Book review | SLJ | W2

This year the summer learning journey topic is changemakers. Today I got asked to write a short review of a book. That had to include what the book was about and what we liked about it. I picked the book "The Secret Country" it had lots of amazing information about it.

The Right to an Education | SLJ | W2

LI: To write anything we would like to talk about.
This years topic is change-makers. Today I got asked to write anything I would like to talk about and I picked netball. The reason why I picked netball is because it is my favourite sport and because we went undefeated. I talked about our netball team and what we do every week.

The Right to Vote | SLJ

Today I am doing the summer leaning journey. I got asked to imagine our New Zealander government decides to make new $10 bank note an replace Kate Sheppard with a picture of a different New Zealand women. For this activity I would pick Whina Cooper. Because she worked many years to fight for her people. Also to improve a lot of Maori Women.

Climate Change | SLJ | School Strike for Climate

LI: To read an article and write three things you have learnt about.
Today I have completed an activity for week 2 of the summer learning journey. This activity asked me to read an article about Greta Thunberg. In 2018 she stated protesting instead of her going to school she inspired school strike for climate. I also had to take a photo of me helping climate change.

Nelson Mandela's Journal | SLJ | W2

LI: To write a journal of Nelson Mandela's experience in Robben Island Prison.
Today is the Summer Learning journey W2 I am doing. I got asked to imagine I was nelson Mandela and wrote a journal of what I do each day. I first started of with day 1. I made it more descriptive by adding what they eat for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Dear Jacinda | SLJ | W2

This week I got asked to write a letter to our New Zealander prime minister Jacinda Ardern. It had to include a issue i could choose. I chose Measles. The reason why i picked Measles is because it is a very contagious virus that spreads. It is a very big issue.

Taking the Lead | SLJ | W2

This week i got asked to write 5 things I like to do and pictures of me doing them. I picked netball because it is my favourite sport and i enjoy to play. I also picked rugby, Swimming, eating food and hanging out with my family.

Against the odds | SLJ

Today I got asked to list 3 main things i keep treasured to myself, that are important and why.

Family:
The reason i picked my family is because when i'm going through rough times they are always there to cheer me up and help me. I will always have them in my heart. Another reason why I picked family is because i have alot of cousins, aunties and uncles. Its better to have these type of people in my life.

Pacific rim production:
Pacific rim production is a Pacific islander group. I have been in for a year. We have two main people in this production which is the CEO and the coordinator but sometimes we call them auntie and uncle because they are a second family to us. This production takes place in Glen Ines. The kids learn different types of cultural dancing and perform local. 


Family Reunion:
They reason why I treasured family reunion because it is a very important time for me. I get to meet my new cousins aunties and uncles. I have a very big family so it is about time I should meet my cousins. I get to learn new facts about them.

Commenting | SLJ

This week I have finished commenting on Afatia's blog post about all her work she had blogged about the summer learning journey. She had put alot of effort into the work witch mad me want to comment.

Worth her Weight in Gold | SLJ

Today for my last activity of day four I got asked to make a brouchure.  For this brouchure we had to create a travel brouchure to any pacific island. I chose Niue because its my home town. I used canva as my brouchure.

Whats in a name?

This week I got asked to think of a name that I could change my own name, if I became famous. I thought of the name Elena The reason why i picked this name is because its a Spanish name.

Making a Racket

I had learnt that long time ago wimblendon became the last "Grand slam to grant" Women equal prize money.

The second fact I had learnt is in 2005, Venus Williams won wimblendon in what was the longest womeans final in history.

The last fact I had learnt was Serena made $84M less than one of a professional tennis player named Roger Federer.


This week I got asked to watch a video about two sister Vemus and Serena Williams that are American tennis players. After that I had to write on my blogpost three things that I have learnt off the video and one thing I would like to know.

Dream Job | SLJ | doctor

Today for my last activity of day 3 I had to ask a family member or a friend what they would be when they grow up or there dream job. I asked my friend Farzana. Her response was to be a doctor. I had to write six things I could do to support her with this job.

