Commenting

L.I to comment on other people's blogs

For commenting I commented on Chris's blog post about pulleys.

Basic facts

L.I to know your basic facts

For basic facts I did the speed demon challenge up to to 10.

Too much technology

L.I to identify the main ideas in a text

For reading we were given a persuasive text to read, my text was called too much technology. First we had to write what we think the text will be about before we read it. After we read the text we had to answer ten questions, we had to answer them and put them in one of four columns. After that we write about all the new information we got but before we could put it on we had to check if it was all correct information. After we finished that we wrote our new understandings about technology. Lastly we made a flip grid video telling either if we agree with the text or not.

Netball

L.I to play netball

On the 28th of August Learning Space 1 and Learning Space 2 went to Auckland netball center for their netball cluster event. From our school there were three teams, The yer 5 team, The year 6 team and the year 7&8 team. I was in the year 6 team, our first game was against panama road and we won that game 4-1. Our next game was against Glen bray school, unfortunately we lost to them 13-0. The third game was against Bailey road which we won. Our fourth game was against Sylvia park School, which we won again. Our last and final game was against against Tamaki primary Which we won 8-7. Overall we won 4 games and lost 1 game, I really enjoyed playing playing netball because I don't play it very often.

Maths

L.I to learn how to solve proportion problems

For maths Mr. Wong taught us how to solve proportion problems. a proportion is the amount of two ratios or fraction that are equivalent by. For my task this week I am doing proportion facts. It will be finished by 2/9/19.

Pulley

L.I to learn about the pulley

For inquiry we looked at another simple machine. A pulley is a rope passing through a wheel that helps people lift something. We had to answer two questions based on the pulley and also show an example of a pulley being used. As you can see we used the pulley to lift up a bucket of water of a well.

Swimming

L.I to learn water safety skills

For swimming we first did out safe entries. After that we did our streamlines, for our streamlines we have to form a triangle with one hand on top of the other. then we did swimming with are board and rolling on our backs when we need to breath. Later we did floating on our backs on our own and with the noodles. Lastly we did a competition, we had to get a toy from underwater and whoever got it first won.

Advertisement

L.I to learn about persuasive tools in advertising

For Writing we learnt about persuasive advertising. Advertising is drawing the attention of people attention and convincing them to buy you products.We had to complete six slides the first slide we did in groups answering six questions about an advertisement image. Each of those were advertising different things.

Commenting

L.I to comment on other peoples blogs

For commenting I commented on my friend Lukah's blog post about Ihumatao.

SSR selfie

L.I to talk about your book

For SSR selfie I talked about my book about the mandarin language, it is called lets learn a little mandarin.

Basic facts

L.I to know your basic facts

For basic facts I did addition up to 10.

Swimming

L.I to learn water safety skills

For swimming we first did our safe entries. Secondly we floated on our backs raising one of our hands up straight yelling help. After that we got into partners and one person had to go in the water and yell for help so the other person threw a noodle for the person to grab on and come back to the shore. lastly we did streamlines and rolling on our backs.

Incline plane

L.I to learn about an incline plane

For inquiry we learnt about an incline plane. An incline plane is a flat surface that has one side of it taller than the other, it is more commonly known as a ramp and helps take heavy loads from a lower point to a higher point. We learnt by watching videos about an incline plane.

Cybersmart

L.I to apply the print design rules

For cybersmart we were given a slide that we had to fix. For each slide we had to fix one of the four main areas of the print design rules which are, colour, commotion, layout and text.

Speech finals

L.I to listen to other peoples speeches

On the 20th of August 2019, Panmure Bridge School went to the hall to listen to the poems and speeches the the students have prepared. every student made a poem or speech and the top poems and speeches went to the finals.My favorite poem was by Mercy, her poem was called earth day. I liked this poem because it was written and because she spoke clearly.  My favorite speech was by Jack, he did a speech about plagiarism, I liked this speech because it was a really interesting topic. All of the speeches were marked by Mr. Stephenson our guest judge from Tamaki Collage.

Kiwi Can

L.I to show self discipline
For Kiwi Can we focused on self discipline, self discipline is controlling yourself. For this topic we played two games that required self control.

 The first game was called rats and rabbits, in this game two people (one rat and one rabbit) had to get the cone before their opponent did. After that we talked about coping with challenges and things you're scared of. For our activity we had to do four challenges, each of them we had to complete in one minute. Our first challenge was doing five push ups, five sit ups, five squats and five burpees in one minute, this was my favorite challenge because it was a physical activity except for the push ups.

