Week 1 Day 4 Activity 1: Making a Racket

Serena Williams is a tennis player, She earns lots of money, but she earned 84 million dollars less than Rodger Federer. Lastly, venus is an american professional tennis player.

L.I to list 3 things you learnt in a video you watched.

This activity is about Venus and Serena Williams. You have to list 3 things you learnt while watching a video about this subject. I didn't know about them, but I watched the video, then I learnt and gathered a little bit of information about them. This was cool because I find tennis interesting.

Week 1 Day 3 Activity 1: Rugby Superstars

The 3 superpowers I would have is strength, flight and invisibility. I would have strength so I can lift heavy things. I would have flight so that I can go hight in the sky to look for bad people. Lastly I would have invisibility because when I have no where to go in a situation, I can go inbvisible to run away without getting caught.

L.I to create a DLO that explains 3 superpowers that you would have and why?
This activity is about being a superhero for the day. You choose 3 superpowers that you would have. I chose invisibility, flight and strength. I liked this activity because it is involved with superheros and because I like superheros.

Week 1 Day 2 Activity 3: Miracle on the Hudson

I remember when I did something brave. I was brave enough to go on a high balance obsticle. It was so scary, but I was brave enough to just do it. I just started walking and then I wasn't scared anymore. I was actually excited to do it again after doing it. I jumped on it which was even scarier, but the it wasn't that scary after all. So this is the recount is me being brave to do somethingthat  I was scared to of.
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L.I to create a recount about being brave
This DLO is a recount about something brave I did that I was scared of. I was scared to go on a high balance obsticle, but I was brave and did it. This activity is about being brave. I wasn't as scary when I did it because I started getting used to doing it then wanted to do it again and again. I liked this activity because I got to talk about how I was brave about somehting and I knew that I was scared because I didn't think I would survive on that thing. The thing that was interesting is that I was brave that I even jumped on it which was pretty cool.

Week 1 Day 2 Activity 2: One Small Step for Man

L.I to create a poem that describes how you felt as imagining your self being Neil Armstrong
This activity is about making a poem about yourself being Neil Armstrong. I used some pretty catchy words like Blasting or Speeding. The poem has 16 words that describes Neil Armstrong Coming and leaving space/moon. This was cool because I got to write a porm which I haven't done for a long time and because I like the subject space.

Week 1 Day 2 Activity 1: Flying Solo

L.I to create a Venn Diagram about Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart
This activity is about the differences between Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart. I have 4 things the same, 4 things about Jean Batten and 3 for Amelia Earhart. One of the most interesting is that Jean Batten didn't crash during the time of her corrier of flying solo. I liked to research about Jean Batten because I wondered if you could solo fly a plane in a duo flight plane.I like this activity because it includes planes and because I like planes.

Week 1 Day 1 Activity 3: Scaling New Hights

The SPCA is a charity that saves animals. They also adopt animals which is good for the animals because the animals are being taken care of. I like the SPCA because they are people who provide animals with a safe place and shelter. This means the animals can live a good life or can live the good live again. I chose to support this SPCA charity because not only they take care / safe animals, they help abused animals.

Week 1 Day 1 Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa

L.I to create a DLO that shows your family backround and your cultures
This activity is all about your family backround. I have 6 different cultures (Maori, Australian, Irish, Filipino, Indoniean and Thailand). This was so cool because I got to show you about my culture and because I am proud. One of my favorite cultures are Irish and Filipino because I want to go there and because It seems interesting.

Week 1 Day 1 Activity 1: Setting Sail

L.I to create a DLO that shows 10 foods you will wake with you to travel the ocean wth on a boat.
This is the very first activity for week 1 of day 1 for the summer learning jeourney. This is about 10 foods you will wake with you to travel the ocean wth on a boat. One of my favorite and usful foods I will take with me on the boat across the sea is canned food (Baked beans or peaches inside a can). This was fun because I got to choose food and because I like survival that includes food.

Day 5 Activity 3: Choose your own

L.I to create a DLO that explains an inventor in New Zealand and things about them.
I chose Keith Alexander, the creator of the spring free trampoline. The spring free trampoline is just like the spring one, exept it has less ways to hurt your self and is 2x as fun. It is safe and fun. The most interesting thing is that I found out is that Keith Alexander started his life as a Primary School Teache, than he wanted to become a professor to create inventions. This activity was fun because I got to choose who I wanted to research about and because I like trampolines.

Day 5 Activity 2: Impossible Burgers

This is a blogpost about the impossible burger that is made for vegetarians made out of leaves. Here are 3 differences about each of the new and original impossible burgers:

New Impossible Burger:

1. The New Impossbile Burger has (50) less calories than the original Impossible Burger.

2. The New Impossible Burger has more of the daily value of saturated fat than the original Impossible Burger.

3. The new Impossible burger has 210 less of the daily value of sodium than the original Impossible Burger.

These are 3 differences between the new impossible and original impossible burger. I chose to write about all the new impossible because it said new and I like the word new. One of the most interesting facts I found was that the New impossible Burger has 50 less calories that the original burger. This was cool and I enjoyed learning about the impossible burger (Meat) made from leaves.