Defying the Odds | SLJ | Steven Adams

Q1 - What were you thinking?
Q2 - Why did you become a basketball player?
Q3 - How long have you've been a famous basket ball player?
Q4 - Would you want to retire?
Q5 - What are your next plans?

Today for my second activity of day 3 I got asked to think of five questions, I would like to asked Steven Adams (A famous basketball player). He is a New Zealander basket ball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball association.

Team players | Powers | SLJ

3 powers:
I would have the power to know every thing. Witch means the power of smartness
I would have the power of time travel because if someone had done something bad in the past like Adolf Hiter I could change that bad thing.
I would have telepathy because if someone is going through bad stuff I can help them.

Today is the 3rd day of the summer learning journey activity. I got asked to write on my blog post three super powers I would have and the reason why. I picked the power to everything, time travel and telekinesis

Miracle on the Hudson | SLJ 2019

I was just about to jump off the YMCA swimarama diving well. I was terrified to see the bottom of the pool. I got confident as people were cheering on for me.. Butterflies were tingling as I was panicking to see the bottom of the pool. I jumped because I saw how big the line was getting. It was a long jump. I was so relieved I jumped off the diving board.

I had finished the last activity for day two. Today I got asked to write a short paragraph someone or yourself has done to be brave. I wrote about me jumping of the swimarama diving well pool for the first time.

Acrostic Poem | SLJ

This week I got asked to write a poem. I decided to write a Acrostic poem. On My blog, I had to write a short poem describing how I felt. I used the word MOON for my Acrostic poem.

Jean Earhart And Amelia Earhart Venn Diagram | SLJ | 4 Points

I have completed Day 2 Week 1 activity. Today's activity I got asked to share the comparison and differences between Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart. They were both solo flights and flew around the world. I had to use a Venn Diagram. The Summer Learning Journey is a site that most kids use to help them learn. Once they finished learning they do activity to try to earn up to get points. Once they get points they get awarded with big prizes.

Setting Sail | Food | SLJ | 4 points

For this activity i got asked to make a list of ten food items I would take with me for the sea. I have to think really hard about why food items I would pick. The ten food items i picked was cereal, Fresh water, Dried fruit, Meat, Sausages, Tuna, Spaghetti, Baked beans, Watermelon and Cantaloupe.

The reason why I picked cereal is because every morning you would need to start of with a heavy breakfast. I picked fresh water Because its the only healthy liquid to drink on a hot day. I picked dried fruit because its can last for a long week.

I also picked meat because it fills you up more and can last for a long time. I picked spaghetti because its a can food witch makes it easier to eat. I picked watermelon because it has 92 percent of water. I also picked canteloup because it had 90 percent of water.

Discovering Aotearoa | SLJ | 4 points

This week I got asked to tell about my cultural background. I am from Niue and New Zealand. I had to make a google map showing where I was from.

Commenting

LI: To write a smart comment.
This week I have commented on Bella's blog post about her reading that she completed. In a smart comment it must include a greeting, connection, question about there work and a farewell.

Basic Fact boxes

This week for basic fact boxes I have completed it. I had to answer all the maths operation while timing myself. Basic facts boxes is a activity that we do daily. It is also a maths activity. its when you have bunch of questions to answer under 5 minutes when you time yourself. It took me 2 minutes and 13 seconds

SSR Selfie | Human body

LI: To summarise and retail a text.
This week I read the book " Human body" It talks about the human body (Facts)

Shelly - Ann | SLJ

LI: To create similes of Shelly Ann.
This week I got asked to create four similes I could use to describe Shelly Ann. (E.g) Shelly is as strong as a brick. A simile is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

BFG Description | SLJ | 2019 |

LI: To create a BFG description using descriptive words.
This week for our summer learning journey I got asked to make a BFG character description. I had to use 10 descriptive words and make a figure of what you think the BFG looks like. 

Description: 

The BFG (Big friendly giant) is a wise man. The only thing he wears is dirty piece of clothing. He has reddish pinkish skin. His hair is light grey that looks like a main of a lion. He is a miniature version giant of the other giants. Big round ears. He make interesting words.

