Learning and understanding fractions

 To learn how to group and split in fractions

This week is our last session with Mr Fisi’iahi for this term as it was last week. For this week my group and I worked on fractions and played a game called Play tower of hanoi. We also used Multi Link cubes to help us understand fractions and to help us solve the questions. I really enjoyed playing with my partner solving fraction questions. We also played a game called Dicy numbers which got us into parnters. This game was really fun and competitive as we had to see who was the first one to win.  Understanding fractions helps us understand the groups,twice and the double. Double means twice as example 6+6=2 or 6 x 2=12.

Dare to make a choice,

LI: To create an DLO about making wise choices. .

This week was our last day doing the DARE program. We had 3 different tasks. The first one was to sort out all the different drugs good or bad into 3 different columns of illegal drugs, legal drugs and drugs that we are unsure of, then sort them out from most harmful and harmful drugs. The second task was to learn about the 3 classes of drugs including class A being the highest and B and then C the penalties that come with being caught with the drugs, the last tasks was to create our own penalties with 6 different scenarios that we were given. We all learned new interesting facts as example Did you know that chocolate was a type of drug also Coffee. I also really enjoyed working with Juel because we shared our ideas to complete this task. We also needed to find images that links to our DLO to help us make it more interesting to read. We also collaborated and talked about what we're gonna write on our DLO and to hook the readers into reading what our DLO and Blog post is about and How to make a Wise choices. Just remember "The only person that's important in your world is yourself"

Tech: Science with Mrs Sharma

 LI:To identify the different types and uses of plastic.

This week for tech the year 7s at Panmure Bridge School  learned about the different types of plastics. We also learned about Plastic, material, wood, paper and metal which helps us understand more about  plastics. We also played an activity that will give us more information on plastic. The activity we played was about looking around the class and trying to look for the different materials that we could see. The most interesting fact that I learnt was that every year 17 billion rubbish gets thrown away in the ocean.

Kiwisport / Dancing

L.I To make beats with our body parts. 

 This week, The year 7s and year 8’s had Kiwisport, This term Panmure Bridge school is doing Dance for this term. We are working with Rebecca, Rebecca is our dance teacher. This week our theme is about getting into rydem and making the same beat at the same time.  I enjoyed making beats with my hands,feet and other body parts. I also really enjoyed dancing to one of my favorite songs, Say So by Doja cat . Moving around with my friends and dancing to the music was really funny and fun to do. 

Statistics with Mr Fisi'iahi

 LI: Identify patterns and relationships between data

                                                                                 

                                                                            

 Today my group members and I worked with Mr Fisi’iahi, He taught us about statistics and gathering data. We then gathered all the data and turned it into a graph. We also learned about the different types of  graphs and which is the best type of graph we should use to represent the data. Mr Fisi’iahi helped us understand the meanings as an example we learned what pre-teens  means, Pre teens means 12 and under which means teens means 13 and above. We also used a data card to help us understand more on what our learning is about. The data card involves all the information we need to know.

Time

 L.I To work out the elapsed time. 

Today our group used the maths clocks to help us work out the answers to the elapsed time questions. Elapsed means the time that has gone by. I really enjoyed working with my team mates around me and helping them out and moving the hands around to make sure I got the correct answer to the question. 

Family Tree

 L.I To create an DLO to show about my Family tree. 

This week for our Te Reo Challenge, I created a DLO that talks about my family tree DLO that shows my family members' names. I used Maori words that could help us understand  more about my  family tree. The family tree includes our siblings, parents, grandparents and great grandparents and also it has designs I traced and created. The most interesting fact I learned well making this DLO was that another word for Family Tree is Whakapapa. 

Its cool 2b me!

 L.I: To complete this task that will help you understand things about me.

This DLO is about me, This DLO can help you understand some things you may know or may not know about me. The  Dare program helps us and inform us with things that can kill us and helps us make wise choices.  What I really enjoyed was writing down My goals for this year. One of my goals is to  get 1000 blog posts by the end of the year. I also enjoyed writing down things I enjoy doing and what my favourite food.

Biology

L.I To look for evidence in the data/an image and infer what might be happening

This DLO is about Observation and Science. Science is  empirical which means it is based on. I worked with Lily,Afatia and Sakshi. We all worked together and shared our ideas on this DLO. We looked for images  that links to the information on our DLO to help the readers understand what our DLO is about. We completed  our task by working together,Sharing our ideas,  Helping  each other to get this task done.  I also really enjoyed working and giving my ideas on what I should do to get this task done and completed. I also really enjoyed talking to my group members to explain What is Science?. 

Sunflowers

L.I To recreate the Vincent Van gogh Sunflowers. 

 

Today Skashi,Afatia,Lily and I were recreating the style of Vincent Van Gogh sunflower painting. First we watched a video and practiced it on a piece of paper to learn about the dabbing and twisting effect on the sunflowers. When we were ready we made the horizon line across the final paper  and painted it dark as compared to the top.  We then started mixing colours with proportions for the vase which were copper and white to paint the vase. We then started using the same effects for the sunflowers we did for practice.  The practice helped us improve our painting and we were very happy that we could work as a team. 

                                                                                          

Maths with Mr Fisi'iahi

 L.I: To solve and create algebraic equation.

Today my group and I  learnt Algebra with Mr Fisi’iahi. We started off by finding out the values of the animals. The animals we did were Piwaiwaka,Gecko,Kiwi,Tuatara and Pukeko. We summed up an answer then we  simplified the answers to make it easier to understand and explain what's happening. We created a DLO with our algebraic equations but we had to make the question unbalanced so that Mr Fisiah could make it balanced, we had to create for Mr Fisiah . I really enjoyed working with my partner and my group to answer the questions we’re trying to solve.These tasks and questions help us understand and explain what Algebra is.  We also learned how to balance the animals on a log or plan to make it equal and even. 

Tech Relefction

L.I To identify what we know about science.

For this week, the year 7's went to science with Mrs Sharma. We learnt about What is sciences and different words that connects to science. One of words I wrote down was Light. We also learned about the 3 main topics of Science which is Physics,Chemistry and Biology. The question I wanted to find out was why is the 3 main topics of science called Biology,Physics and Chemistry. We also had to answer three questions which was What do you know about Scientist? What do you think sciences do and Would you be a scientist? I really enjoyed working with my team mates and sharing our Ideas on What is Science?.

                                             

Duffy Book in Schools.

                                                                             

This week all the students in Panmure Bridge School got given two books from Duffy.   I just want to say a big thank you to Duffy for giving me two 2 amazing books called Guts and The magic of Maths . This books will inspire me with my reading skills.   I am really exited to take these books home and read them . One of the books are called Guts, the book is about Raina, Raina is one of the characters in the book, She woke up in the middle of the night having a really bad stomach with her mum. One of the things I am looking forward to read is about what will happen if she goes school. 

Vincent Van Gogh Timeline

 L.I: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent Van gogh.

Today Lily,Afatia,Skashi and I worked together to complete this task for reading and writing. We used our searching skills and our opinions to create an timeline on Vincent Van Gogh. We used a website called Padlet which help us create the summary of his life. We first worked as a team  by searching  for interesting facts and information about Vincent Van Gogh and wrote it on a piece of paper. We then looked for websites that could help understand more about him. Once we have found the information we added it onto the time line and used images to help the readers understand more.  We learned a lot about his personal life and his career. After completing this task the most interesting fact that I learned was that he cut the lobe of his ear for his girlfriend.