I am a Year 8 student at Glenbrae School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 7 and my teachers are Mrs Tofa and Mrs Raj.
Thursday, 19 December 2019
SLJ: Activity 6
This week for the summer learning journey we had to write in a story about any time people saved someone. My story was about my mum my mum saved my grandpa because he was in a gang fight. Doing this activity was good because it will bring back good memories in the past.
SLJ: Activity 9
This week for the summer learning journey we had to write down three facts about these professional tennis players, They were sisters. We had to write three facts about these sisters and what they do. These people do things to help the world and make high earning's.
Wednesday, 18 December 2019
SLJ: Activity 7
This week we had to do a summer learning journey on this activity we had to write down three super powers we would have for a day. I chose these power for good and bad because we don't know what we are gonna do and what these side effects are when we actually have them.
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
SLJ: Activity 5
This week for our summer learning journey. We had to make a poem about the first man to step on the moon. we made these poems because we had to make a feeling out of these poems, And what it would feel like.
SLJ: activity 4
this week for summer learning journey we had to compare amelia earhart to jean batten,On venn diagram. We had to write down what we knew about jean batten and amelia earhart. after that we had to put in the same work that each person did in the middle, Because they would be the same.
SLJ: Activity 3
this week for summer learning journey we were learning about charities in these charities,We had to explain facts or what they do for us. On my google draw it shows what they do. We had to choose any charity I chose this one because it helps people and some people are saved and they get to return back to families.
Monday, 16 December 2019
SLJ: Activity
This week for slj we had to write down the story behind our background. I made a google maps on where my parents and me went to school and where we are from. I wrote down what school my parents went and where they are from I marked the spots on my google maps.
10 things to take
this week for our summer learning journey week one we had to write down ten lists of things we would on a trip that would last 3 weeks the first thing i wrote was water because water keeps hydrated because around the boat is salty water and in the salty water is salt salt can dehydrate us when we eat it. I also wrote down things that are non perishable.
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Kiwi Can
this week for kiwi can was fun week we got to play games in kiwi can. Before we did that we had a recap about all the things we learnt in the past terms,After that we had to remember all four themes we had this year, They were Respect,Integrity,Positive relationships and resilience.
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Maths
This week for maths we were learning about thirds and fifths we had to use the origami paper to help us with this session of learning. We had learnt about making fifths, We had to make fifths then fold it again. One piece of the fifths wasn't the same as the other piece. Making thirds was very hard we had to fold it over then bring the top over if the bottom row wasn't good then you'd have to make a adjustment to the paper then you'd have equal thirds.
Friday, 6 December 2019
Commenting
This week for commenting I chose to comment on spelman's blog post to see what legal images are and where we can find them.
Basic Facts Boxes
This week I was doing BFB in this challenge I had to try beat other people's time record. I had to try and answer as much answers as I can and if I get it wrong then I could not change it back to the right answer. My time was 4 minutes and 57 seconds.
SSR Selfie
This week for SSR selfie I was reading a book about elephants. In this book it showed the two different types of elephants, It also showed why african elephants are bigger than asian elephants. During this activity I had to answer some other questions.
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SSR selfie
Writing/Narrative Hook
This week for writing we had to make a new character our new character was madam zoozoo,We also had to make a hook . She was part of the background story of why the natural disasters are happening to the futuristic Los Angeles.Madam Zoozoo is the only person who knows who can stop these disaster's.
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Narrative Hook,
Writing
Reading/Breaking News
LI:To make a Breaking News
This week for reading we were doing one of our activities. I had to make a News about what's happening with Mr fox.I used canva to make my Breaking News. In my news it had why people or animals complaining why these ruthless farmer's are doing.
This week for reading we were doing one of our activities. I had to make a News about what's happening with Mr fox.I used canva to make my Breaking News. In my news it had why people or animals complaining why these ruthless farmer's are doing.
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Reading,
Roald Dahl
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Cybersmart
This week for cybersmart we were learning about legal images we had to make something that would show people how to get a legal image. My partner and I made a google slides in this google slide it explains what a legal image is.
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Cybersmart,
Legal
Kiwi Sport
This week for kiwi sport we were having a one v one against . In these matches we had to use all the experience we had while we were training every week on thursday.We had to stay as champion till our class was almost over.at the end the champion's had to one v one each other till the last one won.
