summer learning journey

  

Today we started the summer learning journey with the year 4 students and we were teaching them how to use the summer learning journey site and the year 4 kids did super power building mision by nanogirl. this took the whole day to finish PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy.

operation chrisma's drop

To write a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words.

 

 

operation Christmas drop is an operation that takes well needed supplies and gives them to islands that are in need the millitiery packs large planes full of them and then they drop the suplise on the island it has been on for 68 years It is the longest-running humanitarian unit conducted by Andersen Air Force Base and Yokota Air Base. This is a project where volunteers and communities come together to provide islands around Guam with essential supplies we need daily.

Exploring our national current events

 LI: To identify author’s purpose.

Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make decisions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Something i found introsting was a 100 year old train was saved by a man named David Robb one of the One of the founders of Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (Motat)

guy fawkes

 

To understand why we celebrate Guy Fawkes each year LS2 buddied up with recorded all the important words from the story Mrs Anderson shared with us. We then chose the 20 most important words and from those words chose 6 words to help us write our summary.  

Why is it important to use are PBS care values?

 LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. We found it interesting the way the paragraphs all connected at the end and you could see the links between the ideas.

The screencastify link of us reading our explanation can be found here:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFI_5Cw45cz6VRXdaTbm_ZSik8S9YwwH/view

                     

Why is it important to use our PBS CARE values?

LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs

                                                 

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. We found it interesting the way the paragraphs all connected at the end and you could see the links between the ideas.

sunflower

last week we got started on a panting inspired by van goth it was of a sunflower it took me just a day to finish  we had to draw the sunflower before panting we needed a panting shirt then we had to wheat until the paint dried when it was dry we hung it up on the wall     

science and stem

LI to identify What we know about science

 This week the year seven went to science. We were introduced are silves. And then we were assigned a seat each. Then we got notebooks and we wrote science words like tube,biology. Then we all had to write something on the white board.We had to come up with science word.Then we got are paper from Miss Sharma and then we had to fold are paper into fours. On the top left we wort science words again.And then on the bottom left corner we had to draw an instrument that evolved around science.Then on the top right side we wrote a question we wanted to know about science.On the bottom right corner we cutted out a picture.And then we had to glued the picture on are paper.Then we glued the paper onto are notebook.

Duffy books in school

Today L.S.2 received Duffy books, we all got them which leads up to this blog post. The books I collected is the dummy meets the mummy by R.L. Stine and amulet book seven. i cant find who wrote this book. The book is great and a huge thank you to Duffy for getting these books and for getting us the books early. It is because of books, Duffy books in particular i like reading i am looking forward to seeing what happens at the end of dummy meets the mummy. 

6 sentence story

Today my group wrote 6 sentence stories to help us take risks with our writing. We did this by sharing our ideas and writing sentence that drop hints about what was happening in the picture we chose to write about. We helped each other by suggesting ideas to each other to make our stories more interesting. 

Cole and his Dad were chasing the mythical monster that it was thought legend way down to the underground to find it but for them they where not expecting their last days . It was Underground, dark and wet, so very damp it looked destroyed it was very cold and so horrific.

The teams special talent is to always find trouble wherever they go, but this time it was different .

It was such a large and terrifying creature, Cole thought it was his last days on Earth.

Once they finally found the creature all they could do is stand in horror as the monster walked towards them with teeth the size of spears and lava dripping out of its mouth.

They mustered up the courage to get themselves out of there before the monster could take there lives .

experimenting with ultra violet light

LI:To find the most effective UV fitter.

 

 LS2 has been on trialling the electronic sensors for the kiwrious projector are working with Suranga,Sonia,Evan,Dawn and Yvonne from the AHL at Auckland University.I fond that the red paper was the most effective fitter to keep Zally safe from  the UV light.My DLO will show you how i did this.

eye illusions

This week Mr Johnson visited the class . he tolled us all about how are eyes can deserve us and how blinking can clean your eyes. And keeps it moused and if you wave a pen in front of your face it looks like its made from rubier. It is a trick that your eyes play on you we also made a toy with one picture on one side and the other one on the other side. sometimes your eyes see one thing but it needs time to imprint it in your memory.and we had to draw on on sides a fish bowl and a fish and when you spin it around you can see fish jumping into the fish bowl 

tertiary lecturer

LI to explore a career that interest me. 
   

today at school i did a career test to see what i might like to have as a job when you finish the test you can pick 3 job that the computer gives us out of the 3 i fond that i took a liking to tertiary lecture i like it course it makes lots of money so i made a dlo to show you the viewer why this job is grate    

statistical investigation : kowhaiwhai designs

LI: To carry out a statistical investigation across PBS to find the most popular kawhaiwahi design.

Our group worked collaboratively to carry out a statistical investigation to help Miss Pryde choose the winning kowhaiwhai design for our PBS Te Reo blog. When we asked the students the designs on the DLO were the most popular. If you click on the link you will see all the kowhaiwhai designs our class created.

Here is a link to all the kowhaiwhai designs

periscopes

LI to understand how periscopes work 

Today Mr Johnston came and taught us what periscope are they,how they are used and who uses them.We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.That means if the light hits the mirror at 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 desegregation.it was fun because we got to play with the Periscope.  

Light facts

LI to share 5 facts about light that we find interesting

this week we worked collaboratively to create a dlo that shows facts about light one fact that interest me is that light goes in a straight line if you put a magnifying glass under the sun is is able to burn you you can also focus the heat to burn ants    

technology vege noodles

LI To make vege noodles .

this week we whet to tech we mad vege noodles we where chopping very delicious vegetables the  vegetables we used where beans,carrots,broccoli,onions.the person supervising this was mrs tuipulofu we had souse my group all had a job to do i was on cleaning   .

