I am a Year 8 student at Panmure Bridge School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Learning Space 2 and my teachers are Mrs Anderson and Mrs Fisi'iahi.
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Summer Learning Journey l Poetry Slam - 2
Sunday 19 December 2021
Summer Learning Journey l Vector Art
Thursday 16 December 2021
Summer Learning Journey|E hia ngā mea?
Summer Learning Journey | Spread The Word
Monday 6 December 2021
Summer Learning Journey | Art Colouring Book
LI: To use Google Art Coloruing Book to explore and use creative thinking.
Saturday 11 September 2021
Six Sentence Story
LI: Use 6 sentence storyto set the structure of a narrative.
Friday 10 September 2021
List Poem
Cinquain Poem
Own Design Character Profile
Anime/Manga Character Profile
LI: To create a character profile
History Of Anime
LI: To read for meaning and understanding
Our challenge today was to complete a reading comprehension about the history of Manga to show that we are reading for meaning and understanding. Our final challenge in this activity was to create a DLO to share the information we found out.A fact I found interesting is that in North America manga use to be seen as a kid thing.
Virtual Cooking Class
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Customzing Shoes
Summarising
Tuesday 31 August 2021
Recreating Famous Artwork
LI: To use your knowledge of colour and colour mixing to replicate the colours used in the artworks.
I enjoyed this challenge because…
Monday 30 August 2021
Wednesday 25 August 2021
Geese
Tuesday 24 August 2021
My Culture Is ...
This week for writing our focus was about learning different types of poems. The type of poemwe learnt about today was a list poem. List poems are a simple way to get into poetry writing that can be based on ideas that are familiar to you. They can also be based items,people,places, or ideas.List poems don't require rythm and uses repetition. My list poemis about my culture.
Monday 23 August 2021
I See Me Challenge Badge # 3
I See Me Challenge Badge # 2
This is the reward for those in Mrs Selena's group. Mrs Selena's group is a group of year 7 and 8 students partipating in her research. During the school holidays and school weeks, if we completed three task in one of the five catorgories you would get an digital badge as reward. This is my second badge for place.
I See Me Challenge Badge # 1
This is the reward for those in Mrs Selena's group. Mrs Selena's group is a group of year 7 and 8 students partipating in her research. During the school holidays and school weeks, if we completed three task in one of the five catorgories you would get an digital badge as reward. This is my first badge for people.
Drawing A 3D Hole
LI: To learn how to draw an anamorphic Illusion
Letter Q
LI: To Evaluate
Monday 16 August 2021
Ancient Olympics
LI: To skim and scan to find facts about the Ancient Olympics and make notes in my own words.
Here is the link to our presentation.
Hauora
LI: To understand what hauora is and what it means to athletes past and present
This week for inquiry our focus was about hauora.Hauora is the Maori belief of your physical and mental health and wellbeing. Hauora is like a house, in order for the house to stand you will need all four walls. They are tapa whanau - family, tapa Hingeroa - emotions and mind, tapa wairoa - religious/belief and tapa Tinana - your physical wellbeing. In this DLO we had to talk about what Hauora would look like if you were an athlete competing in the olympics.
Monday 9 August 2021
Hauora And Olypians
Atheletes that are able to get into the medal range work hard physically and mentally. The body must be fit and the mind need a good mindset in order to do the best you can. It is important for you you celebrate you succes, but it is also eqally imporant that you able to celebrate the less succsesful times aswell. It is the learning you use fromlosing to make you stronger physically and mentally.It is having the belief in your self and the support from your whanua that keeps you motivated. People who are able to make it into the medal ranger has a goodmindset,fit,strong,winners, and they are able to lead their contry into succes. People who don'tmake it into the medal range loses motivation,confidence, and insprastion, but if they took the learning part from their losses they are able to become better with a goodmindset,support,balance, and self belief and is able to become stronger and wiser.
Friday 6 August 2021
Swiming Lessons
LI: To learn how to be safe in or near water.
Coding The Microbit
LI: To see the connection between the writen code, the block code and the flow chart.
Thursday 5 August 2021
I See Me Challenge 3
LI: Write about a group of your friends that you enjoy working with.
I See Me Challenge 2
LI: To find out about tauto patterens and make your own about your family or your self.
During the Holidays the people in Mrs Selena's group were asked to try out her new site about the pasific. The people in Mrs Selena's group were asked to do at least three responses during the holiday. This Response was about creating something that repersent your or your family. We used the tauto patterens to make a tauto patterens repersenting your family. I found this task very intersting becasue I learnt more about tauto patterens and where they come from.
Wednesday 4 August 2021
Mindfulness Reflection 1
LI: To understand the meaning behind the pause breathe smile program.
This week we had our first session of the Pause Breathe Smile program. Our learning was based on having a calm mindset. We were introduced to this program by first defining what the word mindfulness is. Then we defined it and shared our different definitions with others.
After talking about mindfulness we were introduced to the red zone and the green zone. They are two different zones. The red zone is when you feel stressed,anxious,distracted and others. The green zone is when you feel calm, relaxed, peaceful, curious, clear, balanced, content and engaged.
We were balancing our mind set by forgiving bad things that happened in the past and calming our mind down and focusing on the present. To do this we sat in a circle and listened to the bell while breathing in and out, this helped us relax and focus on positive things.
I enjoyed this session because we learnt about having a positive mindset and about being mindful of others. During this session I learnt how to Pause, Breathe and Smile and calm my mind.
