Day 3 Activity 3: The Columbian Exchange | Teaser Week

For this activity, please think of someone who has had a positive impact on your life. Who is this person? What did they do that was positive?

The person that has made a positive impact in my life will be my Brother. He inspired me to play sports since I was 5 years old. I have always watched him do boxing and it has been successful. He courage me to keep on going even if I gave up in a sport. When I was one of the newest people in my swimming club that knew nothing about swimming he always courage me to keep on going. Last year, he won the sport dux's award 2019. He is New Zealand's youth heavy weight boxing champion for the last 2 or 3 years.

Day 3, Activity 2: When the Rubber Hits the Road | Teaser Week

On your blog, please share who these people were (first names only) and what they were proud of.

Florence: Getting all of her sliver care award badges.
Victoria: Getting her 2 Sliver care awards.
Fui : Getting sports leader/ placing first in the high jump (inter school athletics)

This week during Day 3, activity 2 we have been interviewing our friends of what they have accomplish. I have interview Fui,Victoria and Florence. Fui has accomplish sports leader for 2019/ placing first in high jump ( inter school athletics). Florence has accomplish getting all of her Sliver Care Awards badges this year. And Victoria has achieved her first Sliver Care Award badge. I found this activity a bit fun to do since it was really easy to ask them. 

SLJ: ENVIRONMENT & EXPLORATION | Teaser Week

This week we have created a DLO about the SLJ: Environment & Exploration activity. For day 3, is about The Water Project. As a group we have answer these questions: What is the goal? What have they achieved and Where do they work? Every day has 3 activities. I found this activity a bit tricky to do. A fact that I learnt, is that The water project provides clean water for kids in Indian, Africa and Sub-Saharan. 

Day 2 Activity 3: The Greatest of All Time | SLJ Teaser

For this activity, please imagine that you are Garry Kasparov and that you were the best chess player in the world.

This week during the SLJ activities LS2 have been working on different activities. For this activity I have listed a pro's and cons list. In this list I imagine myself in Garry Kasparov body. I found this activity kind of easy to do. Did you know that Garry Kasparov, he is chess game master??

Day 1: Activity 3: Big friendly giant | Summer Learning Journey

This week during the SLJ activities LS2 have been working on different activities. For this activity I have written a paragraph about BFG that explains how he is a friendly BFG. I have watched the BFG so I know BFG's personality. How do you feel about the BFG movie?

Day 2 Activity 2: Equal Pay for Equal Work? | Summer Learning Journey

What do you think about this? Is it fair? Should female athletes, like the Black Ferns, be paid the same amount as male athletes who play the same sport?

It's not fair to do the Black Ferns because they get paid less, than the "All Blacks". To make it fair, they should get paid a equal amount of money since they both are hard working teams. I think, it's because of the genders, since more people think that woman should play that sport and men should do that. I think that woman has the rights to play rugby and are good at playing RUGBY. TO be fair to both teams they should get paid the same amount of the money, not one team getting paid less or higher. 

Day 2 Activty 1: Faster than a speeding bullet

This week LS2 has been working on the Summer learning journey activities. For Day 2 its about faster than a speeding bullet. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is knowing as the fastest woman right now. She won 4 years in a row at the 100 meter sprints. For this activity we were listing smiles like/as about Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce. I said that she is fast as a tear drop, is tall as a giraffe, is as small as an ant, is beautiful like a pink tree. 

Blog Post Analysis Reflection

Since May

The beginning of the year. 

This year, everyone in LS2 had a goal to achieve before the end of this year. My goal was to get too 1,100 blog post. Sadly, I haven't achieve my goal. I think its because I've been leaving it as a DRAFT and not posting it. The highest amount of blog post this year was January ( during the summer learning journey). The lowest amount of blog posts this year was this month (2 blog posts). The first year I started blogging was on 2015. I have been blogging for 4 years. 

Tesselations

This week during Maths, we have been working on Tesselations. We were given 3 or more different shapes to make as a pattern. I decided to go with the T shape. I made 3 or 2 patterns. I decided to go with a mix of dark and bright colors. During Maths, we have been working on rotation, translation, enlargement and so on. 

Instagram advertising

This week LS2 have created on Instagram of advertising our rainbow crayons. Today is our school gala day that starts at 2:00pm - 3:00pm. Each class in our school is selling a item between 1 - 3 dollars. And this is not a real instagram post. If you were wondering how we made this look so real, we used a template but changed it too make it look real. 

Athletics day 2019

This week was our Interschool Athletics Day. Lots of students from different schools took part. It was a really fun day on Wednesday and competitive day at the same time. We had some good results from each person, that was doing Athletics. If some people were confuse about what time to go to there event we had 2 posts on each side, with the times. I took part in the 100 meter sprints and came 2nd in heats and 1st in finals. I was really nervous on the day, because I was going against fast people that won alot of sprint events this year and last year. In the morning block the boys had there sprints events and, the girls were doing the field events. In the afternoon we switched ( boys to field events and girls to sprints).

Show dont tell

Small pieces of rocks, grass and stones stuck in me isn’t such a pleasant feeling. The pain being inflicted on my body hurts badly. Stepping on poop smells DISGUSTING and UNCOMFORTABLE!!! At this point I couldn’t bare to breathe with the unbearable scents surrounding me. Falling into a nasty, smelly, puddle made me soaked and smelly!! I’m starting to think that my only source of food is the stale bubblegum stuck to the floor with each step my owner took on them. Gross…  Does my owner even have eyes? Each step my owner took was on one of the most disgusting parts on the ground (puddles, poop, bubble gum and rocks). I’m yearning for the day when I get brought back to the shoe store...

