Current Events

For my current events I picked two events on the Kiwi Kids News. I picked something about Russia, where there was an earthquake caused to close everything. The I picked the American Airlines where there was Air planes finding it hard to park their planes.

Current Events

LI: to learn about the Current Events
For my Current Events map I have picked out two articles from Kiwi Kids News, that relate to New Zealand and the World. The first article I picked out was about E - Sports becoming a official national sport in New Zealand. The article type is Timeliness. Timeliness articles, are articles that are talking about something recent. This relates because E - Sport has only just become an official sport a couple of days ago. The next article I picked out was about the Paralympic having to be postponed till 2021. 

Homelearning Activity

For my homelearning activity I started off with doing Skyline Luge which is a kind of park or restaurant in Rotorua. The activities were actually made from students from LS2 so all these ideas were from the students. The first activity I did was to talk about why we wear helmets on the Luge Ride, and how it protects us and the problems we would face without it. The second activity told us to choose an activity from Skyline Luge, and add up all the cost of how much it would cost if our family went on every ride. Our bonus activity was to find out the distance from Auckland to Rotorua using plane and car, and we had to pick a transportation type and why.

Kiwi Can | Reflection

This week for kiwi can we had a new topic which is being a Role Model. A role model is being responsible for what you did, inspiring others and showing respect to each other. For our energiser we played a game called Hammer It. This game is about tell the truth is you lost. Next we did our activity we played a game called Picture It. This game is about being responsible for what you do.

Provocation

LI: to explore Provocations
This week we have bee exploring both sides of a provocation. A Provocation is a action or speech that triggers a really strong feeling for a topic. A Provocation is usually in book titles to hook in the reader and trigger there feels for the topic of the book. Our Provocation was "Should New Zealand become a Cashless Society?". A Cashless Society is a economy that uses credit cards or technology to pay rather then paying with actual notes and coins. After considering both perspectives (or sides) we think that New Zealand should not be a Cashless Society because there are people who don't know how to use it, or they just can't afford it. It also is a waste of money, because we pay a company to make money for us and distribute it around New Zealand. There are also some Pros on Cashless Society but the Cons have to many drawbacks.

Explorer vs Adventurer

We had images of explorers and adventurers and put them on what they are. We learnt about why they are adventurers and explorers. There were more explorers than adventurers, some of them were both, because they not only found land they had fun at the same time.

Then VS Now - Gourd

.This week for cyber smart, we used our smart searching skills and to find out about gourds and how polynesian explorers used gourds on their travel. In our smart searching skills, we used keywords, phrases, skimming and scamming, ctrl f and select or reject. After we learnt about gourds, we created a DLO about how people used gourds in the past versus now and what a gourd is. We worked in groups and collaborated. we was working with Lily, Ong and Afa. Something we found interesting, was that today, people use gourds as utensils and decorations

Learning something new

LI: Learning a new strategy

I learnt a new skill for my maths, for maths we did decimal division. I got help from Azatulah, we used basic facts and skip counting. We used the question 7 divided by 5, with the help of Azatulah I got the answer, 1.4.

PBS Collage

This week I created a Collage showing my life at PBS. I decided to work with Karlos for this task. This was a CARE award task/challenge. My favourite part about being at this school is going on trips with my school and playing with my friends.

Exploring provocations

LI: to explore Provocations

This week we have bee exploring both sides of a provocation. A Provocation is a action or speech that triggers a really strong feeling for a topic. A Provocation is usually in book titles to hook in the reader and trigger there feels for the topic of the book. Our Provocation was "Should New Zealand become a Cashless Society?". A Cashless Society is a economy that uses credit cards or technology to pay rather then paying with actual notes and coins. After considering both perspectives (or sides) we think that New Zealand should not be a Cashless Society because there are people who don't know how to use it, or they just can't afford it. It also is a waste of money, because we pay a company to make money for us and distribute it around New Zealand. There are also some Pros on Cashless Society but the Cons have to many drawbacks.

LeaderShip

For Kiwican we were talking about Leadership. We were talking about what leaders needed to overcome, and what is a confident leader. They need to overcome fear, embarrassment, anxiety, emotions and the negative outcomes of possibilities. Leaders also need to be brave and take risks. We also shared our personal leaders in our lives, like our parents, or even someone famous. Leadership means being responsible, being confident, and patient. A confident leader inspires people to do their best, and is a role model. Kiwi Can really made us think about all the leaders in our life and around the world.

How to stand up to Bullies

I wrote made a google drawing on how to stand up to bullies. If you see someone getting bullied go tell someone or tell your friend. If you want to know how to stand up to a bully read the DLO.

Reading Birds

I did something for Mrs. Anderson my teacher. I drew her some birds that she was going to use for reading. I drew her a Kea, Kakapo, Kiwi, Kokako, Kereru. For my drawing I used curve with all my birds and for some parts of the Kiwi I used poly line.

Thank you Mrs Anderson

I wrote a thank you notice to Mrs Anderson, about helping my class and myself. I wrote about everything she helped me as a Yr 7. She help me become confident in myself and confident around other people. We got into a group and cooperated with each other and she came and helped me and my class mates cooperate.

Places named by early explorers

This week we have created google maps charting out the places that Abel Tasman, Kupe, and James Cook was named by or named after. We also had to find out the meanings and how and why they were named that. We completed this is pairs, my partner was Ong. We used our smart reasearching skills to find some places named after the 3 explorers. Abel Tasman, James Cook, and Kupe were the founders of New Zealand. Kupe found New Zealand first, then Abel Tasman, and then James Cook. They all found NZ by accident.

Past & Present

For this activity we had to figure out what was the difference between Captain Cook and Kupe's boat and waka comparing tho the boats now. We had to write down the problems about the boats.

Thinking Challenge

This week for maths we started on working on our team challenge. The question for this was basically 91 x 4, we had to try and figure out the mos efficient strategy to work out the equation. Then we had to share our ideas to the group to see who had to easiest way to solve the question that we were given.