Category: Hanga | Create

Duffy birthday hats

We created birthday hats to celebrate Duffy’s 30th Birthday. We first started by searching for some ideas aswell as planing on how I would like my hat to turn out as. For my Duffy birthday hat I first start off with the number 30th as it was the easiest and simplest design. As I was thinking about more designs someone recommended some confetti’s on my hat as it would fill in all the blank spots , but I had a massive gap behind my hat so I decided to add “hip hip hooray” as it was a birthday celebration. Lastly to finish off my hat I decided to add on an paper flower and some gliter to bring some bling into my crown.

I enjoyed this activity because I got to use my smart searching skills as well as my imaginary to create something.

My Duffy Library

We created Duffy Boxes for student in our school to have something to store their Duffy books. We first used our smart searching skills to help us look for some designs online as it would help us alot with what type of design/theme we are going for such as zentangle designs and culture designs. Other classes also had their own designs where some had paint on their boxes, coloured their boxes, or even left it simple with one colour. As we all had Duffy on the cover of our boxes with our names. Also these boxes we’ve created were displayed on the stage for the birthday.

I really enjoyed this acitivitgy because I got really creative with the designs on my Duffy box and loved how it came out.

 

 

Integers – Multiplication

Multiplication is easy when you know the rules and what negative numbers are. Negative numbers are numbers that have a lower value of zero. Like -1, 1 is lower than 0. Negative multiplied by a positive number will always become a negative number. For example -5 x 5 =-25, because when you multiply a negative number with a positive number it will always become a negative number. But when multiplying a negative by a negative the outcome will always be a positive. For example -6x-6 will be 36.  The answer will not be a negative because you are multiplying a negative number by a negative number.

I found this task a bit chanllenging because I can get confused most times when both numbers are negitave.

Paper Mache Mask

Last week friday was our last rotation for paper mache as we were making masks , as halloween is coming up. We first started off by blowing up a balllon that is the same size as our faces so that the paper mache would fit. After, we then used pva glue and little bits of paper to stick onto our ballon as it slowly becomes into a mask, you should always make sure you have at least 4 layers as it is more stable. This process is called paper mache , once we come back to tech we then started shaping the objects we want on the mask eg: eyes, nose, ears, and horns. we then use a bigger paper to shape our object and do the same steps we first did. After that week we came back and start getting into painting and adding things to our mask to make it stand out more, but first I planed what I would like my mask to turn out as. So I went with a venom kind of vibe. After painting I then started adding glitter to make mine shine out abit more, also adding googole eyes to make it seem kind of scary.

I enjoyed this task because I was able to use my imagination and creativity to create my mask.

Poros of Malia

LI: To make connections (self, text, world)

Our guided reading text was Poros of Malia. We worked collaboratively as a group to unpack the text and answer questions by using evidence from the text to back up our prior knowledge. All our responses are written in the comments tool. Our learning this week was to help our partners to include more detail in their answers so we have a better understanding of what they might be talking about. We did this by giving feedback on one of their answers and asking them a question so that they can explain their thinking better by adding more details so that we could have a better understanding of what their talking about .

I found this activity fun because this text reflected on what we have been learning about the Ancient Olympics.

 

Persuasive Language Features

LI: to explore the language features of a persuasive text. 

This term we have been learning about persuasive writing to help us get ready for the school speech competition later in this term. Persuasive writing is used when you want to make others think like you. Yesterday we were looking closely at the language features used in a persuasive text. 

I have chosen to share the persuasive language feature of rhetorical question. I think the authors use this language feature to make the audience really think about it. 

Google Meets Panmure Bridge School

What was the big message?

A wonderful team from Google Aotearoa which were Steve, Caro, Teyha, and Simon visited PBS and answered some questions that we were curious about. The first thing they did was introduce themselves so we could get to know them better. A really interesting fact that Caro told us about her job was how you should give everything a go to see what your career would be in the future because sometimes the job you want might not exist. Another interesting fact Teyha has talked about is that regardless of the task, always smile and talk because people will always remember you for being a positive person. 

After they introduced themselves we asked a few questions. A question that really opened my mind is how they got their name from. The name Google was a misspelling of Googol because the number 1 followed by 100 zeros was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.

I enjoyed this opportunity because they gave a lot of advice that would help me in the future. For example  ” don’t make something 10% better , but instead make it 10x better” and another piece of advice that opened my mind was “ sometimes the job you want might not exist”. 

Bengal Swamp Tiger

We used our smart searching skills to find facts about the Bengal Swamp Tiger. Once we had found the information we needed we then made notes in our own words. We used these notes to help us write our information reports. Information reports tells the reader with information about a certin topic by providing them with facts. 

LI: to write an information report that informs the reader about the Swamp Tigers.

Not many people know that swamp tigers are nocturnal hunters. Swamp tigers, (also known as panthera tigris tigris) are glamorous  animals, regardless of their beauty they are vicious beasts that are slowly coming to extinction. These tigers can be found in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans, which is in-between India and bangladesh. 

Swamp tigers have an orange coat and black stripes all around their body to help them camouflage with their surroundings. These creatures have a beastly jaw and muscular bodies. They use their enormous and retractable claws to easily take out their prey. Also did you know that they weigh about 453.592kgs?

Bengal tigers are carnivorous animals (only eats meat) they can eat, and kill everything starting from tiny crabs, to human beings. These animals eat wild boars, deers, buffalos, monkeys, unlike other tigers they include marine life into their diet.

Are you aware only about 100 of the bengal swamp tigers remain today? Swamp tigers come from a continent in Asia, you will find that they live between the borderlines of India and bangladesh. They like humid places and live in mangroves forests. 

Not many people know that they are unsocial animals, even so these tigers aren’t shy about protecting their territory. As it says in the opening statement, they live in mangrove forests, because of this they can camouflage easily to hunt for their prey.

Not a lot of people are aware that these beautiful predator populations will decrease if we continue to expand cities. 

Howick Historical Village trip

LI: To  make a collage about the Howick Historical Village.

We went to Howick Historical Village and explored how life was back in 1870s, and as well as learaning about how the world was evolved since 1870. My group started with building trollys and riding them. Our tutor had explained how us lady’s wouldn’t be able to participate in things like this as it was for men only, how ever the lady’s got to do sewing and knitting. We than began to start exploring the houses, and as we went inside they looked very inseresting as there was some explentation about most parts of the house, or who owned the place and what happened to them.

Before we started to explore the howick historical villege Mrs Hallam which was one of the tutors had told us a very interesting and shocking fact which is how girls would need to practice looking good for boys at the age of 5 and they should have a husband at the age of 12. Although you may think you don’t need a husband but back in the days having no husband would be difficult because if you have a husband he can provide things like, houses, food and things that you would need in life since women weren’t allowed to work.

I enjoyed going on this trip as I got to learn really interesting facts about how life was like back in the days and how it has evolved since.

Sentence Structure

LI: To explore sentence structure.

From this challenge I have realised that I have a clear understanding of simple and compound sentences, and I now realise that I need to focus on Complex sentences. Although I tried my best I still got a high score.

I enjoyed this task because as I’m going through the game I am slowly noticiting what I need to focus on and what I have a better understanding on.