Straw Rockets

Last week on Friday LS2 spent the whole day at Tamaki college to learn and make rockets. We learnt how to make straw rockets. This is my procedural writing for making a straw rocket. After making rockets, Ms Ferguson flew her rocket 'Carrot' that she 3D printed, it flew up perfectly, but dissapered! It was very fun! I also added a collage of what happened at Tamaki college. 

Thank you to Ms Ferguson, and Mr Dunn for putting so much effort for Friday!

Athletics Day PBS

Today we had the Panmure Bridge school athletics day for 2016. This year we were super lucky and had some helpers from Tamaki college who were guiding and helping with our activities. This year we were split up into three groups, and the leaders were Mishaan, Mia and Javeylor. The game that the year 7's played first was basketball/netball shoots were two teams would be on the court and have to shoot their balls in the hoops. One team would be on the side lines cheering on each team. Even when someone failed to shoot, each team would be supportive and help by encouraging each other on. I really enjoyed working with my team as they encouraged everyone. 

5 Minutes Of...

Yesterday for writing, we wrote about the Westpac helicopter picture which has a person being saved by the helicopter. We were looking at recounts and all the structures in the recounts. We had to find a partner and had 10 or more minutes to write a recount using the picture, I worked collaboratively with Zahra back to back, taking turns writing sentences. We used the TREE structure, Tittle, Reveal - 5 w's and h, Events - Time ordered events and Ending - How did it end?  

Godwits Comic Strip

This term we have been looking at flight, the year 7's have been looking at Godwits or the Kuaka, this week we made a comic strip including facts about the Godwits. Godwits' are birds that have a non stop flight from New Zealand and Alaska, only stopping at the Yellow Sea to refuel. I learnt that the Godwits' go through the weather, even through storms. 

Copying, Pasting and Cutting

Today we have been playing the cybersmart game where we learn more about smart searching. We used a virtual dice to land on a link. I landed on a follow up, in this follow up I learnt about copying, pasting and cutting. I also got asked: Why would you use copy instead of cut before pasting? 

Cyber Smart

Today we have been playing the Cyber Smart game. In this follow up, I was learning more about keyboard shortcuts which could help me in the future. 

Paper Planes Competition

Today we were learning to analyse and measure for maths. We redesigned our group planes by adding details and ideas from our groups' individual planes. In our group, we chose our best plane thrower so that they can beat the other opponents, we chose Tai as his arm movement was faster. When everyone finished their throwing, we then measured accurately our paper plane distance. They all had three tries, and in the end, we opened the windows and doors to see the difference between the three other tries. 

Wright Brothers Facts Sheet

For reading, we have been focusing on the four structures in reading. Scaffold text, complimentary text, challenge text and self selected text. For our second activity we had to make a facts sheet about the Wright brothers. 

Godwits DLO

This term we have been looking at flight, the year 7's have been learning about Godwits (Kuaka in Maori). We were learning about their migration, I worked collaboratively with Calvin and Oh Hsen and improved our team work skills. When we were researching, we had to narrow our search so that we can get the information needed, and putting the keywords only. I learnt that the Godwits migrate from Auckland to Alaska non stop, but stop at the yellow sea to refuel. We also tried something new, we made a digital sketchnote where we used shapes and text boxes. 

Mona Lisa Smart Searching

This week we had a mini inquiry. We chose our topic by an alphabet generator, we ended up with a letter and chose our topic we could search about. I ended up with the letter 'm' and chose to talk about Mona Lisa. I then had three questions about the topic. We added should, could and might in our questions so it's more of a opened question. We then had to research and make a sketch note. When we were researching, we were using the skills that Mrs Ogilvie taught us. We had to narrow the search, and take the useless words out. 

3D Shapes

Today for tech, we were learning about the different 3D shapes, we learnt how to make a cube. We made a cube using an isometric paper to make a cube with the lines. The trick is to get a piece of white plain paper and put it on top of the isometric paper and make a cube with it by simply adding three lines together to make a diamond shape, then adding four lines together so that it can be a 3D cube. 

