2019 Film Festival

This week we went to Sylvia Park with the others school that are in the Tamaki cluster. We went to the Sylvia Park Cinemas to watch the movies that each school has made. We also watched the movie that we created. We were able to go to the top of the cinemas to sit in the bigger chairs. Whilst on the bus back from the cinemas we were able to entertain the little kids by rather playing some hand games, or talk to them about how they enjoyed the movies or which movie they liked the most.

Kiwi Can

This week we had another lesson of Kiwi Can. This week our theme was honesty and our topic is Integrity. We started off with our energiser, the energiser was called Bang. In the game bang we were focusing on our listening skills. Once the energiser was finished we talked about our theme. We talked about how honesty could effect other people, How honesty can be better or worse to the people around you. After talking about Honesty we moved onto our Activity. Our activity is called Honest cards. This was where we were given a scenario of how we can show honesty. We were given 1 scenario card to talk with our group, there were 3 scenario's in total. As a group we all talked about the scenario and answered the questions. Kiwi Can was great this week I found learning more about honesty really interesting.

New Zealand Sign language week

Last week Friday we learnt about Sign language. We were taught by Fiona. Fiona is apart of a huge Ballet deaf community and helps children that are not confident about their hearing. She taught us how to sign a sentence in sign language. We learnt that its important to use your dominant hand when you do letter sign language and when your telling someone your feelings you use some expression to show your emotion. We also learnt about the hand positions, so that the person that we are signing to will be able to see what we are trying to sign. I had a great time learning about sign language because I can talk to people that are deaf, or practice signing with my friends. I found learning about sign language interesting because I got to learn about why sign language is important.

Kiwi Can

This terms in Kiwi Can our theme is Integrity, and our topic is honesty. Integrity means doing the right thing even when no one is looking. An example of integrity is like someone who owns up to a mistake that they made. The role play activity that we played was about Integrity & Honesty. Our role play was about someone who smashed a window, That person was to own up and show integrity and honesty.. Something interesting about Kiwi can this week was finding out about the meaning of Integrity.

This photo is of my group, This photo shows how someone showed integrity by owning up to a mistake that they had made. When they did something wrong they need to show that what they did was wrong, and that if they show honesty they would get in less trouble. 

Agents Of Change

Today I completed my Agents of Change DLO. On this DLO I wrote about what and Agent of change is, becoming and agent of change and how I will do this. I also added a photo me with the school Agent of change sign. Becoming an agent of change is apart of  my learning because it helps me achieve my goals, and helps me step out of my comfort zone. I am becoming an agent of change because I have set my goals for 2019 to achieve. When I achieve my goal I will be proud of myself and set a new one.

LS2 Reading challenge | Book 13

Today I have decided to do another Book for the LS2 Reading Challenge. The topic I chose to do was Science Fiction. The book I have decided to read is all about our our brain, and also has information on our nervous system. Down below is a description of the book.

This book is about your what are happening in your brain that you don’t know of. There are parts of the book that tell you things about your brain. I went to the nervous system part because we are learning about that. I learnt that there are cells in your brain called neurons. It has things about Introducing the brain,Brain and body, I think therefore I am, The feeling mind and the brain. This book Is really helpful. Try and find this in the local library or a school library.

Transport Ship | War/ANZAC

Today for Inquiry we did another task on the War/Anzac. We did these tasks to build up our collaboration skills, and our general knowledge skills. I worked with 4 peoples but mostly 3. I worked with Neveah, Chavda and Jonathan. We made a DLO about the Transport ship. We found out that the transport ship was used to take soldiers, Nurses, Officers and cookers to War. We also found out that the soldiers did exercise, they ate as well on the ship. On our DLO we included the 5 W's and the H, the  attribution to the images, the distance and the life of being on the ship. We also got to present the DLO to our class. We had a script to read off, so that we weren't reading off the DLO.

Chavda's Blog
Neveah's Blog

Camp Diary

This week we did activities based around Camp. We call it the (Celebrating camp). There are 5 activities in total. This is one of my activities that I have completed. This activity is my Camp Diary. This camp diary has my daily reflections from my actual camp diary. This also has photos of each day of camp. This camp diary was made just in case the real book version is thrown away.

Group Challenge

Today Mrs. Anderson challenged us to write a 50 word response to Mrs Anderson questions. Which was "Why is Kokako lodge a great place to take Years ⅞ students on camp.To help us make a 50 word response we used our Camp Diary, Photos, Outside the box and LS2 rubric. We also had a learning conversation. We worked as a group to share our ideas with each other. We told each other what we might need to use in the response. There also language features that we needed to used in order to get more point. Each point for the Language features are 5. If 50 words were used at exact then we would get 50 points. If we used all language features we would get 40 points, but we missed out one and only got 95 the 5 points were from using the rubric,photos,camp diary,outside the box DLO and for it to be completed on time

READING CHALLENGE | Book 12

Today I have decided to read another book for the LS2 READING CHALLENGE. This book is called Baba Didi and the godwits fly. Down below is a description of the book.

A story about two true fantastical flights; that of the godwits around and across the Pacific and a woman's emigration from Croatia to New Zealand. A young girl and her grandmother, Baba Didi, are on a beach watching the godwits preparing to migrate. Talking about the birds's courageous journey across the Pacific resonates with generations of human migration, from the Maori reaching New Zealand to Baba Didi's journey from Croatia.

This  book was labelled under Sophisticated Picture Book. This book was interesting to read so I recommend this.

Tech @ Tamaki College

This week Friday the Yr 7's did Tech with Mr. Grundy. We are all working on sawing our designs and making joints. I have made a mistake where my piece of wood is loose in my joint. I sawed the joint to far apart. I am working on trying to make my joint flat, I will need to rather get a new piece of wood or get my joint glued in. I used the Vice to use the wood chisel, I used the Mallet to help me push the Wood Chisel into my joint. I then got the help of Mr. Grundy and he cut up my small wood piece and made it circular square. I got to sand the spiky parts on my wood that was cut so that it wasn't going to give me a splinter. I will be finalising my work in the next 2 weeks. Tech was great this week, I can't wait to add more parts onto my design.