Graduation 2K16 Year 8's

On Wednesday night December the 14th was graduation night for the year 8's, It was held at the Pakuranga sailing club at 6 o'clock at night to 8 o'clock. Everyone went, the girls looked amazingly beautiful and the boys looked amazingly handsome. Everyone took photo's together and with there friends. We then all sat down at our tables together with boys and girls, ate altogether it was nice. then we were awarded. We then danced, chacha and rock and roll. With the photos June and I made a video. We are happy to share our Great time.

End of the Year

It is almost the last week of the school year for Panmure bridge, LS2 Have each made some sort of collage/movie of their learning over the year. June, Jasmine and I made a 2 in half minute video showing photo’s of our learning journey over the year, we enjoyed going back and looking at all the memories in the photos we had in LS2. We (Jasmine June and I) are really excited to share our learning over the year with the world.

Rockets

Today,  LS2 had their second full day at Tamaki College to finish creating our Rockets from last week. Mr Dunn and Mrs Ferguson made sure we had created our rockets and launch them by the end of time being there.  Most of us had finished our rockets all ready to launch. Some people still needed to finish off Rocket. Almost every group's Rocket launched into the sky. With help from Mr Dunn's drone, we captured footage of the rocket launched with the help of camera's we got most of the photos/videos.

Tahuna Torea

We went on a trip to Tahuna Torea yesterday for the whole day, The reason behind this was our topic for this term was all about migration. We learned about the godwits and their long trip to New Zealand from Alaska. While we were on our trip our goal was to take photos of Godwits and bring back some more information about where they live.

Kuaka Reading

Today for reading LS2 were learning about the Bar Tailed Godwit. We were split into groups, our groups name is R, we had to complete the activities that Mrs Anderson set for us. We first did the connections, in the connection challenge we had to learn about connections There were three topics Today, 30 Years Ago and 100 Years ago. We also did Reciprocal Reading, we had to read the text about the Bar Tailed Godwit.

Athletics Day

Today we had athletics day, It was really exciting experience. The year 8 were split into three groups and I was in one of the groups. As a group we cheered each other on to complete the course or obstacle. We only got up to five obstacle which they are rob the nest, sponge relay, long jump, shot put and hula hoop throw. We came first in each obstacle except for shot put, we came second in shot put. We had a amazing time but it was very unfortunate that we didn't get to finish all the obstacle, credits to bad weather. It was really good too see people cheering our team mates on and showing respect to one another.

how to write a formal Comment

Today I made a DLO about what we need wen we are commenting I also put an Example of a comment and now when you o to make a formal comment know what you need in one.

Paper planes

While it was hot and burning, the LS2's pupils decided to create paper planes and analyse the information/ measure how far the plane would go depending on what type  (They had used). 

Mrs Anderson set us a silent challenge, Mrs Anderson showed all the groups their task without speaking ( She played videos to make sure that the groups knew what their task was). Even those I joined this experiment while the paper plane craze was happening, I did get to create a paper plane but also use another plane to see the difference of the planes. All these photos in the collage represent a certain way or the process of the experiment.  In 1 photo, you can see a group of people working together to see which one each person and create their own paper plane ( Depending on what they chose). The others show, a person testing their plane and is about to make it fly! In the last two photos, it shown that they are throwing their airplane and testing how far it can go. Most of the these photos are from my group and the last one ( The photo on the bottom right) is used to show another angle and way people threw their paper plane from.  Mrs Anderson set us a silent challenge, 

Scaffold text

Today we read a quick story about the wright brothers about how they were the very first people to fly a controlled plane.

Water DLO

In our school we have a new rule, our rule is that were not allowed to drink anything other than water. We have to make a DLO about drinking water and why it good for you.

Rhythm interactive

Today we had John and Lucy to come and teach us drumming. At first we were confused because they didn't talk because they was wanted to make use learn the action are louder than words. After awhile we got use to them not talking and played when they pointed to us. They use different ways to beat there drums. And also used funny word to help us to remember how to hit the drum. We all had fun.

Dance with Sonja

Today we learnt how to dance with Sonja. We learnt how to do rock and roll and chachacha. We were split into the middle of the hall opposites side to the boys. In rock and roll the girls  had to use are right leg first and the boys on the other side had use the there left leg, and move the left or right leg behind our other leg and after move side to side. After we got it we added the turn with add the skills we learnt just before, while the boys kept doing the same thing. So we had to practices with the boys. Later on we learnt the chachacha and we all crowned around the stage practicing our new skills, also again we practice doing it with the boys again.

