Natural disasters - Earthquake

L.I to learn about earthquakes

This week we learnt about a natural disaster of our choice, we chose do the the Earthquake. Our task was to make a DLO explaining what an Earthquake is, how it is formed and what you need to do, when there is an Earthquake you should follow the drop, cover and hold.

Natural disasters - Tsunami

L.I to learn about natural disasters

This week we learnt about a natural disaster of our choice, we chose do the the tsunami. Our task was to make a DLO explaining what a tsunami is, how it is formed and what you need to do when there is a tsunami look for higher ground or go inland.

Cybersmart

L.I to explain why linking an image is important

This week for cybersmart we compared images that link to the topic and images that don't. It is important to link images to the information so the you reader can visualization. If you don't the reader will get confused with you information. Our task was to make a DLO that explains why we should link our images. We also created a vocaroo explaining this.

Famous scientists

For our distance learning this week for reading we did some research on famous scientist. For our reading topic this term we are talking about “What is Science”. We didn’t do any random scientist we could find, we were tasked at finding famous scientist that study/studied one of the four branches of science (geology/astronomy, chemistry, biology  & physics). For physics we chose Albert Einstein, for biology we chose Charles Darwin, for geology/astronomy we chose Charles Lyell, and lastly for chemistry we chose Ernest Rutherford. We also used a question dice to help us find a question to answer for the scientist (e.g: What are they known for?  Why did they study biology?).  We made an interactive slideshow having the main information about the scientist we chose.

Survey

This week we helped the juniors do a survey, the survey had questions about their reading.

Careers

L.I to find out the qualifications I will need for my job

This week for careers we found out about the qualifications needed to be an radiation oncologist. provide radiation treatment and management of patients with cancer and other medical conditions. If I want to do this job I will need to study subjects like Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and English.

Dance class #1

This term our Kiwi Sport was dance, dance is moving your body to create different movements. Our instructor was Ms. Rebecca. First we did a warm up where we did either a snake, star or stick pose. After that we started dancing around and when the music stopped we stop and made different shapes with other people. Lastly we got into groups and make letters of the alphabet using our bodies.

Life ed

L.I to make the right choices in life

This week LS2 went to life education with  Nichole and Harold the Giraffe about our brains, making right choices in life and more useful things. We also watched a video about a boy named Kapi and how his haoura went from balanced to unbalanced, the reason for this was people mocking him and what he does on his blog. One of our activities we did was describing the on of the four walls of haoura.

Science summary

L.I: To summarize the information.

This week for reading our focus is science. For this second activity my group and I skimmed and scanned our notes and shared ideas to create a collaborative summary explaining ‘what is science?
 We divided our lengthy summary into 3 following paragraphs: an introduction on science, the 4 main categories of science and the two types of science. We used a question dice that helped us with our learning and made us ask questions to help us think about our subject and provide ideas for our summary.

Science

LI: to find our 3 most vital ideas from the information answering the question 'What is Science'

This week for reading our focus is science. In groups we watched a YouTube video explaining physics, chemistry, and biology (the things that are connected to it) and why science is important to us. After watching it twice, my group and I wrote down notes about some of the information that we took and remember from the video. We negotiated on the most important 7 of the notes to separate from the rest. We left 4 of those notes as ‘very important ideas’ and picked out our 3 vital ideas.  In our opinion we thought that the 3 most vital ideas were:

1. Science is divided into 3 branches, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. 
2. Basic science is knowing something and applied science is using what we know. 
3. Science is the knowledge behind every question.