MOTAT | Home Learning

Today Victoria, Sakina, Taheesha, Florence, and I worked together to complete another one of the home learning challenges. This one was about MOTAT, a Museum in Auckland which we’ve been on in a school trip before! It was really interesting getting to know about more about this place and why it was really built. In the first activity we were to locate where MOTAT was on google maps and its address. We really enjoyed the second activity, where we found out several fun facts about them. And the bonus was to find out some information on William Motions, the founder of MOTAT. Something we learnt is that MOTAT stands for Museum Of Transport & Technology.

Whoa! Studios | Home Learning

This week for a home learning activity challenge name, name, name, name and I created a collaborative DLO about Whoa! Studios. The first activity consisted of where Whoa! Studios is on a map with the address and how much it would cost to see the super villain show.The second activity was a 10 word description of what it would be like at the park and a suggested part of the park we would recommend to a friend. For the bonus activity we made a biography of Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. It was really exciting learning about Whoa! Studios because it may be a place some consider going!

Rainbow's End | Home Learning

This week for another home learning challenge, Victoria, Sakina, Taheesha and I decided to work on the Rainbow’s End activities, collaboratively. For the first activity, we wrote the location of Rainbow’s End, with a picture of the map, the costs of a family pass and how much it would cost for our family to go to Rainbow’s End. For our second activity, we wrote the minimum height restriction of the stratosfear and why it’s important to have a height restriction. For our bonus activity, we chose a ride with an explanation of why we would recommend it to a friend, a description of how we might feel on that ride and 25 words that describe how we felt on the ride.

Hobbiton Movie Set | Home Learning

 Today, a few friends and I including Florence, Taheesha, Victoria, and Sakina, worked collaboratively to complete another one of the home blogging challenges. We were able to do each one of the activities as well as the bonus and stuck everything on one presentation. It was really fun learning and researching about this topic and then using what we learnt into a DLO. For the first one we were to create a menu using help from their official website. In the next one we created a brochure and needed to make sure we had information like location, cost for going there, and some fun facts! The bonus was to make a little biography about Sir Peter Jackson, the film director of The Hobbit and Lord of the rings.

Sky Tower | Home Learning

This week for another home learning challenge, Victoria, Sakina, Florence, Taheesha and I decided to do the Sky Tower activities. For the first activity, we wrote a list of 5 facts about the Sky Tower, using our smart searching skills. For our second activity, we created a new mascot for the Sky Tower and gave an explanation about why we chose him. For our last activity, we chose an activity we could do at the Sky Tower and wrote down why we chose it, what it is and how much it would cost to do that activity.

Auckland Zoo | Home Learning

In LS2, we created different activities to complete at home. These activities were based on places in New Zealand. Victoria, Sakina, Florence, Taheesha and I worked collaboratively and started off with the Auckland Zoo activities. For the first activity, we wrote about what the benefits a person gets when they buy a friend of a zoo pass, how much a friend of a zoo pass costs and the costs of your family to each have a friend of a zoo annual pass. For our second activity, we chose an animal from the zoo and created an infographic about them. For our bonus activity, we created a DLO about zoo keeping.

 

Life at PBS

This week I created a collage of life at my school as this is my last CARE award for respect. In this collage I added photos about what it is like being at PBS. I added photos from when we were working and from Kiwi Can. There are many activities that you can do at PBS that's why I enjoy being at PBS. I've had a lot of fun creating this collage.

Kiwi Can

This week at Kiwi Can we talked about role models. First we had a energiser called hammer. For this activity we got into pairs and put our hands into fists then put the on top of each other. Ms Grace would call out up, down or hammer. If Ms Grace said hammer, the person on top would trap the other players hands. If the other person dodged the person that was trying to trap their hands, they would still be in and the other person would be out. After doing that energiser we talked about role models and what they did. Role models to me are people who takes responsibility and leads others. With a partner we shared who our role models are and what they do to be a role model. After talking about role models we played picture that which is when Ms Grace calls out a object that we re-create. To finish off kiwi can we played the end of the road which was filled with different types of questions. I really enjoyed this session of kiwi can today and will be looking forward to next weeks session.

Representing PBS at Netball

This week for an attitude care award, Haylee and I decided to do the activity where we represented PBS at an outside function. I decided to create a DLO about representing PBS at netball, last year. I had a lot of fun playing netball and was proud of coming in Grade E, section 2. In my DLO, I decided to add photos, what we did for after school netball and what place we came.

