Descriptive Writing

Today for writing Aung Naing and I needed to write a story from a shoes' perspective, the thing is, we couldn't talk. It got confusing at times because we both had ideas but they were nothing alike. We also needed to use the some of the senses to describe what was happening to the shoe. After that, we listened to the other group's stories and then we presented our own.

As my tired, soggy and worn out body slowly scrapes across the muddy concrete floor, I think back to what happened this morning. 

Just as I was about to fall asleep, these 5 wrinkly, cheese smelling things are shoved inside me. Their sharp tips scratch my innards and get caught in my fabric. I angrily chafe this intruder, and it responds by smacking me against a wall. As I’m unwilling to be torn on any sharp objects, I relent and let the smelly thing be. After an hour or so of running, my friend and I are forced to watch as the giant goes straight through a puddle of mud- with us still attached! It only groaned as a huge amount of water started flooding through my skin. 

Boy do I hate being a shoe.

Reading Presentation

Today for reading Jack, Aung Naing and I needed to present our DLO on the history topic that we'd chosen. We picked the medieval times. After creating the google drawing on our topic, we also made a kahoot. This part was a bit harder because we wanted to make pictures to go with the questions, so we spent a lot of our time on those.

Teaching Younger Students About Firework Safety

Today Learning Space 2 got into groups and each created a presentation that gave 5 rules about safety when it came to fireworks as it is Guy Fawkes day (or fireworks night). To do this Jack, Aung Naing and I needed to make the 5 safety rules short but entertaining. When we'd finished, we presented our slideshow to Room 1. I liked doing this because we were able to create pictures.

The Real Cost For Adopting A Dog

For maths this week LS2 needed to research the cost of adopting a dog in groups, the people in my group were Aung Naing and Joseph. The final lifetime cost for adopting the border collie that we picked was $44,027.79. After finding how much it'd cost, we needed to present our DLO to the rest of the class.

Current Events Map

This week for reading Aung Naing, Joseph, Jack, Julian and I worked together to fill out a google map with international events. We needed to search through different news websites to find stories that fit the current event criteria. Our story for oddity is twin pandas being born in Belgium and for impact, bush fires.

Tech

This week at tech was our last, and for it we needed to finish off our movies. Our teacher, Miss Munoz was giving out prizes for the best movie and, my group (Aung Naing, Nevaeh and myself) won the first place prize. Our movie is basically just a showcase of what you could make your robots do. Thank you to Miss Munoz for teaching us.

STEAM Catapult Challenge

Last week for STEAM our task as a group was to create a catapult out of paper, tape and blu-tack. My group: Aung Naing, Sela, Karlos, Matthew and myself worked together to create a trebuchet. After rolling around 15 pieces of paper tightly, we taped them together to build the body. We also used a small plastic container to hold the object we were firing. Once our catapult was finished my group tested it out on a target.

HIIT

Today in HIIT Learning Space 2 were doing upper body focused circuits, the three rotations that we had were mountain climbers, pull ups and push ups. As a warm up we needed to get into partners and then try to tap our partner on the shoulders, the next warm up was the same but instead of their shoulders, we needed to tap their knees. After that we needed to get into partners again and do the three rotations. At the end the whole class needed to squat up and down to the song flowers by Moby. Only 13 people managed to do the whole song.

Where Am I Challenge

Today Aung Naing and I were working together on a collaborative challenge, for it we needed to find out where the image was and then answer 5 questions: What is it, where is it, who uses it, when was it built and why is it there. We also needed to find 5 facts for each building/monument, take a screen-shot of it on google maps and find and attribute an image of it. We learnt many new things like how the Eiffel Tower wasn't meant to stay, the Sydney Opera house cost 102 million AUD and that the Mona Lisa is priceless meaning that it can't be insured.

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.

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.