Quizizz

Today we had a class game on quizizz.com everyone budded up and took the maths quiz together the first one we played was just for fun then the second one was a game and the last quiz was a race everyone took part and everyone had fun with this quiz.

Cross country

Today we had our Cross country fun run, everyone in our school ran for the fun run. The year 1 girls then the year 1 boys they did 1 lap. Then the year 2 girls went then the boys they ran 2 laps, when the year 3 girls and boys ran they ran 2 laps, Year 4 girls ran 3 laps then the year 4 boys. As the year 5 girls and boy ran then the year 6 when they were done the lucky last year 7 and 8s ran the year 7s had to run 3 laps and the year 8 had to run 5 laps I came 2 out of all the girls and boy

Cross country

Today we had our Cross country fun run, everyone in our school ran for the fun run. The year 1 girls then the year 1 boys they did 1 lap. Then the year 2 girls went then the boys they ran 2 laps, when the year 3 girls and boys ran they ran 2 laps, Year 4 girls ran 3 laps then the year 4 boys. As the year 5 girls and boy ran then the year 6 when they were done the lucky last year 7 and 8s ran the year 7s had to run 3 laps and the year 8 had to run 5 laps I came 2 out of all the girls and boy

Cross country

Today we had our Cross country fun run, everyone in our school ran for the fun run. The year 1 girls then the year 1 boys they did 1 lap. Then the year 2 girls went then the boys they ran 2 laps, when the year 3 girls and boys ran they ran 2 laps, Year 4 girls ran 3 laps then the year 4 boys. As the year 5 girls and boy ran then the year 6 when they were done the lucky last year 7 and 8s ran the year 7s had to run 3 laps and the year 8 had to run 5 laps I came 2 out of all the girls and boy

Maths

Today in math's my group solved 30 math questions in our books. We then went onto our laptops and play a maths game called Hit The Button I find "Hit The button" hard because you have to answer as many questions under one minute and our goal is 50 I can only get 42 but I'm still trying.

Logo for the Olympics

Our activity was to design our own logo as if New Zealand was hosting the Olympics this year, I thought this logo that Micaiah and I made looks amazing.

Sprint Comparison

Today I compared my spiriting features to an Athletes spiriting features, I learnt when spiriting you MUST have light feet, eye's focused and knees and arms bent.

My Magic Box

I will put into the box …

A Silver fern from a New Zealand tree’s

The bond of Friendship that will never end

The taste of snowflake mounting on my tongue

A beautiful flower that reminds me of the love in the people around me

I will put into the box …

A verse of the New Zealand Anthem that we sing as a family

Necklace of animals that I love as friends

Shine from the summery sun on a hot day

The story of the beautiful girl's and boys the light up my world

I will put into the box …

The New Zealand flag that I stand tall and proud by

A dress that I shall wed in from my Grandmother

A drawing by my best friend of Mickey mouse

My box is fashioned from Greenstone and Maori wood carving  and Steel, with some Tiki’s on the lid and Family photos in the corners. Its hinges are joint by the journeys I travel as I go over hills and under bridges as I go through roads that lead me home.

I shall share my good memories in my box only good shall ever enter my box for all my children and their children’s children for them to add in when I am gone.

Today we looked at a poem by Kit Wright called The Magic Box. Part of our learning this term has been to think about how we can use words to paint a picture in the mind of the reader when we write a description. I used things from my cultural thing that I like.  

Warriors

Today we had a special assembly where Ryan Hoffman and John Palavi came to visit us. When we had all sat down we have our own little team trivia. One team was "Ryan's team" and the other team was "John's team." John and his team won the game. They then talked about hauora (health and well being). They talked about how much sleep we should have a night, about being hydrated though out the day, and about belonging. We talked about belonging to a team,  a family, a friendship group and a team. At the end of the assembly everyone ran up to take photos with the boys.

Get WIse

Get wise

Not managing money properly due to outside pressures eg- cultural expectations 

Jeremy

Crossroad choice = easy v hard path - hard = variety

Work hard to achieve what you want

Tools to make us smarter with money...

Money is good and bad - different pressures

Bank account to help us manage and grow our money 

1. Spend me some on you... Save some too!

2. Training in sport is like saving - the earlier you start the better off you'll be

3. Ways to earn

4. Free $$ from interest

5. Eftpos card

6. Credit card

7. Save your $$ in the bank

Earn money thru chores at home and in the neighbourhood, sell and trade

Bank account will grow your money thru interest - reward for keeping money in bank

Eftpos card = my $ - can only get out what you put in - bank helps you keep it safe by adding a 4 digit PIN number 

Credit card = banks $ - pay interest to use it

Do the best job you can do - people are always watching

Buddy Read

Today Room 3 and 4 come up to LS2 while they were up here they buddied up with people from LS2 and we read books with each other.

