Owning A Pet | Challenge

This week in maths, to learn more about money, we owned a pet. With our pet, we worked together as a group to find out the costs of the dog, the items dogs need, their food, the vaccinations and the grooming costs. Our dog was a border collie and was named Odis. As a group, we were each given jobs from our leader and helped each other. What my group found challenging, was figuring out the maths of all the costs for our dog and negotiating on the name.

Enterprise

This week in inquiry, we learnt about the wants, needs, service and products. To understand more about these words, in groups we created a DLO, showing the meanings of each of these words and some examples. A need is something that you required, like water, food and shelter, while a want is something you desire, but don't really need it. A product is a item that is bought which you can use and a service is when someone who works for others in return of money.

Tech | Robotics

This week in tech for robotic, we wrote a code, for our mbots to create a circle, a figure of eight and our initials. When we created our codes, we tested it, to see if it was the correct code. If there were a few mistakes we changed our codes. To practise how to write our initials, using the mbot, we first started with D and M, because they were one of the easiest letters to code.

Collaborative Challenge | Budget Of $200

This week for math we were given a challenge to complete together as a group. We were given a budget of $200 to do a weekly grocery shop for our maths group. We used an abundance of money to provide our group with enough healthy food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for one week. The challenging part was trying to decide what dinner was going to be, because most of us thought of different ideas, but at the end we chose which one was the best and cheapest.  

Summarising The Main Ideas

This week for current events we found an article and summarise the main ideas. After we summarised, to make it more succinct, we turned it into a 10 syllable and 5 sentences summary. In this current events Sela, Haylee, Joel and I worked as a group and selected 1 of the topics which was “All Blacks defeat Ireland”.

Article Here

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  sub- headings	New words I need to look up
All Blacks, Ireland, Semi finals, Rugby World Cup	All Blacks, Ireland, Rugby World Cup, Quarter Finals,	Scintillating

Write down 20 important words from the text	All blacks, Ireland, Semi Finals, Rugby World Cup, Beat, Quarter Finals, Tries, Defeat, Tokyo, England, Score, Victory, Team, Penalty, Tournament, Scintillating, Player, Results, Lead, Loss
Chose the 6 most important words.	All blacks, Ireland, Rugby World Cup, Defeated, Tokyo, Quarter Finals
Use the 6 most important words to write sentences.	In the rugby world cup, in Tokyo, the All Blacks have defeated Ireland in the quarter finals, with a score of 46 to 16. The All Blacks have made an amazing progress and have won all of their rounds. During halftime the score was 20 to 0, 2 tries by Aaron Smith and 1 by Beauden Barret. The All Blacks are now in the semi finals playing against England later on. A big loss, but a proud achievement for Ireland reaching this far in the rugby world cup.

10 Syllable 5 Sentence Summary- New Zealand has won against Ireland. The All Blacks scored 46 to 14. 3 tries were scored by Aaron and Beauden. The Ireland team were disappointed. The All Blacks will now play against England.

RWC Activities | Places To Visit In Japan

This week for the rwc activities, I decided to do the activity where I found a place in Japan I wanted to visit, facts and why I wanted to visit that place. I would like to visit Osaka, because I want to experience the different things in that city. One of the facts I found out was that Osaka is the 3rd largest city in Japan. 

RWC Activities | World Time

Since it was the rugby world cup games, we did activities. The first activity I started off with was the world time of the rugby world cup. For this activity I tried to find out the time in these countries, that was 6 pm in Japan. This was sort of hard, because I didn't know the times, so I did some research and found it out.

Student Leader Explanation

                                     Why I Should Be Manaiakalani Leader Of 2020?

What is a leader? I think that a leader is encouraging and helping people with different things. I think I should be Manaiakalani Leader next year, because I think that I have the ability to confidently represent the school with digital presentations. I would like to take this opportunity to become a role model to the younger children. Our 2019 manaiakalani leaders have been role models, but now it’s my turn to become a role model to others and show my digital work.

