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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.

Duffy’s 30th Birthday

To celebrate Duffy’s 30th birthday Panmure bridge hosted an assembly with cake and surprises such as party hats, party poppers, and our duffy boxes. To celebrate 30 years of Duffy books in homes we were given a oppertunity to create our own libary box where we could store our duffy books that we have at home. Each class were able to create their own box aswell as it being on the stage at assembly to show their amazing work. Duffy is a company that started in 1994, founded by Alan Duff. He found out that there were schools with students that live in bookless homes. So he started Duffy books in homes to provide books to children without the privillege of having books.

We also had some special guest from Duffy books in home progame and they have talked about their experience with Duffy books and what their favourite books. Some of our teachers  also shared what their favourite books, and to finish it off we sang Happy brithday in English and Maori, and we also sang the Duffy song with actions.

I found this fun because Duffy books in home is a program that help with many schools who dont have a oppourtunity and also it helps with your reading skills.

 

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.

Comrades Marathon

This week’s reading was the Comrades Marathon. We Predicted our thinking on the comment box and learnt and definde words that we were unsure of. As a group we read the story and shared our thinking based on our idea. We explained what we knew about the Marathon as a group, and needed to read the whole story to able to understand the text. When we answered the questions we came across an Imagine and had to come up with what we thought they were thinking or feeling.

I enjoyed this task because I learnt new words for an exmaple, Crucia, this means being a final or very important test or decision.

 

 

Our First Olympians

LI: To practise skimming and scanning by looking for key words in the text when answering questions

Our guided reading text was about Our First Olympians. We worked collaboratively as a group to unpack the text by answering questions and using evidence from the text to support our prior knowledge. All our responses were written in the comments tool to show our thinking. 

Something I found instresting about this task is how only 4 athlests competed I think this might be because it was New Zealands first time competing as its own country.

 

2 words 2 minutes

Today we used the ‘2 words 2 minute’ challenge to write a description about the ancient olympics. After talking about the things we knew about the ancient Greece olympics we then created a list of words that would help us write our description. We then chose the words ‘Greece’ and ‘athletes’ to help us think about what we were going to write about.

We then talked about our ideas with a partner, then we had 2 minutes to put those ideas into a sentence. After the time was up we had 2 minutes to reread what we had written and make changes if anything didn’t make sense or if we had words and punctuation in the wrong place. When we finished checking our sentences, we then had 3 more minutes to carry on with writing our descriptions.

This activity was very fun because writing is one of my favourite subject as well as how one of the rule encourage me to keep going which was ” don’t stress just guess” . 

Ancient Greek Olympic Research Challenge

LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games

LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor

Our challenge was to work in our groups to carry out a mini collaborative inquiry into the ancient olympic games. We used our smart searching skills to help us answer the questions. Our group worked well as we have collabrated with each other aswell as helping out eachother to have a better understanding of what were learning about.

Something I found interesting was that the games were basically for young teenage women that were making their way into adulthood.

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.