Summer Learning Journey Fishing False Teeth

For this Summer Learning Journey activity, the task was to read the story (The Fishing False Teeth). In this story, a fisherman named Cor Stoop lose his teeth, when leaning to the side of a paddle boat, when having the sea sickness feeling. The other guy (Taxi driver) faked news, saying the fish had huge teeth, but got caught later. Read our DLO to find out what actually happens:

L.I: to get a greater understanding of the text

For today's the first Summer Learning Journey task, we were to read a story called Fishing False Teeth. It's a story about fake news, a fish with the mans fake teeth. This story was quite funny in my opinion. The first part was to read the story, as it helps you understand each part, and helps you get an idea of what the story is about. Next was to fill in the blanks. Who is the character? What part did they play? What was their outcome? We managed to figure out what each characters part were. Lastly we watched a video with no talking, but laughing from when the fisherman drops his teeth in the water when leaning on one side of the boat from sea sickness. I was working with a room 5 partner named Jebrael who's a year 4 student. I was helping him with this weeks couple of Summer Learning Activities, because it helps him in the future with blogging, commenting, and taking part in the next Summer Learning Journey events. This activity was quite fun, and challenging. Something we learnt new was that you can get onto the news for faking fish teeth being big. Something we found interesting is making the comic with the video.

What would be the first thing you would do, if you knew there were fake teeth inside the fish?

Summer Learning Journey Blog Commenting

 

L.I to create a quality blog comment

Today for another Summer Learning Journey task, we were learning about blog commenting. We were to create a quality blog comment for the task. I decided to comment on a friends blog named Matthew, he did the same work as us. To make a quality blog comment, you need to greet them and say their name. Next talk about what you liked, and keep your comment positive. 

Summer Learning Journey Nano Girl Challenge

L.I To collect materials needed to successfully complete our weekly superpower building missions with Nano Girl.

This morning LS2 worked in groups with our Year 4 students to help them create their first Summer Learning Journey blog posts. PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy. Our challenge is going to be able to find all the materials we need at home now. Something I found this activity fun because I got to find materials. I am looking forward to being able to blog at home during the holidays. What would you use instead of a paper towel roll?

Christmas Board Game

                               

L.I to create a digital board game for the junior students

Yesterday I created a board game in the theme of Christmas. It was for the Junior students. The junior students were very nice and were going to present some of their work for us, so we decided to create a digital board game for the juniors in return for being awesome. I wanted to make a snakes and ladders, because I like that game, and I could be creative. If you land on a santa hat, you have to go forward 3 spaces. If you land on a candy cane, you go back 3 spaces. If you land on a yellow candy, you go forward 10 spaces, if you land on the bottom of the ladder you go to the top of it, and of you land on the head or top of the green snake, you have to go to the bottom of it. I loved making this game, because it was fun, and I got to play it with the juniors.

Operation Christmas Drop

L.I to write a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words

This week for reading, we were learning about OCD (Operation Christmas Drop). It is a misson where different militay people drop crates off to islands that have nothing. It all started 68 years ago, and has still been running, where a B-29 aircrew saw native villagers on an island waving at them, and the aircrew dropped a crate to help them. I loved learning about this because people (Military and Volunteers) like to help fundraise and pack supplies like food, and clothes for them. The OCD is still running and people can donate to help the volunteers purchase the equipment for the supply drop. This helpes both becausde the military practice supply drops, as well as the villagers being able to help themselves live with the supply crates. What I found interesting about OCD is that each crate is packed 1 week before the drop, and weighs about 250kg.

Giovanni Design Evaluation

L.I to create a christmas decoration

These past 3 weeks, we have been learning and designing a christmas design for the schools christmas tree. We first found designs we liked, for an example christmas presents, and put them on a google drawing so we had a rough idea of what we were going to make. We next drew them on a planner on a peice of paper, to see if it was in the measurment of the clients acpected measurment. We then practiced stitching by stitching a game of knots and crosses. This helped us gain knowledge of stitching, so we know what to do when we stitch our designs. Lastly we drew our designs on the felt, cut it our, and swewd it together and put stuffing (cotton) inside it. This was fun and cool because I love learning how to do new things, and something I would change is the equipment used to cut out the felt, becuse the felt was a hard material.

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List three positives about your product and three possible improvements in the table below to help you reflect on your decoration design.

Positives

Improvements

Using traditional colours

Make stitching smaller

Adding effects

Make edges sharper

Easy to handle

Make design bigger

What would you say are the strengths of your product? The strengths of my product was the look, and the feeling of the design (the cotton).

Does your product meet your original criteria? yes How? By following the specifications ( 3D effects, 10cm)

Did you change anything during the making process? yes What? Added extra 3D effects to the design.

Was it hard to make? yes Why/ why not? It was difficult cutting shapes from the felt

Are you pleased with your finished product? Why? Yes, because we did a good job, and it looks amazing in the end (Looks just like the expected design).

What would you do differently next time? Use a different equipment for cutting out the shapes out from the felt, because the felt was a hard material to cut.

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.