Hover Bike

This is a poster that I have created advertising a 'Hover Bike.' My task with CJ was to use my language features/techniques to hook in my audience if they were to buy a hoverbike. 

Hauora

 Today in inquiry we got put into groups. We then got given a strip of paper and that to cut it up into four pieces, on each piece we wrote the one of the four names from the four wall. One was Taha Tinana, hen there was Taha Whanau, Taha Hinengaro and the last one was Taha Wairua.
Under each wall we wrote what it meant.
We then picked all four walls up and put them all together. We found that if one wall has fallen then all the other walls will fall. I learnt that you need to look after all four of your wall to be able to be happy

Book Week

This week is Book Week. To celebrate, students as well as teachers dressed up as characters from books. This was to bring the life of books alive for the younger students in the Juniors. A huge amount of students had participated. We had special visitors in our school. For example, Mrs.Sylvie who was dressed up as Gangsta Granny. (Author: David Walliams) 

Advertising

Today is the first day back at school and today we were learning about Advertising we wrote a twenty-five worded paragraph about what advertising is. 

Story Scramble

Dear Reader,

Once there was a Lawyer he lived a huge house somewhere over that beautiful Rainbow, He lived with 3 lovely Unicorns,

The Unicorn Jack he was Blue💙, Jack was  the cleaning Unicorn, Jack cleaned and cleaned and cleaned all day he loved cleaning and the Lawyer love Jack. Jack would also the Lawyer

In the Lawyer's house also live a Yellow💛 Unicorn his name was Hamish. Hamish was a cooker he loves cooking, cooking is his favorite thing to do he cooked breakfast lunch dinner and puddings. The lawyer also loved Hamish.

Outside was a Purple💜 Unicorn her name was Micaiah she was the Gardener, Micaiah would always do the gardening she loves it, as much as the lawyer loves her. Micaiah likes gardening in the summer because it doesn't rain.

Jack, Hamish, Micaiah and the lawyer live together forever and ever with so much love.

This is my story I went on this site called Story Scramble to make it, I really liked using this site because instead of using your own choices the comport gives you a topic for you.

Life Education

Today we were in the life educations bus with Nicole. We were learning about our body systems. we learnt about how the brain sends messages to our body. We also learnt about the five scenes that help our brain to work like smell sight hear and taste. We learnt about the nervous, circulatory and the muscular systems. We learnt about the heart and what its purpose and why the reason people thought out heart was the shape of an actual love heart. 

Orenteering

Today Micaiah and I participated orienteering. My time was 9:14 and I will be going to inter-schools. Micaiah and I worked as a team and I think we did really well. I thought it was really fun and I can't wait to do it again.

Orienteering

Today we just finished orienteering Micaiah and I were partners and together we completed all of the course there are three we finished all of the and we had fun running around together.

The Bengal tiger

The Bengal tiger (also known as the Royal Bengal tiger) is a subspecies of tiger, found in the Indian subcontinent. It is the national animal of Bangladesh and is considered, when fully grown, at nine feet, to be the second largest tiger in the world.

These big cats have a magnificent appearance. The coat color of this kind of jungle cats is reddish orange with narrow black/ gray and or brown stripes, generally in a vertical direction. The underside is white; a rare variant has a chalky white coat with darker stripes and icy blue eyes.

These carnivorous predators are dominant. The predators of the jungle cat are hunted by being stalked until  the tiger feels the opportunity to catch there prey off guard. Jungle tigers primarily hunt larger mammals including deer, wild boar, cattle and goats. To kill, the tiger raps its jaws around the prey's neck then snaps it. Then drags it away.

Bengal tigers are found in Bangladesh, India. They are known to live in both the grasslands and heated areas of the deserts where it’s wet and cool. These tigers are the most numerous species of tiger in Asia and is found in dense forests and mangrove swamps and jungles throughout Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. Although the Bengal tiger's range today is much smaller than what it once was. Due to the size and power of the tiger, it has no natural predators in its native environment. Humans that hunt these cats and habitat loss are the only threats to the  tigers.

Today, due to habitat loss caused by deforestation, and hunting by human poachers, they are considered to be an endangered species. Despite being the most common of all the other tiger species. There are to be around 2,000 or less left in the wild.  

