Fractions with Mr Fisi'iahi

 LI: To learn how to group and split in fractions

This week is our last session with Mr Fisi’iahi for this term as it was last week. For this week my group and I worked on fractions and played a game called Play tower of hanoi. We also used Multi Link cubes to help us understand fractions and to help us solve the questions. I really enjoyed playing with my partner solving fraction questions. We also played a game called Dicy numbers which got us into parnters. This game was really fun and competitive as we had to see who was the first one to win.

Explanation | Making wise choices

 LI: To structure and write an explanation

Why is it important to make wise choices?

Have you ever thought about taking drugs or drinking alcohol or has someone ever forced you or wanted

you to do it?  Some of the major reasons people take drugs is to try to fit in or to feel cool or they go through

peer pressure and end up using drugs, Peer pressure, being pressured by a friend or peer to do something that

you know that is unwise and can have a bad impact on you.

People who take drugs such as Crack, Weed, or  Cocaine use it to feel happy or as a stress reliever to help

forget about something bad that they have experienced but sadly the effects of these drugs do not last very

long so as a result people become addicted and are focused on getting more to feed there hunger in other

words drugs become there number one priority. When people get addicted they will do anything to feed

there hunger. They are tempted to steal money if they run out of it or they will work for people and in return

they get what they want but the consequences are not ideal.

Making a wrong decision doesn't necessarily mean that you are a bad person but is about who you should

start focus on becoming. Taking drugs can also affect your mindset/ way you think can lead to depression

or start to feel anxiety but if younger pupils start to take drugs the side effects could be more harmful the

addiction could be enhanced or feel stronger but younger pupils can also say no and can try avoid these

unwise choices knowing the bad impacts that they can have on there mental and physical health. 

This week for writing we wrote explanations about making wise choices about taking drugs and alcohol and the side effects and consequences of these actions I chose this topic becuase I can use the information gathered from our DARE program. I have learnt the drugs can be a dangerous substance that can be very addictive that can harm our physical and mental body that can effect others that are around us.

Inquiry

 LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice 

To decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision.

App

  LI: To create a bilingual app of Maori and English. 

This week is Maori Language Week. In LS2 we were given different challenges to accomplish relating to Te reo maori. This is one of 3 challenges. For this activity Juel, Sulia, Heavenly and I created a interactive DLO, also known as a digital app. In this DLO we included different questions relating to Maori. This DLO was made to help others learn some words, numbers, places, and object names in Maori. There are different buttons on the DLO that are there in order to click and move around the DLO more easily.

Whakatauki

 LI:  To define a whakatauki in your own words. 

Sulia, Juel, Heavenly and I have completed our 2nd activity. For this activity we created a DLO explaining what we thought the whakatauki meant in our words. The whakatauki we chose was 'Long on words, short on actions'. In my opinion I thought this meaning that people keep saying things but doesn't actually accomplish or complete it. A whakatauki is a significant saying or proverb. 

History

  LI: To identify the history of Maori Language Week.

This week me and my group have completed another Te Wiki o te reo maori challenge. For this challenge Juel, Sulia, Heavenly and I created a google slide deck explaining the importance and history of Maori language Week. In 1975, Maori Language week was marked an official language week in Aotearoa ( New Zealand ). Although there was a language week, the people from the Maori community protested to have Maori language taught in schools to keep the culture going. This was acknowledged in the 1980s. In 1985 Maori Language was one of the official languages of NZ. 

DARE to make a choice

 LI: To create a DLO about making wise choices

This week was our last day doing the DARE program. We had 3 different tasks. The first one was to sort out all the different drugs good and bad into 3 different columns of illegal drugs, legal drugs and drugs that we are unsure of, then sort them out from most harmful and harmful drugs. The second task was to learn about the 3 classes of drugs including class A being the highest and B and then C the penalties that come with being caught with the drugs, the last task was to create our own penalties with 6 different scenarios that we were given. 

The most interesting thing that I learnt  was that chocolate was a Drug.

The most interesting thing that I learnt was that drugs can be found in everyday things like chocolate and milo ect.

Tech: Science with Mrs Sharma

LI: To identify the the different types and uses of plastic.

