Leadship challenges

This week is the leadership week for the year 7's. Leadership week is when the year 7's gather together to develop their leadership skills. Yesterday we all got into groups and we started completing different challenges together. Throughout these challenges we were communicating, collaborating, and showing team work. Our first task was a given question that needed to be answered by our groups. The question was how can you motivate others to drink water. It was challenging, because we weren't allowed to talk during this challenge. Our team's idea was to create an animation based on kids drinking water. We also discussed about the word teamwork. Teamwork to us means a group of people coming together to share new ideas and agree on each others opinions. After this we headed to the hall to complete another challenge. For this challenge we were to create the largest pyramid by using isometric diamonds. We worked as a group by discussing what each person was to do during this challenge. Angela and I were tracing around the template, while Jonathan and Julian were cutting it out and placing it on the piece of paper. As a result Alex's group won for this challenge. Lastly we were to find another group to work with. This time we were to gather our shapes together and build the largest pyramid. This time we were allowed to talk. In my group I had Angela, Julian, Jonathan, Jack, Neveah, Avalon, Chavda, and myself. This meant that there were 2 groups with 8 people in it. Before starting this challenge we came together to discuss about what each person was going to do. Avalon, Angela, and Neveah were drawing, while Chavda and I were tracing the templates. Jack and Julian were placing it on, while Jonathan was collecting the isometric diamonds for the cutters. As a result our group won this challenge. Were all enjoyed our time, but at the end of the day everyone are winners. 

Paper Plane Analysis

This week is leadership week for the year 7's. Leadership week is when the year 7's gather together and grow their leadership skills. This week the year 7's have been completing team challenges to help us develop our leadership skills. For this challenge we were to find new groups. In my group I had Mele, Aung Naing, Alex, and myself. Together we communicated, collaborated, and discussed about this challenge. For this we were to find a helpful website that taught us how to create a paper plane. Together my group and I found a website that taught us how to create a fast paper plane. After creating these paper planes we were to go outside and start throwing our paper planes as a group. As a class the year 7's gathered together and threw their planes group by group in the hall. As a result for the team challenge Julian's group won with a score of  14.1. The furthest throw was Chavda with a result of 14.5. Above shows the DLO that we created together. The graph above shows the distances of each person.

Athletics

This week we had athletics day. We all dressed in our house colors and enjoyed the activity. I was team green the people in my team were Nyjah,Avalon,Hajera,Joshua,Lyric and Dallas. We had 9 activity to do. The first activity we did was rob the nest. What we needed to do was try to get as many balls in the hulla hop. There was also one person form your group that had a bib on that person could tag anyone form getting the balls form there team. The next activity was on jump you needed to jump the farest to make your team win. Next was the sponge what we needed to do was jump using the sack collect the spong go under the pipe and over the rope to were the bucket of water is then you need to dip the sponge in the bucket of water and go over the rope under the pipe squeeze it in the bucket and then jump back with the sack.After that we played shot put we had to throw the ball with our shot skills. Then after that we moved onto discus there were 3 different kinds of spots to throw the hop over and they were point 1, 3 and 5 we tried to stick with 1, 3 because it would be easier for use and because at the end of the game we won with 31 points. After that we moved onto the next activity for this we had to line up as a group and lay our chest and stomach on the ground and when the man says go we had to run and jump up and try and grab a ball. After that activity we had a bark under the shad for 20 minutes then we moved on to the egg and spoon game for this we had get into our line and have a spoon and a fake egg on top of the spoon and walk in and out of the cones and walk over the chair and wait until the man says run back and we run back we won that round. After all of the activity we had lunch which was sausages we ate our sausages and our own lunch and went and played when lunch time was finish we sat in our class outside and all the races in each class fasted. l enjoyed Athlectics day because we could have fun and play in the hot weather and work as a team.

ReadTheory Progress

This week I was comparing my ReadTheory Progress. The first slide explains How many did I Read in February,June and November?February I read 13 books. I only read four books because I was new to the reading program. In July I read about 11 book I think that I read a lot but there could be more improved in my read. In November I read 4 books I am really disappointed because this is a program that can help my reading. I also explain the progress level.I have compared the grade levels that I have had over the past few months.February I was a Little happy because I got to grade 4 but I wanted to get to a higher level. In july I got to stage 6 I think I did well because I practise most of the month. In November I reached to level 8 I was really impressed about the progress I made over the year.

Wolves

This week I created a DLO about Wolves. What I have done is made a list of myths I know about Wolves and then Facts that I researched about wolves. A listed 5 of each. Then I added a Photo of a book that Mrs Anderson Read to us it was called Wolves. I liked this book because  the picture hooked into the story.

Meerkats

This week for book week Mrs Anderson shared her favorite book called Meerkat Mail this was really interesting. Everyone wanted to learn more about Meerkats so everyone created a DLO about Meerkats. I have included there Diet(what food they eat),There Habitat(Where they live),Appearance(what they look like) and interesting facts. I have also Drawn a Meerkat of my own.

Kiwi Authors Graph

This week we have been looking at book week. This is a graph that shows how many people in my group know the authors Ii know. These are all Kiwi Authors I have known since I was a little kid as well as know. Joy cowley and Witi Ihimoera had the most which was 6 and the least was David hill with 3. I think that more people should read something that interest them and hooks there mind. The graph shows you some people that have read book I have.

