Art Colouring Book - Step it up Challenge

LI: To use TEEL paragraphs to explain our colour choice

Recolored

Original

Art can tell stories and diiferent meanings depending on what colors they use and what elements they use the elements of art are important becuase to can tell us how they felt when making the art or what type of mood that are trying to show us. when the elements of art are all combined you can create an excellent peiece of art the can show a story. line, shape, texture, form, space, colour and value.

Lines are used in nearly all forms of art the lines can be wavy or straight depending on what type of art you are doing, Shapes are also a common element to use in art if they are polygons circles or geometric shapes. Texture is also as important becuase it can give the art depth and make it look more realistic. Form is when 3d art or 2d art look like they take up sapce. Space is distance or area  between around above and within the art. Color can help show space in art and helps us shade our texture. 

Tech - Science

 LI: To create a blog post explaining our tech session

This morning we had our last tech session with Mrs Sharma we learnt about Plant - Food makers. we talked about plants, we had to answer questions that she gave us from what we know about plants. We learnt about how plants grow, how they feed them selfs, why they are important to animals, and listed 5 plants that we eat and also why we eat them. We then talked about herbivores, carnivorous, and omnivorous and what they eat and list all the animals that go under the categories. We then had to collect 10 leaves that we found around the school. we then taped them to our work books and then we had to mesure how long it was and also record the texture, color ,thickness, and the paterns. we recorded them in our workbooks.

Art Colouring Book

 LI: To experiment with colours.

                                                                            Recolored

Original

This morning we tried one of this year’s Kick Start Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to experiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowed us to recoluor famous painting or images of landmarks around the world. The painting that I recoloured is a famous painting called the Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave. The painting was painted by Hokusai, this is one of my  favorite paintings becuase it shows alot of cool colors and uses shading.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

 Today only some of the people from Te Whanau Raukura group came to Panmure Bridge School and performed for us. While they performed that also shared some information that we could learn from about the Maori culture and they told us about the weaponry and the tools that they used for dancing. The first thing that they told us about is conch they used it as they entered the hall and told us that it was used to welcome visitors but they used it to enter. the next thing they told us about was that taiaha it was a weapon that they used to kill with. The weapon consisted of a carved on face with a tongue sticking out this part of the weapon was used to intimidate and there was a feathered part warped around the end that was used for distraction. A Poi was used by males to increase their flexibility, build co-ordination and upper body strength for battle, but as the Maori culture grew, it then became a female traditon as a form of comfort or welcoming. The next Item that was introduced was the Taiaha. The Taiaha was used in war. The feathery part of the Taiaha was used as a distraction, so taht they could use the would to bruise the enemy. As a gift in return the boys from PBS Kapa Haka group, peformed a Haka in return. After this Peformance, Becca, from the Kapahaka group, came into our class-room and taught us a game called Pukana. 

Exploring our national current events

LI: To identify author’s purpose.

Today for reading LS2 created google maps exploring our national current events meaning events that are taking place currently right now and in New Zealand. Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. We had to find articles and the reasons for why the author wrote about it. We then had to find the place on the maps and fin the location and a summary of what took place in that area.

Categories

• Timeliness -- News that is happening right now, news of interest to readers right now.
• Relevance -- The story happened nearby or is about a concern of local interest.
• Magnitude -- The story is great in size or number; for example, a tornado that destroys a couple houses might not make the news but a story about a tornado that devastates a community would be very newsworthy.
• Unexpectedness -- Something unusual, or something that occurs without warning.
• Impact -- News that will affect a large number of readers.
• Reference to someone famous or important -- News about a prominent person or personality.
• Oddity -- A unique or unusual situation.
• Conflict -- A major struggle in the news.
• Reference to something negative -- Bad news often "sells" better than good news.
• Continuity -- A follow-up or continuation to a story that has been in the news or is familiar.
• Emotions -- Emotions (such as fear, jealousy, love, or hate) increase interest in a story.
• Progress -- News of new hope, new achievement, new improvements

Provocation: Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?

LI: To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me form an opinion.

A provocation is an action or speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Today we considered both sides of the provocation, ‘Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?’ We then used that information to help us form an opinion that we could justify with evidence. In my opinion I think that wearing a face mask in public transport should be a mandatory requirement as it helps us prevent getting anymore new cases of Covid-19. I think that this is something that will help us and will not have a bad affect rather a good one.

Reading

LI: To unpack the meaning of The Charge of the Light Brigade poem

Today for reading we learnt about the poem called The Charge of the Light Brigade which was written by Alfred Tennyson. It is a ballad poem. A ballad poem is a poem that tells a story. The Light Brigade is a poem about is about the Crimean war that lasted for 11 months. At the war there were 600 men who had no choice but to join even if they were to survive or die. This poem was about the light brigade, the light brigade was a failed military charge in the Crimean war from the British against the Russians. The Crimean war were fought by the British and Turkish forces against the Russia, the war was fought due to Russian pressure of turkey. 

Maths

 

This week in maths Afatia, Lukah, Rj, Haylee and I created a DLO about our challenge we did in Maths. Our maths challenges were based on our weight since we have been learning about weight. We solved three separate word problems and we chose one challenge to create a DLO about, the word problem for challenge 3 was How many rhinoceroses, lions, giraffes, or hippopotamuses weigh the same as an elephant? We explained our strategy on how we got the answer. Our problem was to figure out the combination of animals to match the weight of an elephant.

Science tech

LI: To test and conduct our own experiments with our own knowledge of rocket science. 

Today LS2 year 7s  went to tech and did science with Mrs Shamma and Mr Dunn and we learnt about rocket science and we made straw/blow rockets with plastic straws. but before we did this we did a brainstorm of words with Mrs Shamma, some of the words we wrote down  were Gravity, thrust, push, force, action and reaction and fins. We then worked with Mr Dunn and we bade straw rockets the first thing we did was to bend the tip of the larger straw and we made sure that we used a reasonable amount of tape or else it will add to the weight of our rocket, it is good to create a lighter rocket ship so that it can fly further. So we tried blowing our rocket without fins becuase our question was How many fins do we need for our rocket ships.

After that we created a hypothesis or prediction of how many fins that was suitable for our rockets. We tested our rocket with no fins 3 times and recorded our data in our work books, we then taped paper fins that we cut out onto the larger straw and tested the rocket with 2 fins 3 times and recorded our distances and we lastly tested our rockets with only 4 fins and tested 3 times and took record and the after that we had competition with all year 7 students to see who would get the furthest distance and the 3 winners would win a prize. 

Guy Fawkes Summarry

LI: To use the words you highlighted to help you summarise the story behind fireworks night.

Today this week LS2 and Room 5 collaborated together and made a summary about the story of Guy Fawkes because it is Guy Fawkes night tomorrow. In order to summarise we had to sum up  20 words that we heard in the story and then only choose 6 of them and then create a few sentences about the Guy Fawkes story