This week for tech the year 7s at Panmure Bridge School  learned about the different types of plastics. We also learned about Plastic, material, wood, paper and metal which helps us understand more about  plastics. We also played an activity that will give us more information on plastic. The activity we played was about looking around the class and trying to look for the different materials that we could see. The most interesting fact I learned was that every year 17 billion rubbish are thrown into the water.

Statistics

 LI: Identify patterns and relationships between data.

Today  we worked with Mr Fisi’iahi, He taught us about statistics and gathering data. We then gathered all the data and then put all the information into a bar graph or pie chart  we thought of questions in our pairs and then had to analyze the data the data was about pre-teens and teens and different values so that we could get our answer, the question was do kids spend more time reading than teens.

Its Cool 2b Me

 LI: To create a DLO that talks about me

For this DLO is showcasing  what some great things are about me and some qualities I look for in friends a list of best friends and a wish and some favorite foods and more things about me The  Dare program helps us and informs us with things  that can kill us and helps us make wise choices.  What I liked writing was about My goals for this year. One of my goals is tobe able to speak Togan and Japanese and to finish college and intermediate

Family tree Te Reo Challenge

 LI: To create a family tree showing our whakapapa

This week for this Te reo challenge that task was to create or design an image to display a family tree showing our whakapapa we also had to put into the Maori translations for Mum, Dad, Uncle, Aunt, ect. This is showcasing the task that we had to complete I have also color coded the names to show the genders Female or male.

Science is Empirical

 LI: To paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh

We learnt about why science is empirical we did this collaboratively in groups of 4 we did this by observations by reading the images then coming up with an idea of what is happening in the image we had to write our own separate ideas but we could not talk we had to then write one idea with no communication. We then had to put our learning on this DLO about why science is empirical. Science is empirical becuase it is based on observations.

Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers art

 LI:To paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh 

For art we learnt about Vincent van gogh and his style of art and we also made a timeline of his life when we first started our art we had a practice so that it will be easier for us when we start or have a idea of what it will actually look like for when we start our real painting. 

 LI: To learn and create algebraic equations.

Today my group and I  learnt Algebra with Mr Fisi’iahi. We started off by finding out the values of the animals. The animals we did were Piwaiwaka,Gecko,Kiwi,Tuatara and Pukeko. We summed up an answer then we  simplified the answers to make it easier to understand and explain what's happening. We created a DLO with our algebraic equations but we had to make the question unbalanced so that Mr Fisiah could make it balanced, we had to create for Mr Fisiah . I really enjoyed working with my partner and my group to answer the questions we’re trying to solve.These tasks and questions help us understand and explain what Algebra is.  We also learned how to balance the animals to make it equal and even. 

 I really enjoyed learning how to simplify the answers to make it easier to understand. 

Tech reflection

 LI: To identify and understand the meaning of science with Mrs Sharma

This week for tech we started a new rotation we started science with Mrs Sharma. The first thing she did was showed us the different science equipment, the equipment she showed us where a Bunsen burner, test tubes, conical flask, funnel, tongs, clamp stand, petri dish, test tube holder, she also explained the purpose of all of these pieces of equipment and told them why scientist use them or when they can use them. she then told us to try and spell these words in our work books   that she handed out to us. we then had to write on the white board words that relate to science then she picked 3 words we then had to explain what they meant.

Duffy Books in School

This week all pupils in Panmure bridge school got given to Duffy books of there choice, we are given these books to students to inspire them to have a love for reading. I am very thankful for Duffy books is school for letting us have the chance to read. The two books that I have chosen the two books I have chosen are "Chinatown girl" and "Wings of fire talons of peace" I am looking forward to reading Chinatown girl this is a book written by Eva Wong ng, the book is about a a girl named silvey and her mother tells her about the stories of the emigrating to New Zealand, she lives above a shop in Auckland's downtown Chinese district

Vincent Van Gogh Timeline

LI: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent van Gogh

This week we researched about Vincent van Gogh who is a famous dutch artist. We created a time line that showed about what he did in his life and his journey to becoming a  famous artist. Vincent van Gogh at first people did not like his paintings becuase of the colors that he used alot of the time he used dark moody colors but in 1888 he moved to France Arles and saw that artist used colors that are more bright and vibrant and he used what he saw to create his first painting that used vibrant colors.