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kiwi sport
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Kiwi Can
This week for Kiwi Can we were learning about difference. In this learning session we had a discussion with our partner's in these discussions we had a talk about how we could help out people that are disabled and people that are in a wheelchair.The thing I learnt from this activity was we knew different types of ideas that could help disabled people and could help us when a disabled person come's.
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kiwi can
Day Of The Week In Maori
This week for maori we were learning about the day of the week in maori. There were maori words and traditional maori words.We had to put in the right words in the right column.We could not use the dictionary because it would not give us the words we wanted. The thing I learnt from this activity was the days. We also had to had to do the months of the year in maori.
Maori
This week for maori we were learning about times about clocks in maori. We had to use a maori translation to help us with this activity.We used the clock generator to help us.Doing these activities will help me with my maori speaking and how to read time in maori.
Monday, 2 December 2019
Maths
This week for maths we were learning about fractions. In these learning sessions we had to use origami paper to help us with the learning. we learnt about halves and quarters and one half, Halves are one whole piece is divided into two pieces.one half is one piece out of two equal pieces. we had to explain this in our maths book to remind us in the future.
Friday, 29 November 2019
Kiwi Sport
kiwisports
LI: to play double tennis
Double tennis is when two players play against other players both
players on each team should have turns at hitting the ball the person closer to the ball should hit the ball we practised by playing doubles
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Writing
Writing
This week for writing we had to make a character setting. We had to make a female and male Character. Each group had to make a character then we had to vote what female and character.We had to make a Character setting in these settings show what they're weaknesses are and what they their personalities are. I also included information about them.
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Writing
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Maths
This week for maths My group and I were finding out the plane distance average. By doing that we had to throw the plane ten times. After that we had to add all the measurements of a calculator then divide it by ten after we have our answer.After we had our measurements we had to make a graph to show the plane distance.
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Maths,
Plane Average,
Plane Distance.
Inquiry
This week for inquiry we played a game that Mr O made it was called coffee shop. In this game it was like it in real life because we had to buy enough stock to sell out to the customer's. After two days our stock will run out.On sunny days I put the price on low because not enough people would buy it because itis very hot.When it is very cold I put the price on high because a lot of people would buy the coffee.
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Coffee Shop,
Inquiry
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Reading/Ven Digram
This week for reading I had to make a three circle venn diagram about the three farmers from Mr Fantastic fox. I had to describe what they look like and if they have any traits to mr fantastic fox.I also had to describe how they look and what they're personality.
How I learnt this?
I learnt about these by reading the book.
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Kiwi Can
This week for kiwi can we were learning about being patience. We played a energizer to help us with our patients. I don't know what the energizer is called, In this game we had to get a partner and the kiwi can leader had to choose a word and make a story out of the word. When he says the words you'd have to grab the person's hand.
Friday, 15 November 2019
Writing
LI To identify the parts of a Narrative
LI To investigate figurative language
This week for writing we were learning about telling sentence and show. My group and I had to write a simple telling sentence. Before we did that we had to choose a setting for the background of the story,We chose a Island and the background story was us people in my group being on a stranded Island. After we wrote our telling sentence we had to make a show. The show was a improved version of the telling sentence.We had to explain to the people reading show how it would actually feel,The story had to be negative and not positive.
This week for writing we were learning about telling sentence and show. My group and I had to write a simple telling sentence. Before we did that we had to choose a setting for the background of the story,We chose a Island and the background story was us people in my group being on a stranded Island. After we wrote our telling sentence we had to make a show. The show was a improved version of the telling sentence.We had to explain to the people reading show how it would actually feel,The story had to be negative and not positive.
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Writing
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Maori
Activity:No Hea Koe
This week for maori we were learning about maori words. We had to try and find out the meaning of the words and the macrons.Whaea odi shared us a google doc of words. The thing I used to help me was the maori dictionary.
Activity:Wiki Wha
This week for maori we had to go around and ask people where they were from. I had to ask people from my group and other groups. While I was doing this I also had to answer these other questions. I had to write down where my parents were from.
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Manaiakalani Festival 2019
This week we had to choose any movie made from the school's we watched we also had to comment on they're blog. The movie I chose was kaleidoscope. I chose this because it was very satisfying.
