Leaf Art

This week, Mrs Anderson gave us a challenge to do. For this challenge, we were to create any animal using leaves. With these leaves, I cut them and placed them, and created a bird. This challenge was very fun and enjoyable to do. 

Facts About Birds:

- There are about 10000 species of different birds.

- A few species of birds can create items, using their intelligent skills.

- Birds have hollow bones, that makes them fly.

MOTAT | Home Learning Challenges

Today Florence, Victoria, Haylee, Taheesha and I worked together to complete another one of the home learning challenges. This one was about MOTAT, a Museum in Auckland which we’ve been on in a school trip before! It was really interesting getting to know about more about this place and why it was really built. In the first activity we were to locate where MOTAT was on google maps and its address. We really enjoyed the second activity, where we found out several fun facts about them. And the bonus was to find out some information on William Motions, the founder of MOTAT. Something we learnt is that MOTAT stands for Museum Of Transport & Technology.

Name Exercises

This week for a fitness challenge, Mrs Anderson sent us a photo of a name exercise activity. The photo included letters for exercises. For example the letter s would be 30 jumping jacks. The exercise I did was 30 burpees for s, 50 jumping jacks for a, 10 push ups for k, 30 jumping jacks for i, 40 jumping jacks for n and another 50 jumping jacks for a. These exercises were fun to do. 

Whoa! Studio | Home Learning Challenges

This week for a home learning activity challenge Haylee, Florence, Victoria, Taheesha and I created a collaborative DLO about Whoa! Studios. The first activity consisted of where Whoa! Studios is on a map with the address and how much it would cost to see the super villain show. The second activity was a 10 word description of what it would be like at the park and a suggested part of the park we would recommend to a friend. For the bonus activity we made a biography of Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. It was really exciting learning about Whoa! Studios because it may be a place some consider going!

Rainbow's End | Home Learning Challenge

This week for another home learning challenge, Taheesha, Victoria, Haylee and I decided to work on the Rainbow’s End activities, collaboratively. For the first activity, we wrote the location of Rainbow’s End, with a picture of the map, the costs of a family pass and how much it would cost for our family to go to Rainbow’s End. For our second activity, we wrote the minimum height restriction of the stratosfear and why it’s important to have a height restriction. For our bonus activity, we chose a ride with an explanation of why we would recommend it to a friend, a description of how we might feel on that ride and 25 words that describe how we felt on the ride.

Sky Tower | Home Learning Challenges

This week for another home learning challenge Florence, Haylee, Victoria, Taheesha and I decided to do the Sky Tower activities. For the first activity, we wrote a list of 5 facts about the Sky Tower, using our smart searching skills. For our second activity, we created a new mascot for the Sky Tower and gave an explanation about why we chose them. For our last activity, we chose an activity we could do at the Sky Tower and wrote down why we chose it, what it is and how much it would cost to do that activity.

Hobbiton Movie Set | Home Learning Challenge

This week for another home learning challenge, Florence, Victoria, Haylee, Taheeha and I worked collaboratively to complete the Hobbiton Movie Set activities. There were 3 different activities we completed. For the first one we created a menu for the Hobbiton movie set. For our second activity, we created a brochure about hobbiton, including facts and the costs. For our last activity, we wrote a biography about Sir Peter Jackson.

Auckland Zoo | Home Learning

In LS2, we created different activities to complete at home. These activities were based on places in New Zealand. Victoria, Haylee, Florence, Taheesha and I worked collaboratively and started off with the Auckland Zoo activities. For the first activity, we wrote about what the benefits a person gets when they buy a friend of a zoo pass, how much a friend of a zoo pass costs and the costs of your family to each have a friend of a zoo annual pass. For our second activity, we chose an animal from the zoo and created an infographic about them. For our bonus activity, we created a DLO about zoo keeping.

Kiwi Can Reflection

This week in Kiwi Can, our new topic was role model. We started off by talking about what a role model is and who we look up to as a role model. A role model is someone who sets good examples to other people, people who are inspired by them and someone who is a leader. Someone I look up to is my sister, because she sets a good example and solves different situations. After talking about role models, we did our energizer called Hammer. For this activity, we got into partners and put our hands above each others hands. When Ms Grace called out Hammer we tried to slam each others hand, to win. Once we played our energizer, we played our next activity called picture it. For picture it we got into groups and tried to make a shape, Ms Grace called out. This game was based on role models, because a person took the lead and helped others.

Oscar Pistorius

This week for another activity of my attitude care awards, I created a DLO about Oscar Pistorius having a positive attitude despite the difficulties he faced. The difficulty Oscar Pistorius had, was that when he was only 11 months old, his feet were amputated. Oscar Pistorious was a South African sprinter who won 3 gold medals and two titles for the Paralympics World Cup and the World Championships. I really like how Oscar Pistorius didn't give up on his dream even though his feet was amputated.