Day 5 Activity 1: The Social Network

L.I to create a DLO that explains 5 rules about staying safe on facebook
This activity is about facebook. I created 5 rules about how to stay safe on facebook. 1 of my most important rules are don't give away any personal details (Phone number or Adress). I liked this activity because my DLO could help people stay safe and could actually safe someone on facebook.

Day 3 Activity 3: The Columbian Exchange

One of the people around the world that changed my life is Karl Benz. He has invented the first ever car called the Karl Friedrich Michael Villant. If he wasn't alive, everyone would be walking from place to place and it would not be very awesome. This is an unbelivable archivement because people would be trying to steal part to make something.
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This activity is on people who changed our lives. Mine is Karl Benz. He is the creator of the first ever car (Karl Friedrich Michael Villant: Car Name). I liked this activity because it was easy and I lernt something new and because I didn't know about him untill I researched about him.

Day 3 Activity 2: When the Rubber Hits the Road

Matthew: His biggest accomplishment is getting into a rugby club. He has been playing rugby for his club since he was 7 years old. This means he has been playing rugby for 4 years and he has been successful so far. This is a great accomplishment.

Aung Naing: His biggest accomplishment is getting more confident when speaking. This is because when you have to speak in front of people, you won’t be as scared. I think it is a good accomplishment because he can speak in front of bigger crowds.

Karlos: His biggest accomplishment is being able to speak in front of a large crowd or group of people. This is a great accomplishment because then he can be a good and confident school leader when it comes to presenting.

Joseph: His biggest accomplishment is getting faster at sprint running along the years. This is good because he can be as fast as usain Bolt when he grows up.

Nevaeh: His biggest accomplishment is winning the waka ama race on sunday. This is a very cool and awesome accomplishment because I don’t really hear about people with waka ama sports.

Te Pounamu: His biggest accomplishment is getting better at basketball. This is a cool accomplishment because if he is very good at basketball, in the future, he can be an awesome basketball player when he grows up like Michael Jordan.

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L.I to interview 3 or more friends to find out their biggest accomplishment or what they are proud of.

This activity is about finding out about a couple of your friends accomplishments. One of the most interesting accomplishments I found is that Nevaeh has won the waka ama race on sunday which is pretty cool. This activity was cool. I wonder what other peoples biggets accomplishments are?

Day 3 Activity 1: The Rainman of Rajasthan

L.I to create a DLO that explains 3 questions about the activity, and answer them.
This activity is about the dirty water around 1 billion people only have that need clean water. There is a video that we can watch and 3 questions that go with it that needs to be answered. The questions are what is the goal, where do they work and what have they archived. I have answered these 3 questions with detail. Some thing I found interesting is that around 1 billion (1/7 of the world) has no access to clean water. I understood this activity because we worked on this for inquiry. This activity was kind of easy, but the questions were a little challenging.

Day 2 Activity 3: The Greatest Of All Time

L.I to create a DLO that explains the Pros and Cons of being thr GOAT in the world of chess.
i talked about the pors, cons, reason and what is the goat. A GOAT is the greatest of all time. This DLO was cool because I learnt something new and becasuse I learnt the meaning of the word GOAT.

Day 2 Activity 2: Equal Pay For Equal Work?

L.I to create a DLO that explains why the black ferns should get paid the same amount of money
This DLO is about how the black ferns should get paid the exact amount of money. I wrote my opinion based on this argument. In my opinion, I thought that they should get paid the same exact money.

Day 2 Activity 1: Faster than a speeding bullet

L.I to create a DLO that shows 4 similes of any kind.
This activity is showing 4 similes. I have: I am as fast as a cheetah, the lightning is as strong as a tank, the light is a s shiney as the sun and the cave is as black as the night sky. This was fun because It was easy and because I can show mine.

Day 1 Activity 3: Big Friendly Giants

L.I to create a DLO showing a drawing of the Big Friendly Giant and words that desctibe him.
This activity is a Big Friendly Giant Word Description and Drawing. It is about things to do with the big friendly giant. I used 10 words (Fat, Ears, Old, Big, Tall, Giant, Friendly, Mustache, Beard, Hair).  This was cool because I had fun drawing the big friendly giant and because I got to describe it to with was a bit funny.

Day 1 Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

This is the second activity for the teaser week day 1. This activity is a pepeha and tels us information about yourself. I talked about what my name is, my culture, my favorite food, my river, my mountain and greetings. This was cool because I could remember the things I value most about myself.

Day 1 Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

L.I to create a DLO that shows who Lorde is and explains things about her.
This week is the Summer Learning Journey Teaser week. This means a practice week until the real competition. Today I worked with Kahu to create a DLO that shows things about Lorde. Our DLO shows who Lorde is, What she likes to do, what inspired her, her songs and interesting facts about her. Something I learnt about Lorde, is that she is friends with Taylor Swift.