Kiwi Can
This week for kiwi can we were learning about respectful communication.We had a talk what could be a respectful communication. We had to talk with each other what we would do that is respectful in these communications.
Manaiakalani Film Festival
This week we had to find a movie from any school from 2019,We had to watch the movie,After that we had to comment on their blog.
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Create,
Learn,
Manaiakalani film festival,
Share
Friday, 8 November 2019
Maths/Planes
This week for maths we had to measure our planes wingspan so that we could predict how far it would go.Each person in our group had to fold 7 planes then measure it.We had to make a spreadsheet to record our data on the plane.
Kiwi Sport/Tennis
This week for kiwi sport we were learning how to use our tennis racket with our right hand we also had to challenge our partners. Throughout kiwi sport we also got to learn how to serve on a net,we'd have to put the ball on the net then whoever side the ball will drop on we would have to hit it then play.We had a challenge with our partners we had to play a game but we could not swing the tennis racket on a little so that the ball would not go far.If the ball drops my partner would have a point or me.The thing I learnt from this activity was the new technique.
Coach - Peter
Coach - Peter
Touch Rugby/Interschool
This week we had touch rugby inter school. This meant we got verse other schools,as we got there we had to warm up so we were practicing new tricks and moves that would help us throughout the match. The first game we had was against tamaki primary. This was a tough game because they had the fast people,Whenever we had the ball we would use the three man drive this would help us throughout the game because if we are fast enough they would be off side then we could try.Throughout the day we we won no games and lost 7 games.The thing I learnt was the new techniques other people were using.
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Touch Rugby/Inter school
Kiwi Can
This week for kiwi can we were learning about respecting other people.We had a talk about what we would do to respect this person and help them.We had three different types of situation's.They were baby,Old lady trying to cross the road and Friends at the park.The thing I learnt from this activity was what people would do in these situations.
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kiwi can
Friday, 1 November 2019
Maori
This week for maori My group and I had a task. In this task we had to translate some countries and islands around the world.We had to google and research the translation of each country in this list it was very hard looking for these words because we couldn't find much. The thing I learnt from this activity was the countries in maori and how they were spelt and pronounced.
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Cybersmart
This week for cybersmart we were learning about Legal and illegal.We first had to find out what the meaning was by reading a sentence.Legal means things your allowed to use and illegal are things you can't do or use.We had find images on sites that are legal and illegal.
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Cybersmart,
Smart and Legal
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Kiwi Can
This week for kiwi can we were learning about strength and weaknesses.We had a to talk to one another and explain what we were good (Strength) at,We also had to name three things we were bad (Weakness) at.While we were talking I learnt what people were bad (Weakness) at and good (Strength) at.The thing I learnt throughout this activity was learning about what other people are good at.
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kiwi can
Friday, 25 October 2019
Inquiry
LI: What is business
This week for inquiry we had to put in labels of companies we think go together.We knew some companies like Nike goes together with Adidas because it is a clothing brand.We had to figure out what the other's would go together,so We put all services together and clothing brands together and electronics. The thing I learnt from this lesson was how all business's can be different.
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Inquiry
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Maori
This week for Maori we were learning about Maori words. We had to figure out what these Maori words meant. For an example: Ko wai te papa o Lisa? Homer (Who is Lisa's dad). We had to find out the meaning of each sentence then put in there name to correct the sentence. The thing I learnt from this session of Maori was how to speak Maori.
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Maori/Activity
Maths/Research
LI: To research. This week for maths we were researching the meaning and function of twenty one words to make a prediction of what we will be studying over the next couple of weeks. We worked in three groups. In my group there were Farzana and Sulia. Our prediction was that we were going to study planes but we are actually going to study planes and aerodynamic using paper planes.
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Kiwi Can
This week for kiwi can was a little different because we had to get into 2 groups. The 2 groups had sporty and thinking people.We had to complete different types of challenges. The think I learnt was cooperating with my team members.In my team were people that were not in to sports I was but I still had fun we did things that also included physical touch.We also had to make a human pyramid and make a circle than sit on each other.
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kiwi can
Friday, 18 October 2019
Writing
This week for writing we were learning how to make a proper recount. Mr O wrote down things that related to writing a recount. He also showed us how to mark our own writing. While we were writing we had to use punctuation in the right places.Mr O told us to list 5 words that we think are important.After that we had to give our writing to another person to rate our writing.
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Writing
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