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

Why is it important to use the CARE values

LI: To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs.

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations the structure that we are using to write an explanation is TEEl. T stands for topic sentence to hook the reader in make them interested, E stands for elaborate or provide more information about the topic sentence E stands for evidence give some evidence about the topic to strengthen the paragraph.  For this task we worked collaboratively together to create an explanation about why is it important to use the CARE values. Our CARE values at Panmure bridge school are Confident, Attitude, Respect, and Excellence and Innovations. We then created a voice recording of our whole group reading our paragraphs aloud.

Voice recording