School Leader Speech

Kumusta, Kia Ora and greetings to all, my name is Giovanni and I want to be, and I am capable of being, your 2020 Head Boy or Manaiakalani Leader for Panmure Bridge School. I am an agent of change and I like to blog about my work. I have over 600 blog posts and I have one care award badge (respect). I like to learn about new things and grow my knowledge. The qualities that I have to become a head boy are honesty, confidence, respect, teamwork and many more that can help others. I have participated in the summer and winter learning journey when I had the chance since (year 4). I am a confident speaker when it comes to presenting in front of a crowd or a partner, and I am a wet day monitor which means I look after the little kids at morning tea or lunch when it rains. One of my goals this year is getting all of the silver care award badges (Confidence, attitude and excellence and innovation). I can represent our school with pride and I have what it takes to become a successful head boy for Panmure Bridge School 2020.
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Today we had to present our speeches to 2 staff members in our school. The speech was for a leader role. I chose to be a head boy or a manaiakalani leader. I also presented in front of the other students that wanted to take on a role. I was a bit nervous because I was going to present in front of 11 people. The teachers would judge the speeches and will announce the new leaders of Panmure Bridge School 2020 on prize giving day. I actually enjoyed watching and listening to others present their speeches because it made me confident to speak too. This was a scary and nervous thing to do, but it was actually easy and fun.

A shoe's life

Today our class made a story about a shoes life. I was working with Matthew for this activity. We had to sit back to back on the floor. We have a lot of writing about this story. We used Personifacation and the 5 senses to help us in the making of the story. Then we made a story about a shoes life like how the feet might smell. This is our story that we wrote:
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I can't believe I have to do this again. It’s going to be a hard day. I don’t want to have to smell the odor from my owners socks, as he walks for 5 hours. EWWWW! Gross I can taste the sweat dripping from inside his socks. Oh well, I hope I get replaced some day. I see the dairy. OOH, is that chocolate I can smell, yum. Finally I can see home, I get to relax before another hard days of work. Oh no. I can see I pile of wet mud on the ground. NOO! I hate this so much. We get inside, I SCREAM! “go in the direction of the washing machine,”as he slowly walked. YEAH! I can now have a nice shower. I hope this doesn’t happen again? But, if it does, ill run away.

Horrible Histories DLO

For the last 2 - 1 weeks we were focusing on the past. We read a book from horrible histories and it was about Henry VIII and Terrible Tudors. We were to read the book, write down some words, make a summary then create a DLO talking about what we learnt about. We created a simple DLO to show what our book was about. Then we created a kahoot which is a quiz game, to test the skills of the students in our classroom to see if they can get the right answer. Our quiz had 10 questions. When we presented to our class we showed them our introduction and then did our quiz. It was really fun because I got to make a quiz and I learnt a lot about this book.

Maths Transformation

Today we learnt about maths Transformation. We created a DLO showing a shape made of 3 shapes. What we had with our shape was reflection, rotation, enlargement, symmetry and translation. We did these with our shape to get used to them so that we are fimiliar with them. This was a fun DLO because i got to make something out of 3 shapes, and because I got to learn new maths words.

Foodprint

Yestarday Mr Ogilvie (a teacher in our school) had his friend come in to talk about how she started her courier. Her name is Michal Garvey. She has started a company called foodprint. She has been spending 2 years planning and has only been open for 6 months. The app is about shops sending food that they don't want instead of wasting it. Then the app foodprint sells the items or food for half price so it doesn't go to waste. Bread has been wasted about 1/3 every year. 250 cafes supply the food to meet customer demand. She had a connection in not wastng food. This was a great opportunity for us because it will help us later on with our market day.

Tennis Week 4

Today for tennis we were practicing our volley wit our rackets. A volley is when you lean forward and slightly hit the racket so that the ball gently goes to the other side of the net. I compared the difference from me to the profesional tennis player. There was 4 differences in this comparing. The racket, body, legs and arms. I was almost the same as the professional tennis player. On the day we also practiced our volley hitting and trying to keep vollying. This week was fun and next week we are going to be practicing serving.

Panmure Bridge School Collage

Today I created this DLO that shows the life at PBS (Panmure Bridge School). This shows photos of what we are doing at PBS. Matthew and I worked together on this activity. All these photos are from special events and at school. I am doing this blog post for a respect badge. This is why I like to come to PBS.

Respected Leader DLO

Today I created a DLO about respected leaders. A respected leader is a person that is looked up to or respected by a lot of people or mainly more than one person. An example of a respected leader is Moon Jae-in or Jacinda Ardern. They are both respected leaders by lots of people because they are people that are respected by peolpe in the country. I created this DLO for the respect care award.

Wasp Life Cycle

This week for reading we created a DLO showing the life cycle of a wasp. It starts off with the queen wasp laying eggs, then the eggs turn into larvael, then the larvae turn into pupae, then into a drone, queen wasp or a worker wasp. We were going to make an animation, but it was too hard so we changed it to a DLO.

Current events

New Zealand News Articles

Each day, newspaper editors make desisions everyday about which current event stories they will run.  We explored that different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. We were creating a Map DLO that shows differet types of Articles that happend in New Zealand. The types of articles we were to find were Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone iportant or famous, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something negative, Continuity, Emotions and Progress. The most shocking one I found was the measles outbreak with more that 1,000 people affected. My Group (Matthew, Karlos and I) found 7 news articles that took place in New Zealand. The most unusual one I found was that Russia Accidently replaced New Zealand With Japan on their news channel. Our Task was to find current events that were happening or that happened in New Zealand so that we could grow our knowledge about what has been happening or what has happened in New Zealand.

