Insect Art Challenge

L.I: To create a piece of insect art

Our challenge today was to go around our school and find some flowers, twigs and some leafs. Then we used our imagination to create a image of an insect with the materials we gathered and created a insect / bug. In my case I created a Bee. The three fun facts i learned are that all worker bees are females, one the stinger is used the bee would pass and bees collect pollen for honey.

Fishing False Teeth Challenge

L.I: To create your own comic strip of an imaginary conversation. 

We learned on how to make our own comic strip of a clip. The clip of the people didn't talk so we had to use out imagination on what they were saying. The clip was funny and we used the clip images to see what they were like if they were talking

Nano Girl Challenge Day 1

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

Me and my partner searched in class for our materials for nano girl and it really was a hunt. We searched our class for the materials and we found some string, cardboard boxes, scissors and more. we found this interensting because its going to be great to know what were making next monday.

Operation Christmas Drop

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

We researched the Operation Christmas Drop and we think its was cool that when they dropped the crates with supplies. They all dropped off with parachutes so it will land safely and it was great practise for the pilots. They dropped the crates with supplies to the villages on remote islands around guam. 

Step it up Art Colouring Book

L.I: To find out the different kinds of elements of art there are.

Art has different kinds of elements such as Line, Shape, Form, Colour, Value and Texture. The lines were already drawn while processing the image and the lines created shapes and pictures in my head. It formed many different things and it showed me what to colour. Next after we coloured we saw the value (brightness) and started to change it up a little. Like changing the colours from the dark and dull to the colourful and bright, last we added texture to the image. The colourful and bright colours reminds me i'm at a party.

 

Last day at tech

Today at Tamaki college was our last day of tech. Throught the past weeks The yr 8's were doing food tech and were making cool food. The yr 8's made a final meal for their last day. We make teriyaki chicken sushi with a little bit of sweet chilli sauce. We needed some rice, chicken and some seaweed wrapping. We mixed the teriyaki chicken with sweet chilli sauce and mayo. we soonly started to put the rice into the seaweed and then put the chicken on top. When we tasted the sushi it was delicious for the last day at tech

Art Colouring Book

 

Yesterday we tried one of this year’s Kick Start Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to experiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowd us to recolours famous painting or images of landmarks around the world. The picture I used to colour is called "The Watermelons by Diego Rivera." I think my art work is better because its way more imaginative and I really like pumpkins.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

Today a Kapa Haka group came by our school and did some cool dances. They also showed us the meaning by the things they use for dancing like the taiaha, poi and te rakau. Bekah came over and showed LS2 a little game called Pukana. We played and it was quite easy to play because you just need to point your arms to the person on your right or left and say pukana.

Exploring our national current events

L.I: To identify author’s purpose.

These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which 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 a google map.

Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport

L.I: To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me form an opinion.

Today we learned about why we should have masks on public transport. We made a provocation about it. We worked in our table groups to make this. We had different opinions or ideas about masks on public transport and write a yes or no section telling us why we should and why we shouldn't have masks on public transport

The Adding Addicts Weighty Challenge

L.I: To figure out the weight of the tomato sauce and white sauce.

 

Today my group, The Adding Addicts have made a DLO on weight. It was a challenge on to find the average serving on the giant lasagne and to fine how much tomato sauce and white sauce they put in the largest lasagne. We worked collaboratively to figure out both answers to the question.

Guy Fawkes Summary

L.I To identify the important words in the text

Today LS2 has worked with Room 5. We picked partners and my partner was Max and we also made a summary on Guy Fawkes and how he tried to blow up parliament with the plotters and their 13 men. We worked collaboratively with our partner and completed the Guy Fawkes challenge.

CARE Values Explanation

L.I to use transitional vocabulary

 

   This week my group has created a explanation on what out care values mean to us. We had some practice with other we started with our recording. After a few mistakes we finally made the video and it took some time to get it just right. Link to video.  

Inertia

L.I. To find out what inertia is

Today we were learning about what inertia is. Me and my group has created a Slide about the different types of inertia. The inertia of rest, the inertia of direction and the inertia of movement. Me watched a couple of videos of what it is and what it does.

Plastic Pollution

Why is it important to make wise choices?

When was the last time you threw rubbish into the sea? Plastic in the ocean is most certainly a problem and we need it to stop. All our precious animals are being killed by Plastic wraps, bottles and thowing them into the sea. 

Our behavior has ended up killing lots of little sea creatures therefore we must stop otherwise we won’t have any marine life left like Turtles and Fishes.

It’s not just our marine life, it’s our birds too. A seagull ate plastic and died on a beach. There are bins everywhere but people dont bother to use them. As a result of people throwing rubbish into the sea we lose all of our marine life creatures and our birds.

