Animated Story: Scratch Project

In the context of In the neighborhood I will design and produce An animated story for Children 6-13 to be used to inform
the target audience of how littering is a bad thing to do.

My animated story is currently under construction, could you please help me by giving me feedback on my conceptual design of my animated story.

Bridge Comparison

For Inquiry this term our topic is structures. Today we were looking at bridges. In pairs we were to create a Venn Diagram comparing the Auckland Viaduct Harbour Bridge with the Golden Gate Bridge. My partner was Alex. I learnt that 11 people past away during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Did you know that cars can't cross the Auckland Viaduct Bridge.

Maths Division Problem

Today during maths we had three pretty easy problem to complete, after we'd finished it we then needed to create a DLO on it. After that we were allowed to play this game.

How To Tell Analogue Time

This week for writing our task was to create an explanation on how to read analogue time from a clock, surprisingly lots of children and teenagers don't know how to tell the time from analogue clocks and watches. I tried to make this as easy as I could to understand so if you don't I'd suggest asking someone else.

Analogue  Time

Analogue clocks and watches aren’t hard to use, once you know how, they’re as easy
as reading digital ones.

The long and short hands both represent something, the long hand is used to show
the minutes and the short one for the hours. The long hand goes around faster than the
shorter one because minutes are shorter than hours. An example of telling the time
with an analogue clock is this; if the long hand is on the 9 and the short hand is near
the 4 then the time is 3:45.

One way to help people tell the time is by using past and to, from the beginning of the
hour to 30 minutes afterwards the usual way to tell the time is by saying ten-past,
quarter-past or half-past and the way for 31 minutes to the 60th is to; ten-to, twenty-to,
etc.

Although time might seem hard to tell using an analogue clock, as long as you know
what the hands are used for clocks shouldn’t be hard to read.

Tunnel Purposes

For inquiry Ms Kirkpatrick's group needed to first get into our pairs, after that we then needed to either research different tunnel materials used for construction or the different tunnel purposes. I worked with Fraidoon, and together we found a few types of tunnels that everyday people use. Researching the different types was pretty hard because we didn't know many tunnels.

Kiwi Can

This week in Kiwi Can we were learning more about values, we also played two games, one of them was hand-knots and the other a type of dodge ball. for the hand-knots we were separated into three different groups, each with six people. in those groups we needed to hold  the hands of two people that weren't right next to us. After that was done all of the hand should've been in the middle, on top of each other. the task from then on was to somehow untangle ourselves. My group came last for that activity. For the dodge ball game we needed to get into a circle and in that circle the we were numbered from one to four. When your number was called out you and your group needed to get into the middle and the other groups needed to work together to roll the ball into you as fast as they could.

Digitech

This week during digitech the year 7 group was just continuing on with their animated stories or games since our teacher, Miss Anderson wasn't there because she was presenting at a digital showcase. My animated story is about this girl who steals a book from a wizard and is then chased by him and his familiar. That is the only piece of work that I need to finish since I've done everything else.

Sky Tower Trip

Today LS2, LS1 and Room 5 went on a trip to the Sky Tower, since it was sponsored nobody needed to pay anything, the person who sponsored our trip's name is Douglas Bates. during our trip there we were given a challenge; on this piece of paper different locations were shown, and we needed to write the name of the location. There were also clues on the bottom of it to help us figure out which was which, another thing to help was the fact that we were on the 51rst floor. Before that though, we'd watched some videos that told us lots of interesting facts about the Sky Tower, some being: It weighs around about the same as 6,000 elephants, it takes 40 seconds to get from the bottom floor to the top, it would take 29 minutes for someone to reach the top floor by only using stairs (If they walked) and that the glass walls and floor in the observation deck are as thick as the concrete floor.

Scale Drawing - Maths Week

Last week was maths week, and for it LS2 students were doing scale drawings. We needed to first, find an image that we liked off of the internet, after that we then needed to try and enlarge that image using a 1:2 ratio for enlargement. The next step was to colour the picture, and then frame it. Since this was my first time doing scale drawing I'm pretty happy with how mine came out. The best part of this activity was the colouring in, since I could then play around with different colours to see how each of them looked on the picture. The part that I found hard was the drawing since I'm not very good at copying one thing to another. Next time the only thing I'd like to improve on is time, since I took 2 days to get it done.

Whare Hauora Opening

Last week the official opening for the Whare Hauora (Medi-Cube) happened, many important people like the head of Barfoot & Thompson and other people and companies who sponsored the construction of the room. The main aims for having the cube are to allow students to access a cost-free medical facility and also a place for school nurses to stay whilst they work in the school.

The kapa Haka performed as well.

Kiwi Can

Today during Kiwi Can Group B were learning about resilience and problem solving, resilience is our theme this term. We learnt that people can problem solve every day without knowing that they were, problem solving can be used to stop arguments, speed up decisions and other things that would most likely take time. We also played hand soccer and a rock, paper, scissors game. For hand soccer we were only allowed to use our hands to try and get the ball between the "posts" which were just two cones, and for the rock, paper, scissors game we needed to go around the room battling other people in rock, paper, scissors until only one person was left.

Kiwi Can

Today in Kiwi Can we were learning more about resilience (Which is our theme) and goal setting (Which is our topic for this week). We also played two games, one was called Snatch, and the other Golden Child. For Snatch we needed to get into a circle, and inside of that circle Mr Matt placed some cones. We were then told to turn around so that we faced outwards, when Mr Matt said "go" we needed to turn around and grab a cone. If we succeeded in grabbing one we went into the next round, if we didn't then we were out. For the other game; Golden Child one team needed to get a basketball into the hoop whilst the other's objective was to make it from one side of the basketball court to the other without the shooting team getting a ball into the hoop.

Rugby League Inter-School

Today in the Dunkirk reserve the rugby league teams from Sylvia Park, Point England and Panmure Bridge participated in the inter-school for the sport. Since there were only three teams the decision was for every team to go up against the other teams twice. For our first match we were up against Sylvia Park, we managed to win 4-3. In our second match we were against Point England, though we sadly lost 7-2. In our third match we were against Sylvia Park again and this time we did even better, beating them 7-2. At the end of our match against Point England we improved a lot, although we still lost 6-3. Thank you to Mr Ogilvie (Who coached us), other players' parents (Who supported us) and the people in charge (For setting the whole event up).

Cook Island Language Week

                    
This week is Cook Island language week and for it LS2 needed to get into our groups, in our groups we then needed to write down facts about the Cook Islands, its traditional foods, phrases and its flag. I worked with Ofa, Carl, Avalon and Joshua W. Carl and I also added in audio for the phrases (We tried our best to make it sound right).

Quad Blogging

Today for my quad blogging or tuhi mai tuhi atu I commented on Jaxon from Karoro school's blog. Quad blogging is something that LS2 has been doing with other schools to encourage us to improve our writing ability as well as our work by using the helpful advice given to us by students from other schools.