Dawn Raids | Stories

 LI: To use our own knowledge to write what we know about the Polynesian Panthers

The activity was named Dawn raids and this is my first activity for the Stories category. Our two response choices were to create something about what we know about this part in Aoteroas history our second choice was to create an apology to the Polynesian Panthers from the perspective of the goverment/prime minister. I choes the first option and chose to write about the dawn raids becuase I think that it is important to adress what had happened during the dawn raids and how many lives of Polynesian familes and comunites were affected during these devastating times. 

I enjoyed this task becuase I this is a topic that I know about and also becuase it is important to speak up about what happened during this part in Aotaroas history.

Good as Gold | Places

 LI: To leave a review on the short film "Good as Gold"

The name of this activiy is named Good as Gold the two responses that we were given were to create an ad for it, a DLO, and or review for the video the second response that was there was to create a story board for a short film you would like to film one day. I chose do work on the first response by writing a review for the video good as gold. In the DLO it has my review and rating adn the video is aslo there if you would be interested in watching the short film. while creating these responses we were allowed to work colaborativly with other stuedents who would also give as some feed back if we needed it.

I really enjoyed this activity becuase I enjoyed watching the short film and it was interesting to see what would happen during the video.

Child of the Ocean | Places

 LI: To undertsand what it means to be a "Child of the Ocean" In this document it shares my opinion on what the phrae child of the ocean means to me the task I decided to work on was named Our ocean. the two responses that we were able to chose from where create a DLO advertising  the Pacific. and out second choice was to write what it means to us to be a child of the ocean. while responding to these responses we were also challenged to expirment creating our DLOs by making them multimodal meaning it can be accsed by people who struggle with certain disabilites. This is my second response for the responses in the places category once we would complete three responses than we would be emailed a digital badge. 

I really enjoyed this activity becuase it made me think alot about what the phrase means to me and how I am a child of the ocean.

Slam Poetry & Spoken Word | Places

LI: To create our own Slame poetry, Spoken word performace I see me is a website that is being developed and  is targeted for young pacifica youth do find there roots ti have a strong understanding of their own culture and other pasifc cultures. There are four different categories Places, Objects, Stories, and Futures. within these different categories we have many different responses that we are able to chose from 1 - 2 different responses we would also be given different recourse to help us gather information such as videos, websites, stories, and more. All of the responses are linked to Polynesian cultures which help us connect to our Pacifc cultures. the response I chose to respond to was a respone from the places category the name of the response was Slame poetry & Spoken word.

The response tasked us to create our own slam poetry, spoke word performance. Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that combines the elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation for my slam poetry I decided to use the word peace becuase I thought that  it would be a  good topic to write slame poetry about.

I enjoyed this activity becuase I found it interesting tolearn about slam poetry and understand how it works.

Swimming week 1 and 2

LI: to learn safety in water. 

Last week and this week the Y8 group went to the YMCA pools in Panmure to learn safety skills in the water. We were split into 2 groups depending on how confident we are in water. To get into the pool safely we put both hands on one side and entered. 

The skills we learnt were

• Floating (facing up) - make a star fish facing up.
• Floating (facing down) - make a star fish facing up. 
• Dolphin Diving - dive down, touch the floor of the pool with both hands and jump up. 
• Streamline - put our arms behind our ears and kick (with and without swimming board). 

Ancient Greek Olympics

LI: To present a DLO as a group about the ancient Greek olympics.

LINK TO PREZI

In our prezi it talks about the history, events, women in the olympics and also shares some interesting facts about the ancient Greek olympics The ancient Greek olympics would be held over five days the only kown date for the first olympics is 776 BC, the olympics started as a religous festival in honour of their God Zeus and was a time for peace and celebration. different sports would be played to the sports that are held in todays olympics sports such as pankration, the stade, jumping, boxing, horseraces, and many more were some of the events that were held during the Greek olympics. presenting our presentations as a group helpt make us feel more confident speaking infront of others.

I enjoyed this task becuase it was interesting to learn about the ancient Greek olympics.

Hauroa Infographic

 LI: To create a infographics that explains Hauro as an athlete

Hauro is the Maori belif of mental and physical well being. This infographic explains tha Hauroa means and what the four walls are through the eyes of an olympic athlete. What if all four walls of an athlete were not supported and are not standing or what if all walls of the athlete were standing how would this affect the athlete. If all walls were standing then the olympic athlete knows how to win and lose and is able to learn from loses and also celebrate victories having this information as an athlete will help them mentaly and also physicaly. 

I enjoyed this activity becuase it made us think from the athletes perspective and think about how they would feel.

Hauroa and Olympian

Being able to have all four walls of the ware tapa wha standing is important as an athlete becuase you are prepared for challenges that come your way mentaly or physicaly. It is important for athletes to celebrate victories but equally important athletes should also remember unsuccsesful times as you are able to learn lessons that can help improve and inforce your four walls. it is having self beilf that boosts your self esteem and confidence that helps you improve and keeps your motivation going. being able to remain calm in stressful situations can help you from feeling discouraged, emarrased, and feeling like you have let somone down. 

Juel and Carson

PB4L Ready for Learning

 LI: To create a DLO about being ready for learning.

For todyas PB4L session we learnt about what it means to be prepared and ready for learning. first we defined prepared so that we could understand todays session we found out that prepared means that we are ready to do something or deal with somthing. So being ready for learning can mean that we prepare for school the night/day before and also charged device, clean uniform, focused mindset, ect.  So coming to school ready to learn can help us understand better what you are learning at school and can also help you become motivated and eager to learn in school.

Coding With Python

 LI: To see and understand the connection between written code, the block code and chart

 LINK TO DLO

This is the comparison between the Python coding, the blocks and the flowchart for making the Microbit act like a dice.

Olympic Maths Challenge #5

LI: To find the most effecient strategy.

 

For olympic maths challenge five our focus was to sort out the mesurements and records into the correct place we could figure out the correct measurements and records by using our smart searching skills to find the correct records. In the table above it shows the correct records and measurements.

I enjoyed this task becuase it required us to use our smart searching sklills to find out the answers to the olympic world records. 

Olympics Maths Challenge 4

LI: To find the most effecient startegy.

The maths question for challenge four was to Create a graph to display this data. Include a comparison to NZ’s medal tally. Be creative with the data you choose to show. The more information you include, the easier it will be to analyse and draw conclusions. Using information from 2 different charts of Medal statistics we found out the current top 10. In my screencastify I have made explains my strategy.

Mindfulness Reflection #1

LI:  To become Mindfulness being, in the present. 

Today was LS2's first session of Pause Breathe & Smile. Pause Breathe and smile, focus's on creating and training yourself to have a healthier and positive mindset; helping navigating to live in the moment. It also helped us spark our curiosity and focus on our well-being. 

This concluded in us doing breathing exercises with the standing bell/tibetan. The bell played a very important role, as it instructed us to breathe and become more mindful. We were required to put our hands on our knees and have a soft tummy, with a straight back. 

When doing these excercises, we felt balanced and lightened. We really enjoyed this session because regain relaxation and focus in our well being.

Olympic Maths Challenge 3

 LI: To fidn the most effiecent strategy.

Todays maths challenge we were asked to find how many right angles there were in a badmintin racket. Our maths questions was, An Olympic Badminton Racket has approximately 25 strings in total. When these strings intersect they form squares. This means that there is approximately 250 squares on the racket. Take what you know about right angles to figure out how many right angles there are on an entire badminton racket. To find the answer to this question we would need to find the out how many angles there are in a square whitch is 4. so our new equations woulf have to be 250 x  4 whitch is 1000.

To find out my strategy you can watch my video that I have created.