Ancient Greece posing

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 posting activity, we first pick five Gods or Goddesses and pick an image from around the world or the God or Goddess and write a caption for the post.

I found this activity interesting because it tells me who is the more strongest army.

The post that I found most interesting was the Ancient Greece Word Sort because it has Alexander the great in it.

 

Ancient Greece Word Sort

LI: To research the names of an ancient greek map.

LI: To research the names of an ancient greek map.

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.The next task we did was to Research the words from the list and organize the words by writing the words down on the table. This task was also about extending our knowledge and the greek gods. I found this task very fun because learning about the history of the greek god will help us.

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 interesting because it helped me find out a lot about the Romans.

The place I found most interesting was Olympus because its the home of the Gods.  

Vision Board

 LI: To tell what you want to acheive by using pictures and words. 

Today we made a DLO about what we want to achieve this year by using pictures and words. I want to achieve a lot of things but I just have to do what I can while I can, my favorite one is to go top Tonga and met my family I haven't met that much of my famliy. I really enjoyed making this because it made me think a lot about what I wanted to do in one year so I'm trying acheive complete as much as I can. Its really cool doing this because it can help you a lot. 

Greek Gods

 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 because learning about greek god were very intersting. The Greek god I found most interesting was Nike goddess of victory because she likes bravery and skill and she chooses which team she will help win. You can find her at the SuperBowl, and the World Series.

Bravery

 LI: To edit our writing using DRAFT 

DRAFT stands for:

D - Delete 

R- Rearrange   

A - Add 

F - Fix

T - Talk

 

We used DRAFT to edit our poems. Me and my partner (Leon) created a poem about bravery. What we did was look for an abstract noun. A abstract noun is something that exist but you cannot touch it. In our poem we used the 5 senses which are see, touch, smell, hear and taste. We also created complex sentences. We added our puncuation includidng a comma and fullstop. We also used metaphors and similies. 

After creating our poem we proof read it and edited the poem. We rearranged words, added words and deleted words. I found this activity fun because I got to hear everyones powerful poems. I also liked my one because I think me and Leon did a good job writing our poem.  

Friendship

LI:To write an abstract noun senses poem.

 For Writing we were learning about abstract nouns, metaphors, and about the 5 senses. Learning about these things helped us create our poem and be able to make it creatively as well as have a good structure. Each sentence of our poem was for each sense, so it smells and much more. Also our topic for our poem was any abstract noun. 

An abstract noun is a noun that is intangible, like a feeling such as love & hatred. 

Our 5 senses are Sight, Smell, Feel, Taste, and our Hearing. These are what we use in our everyday lives, and are senses we use to elevate our writing. 

A Metaphor is a speech term, part of figurative language. Metaphors are used to compare two things without using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Real or Fake

 LI: To consider both perspectives

We are learning about the Taonga of Storytelling, the story that we learnt about was about Maori legend about the mountains. For this task we worked together to decide/negotiate whether or not we think that it had happened using evidence to help support our opinion. We used our smart searching skills to help us find evidence that it happened or didn't happen. We then negotiated whether or not we though if this actually happened and then said why we thought what we thought. 

I really enjoyed looking at how the other perspectives have different ways of thinking.

Main Ideas

 LI: To identify main ideas in the text.

Our group watched the video about the story of Rona and the moon and how the moon took rona away. Today we wrote about Rona and the moon it told us about how Rona was lazy and bossy and made her husband do everything for her. For this activity we wrote down the main ideas starting off with the important ideas than after that we then used our negotiation skills to pick out four very important ideas making sure that we all agree that they are very important ideas then after that we then pick out three vital ideas again making sure that we all agree that they are vital ideas.

I really enjoyed this activity because it strengthened our ability to negotiate with others.

Venn diagram

LI: To find the differences and similarities within the different stories.

We watched a video about the maori creation story and we also read a text that was also about the maori creation story, when comparing them together there were some noticeable differences. Our task was to write down the differents and the similarities of the video version and the written version. Our group enjoyed doing this because it helped us know the difference between the two different

I enjoyed this task to because I found it easy to find the differences and the similarities.

Care awards

Today I reseached someone that has a positive attitude despite difficulties. And that person is me, most of the time I'm really positive because I find it better to be positive than depressed and sad. It effects other people alot then people think, I try really hard to be positive to other people because I don't want to bring them down. If you see someone that is sad, try and cheer them up don't just leave them there to be sad go to them and talk to them about the problem they had it might be about a family member or someone has hurt them or mad them sad.     

Culture stories

 LI: To summarise the maori story of creation

For inquiry we are learning about Taonga of storytelling or the treasure of storytelling cultural stories that have been passed down through our ancestors.  We learnt about the maori creation story and we also  summarised the story. We used this summarizing template to summarize the video that we watched of the maori creation story. The video told us about the story of papatuanuku and ranginui in the darkness and how they separated and how their son Tawhirimatea sent mighty storms and rain to show his rage.  