There are different types of sea creatures who are dying from our actions and we need to stop because if we don’t have fish in the sea what will go with the chips, Plastic and Chips? If our actions caused this then we can stop it too.

Our turtles have been stuck in Beer can holders and it even deformed their shell and have eaten plastic bottles, bags and is causing these cute little creatures in the sea to die full of plastic in their stomach.

They have been here for many years and were trying to kill them with our pollution. They're living things so are we we should be helping them not killing them. This is not ok we need to start putting rubbish in the bin and put a stop to the plastic pollution for good

Today we wrote about why is it important to make wise choises and pick something going on world wide. I wrote about Plastic Pollution and how its affecting turtles and seagulls on the beach.

Whakatauki

L.I Is to learn your whaktauki and the meaning behind it

Whakatauki means proverbs, for this DLO we picked a proverb and explained the meaning and the lessons we can learn from it. The proverb we picked was a day of hard work which means how hard you work in one day. I created this DLO with Matthew and Karlos.

NZ Map Facts

L.I: To find out the facts of NZ Places

This week for maori language week we found out interesting facts about the city's in New Zealand. The city's that we chose for our map Hamilton, Auckland and more. We worked in groups of 3 to finish of this task since we wanted to get work done quickly. The thing that i liked about this task is that i got to learn  new things while researching about these city's.

Maori Hisory

L.I: Is to understand the history behind Maori language week

     

This week for maori language week we learnt the history behind the maori. We learnt a lot about it and why it was important, we found out that kupe and his tribe were the first people to discover New Zealand instead of captain cook. Legends says that kupe and his tribe was going to fight a big octopus until it lead them to a new island.

Maori App

L.I: Is to make an app that is based on maroi language week. 

This week in New Zealand is maori language week which we celebrated with making an app and doing other challenges. This app is based on maori question  which consists of naming foods, the time, months and NZ place names. We worked in groups for this since apps take a long time to process. We ended up learning all these words by searching them up on the maori dictionary which has really good since we don't know that much maori. The thing that I liked about this task was how we got to make it super efficient. 

Its Cool 2B Me

We learned about the DARE program. Last year we did this challenge and this year were going to do it again and with a different things because we all can change in a year. The part I liked about this task is that I got to decorate my cool 2b me poster.

Family tree

For a Te Reo challenge LS2 did a family tree. My family tree has my cultures as the backround so people know who I am and how my family is Tokelauan and Samoan. My mum has a lot of sisters and I keep on forgeting their names so I wrote the aunties I could remember. The thing I liked about this challenge is that I got to learn more about my family.

MRSCGREN

L.I To learn the meaning of MRSCGREN

The plant has a lot of qualities and different features. This week we were learning about the qualities of different living things which is MRS C GREN and our group choose a plant. MRS C GREN means Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Cell, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrients. The thing that I liked about this task is that we all worked on seperate letters to complete the task.

Bioligy

This DLO is about Observation and Science.  I worked with Afa. Afa and I worked collaboritivly to get this task completed.  We looked at the images and worked out what was going on. Me and Afa completed this DLO by sharing our ideas ,Helping each other, Looking at images and Finding the . The most important thing I learned was that Science is empirical which means it is based on.

Life Education Caravan

L.I to learn how to get through life. 

This week LS2 had the life education caravan and we got to meet nicole and harold again. They taught us about out houra and about kapi's houra too. We learnt about the brain too and what we should do when our feelings get out of control. The most interesting thing i've learnt about the brain is that it weighs 1.5 kg which is the weight of three blocks of butter. As we get older our brain gets rid of weaker brain cells and keep the stronger ones instead, for example writing your name is a strong brain cell.

5 - 7 - 10 Writing

L.I is to write 5 - 7 - 10 to write creatively




Lightning never strikes twice, does it?

The four friends built a new windmill. But when they were working on the farm a huge storm came up and took out part of the farm. The storm was lurking around the corner so they used their new windmill as shelter. The storm came closer and closer until the storm came up and frightened them with a thunder that went BOOM!

The four friends were scared and afraid of the storm because they were thinking of getting hit but the thunder.They were huddled together in fear but when they saw the second thunderbolt they noticed they were huddling near a windmill. They hid inside and waited until they found pans.

They were banging and bashing them up.they were bangin until morning. The storm went past the windmill. It was a miracle it went past them, but there was a fire on the windmill. The friends couldn’t do anything to stop the fire. Little did they know they had a fire extinguisher. But it was too late. The fire has burned the windmill down. After the windmill burned down they rebuilt the windmill.

