Steampunk Art

This week we are learning about Victorian era and Steampunk art. Steampunk art was originally from the Victorian era. Steampunk art is a mix of modern and old technology such as gear, clocks and some other steampunk stuffs. Our first activity before making DLO is to draw something that is connected to steampunk, I drew a fish that has a gear on it, you can do any animal and just make it like its made out of metal. For this activity I worked with Carl, we work collaboratively to do this activity.

Read Theory - Progress

Today LS2 have been making the graph that shows our Read Theory Progress. We have shown the progress from 2017 and 2018. From the start of the year I started on grade 6. Currently I am at grade 8. This has been a big improvement.

Book Bar Graph - What Makes A Book Boring?

Today we have been gathering information about what make a book boring. We joined as a class and rotated around the room answering questions on a paper. We would then use Google spread sheet and create a graph, showing what makes a book boring. We have found out that most people find a book boring due to the unattractive pictures and Vocabulary. 

WW1 Who Were The Allied Forces?

Today we have been learning more about WW1. We have listed many questions we would like to figure out. Our main question was, who were the allied forces? This question was something our group talked about, and was something we could agree with to have a understanding to our answer. 

Length & Width Of Book

This week is Book Challenge Week. Me and Junior have decided to create a DLO on the width and length of a book. We have chosen three random books and measured them. We have noticed that each book has 19cm of length.

A Setting From A Book

This week is Book Challenge Week. We have been given a task list to do. We have decided to complete a task where we have to redesign a setting in our book. Me and my partner Dallas have decided to redesign the theme park from the book Diary Of A Minecraft Zombie.

Alphabet Key - Author

Alphabet Key - Author

A - Anthony Horowitz

B - Bible

C - Captain Underpants

D - Dr. Seuss

E - Extreme Survival

F - Freak Street

G - Goosebumps

H - Hairy Maclary

I - Infinity Ring

J - Jack and the Beanstalk.

K - Katie and the sunflowers

L - Liz Pichon

M - Mary and the mouse, The Mouse and Mary

N - Noisy Nora

O - One piece

P - The Perfect Princess

Q - Quiet Night

R - Roald Dahl

S - Spiderwick

T - Tom gates

U - Uncle Scrooge

V - V for Vendetta

W - William Taylor

X - X men

Y - Yawn

Z - Zeke Meeks

This week we have been given a task list to do with our partner. We have to complete a task and blog it. We decided to choose the alphabet key because we have many knowledge on this. We had to write author's names or a book title.

Reading Journey

Today we have created a DLO on the books we loved reading during school. We have chosen six books to show our reading journey and a description of why we loved the book. I have chosen : The Very Hungry Caterpillar, I Spy, Tashi, Goosebumps, Captain Underpants and Tom Gates. When I was three my favorite book use to be The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But know my favorite book series is Tom Gates, a comedy and adventure book.

Armistice Day Commemoration

Today Panmure Bridge held a commemoration for Armistice Day since it is on Sunday. Armistice day which is every year on November the 11th to mark and remember the sign between the Allies of World War 1 and when the gun fell silent. We celebrate this to remember those who fought for their country during World War  We were lucky to have a member from the NZ Defense Force. During this commemoration we I read the pray at the start of the commemoration, Tiava and Jeremiah (head boy and head girl) read the oath, and Ms Kirkpatrick (deputy principal) read In Flanders Field. During the commemoration we were silent for a minute to remember the soldiers who died during World War 1. There was also 3 olive tree to represent the past, present, and future. We also played the Last Post which is where we were silent for a minute. After our commemoration we had the member from the NZ defense fore speak to us. I learnt that we he was 19 he went to Afghanistan to help out the citizens of Afghanistan by looking after the schools, kids, and also the roads.

Tech - Graphics

This week for Tech we have finished our charity box. Today Mr Pineda which is our Tech teacher was not here so Mr Mackenzie-Brown ( Reliever )  came and helped us. We have created a charity box to represent what charity we chose.

Bridge Labeling

Today for inquiry we made our own version of the Panmure bridge on a google drawing. We labeled all of the different parts of the bridge and that are used to build the bridge. There are 4 different parts to the bridge that is the bridge deck so people and cars can go across the iron swing opens so the boats can get to the other side, abutment is to hold the iron swing and the piles holds the bridge deck and prevents it from collapsing. 