Maths

LI: To find the most efficient strategy to answer the question

This week our group practiced finding the answer to written maths questions. To do this we needed to first find the numbers we were working with. We decided the most efficient strategy was to use our times table knowledge. Being able to find how many groups of a number made this strategy efficient. 

pbs

on Friday we did a online assemble some people got certificates and room 3 got the tidy kiwi the principal told the school that we mite be able to go to alert level 1 these assembles started when locked down happened  sow that we code all come together as a school Mrs pride and the kapa haka group sang two songs for the school . Mr johnston gave out the  certificates and badges the 2 badges they went to sulia and sakshi than we had room five present there instrumental song with the xylophone it was cute and funny.
 

food technology hot cakes

LI to follow a recipe to make hotcakes

This week at food tech we made hotcakes we followed Mrs hekas instructions and we made hotcakes it was very fun because it smelt very tasty but i did not want to eat it .we used eggs and berry's and sugar and some crused banana and four table spoons of water we cooked the hot cakes and then we put ice cream and some cooked some berry's to make a souse we poured it and then I cleaned the food equipment which i had felt very OK doing  when we were done it smelt very nice .     

cityscape of Sydney

LI.to write a description of my city scape using using prepositions. 

My Cityscape of Sydney does not show the Sydney Tower, and the Harbour Bridge. In this cityscape there are many office buildings. The building on the left is tall and thin. Beside the thin building is a wide building with 2 different levels that looks like an office. The tallest building next to the wide building has an unusual shape on top of the building that looks like a staircase. The building next to the tallest building is a 2 story building that has many offices. 

the colour used was light blue dark blue light red and some purple.

food technology

today we were at tamaki college we were practising are knife skills   we made a colourful flute salad we had yellow and green kiwi fruit  we removed the skin we cut the end of the kiwifruit to make the food stand still we used a cup of yogurt we had an orange and some grapes we cut them up and then we peeled the skin of the orange we needed to measure we mad a fruit yogurt and the teachers name is Mrs heka  .

1 yellow and green kiwi fruit

2 orange 

3 grape fruit 

Word Cline: Small

LI: To find 5 interesting words that increase in intensity (have a stronger meaning) as you move up the line. 

Today we used the thesaurus to make a word cline for the word ‘sad’. As the words go up the line they become more powerful. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote today using my word cline. There is a little cat on the car.

Lockdown Memories

LI: To create a digital time capsule of our lockdown memories.

We used images and words to tell the story of our time in Alert Level 4 and in Alert Level 3. The most important part of this time was keeping ourselves safe, being with our families and keeping our learning going. My favourite memory is getting to sleep in every day.

Word Cline: big

LI: To find 5 interesting words that increase in intensity (have a stronger meaning) as you move up the line. 

Today we built a word cline for the word ‘big’. As the words go up the line they become more powerful. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote today using my word cline. There is a huge cat on my car.

kiwi can

this week kiwi can we were learning to stay focused we need to listen to  people and to no what people are saying they mite be saying something important or it code be serous and i am her to say you should always listen to Howe ever is talking to you because you might need it in the Future .

we played 2 games one you have to grade the cone  before your partner and the other is like i herd a Roomer you whisper  in the person next to yous ear it has to go all the way around the circle and the last person says the sentence 

gourd

This Friday we created a D.L.O on our knowledge of gourds. This D.L.O was created in groups, the group I was in was with Florence, Ellenora, Lukah, Rj . The D.L.O includes Facts about gourds, information about gourds and a photo of gourds.

kiwi can

This week we all played street fighter and up down we lierte to show respect and positive communication if you see someone crying  ask them if they need help or if there feeling ok you should never let someone  feel bad help them .

So! to the games  the way that you play street fighter is you the kiwi can teachers call a number the numbers go up to five one means punch two means dubile punch three means kick and four means spin jump punch and five means hadogen .

there were two teams up and down one team had to push the cones up and the other team had to push the cones down whoever push the most cones in their Direction winz

Kiwi Can Week 1

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings

We first started off by playing our Energizer which was changing places. We then talked about how fairness and fairplay could go in a game situation. For example you can be fair to people in a game by having an equal amount of players in each team. We also talked about Common sense which is making wise choices. Lastly we talked about Consideration which is being thoughtful of others. Then all those words come up to Empathy. Empathy is being all those things we talked about together. We then played a roleplay game. Our role play was about a person who got hurt by the other team, while his teams help him up and the person who hurt him helps him up. I like kiwi can because It helps me focus on positive thoughts.

kiwi sport cricket

we went in to two teams  team 4 and 3  those were the teams that we had we had to throw the ball at the wicket and when we hit the wicket we pot a cowne on it then we moved to to bating we had to hit the to tennis balls and the others side of team 4 whent to the field and they had to catch the tennis balls and then run them back to the bater and well the runners are grabbing the tennis balls the batter is getting points by running to the cones and after we played chach

Phonics - a sou

This week we had Phonics with Mrs  Linda. We began with 2 words in 1 minute, this when we have 2 words and one minute to write as much as we can using these words in 1 minute. This was our warm up, then we moved on to the 'a' sound. As a group we listed all the words we could think of with the 'a' sound in them. We then made a word ladder. To finish we made silly sentences and then using the words apple, catch and hat, wrote 3 sentences.

 

New Zealand Current Events

     Today we created a map DLO that shows current events around New Zealand. We have 6 national current events in New Zealand. The article we found most interesting, Ardie Savea being banned on tik tok. He was banned  from his doctor for dancing when he was supposed to be in bed resting because of his knee. The most shocking article was Southland flooding. Lukah, Acien, Vayan, Afatia, Liletina, Azatulah and I worked as a team to complete this activity.