Tigers are seated up high in the top-of-the-food-chain. When a tiger has eaten its prey, the abandoned prey becomes the food for a variety of mammals such as birds and reptiles.

Some cultures believe that powdered tiger bones have medicinal values. Unfortunately, tigers are highly in demand to supply this damaging market.

Read Theory

Today on Read theory I reed a book and answered some question and got a perfect score then got a total 41 points.

Maths games

Heres the link

I went and I copied and paste a whole bunch or maths game onto a sheet

River Safety

Today I made this poster with Micaiah we found out what the different names are for a river. We found out how we can help prevent drowing. 

Shoes

LI: To use the 5 senses and personification to help us paint a picture with words.

He took me out and put his smelly toes in “YUCK!”. He stepped on me like I didn't even exist “how rude”. I felt the cold liquid come in and out of where his toes were, “I can’t take this anymore I’m too old!”. I was soaked and after I’ve been protecting your ungrateful feet, this is how you repay me I thought quietly in my head. What the! Now your running kill me now, I need to retire and I need to now. Up ahead I see a thick, brown colored blob, oh you've got to be kidding me! “NO NO NO NO NOOO not POO go around go AROUND! Ooh man gotta be kidding me! Wash me wash me NO” Now I smell like poo it’s all in my mouth, on my hands and on my head man I’m ready to be lift on the corner and stay there thanks! Okay I can't see anymore not terrifying at all, Suddenly I feel a bang against the tip of my head OWWW a solid objects bounces off me I can't see a thing. I can feel my arms being untied uh finally get your smelly toes out of me right now! I sigh with relief I'm aching all over just leave me here now don't come back please!

Balled Poem

Today for reading we worked on this task about ballad poems. We watched this ballad poem about Charlotte Anne and her difference compared to other girls. She was a woman back in the 1870s who, unlike the other women wore trousers and boots instead of skirts or dresses. She also went into the forest to cut down trees for a living. By her actions she Proved that women were as capable as men were.

Greetings in Mandarin

This week for inquiry Chavda, Joshua and I have created a D.L.O that explains how you say Hello, Goodbye and Thank you in Chinese. 

Did you know that Mandarin is the official Chinese language because the government uses it?

 If you would like to hear what these words sound like click on the picture.

Maths

Today I work out this maths problem. Here it shows you how I worked it out.

China

I used these photos off of Google Maps to create this Collage

Reading With Miss Kirkpatrick

This week in our reading group we have been discussing the way of "Bias" with Miss Kirkpatrick, Miss Kirkpatrick showed us this example.

(eg: There was a time, When more men than women were hired to play in symphonies. For some reason that was not known, the judges preferred male musicians. Today, however, most symphonies listen to the musician applicants from behind a screen so they can't see what they look like. But listen to the ability of the musician.)

By reading this most of us then knew the meaning of bias.

I now know that bias means "You only know one side"

SPag - Sub

The Subfamily The subfamily were on the subway, then they went to pick up the sub-man. Then they submerged while they were taking a submarine. They hopped out because it was sub-zero and one of them went subdue because they wanted to see what's under water. A while later the sub man talked about how he was subordinate

This is the chunky challenge. We had to find words in the dictionary that starts with sub. And put it into these grey and yellow boxes. Then we had to choose eight of them and make a paragraph of it.

Reading

Today I have started to read Geronimo Stilton smarty 

pants I have read 10 pages so far my completion of the 

pages I have read so far is that.

Trap has interred into an annual practical joke and 

gadgets competition vin Geronimo Stilton got an email 

saying he was invited to participate in a study on unique 

thinkers the super smart foundation of extremis 

intelligent and would like him to be the future tower by 

11 today but he was too busy because he had to go to 

presenter gold award somewhere so he asked Trap to go 

in he's place, Trap didn't want to go but then benjamins 

told him there was serving lunch. Trap goes to the 

building and wait to be study on little does he know it 

wasn't just for a test but that he would come out 

completely different.

Reading

Tonight I'm reading Scooby-Doo and The Aliens Too. 

My 25 word retell  

The Van broke down Scooby and Shaggy stay behind. They fell asleep and woke up in the middle of nowhere next to a laddie.

I found this hard,I couldn't think of any other way to do this.

Writing a Story

The Unnamed

“We can send her to get the...” whispered the first guy.

“Shhhhhhhh what if they’re in here, c’mon think before you speak!” the second guy pointed out.