Pepeha | Teaser week

LI: To create our own pepeha.
This week for our summer learning journey activity teaser week Year 6 - 8. We were asked to make our own pepeha. using our mountain, river, city/countrie/place. A pepeha is introducing yourself to people. I found this activity fun to do.

Maori

This week for Maori we were learning Maori numbers. We recapped the numbers like kore which is 0. Mano is thousands, rau is hundreds, te kau is tens and ma is ones.

Kiwi Can

This week for kiwi can it was our last week of it so we had a  fun week. Our topic is Respect and our theme is respect communication. We played a arrange of  games we played was musical cones, colour coordinates, Hot potatoes, Bitty Bitty bob and more. The games we played was fun. 

Comprehension Questions | Witches

LI: To complete the activities

This week was our last week of our activity. We had to complete all eight. I had finished my Comprehension Questions. Comprehension Questions are questions relating about the book and the chapters.

Maths

LI: To learn how to find a unit fraction of a set.

This week for maths we had to find a unit in a fraction of a set. We used the fractions halves, Quarters, fifths and tenths. (e.g:) 
Set size: 18  fractions: thirds 
18 divided by 3 is 6
One third of 18 is 6

Writing | Narrative

LI: To write a hook for our narratives.

This week for writing we were writing our hooks for our narratives. A hook draws the readers attention and creates questions to be answered during the story. We had the option of stating the hook with an onomatopoeia (sound) or we could start from the end of the story and then jump back in the beginning.

Basic Facts Boxes

L.I: To get more better at basic facts boxes.

This week for Maths I did Basic Facts boxes. The things that i did was Addition and Subtraction. Subtraction is making the number go less and Addition is making things go more up. The first layer that I did was Addition. We had to work by ourselves for this Basic Facts boxes. Addition and Subtraction is kind of hard and easy.

SSR Seflie

This week i have read the book "get into gear, Stilton"

Commenting

LI: To write a smart comment on a student in LS1.
This week I have commented on Liletina's blog post about her reading. In a comment there must include a greeting, connection, question and farewell.

Maths | fractions

 LI: To learn how to find the unit fraction of a set. 

This week for maths we have been making gigantic paper aeroplanes that we have torn out of a book. I am doing a space duster paper plane.We have also been doing more fractions (e.g) Halves and Quarters and using paper to make different ways of making these fractions. 

We also learnt the difference between halves and half.

Maori Week 8

LI: To learn the months and years in Maori.
This week for maori we are learning the months and days in Maori using a google document. There were a bunch of bundling that we had to sort out.

Kiwi Can | Respect

This week for kiwi can we learnt people's differences and how it can effect others. Our theme was respect. Our topic is respect communications. We learnt how to play a game called mirror, followed by another game called "pass and shoot".

Maori | Time in Maori

LI: To learn how to tell the time in Maori.
This week for Maori we are learning how to tell the time. (Example) Kotahi karaka te taima means one o'clock. We used a site  (clock face generator) that helped us find the meaning of these words.

Roald Dahl | Novels

LI: to complete the daily activity.
This week I have completed one of the daily activitys. I had to find 10 words in the book that I would like to know the meaning of and find out and find the meanings of 5. Eg: "Guzzle"  (Eat or drink something greedily) I learned many words and the meanings of them.

Commenting

LI: To make a smart comment on a student.
This week i have commented of Chris's blog post about his reading. It was really interesting.

Tennis | Kiwi Sport

LI: To learn how to play a 2v2 game on tennis.

This week we had played 2v2 for tennis. On one side of the net there were the champions and on the other side was the challengers. The ball gets served to the challengers first. The challengers only have 1 chance but the champions has 2. If the ball hits the net, doesn't go over the net, bounces 2 times, or gets out of the square then those people are out but if it was the champions they have another chance. At the end of the session the champions from each side of the court had competed against one another. It was Sione & Makaili vs Andrew and Hosea. The first duo to two points wins. There was a good rally but unfortunately Hosea and Andrew had lost with Sione and Makaili won.

Just frame it | Frames

The past two weeks LS1 has been making frames for our school gala. We will sale of the 29th of November 2019. Each class room from Panmure bridge will be sailing an objects or few. We started planing out our frames in term three so it could get ready for this term. We also picked a theme. There were A4 frames and little frames that needed to be completed.

