Paper Plane Analysis

This week is leadership week for the year 7s. Leadership week is when the current year 7s gather together and complete activities to grow their leadership skills. This week the year 7s have been completing team challenges to help us develop our leadership skills. For this challenge we were to find new groups. In my group I had Angela, Aung Naing, Mele, and myself. Together we communicated, collaborated, and discussed about this challenge. For this we were to find a helpful website that taught us how to create a paper plane. Together my group and I found a website that taught us how to create a fast paper plane. After creating these paper planes we were to go outside and start throwing our paper planes as a group. As a class the year 7's gathered together and threw their planes group by group in the hall. As a result for the team challenge Julian's group won with a score of 14.1. The furthest throw was Chavda with a result of 14.5. Above shows the DLO that we created together. The graph above shows the distances of each person.

Leadership Challenges

Because this week is leadership all of the year 7 students have been working together to build or strengthen their leadership skills. The first task after getting into our groups was to answer questions and find solutions for problems like how to get students to only drink water. After that we all headed to the hall where in our groups of four we were told to create cubes out of diamonds, to do that we needed to cut out diamonds from different coloured sugar paper and then place them together to make the cubes. My group Aung Naing, Marieta, Te Pounamu and my self won the first round. In the second round the four groups were put joined into two and were given the same task, my team didn't win that time but it was still fun to do. The last things that we did were teamwork exercises where we needed to go from one side of the hall to the other by going under our teammates.

CARE Award: Silver Confidence | How To Stand Up To Bullies

This is a DLO on how to stand up to bullies that I made for my confidence CARE award, in it I mention how people can help those who're being bullied, what makes someone a bully, and a non-physical way to deal with them. Bullying might seem like a joke in the playground but it's a real thing, victims of bullying can remain scared of the bully for the rest of their lives.

CARE Award: Silver Confidence | Sleep Survey Responses

This was a task for my confidence CARE award, for it I needed to create a survey on a topical issue so I chose sleep. In my survey I asked questions like how long (On average) people sleep for, if technology (Phones, computers etc) stopped them from sleeping properly, if they liked sleeping and when they usually went to sleep. I used a pie chart for this because although I could've used a bar graph I wanted to see exactly how much of the class chose this or that. Another thing in this DLO is my opinion on the options and reasons why, I answered the survey as well.

Athletics Day

Because last week on Friday was the annual athletics day for Panmure Bridge School, all of the students from year 1 to 8 were put into their year groups and given a colour. The colour that they had represented their team, and because there were only 9 activities each group had to rotate every 10-15 minutes. The colour teams were split into two groups, one of them being A and the other B so for example; in the yellow group there'd be a yellow A and B. There were activities like Rob The Nest, Frisbee Throwing, Egg & Spoon Race, a Sponge Race and Shot Put. After all of the activities we had the sprints, where the year groups were split into their genders and needed to race 60 metres. I'm not that good at sprinting but I still managed to achieve fourth.

My Progress In Readtheory

Today in reading our task was to find and make a graph about our Readtheory progress over all of the year, I think that throughout the year I've gotten better and better at answering the comprehension and other questions that the site gives you after you read a text. Depending on what grade/level you're up to the stories or explanations and the questions will get harder and harder, the only way to raise your level is by answering all of the questions correctly.

CARE Award: Confidence - Teaching Students How To Draw

Yesterday Jack, Sanujan and I went to Tamaki College to teach some of their students how to draw and trace images, we showed them the slideshow that we'd made and some examples of images that'd been drawn and traced by us or other students from Learning Space 2. While we were there we helped them trace an image of their liking and also taught them about the different tools that they could use for tracing on a google drawing, it seemed like they really enjoyed it because all of them were focused on their drawings and only occasionally asked for help. I enjoyed teaching the other students because I found how fast they improved interesting.

CARE Award: Confidence - Teaching The Class Animating

On Friday two weeks ago and last week Jack, Miki and I worked with a group of the class to help them improve their animating skills, the first thing that they needed to do was choose an image that they liked off of the internet and then use either the poly line or curve tool to trace the outline of their chosen image. Depending on whether the image had straight lines or curved one they'd need to use a different tool. Since many people are at different stages of drawing the class was split into two groups, one for people who were new to google drawings and the other for experts. Jack, Miki and I worked with the class really well and everyone's skills were definitely improving by the end of the session. Everyone likes doing animating so I hope the we can keep doing it.

Facts About Meerkats

Yesterday Mrs Anderson read us one of her favourite books, one called Meerkat Mail. The author of the book is Emily Gravett who has written a lot of children's books that even older children can enjoy. One thing that I liked about the book was how it showed all kinds of different animals that Meerkats are related to, like the Mongoose. I worked with Ofa and Carl to find interesting facts about where Meerkats live, what they like to eat and what they look like.

Comparing Myths And Facts About Wolves

 

This week has been book week. We have had quite a few challenges based on the stories we read as young children. Our teacher Mrs Anderson has also set us a few challenges based on a few books that she read as a child. This one being Wolves. It is written by Emily Gravett, and illustrated by her too. This book explains and gives a few facts about wolves, and includes lovely images to paint a picture into your head. Our challenge, was to come up with around 5 myths about wolves, and then research them and see if they are true or false. This task could be done alone, or with a partner, so I chose to work with Fraidoon.

Armistice Day: Drawing A Picture

Since this week is the 100th anniversary for the armistice another one of LS2's follow up tasks was to create or trace an image of what the end of World War 1 would've been like back then, I worked with Jack, Fraidoon and Ofa to create this image. I really like how it looks because it has poppies and other aspects of war.

Armistice Day Commemoration Assembly

This Sunday marks the 100 year anniversary for the World War One armistice day, but since we don't go to school on Sunday, we had our own armistice commemoration to pay our respects to those who fell for us. The assembly was held outside next to the blue fence, people like a member from the New Zealand Defence Force, board of trustees members and the head students came and gave speeches too. Two pieces of music called The Last Post and Reveille were played as the flag was being lowered and risen. Afterwards the member from the New Zealand Defence Force came to our class and talked to us about what he did and answered any questions we had like; How many years he'd been in the army, what rank he was, why he wanted to be in the Defence Force and some other things that we asked about.

Armistice Day Commemoration DLO

To commemorate those who fell in the first world war LS2's task was to create a photo collage of people and soldiers celebrating the end of the first world war, I worked with Julian. Another task that we were set was researching World War 1, over 18,000 New Zealander soldiers died in World War 1, and around 37 million people died all together. World War 1 caused so many young men and women to lose their lives, whether from bombing, trenches or disease, their sacrifice should not and will not be forgotten.

Collaborative Comprehension

This week one of our tasks for reading was to partner up with someone from the opposite group (In my case someone from Ms Kirkpatrick's group). I partnered up with Aung Naing and together we needed to first, read the text and then answer the questions. Another thing that we needed to do was provide evidence from the text. The only thing I found hard about answering the questions was needing to provide the evidence from the text. I learnt a lot of new things from reading this text, and one of them was the amount of soldiers (On both sides) who died.