Written by | Nyjah and Chavda

This week during Writing Nyjah and I have been on show no tell. Our story was based on shoes that were about the 5 senses. As a peer we were pretending to be a peer of shoes that had those 5 senses. During this challenge, LS2 were given a challenge to sit back to back with our partner. In our peers we wrote 7 sentences or more. I found it really easy to do this because Nyjah and I had similar ideas for this topic. 

Reading Presentation | The Great Plague

This week I have been working with Joel on The Great plague. Today each peer or group presented there presentation in front of the class with a DLO, slideshow or a Kahoot. What I found interesting about my topic is, once a person passes away a red cross is drawn on there door ( if someone or people have passed). In our slideshow we did a timeline, summary, video ( as an example) and drawings of what it looked like back in the day. I felt really nervous presenting in front of the class while talking, but I tried my best to get over that fear. What I enjoy the most in this presentation was creating the drawing ( slide 5 ). 

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Transformation

This week during Maths we have been learning Transformation. As a class we were able too choose a 3 shapes in google drawing to put together. I decided to choose a circle, square and rounded rectangle. With the 3 shapes we chose we did Symmetry, enlargement, rotation, reflection and translation. For translation I made it into a gif that made my shape move to a different spot. 

Foodprint

This week in the afternoon Michal the owner of Food print business has been active for 6 months. She came in to talk to LS1 and LS2 about enterprise, for our Inquiry topic. Did you know, that 20 million bread is wasted every year in New Zealand (more than NZ's population)? Before she created food print she planned on the logo/ name. For her name, it took her for months to figure out a name that was short and bold. For the logo/colors and the designs her team created 4 choices for her. 

If you would like to download the app, remember to write down: Food print. 

                             ( if you live in Auckland, New Zealand) 

Financial Literacy Market Day

This week during Maths we have been working on Financial Literacy for our school market day. We were given a chance of picking our peers to work with, and I chose Fui. As a peer we helped each other out with the things we were stuck with. The game we played was called Market Game. To know the rules we were given Instructions to read carefully, here is a reminder: to always check your inventory and the price list. We were given two dices to use for this game. One of the dices were blank White. In vivid we wrote J for Juggling balls. B for bungy sacks and H for hacky sacks.

Woodwork | Tech 2019

This week during Tech we have been working on our Woodwork designs. For my design I decided to go with a piano. I am still working on getting the correct measurement for my design. What I find hard to doing at wood work is getting the correct measurements because if we don't do the correct measurements our wood work design is going to fail.

Exploring our national current events

This week during Reading I have being working with Nyjah,Victoria, Florence and I. Authors make stories to entertain, persuade and inform. New editors make decisions every day about which stories they should write about. As a class we explored different type of stories that has happen in New Zealand and plotted the location on a google map.

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Do you think plastic straws are useful? Well I think it is easier to use a straw than to use no straw. Around the world, most people know that plastic straws harm sea creatures. People are thinking about banning them for good, but people like me disagree.

In 1870, plastic straws were created to benefit not only me, but everyone around the world. Plastic straws was created by John Wesley Hyatt. I am happy, glad and delightful about having plastic straws around the world including NZ. Have you ever had a drink at a fast food place without getting a straw? It is hard to drink a drink with no straw because it goes all over your face and it looks embarrassing in public. Almost everyone has experienced the feeling of disgust and embarrassment walking to the restroom covered in their drink because I too have been in that situation and trust me it doesn't feel or look good.

I believe plastic straws are very helpful for when we are in public, in the car and even at home. Why? Imagine drinking a can of Mountain Dew without a straw, you'd be stuck in an awkward position trying to force all the remaining liquid. You’d look ridiculous! But if we used a straw we not only finish are drink clean but we could also feel the relief of not looking crazy. Did you know paper straws become soggy and makes it difficult to drink your drink.

Paper straws contain polypropylene which is the same liquid as fuel that we use in our cars today. As we use paper straws it is not only hard to drink but also gets soggy and in most cases melts some polypropylene inside your drink. Even though it’s harmless don’t you think it’s disgusting knowing you’re drinking a liquid used in gas?

The reason why plastic straws are getting banned in most countries around the world, is because people aren’t recycling their straws. If people recycle their plastic straw’s their won’t be a problem to people in many countries. If you don’t recycle your plastic straw it goes to landfills, or even worse it pollutes our oceans which looks ugly to look at. The sad thing about having plastic straws is that people don’t recycle them. Did you know it takes 200 years for plastic straws to be decomposed? Which means most people living right now is not going to be alive at that time of year. Here is a tip from me: don't litter your straw, instead recycle straw. Would you prefer drinking drinks with a straw? If so, share my tip.

Tech | Last day of Robotics

This week during, we have being editing our movies. Today was our last day of our robotics lesson. During this last tech lesson we have been creating a robotics movie/ video that was about something that we have learnt about over the last 15 or 14 weeks of Tech. Today was our last day of editing or filming. In my group I had Marieta, Angela and Fui. In the movie I created the animation and a bit of Angela. I hope you enjoy this movie/video that we have created as a group.

I'll like to say a big thanks to Mr Dunn and Mrs Munoz because without you guys we wont have any robotics at Tech. It's cool knowing that we are the first year group out of all of the schools and year groups that goes to Tamaki College. I cant wait to go to my new tech rotation. Today was also the last day of the year 8's being split apart into 2 groups.