I really enjoyed this activity because I found it fun to learn about other cultures stories.

FlowCharts and Dice

 LI: To learn how to use flowcharts to plan coding 

Link to Google Drawing

Dialogue

 LI: To understand how to use and correctly punctuate dialogue when writing 

This week for our writing class we have we recapped what a dialogue text is about, and how to use it. 

This is our DLO we have worked on to reflect our understanding of the purpose of dialogue in writing. 

An example of how to use dialogue is:

“Are you new here?” questioned Mahdi.

“Yes, I am new here, can you please take me to room 7?”  replied James

“Sorry I’m actually new here. I was about to ask you if you wanted to be my friend,” awkwardly said Mahdi.

Something I found interesting about dialogue is that theres more different ways to write instead of saying said.

Following Classroom Rules & Expectations | PB4L

 LI: To follow the rules and expectations, expected from teachers.

• Publish your DLO on your blog

• This weeks PB4L learning is about following classroom rules and expectations. PB4L is a acronym describing Positive Behavior for Learning. PB4L helps us understand the correct behavior for inside classroom learning and outer learning. This consist of Classroom discussions, walking to assembly, behaviour on school trips, wet day procedure eg. respecting wet day monitors. All of these prospects will help us develop a strong and healthy learning enviroment. 

I found this activity interesting because it tells people how to follow their class rules.

How To Build A mBot

 LI: To know how to put the mBot together so that it doesn't make weird noises.

Today we learnt how to put a mBot take it apart and put it back together again. Our teacher Mrs Fregson told us that we had to take it apart but when she said to us that we had to take it apart she wans't going to help us moat of us put it together by ourselfs

   

Samoan Language

 LI: To celebrate samoan language week.

Last week we had samoan language week we learnt how to say hi (Talofa lava) and we learnt how to say the months and the days in the week in samoan some of our friends were samoan so we asked them for help aswell. I'm sort of good at saying the words because its sort of like tongan language. It was actually really fun dressing up some people were dressed in samoan clothes some dressed up in their favorite character from a book they like.    

Book Week

 LI: To celebrate reading 

This week we had book week. Some of the kids in the school dressed up into book characters from their favorite books. Me and my brother dressed up as a pair of twins from our favorite books. I really enjoyed dressing up. I saw a lot of people dressed up for bookday we went to assembly and had photos with our class. After that we had lunch when we finished our lunch we all read books to the little kids. I really enjoyed dressing up as my favorite character.        

Student Led Conferences

LI: To share our learning with our families 

This Thursday after noon we all showed our parents about our work on our learning journey. We also showed our parents the things we have been doing for the past few weeks. We had a script that had the words that we wrote on our chrome books, that got printed, and given to us. I really enjoyed telling our parents about our work I was scared that I might fail but it was really good my mum and dad enjoyed it to.         

Affixes

 LI: To define words that start with anti

This week for our new Affixes Challenge , We've been doing anti witch is out prefix work * The start of the word . We worked in a group by using our searching skills to find different words and the meaning. We worked as a team and worked collabortivtley , by working collabortivtley we shared our ideas and agreed and disagred weather if that word is okay to put on.

5 hot questions about the Muslims community

 LI: To understand the different cultures 

In the past 2 week’s our reading group has been learning about the culture Afghanistan. The text we read was called All as One. This is about how one culture comes together and pray in one room with men and women divided. 

After reading this text we wrote some questions that we thought we wanted to know. When writing the questions we needed to use might, could, should, or would to make our questions better. 

Some examples we wrote were: 

.

1. What might have happened if an adult eat during fasting?

2. What might happen if a muslim said something wrong during praying?

3. Who might have the idea of introducing the scarf for woman

4.  When might have the quran been written?

5. Where did the muslim culture start?

6. What might have happen if a muslim said the wrong thing during praying.

Being a Jedi in Coding

Li: To code the robots to move backwards by useing the forse 

This week we went to tech to do some coding. We each got given a robot to code with these are the codes that we used. WE used our smmart coding skills to code the robots to move on its own. We followed the insructions that the teacher told us to do we changed the speed as you can see on the pictures. We first started on 10% but then I changed it to 200%. My wheel got stuck so I went to Mrs ferguson to fix it. It was kinda fun puting the wheel back on and to fix the robot.    

My Reading Pathway

 LI: To show my personal journey through books

this week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities. One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading Skulduggery Pleasant because it has horror, monsters, and magic.

Cinquain Poem

 LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star

We have been learning to write cinquain poems to help us strengthen our connections to description. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.

I enjoyed this activity because I got to create a DLO about my favorite basketball player