A Special Visit

The Summer Learning Journey for NEXT Foundation from Next Foundation on Vimeo.

Today at assembly we had people from the NEXT foundation come to our school. Rachel, Hazel and all the other people from hosting The Summer/Winter Learning Journey came to launch the next Summer Learning Journey. The Summer Learning Journey is hosting during the summer holidays. The NEXT Foundation have made an excellent movie with our school. The movie is about a student in our school completing The Summer Learning Journey. After our school assembly, The NEXT Foundation provided us lunch and it was delicious.

Princess Bride Opening Sequence

This Term for our media study we have been learning about the Princess Bride. For this activity we had to find out about prologue. Who are the characters introduced in the prologue? What is the setting of the main story? How is humour used to stop the scene from being too over the top and who are the main characters in the main story?

Election Results

This morning we were learning what is a Coalition and how affects the election. A Coalition is when Political parties join forces to help choose a new Prime Minister. E.g: If Winston Peters joins Labour they will win and if he joins National they will win. Today I learnt what a Coalition is.  

Democracy

This is a DLO about democracy and what it means. When I made this DLO I learnt a lot about what democracy means and also I learnt how the government works just a little bit more. I worked with Fraidoon, Daniel, Aj, Eric, Oh Hsen and Cj.

NZ Prime Minister

This is a DLO I made about the Prime Minister David Lange who was an amazing Prime Minister who stood up for New Zealand and what he believed was right for the country. I had a lot of fun researching about David and what wonders he brought to the country. I made this DLO with help from Eric, Aj, Cj, Daniel, Oh Hsen and Fraidoon.

Bullying Animation

Today Te wai, Sylis, harlem and I made a animation about bullying first we talked about how to stand up and we also talked about useing our WITS and being a role models.

Tamaki College

On Friday all the year 8's went to Tamaki College for the day. First we went to hard materials for Tech with Mr Grundy. We are going to make our own class design we had to plan what our design would look like. It could be a mirror or a flower, it can be any thing we want it to be. At 10:50 we walked over to the library to have our morning tea in the library. There were two teachers waiting for us. Mr Dunn and Mr Jones. Mr Jones was the maths teacher. Mr Dunn is the Deputy Principal. After we head off to Mr Jones' classroom for maths. We played a game of battleships. He shared a google draw with us that had a grid with five ships on it and we had to randomly put them anywhere. At 12:00 we went to science. We were learning about static electricity. An example is if you try to put left and right magnets together they will stick, but if you but a left and left magnet together they will try to get as far away as possible from each other. After that we had lunch back at the library, then we had English with Ms Stevenson. In English we had to look at some words carefully and memorise them. We then had to write them down on a document and find images of the words. Our last class was PE. We played a game of turbo touch. My team scored 3, the red team scored 5 and the no bibs score 2. I really had a fun day I would like to thank Tamaki College for welcoming us.

Kate Sheppard

Today Eric, Oh Hsen, Shannon and I created a google slide DLO about Kate Sheppard. We placed our questions onto a slide and wrote the answers on another slide. We all had a conversation about the learning and read the facts together to put onto our DLO. Some of us gathers our ideas and put them together. What was challenging in this activity was finding the right information to write in our own words.

The Six Sisters

Today Lyndon and I just finished our Matariki DLO The six Sisters you are properly thinking what I thought it was the seven sisters the seventh one is the mother I can not tell you more you would have to read it to find out.

Graph

Today Oh sen and I just finished our graph me and had to find how many people in our class room who dropped rubbish and if our school needs more rubbish bins and some signs around PBS to help the litter problem.

Dance

Today Shannon and I my partner made a dance involving shapes like triangles, rectangle and many more the group we were working with had to record our dance.

Samoan Cricket - Kilikiti

Today I have been learning about Kilikitis. We watched this video about Kilikiti it showed the rules, what you do and what happens it is like cricket but different you use a different bat and a ball. Mainly the Samoan played this game but now different countries play it like new Zealand, Tonga and many more.

Dance

Today group A in LS2 did dance we had to make our own dance involving shapes and angles like 360 or 450 we had to watch this video me and my partner Harlem M had to make our own dance so we used some of the moves from the video and made it our own.

Living Wast Free

Today I made a google draw about living wast free here are some ways to live wast free.

Complex Sentences

Hi my name is CJ I have created this google draw to show you how to write a complex sentence we have been learning about this for the past couple of days.

World Of Maths

Yesterday LS2 and LS1 went to the hall  for world of maths we were put into groups then the teachers gave us a game my groups first game was GRAZING we had to measure by using a toy cow it was pretty hard but we finished it i thing the hardest game was Pattern Play because you had to use time table and division and it was challenging.

Tech cooking class

Today at tech the year 8's made chocolate head choke it is a cake with a lot of peanuts, coconut, coco and melted chocolate buttons we tip the chocolate on to the chocolate cake then we put the cake in the fridge and let it set.

Dance

Today group B did dance we had to do it with a partner. My partner was Harlem. Harlem and I had to pick a song to go with our work out out song was trap king by goblin mixes first we did setups then push ups, stretched and did a couple of star jumps.

Current Events

In China people hunt animals with ivory and kill them just for there ivory then sell it so the Chinese government banned capitalism.

Why Auckland Needs To Conserve Water

 

Shannon,Daniel and I created a DLO about why we Auckland needs to conserve water. Water care says each person should save 20 liters, tern of the tap when brushing teeth and when doing dishes.

5 Things To Do Before You Leave Bush Walk

Today Shannon and I made a google drawing showing symbols of 5 things to do before you leave bush walk.

Comparative and Superlative

Happy	Happier	Happiest

Today Ms K group learnt about the comparative and superlative of words. The comparative word for happy, is happier and the superlative word for happy is happiest. I used pictures to show someone who is happy, someone who is happier and someone who is the happiest.  

Water care Auckland

Today LS2 went outside and made some rivers from the way we formed a rock our team name was Snapers and we got two rivers and if we got water on a place but it did not go across the board that was a lake but the thing that blocked it we the islands.

Kiwisports - Futsal

Tech

Today LS2 went to Tech it was the first time the year 7s who went to Tech all of the year 8s went to cooking class we made. We made toasted bread with spaghetti pineapple and ham in it. I'm so excited for next week because we making kebabs which is one of my favorite food.

  

PBS Values

Today my group and I learned about the four values Confidence, Attitude, Respect, Excellence and Innovation why we had to do this is because the year 7s had to know what the 4 values meant all of the year 8 had to lead them and help them.