A Character Profile is describing there character, what they are now, and who they are. My Character is the female version of Overtaker, her name is White out, SHe is part of the Vanishing Point Set.
I don't really know anything about fortnite but learning about this skin was really cool. I tried to find a fortnite skin that I would actually like, and the skin I found is called Whiteout, she is the female version of Overtaker.
The reason on why I customize my shoe like this is because it has musical colours, Of course music can have any type of colours, but for me music has these colours.
Music has been with me through tough times and sometimes has been the only friend I need when I get home.
To me when I listen through music it’s like my blood and heart dance to the beat, but once I have to stop listening to music I feel i’m back in reality.
LI: To write a list poem that describes a topic by painting a picture with your words.
Today we wrote list poems about a topic we connected with. Our challenge was to use desacriptive language features to paint a clear picture with our words.
Origami is the art of folding a single sheet of square paper into a sculpture without cutting, gluing or taping it. The piece of oragami that I made was a crane.
I see me badges are to be rewarded once you finish your first 3 tasks of an I see me topic. You will be given your badges that are in between: People, Futures, Places, Objects and Stories. My second badge is Futures
I See Me badges are rewards you get once you complete 3 tasks from each page of a topic. There are 5 topics to complete and I have just been given my 1st badge for people.
Sisters and Vintage Fun is about expressing your style to your liking, finding pictures online about what you like, do, watch, or wear. I like quite a few things so I made a small collage.
Proud of My Roots lives up to it's title, It is about making a T-Shirt mixed with all of your cultures combined. I used Samoan and Persian patterns since those are the cultres I indentify with.
LI: To skim and scan to find facts about the Ancient Olympics and make notes in my own words.
We used our reading time this week to find out about the Ancient Greek Olympics. Once we had made our notes and reorganised our information we collaboratively created a presentation.LI: To draw and label your own Hauora diagram
In order to be able to perform at their best athletes need to have a four walls of the whare tapawha standing.
Our task was to see what activities would cause high and low blood pressure.
The activities we did were:
- Sitting
- Jogging on the Spot
- Throwing and Catching balls
- Stretching
- Star jumps
- Running as Fast as Possible on the Spot
The activity that had the lowest blood / heart pressure was Sitting and doing Star Jumps. The highest blood pressure / heart pressure was the Jogging on the spot and Throwing and Catching Balls.
Athletes who win make sure they know how to also lose in a proper manner, it’s normal for people to cry when they win or lose.
Tears of happiness and gratitude for the winners and tears of sorrow and disappointment for those who have taken a step back.
It is important to enjoy and celebrate the success you earn, embrace the goals you have achieved and the goals that you have set for yourself. Motivating yourself makes you believe that you can do anything that you put your mind to.
Ariana & Tanisha
LI: To Learn about Water Safety
Water safety is an important lesson that all schools should teach evrry single student.
The first water safety activity is called the “Thinking Grid”, the thinking grid allows you to ask yourself questions about swimming and also ask's you questions .
Some of the questions are; What do you Know about Water Safety? & How Might You Get Into Trouble in the Water?
PBS is thinking about water safety because of how many NZ People drown every year without knowing anything about how to get into the water & how to swim. Which is the most important lesson to learn when wanting to swim.
LI: to learn about Mindfulness
LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.
Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers.
David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about Greek Mythology vocabulary and identify Greek places on the map.
I found this activity quite fun because we could reasearch different parts of Ancient Greece .
The word/place I found most interesting was Delphi because I had never heard of that place before.
A vision board is a poster that displays what your goals are and how you are going to accomplish them, In total I have 6 goals that I would like to accomplish.
The six goals That I have are things that I have just started working towards since the beginning of the year, Those goals are:
- Learning how to play the piano fully
- Becoming a fashion designer
- Making my first unique clothing line
- Getting into Epsom Girls College
- How to paint Sunsets, Forests, River, etc
- Helping my mum with her buisness.
These are goals that I want to accomplish before the end of the year.
Today David shared his reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers.
David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. We earn CARE award badges in year 7 and 8 to show that we understand our school values. In this activity we used our smart searching skills to find information to help us complete the table.
I found this activity Very educational because I learnt about different types of gods and facts about them
The Greek god I found most interesting was Posiden because he had control over the whole ocean.
LI: To edit our writing using DRAFT
An abstract noun is something that can’t be physically touched, as in a feeling (Happiness, fear, love, etc.
This week LS2 have been learning about Metaphors and Abstract Nouns.
