Summer Learning Journey Opening

Today the Summer Learning Journey was officially opened. Rachel came to our school with a number of people including Mr Grady the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees and also people from the Next Foundation. There was a little clip shown with the host being the Manaiakalani leader of PBS Daniel Grady. Our school was a big help in this Summer Learning Journey with our school being one of the best bloggers for the summer and winter holidays. But of course we couldn't have made this a reality without Rachel who was the person who organised this program. After this we got free lunch thanks to the Next Foundation.
The Summer Learning Journey for NEXT Foundation from Next Foundation on Vimeo.

Christmas in Canada

To celebrate Christmas we got into groups of four and worked collaboratively to find out about Christmas in different countries all around the world. My group worked on Canada and we found a lot of interesting things about Canada like how the eat chicken bones as a Christmas treat.We also learnt what they do differently from New Zealand. To show our learning we recorded our google drawing using screencastify. I worked on this DLO with Freeman, Joshua and Magenta.

Google Coding Game

For three days google had a coding game if you clicked the google logo. This game starred a rabbit character and the objective of the game was to code the rabbit to collect all of the carrots using as little code as possible. There are four different coding tiles the first being a tile that moves the rabbit forward the second and third are tiles that turn the rabbit left or right and finally there is a tile that loops code for the set number. 

Cuboid's Story - Part 1

This an animation called Cuboid's Story and it is about a character named Cuboid who is in his very own videogame. He has to face whatever dangers pass him, Will he conquer his very own game? This is only part 1 so you are going to have to stick around to find out. Thanks to Jack for helping me with this animation which I made during the weekend and in my spare time.

Royal Family DLO

Today half of the school went to an athletics inter school and so half of LS1 came to LS2 and we got into groups of 6 I worked with the 6 people you see on the first slide. There was big news about Prince Harry getting engaged so we learnt about the royal family and made a DLO about our findings.

Athletics Day 2017

Today was Panmure Bridge School's athletics day. There were four different teams green, blue, yellow and red I was on the red team. In the year 8 teams the red team won which was the team that I was on. For our activities we had students from Tamaki College come to help us with the activities. After our activities we got sausages for lunch. Last but not least we did the sprint finals. In the year 8 boys the finalists were Harlem, Lyndon, Cj, Aj, Te Wai and Sylis.

Doppelganger Questions

Harlem, CJ and I read a book called Doppelganger. This book is about a boy who goes on a cruise ship and sees a doppelganger of himself. If you want to know what the word doppelganger means you can watch this video of me answering questions that my group made using the information from this book.

Dental Health DLO

Today we were learning about oral / dental health and Te Wai and I made a DLO to show my learning. This is an animation I made using google slides and it shows why you should brush your teeth and what can happen if you don't. It is very important to brush your teeth and NZ is one of the worst countries when it comes to keeping your teeth safe. So let's change our ways and start to brush our teeth. This animation is intended to educate the younger audiences specifically room 4 in PBS.

Animal Adaption

Today LS2 learnt about animal adaption. Animal adaption is when an animal has been living in an environment that might have some harsh conditions so it then adapts to that habitat to make it suitable for them. This is a DLO showing how Sand Sharks adapt to there environment and how they are able
to survive in there habitat.
 

Democracy

This is a DLO about democracy and what it means. When I made this DLO I learnt a lot about what democracy means and also I learnt how the government works just a little bit more. I worked with Fraidoon, Daniel, Aj, Eric, Oh Hsen and Cj.

New Zealand Prime Minister

This is a DLO I made about the Prime Minister David Lange who was an amazing Prime Minister who stood up for New Zealand and what he believed was right for the country. I had a lot of fun researching about David and what wonders he brought to the country. I made this DLO with help from Eric, Aj, Cj, Daniel, Oh Hsen and Fraidoon

