Rocket DLO - Tech at Tamaki College

This afternoon the whole of ls2 have been finishing of there rockets DLO for tech. We had a normal tech day but this time it was a bit different because we stayed there for the whole day to build rockets for Mr Dun. I would like to say a big thank you to Mr Dun for taking his time of work and giving us this opportunity of having this amazing and fabulous day. 

Flight Comparison

Zahn, Gozan and I For inquiry this term the year 8's have been learning about the Bar tailed Godwit. This DLO was about flight comparison and what do they do during the flight from New Zealand to Alaska. We were learning to create a DLO that shows how long do birds fly also to retell our story in our own words.

Reading Strategy

These are the Game's I played Today. I was practicing to make connections answer questions and Inferring. I was doing this for reading. I think that these game's will help me with lots of stuff in my life journey.

Visualizing

This is a game I played Today. I was practicing to Visualize. Today we had to play games like making connections, Visualize, Questioning cube and Detective Notebook. Today I have been playing the Visualize game, we had to choose a image that best suited to the text.

Infographic- How do Birds Fly?

This term LS2 has been learning about Godwits and Flight. This is my DLO about How Do Birds Fly. We were learning to create an Inforgraphic that shows how birds fly also to retell our story in our own words and also why do birds migrate.

Bar tailed Godwit:Poplet

Today, with this task I worked with Gozan, we have finished out Popplet/DLO about the Bar Tailed Godwit. This was our first activity with Mrs Anderson. It was a really fun task me and Gozan worked collaboratively together on this topic.

Commenting on Blogs:

Today, I have been commenting on some of the students of Panmure bridge school in my class,Now that I have commented i have decided to publish it on my blog. This was fun because I got to see other children in my class learn the same as me but from different sides of the task.

Manaiakalani Film Festival - Commenting on movies.

Today, the entire school of Panmure bridge was going to watch movies that were made by other schools in the Manaiakalani school cluster.Now, that we have watched all of the movies, we have commented on the movies we liked ( Or other movies from schools you haven't seen).

Hyperbole

Today we were learning about "Hyperbole" We then researched this to find out what it meant. In this Google Drawing I have explained briefly what it means and how it is used in the writing or text. The past few days we learnt a lot about hyperbole 

Learning through Adventure

Zahn, Eric, Harlem, Cj, Calvin and I was chosen to go to the learning through adventure session with Robert and Leen. We learnt about a lot of stuff like Confident's, Team work and also Effective communication. Today we got a opportunity to go with Robert and Leen to the Auckland museum. I would like to give a big thank you to Robert and Leen for making this happen and giving us this opportunity to go to the museum and having the best time of our life.

Forces of Flight

Today, LS2 was split into its two year group's for Inquiry,the Years 8's worked on the four forces of flight. They needed to be balanced to fly for long of periods of time in the air.

Kiwi sport - Touch Rugby

Today some of the students of LS2 went down to the hall as the weather conditions were not good. We had the most wonderful time with Traves and learning passing skills and how we could move forward faster then stepping and doing the fancy stuff.

Cybersmart

Today, the year 8'sand some of the year 7's learned about Smart searching and some new websites. Mrs Olgilvie taught us and showed two websites but 2 more sub-sites. One of the sites was called Epic.com. We were showed a site created by the National Library, it is called Topic Explorer. I would like to thank Mrs. Ogilivie who is a librarian at the National Library ( In Auckland) for presenting these wonderful thing to us.

Y8 Music/Dance

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For Music, The LS2 Year 8's performed a dance that was solely based off  the shape/size of a birds movements. My Group was last to perform ( As in: doing the shape and patterns from the feather). 

Reading Challenge

 Today Mrs Anderson's reading group has been doing reading challenges to practice our Skimming and Scanning. We learnt what Skimming and Scanning Means Skimming is like a low flying plane - It goes over the information once and quite quickly. Scanning is like an helicopter, it finds what you are looking for and then hovers over until the information has been found.

Rhythm Interactive

Today we went down to the hall to do rhythm Interactive. We sat down and started of straight away, they didn't introduced them self. We sang and did beats we had the most best time with them. Johnny and Lucy told us action speaks louder then words. 

Year 8 Graduation Dance Practice

Today, the year 8's had their first dance practice with our beautiful and fantastic instructor Sonja  she taught us the rock and roll basics and turns and the Cha-Cha Basics. We practice in pairs while the girls changed partners. I had a very happy time at Dance and also getting to some new moves.

Quizziz

Today, we had a fun 40 Minute game of Quizziz. We played against each other by getting the right answer the fastest. Recalling answers to that equation can help in the IKAN or any Maths test in the future (That need to be fast). I worked with my friend Sebastian to play this game as some people don't have netbooks. It was great fun and help improve my fast facts. I also have to improve not hit the wrong answer because I was under-pressure. We challenged each other but also our teachers (Mrs Anderson came 1st) 

Book Character Week

                  For the first week of term three, we have introduced Book week.                              Today we had our Book character parade. It is when anyone can                             come dressed as anyone from a book. This brings life to the                                   characters and let the juniors know how cool it is to read. I                                      participated in this because I wanted to show 

how I like Minions and to show my love for reading. 

Orienteering Session 3

Today We had our Session for Orienteering.I was working with Micaiah until the last few pointers. I sprinted and came 4th after her.My time was 9:15. I hope surpass Micaiah and Zahn to come 2nd.