Panmure bridge was made and was made with concrete and iron.
This was build for easy access to go from Panmure to Pakuranga. This bridge was
176 metres long and 6 metre wide.

This is the history of the Panmure bridge and why we need to have a bridges.
There are some mistakes that people made while building the bridge. Because of the
mistakes. The improvements they made, we are able to still use the bridge that was
made in 1957.

This week we have been writing an explanation about, Why Is The Panmure Bridge Was Built. This explanation shows a lot of information about the Panmure Bridge history. I learnt a lot of things during this topic. I have enjoyed learning and writing about, Why Is The Panmure Bridge Was Built.

Duffy Assembly - Michel Mulipola

Today, it was a Duffy assembly. Our class went to the hall to listen to Michel Mulipola. He explains a lot of things like, his job, and what he does at his spare time. He is a really talented comic illustrator. He showed us some of his drawings and the drawings the he drew for wrestlers, school journals and different types of super hero's. Michel Mulipola is not just a comic illustrator. He is a wrestler and a semi - gamer. He also told us a tip. Using your face as a guide to draw a proper face and easy. We have enjoyed listening to him. 

Hipposandal DLO

This DLO shows you the parts of a hippo sandal. It is also labeled. We read a book about horse shoe and answered some questions about it. I learnt a lot from this activity.

How To Make A Hangi

How To Make A Hangi

A Hangi is a Traditional Maori earth oven. To cook a Hangi it takes 3 to 5 hours to cook. You can also make this dish on special occasions like Celebrating birthdays or a Christmas dinner.

Firstly, stack up the woods and burn the stack of wood so it can heat up the iron which helps the food cook. Then say a karakia to bless the environment, people, and the food. You need to use volcanic rocks because if you use normal rocks it’ll explode.

After burning the wood, dig up a hole which can fit the basket that has the food in it and transfer the iron or volcanic rocks into the pit. The iron will be placed at the very bottom. Put the wet cabbage leaves to create the steam. Put the basket filled with stuffing, chicken, pork, beef, and vegetables into the pit.

Then place the wet sacs onto the side of the pit so that the dirt won’t fall in. Put the tarpaulin on top of the food. Cover the tarpaulin with dirt so that the steam won’t come out. Wait about 3 to 5 hours until the food gets cooked.

After waiting for 3 to 5 hours remove the dirt, tarpaulin and wet sacs. Then carefully take out the basket filled with foods. This shows how the Maori people cook Hangi. A Hangi is usually prepared by  woman and the men cooks.

Today for writing we wrote about how to make a Hangi. This writing explains on how to make a Hangi step by step. We first watch a video explaining how to make a Hangi. I learnt a lot from doing this. I learnt that woman prepares  the Hangi and the men cooks the Hangi. I really enjoyed doing this writing. 

Bridge Testing

Today after lunch Mr Johnston came to our class to test our bridges. Our bridge was really stable and it looks astonishing . Things that we did great was we used a lot of  triangles we used for our bridge and the PVA glue we used was very strong. Things that we didn't do well was not supporting the sides of the bridge to make it stronger. I learnt that we need to make sure that we add more sticks on top to support the sides

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi Can we were talking about perseverance. You can show perseverance when you are not giving up and keep trying.  You can use perseverance when you are trying to get a job, doing a test and trying to achieve your goals. We then played a game. This game is about one person tagging other people to make long line. If you get tagged you will be at the very end of the line, that means are the only person who can tag. After playing that game, we then played invisible touch. This game is about Mr Matt and Miss Lilly calling out numbers. If your number gets called you will stand up and verse the other team. If you get tagged the other tea gets the invisible ball.

Maths - Strategy

Today for Maths Mr Wong has created an addition and subtraction challenge for us. This challenge is very fun because it makes you think properly and you can use any strategy you learnt. This really helped me a lot on my addition skills. 

Kate Sheppard

Yesterday we made a DLO showing who was Kate Sheppard. We list 5 facts about Kate sheppard. We have collaborated and used our smart searching skills to find facts about Kate Sheppard. For this activity I was working with Hajera. I enjoyed this activity.

Bridge Building

Today for Inquiry we have continued to make a bridge stronger and gluing each part together. Our group has finished creating our bridge. We manege to glue the trusses on the side of the deck. We collaborated and worked out how to make our bridge stronger. We have placed more sticks under the bridge and we have used 196 toothpicks and each toothpicks are worth 25 Cents. All together it was $49. There was some problem. The problem was that the truss were not bending over slowly, but we fixed the problem by using a straw and putting it on the truss and using a laundry clip to help it stick together. I had enjoyed doing this activity with my group.