Market Day Maths Game

Today for maths we played a market day maths game. It was about income, balance, discounts, profits and practicing for our market day. We spent $115 on renting to sell on the market day game. Matthew and I were partners for this activity. I made $121 and Matthew made $77. I had a $6 profit and Matthew had a negitave $38 profit. I would say I gave away 5 discounts, but still made enough money to make a profit. The purpose of this activity is to practice our market skills so we know how everything works when it comes to selling on market days.

Firework Safety

Today Karlos, Matthew and I went to room 3 to present our presentation about firework safety. We had 6 instructions to stay safe during guy fawkes night. We had images of what we were talking about. We were doing this so that the juniours can understand why it is important to be safe near fireworks. It's good to be a role modle for younger chindren.

Guy Fawkes DLO

For term 4 week 4 we started to learn about Guy Fawkes things that he did, like how he tried to kill James the first unfortunately he failed and got executed and died in 1606. We made a presentation which conflicted on what we were learning about. The thing that I liked about this activity was that I could work with a friend that had the same thinking as me.

The Real Coast Of Owning A Dog DLO

This week for maths we created a DLO about the real coast of owning a dog. We first chose a dog (Boarder Collie). Then we were to figure out the price of the setup of the dogs life, how much the food coasts for each year, the registration and all the other things you will need to keep a dog. Our total coast for our dog Tanjiro's life time in NZD is $44.027.79. It's total life time is 17 years and we chose to have a male dog. I had fun doing this activity because it involved money and dogs.

Need / Want DLO

This week for inquiry we made a DLO about need / want. A need is something you require to survive and want is something you can survive without. I created a slide that tells us how a need or want that I have, been met through a product or service. A product is an item that you can pick up or buy. A service is like paying someone to mow the lawns for you and paying them back. An example of a want is a triple burger and an example of a need is water. An example of a product is a bottle of soap. The difference between a product and a service is that you can pick up a product and a service is paying someone for something you can't buy at a supermarket or a shop.

Tech Robotics WK3 T4

This week at Tech for Robotics, we were coding our Mbot's to go in an eight figure, circle and the shape of our entails. Our goal was to complete at least the circle. I completed the eight figure, circle and the enetials. There are 3 videos of my mbot going in the shape of a circle, eight figure and the entails. On Week 8 we are going to code drones to fly from one destination to another. I enjoyed this robotic tech session and can't wait for next weeks one.

Budgeting DLO

This week for maths we created a DLO that explains the food we are eating in a week and the prices of them. Our budget is 200 dollars and we were to find the right amount of food for a week for the right amount of money. We (Angela, Sela, Jayden, Joseph and I) used $199 with a remainder of $1. We had different food for everyday, but we had maybey 4 or 5 foods that are the same. I liked this activity because it was fun and it included food and money.

Maori: Simpsons Family Tree

This week for maori we created a simpsons family tree. We created this activity so we could focus on learning maori family phrases. Ko wai te papa o Lisa? Means who is the papa of Lisa, which is homer simpsons. These are the phrases we learnt, but there are many more like who is your mum, or grandad or sister. I liked this activity because I learnt new maori words and it included the simpsons.

Wasp Life Cycle

This week for reading we created a DLO showing the life cycle of a wasp. It starts off with the queen wasp laying eggs, then the eggs turn into larvael, then the larvae turn into pupae, then into a drone, queen wasp or a worker wasp. We were going to make an animation, but it was too hard so we changed it to a DLO.

Showing Respect

Early Maori Enterprise

Maori Enterprise started in N.Z. Europeans came to N.Z to trade. They ripped off the maori and stole their land. Maori  over the Europeans. Maori claimed their land and lived peacefully.

For inquiry we researching about maori enterprise. The maori were the first to trade with each other. They traded forest / in land items like food with the costal tribes which would sell kai moana. We learnt a trick with syllables with the 10 syllables scentences. We were to write our information that we researched in 5 scentences.

RWC Stadium Capacities

L.I to create a DLO showing one of the questions for the RWC Stadium Capacitie activity

Today for Writing we made a DLO showing one of the questions about the RWC Stadium Cpacitie Activity. We (Matthew and I) created a DLO about how we worked out how much the stadium capacity be if all Japanese stadiums we full for every RWC game. The answer was 17, 835, 880 (Seventeen Million, Eight hundred Thousand Thirty Five, Eight Hundred and Eighty). We used the lattice method and a simple maths multiplying and adding stratergy to solve the qurstion. This was a bit challenging, but we completed the task.

Using Commas: Cultural Celebration

Cultural Celebration Writing

‘Let me tell you about’ my favorite cultural celebration. My favorite celebration is halloween. I am always excited for halloween because I get lollies. I get home from school, then get ready in my scary costume. Halloween is in the afternoon on Thursday, October 31. My mum does special effects on my face as a scary character. I like zombies, so she makes me as a zombie with an arrow in its eye. She needed fake blood, make-up and an arrow. After my mum does my face I am ready to scare people.