Ferdinand Magellan Summary

This week for reading we created a summary about Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan. I decided to make my summary about Ferdinand Magellan's achievements and voyages. For this activity we used our smart searching skills to find out information about the explorer we chose. Something I found interesting about Ferdinand is that he was the organiser of the first circumnavigation. In the summary we chose 20 important words and 6 of the most important words which were then used to make sentences.

Team Maths Challenge

This week for Maths we created two DLOs showing how we solved two team challenges that involved adding decimals. Using the most effective strategy we found the answer. The most effective strategies were written algorithms and place value. In this session we were learning rounding and compensating. The two questions we tried to solve were:
5.75 + 2.0 = 7.75 x 12 = ?
218.99 + 109.85 = ?

LS2 Art Portraits Display

Today Victoria and I created a mural to welcome and introduce new visitors to our class, using a collection of student portraits. We collaborated on this display to come up with a good layout for the wall. After stapling on the portraits, we started to think about the type of title design that would best fit the wall. We went with a firework theme to accent the rest of the art. Victoria and I were really proud of the final product and so was Mrs. Anderson.

Longest Place Name in the world.

This week Mr Johnston made a visit to our classroom to recap a little bit about explorers & adventurers, and introduced us to the longest place name in the world (picture above). He informed us about why places have their names, for example it could be named after somebody important who then got something in return. After the recap Mr Johnston surprised us with a huge sign with the longest place name in the world written on it. He set us a challenge to try and memorise the name and try pronouncing it. The name is a hill called taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu and means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains,the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one". 

Assembly Presentation | CARE Awards

For my first activity on my Confidence Award I presented in front of the school. I felt really proud of myself for having the confidence to present in front of the school. Presenting in front of large crowds were one of my many goals I had set for this year and I feel I have overcome one of my fears. This really helped boost my confidence and now I won't be as nervous as before.

Maths Team Questions | Heptagons

This week in Maths, we worked collaboratively in our Maths group to solve a team challenge question. In our group we worked together to solve a maths problem about which was about trying to solve what age 3 people were, with not that many hints. After we solved the question, we created a DLO about the strategy we used and how we solved the question. 

Places named by Early Explorers

This week for inquiry our topic was about early explorers. For this activity we go into pairs and I paired with Chris. In pairs we created a map about which places the early explorers named. In our map we marked the places Captain James Cook, Kupe and Abel Tasman named. I really found this activity interesting as I never knew who named places like the Hokianga Harbour. Also another fact is that most of these place names were either named by the explorers, important people, friends, and their physical appearance. For example Cape Maria van Diemen was named after Anthony van Diemen's wife. Anthony van Diemen was one of Abel Tasman's assistance. 

Charting Our Islands | Shared Wordbank

LI: to learn new sets of vocabulary. This week in Reading one of our activities we did was a Shared Wordbank. A Shared Wordbank is an activity that helps us grow our vocabulary and have a better understanding of the word. We read a book called Charting our Islands, while reading it as a group. When we finished reading a page we shared words we didn’t understand. On our shared wordbank, we added the words we didn't understand or know the meaning of, we included synonyms, word families and a clear definition.

Charting Our Islands | Past & Present

This week in Reading, we got into our reading groups and collaboratively to complete the activities relating to Captain Cook and Kupe's’ voyage. For one of these tasks, we created a past and present DLO which explained the problems and differences between, the transportation from decades ago to now. We also did reciprocal reading and made a summary. Each person had a job to do, Vocab Clarifier, Questioners, Summarize, Predictor and the leader. 

Aretha Franklin | Respect Song

For my second activity for my respect badge, I made a DLO about Aretha Franklin and her song "Respect". Respect means to treat others the way you want to be treated for example, listening to the presenter or the person that's talking. In this DLO I included facts about her and about her song "Respect". I really enjoyed learning about Aretha Franklin and what her song "Respect" means. 

Venn Diagram | Kupe & Captain James Cook

This week in our reading groups we worked collaboratively to create a Venn diagram about Captain James Cook and Kupe. For this task we used our knowledge to write the similarities and differences. Something that Captain Cook and Kupe had in common was that they were both navigators that found New Zealand. 

Maths Manics

This week in Maths we made a collaborative DLO with some questions that were based on the Auckland Marathon statistics. The information in these statistics described the number of Marathon Participants, an amount of objects, or when the event would be taking place. We tried exploring different strategies and using a variety of maths language in our questions. Our group was able to come up with no less than 5 challenge questions.