Political Party Jig-saw

Party	Leader	Picture	Logo	Electorate
National	Bill English			Clutha-Southland
Labour	Jacinda Ardern	Photo, Wiremu Stadtwald Demchick, CC by 4.0	Photo By Elections, Public domain	Photo, By Maps, Public domain Mt Albert
Green	James Shaw	Photo by Green Party NZ/CC BY-SA 4.0	Photo by Source/Public Domain	Wellington Central Photo by russellstreet/CC BY-SA 2.0
NZ First	Winston Peters	Photo by AirflowNZ/ CC BY-SA 3.0	Photo by New Zealand First/ Public Domain	Northland Photo by Ridcully Jack/ CC BY-SA 4.0
Act	David Seymour	Photo by Wikimedia / CC by 3.0	Photo by elections / CC by 3.0	Epsom Photo by Eunice Minjeong/CC BY-SA 4.0
Maori	Marma Fox	Photo by Wiremu Stadtwald  /CC BY 4.0	Photo by Wikipedia/CC by 2.0	Wairiki Photo by SocialLink/ CC by 2.0
United Future	Damian Light		Photo by New Zealand parliament, Public Domain	Botany Photo by google maps, Public Domain
Opportunities	Gareth Morgan	Photo by News Hub, Public domain	Photo by Elections, Public domain	Epsom Photo by Eunice Minjeong/CC BY-SA 4.0

This is a jigsaw I made about the political parties I made this jigsaw with the help of Eric, Aj, Cj, Daniel, Oh Hsen and Fraidoon. When I was learning about the parties I found out a lot about how the election takes place and to me it's really interesting yet very confusing.

World E-Book Day

Today is world e-book day and to celebrate I read an e-book called okay for now. This book is about a boy named Doug Swieteck who is a baseballer who got a baseball cap from Joe Pepitone that was signed on the inside of his cap so nobody could even see that it was truly Joe's hat in the first place. If you want to see what other turn of events happen in this book you can find this book in the tamaki college overdrive library which is home to many books and you are sure to find what you are looking for.

Read an E-Book day website ---> Link             #EBOOKLOVE

 

Fantasy conventions: The princess bride

This week we have been doing a film study on the movie Princess Bride and we learnt a lot of things about how movies are made and the different aspects of movies but I decided to make a DLO on fantasy conventions which is a rule that most fantasy movies follow and it is what makes a fantasy movie, a fantasy movie.

Scale Drawing Enlargment

This week I have been working on a scale drawing enlargement. This is when I choose a drawing and put a grid over it, then double the size of the grid on another paper and use the squares as a guide to help you draw. The ratio in this case is 1:2 because I doubled it In this drawing, I drew the Excalibur from the game Warframe.

Tamaki Overdrive

This is a book about a cat and he is watching the thunder clan and the river clan fight for land. After a long fought battle the river clan was victorious and the thunder clan retreated. As the river clan went to celebrate there win a grey cat lay there in the field staring at the night sky. A tortoise shell cat emerges and the grey cat asks if there warriors are okay which they were luckily. This is a book I found in the Tamaki overdrive which is Tamaki colleges own online library. We were exploring the new books that tamaki overdrive have and the thing I enjoy about this is that we can read any book that we want without the hassle of visiting the library.

Kiwi Can taking risks

Today at Kiwi Can we learnt about taking and to start the session we did an energise which was bip bop bounce it's hard to explain but basically you have to say bang when he says bounce and if you say bounce if he only says bip or bip bop than you are out and you can also get out for being to slow. We also did an activity which was called hand soccer in this activity we played soccer with our hands except that everyone had to touch the ball before you could score and you could only use hands instead of feet we took risks by relying on each other and passing the ball around and there was a risk that the other team could get the ball and score for themselves

2 Word Sentence

This is a DLO I made about two word sentences. Two word sentences only have two words well obviously but one of those words is a subject and the other word is a verb so you can turn any compound or complex sentence into a two word sentence as well but you may need other sentences so it can make sense.

Year 8 college experience

Today the year 8’s went to tamaki college to learn about what it is like at college before we started we did the usual tech but we did out first session with mr grundy about making glass panes and then we had our morning tea after that we went to maths with Mr Jones and played battleships then we went to science with Stoddard and learnt about static electricity and how negative and positive charges can attract and detract, when there are two opposite charges they attract and when there are two of the same charge they try and get away from each other we had an example of this when Lyndon was touching static electricity his hair was starting to stick up. When that was finished we had Sub Way for lunch which was delicious and then went to English with Mr Stevenson where we had to memorise 10 words and get the corresponding pictures and finally we went to PE Mr Moyes and we played turbo touch.

Bullying Animation

This is an animation that I made with the help of Oh Hsen, Daniel and Aj. This animation is about a year 8 student standing up for a junior student who is getting bullied. I think it is important to realise that junior students can't stand up for themselves and they need some help sometimes so that's where the senior students come in. We can stand up and speak out for the people who can't stand up for themselves.