Representing PBS At Netball

This week for an attitude care award, Haylee and I decided to do the activity where we represented PBS at an outside function. I decided to create a DLO about representing PBS at netball, last year. I had a lot of fun playing netball and was proud of coming in Grade E, section 2. In my DLO, I decided to add photos, what we did for after school netball and what place we came.

Team Maths Challenge

This week for Maths we created two DLOs showing how we solved two team challenges that involved adding decimals. Using the most effective strategy we found the answer. The most effective strategies were written algorithms and place value. In this session we were learning rounding and compensating. The two questions we tried to solve were:
5.75 + 2.0 = 7.75 x 12 = ?
218.99 + 109.85 = ?

Ferdinand Magellan Summary

This week for reading, we created a summary about either Ferdinand Magellan or Christopher Columbus, showing their achievements. I decided to create a summary about Ferdinand Magellan. We first used our smart searching skills to find out about our chosen explorer, to find out their achievements and their voyages. Something I found interesting about Ferdinand Magellan, was that he was the first to sail through the Pacific Ocean. For our summary, we chose 20 important words, 6 of the most important words and summed it up to make sentences about their achievements.

Explorer Vs Adventurer Venn Diagram

This week for Inquiry, we learnt about different explorers and adventurers. We created a Venn diagram, about where we think different explorers and adventurers go in each box. If we didn't know some explorers and adventurers, then we used our smart searching skills to find out if they were a explorer, adventurer or both.

Then Vs Now | Gourds

This week for cyber smart, we used our smart searching skills and to find out about gourds and how polynesian explorers used gourds on their travel. In our smart searching skills, we used keywords, phrases, skimming and scamming, ctrl f and select or reject. After we learnt about gourds, we created a DLO about how people used gourds in the past versus now and what a gourd is. We worked in groups and collaborated. we was working with Lily, Ong and Afa. Something we found interesting, was that today, people use gourds as utensils and decorations.

Exploring Provocation

This week we have been exploring both sides of a provocation. A provocation is an action or speech that triggers someone's emotions. Our provocation was 'Should NZ become a cashless society?. After considering both perspectives (sides) we think we shouldn't have a cashless society, because not only can cards be scammed, but also people without cards wouldn't be able to buy anything from stores.

How To Become A Confident Leader | Kiwi Can

This week in Kiwi Can, our theme was positive relationships and our topic was leadership. We started off with our energizer, called Bop It. For this activity, Ms Grace and Mr M gave us combinations of moves from the Bop It game. If we were the slowest to do those moves, then we would be out. After that, we talked about leadership and about who we looked up to. Leadership is taking responsibilities and doing the right thing so younger people follow. We then moved onto our activity called, Bowchickawowow. For this activity someone started off with doing a dance move. Then the next person would add on a dance. If we didn’t do the the dance on time then we would be out. Lastly we played the end of the road. At the end of kiwi can, we created a DLO about how to become a leader.

Tech Reflection | Pewter Casting

This week in tech at Tamaki College, we did pewter casting with Mr Grundy. We finished off picking our designs. I decided to create a mickey mouse silhouette for my friend. After picking our designs, Mr Grundy printed it off. Then we shaded our sillhoutte on the back of our piece of paper and used it to trace it onto our piece of cardboard. After that, we used a cutter to cut out our shape. I realized that my mickey mouse was too big, so I decided to create a smaller design.

Maths Team Challenge

This week in Maths, we worked collaboratively in our Maths group to solve a team challenge question. In our group we worked together to solve a maths problem about which was about trying to solve what age 3 people were, with not that many hints. After we solved the question, we created a DLO about the strategy we used and how we solved the question.

Places Named By Early Explorers

 This week in Inquiry, our topic was about early explorers who travelled around different countries, like New Zealand. We created a map and marked out the different places Kupe, Captain James Cook and Able Tasman named or was named after. In our map, we also included why these places were named. Something I really found interesting, was that there were interesting meanings behind these places. These places are named, so they are respected, to feel proud, and for people to notice you. Places get named by friends, themselves, physical appearances, important people and what happened in a place.

Charting Our Islands | Shared Word Bank

LI: to learn new sets of vocabulary. This week in Reading one of our activities we did was a Shared Wordbank. A Shared Wordbank is an activity that helps us grow our vocabulary and have a better understanding of the word. We read a book called Charting our Islands, while reading it as a group. When we finished reading a page we shared words we didn’t understand. On our shared wordbank, we added the words we didn't understand or know the meaning of, we included synonyms, word families and a clear definition.

Charting Our Islands | Past & Present

This week in Reading, we got into our reading groups and collaboratively to complete the activities relating to Captain Cook and Kupe's’ voyage. For one of these tasks, we created a past and present DLO which explained the problems and differences between, the transportation from decades ago to now. We also did reciprocal reading and made a summary. Each person had a job to do, Vocab Clarifier, Questioners, Summariser, Predictor and the leader.

Maths Question

This week for maths, as a group we created maths questions based on the ASB marathon. After working collaboratively to create these questions, we chose one and created a DLO explaining how to solve it. My group and I decided to use the algorithm strategy to solve this maths question.