Reading Test Strategies

Inspector Gadget and Feet for Flight

For reading this week, we were practicing our test strategies for our upcoming tests in week 3/4 with two texts. We read two reviews about Inspector Gadget and Feet for Flight and used all our strategies to answer the questions. We had to read the instructions very carefully, we had to look at the questions so we knew what we were looking for in the text, read every word instead of skimming and scanning, once we're done, read the text again just to find the actual answer, eliminate the answers you know aren't correct and choose the best answer you think is right.  

Rhythm Interactive

Today (Room 5, LS1, and LS2) we had a session of Rhythm Interactive with Lucy and Johnnie. It was very interesting because Lucy and Johnnie didn't talk because they said that 'actions speak louder than words.' We had to listen and follow the beat that Lucy and Johnnie did. We had to learn 3 rhythms by clapping it with out hands, to get it in our head. We learnt some songs and how to play the drum with them, these songs were translated into English; 'Together we can change,' was a sentence from a song we sang.   Lucy and Johnnie are partners who travel to spread the message of; 'actions speak louder than words.' 

A big thank you to Lucy and Johnnie for coming, and also giving us a drum for our music room. 

Leadership Tagul

This term we are focusing on leadership, this is because next year we will all be leaders as we're going to be year 8's. We were looking at qualities and different role models. We had answers like 'Mum' or 'Nelson Mandela'. We used 'tagul' to make our word cloud. We found out that leaders all make mistakes, but learn from them. In the end, we all had our own role models, these models all had different qualities. 

Goals - Care Awards

These are the goals I want to achieve. This is for one of my CARE awards and I'm very hoping I can achieve these goals. 

Smart Searching

Today Mrs Ogilvie from National library came to Panmure Bridge school to talk about smart searching online. She had amazing sites that could help us with our learning and that are for our age range. She talked to us about a site called Epic, this site contains other websites that have information about topics we want to learn about. We then went to a site called Britiannica. This website has information for people in secondary school, primary and intermediate. We also got told about Kids InfoBits, this site is for kids and has information about anything. These sites also contain people reading the text out for you and has different reading levels. It also has images and video clips. 

Quick Write

  Today, for writing we were writing a quick narrative with 6 (Max) sentences. We had to be very imaginative and creative. A story starter we used was, 'Once upon a time...' We did this activity to improve our narrative writing, or recapping what we were learning about narrative for next term. 

Quizizz's-Maths

Today for maths we were playing quizizz's. We were learning our multiplication, addition and subtraction the fun way. We had a code to enter to join a certain quiz (Miss Naicker's one that she set). We had almost 20 or 10 seconds to answer each question. We had our ranks, these were based on our the questions we answered. After a while, Mrs Anderson and Miss Naicker joined the race. Mrs Anderson came first. We did this because we were challenging each other, and it's a very fun way to learn your basic facts. 

Panmure Library Visit - Stig

On Friday, we (Room 5, LS1 and LS2) went to the library to listen to Stig Wymess. Stig is a book voice artist who narrates Andy Griffiths books. Stig is incredibly funny. He talked to us about Borrow Box, a digital way to borrow book audios, including Stig's audios. He hooked us in with his humor and all of his actions. Stig also told us how reading a book wanted him to be an actor. When he entered, he Latham and Afu played a game 'Chubby Bubbie' (Chubby Bunny). We had so much fun. He made us laugh so much. Then everyone had a challenge, the people who went up had to say nothing but 'sussage,' without laughing too. After so many people, we finally had a winner, Zahn. The people who went up got prizes like an audio book. 

If you would like to look at what Stig does, click here. 

China Follow up

This is my China follow up DLO. I had to research about many things like an important person. Our inquiry topic is 'out global neighbors.'