Apostrophes

Apostrophes 

Today for Mrs. Anderson's writing group we were learning about Apostrophes. We learned where you use them and how to use them. For my examples, I used one sentence that doesn't have an apostrophe in it and wrote the sentence again and then I put the apostrophes in it. Did you now that an Apostrophe can be used in three ways like to mark possession, to mark contraction and mark plural single letters. 

Sidu River Bridge

Sidu River Bridge 

Today for Inquiry our task was to use our google drawing tools to help us with creating a bridge that was somewhere around. I worked collaboratively with Chavda and we decided to create the Sidu River Bridge because it is famous around the world and in China. We really enjoyed creating this bridge because I got better at using my google drawing tools. 

Care Awards- Life at PBS

Care Award - Life at PBS

Today I was busy doing my silver RESPECT award. For the first one, I made a collage about my life at PBS. For this I used all the photos like Tech with Mr. Grundy, our Matariki celebration were I was performing in the Pacifica group, Agent of Change, Kiwi Can, me presenting at Assembly and our trip to the Sky Tower. 

Orca Whale

 Orca Whale 

Today for Reading each person in our group chose an animal that you can find in New Zealand. I chose the Orca whale and I found out a lot about these magnificent species and facts like did you know that Ora's can grow up 23 to 32 meters long. In this DLO I found a map of New Zealand and where you can find them around New Zealand. I really enjoyed making this DLO because I learned a lot of facts about Orca Whales.  

The Panmure Bridge 1865

The Panmure Bridge 1865 

Today for Inquiry Chavda and I created a DLO that looked like the Panmure Bridge in 1865. In this DLO I labeled the parts of the bridge, the steel truss that makes the bridge strong, the deck that holds the horses and people walk across it. The stones on the abutment and the Iron swing span to let vessels go through under. I collaboratively with her to create this bridge. 

Mathematics Challenge

  

Mathematics Challenge 

Today for Mathematics we did Mr. Wong's Mathematics challenge. I refreshed my search and I did both my addition and subtraction sides. I tried to get everything right and I did. I also tried to answer all the questions. I really enjoyed doing this activity that Mr. Wong kindly created for us. 

Mathematics Challenge

Mathematics Challenge 

Today for Mathematics I did a basic facts DLO that Mr. Wong created for our group. I did the subtraction one this week. This time I tried to do my best and get everything right. I answered everything right. I tried to make my answer that got up to a hundred or was close to a hundred. Next week I will be finishing the times table challenge. I really enjoyed doing this because I got to use my own strategy to figure out the answer. 

Duffy Assembly

Duffy Assembly 

Today we had a Duffy Assembly and we had a special guest. He was a Comic book artist and a professional wrestler and his name were Michel Mulipola. He came to talk to us about how reading helped him with creating his comic books. He told us how he traveled the world with his wrestling career and how he met his role models and then became friends with them. He was really cool and I thought that he made his dream come true.  

Wheel Words

Wheel words 

Today my group and I were busy doing wheel words. I only found four letter words which were the four-letter words, the five letter words, six letter words, and the seven letter words. For the four letter word I found dens, died, dies, ding, side. The five letter word I found design, dined, sides, for the six letter I only got one word and it was designed and for the seven letter word, I got designs. I really like this game that it has obscure words and I got nide. 

Making Connections- Sports News

Making Connections

Today for reading my group Rotorua were doing Reciprocal Reading and the book we read was called Sports News. This book was about all different types of sports that had its dangers but the people doing it knew how to keep themselves safe. What I liked about this story was that these were faced with challenges like having a disability or being too young but they still pulled through and reached the goals they set for themselves. This story was written by Jill Eggleton and Illustrated by Rob Keily. The pattern in this book was two hot sports then one cold one and it continued throughout the book. I really liked this book because it was inspirational.   

HIIT Evaluation

HIIT 

Today we had our last HIIT session. For this HIIT session was busy doing Tap Step, Star Jumps, Push ups and Sit Ups. We have been having HIIT session for about 15 weeks and each week has been very fun. For our warm-ups, we did dances from Fornite, jogging on the spot, walking on the spot and running on the spot. The reason we had HIIT was for research for AUT. Next week everyone in LS2 will have the HIIT test.

