Poros of Malia

 LI: To create a DLO describing poros charectar

Today our focus for reading is oral language. In this DLO it talks about the Poros. Poros was a athlete in the 106th olympics Poros and ran in a race called the stade. The book we read about talked about the olympics that had took place back then. The skills that we practised during this group activity were predicting, colaborative comunication, and working together. We worked colaborativly in pairs to answer questions about the book that we read this is were we would need to predict communicate colaborativly and share ideas as a group.

I enjoyed this activity because I found it interesting to look back at the anceint olympics and try to compare to the olympics that are being held today.

Flow Charts and Radio Chat

  Learning Intentions

To understand how flowcharts relate to coding blocks.

To understand how to get the microbit to talk to another microbit using radio signals.

Here is my flowchart practice document.

The next activity today was coding the microbit to send a radio signal to another microbit. We had to make sure that both microbits were on the same group number so we didn't accidentally get a message from another group.

Super Finger Competion

 LI: To recall our time tables quickly

Today for maths we  recalled our multiplication knowledge by playing a game called Super Fingers. This is a game to see how well and how fast we are able to answer multiplication questions.

The instructions of this game is that we need to write a word/phrase 'superfingers' is what is commonly used when playing super fingers, then write it on a white board or piece of paper. to play superfingers we would need two dice, when the dice are rolled we had to multiply them for example: you have rolled 2 and a 6 you would then need to figure out the answer in your head and the first person to call out the answer first wins a point. points are tallied by rubbing out a letter of the phrase or word you have chosen. The first person with and empty whiteboard/no more letters. wins the match.

The process we did it in was similar to a netball game, draw, quarter finals, semi finals, and lastly finals. To run this competition smoothly we created a bracket which showed who will play who. Our bracket were not even so later in the game we added two other players who were our wild cards witch were Vayan and Micah.

In pairs we challenged each other to see who was faster at answering the questions. The winner would go against the winner from another person. Whoever wins goes up against another winner, and it will keep going until there are two people left, which would be the finals.

The two people facing each other in the finals were Afatia and Chris. I enjoyed this game very much becasue I got to learn my time tables faster.

Olympic Maths Chalenge

 LI: To find the most efficent strategy

 This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. This task was about Nastia Liukin. The question sayed The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist? We had to find out how much of a point nastia opponent score was, and we also had to find out how much did Nastia score over the bronze medalist. I found this task intersting becase we learn new way of trying to solve different math equations.

Olympic Challenege

 LI: To find the most effiecent strategy

This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. The question was, on average, every swim stroke Michael Phelps takes gets him 2 meters down the pool. Michael competed in 8 separate events during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, It meant that we had to find out how many meters Michael swam for his  gold medals. In total Michael swam 1500m in all eight events. When it says that every stroke Michael takes he ends up to meters down the pool. If he swims two meters in one storke that means 1500 neededs to be divided by 2. The answer is 750, which means Michael Phelps did 750 storkes to get to the 1,500m range.

Olympics Venue Provocation

LI: To use provocation to understand both sides of the story

A provocation is a act or speech that triggers emotion in others.

Our provocation that we were given was It’s costing Japan 15.4 billion dollars US to host the Olympics. Should host countries have to spend so much money on building Olympics venues? I worked collaboratively` together with Lily and we both formed our own opinions on what we think about the provocation.

We both shared the same opinion that we are against the provocation and that they should not be spending that much amount of money on the Olympic venues of they are going to be left and are going to be run down and not going to be used again.

Matariki

 LI: To understand the meaning behind Matariki

This week for inquiry we’ve been focusing on Matariki. Matariki is a time where we can come together and celebrate the Maori New Year with our whanau and friends.

The first activity we did was the birds of matariki. For this activity we researched the birds that were eaten in the Matariki feast each year. We expanded our knowledge by finding out how the Maori foul and preserve the meat.

I found this activity fun because I expanded my knowledge of Matariki and found out what is eaten during the Matariki feast. An interesting fact that I learnt was that people eat New Zealand birds during the feast.

Matariki

 LI: To understand the meaning behind Matariki

This week for inquiry we’ve been focusing on Matariki. Matariki is a time where we can come together and celebrate the Maori New Year with our whanau and friends.

The first activity we did was the birds of matariki. For this activity we researched the birds that were eaten in the Matariki feast each year. We expanded our knowledge by finding out how the Maori foul and preserve the meat.

I found this activity fun because I expanded my knowledge of Matariki and found out what is eaten during the Matariki feast. An interesting fact that I learnt was that people eat New Zealand birds during the feast.

Matriki

 LI: To understand the meaning behind Matariki.

This week our focus was about Matariki, as it is the time of year we see the Matariki stars in the sky. It is the Maori new year, a time for new beginnings. On Wednesday we had our school wide Matariki celebration. During this week we have completed different tasks to help strengthen our connections to Matariki. 

The first task in this DLO was to find where we will see the matariki stars. The next task was about where in the sky is the Matariki stars and write where they are. The last task was about why does the matariki stars disappears in may and reappears in june. This task was fun because I got to learn more about the celebration of Matariki.

Coding In Python

  L.I : To Learn how to code the Microbot in the Phyton.

 Here is an example of the buttons,  the main thing to notice is "def" which is defining what the on_button_pressed will make the microbot do. Again this has a top and bottom so the content has to go insde it. 

The first one image shows the Phyton coding for the flashing hearts code that I made. It flashes between a small heart icon and a large heart Icon. The diference between python coding is that block coding uses blocks and python coding uses text that you have to type down.

Organizing and Researching

 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 intereting because its was interesting to learn about ancient greek and learn about anicent greek and research about the different places

The word/place I found most interesting was Aliance because people would make alliances and work together to defeat the foe or enemy. 

Greek Mythology Notes

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the Greek gods

 

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 fun becuase it was very interesting to learn about the greek gods and godesess

The Greek god I found most interesting was hades because its was interesting to learn about hades

Vision Board

LI: To create a vision board of goals we want to achive

A vision board is a board of goals we want to achive at the end of the year or during the year. When creating our vision board we could add images or text or symboly or anything that could help us remember our goals that we need to complete at the end of the year. In my vision board I put images of things that I could improve in school or out of school. One of my goals for this year was to imrpove in my maths and reading  or to move up a level. This activity could help us set goals and comlete them in the future.