Why Your Teeth Should Stay Healthy

This week LS2 have been focusing on sharing a community message. Eric, Lyric and I created a prezi to show our learning. In our prezi we talked about why your teeth should stay healthy and what happens if you don't keep them healthy. Our targeted audience is Room 5.

Finding Out About Coalitions

Today in LS2 we were learning about coalitions and how they can affect the elections. A coalition is an alliance to form a government. In the New Zealand elections, Winston Peters who is the NZ First party leader decides if the National party or the Labour party win the election.

Bullying Animation

Today in LS2 we have been talking about bullying. We did this because we are old enough to learn how to stick up for ourselves. If you see someone who is getting bullied, remember to help the victim or you will be as bad as the bully. If you are being bullied use your WITS. They are walk away, ignore, tell someone and stand up. I created this animation with Oh Hsen, Shannon and Daniel.

Why is it so important to keep oral story telling alive?

Today Daniel and I created a 25 word summary to answer the question: Why is it so important to keep oral story telling alive? For this task, we had to listen to some videos that gave answers to the question. The videos were spoken in Maori so we had to use subtitles. We had to work collaboratively with our partners to complete this task. Our summary had 26 words because it sounded better that way.

It’s important to teach younger generations about Maori storytelling to remember the past. It keeps the cultural and traditional stories alive so they won’t be forgotten.

Matariki and the six sisters DLO

This is a DLO that I have completed with my partner Daniel. We first watched a video about Matariki. We then read questions that was based on the video. After we answered the questions we had to reference the video.

Planning Your Meals

Today for inquiry I had to create a DLO about reducing our waste and food scraps in our landfills. I decided to create my DLO about planning your meals. You should plan before you go and buy food at the supermarkets because you can forget about it and buy the time you find it it will be expired then. 

Reduce Reuse Recycle

Today my group and I have completed our DLO on rubbish and waste in New Zealand. The people in my group were Te Wai, Viva, Mishaan, Fifita and Calvin. I learnt that we are dumping enough reusable containers to fill seven hundred jumbo jets.

Te Taiao o Tamaki Performances

Today Panmure Bridge School and other schools from the Manaiakalani Cluster went down to Te Oro to share their learning about Te Taiao o Tamaki. I am in the kapa haka group and we were apart of the performance. Our performance was about keeping our local areas tidy and if we don't we could cause pollution. After our performance we walked around Te Oro to look at other schools work.

Conserving Water

Today Oh Hsen, Fraidoon and I created a DLO about why people in Auckland should conserve water. In our DLO we put in why this is happening, how we can make a difference and the consequences. One way to save water is taking shorter showers.

Omaru River DLO

Today for inquiry I completed my DLO about the Omaru River. I did this activity with my friends Ofa and Zane. I learnt that cars drop heavy metal on the road and it ends up going into thew river.

River DLO

Today Te Wai and I created a DLO about rivers. We watched a video about rivers and I wrote down the keywords. We wrote a explanation about rivers only using 25 words. I then got an image of the Tamaki River. I then used text boxes and arrows showing the features.

Watercare/Water Testing

I have created a presentation about water testing with Sally from Water care. We did three tests. I found them really interesting. My favourite test was test three because we got test different kinds of liquids. I tested bike cleaner and ribena.

The Water Cycle

For inquiry LS2 Group B has been learning about the water cycle. The water cycle has four parts. This is a cycle because it keeps on going round and round and it repeats itself.

Jean Batten Time Line

These are screenshots that I have taken from my time line I have created about Jean Batten with my partner Ma'ata. We had to put in 15 important parts of their lives and the date it happened. We first had to put in the date of birth, her first flight, the date she flew from England to New Zealand, and the date she died.

The Wright Brothers Time Line

These are screenshots that I have taken from my time line I created about the Wright brothers with my partners Ma'ata and Harlem. We had put in the date of birth and the date they died. After we put that in we had to find 15 (including the D.O.B and the date of death) important parts of their lives and the year it happened.

Venn Diagram - The Wright Brothers and Jean Batten

This is my DLO that I have created with my partners Ma'ata and Harlem. The year sevens had to create two time lines. One about Jean Batten and another one who we choose but also had to be an aviator. The aviators I chose were the Wright brothers. We had to make a Venn Diagram and write the differences and similarities about our two aviators.

Year 7 Leadership - Team Building

This is my DLO that I created with Daniel, Eric and Te Wai. On Mondays the year seven do leadership with Mrs Anderson. This week in leadership, we had to make a tower with ten cups. The challenge was that you can't touch the cups with your hands. So we used rubber bands. Everyone worked together as a team and I found this activity very fun.

Storyboard That

For inquiry for the first five weeks this term the year sevens have been finding out about the Bar Tailed Godwit/Kuaka with Mrs Anderson. Mrs Anderson showed us a site that we had to use. It is called Storyboard That and we can make comic strips on it.

Bar Tailed Godwit

This is a DLO that I have created about the Bar Tailed Godwit/Kuaka. I made this DLO with Daniel and Mia. On each image there is a link and it will take you to information and facts about the Bar Tailed Godwit.

Tahuna Torea

For inquiry the year sevens have been working on the Bar Tailed Godwit. We learnt that it migrates from Alaska to New Zealand. We also talked about the Bar Tailed Godwits habitat Tahuna Torea. Tahuna Torea is a nature reserve. Dogs are banned from that area because it is a threat to the Bar Tailed Godwit.