Tech

Tech

Today we had our second Tech session in Art with Ms. Telefoni. We were finishing our designs that related to our culture. For my designs I created the first box I drew the African continent, then in these second box, I drew a sun that reflects the Namib and a dolphin tale.  When I am finished coloring in my design I will need to crave it out. I can't wait for next week. 

Mathematic Startegy

Today Mr Wong kindly created a basic facts challenge for Mrs Anderson's group. On this slide we did basic facts addition strategy. We had ten addition  questions. This was a little hard but I got better at it when I thought about the question and did it again. I would like to thank Mr Wong for his slide. 

Wheel words

Wheel Words 

Today for reading my group Rotorua and another group Motuihe were busy playing this game called Wheel words. I timed ten minutes for everyone in my group. In my four-letter words, I found clot, colt, cote, felt and tore, in the five letter words I found cleft, croft, elect and erect.  In the seven letter words, I found crofter, elector, and erector. For the obscure words, I found flot, lote, teer, teel, reet and leet. I really liked finding these words and playing this game because opened up my brain to some new words. 

Kiwi Can

Kiwi Can

Today we had Kiwi Can with Mr Matt and Ms Lily in LS2 because we are going on a trip to the  Auckland Philharmonic  Orchestra.  What we did was played two games and the first game was called Beats, in this game, everyone sat in a circle, and there was one person in the middle on a chair. There was one person in the circle that was chosen in the circle to start a beat, everyone in the circle had to follow it but the person in the middle had to guess which person stared the beat.  I really liked this game and it was really fun. 

HIIT

HIIT

Today we had a HIIT session. For this HIIT session, we did Sit Ups, Star Jumps, Tap Step and High Knee Sprints. Our energizer this week was running on the spot and walking on the spot. We were lead by Matatio, Tiava, Zane, and Lyric, they did a really great job with their leading by motivated us to try harder and so did Mrs. Anderson by cheering us on. We all wanted to get puffed / pau te hau in our exercise. I can't wait for the next one.   

Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra

Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra 

Today 44 students from LS2 went to the Auckland Philharmonics Orchestra. On this trip, we saw the Auckland Dance Project was ( St Kents / Ngatapawe ) performed while the Orchestra was performing. We learned about different sections like brass and the instruments were trumpet, trombone, tuba, and french horn, the second one was woodwind and the instruments that belonged to it were flute, oboe, bassoon, and the clarinet, the third one was percussion and the instruments that belonged to it were drums,and triangles the fourth and final one was the strings and the instruments that belonged to it were violin, viola, cello, and the double bass. We also learned about what the conductor does and he guides the musicians and he conducts the musicians to play loud/ soft/slow and fast. 

                                     

Bridge Building

Bridge Building

Today for Inquiry our groups were busy with bridge building. For our bridge, we decided to make a truss bridge. Yesterday we made the one side of the truss and dried our night but today we created our deck and the other side of the truss. We are waiting for it to dry and tomorrow we are assembling it tomorrow. I worked collaboratively with Hajera, Joshua V, and Viva.  All of our hard work paid off.  Everyone else in the other group's bridges looked really cool and I liked them all.  

Virtual Reality - Research

Virtual Reality - Research 

Today Yvonne and her research team from the Augmented human lab at Auckland University came to do some research in LS2. This was all based on the subject we have been learning about in Inquiry. We were put into three groups and in each, they did different things. In my group, we did learning about how people traveled from Pakuranga to Panmure and how the Panmure Bridge was built and what materials were used. This was a recap of the work that we have been learning about for a couple of weeks. After the activity had finished we got pizza for all the kids whose parents signed the forms and we got a lot of pizza. Our school was the first in our area to take part in this amazing experiment. I would like to thank Yvonne and her team for doing this research and all had really great fun. 

Reciprocal Reading

Today for Reading my group had Reciprocal Reading. We read a book about building that were built to last. We learned about different types of structures  and buildings around the world, we learned how old they were, how long it took and who designed it. Reciprocal reading is about when you Predict, Silent read, Clarify, Question and Summarize. After you have done all those stages you let the next person to become the leader and have a different about the next pages.