Friday 30 July 2021
Y Chart
LI: to make inferences about the events in the text using clues provided by the author.
Our focus was based around inferring what athletes were thinking, seeing and wondering during the Olympics. In order to do this, we looked at an image which had information that we could point out to form our inferences. By looking at the images, we could see that the athletes had completed the swimming and are taking an after photo. Some inferences we made for feel/see were: the athletes might have felt nervous and cold, they could have been proud of what they accomplished, seeing their names of the scoreboard and how they felt determined to win.
The image shown on the DLO was of Violet Walrond and other athlete competitors. Violet Walrond was a young athlete who competed in the Olympics at the age of fifteen. She was the youngest and first ever swimmer in New Zealand to use the crawl technique. Violet also was the first female to compete in the Olympics, representing New Zealand.
Flow CHarts & Radio Chat
LI: To code the micor bit to use the radio to send messages.
Wednesday 28 July 2021
SUPER FINGERS Competition
LI: To recall our timetable quickly.
The instructions of this game is that we need to write a phrase on a white board or piece of paper. Then you will need to roll 2 dice which we will multiply by, and the first person to call out the answer will take one of the letters out. The first person to have all of the letters rubbed out will win the game
The process we did it in was similar to a netball game, draw, quarter finals, semi finals, and lastly finals. To run this competition smoothly we created a bracket which showed who will versus who. Our bracket was now even so later in the game we did a wild card who were Vayan and Micah.
In pairs we challenged each other to see who was faster at answering the questions. The winner would go against the winner from another person. Whoever wins goes up against another winner, and it will keep going until there are two people left, which would be the finals.
The two people facing each other in the finals were Afatia and Chris. I enjoyed this game very much becasue I got to learn my time tables faster.
Afatia was the winner of the finals.
Provocation
Tuesday 27 July 2021
Olympic Math Challenge 2
This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. This task was about Nastia Liukin. The question sayed The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist? We had to find out how much of a point nastia opponent score was, and we also had to find out how much did Nastia score over the bronze medalist. I found this task intersting becase we learn new way of trying to solve different math equations.
I See Me Challenge 1
LI: To write an formal apology to those who were affected by the dawn raids.
Monday 26 July 2021
Olympic Math Challenge 1
Friday 9 July 2021
Tech - Matariki Stars
LI: To code the mbot to make a star, as it's Matariki.
Thursday 8 July 2021
Matariki Stars
Friday 2 July 2021
Coding In Python
LI: To learn how to code the Microbit in python mode.
This first one shows the Python coding for a flashing heart.It flashes bewtween a small heart icon and a large heart icon. The main thing to notice between the Python codning and the blocks is that the forever loop is at the top ans the bottom of the content in both.During tech we have noticed that when your coding with the Python mode it will show you where you go wrong and it show you how you can change it. In tech I found this task very intersting because this was the first time we have been coding in the Python mode.
Thursday 1 July 2021
Greek Mythology
Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about the difference between Athens and Sparta.
Greek Mythology
LI: To research the names of an ancient greek map.
Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges.The next task we did was to Research the words from the list and organize the words by writing the words down on the table. This task was also about extending our knowledge and the greek gods. I found this task very fun because learning about the history of the greek god will help us.
Greek Mythology
Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about Greek Mythology vocabulary and identify Greek places on the map. I found this activity fun because learning about the places on the map will help us in the future task.
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Vision Board
Greek Gods
LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the Greek gods
Today David shared his reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. We earn CARE award badges in year 7 and 8 to show that we understand our school values. In this activity we used our smart searching skills to find information to help us complete the table.I found this activity fun because learning about greek god were very intersting. The Greek god I found most interesting was Nike goddess of victory because she likes bravery and skill and she chooses which team she will help win. You can find her at the SuperBowl, and the World Series.
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Abstact Noun Poem
Friday 25 June 2021
Rock, Paper, Scissors Flowchart
LI: To learn how to code the micro bit to play rock, paper, scissors.
Thursday 24 June 2021
Life
Today we had a writing task with the whole classroom for Abstract Noun poems.An abstract noun is one that refers to an idea, quality or state.A metaphor is a comparison of two things, saying one thing is the other without using ‘like’ or ‘as’.An example of abstract noun is the poem myself and my group put together by working together and learning from each other. For this task we also needed to know what the five senses are, they are smell, touch, taste, hear, see.In this activity we learnt how to understand what a metaphor is and how we use them writing.We worked in groups to collaborate on our task.This task was made into a powerful eye catching DLO.Something we found interesting about doing this task was learning how to properly structure a abstract noun poem.
Wednesday 23 June 2021
Did This Happened ?
Main Ideans
First to start off the task we watched a video about how Maui slowed down the sun.After watching the video we wrote down the main ideas that happened in the video into this DLO. After finding the inportant Ideas from that we find the four very important ideas. One of the four very important ideas is that Using the flax for ropes slowed the sun. When you find the four very important ideas we found the three vital idean from the four very important ideas. I found this task fun because when you find main ideans from the text that means that you understand the text throughly.
Venn Diagram
LI: To find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and text of “ The Beginning "
This week for reading we have been focusing on the differences of two types of ways a story can be said. This week we were finding differences and similarities from the video and text from "the Begining". This text was about our group finding things that are different and simaler bewtweeen the too. In the video verison it shows the seperation of mother earth and father sky, and in the written version it's explain the love for the two. I enjoyed this task because I got to see the differneces and similaritites bewtween two storys.