We get into the car, and go to different places around Auckland, Panmure, so I can scare people. I scare people, say trick or treat, and get a full bag of lollies thinking, Halloween is the best celebration, it’s my favorite. I come home, eat lollies, and enjoy the rest of the night with my family.
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International News Articles

This week for Reading we were doing the same as last weeks activity (National news articles), but this week we were doing international news articles. Karlos and I were working as partners to find the different types of national articles. Those types of articles we were to find were Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone iportant or famous, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something negative, Continuity, Emotions and Progress. The most weird news article we found was the cloning company in china which they cloned a cat. The most harmful article we found was the Dorian Hurricane which hit the Bahamas. We emjoyed the activity and had fun.

Duffy Role Model Assembly

Today in the after noon during school we (The School) went to the hall to attend to a duffy assembly. Our duffy guest was Jamie Wall who is a sports commentator. He goes to rugby games all around the world and he is going to Japan to the world cup to report the rugby for Maori Television. He has the most best selling book for 2019 which is brothers in black. He was inspired to mkae this book be men in black. He was cool and we enjoyed the duffy assembly.

Pop-Up Globe Visit

On Friday we got a big surprise from pop-up globe. They had talked about the acts / plays

they do. As they were talking about the plays we got excited. They gave us an example of

a William Shakespeare sentence. They told us how long plays were (around 2 hours). Did

you know that William shakespeare wrote over 20 plays? People could be in the play called

the fourth wall.

Provocation

A provocation is an action or a speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Recently a mojor supermarket chain announced it will no longer sell energy drinks to kids under the age of 16 years old. My opinion is recorded in my DLO that shows both perspecgives. What is you opinion ans why?

Explanation: Should NZ Ban Plastic Straws?

I think NZ should ban plastic straws because it is harming our sea creatures. There are plastic in our oceans and plastic straws are part of this pollution. This is bad, This is terrible, this is outrageous. Would you like it if you had a pond filled with fish and saw one of those fish going towards a dangerous straw meal? That ‘s Ridiculous.

Plastic straws can harm our sea animals which is bad. If a sea animal eats a plastic straw then people will have to do surgery to get the straw out. There was a sea turtle that had a straw stuck up its nose. A man on a boat came by as he saw the poor turtle, he then had to pull the straw out. Out of all the plastic in our oceans, 0.025 percent / % of that are straws. Wow that's a lot of straws.If a straw gets into an animal's digestive system, the animal could choke which can cause breathing problems or even sadly, death.

NZ should ban plastic straws because other countries like the United States have one of the worlds biggest plastic straw pollution. NZ shouldn’t be the country that is named after the most plastic straw polluted country in the world. It’s disgusting to see straws people used to drink and left on the beach and washed out to shore. Scientists had estimated about 3.8 billion straws pollute the ocean.

Imagine going to the fish and chip shop. You have an order for chips and a fish. You get the food and open it. It has plastic straws in it. How would you feel what would you do? What if it was a hot day and you wanted to go to the beach. The beach is filled up with straws. How would you feel if you couldn’t go for a swim? Because the ocean is as big as 361.9 billion square kilo meters the plastic straws would be about 1/200 of that.

NZ is a country that is surrounded by the ocean. What if there were no more sea animals near our country. What would you do to save the sea life from plastic straws? This is why I believe that we should ban plastic straws. This is why you should agree.

New Zealand News Articles

Each day, newspaper editors make desisions everyday about which current event stories they will run.  We explored that different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. We were creating a Map DLO that shows differet types of Articles that happend in New Zealand. The types of articles we were to find were Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone iportant or famous, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something negative, Continuity, Emotions and Progress. The most shocking one I found was the measles outbreak with more that 1,000 people affected. My Group (Matthew, Karlos and I) found 7 news articles that took place in New Zealand. The most unusual one I found was that Russia Accidently replaced New Zealand With Japan on their news channel. Our Task was to find current events that were happening or that happened in New Zealand so that we could grow our knowledge about what has been happening or what has happened in New Zealand.

Respect (Aretha Franklin) Research

This DLO is about the song respect by Aretha Franklin. This DLO is created so that I can go forawrd to getting my respect badge. Aretha Franklin is a famous singer who is most famous for being one of the most active female singers. She sadly died on the 16th of August 2018. Her famous song respect tells you about what respect means and why you should show resepct. I think Aretha Franklin was a good singer and was proud to sing for her country.

Tech Last Session

This week Friday this was our (Year 7's) last tech session for the term. I was still finishing off painting my board. I finally finished painting the squares red. I left the other squares because I couldn't be bothered to finish it off. Next Mrs Ferguson (Tech Teacher) finished 2 out of 3 characters for my snakes and ladders game. Most people like me wern't able to finish our games, but Mrs Ferguson was kind enough to finish our games and drop them off. This session (Graphics) was cool and I had fun designing things.

Water Filter

At the end of term 3 LS2 made water filters. We researched about how much water we use in our house and we were all suprised. Then we went to collect dirty water so we can see if we can filter the dirty water, into clean water. Our group had the most clean water which had a rating of 1 which 0 was the highest. We all had fun and enjoyed this activity.

