My Reading Pathway

 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

Lead a School Assembly

This is my third task i've completed to try and get my silver confidence.

As apart of completing my silver confidence badge, I was required to present at assembly today. 

During the assembly my legs were shaking and I was just sitting there clapping at the awards that other people got. When it was my turn to speak according to the script, my legs would shake even more. 

But over time I got over it because Lily was encouraging me by standing next to me when it was my turn to speak, and telling me that I was doing a good job throughout the whole time.

Here are some photos taken during the assembly                        

Toys

 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.

ASB Getwise

 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.

Moment In Time Poem

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.

I found this interesting and fun to do because I was able to use different language features to describe and create a poem using my knowledge of description.

Blog Profile

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.

                                          

Helping Others Become Cybersmart

    LI: To create a DLO that helps others become Cybersmart.

                                        

For those who are new to using a Netbook can try and learn shortcuts, if they use shortcuts they can easily get around from tab to tab.

Using a Netbook can be quite hard at first but then after a while it gets easier and easier, them learning shortcuts can help them a lot. 

I have created a DLO writing down what some shortcuts are and what they do, for example an easy one is: Ctrl + W = closing a tab down.

I found this activity really enjoyable because I could show what some shortcuts are to new people who aren't familiar with Netbooks