This poem has been created by me and my pair, for this poem we were asked to use DRAFT(Delete, , Rearrange, Add, Fix, Talk) in our poem.
We used the 5 senses(Smell, hear, taste, feel and see), Punctuation, .)& Complex( it when u add 2 ideas together, and one idea doesn't make sense without the other idea)Sentences
LI: To write an abstract noun sentence.
An abstract noun is something that can’t be physically touched, as in a feeling (happiness, fear, love, etc) also the 5 senses. This week, LS2 have been learning about Metaphors and Nouns. We got into groups and were introduced on what is nouns , what we see in the poem ( the structure) and the 5 senses. Our group created a Metaphor about happiness; Happiness is the blooming rainbow that shines when the sun comes out after the rain. A Metaphor is a comparison of two things without using ‘like’ or ‘as’. We created our own poem as a group about Jealousy.
LI: to explain in fewer words what the text is about
For our Inquiry we were learning about Matariki, and the origin story. Our task was to watch a video on the Maori Creation story and we had to summarise the video. The video was an artist representing and creating the story through sand art.
Our 20 important words had to be the top important words from the video, words that represented the story. Then from the 20 we had to pick the 6 most important words Then using those 6 words we had to sum up the story in a few sentences.
LI: to identify the main ideas in the text
Our next activity was to continue our learning with Matariki and Maori Stories.
For this activity we talked about the general important ideas, the 4 very important ideas, and the 3 vital ideas of the story.
The important ideas are composed of 4 specific things that might basically summarise the story. The 3 vital ideas are composed of key parts of the story.
LI: to find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and the text of “The Beginning”.
To continue our learning of Matariki, and the Maori story of Creation our task was to create a Venn Diagram. For our Venn Diagram we compared the differences and similarities between the Video and Written Version of the Maori Creation Story.
A Venn Diagram, is a diagram showcasing the differences and similarities between two different things.
LI: To understand how to use descriptive words to make your writing more interesting.
Our focus for writing this week was to use descriptive writing, which means using words that are powerful, making your text more exciting to read and add more detail into your writing. We were tasked to work collaboratively in pairs to complete this task.
Our task was to describe one of the two pictures that we were given. To make this task easier we would use our prior knowledge of sentence structures, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and descriptive words to create a piece of writing that uses descriptive words to make the text exciting to read.
I found this interesting because I could make up a story about 2 option pictures picture we wanted to do.
LI: To follow the rules and expectations, expected from teachers.
This weeks PB4L learning is about following classroom rules and expectations. PB4L is a acronym describing Positive Behavior for Learning.
PB4L helps us understand the correct behavior for inside classroom learning and outer learning. This consist of Classroom discussions, walking to assembly, behaviour on school trips, wet day procedure eg. respecting wet day monitors. All of these prospects will help us develop a strong and healthy learning enviroment.
I found this activity very educational because It showed me all the different types of expectations
LI: to explore science equipment.
Our task was to measure an exact amount of sugar and dissolve in both hot and cold water to make a solution.
The equipment we used was:
- A petri dish
- A weighing machine
- Table sugar
- Two 200ml beakers
- A pipette ( or dropper)
- Spatula
- Thermometer
- Stop watch
The method we used was placing a petri dish on the weighing machine or a scale. Fill the beaker with 100ml of cold water, measure 10 grams of sugar in the petri dish. Pour the 10 grams of sugar in the 100ml beaker with the water and stir.
we used the stopwatch to see how long the water would take for the hot and cold water to dissolve. Obviously the hot water had more effect than the cold water, and the hot water had made everything sticky.
LI: To find the important information in a current event.
LI: To identify the author's purpose.
This week for reading we learnt about the authors purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to persuade, inform, explain or entertain (PIE).
First we looked on Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the current events DLO and answered the questons:
I found this activity fun and intresting because it was fun to fill in the questions and the article I picked was intresting to learn about.
This week is Samoan Language Week - Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa. The theme for 2021 is Poupou le lotoifale. Ola manuia le anofale which means strengthen the posts of your house, for all to thrive.
In LS2 we have decided to value the measina of the language by creating a screencastify that teaches others how to use Samoan words and phrases.
My partner and I chose to pay it forward by showing others how to count in samoan which might be something new they have learnt.
I found this challenge really fun since my partner and I got to take turns saying which words. But when it was coming close to the end it got harder with the foods.
LI: To pay it forward by creating a screencastify that teaches others how to use Samoan words and phrases
Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun.
Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.
I enjoyed this activity because it gave me a chance to find out new Adjectives & Verbs.