Point Of View: Plastic Straws

This week for writing we were creating a DLO that explains both perspectives of why plastic strwas should or shouldn't be banned. Nevaeh and I agreed to work together for this activity. We researched both sides of the perspectives and came up with what our opinion would be to this. Nevaeh and I came up with our opinion which was why we should ban plastic straws. We then were to explain what a fact is, a provocation, an opinion, a perspective and why it is important to say why you have the opinion you have. A fact is a peice of information that is true. An opinion is what you think in your point of view. A prespective is a point of view. It is important to say why you have the opinion you have because it could be a good opinion or someone or some people might agree to what your opinion is.

Tech Week 5

This week at tech I was still making my game board so as everyone else. I was making snakes and ladders. I asked Mrs Ferguson (My Tech Teacher) if I could paint my board for my game. I only painted 15 squares with red out of 50 now which means it's going to take a bit long, but aventualy ill get there. That also means I need patience so when I complete it, it will look good and when I finish painting I will make the snakes and the ladders out of card board and glue it onto the board and Ill be almost finish accept i'll need to make my game characters. This week at tech was great and next session I think we will be doing the same which is doing our boards.

Speech: Why games shouldn't have cheat codes

This week we (LS2) presented our speeches. The people that wanted to enter the speech competition were to present in front of the class as practice in front of an audience and the others got to present in groups. I entered in the competition and presented in front of the class. If you entered the competition and your are picked for the competition, you and 2 other peoople would go meaning there are only 3 spots. I kind of liked doing speeches when we did this. Here is my speech below:
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Kia ora my name is Giovanni and I will be persuading you why I believe games shouldn’t have cheat codes. Do you think you’re a winner if you have used codes that you know will get you to the next level? I think you’re just fooling yourself.

85% of the games around the world have cheat codes. These codes are meant to be used when you complete the game so you can go on to explore and find more game secrets.

If you use cheats during a game against people not using them online, you could get banned for using cheats which means you can’t play anymore.

Lastly if you use cheat codes on a game it might be because you don’t know what the point of the game is. The point of the game is to win and try your best. If you cheat then your not really improving your skills. Where’s the fun in winning if you’ve won by cheating.

Some games have adventures, some are exciting and sometimes games can actually be more fun than you think without cheat codes.

Tech session 3

This week at tech we were starting to make our game boards. I was making snakes and ladders. I told Mrs Ferguson (My Tech Teacher) all my game character and the measurments for my game board so she can cut out my board of wood. Once I got my game board I started to measure my lines for my 100 squares. The measurment of my board was 300 x 300 mm. When I recived my wooden board base I started to paint it. I couldn't remember the' colors I chose for my board so I went with red and white. I only painted 4 squares with red out of 50 which means it's going to to take a long time. That also means I need patience so when I complete it, it will look good and when I finish painting I will make the snakes and the ladders out of card board and glue it onto the board and Ill be almost finish accept i'll need to make my game characters.

Swimming Session 3

Yesterday at swimming we were learning how to breath when your in the water and we were practicing our streamline and free style. We first made our safe entry into the pool and started off with our stream line. Next we did free style back to the start. Then we used the kick boards to swim to the end and back. We then practiced how to breath in the water, but I wasn't able to do this because I strugle on going to my side and getting my head out of the water so that I can breath. This session was great and now I look forward so going there agin and try to breath in the water next time.

Swimming Session 2

This week for swimming we were learning about the different types of swimming styles. In this class we learned about stream line, dolphin diving, breast stroke and backward swimming. We first started with the stream line. I wasn't good at that because I can't hold my breath for long and I don't know how to breath when I am under water. Next we did the free style (Any swimming style). Then we did the dolphin diving and then the pencil dive. I had a wonderful time there and can't wait to go back becuse I am excited for what we are going to learn next.

Kiwi Can WK1 T3

This week at kiwi can we were learning about Resilience and our focus was on emotions. Resilience is bouncing back from difficulties and never giving up. Emotions are something you feel (happy, sad and more). We first started the session with with our energizer which was a bunch of challenges to do. Next we talked about how emotions affect how we feel, how we can tell what you are feeling and how we know when someone is feeling that way. Next we had our activity which was a roleplay. My group (Jayden, Jonathan, Rhys, Matthew, Karlos, Nevaeh and I) were doing a role play that we were talking to each other when we were asked to talk about work. Lastly we were looking at our points which I forgot. We had fun yesterday and I can't wait to go back again.

Tech Week 10

Today at Tech we were focusing on finishing our card game design. I chsnged my mind and wanted to make the board game snakes and ladders because I found that cooler. When we were finished Mrs Ferguson asked us to look at a projecter on the white board to show us how to make a pacman, banana or a moon looking the same by just using 3 cylinders. Next we made a 2 cylinder shape with our first name and last name initials on it. Then we had our challenge to make our teacher (Mrs Anderson) by using shapes only. Lastly it was almost time to go and I got up to making the upper body by using a cone or a square. This week at Tech was fun because I got to make a person with shapes on tinkercad.com and because I finished making my card game design (Snakes and Ladders).

Maths Game

This maths game is based on showing and teaching you about fractions. This maths game his a rules page so you know what and not what to do like not cheating or not using a calculator. I have questions, Incorrect and Correct parts in my maths game. What I did find challenging in creating this was to fix all the broken links because it was confusing and hard to remember what slide to link. I then got at least 3 people to test my game and the feedback I got was to add a link back from the need help slide because they couldn't go back to the question they were on after watching the need help video. This was a really fun, enjoying and great activity. Thank you Mrs anderson for letting us do this.