10 - 5 - 7 - 10 - 10 Writing

L.I is to write 5 - 7 - 10 to write creatively

Over the bay he’s been looking at these mountains for days. A young fellow named Joe had all his equipment for the long journey. “This mountain is a be~uty.” Joe said to himself. As he walked up to it and started his journey. A day goes by and I'm still climbing. He finds a spot to camp and rest. “Morning is here and time to go.” Joe says filled with determination.

Joe climbs and climbs untill he gets to the next spot to rest. He climbs and climbs and he’ll never stop because it’s his dream to climb to the top. As he reaches his next checkpoint he takes a long nap. As he woke up he says to himself “I have a long journey of me.” He climbs further and further and he still rock climbs and nothing is going to stop his determination.

Rock climbing, trying to get to the highest point and never giving up Joe climbs and continues. Joe says without any breath left “The sun is rising and my legs are tensing, I can see the bright colours blend in gradient. The sweat covers my eyes” and as Joe wiped the sweat off my face he felt like he could see the world. “I’ve been training for months and nearly at the top. I’ve climbed a treacherous path nearly falling, but I never gave up.” As he reaches the top takes a long rest.

Today we had another session of 5 - 7 - 10 with some planning and drafting and that makes it 10 - 5 - 7 - 10 - 10. We wrote about a rock climbing story. We visulised the picture and the wrote a narritive on what we saw

Experimenting with ultraviolet light

L.I To find the most effective UV filter.




LS2 has been trialling the electronic sensors for the kiwrious project. We are working with Suranga, Sonia, Evan, Dawn and Yvonne from the AHL at auckland university.I found out that The green cellaphane was the most effective filter to keep zally safe from the UV light

Careers - Game Developer

L.I. To explore a career that intrests me

I took the Career Quest quiz to show me what career I could be doing. Last week on friday we are starting to learn about careers. We choose 3 careers we would like to do and we could pick one of them as our job. For my job I have chosen to be a game developer. For this job I need to gain a high coding experience. For that to happen I have to have at least 2 - 3 years of experiencing the coding and how to make my own. If I want to start a game I to plan out what console or PC or any other game console i could join.

Division

L.I To use the strategy of long division

Today for maths we learned long division. Long division is a type of division but with a little atchments added onto it. This type of division is efficient for me and my group. We learned that when we use a strategy we use the most efficient way.

Periscope

L.I. To explain how periscopes work

    

Mr Johnston came and taught us that periscopes are how they are used and who uses them. We found out tht the angleof incidence equaks the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 degrees. It was fun because we got to learn how a periscope works and it can be used in so many places.

Light Facts

L.I. To find 5 facts about light that we find interesting

We worked collaborativly to create a DLO that showsfacts about light. One fact that interests me that if you put two mirrors together lets say 45 degrees and when the other is going it goes exatly 45 degrees.

Calendar Maths Challenge

L.I. To find the most efficient strategy to solve the problem

On Tuesday LS2 made groups of 3. When I found my group we started on the DLO. First we used our skills to find the main info we needed and thats all we needed to get this done because we had our strategy after we found the main info.

Blog Post Analysis 2020

L.I To analyse our blog post data to help us set blogging goals.

I used statistical information on my blog to help me set goalsfor 2020. Before I can publish a blog post I need to complete the task. I worked the average numberof posts I made for each month and used this data to set a realistic and achiveable blogging goal.

NZ Timeline

L.I: To read the information in the text, think about what you have read and form an opinion

For the past week my group The Kiwi group have been working on an NZ Timeline from way back to the 1840 - 2020. It was fun finding the information for the timeline's. It went from the treaty of waitangi to the on going coronavirus (Make sure to wash and sanitize you hands!) The our teacher (Mrs Anderson) helped us with the evaluation. We picked 3 most important things we researched about (Treaty of Waitangi, Coronavirus and women suffrage) and helped us use this information to form our opinion. One thing i've learned was to look at all the information before make an opinion

Cityscape

L.I To use prepositions in our cityscape silhouette

In the center of my cityscape is Temple Mount. The shiny round top reflects the sunlight everywhere in Jerusalem. To the right of Temple Mount is the Chistian Church (a very popular place in Jerusalem) and it is a special place to Jerusalem. In the background you can see the construction. Temple Mount is a religious site where Jews, Muslims and Christians come together.

Did you know that in Jerusalem they beleive Adam (Adam and Eve) was born, and it’s the same place where Adam built the altar. There are two reasons behind the Telmple Mount, One of them is for the people to worship the place and the second reason is to cover the Ark of the Covenant.

Assembly Livestream

Today for assembly we had a livestream assembly due to the corona virus. I was in the tane group (Kapa Haka men group) and sang with the other people in my group on the livestrem. It was fun so sing in the theater because we were loud and pround when we were singing the songs.