 The second challenge we did was matching the Maori colour names to the English colour names in one minute, this challenge was hard for me because I don't know many words in Maori. Our third challenge was recreating the Kiwi Can catchphrase in one minute and them do it in front of the class, creating different actions were hard because we had to be really creative. Our fourth and last challenge was writing the alphabets backwards, this challenge was hard because we had to think a lot.

Proportions

L.I to learn about proportions.

For maths we got taught by Mr. Wong about proportions. proportions are when two or more rations or fractions are equivalent to each other. The task that I,am doing this week is simple proportion word problems, it is a WIP (Work in progress) and will be finished by the 26 of August 2019.

Ihumatao

L.I to identify the main ideas of a text

For reading we are writing about why we support one side of the Ihumatao protest. We had to write from the information we learnt in the past three weeks, I chose the protesters and the Maori's slide because they own the land and they have the right to do whatever they want with it. For our argument we had to give three main points about why you the think the land should no be built on or should be built on.

Ratios

L.I to learn about ratios

For maths we learnt about ratios. we use ratios show a relationship or compare two numbers of the same kind like apples to oranges. For my task I did ratio facts.

Cybersmart

L.I to learn about the print design rules

For Cybersmart we learnt about the print design rules. The print design rules are made up four things, composition, layout, color, and text. For out task we had to differentiate the slides into the column we thought was suitable for the slide, we also had to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down depending of if it was a good slide.

Fractions

L.I to learn how to add and subtract fractions

For maths we learnt how to add and subtract fractions by Mr. Wong. We learnt if the fractions have different denominators we have to find a different we have to find a equivalent fractions. We learnt by getting a tutorial by Mr. Wong. This week for our task I an doing adding and subtracting fractions, it is a work in progress (WIP)

Ihumatao

L.I to identify the main ideas in a text

For reading we continued with our Ihumatao slides. This week we looked at the history of the land. For this activity we were given a link to an Radio New Zealand article about the history of the land and we had to fill it out in out on our slides from the first event to the latest.

The Loin King

L.I to see The Lion King stage show

On Wednesday the 7th of August 2019 Mr. Ogilvie's reading groups wen to OJC (Ormiston junior Collage to watch The Lion king performance. First we met the principle, he is called LOL (leader of leaning). After that we met the director of the performance and the deputy principle. The show was really good and the costumes looked amazing, my favorite Character was Mufasa. After the play we got a tour to Ormiston Junior Collage, it is a really big School. Thank you to Ormiston Junior Collage for having us at their school for this amazing performance.

Swimming

L.I to learn how to swim and be safe in water

 For swimming we were looking at how to swim faster in water. For this we used our legs and go in a up and down motion under the water. We also did streamlines to and back from the other.

Rube Goldberg

L.I to understand who Rube Goldberg was

For Inquiry we learnt about Rube Goldberg. Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist that created simple machines. For the first part of our must do we created a slide deck about who Rube Goldberg was. For  second activity, we created a simple machine using our bodies.

Kiwi Can

L.I to Understand emotions

For Kiwi Can we talked about about how to understand emotions and rate them on the intensity scale. For our energizer we got a card with an emotion written on it and we had to find people with a synonym of the word you have. After we found those people we had to put them in order of less intense to most intense. After the energizer we talked about how emotions can effect you friends and family. For our activity in groups we were given a card with what act we had to, our act was about arguing about who gets to kick the drop goal in  the final of a rugby tournament.

Writing

L.I to write a speech

For writing we are doing a writing a  persuasive speech for a competition. This week we chose our topic. My topic was why soccer should be a curriculum idea, We used a rhetorical question to star our speech and then we followed it up with our opinion.

Ihumātao

L.I to learn about Ihumātao

For reading we looked at the Ihumātao protest. The protest has been going on for a week. It is about a piece of land that the Maori and the protesters are fighting for, they believe that the land I their ancestors land and they want to keep it sacred. A housing company called Fletcher want to build houses on. We did four slides explaining what was going on using the Who,What, When,Where,Why, how long it takes to get there and more.

Basic facts

L.I to learn your basic facts

For basic facts I did multiplication.

Kiwi Can

L.I to  emotions

For Kiwi can we talked about emotions. For this subject we played two games. For the first game we did little tasks like doing star jumps, after each activity we talked about how we felt doing them. For our second game, we were given a piece of paper with something written on it that we had to do a skit about. The game was called Charades. 

Fractions of sets

L.I to learn Fractions of sets.

For maths we learned how to do fractions of sets. Fractions of sets is dividing/sharing something into 1/5, 2/5, 3/5 and etc. This week I did adding and subtraction word problems. My quiz is z work in progress.