Spaghetti Bridge Building

For the last two weeks Miss Kirkpatrick Inquiry group has been building bridges out of spaghetti. This was a very fun and creative piece of work we have done this year. We would draw a type of bridge we would like to build with all the correct measurements. We would then be provided with : a packet of spaghetti, rubber bands and tape. We would use all the equipment to construct our bridge. Each spaghetti was around 25 centimeters so it would be difficult, what type of bridge it was and how long or tall it was. Once all the planing was done we would have to make the deck of the bridge. We would use the rubber bands to make the spaghetti stay in bundles of ten. After we have constructed our bridge we would use an S hook to hang bricks to test the stability and strength on the bridge. My groups bridge was able to withstand 6 bricks.

Duffy Assembly

Today it was special Duffy assembly at the hall. The thing that special about were Machel Mulipola came to our school and explaining about his job. The Michel Mulipola is the Samoan but New Zealand comic illustrator. He is not just illustrator he also semi professional gamer and wrestler. He is the comic books and school journey artist and illustrator. There are some Michel Mulipola's books at our school and it called Frogs. One of the thing that he told us was using our face and writing the characters emotion is easier. 

Why Do People Build Bridges

Why do we build bridges?

Bridges help us today all over the world for specific reasons. Bikes, cars and skateboards use bridges to make transport faster and easier. Bridges are built to get from point A across to point B faster and easier.

Unfortunately in the past the Tamaki bridge we know today did not exist in the 18th century. Thus crossing the river was peoples only choice to get to their destination. Taking punts or boats were the only common choices to get across faster and easier. Although sometimes there was a consequence to crossing. People would drown in the process of getting across. This made the river very dangerous to some people, it was so common that drowning was called the New Zealand disease.

In the 19th century in 1865 the first bridge was built and was the start of fast transport. Currently taking a bridge is fast transport for most of us. But again traveling back in time people had to pay to cross the Tamaki bridge in the 19th century. This also was the start for dry transport.

It’s easier to see the truth on why people build bridges now. The point was that it could save lives, faster transport and for boats to cross the river. There's much more than just the view from a bridge or just crossing it.

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HIIT

Today was the last week for HITT (High Intense Interval Training) program. For the last 15 weeks we have been doing HIIT twice every week, we have had lots of rotations through the exercises and found our favorites. This training program is for us to increase our heart rate by Pau te hau which in Maori means getting puffed. The 4 exercises we did was tap steps, push ups, star jumps and sit ups. For these rotations we did the 4 sets of each. We also had 20 seconds to do each exercise. We got an extra 10 seconds for a little brake to regain our energy.

Exponents ( Powers )

Today for math we have been focusing on exponents which is also known as powers. You can solve them very easily if you know your times table. For example if your writing 10² then you would write 10 x 10 = 100. But if it is a cubed question then you would write it like this 10³ 10 x 10 x 10.

Orchestra Trip

Today most of Ls2 were invited to the Auckland Dance Project at the Auckland Town Hall. We saw multiple instruments I have never hard of. Like Bassoon, Cello, Double Bass, Viola and a Tuba. There where different sections with different types of instruments. There was the Brass instruments, Woodwind, String and the percussion instruments.

Virtual Realality

Today we had Yvonne and her research team from the Augmented human lab at Auckland University come in to make our learning more creative. We where all split into three groups with our named labeled on the table. One group would use a VR while the other groups used Ipads. Each group learnt about the first Panmure Bridge, about what parts it was built out of and how it was built.

Sensory Verbs

In writing we have complete a test about sensory verbs. The test was very easy and thats why I got them all correct. Sensory verbs are what we use while you are talking. These are the examples of what they are : taste, hear, smell, touch, and see.
Link To Quiz

Character Book Review

For the last 3 weeks  Mrs Anderson's reading group has been doing book reviews on their books. A book review is when you read a book and you do a task. At the moment I've already completed my comic strip about the book. I have know moved onto creating a drawing on the setting the book took place on. Then I would create a movie trailer all about the book.

Ven Diagram

This term for inquiry w have been learning about structures. We have learnt about bridges, tunnels and towers. So we have decided to compare all three structures and put it into a ven diagram. We used three circles instead of two.