WW1 Amstrice day

This week we were creating a DLO about Armistice day. Me and Avalon created this DLO. We first wrote down some question. Then we needed to explore more about the question. Me and Avalon have made a compassion,information and added photos for each question.

Book Qestions

This week for Book week we needed to pick 3 activity's to do one of the activity's I choose to Write 8 questions about your book. The book I picked was Drama I really wanted to know more about the book and if there was a true story behind it. Drama is a book about a girl who likes a boy one day she wanted to make him jealous by using his new friends. She later on decided that it would be better if she focus more on theater then boys.

Ghost Cover

This week for Book week l was working with Avalon to make this task. We had to create our own cover about a book. We first chose a book we picked a book called ghost. We recreated the cover it has a sun set and the two sisters. l thought this came out great because we got to draw the sisters and we recreated it so it was ours. l enjoyed making this because we got to recreate it and the most thing l liked about it was the sunset.

Reading History/Book Week

This week at our school we are celebrating book week. This took me on a journey to what I liked when I was a child and what I like now. My favorite book is Amulet because the mystery. This novel is about a girl named Emily. She has currently lost her father and has a hard time. They move to a place where their great-grandfather used to live. When she was cleaning she found a stone. This stone was one of a kind. One day her mother is taken by a creature.The stone made her travel to her great-grandfather.Once she meet him she has to make a decision to leave the stones or choose its path to guide herself to save her mom and into a life that saves the world.

Armistice Commemoration

This week we had a Our own Commemoration for Armistice day. What happen first was Ofa stared the prayer then Mr Johnston went up to talk about Armistice Day and the soldiers. Next Tiava and Jeremiah read a poem in English and Maori. Then we had a person form the New Zealand Army Force Defense  who talked to us about the army. We also had a cross that holed all the poppy that the students made. We next turn to the flag and remembered the important people who were in the war while The last post and Reveille was playing then we had 1 minute of silence. Then each class went to put up there poppy to remember them there were also olive tree there as a symbol. Lastly Mrs Kirkpatrick read a poem called In Flanders Field. After this Commemoration the person form New Zealand Army Force Defense came to talk to us year 7 and 8s about his career and why he choose to be a soldier. He asked what we wanted to be. I wanted to be an soldier to help out the world. He also mention that we was in the army for ten years,went to Afghanistan to help out and had 6 months of training.

Armistice Day

This week we are having a Armistice Commemoration. What I have done is made a collage if photos from war world 1 and some photos of the newspaper that declared war was over. The first photo was about a Unknown Soldier who was picked to be in a special tomb. Armistice day is celebrated on November 11th. I have learnt that Scientists had done a DNA test on the unknown soldier

Flim Festival

This week Panmure bridge school went to the hoyts cinema in Sylvia park to watch movies that were created form other schools in the Manakalani Cluster. Room 3,2,4,LS1 and LS2 Created movies. Room 3 created a movie about bridge building, LS1 created a movie called A bit Dicey,Room 4&2 made a movie about super heroes and LS2 made a movie about the Panmure Bridge and its history. We got to watched St puis, St patricks, Tamaki collage, Tamaki primary and St Kura. We all enjoyed the film that was played. My favorite part was the beginning and LS1's move. The beginning was really nice because it was well down but our head girl Tiava. I really liked that the back round was showing our whakatauki as it shows people that our school is respectful.

Kiwi Sport

This week for Kiwi Sport we were learning about Boxing. Our Instructor/Coach was Pax she was boxing for about 3 years and teaches primary schools at year of 5 and up. What we did first was we went over some expectation and some of the key rules. The first Rule was Respect how can I show respect in Boxing. I can be Respectful by listening to the person speak and treat people how I want to be treated. The Second Rule was discipline. How can I show discipline in Boxing I show it by having a good behavior. The last Rule is Safety how can I show safety in Boxing. I can show safety by making sure I don't hit anyone and not swing my arms and hands. She also told us that if we were not following the rules you and the class had to do 1 burpe. Today for kiwisport was our first session of boxing.To warm up we played a warm up game. In this warm up we were to try and touch our partners shoulder or knee. If they got touched they were to do 1 burpie. After that we started wearing our gloves.The position that we stood in was called a rock. In this position we were to put one feet backwards and the other one at the front. After doing this we bent our knees. Then we placed our hands underneath our jaw. Next we started practicing how to jab and cross. A jab is when you box at someone roughly or quickly. A cross is when you jab the opposite side. This was a recap for people who missed last weeks session. Next we learn how to do a hook and a uppercut after we did this we put it all together. We also practices so movement

Tech

Tech this week was great what we did was we tried to make a flower using a compass. This is an example by Nyjah which looks really nice. This is also another example by the Tamaki Primary Students. Mine was not finish because I needed to finish the coloring. I needed to think about if the circles were equals.

Angela and Sanujan - Collaborative Comprehension

This week, we did something really different. What we did was collaborative comprehension. This means we collaborate and work as a team to complete our set task. However the only difference was, we didn't work in groups. Rather we worked in pairs. Since this task was in reading, we were to choose a person from Ms Kirkpatrick's group to be our partner. After we got into our pairs, we started on our task. Our task was to infer a story called The Battle Of The Somme. After we read the context we were to answer many varieties of questions that link to this context. This task links to Mrs Anderson's Inquiry sessions. They inquiry sessions were about Peace. For this task I worked collaboratively with Sanujan.