For the past few years I have been working digitally and have presented many DLOs to the class. I may have been nervous, but every time I have presented, my confidence gets a boost. As a Manaiakalani leader I can show what our school is really like, the best digital school! I am confident and will be even more, if I present more DLO’s to different schools around our Manaiakalani cluster as the 2020 PBS Manaiakalani leader.

Presenting to the cluster might even help the visiting teachers learn about new things. As a leader, I would help younger children and teachers with blog posts and digital learning. Right now, I have published and shared with my global audience 853 blog posts! These are made up of learning we do in school, Summer Learning Journey challenges and photos that show others the work we do in LS2.

I think I would be a great representative and asset of Panmure Bridge School and to other people too. I have made animations, digital drawings, maths games and have helped others digitally, which shows I have a wide range of the digital skills needed to be a Manaiakalani leader.

I think that I’d be a great ambassador to Panmure Bridge and to our Manaiakalani cluster!

The Possum Problem

                                                                                     

This week in reading, we read a book about possums and how they were brought to New Zealand. As we were reading we made notes about what we wanted to know, what we already knew and the information we found out. After we read the book, we created a screen castify about possums. We also created a DLO and scripts for each person to read, for the screen castify.

Explanation Practice

Why We Should Show Respect, Empathy & Tolerance To Different Cultures?

Do you ever show values to different cultures? Well, it’s important to show respect, tolerance and empathy to other people, whether it’s their culture or their belief. We probably dislike some cultures, but we still have to show these values to other people. What if someone didn’t show any respect, tolerance and empathy to your culture or beliefs? If you don’t show values to others, than you won’t get the same values back. Would you like it if you didn't get the same respect?

Respect!What is respect? Well respect is showing manners to others. We should show respect to these different cultures. It doesn’t matter if you dislike cultures. As long as you respect different cultures, other people will respect yours. Show manners and you’ll receive manners back. If I have a friend and I dislike their culture I am still respectful. Not showing respect can lead to other people being offended and angry. Showing respect is the best policy, just like empathy.

Empathy is understanding other people, like their different cultures. Showing empathy to different cultures can really help you learn more about these cultures and you might even have an interest in them. I understand some of the different cultures, and you should too. This is why we should show empathy too.

What is tolerance? Tolerance is when you accept other people’s likes, cultures and more. Accepting these cultures are also very important. We should accept all the cultures, like we accept our own. We may dislike some cultures, but we should still accept it. What if your culture and beliefs weren’t accepted? If we don’t show tolerance, than we we won’t receive it, with our cultures. To receive tolerance you need to show it first.

This is why we should show these different values. Even if you dislike cultures, at least show respect, empathy and tolerance. Remember if you show these values you’ll receive it as well, from other people!

Water Filter

In inquiry, our topic was water filter. For this activity, in groups we created water filters to turn dirty water into clean water. First, we made a plan of our water filter and the equipment we needed. The equipment my group used was bottles, an elastic band, a cloth, grass and some rocks. When we tested it out, the dirty water didn't really turn out clean.

Early Maori Enterprise

This week in inquiry, we learnt about Maori enterprise and economic. First we made notes about the enterprise and economics. Then we turned it into a 5 sentence summary. We used a strategy to write our summary. For this strategy, we tried to have 10 syllables in each sentence, to make it shorter and take out all the words we don't need. Then as a group we read it to the class.

Our Old Summary-

In the early Maori enterprise, Maori were the first to exchange different items and vegetables from long distances with hapu and iwi. During 1840-1860 The Maori produced and supplied food to the villages that were in spring. In the early 1840’s Maori created large markets of food produced by tribal teams. The inland Maori traded with the coastals tribes, while the west Maori gave kai moana. As the Maori were trading, they traded too many valuable items which left with nothing else to trade.

Our New Summary-

Maori were the first to exchange items. Maori traded with hapu and iwi. They also created markets of food. Whanau would also make kai-moana. Maori started exchanging years ago.