How to Tell Analogue Time

      Analogue Time

Have you ever wondered how to tell analogue time? Analogue time has 12 numbers there are 24 hours in a day. The 24 hours are halved in 2 periods of time. Am and pm remind you what time of the day it is.

There are also hands on an analogue clock, there are two hands, the big hand and the small hand, the big hand tells minutes and the small hand tells hours. The easy thing to remember about analogue time is that it is divided into 4 quarters. 12, 3, 6 and 9. The hour hand will go around the clock for 60 minutes until the next hour.

Now you should understand most things you need to know. All that is left is to teach you how to read the clock. When the small small hand is on the 5 and the long hand is on the 1, the time would be 5:05. And if the short hand was on the 6 and the long hand was on the 4, the time would be 6:20.

Now I hope you have learnt how to tell analog time, it is not too difficult to tell analog time and it is not too simple to learn it, analog time can make miracles happen, it can save you from being late on a special occasion and avoid you from many problems.

Today we have wroten a explanation about how to tell analogue time. When the small hand is on the 5 and the long hand is on the 1, the time would be 5:05. And if the short hand was on the 6 and the long hand was on the 4, the time would be 6:20.

  

HIIT - Week 5

This week for HIIT ( High Interval Intense Training ) Our exercises today was to do push ups, squats, tap steps and star jumps but doing them tabata timing ( Picking up the speed ) We showed resilience and commitment while we had no music to listen to.

Sky Tower Visit

Today LS2, LS1 and room 5 visited the sky tower to learn about its features. Our class was split into two groups, and both groups got the chance to walk around the Sky Tower. Each groups went to three stations, the theater, the observation deck and the emergency room. Each room was apart of the sky tower and had lots of details to them. We watched several clips of the Sky Tower history, and what places you could visit. Some interesting facts I found about of the Sky Tower is that, the Sky Tower is 338 meters tall, It weighs the same amount as 6000 elephants. We would like to thank Douglas Bates for donating the money to make this happen.

Why Sleep Is So Important

Through the previous weeks my reading group worked collaboratively together to create a DLO about Sleep. Today my group presented our sleep DLO to everyone.The type of reading we used to create our DLO was reciprocal reading.We also used a strategy called inferring. Inferring means reading between lines and combining clues from a particular text and using our prior knowledge to get an idea. We all used our great researching skills to find interesting information and facts about sleep. At the end we summarized our DLO.

Scale Drawing

Last week we have been doing scale drawings. First you would need to find a photo that you would want to draw. Then you would want to draw your grid over your photo you have chosen, each box would be 1 cm square. You would then get your enlargement paper you would have to draw the grid two times bigger than you last one. The best strategy for drawing your picture would be drawing row by row. What I found hard was drawing the grid for the enlargement paper.

Kiwi Can

Today for kiwican, we focused on a new topic and it was Problem Solving. First we played our engiser  which was called rock,paper,scissors. All we had to was to pick a partner and when you lost you go on your knees and verse somebody else that is on their knees. We then talked about what is problem solving and some examples of it. Our activity was to get peopl on the other side of the rope without touching the rope, or going under the rope. 

HIIT

Today we had HIIT ( High Intense Interval Training ) This program is about raising our heart rate while we get puffed or in Maori pau te hau. During our session of HIIT we did 4 rotations of push ups and star jumps. Every exercise we did we had a 20 second break to regain our energy.

Food Tech - Butter Chicken

Instructions.
Step 1-  Dice the chicken
Step 2 - Fry the chicken until brown
Step 3 - Take the chicken out into the bowl.
Step 4 - Fry Onion , add sauce chicken, with the cream.
Step 5 - Serve with rice.

For today's session we made butter chicken. It was served with rice and it was amazing.The first instruction was to dice the chicken into small pieces. The next step was to fry the chicken while our partners diced the onions. After that we took out the chicken and fried the onions. We then added the butter chicken sauce, with the chicken and onion in to pan and then added 1 cup of cream. After adding them we let it simmer then turned the heat off when we saw the bubbles. 

Cape Reinga

This week we created a DLO about the Cape Reinga lighthouse. We used our smart searching skills to find out about the Cape Reinga light house. We went into different sites to help us find information. We learnt that the Cape Reinga light house on the tip of New Zealand. I learnt a lot from this activity.