Orchestra

Today LS2 went to Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra. We saw a lot of instruments. There were 4 different sections and they are Brass, woodwind, percussion, strings and conductor. For Brass it was Trumpet, trombone, tuba, french and french horn. For woodwind there where flute, oboe, bassoon, piccolo and clarinet. For Strings there are violin, viola, cello and double bass. I saw a conductor that guides the musicians for loud, soft, slow and fast music. We then watch a performances from St Kents and Ngatapawae. There was a opera singer that sing for us and there were a lot of people that came to listen the Orchestra. I enjoy listening to the Orchestra performance.

Building A Bridge

Today for Inquiry we were building a bridge. Our group had collaborated to find out on what bridge are we going to make with glue and toothpicks. We manege to complete the main part of our bridge which are the deck and the sides. Our challenge was to make the strongest bridge and making sure it was wide enough that can fit objects. We also made sure that it can carry heavy objects and the measurements are right and we made sure that we counted the toothpicks correctly because each toothpicks are worth 25 cents. The most challenging thing was making the toothpicks touch each other and the same length. The people that are in my group are Miki, Jaydon, Jona, Reneir. We had fun doing this activity. We had fun doing this activity.

Harbour Bridge

This term for Inquiry we were learning about different types of structures. Mr Johnson talked to us about the building of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and some fun facts about it. Then we had to research facts about the information Mr Johnson gave us, then Josh and I created a DLO with this information.

Auckland Harbour Bridge And Sydney Harbour Bridge - Comparison

For this challenge was to compare the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Both are Arch bridges but they are a different shape and the Sydney bridge is longer than the Auckland one. I have worked with Miki for this activity.

Panmure Bridge Time Line

This term for Inquiry we have been learning about the different types of structures. Miki and I worked collaboratively to complete this shared DLO. We created this DLO to explain the timeline of Panmure Bridge. On this timeline myself and Josh drew different types of objects that were used back in the days like: television, newspapers, and phones. Myself and Josh decided to create a google slide to present our learning on. To create this DLO we also used our researching skills to find interesting information. I learnt that the first Panmure Bridge was not a bridge, but it was a punt. 

Adding Decimals

Today I created a DLO showing how I solve Decimals question. The question I solved was 3.1 + 6.3. The answer was 9.4. This shows how to solve decimal equations easily by using addition and subtraction. Using this strategy is really easy to do because you just need to use addition and subtraction, I enjoyed learning this strategy. 

New York

This week for reading we were reading a story about The lost empire. After finishing answering the  question. We then created  DLO showing a map of New York and 6 places that we would want to go when we visit to New York that include Empire State Building.

Maths - Scale Drawing

Last week we have been doing scale drawing. I have done this activity last year and drew a Pokemon character. I have googled a character and drew Todoroki. We have the same rules just like last year. The challenging part is when you have to draw the characters parts square by square. The ratio is the same as last year. The best thing about this activity is when you starting to color and finishing the drawing and the character you drew is just like the picture. I had fun doing this activity.

5 Facts About Ancient Rome

For reading our group created a DLO showing 5 facts about Ancient Rome. We used our smart searching skills to find some interesting information about Ancient Rome. Our group have read a book about Ancient Rome. Reading the book also helps us find information and learning new things. Our group had fun learning about the Ancient Rome.

Kiwi Can - Reflection

Today for kiwi can we were talking about problem solving. Problem solving is when you work together as a group to find a solution to that problem and also communicating to each other. We then played a game called rock, paper, scissors and then we find a partner to vs. If you loose you must kneel down and if you win you have to keep stand up. But you can still play when your kneeling, if you lost again and you are kneeling you're out. We then played another game called hand soccer. Hand soccer is when you use your hand instead of your foot to get a goal and win.

Pechaflikr

Last week for writing we were making a pechaflikr. We were learning to link ideas between paragraphs and structure/order a narrative. My partner for this task was Aung Naing, we both worked collaboratively  to complete this work. Doing this activity is fun because you got to describe the picture, making them into a story and linking ideas together. Aung Naing and I created a screencastify describing the pictures. It was fun because we got the chance to learn new things. The most challenging thing is when you have to find the correct image that matches my story.

Kiwi Can - Reflection

Today for kiwi can we talked about achieving goals and celebrating them. Our energizer is called snatch, after playing snatch we then played golden child. it is like a shooting game, you just need to shoot the ball into the hoop and the other team will run. My team lost, because we were missing the shots.