2020 Tech Reflection

I am a year 8 student, and I have been doing tech at Tamaki College for 2 years now. Since tech is only for intermidiate students, I am sadly not able to do tech anymore. Today was our last tech session for the year. I have been doing 4 tech rotations this year. 1 is Metal work, 2 is Robotics, 3 is Graphic Design, 4 is Cooking. I enjoyed all of these tech sessions this year. My 2 favorite tech sessions were Robotics, and Cooking. This is because I am good at programing, and because I like eating food. We (Panmure Bridge School) are so lucky for Tamaki College to let us go to their college to do tech, because I love learning new things, and generating new knowledge. Thank you Tamaki College!

International Current Events

L.I To create a google maps that explains current events around the world

This week for reading we were finding international current events, and plotting them on the map. We ended up with 9 current events. We found all of our current events from a site called Kiwi Kids News. They have events National, World, Sport, and Odd stuff. The aim of this activity was to find out what has or is happening around the world. The creators of this map is Karlos, Matthew, and I. We all worked together to find these. They all had their most interesting thing they found, but the most interesting information I found out, is that a chameleon called the voeltzkow's chameleon. It was last spotted 100 years ago at madagascar, and has been spotted again by people in an expedition. Scientists were so shocked, and only know that they only live in the rainy season. I love doing current events, because I like learning new information.

Last Tech Session

This Friday was our last tech session for the year. The tech rotation we had, was cooking. For our last tech session at cooking, we made sushi. The ingredients were Rice, Nori, Chicken, Yellow Capsicum, Sweet Chilli Sauce, and Mayo. First, we had to shred the chicken, then add Sweet Chilli Sauce, along with the Mayo. This keeps the chicken moist. Next we banged the rice to make it soft, then got our Nori, and put it onto the sushi wodden roller. Next, we put the rice onto the Nori, using water on our hands, so the rice doesn't stick to your hands. You had to fill up 2/3 of the Nori with rice. Then after that, we put the chicken at the end of the rice on the Nori. And then you roll it up using the wodden roller to help make a perfect circle. Lastly you had to cut that roll up into 8 peices. Then you make one more roll, and cut it up, and put it into your lunch box. This was fun, because I enjoyed tech, and I love sushi. A huge thanks to Tamaki College for letting us participate tech sessions at their college, it helped me learn new things, and generate new knowledge.

Art Colouring Book

L.I: To experiment with colours

Art can be made with different colours, to amaze or entertain people. In my photo, the mix of a dark color, and light colors make my picture seem calm. The choice of the light colors of pink and purple along with the background. Since there were flowers, I decided to make the background dark green for the grass. I bring out the dark green, because this isn’t such a light or shiny picture. I like creating, colouring, or drawing pictures because it helps me practice my art skills, and because it's a relaxing hobby. The morning we tried one of this year's kick start Summer Learning Jeourney activities. The purpose of this task wasto expaeiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowed us to recolours famous paintings or images of landmarks around the world. I chose these 4 art pictures to colour in,because they looked nice.

Te whanau Raukura Preformance

Today, we had a preformance from Te whanau Raukura, at our school today. They preform at the Auckland Museum, and they use taiaha, poi, and te rakau, to explain the Maori elements. At our school, we first had them come in the hall by blowing in an instrument made from a shell. They then started shouting, while making their way to the stage. Next they sang the whaikorero. After that, they sang another song and one of the ladies started using a poi. Then she started to use 4 poi at once. It was so cool, it was like she was the poi, becuse she had really good control with them. Lastly from the preformance, they did the Haka for us. It was powerful. After they did the haka, the kapa haka boys came up to the stage and did the haka back to our preformers, and to us. Then the preformance finished, and one of the ladies Bekah, the one who was good ad poi, came to our class to teach us a game called Pukana. In the game you have to carry on by pointing your hands to another person saying pukana, and if you react but the hands aren't pointing to you, your out. You can also pass it to another person that isn't next to you by saying Aue, and the person you point to, has to say he, and then do the next action of their choice. Something I found interesting, was that they used small sticks to practice their fighting skills. It was fun!

Exploring our National current events

L.I To identify the author's purpose

Authors write for a purpose, they either write to persuade, inform, or to entertain (P.I.E). Each day, newspaper editors arounds the world must make desicions about witch 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 google my maps. Something interesting I found, was that 17 November 2:14 am, yesterday, a cop vehicle was shot at 15 times, during a pursuit. I had fun doing this activity.

The Charge Of Light Brigade

L.I to have a clear understanding about what happened in the crimean war

this week for reading we were learning about the famous war that happened in crimean. This DLO represents the story behind the war and facts about it. We had to work in groups of 3 which then could make us feel more confident when making this and give feedback to each other. The thing that we really liked about this task is how we got to find out interesting things about the war and the people in it. 600 men were in the war and less than 200 people survived. This DLO can give other people a clear picture on what happened, where it happened and more.

Weighty Challenge Maths DLO

 

L.I to create a DLO about any of the Weighty Maths Challenges

This week we were put into groups for maths. In these groups, we made up names that represent ourselves. The name we came up with was The Multiplying 7’s, because we had seven people in our group, and we all love to multiply. In the multiplying 7’s, Victoria was our leader, and the remaining people in our group were Makaili, Karlos, Lilly, Afa, Ong, and I. We put all of our opinions together to come with different solutions to solve our challenges, and we would ask questions if we didn't understand. We are all supposed t0 participate so we all can have friendship even though we haven't worked together. Something I found interesting, was the ammount of animals that weigh the same as an elephant, because we found 6 heavy animals that weigh the same as an elephant altogether. I enjoyed this activity, because I love working in groups, and Maths is my favorite subjct.