HIIT

Today we (LS2) had our last HIIT session. We were focusing on different types of circuits to build our body strength and to increase our heart rate. It was also a buddy challenge and I was partners with Karlos. I found it hard to do the do the press ups because my arm joints had started to hurt and lasted for a very long time. What I found easy was the mountain climbers because I was able to moce my legs a lot. Lastly we did a little more exercising and stretching to a song called bring Sally up. It was a squat challenge. A big thank you to Mr Ogilvie for taking his time to do these HIIT sessions with us.

Rhythm Interactive's Visit To PBS

Today Johnny from rhythm interactive visited our whole school. He was here to tell us about drumming and how together we can make a change. A drum is a type of instrument. Then we started with a simple beat using the phrase he said. We (Learning Space 2) buddied up and helped another class (Junior class) so that they would understand how to drum. Johnny was drumming with a drum called a djembe drum (African drum). We were listening to and following a beat / pattern / rhythm that johnny made with his djembe. Johnny said to us "if you can say it you can drum it" which meant that if you can say it then you can drum what was said (speak and copy). Somethine I found fun was making a funky beat because I got to go crazy while drumming. What I found challenging was trying to do the long drum beats. I liked today when Johnny from rhythm interactive came to our school. I enjoyed it because I never drummed before and because I learnt some new beats that I can make with a drum. Here is a link to the rhythm interactive site: Rhythm Interactive Site.

Tech Reflection

Today at Tech we were drawing our designs for our game that we are going to start making next week. I am making a number moving game. You have to spin the number wheel and what ever number it lands on then that is how many spaces your character goes forward towards the finish line. Next week I will be starting to make this 3d game and I think that if I make it 3d then I can make the charactersa and the number wheel 3d. The board where the spaces, finish and start line is will be flat (2d). This game will be good for me because I like to vs people using this game. This tech session was all about planning the game and materials needed to make a 3d or 2d board game.

Kiwi Can WK 8

This week at kiwi can we were learning about integrity. We first started the session with our energiser was a game where we had to protect the person behind us and the person in the front had to tag the other person at the back of someone. I was with Rhys and we were first blind folded then we had our eyes open to see which was harder or challenging. Next we talked about how integrity helps us understand why we shouldn't do bad things. Then we played our activity called trust fall. It was when we were hanging on each other then we (our partners) had to lean back and we both had to trust other. After that we had a GKQ (General Knowledge Question) Game. We went around a circle and I beat 4 people and lost at the 5th person. We were kind of tired at kiwi can, but I really enjoyed it.

What to do with fish?

What should we do with fish that we catch? Do we leave it or do we take it? People aren't being respectful and taking more fish. Well an interesting fact is that you should pick up a fish that you catch with a wet hand towel. This is because touching it with your hands could lead to taking off their coating which keeps them alive when they’re out of the water. Another interesting fact is that if you catch a fish and bring it and it is under or oversized then you could get a fine or even get your boat confiscated. Well this is why you should know what to do with fish.

The thing that you need to know is that you only take the amount of fish you can eat. Taking all the fish can lead to fish being instinct. Some fish catchers like to look for birds because the birds can tell you where fish are because they can see fish and will go down to the water to catch some. Sometimes you see plastic around in the waters which fish could eat so you can pick up that plastic. Another thing is If you go fishing and catch a fish you will need to make sure that you have a fish ruler. The reason is that if you don’t have a fishing ruler then you can’t measure your fish to make sure it is the correct size to take it. A snapper (fish) has to be 30 cm to be able to take it.

Whatever you do don’t take under and over sized fish because you could be taking away most of the fish in our oceans. If you take an undersized fish then they won’t have time to grow and won’t have a long lasting life in the water. Same for the oversized fish, but if you take oversized fish then you are taking away the opportunity for them to breed. If they breed then they can make more fish for our oceans.

Taking under or over sized fish can be a problem. If people keep catching and taking any sized fish it can lead to a problem which can include depleting the number of fish in our oceans or even not being able to have foods that include fish.

Ballet

Yesterday we (LS2) got a free chance to do ballet. Thanks to Mrs Jones she gave us an opportunity to ask a ballet dancer Chloe to come from Wellington to Auckland to teach us ballet for the whole 2nd block of school. We were excited for this to happen because no one in this class had done ballet before. I was kind of shy to do this because I thaught it was going to be a different ballet, but I was completly wrong. We all had fun during this ballet session. We were learning about different swan moves as we were going to be using dance moves we learnt to put together a ballet white swan black swan dance. I found the middle part where we had to roll over and get into the chicken position because I wasn't able to keep up in time. What I found fun was the ending when we got to get into some posing positions and my group was in a line from smallest to biggest and we were doing the flying position. We would like to say a big thanks to Chloe form RNZB (Royale, New Zealand, Ballet). We really enjoyed this and appreciate this opportunity.