Coffee game | Inquiry

LI: To learn how to run a business.

This week for inquiry we played a game called coffee shop. For this game we were running a coffee shop as a business, we named it and also had a balance of $30. Each day we might need to buy more ingredients. The game could showed us the weather so we know what the price we could change it.

Basic Facts Boxes

LI: To remenber basic facts maths. This week I got all of my addition facts correct.My time was 3 Minutes and fourty five seconds as is shows.

SSR Selfie

This week for SSR selfie I read the book Ghandi.

Character and setting description

LI: To identify parts of a narrative.

This week for writing we are identifying our knowledge on character and setting description. Each group got to decide on a character to pick then we could vote. Our group got chosen and we decided on doing a character named Iaerell. Each group had chosen a setting.

Athletics Day

On the 22nd of November 2019 Panmure Bridge had a school athletics. Students were put into 4 differnts colured teams. Blue, Red, Green and Yellow. Each section of the school had stations and games to play. Each game was 10 minutes each. They also had points for each game. Tamaki College was guiding us for each game. There were about eight stations.

After playing all our eight games we finnaly had a 67m race.

Kiwi sport

LI: learning how to volley.

This week we practised volleying in tennis. We used the forehand and backhand technique to practice our tennis skills. We did this in groups of 4 and practised volleying with the different serves that Coach Peter taught us. Volley in tennis is to do with surveing. 

Maori | Wiki Ono

LI: to learn how to control a poi and learn how to understand something related to location.

This week in Maori, we learned how to use a poi. A poi is a Maori object that is used to increase flexibility and strength. It is also used as an instrument. The activity that we had done was translate different types of words that describe location. for example: Roto and in English it would mean inside.

Roald Dahl | Novels

For the past weeks we have been reading novel books from roald dahl. We have also been doing some activitys. The book i am reading is "The witches". This week i did the newspaper report. For this activity it needs to include a headline, photo, paragraphs, photo and cations.   

Kiwi Can | Patient

This week for kiwi can we are learning how to become patient and how we can inprove our patients. To be able to do this we played activitys. One of the activitys had to work as a team and to be patient.  We were all benn put into 2 lines facing a chair with a cone sitting on it.

SSR Selfie

This week for SSR Selfie I read the book granny. For this activity you have to read the book 15 minutes then summarise it. Then answer a bunch of question

Graph | Paper planes

LI: To use statistical and scientific methods to study the effect of wing span and area on lift.
This week for maths we have learnt how to use and make a graph to collect data and see the distance of our paper planes. One person in each group had a job to do. Spotter, marking, thrower and measure was included. After that we had to collect our data and use it as a graph.  We used a scatter graph.

Show and tell | Settings

LI: To investigate figurative language.
This week for writing we are learning how to show and tell settings by writing sentences. We picked a setting together that we could use for the tell and the show. For the tell we had to try and describe the settings by making it boring. For the show we had to try and make the setting interesting by using the five senses and figurative language. The figurative language is simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, understatement and personification. The senses are Touch, Taste, Smell, See & Hear.

Good and services | Supply and Demand | Enterprise and business

Supply is when you make or get something wanted or needed to sell. Demand is a request or command made by someone. Today we had a visitor coming in to our class, Michal. She came to talk about her own company that she owns called food print.

She talked about how its like owning a company and what it took to make it. She was passionate about food waste so she had an idea to make a company. She showed us many examples of food waste like bread. Also climate change.

There are 17,401 people using the app food print and 250 food stores that works with foodprint.

The grand high witch

For the past term we are reading Roald Dahl novels. We all got our own books to read for the term. For this week I have completed one of the eight activity. I have now done the describe the character. It's when your have to describe one character in the book. I have chosen the Grand High witch. 

Maori

L.I to learn the language behind Maori.
This week in Maori we have been learning the language of Maori. Today we have Focused on the word Goodbye and why we ask people Where do you come from. Saying 'Where you come from'. For Maori people it is really important to ask that question because it creates a link with that person. We also learnt about why Maori's use Macrons. Macrons are the line on top of the letter.