Mixed Mathematics Game

L.I to create a Maths Game for others to test and play

This week, our class started creating maths games, for others to play. I worked with Azatulah, to create our game. We decided to try mixed questions, because a lot of people in our class, have different stratergies to solve different questions. Our list of questions were from easiest, to hardest. We had 10 levels, and if you were really good, you would get to about level 9. We were bored, and decided to add a boss level, which was a proportions and ratios word problem. If you would like to try out our fabulous game, just interact with the slide above. Enjoy!

Lowest Common Multiple

L.I to create a DLO that explains Lowest Common Multiple

This week for maths, we were learning about the Lowest Common Multiple, and the Highest Common Factor. Our group decided to explain what the Lowesr Common Multiple is. The Lowest Common Multiple is the 2 lowest multiples that are the same. For an example the lowest common multiple of 5 and 4 are 20. Because 4 doesn't have 5, 10, or 15 in it, but does have 20. Which means 20 is the lowest multiple that is the same. An easy stratergy for this, is to basicly multiply the 2 numbers that you have to find the lowest common multiple of, and you will get your answer. I like this, because I love maths, and I didn't know about the lowest common multiple, so I learnt something new.

Pollution Explanation

Learning Intention: To write an explanation about a topic

This week for writing, we were practicing writing explanations. We were making sure we know what to do, so when it comes to testing, I will make a powerful text. I chose the topic pollution in our oceans, because there are a lot of rubbish in our oceans, and no one is doing anything about it. I wrote about the sea life, the oceans, and why it's important to take care. This was awesome and fun.

Pollution In Our Oceans

Due to our careless action, rubbish ends up in our oceans. As a result, our environment and sea life are harmed. This is not acceptable! Right now there are about 17.6 billion pounds (equivalent to 57,000 blue whales) in our oceans today. Around 700 different sea life species are affected by pollution. Would you like it if your home was jammed with rubbish?...

The majority of plastic that lies on the ground ends up in drains which lead to oceans, lakes and rivers. The most affected sea creature by the pollution is a sea turtle. Over 1,000 sea turtles die each year from digesting plastic waste. Sea animals are really important, and they keep the ocean active. Picture our oceans and sea creatures, soon there will be nothing but pollution roaming in our waters. Because there is so much pollution in our oceans today, there are people who are ignoring the rubbish bins.

When your rubbish ends up in our oceans, it usually takes 1,000 years to biodegrade, which is just insane. Biodegrade is when something dissolves, or breaks down. Soon our sea life will be gone, and our oceans will become a dumping ground. Why isn’t anyone doing anything about it? Do you realise there is almost more pollution than animals in the ocean, they can become extinct really soon. Scientists have researched and discovered that 50 - 80 % of all life on earth is found in our waters. This means if we don’t take care of our oceans sea life will be gone.

If the oceans become polluted, it will affect the air we breathe. If the ocean is contaminated, it can’t produce the oxygen (The oceans produce half of the oxygen we breathe). If you still don’t think oceans are important then maybe this will change your mind. Our ocean transports heat from the equator, to the poles regulating our weather patterns. You see the ocean is the most important life on earth right now.

Wait… That’s right. Pollution is still wandering around in our oceans. If we don’t act now, the actions we make will affect our environment and future. So if you don’t want any of this to happen to our precious oceans, pick up rubbish, and please start putting it away properly.

Inertia

This week for reading we were learning about Inertia, the part of science that describes the changes by force, or either being still in rest. Due to force. There are three laws of inertia which are Inertia of Direction, Inertia of Rest and Inertia of Motion. We created a DLO about what Inertia is, and the rules of it. We thought this was really interesting, because we thought it was all just gravity, but there’s more. 

Who will get my vote?...

Learning Intention: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice
To decide which political party I would have vote for, I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce. Should they win the election, and the right to form a goverment to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision. If I was 18 I would vote for National because this means if National won the election, Gerry Brownlee would be our member of parliament, and Judith Collins would be the Prime Minister. Something I found interesting is that National has recived an amount of $6,000,000.

DARE to make a choice

LI: To learn about making good choices 

Today, we were learning about drugs. A program made by the New Zealand  police called the Dare program, teaches kids about making wise choices. We learnt about drugs being bad, and the effects it has. We also learnt something new about drug classes, A, B, and C. This was interesting, because we thought most drugs were illegal than legal. But only  about ten drugs were illegal, because of the harm, and effects. The first activity we did was sorting our drugs that we thought were legal, and illegal. Next we sorted them in order from most harmful, to harmful. Our most harmful was cocaine, and our least harmful was milo. Next worked together in a group on a scenario activity. There were six scenarios, about kids being involved in drugs or beer. For the activity you were to give a punishment for each situation. The one we found most interesting was number five. Two Seventeen year olds were drinking at a bar. We thought that this was wrong, because you have to be eighteen and over to drink. They are also drinking at a bar, which meant that someone must have given them the alcohol. So we all agreed, and decided that the kids would have a warning, and the owner of the bar (the person who gave them the alcohol) will lose their job, get a fine of $1000, and lose their license. This is a good enough punishment, because the owner should be asking for an id, and should only be selling to people eighteen and over. Lastly we went into partners, and talked about questions that had to do with what we learnt, and about things that surprised us. One thing to remember is that you are the most important person in your world.