A Special Visit

Today at at assembly we had some visitors from the board of trustees and the NEXT foundation. Another person who visited our school was Rachel. Mr Johnston, Rachel and Bill Kermode (the CEO of the NEXT foundation) got up on stage and talked about the Summer Learning Journey. Some students from PBS also got to talk including myself. We also got to watch a video staring one of our fellow students. The movie was about the Summer Learning Journey program. Here is a link to the video that was made.
https://vimeo.com/246718036 

Google Games

Today LS2 have been playing one of the google games. The point of the game is trying to get the rabbit to the carrot. You have to drag the correct arrows and put them in the tray. You also have to put the arrows in the correct order so that rabbit can get to the carrot.

Hazel's Visit - Summer Learning Journey

On Friday Hazel visited Panmure Bridge School to tell us about the Summer Learning Journey program that is held during the Christmas holidays. The program contains lots of activities. It starts on the 18th of December and ends on the 26th of January. The top three bloggers from each school will be given a prize. It is great that the year eights are still allowed to participate even though they are going to college next year. The Summer Learning Journey is great for students because when they come back to school they will improve their learning.

Geometry

This week for maths we have been working on geometry activities. I have taken a screenshot of one of the activities I have completed. For this activity there were two sheets. One with the instructions and the other one to draw. We had to follow the dots link each one up until it says stop on the instruction sheet. After we finished drawing we coloured it in.

Screen Castify Maths DLO

Today we used screen castify. Ls2 made a maths DLO and put it on our planing sheet that i made then we had to right our script. I downloaded screencastify and we had to record ourselves and talk about what this maths DLO was about. 

Princess Bride Film Study

In the past few weeks LS2 were doing a media study on a movie called The Princes Bride. We learnt the type of shots of the character introductions. During the movie there was protagonist (goodie) and the antagonist (baddie).We also learnt what the characters role is in the movie and the type of clothing they are wearing. Buttercup was wearing a white dress which means she is a protagonist. The DLO above shows you what I learnt about the characters in the movie.

eBook Day

 Today is the 18th of September, which is read an e-book day. LS2 uses a really cool site that is called the Tamaki College Overdrive. I read a really intresting book called the Time and the Tide. It is a very fascinating book and I hope to read more about it soon. Also I can read in my own time because there are heaps of other exiting world war book or more books to read.#EBOOKLOVE

Why its great to be me?

It's great to be me because I like being happy around people that I get comfortable with. E.G I like to be around with people that excite me with my learning, or I like to hang out with people that are normal and are themselves.   

Winter Solstice - Celebrations

This is my DLO i made with Harlem H. We had to choose a celebration and then write about it we did Soyal as our celebration.

The legend Of The Seven Sisters - Harlem M

 

I have worked with my friends and why they visit earth each year and i have found out why they visit earth each year.

Dance-Harlem

Today for dance we had to do our Evaluation movie i worked with Shannon,Cj and me Mrs Anderson filled as and i think my group did very well on this.

Dance-Harlem

Today for dance we were working on our dances that we created. I was working with Cj. The first thing we did was warm up. This week we used Oh hsen and Shnnon's warm up. Next we were reminded that the music we used had to fit with the dance we chose. We also needed to be in sync with the music. We then talked about the speed of our dance and that the music needs to be the same pase of the dance. After that talked about the mood of our dance. This helps tell your dance story. 

Kilikiti DLO - Harlem

Today for reading we watched a video about kilikiti which is a Samoan version of cricket. It was first played during the 19th century and is now taking place in areas all around New Zealand. Kilikiti is a common sport that Polynesians and other people like to play in the Summer time.

Personification DLO - Harlem

Today for writing we did personification we did it about the days of the week like monday was the worst day of the week because it was the sart of the week and friday was the best day because it was the last day of school and I was working with Harlem and it was fun doing it but haed at the same time.

Hit the button Maths game - Harlem

Today we used the game Hit the button to help us recall our 4x answers quickly to find the answer. I found it harder to find the question because it was hard to answer under presser. So i will be practicing this in my own time.

Dance - Harlem

Today for Dance we had to get our peace of paper from last week then we had to warm up by doing are movements that we put on our paper least week. When we finished we had to get other peace of paper because we had to do another activity for this one we had do robots moments it was very good then we had to copy them and try at our self. 

Tech-Harlem

Today LS2 went to Tamaki collage for tech. At food tech today the year 8s made chocolate hedgehog first we went to our work place then we had to grab all of the ingredients and put it in our bowl then we had to put it in the oven so that it can cock. We it was done in the oven we had to put more chocolate on it. It was very nice to eat

Dance-Harlem

Today LS2 did dance we watched a short clip of 2 people doing these cool movements Mrs Anderson said we have to do something similar to that but first we had to do are stretches. A warm up is a short exercise. the reason we do this is  because we need to avoid injuries. Mrs Anderson said we had to make our own stretch movements we first had to get a buddy my partner was Cj then we watched a video some people working out then we copied there moves then we had to put it on a piece of paper so that we don't forget it when we write all of our movement on the piece of paper then we had to choose a song as a team then we had to group up with other group and show our movements to them and play the song we chose. Their feed forward to us was we need to work on our time.

Making Connections-Harlem

These are my Connections to this story. Mrs Kirkpatrick read as a graphic novel. We then needed to complete this task. I have learnt many new things.

Place Value Strategy-Harlem

I have learnt a new Strategy for multiplication. In this DLO I have Explained how you can use it. I worked with Mathias.