Kiwi can | Respect

This week we talked about respect communication. Respect communication has different meanings. Using emotions and Body languages. Our first activity had to include a partner called maths hands. Once we had a partner one hand had to be behind our back. Then we had to either pick random numbers from our hand. Then try to add de numbers.   

Manaiaklani Film festival

This week a whole bunch of schools got to participate in the manaiaklani film festival. I We have watched Saint Patrick's school, Tamaki college and our own. Many classes have made their own film to entertain other people. My favourite film was Tamaki college's film. 


Click here to visit the maniaklani site: Film festival

SSR Selfie

This week for SSR selfie I have read the book sinking. Its about a man that went out for swimming training and found shocking news.

Basic fact boxes

LI:  To remember basic maths facts.

This week I have completed this activity. It took me three minutes and thirty-four seconds to do half of the challenge. I have gotten one wrong. This activity is really basic click here to challenge yourself and see how you have improve Task challenge

Maths |Planes

LI: to use statistical and scientific methods to study the effect of wing span and area on lift.
We had to make 12 planes of the same plane but we have had to change one variable. A variable is a feature of an object that can change between different versions of the object. For example: some variables in chairs could be height, width, depth, weight, materials, strength, colour. An independent variable is unchanged by other variables. These are usually controlled in experiments to see if they make changes in other variables. We had to decide which independent variable to change to measure the dependent variable. We had to create a spreadsheet to record variables and results. We also had to create planes with measured variations in your chosen independent variable

Demand & supply

LI: What is supply and demand

This week we learnt what supply and demand is. We played a business game in groups of 3 to understand more about supply, demand, price, income and stock. To play the game, we are given a product and that product is what we are selling. My group got pies. 

We started with a balance of 50 dollars and decided how many pies we were going to make to start the business. 1 pie cost 4 dollars to make. Once we made the pies we had to do the maths and find out how many dollars it cost in total to make all the pies. 

We had to figure out which price we wanted to sell the pies from 2, 5 or 10 dollars. If we chose 2 dollars we had to role a 20 sided dice to see how many people would buy the product. A 5 would be a 12 sided dice and a 10 would be a 6 sided dice. Then we added up the money. Example: We sold 10 pies for 2 dollars and 11 people bought it. 2x11 is 22. 22 plus the current amount of money is our balance. This continued for two rounds.

kiwi sport | tennis

LI: To learn how to do a rally.

For the warm up we had a tennis ball that was placed in the middle of the tennis net. Once the ball hit either one side of the floor we could start playing.A rally is when you hit the ball with the tennis racket and you can't let the ball hit the floor. 

Roald Dahl | Reading

We are now doing novel studies on Roald dahl books. Each person got their own book to read and do challenge's and activity's. I have the witches books. I am now doing the research on the author. For this   you have to research about the author's information. Eg: Kids, Wife's and books.   

interschool sports | Touch

This week many lucky student got to participate in the interschool touch rugby. It was held at Dunkirk field. There where many different schools that where around the area that came to participate too. Our first game was at field 2a we had to play 8 games. We played against Tamaki primary and won 2 - 0. it was a good game.

Our next game was at the same field we played for the rest of the day. We played against Pt England and tied 2 - 2. Our third game was against Panmure district. We won 3 - 0. Then we played against Glen Brae and won. Many other school too.

Our last game was against another Pt England team. Sadly lost 4 - 0.

Kiwi Can | Respect communication

This week for kiwi can our topic is respect communication. There are different types of meanings, listening and responding to the person that is talking is one. Our game was animal choir. Each group got a animal. Tiger, cat, dog and pig then Mr Semanu gave us a song that we needed to practice with our group.

Paper plane diagram

This week we are now doing aerodynamic study. We are also doing oragami. we are now recapping our skills on measuring too. We had to add these three most important area of a plane nose, fuselage (main body part of an aircraft) and wing. 

Basic Fact boxes

LI:  To remember basic maths facts.