“MMMMMMMMMMGGGGHHHHHMHMMMGMMHHHH” Lucy tried to scream. She tried to untie the ropes that were around her ankles. She couldn’t believe how many knots were between her and the way out. She suddenly heard the two men which made her stay as silent as she could so she wouldn’t draw attention to herself. She felt the rope loosening as she tried to shuffle off the hay without anyone noticing.

She hit the ground. Lucy felt scared because the ropes were still holding her prisoner. It had become a matter of life or death in Lucy’s head. Her heart was racing. Lucy just wanted to get out! She then heard the two men muttering about something. She eavesdropped:  “You can’t just throw a (you know what) when you have a person tied up out back, you idiot!” The first guy said

“Shut up Kyle! You don’t know anything,” The second guy said.  “Kyle? hmmm” Lucy sat for a bit thinking, she was wondering if it was all a joke. If this was just a prank. She finally untied herself. She tiptoed over to the big door. She pulled it open, hoping no one would hear.

“Hello?” Lucy was worried. “Anyone here?” She asked as if someone was going to reply “Yes, just in the kitchen want a sandwich?” She laughed in her head.

“Oi who’s there? I know you can hear me!” said a loud voice. “Get out of here!” He yelled as loud as he could.

She ran through the door.

With a sigh of relief she opened her eyes to find cows in front of her. “Hi Mr Cow I’m just going to walk down here... please don’t hurt me...” Lucy begged, trying carefully to avoid eye contact.

“Oi who are you!? What are you doing here?! This my land! growled this Kyle.

“I was just admiring your cows... “ replied Lucy. He ordered Lucy to leave. She got to the road. BANG! Shots rang out behind her. Lucy began to run...

Science Movie

For the past few weeks we have been doing science in groups. After we did all the experiments we had to make a movie in our groups. We used scientific language throughout the movie and we reenacted the experiment with our own props. (We used baking soda for our own effects.)

Elephant Toothpaste

Today Micaiah and I made fulled in this Science house. We used the Elephant Toothpaste experiment to full this Science house because it was the last experiment we did. I found it super interesting to see what elephant toothpaste was.

Using fake text

My role was one of the bus strikers and i was texting my boss and my friend. I was explaining to them my bias (my point of view). Paige's role was the public and she was texting a work mate and one of the bus strikers and she was doing the same thing but her bias. I was important to look at both sides of the story (provocation) to make an informed choice.

Auckland Bus Strike

Today, Micaiah and I started working on a DLO about the Auckland Bus Strikes. We used our skim and scan skill to find information and to add it to our DLO. Micaiah and I also added a Point Of View for the two groups involved in this Bus Strike. This work helped us the to find various sources and it added it to a our DLO but also making sure that it's in our own words.

This is my google drawing showing the two Pie chrats I made, It has the votes that PBS made on whether we should or shouldn't change our flag. The final voting results shows that PBS went with the Nation and has decided to keep the current flag. I am happy with what our Nation voted for because I also wanted to keep the current flag. The only down side is that 27 million dollars was wasted when it could have been used for something more important such as schools and educations. Also, it would have cost even more to change everything with the current flag and it would have disrespected the people who died under it.

Yes or No

Making an imformed choice

Today we had our second vote for the New Zealand flag.  We got into our groups and wrote down reasons for Yes (We should) and reasons for No (We shouldn't). We then came together and shared what we had written down, Mrs Anderson put what we shared with the class on the whiteboard. She told us that we were now going to vote on a peace of paper. She gave us a piece of paper with a picture of the new flag and the old flag. We then had to tick the boxes under the flag we wanted we all did it at the same time. We then hide our papers as we put them into the envelope. After we had finished all of the voting Mrs Anderson told us that we had just made a choice based on information.

Maths Game

I played this game, I had pop the ballon that has the lowers farction then the one with the biggest fraction.
I found this easy because I know lots about fraction.

Baking Soda and Vinegar

EXPERIMENT My experiment SCIENCE was about:	Baking Soda and Vinegar
The question I asked:	What we smelt? What it felt like? What we saw? What we heard?
This is what I used:	We used baking soda and vinegar
This is what I did:	First we put half a teaspoon of baking soda in a shot glass and half a cup of vinegar into the baking soda. when we poured malt vinegar into the baking soda it was fizzing and it was bubbly.
This is what I learned:	I learned had it totally depends on how much you add and how and how much you didn’t  add this because we used all different types of vinegars and some made a huge difference and some didn’t
This happened when I changed the variables:	when we changed the malt vinegar into white vinegar the white vinegar made the fizz pop more and it was bigger than it was when we put the malt vinegar in and it smelt really bad.
Picture of what I did: