Auckland Harbour bridge research

In Inquiry Me and Chavda have been learning about the Auckland harbour bridge. Lately in inquiry we have been learning about bridges we have been researching why bridges are important and how they are made.
Also why are bridges strong because they are made out of hard material and are built into detailing structures.
We have created a DLO and slideshow to show and compare to the Sydney harbour bridge and also identifying  the Auckland harbour bridge.

A thank you card to Ms Anderson

Today the yr 7ś made a card for Ms Anderson, they wrote a lot of thoughtful things to make her happy. We also found out that she was a fan of rainbows and unicorns.
This was also a great oppitunity for us yr 7ś to say a huge thank you to our Digi tech teacher for teaching us throughout the term.

Evaluation of my animated story

In the context of (Animated stories in the neighbourhood) I will design and produce an animated story for 30-59 years old to be used to things around our tamaki area this relates to communities around panmure and GI. My animated story is currently under construction. Could you please help me by giving me feedback on my conceptual design of my animated story. This helps me finish my animated story.

Thanks

The history of the panmure bridge

In Inquiry I created a DLO collage about the first panmure bridge.

I focused on getting  all the information down, also I watched a video to help me find out more information on why they constructed the first panmure bridge.

Because people couldn't get across the water because sometimes there would be a rough weather or sometimes drown when the water was deep.

Once I knew all the information that I needed I created the DLO before I had started I thought of some Ideas to how I was going to put all the info on my DLO.

Then I started to put pictures on to explain the story, I put on the pictures of the panmure bar, Panmure bridge, Panmure transport, and the material that they used to make the panmure bridge.

Read theory progress

In reading for my theory progress all my levels are three. 

This shows that I need to read more at home and during school time.

Next time I will try my best to reach level 4 or 5.

WIld boar

In reading I created a DLO on 5 facts about Wild boar. I first had to complete my key into evaluation. These 5 facts explain about a wild boar.

I read through the facts on the website to give me an idea of how I am going to explain in a explanation what I wild boars personality is.

Key into Evaluation

Key into Evaluation

Level Two Set T3

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganisation and inference.  Answers must come from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

As Bad as it Gets

The Worst Day of my Life

I don’t believe it.  Last week it was ‘The best day of my life’ and now it’s this.  Why can’t Mr. Thoms have more imagination?

Groaning inwardly, Jaz rolled her eyes, and hoped for inspiration.

OK. Let’s see now. The day I lost my Barbie doll. I was only seven, but I remember the pain. Or the day I tripped over in front of the whole football team. No, I don’t want the entire universe to know about that.

The day old Rexie died was pretty awful. I still miss his great big eyes and waggy tail. He was a lovely dog.

I know! The day Dad lost his job. No that was his worst day. Anyway, he wasn’t out of work long.

The day I missed out on getting into the national swimming team by three lousy rotten seconds.  They don’t come much worse than that.

There’s so much to choose from.  My life is full of worst days. This one’s not so good either.  Now I think of it, I’ve had a terrible life.

Jaz looked over at her friend Elyse, who was adjusting her wheelchair to be closer to the desk.  Injuries from a car accident last month meant that she would be like this for another six weeks. She watched as Elyse started writing.  She wrote without pausing, quickly filling the lines.

Jaz turned to her own desk, lowered her eyes and started writing:  Three days after I turned seven, I took Crystal, my Barbie doll, out on a picnic...

a.  What kind of inspiration was Jaz hoping for

Not a boring day but a good day.

b. What did Jaz mean by ‘Why can’t Mr Thoms have more imagination’?

She meant that he should thought more of a  fun thing to do more than just thinking of old boring things.

c.  What was Elyse most likely writing about?

She  was writing a story without pausing or stopping.

d.  Why do you think that Elyse was able to write  ‘without pausing’?

Because so that she doesn't forget about what she was writing about.

Reaction question:

Do you think Jaz had had a terrible life?  Why do you say that?

Yes because she couldn't do anything fun to make her day better.

Create activity:

Choose either of the writing topics Mr Thom had set and write your own personal recount.

Yay as I went with my mum and my sister and nephew.

We were very happy to see my brother because he is far away from us .We haven't seen my brother for a long time .My mum went into my brothers room and said hi to my brothers.

I gave my brother a huge hug and I talked to him about how i was going at school . And told him I got a computer

he said wow that's cool . My mum talked to him my brother said what did you do at work . My mum said it was good

I had a lot of fun seeing my brother, we sang a song to him and said I hope you get out soon and come back and live with us .

After seeing my brother we went home and watch tv and

had toast after . And then I went to bed .

We had a fun time and we had a good day and now we went home .

In reading my task was to finish off my Key into Evaluation- As bad as it gets.

I answered all questions and hoping that I got all of them correct.

After that was done and completed I did another task which I had to create a recount.

My recount was about going to see my brother.

Advertisment of a local Gym in our community

Key into Evaluation

Level Two Set T2

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganization and inference.  Answers must come from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

Gym

My only brother was also my twin.  You would think that because we were identical we would act the same way and like the same things.  He was born forty minutes before me and would often remind me of the fact. Because I was keen on sport, he would also rub me up the wrong way by raving on about how sport was boring and a big waste of time.

“Who, little brother,” he would jeer, “needs to suffer pain unnecessarily?”

When we turned fifteen my parents surprised me with a year’s subscription to the In-Shape Gym.  Now I was able to join Brant and Ethan each Monday and Wednesday evening to seriously work out. When they turned up at home to pick me up Josh would be sprawled out on the couch mindlessly watching cartoons or playing his new PlayStation.  He would poke fun at us and say that the best way to deal with an urge to exercise was ’to stay calm and wait until it went away.’

“Just playing sport is bad enough,” he scoffed, “but working out is over the top.  And Tim,” he says, leaning forward and screwing up his nose, “the only reason you would want to go there would be to attract the girls!”

So it was a surprise, when having decided to go to the gym late one Thursday afternoon, we saw Josh come out the side door dressed in a tracksuit carrying a sports bag in his hand.  What’s more, he crossed the road and walked straight up to a smiling Tammy Aster - the most gorgeous girl at our school.

a.  Why did his brother refer to him as ‘little brother’?

Because he was born forty minutes later.

b.  Do you think the writer was happy with his birthday present?  Why do you say that?

Yes because he wanted to exercise with his friends.

c.  What present do you think Tim’s brother got for his fifteenth birthday?

The other brother got a play station for his birthday.

d.  Why do you think Josh was at the gym?

Because he wanted to meet Tammy Aster.

Reaction question:

Would you like to be Josh’s brother?  Why do you say that?

No because I don't want to be the brother who doesn't go to the Gym but  just stays at home and play on the play station all day.

In reading I created an advertisement of a local Gym near our school. The Gym that I have picked was City fitness because it is closer to our school.

I first had to complete my Key into Evaluation then finish answering the question on the document.

I found out that to join city fitness is $6.99 to join for a week. And to be a member of this gym its $11.99.

I wrote some of the information that I found out about city fitness. After that I popped in a photo of the city fitness logo.

In my key into evaluation I read the text from the top to bottom then I answered some of the questions. Some of the questions were quite difficult because some I couldn understand well.

Next time I will try my best to figure out the answer to the question.

Tech blogpost

Today in Digital Tech the year 7ś were creating there animations using sprites and Backdrops. In our animations we use Looks/Events/Control these help our sprites to talk and to move from one backdrop to the other.

My animation is based on PBS the best school ever I used 4 sprites to acknowledge my Animation.The backdrops are the background each backdrop I used was Library and Hall. I focused on getting my animation done. 

Maths week-Scale Drawings

Last week was maths week that week all  of LS2 had a activity to do we created scale drawings of clipart characters. 

The Enlargements were written in multiplication our scale drawing included an image that we picked out for ourselves. I chose a Pokemon because I thought that it would be interesting to draw. This was very difficult because I had to make sure that where I drawed was in the right boxes that it shows on my image.This was scale drawing 1-2 my boxes had to be in good measurement because if I didn ´t have the lines straight my lines would be crooked and I won´t be able to draw my scale drawing properly. 

This was my first time drawing a scale drawing at first  I wasn´t really sure but I practiced on the scale drawing test.

After I ruled lines I started drawing my clipart charterer when I was finished drawing I thought that all the hard effort that I put into drawing this clipart character was amazing. 

I then started coloring in my scale drawing which I blended in the colors to make it a great texture. 

Sky Tower Trip

Today LS2 went on a trip to visit the sky tower. We got to learn many things especially the history of how it was made and what year it was constructed. When we first arrived at the sky tower I was shocked because the sky tower was so huge. 

When we entered the front reception we saw guides who were going to lead our group to the alivator to go up the sky tower. This was amazing  because there was windows that showed a fantastic view which was awesome. This was my first time up in the sky city. When we reached the top we all were handed a pamphlet and a pencil this was an activity for us we had a lot of fun learning new stuff. This year we are learning  about structures and comparing it to our topics this term. What a fantastic trip today everybody enjoyed learning new things and also visiting new places in Auckland city.

I thought this was the best day ever!.

I would like to thank Douglas Bates for funding us the money to go on amazing trip to the sky tower. I will also like to thank Mr Wong Ms Kirkpatrick, Mrs Anderson, Mr Dobson and Ms Linda for looking after us during our trip. 

Tidy Kiwi DLO

Today I created a DLO explaining Tidy Kiwi Duty. This DLO explains what I do and where about I do my job my job is at PBS. 

Animation Circulatory system

Last term I created an animation explaining information and vocabulary about a system in the human body called a circulatory system.  It is where your lungs are and it is where avioli goes into tubes and then ends up in the nest where your breath of old avioli comes out of the lungs and out of your mouth.
To create this I used characters for speech so they could explain all the parts of breathing air and old air.
There are 2 tubes one is for breathing  air and the other is for swolling food. The organisms help your blood to restore nutrients into the body. This took a week to create because I was so busy trying to find information. I thought of making characters because so its easier to not copy characters from online.  I think this was also a great idea because characters can explain a lot of things like explaining about the human body.

Pecha Flickr Narratives

Me and Brooklyn created a video to tell a story about our Pecha flickr. We created a DLO to put our pictures on. Our topic is Hiking we made up a story to describe what we could see in the picture.Each Picture we wrote a story for it once a story is done on one slide we had to write a story about the other pictures. We were learning how to write Narratives by describing pictures and creating stories.Besides that we created a copy of another DLO which we had to write our narrative on It was interesting because all of our paragraphs were long. Some of our Narratives had to be changed to make our Pecha flickr more interesting and detailing.This was fun because we learnt how to describe pictures and create a awesome story.
We linked Ideas to our story and how the match together.In Our minds we had to paint a picture of ourselves acting in the story.The words that we wrote on our slides were to show and tell what was happening  and what it meant. 

Whare Hauora

Yesterday PBS had the Opening of the new midi cube. The Komatua spoke in Maori and English for the blessing the opening of the new Medical Building. The Kapa haka performed an Item for the Opening After that Mrs Johnston Talked about many things that were going to happen in the medicube.

After that other visitors talked about the star ship company who worked and helped supported the young ones who are in need. Also Mr Johnston talked about the Nurses that were going to work in the medicube.

Everybody sung the Karake for the opening. After that the Kapa Haka performed another Item for the blessing.

Well done to everybody who was evolved in the singing and well done to the Kapa Haka for performing well and successful.

Wheel words

Link to play: Play now

In reading today I played wheel words its a game that has a bunch of letters on a wheel. You have to write in a word so that you can earn points for how much words you write in. You can write from 4 letter words to a 9 letter word. 

Each round you play has a different set of letters that you can make words from. 

You would also have to use the middle letter is well so that you can make a bigger word or so that you have an extra letter in the word that you type in.

I think the lane with the most words was 4, 5 and 6 because they all have 7 words in each lane.

The letter word of the round that I have just played was Diverting lane 9 because it had 9 letters in one word.

HIIT Training

Today in HIIT Training we practiced High knee sprints, sand star jumps, slow star jumps, walking on the spot, jogging on the spot, running  on the spot, mountain climbers and tap steps.

We all participated well in the training that we did. 

Nearly all heart rates changed colors and everybody put in there effort. This was a great session to cool off the afternoon. Thanks Mrs Anderson for cheering us on.

Cook Island Language week

Today Me, Nickeala and Chavda learn how to speak cook island language because this week it is cook island  language week. We focused on recording a speaking cook island language. 

We recorded a video to show how we spoke cook island we used a website called digital dialects where the had a variety  of cook island words written in English and cook island. I also created this slide which  explains about cook island cultural dances and the costumes they where for items and performances.

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Wheel words

Today in reading I played a game Wheel words, In this game I had to make up words from the letters on the wheel.