This week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities.
One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading "As Old As Time, A Twisted Tale"
I really like this book because, I found out many different words and the definitions of them in this book, I just finished reading it the other day and it has about 400 pages worth of learning new words.
LI: To show my personal journey through books
Here are some photos taken during the assembly LI: To strengthen connections to technology
We have been learning about technological practice. This week we have been learning about the 6 processes of Technological Design and how each one is important in the process of designing a product.
We are using the processes of technological practices to design and build a rubber band- powered rover that can scramble across the floor.
I found this quite interesting because, we could find and examine what materials we were able to use to make our own version of a mars rover.
LI: To Stop, Think, and make smart decisions with Money.
Today, someone from the ASB Bank came to talk to us about how to spend our money wisely and also how to save it.
Our instructor was talking to us for a little bit and then, he said that we were going to play a game called holiday.
He would give us $1,800 to spend on our hoilday to Fiji. If we needed more money we could use the banks credit card and pay the amount that we used for back to the bank, but if we didn't have any money left we would be in debt.
When he wanted the exact amount of money that we used for our travel insurance we had given it to him cause we saved up that money.
The catagories we were to spend our money on was - The Passport, Plane Ticket, Accomidation, Insurance, Activites, and lastly the food.
In one of the last rounds we got food poisoning fron "Joe's Fish & Chips" but since we got travel insurance, they paid for our medicine.
The game we played was fun and taught us the meaning of saving money.
LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader
A setting is the place, time and environment of a story to help a reader make a connection to your narrative you need to use your words in away that helps them form a picture of what you are describing in their mind.
To do this we looked at an image and thought of 10 words that described and showed what we could see. Once we had thought of the adjectives or adverbs we used our smart searching skills to help us find synoymns that made our descriptions clearer.
Greetings, my name is Ariana and I am a year 7 student in LS2. I am Samoan and Persian, and when I have some free time I like to watch Netflix and cook for my family and I.My favourite food is watermelon, and I am an only child. I work towards learning another two languages which are French, and Spanish.For my 2021 goal I try to raise my ability in writing so that I can write stories beyond my experience, and vocabulary.
LI: To create a DLO that helps others become Cybersmart.
LI: To think outside the box, be creative and complete the picture.
Outside the box art is an imaginative type of art, its where you can tap into your imagination and come up with multiple ideas, using only little resources you have or are allowed to use.
For this activity I used a single line to make this portrait. Many ideas flood through my head so i played around with the line and came up with this portrait.
I found this to be the most enjoyable activity because, i could play with all the ideas and chose one that I liked and chose to do. There were some parts that I found challenging for example like using a single line to make hair strands that was quite tough but it was worth it in the end.
LI: to understand how TEEL paragraphs can help us structure our information and ideas in a paragraph.
Using TEEL as a structure to write a paragraph gives people more information about the chosen topic. When someone structures their paragraph with TEEL, it makes the information easier to understand the text.
TEEL is short for Topic sentence, Elaborate, Evidence & Link. The topic sentence is the main sentence in the paragraph that gives the reader not only the general topic, but also the main idea of it. Evidence is a text that backs up the point that I would be trying to make. Linking the paragraphs help to make a connection that gives the reader a clue about what will be happening in the next paragraph.
A good paragraph uses all the points that TEEL can help with. I enjoyed this task because it gave a a better understanding of how to use TEEL and also how to make more developed paragraphs
L.I to understand why staying hydrated is important for our health and for our learning.
This week we learnt about hydration and dehydration. Being hydrated means you body has enough fluids to function properly and dehydration means you don’t have enough water for your body to function properly.Our task was to define the meaning of hydration, dehydration and the effects they have on our body. One fact That I found really interesting was that drinking water helps your digestive system work properly.
LI: To plan & carry out a statistical investigation.
For maths, we did a statistical investigation and found out information about LS2 students.
First, we got into pairs and thought about four different questions to ask the LS2 students. Our four questions were ‘What is your birthday month?’, ‘How old are you?’, ‘What is your favourite animal?’ and ‘What is your favourite food?’.
Next, we cut out the answers and stuck them to a large piece of paper to look like a graph. More people had their birthdays in February and June. Less people had their birthdays in December, April and September.
Finally, we looked through the information and data we collected in our statistical investigation and created a pie chart using a google draw.
I enjoyed this activity and performing this statistical investigation. Before carrying out this statistical investigation, I predicted that more people would be born in March, but instead of being right I got it wrong the correct answer was February & June