This week I have completed this activity. It took me three minutes and thirty-four seconds to do half of the challenge. I have gotten one wrong. This activity is really basic click here to challenge yourself and see how you have improve Task challenge

Witches | Reading | Roald Dahl

This week for reading we are now doing activity's. I have chosen to do "WALT write questions" for this activity we have to ask the main characters five questions each that will provided information not in the book. I would have asked boy (Main character) a question eg: How long have you've been an orphan.

Figurative language

This week we are now recapping our figurative language skills. There is 5 different types of figurative language. Simile, Metaphor, personification, Hyperbole, understatement.  Simile is a comparison of two things using "like or as".  Metaphor is two things are compared without using "like or as". personification is giving human traits to objects or ideas.

Hyperboly is exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect and understatement is expression with less strength than expected.

Maori

LI: to learn basic words in Te reo

today for Maori we had to get back into our group from last week and we had to sit down with our teacher and she told us new words and we learning about brothers and sisters and when she asked us how many younger, older brother or sisters we have in Te reo we had to say a number of how many we have. we then had a task to complete we had to find places in new Zealand and other countries and we had to find the Maori name for it so we had to translate the English name into Maori.
Tenia - Younger
Tuakara - Older
Tungane - Brother
Tuahine - Sister

Kiwi Can | Respect

This week for kiwi can our theme is respect. Our first energiser was called follow the leader. For this game there was a leader for each 4 - 5 groups. Each leader got a scenario for example to spell the school backwards. Then had to go back to our groups and explain what we had to do. 

Writing | Recount

This week our task was to write a recount with the topic of winning a sport I then picked Netball. After we finished writing our recount we had to mark 7 different areas. Ideas, S&L, Organization, Vocab, Spelling, Punctuation and Sentence Structure. From 3-5.

Basic Fact boxes

LI: to remember basic maths facts.

This week I did the speed demon challenge up to 20. I completed all. In 4 minutes and 54 seconds. I could have got a few wrong put it means i would of need to read the questions clearly. 

Commenting

This week for commenting I have done a smart comment on Bella H's blog post about her recount.

Inquiry | Companies

LI: To sort out different companies and label them.

This week for inquiry we have been continuing in businesses. We had gotten into groups of 8 and split our groups into groups of 4. We had gotten a deck full of paper  that had companies on them. In our groups of 4 we had to sort them out and label them. We had sorted it out into fashion brands, transports and banks, games, services, miscellaneous, digital companies, tech companies, sport companies, food companies, car brands, and emergency services.

Bookmarks | Reading

This week we had to read Roald Dahl books for our activity we will be doing in the term. I am now doing witches. Then make bookmarks so then we can keep track of our reading. On the bookmarks we had to create or write what a good reader would use to read. 

Orchestra | Music

This week a few students from Panmure Bridge school had the opportunity to take part by watching the orchestra performance held in Auckland city. It was a wonderful trip watching every schools taking part and seeing the people play the instruments. Including the violin, Harp and other wonderful instruments.

It was based on telling stories by the music. 

Kiwi Can | Respect

This week our catchphrase is " R.E.S.P.E.C.T, Find out what it means to me"  We were first talking about unique and what it means and how to respect yourself and one and other. Our first energiser had to include what people like. Each side had people dislikes and likes, Example: One side had spaghetti and the other had bake beans. One person could pick one side and then say an argument

Maori

L.I to learn about Te Reo Maori.

This Week in Te reo we had learnt of different ways to greet whanau (Family). For the First activity, we had to watch two videos. In those videos they showed people talking to each other in Maori. The next thing that we had to do was write down the English sentences for the Maori sentences. For the next activity we had to do the same thing but it had to do with a family, for example: 'Ko wai te papa Lisa? The main words that would help us with it was  kuia (Grandmother/old lady), koro(Grandpa/old man), mama(mom), papa(dad)

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise the text.

This week I have read the book "the witches" Its about the author talking about different types of witches and is warning people to watch there back. To be able to finish this task you would need to read a book either a non-fictional book or a fiction book for 15 minutes and making sure you know this book really good. 

Then summarise the book by answering different types of questions from the book. Example: Who are the main character?