Tech Session 3

Last week Friday we (Year 7's) went to tech for our 3rd session. We were talking about games that could be possible to create. My group of 3 (Pua, Jayden and I) came up with the games we thought would be possible to make which were a maze or tic tac toe / noughts and crosses. We decided that we would like to make a maze more than making noughts and crosses. After that Mrs Ferguson told us this site called tinkercad.com. It is a site where you can learn about 3D designs. I am on a stage called making holes. Next week we will be using this site for tech because we might need this site for making a 3d game. I think that this time for tech we might be making a 3d game.

Waltzing Matilda Inferring

Last week Thursday we were drawing a picture of what you see in your mind about the waltzing matilda poem. I drew a detailed picture that explains what the story looks like exactly. We then drew our pictures of the poem and we showed each other which one had more detail then the other. I had the billabong (Water hole), a coolibah tree, a swagman (Seasonal worker) under the coolibah tree,  His tucker bag (Food bag) and him singing and some little fish jumping out and back in the billabong. This activity was meant for everyone to infer. For this activity we were Inferring (Taking what we knew) to draw a picture of what you think the poem waltzing matilda looks like. This activity really helped me imagine what the poem waltzing matilda looks like.

Waltzing Matilda Summary

L.I to create a summary of a poem called waltzing matilda
Last week for reading, we started an activity. The activity was to read the poem Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson. After reading the poem, we needed to get into pairs (I was with Jack), and analyse the poem. With this information we then needed to go through a couple of questions. This included which version of the poem did you prefer, the original or new version? What do you think the poem was about? And what Literary Devices could the poet use to paint a vivid image in our heads? Once those questions were answered, the final step was to create a DLO that would explain what the poem was about in a summary. To help keep our ideas in order, a template DLO was given to us which we could use to store our ideas. For this activity I worked Jack, and we had a lot of fun.

Strengthening connections to maths language

Today my group (Me, Jayden and Jonathan) and I worked on this Maths vocabulary activity. It was made by Whaea Donna to help kids understand what some maths words meant. Mrs Anderson asked us what a plane is. Everyone thought it was a flying vehicle but because she was talking about the flat surface plane, all of us were wrong. This was a really good way to show us that words might mean something different in maths. If we didn't know a word Jayden would go on the explore tool to find out the meaning. I would drag the ones I knew and the ones that Jayden and Jonathan didn't know into the bottom section. Jonathan was helping me by dragging the words that go in the top section. After we finished it all of us had a good understanding of most of the maths words. Jayden, Jonathan and I worked collaborativly together as a group to complete this activity.

Student Led Conference

Yesterday Wednesday was the schools student led conference. I brang my mum to my class. My brother Kaleb also had a little look in my class as well. The student led conference was about bringing a family member to your classroom to show them the work that you created so far this year at school. I showed my mum my wooden train that I made at tech and the other work on the wall (Reading, Writing, Maths, Inquiry, Science Experiments and Some Others). My mum really enjoyed the work I created so far this year and She is proud of me and so am I. Just before we went to go to my other brother Leroy's class to do his student led conference I got to show my teacher (Mrs Anderson) my leopard gecko lizard. She said that it was pretty cool. Maybe on a Thursday sometime during this year I will be able to show my class the lizard. This student led conference was actually cool and entertaining showing my mum my work.

Tech Session 2

Today was our (Year 7s) 2nd session in Mrs Ferguson's Art class. We were learning about shapes, tones and 3d shapes. We first finished our toys that make us think DLO. Next we got a peice of paper, pencil and a ruler. Then we used our pencil to find 3 shades from it. Mrs Ferguson explained that the tone depends on how much you press on the pencil or color you are using. After that we drew a 3d cube. Then we used the light, medium and hard shades to fill in each side (3 sides which was enough for 1 each). If we could do that we could carry on with the next part which we could use a color to shade light, medium and hard to see the next out come. Lastly it was time to go. So we thanked Mrs Ferguson and ran to the bus in the cold wet weather which was quite funny.

Literary Devices

Here is the link to my DLO: Click Here

Today I had finished my work of Literary Devices. I made 6 literary devices and they are Simile, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration and Onomatopoeia. Next I then made a simple explanation of what each literary device is. For an example a simile is a description of 2 objects that uses like or as (Usain Bolt is like a Cheetah).  Then I made some headings for each literary device so people would know which is which. Lastly I went to find some images of each literary device so then I could make my information cool.

Gymnastics Lesson 4

This week at gymnastics we learnt about trying new things and giving everyting a go. My group (Sandra, Mele, Fui, Victoria, Pua, Julian and I) were starting at circut 2. We had the beam which we had to walk backwords, walk forwards and jump up, The forward roll on the lower beam, cart wheels and forward roll off the stage onto a buch of mats. I tried everything, but didn't manage to do a proper cart wheel. Next we went on to circut 3. Circut 3 had the activites spring board forward, trampoline, backword roll. I tried all of them and completed them all. Lastly we went on to circut 1. It had these activities wall stand, swing stairs and two more activities that I forgot the name of. I found the cart wheel challenging and I had a lot of fun.

Who Am I?

Today I made a new google drawing about who am I? My who am I includes an avatar of me, my 2 favorite games, my favorite cartoon, my favorite clothing brand, my favorite fruit, my favorite meal, my favorite character from my favorite cartoon, my game console and my favorite car.

The point of this activity was to try to create a breif drscription of yourself by using images of things you like.