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.