This is the 1st task to get a gold excellence badge.
For this task we had to make a DLO about our personal passion. For me this task was sort of hard and easy because we had to write our most favorite things to do and all of mine are all a secret untill now.
I had 2 passions one of them is learning and researching people and the other one is listning to kpop and othe music.
The most intresting thing was nothing but it was hard and easy.
Our maths focus was to understand how to solve equations that contain or use exponents. Exponents are small numbers that take place next to numbers on the top right. For example 23 is a number containing an exponent because there is a smaller number taking place on the top right of a larger number.
LI: To find the important information in a current event.
LI: To identify the author's purpose.
This week for reading we learnt about the authors purpose. Authors write for a purpose/reason. These reasons are to persuade, inform, explain or entertain (PIE).
First we looked on Kiwi Kids News to find a article. Then, we made a copy of the current events DLO and answered the questons:
I found this activity fun and intresting because it was fun to fill in the questions and the article I picked was intresting to learn about.
On Friday, the whole school had a assembly. During the assembly, I got my Silver Cofidence badge with Lukah and Afatia.
The five tasks that I did was: Create a DLO about How to be cybersafe, Create a DLO on How to create a DLO, Teach your teacher a new skill, Teach a group of kids on how to play a simple game, and a teacher task about sailing.
The easiest task was creating a DLO on how to create a DLO.
The hardest was Teach your teacher anew skill because I have to tallk to my parents about my home language.
This is my last task to get my silver attitude and this was a teacher set task.
On Wensday, I took my second art lesson with thirty something students, this art involves patterns, mountains and constellations.
This art lesson involves a skecthing pencil, one a4 piece of paper to do the practice on and a3 piece of paper for the real art.
First I told them to draw a triangle on the corner of the a4 piece of paper. When they finished with that I told them to draw the second and third mountain.
After those steps I told them to do a patterns on each moutain, then I told them to go online and research some constellations and draw them, also I told them to do your own constellations.
Then, if they finish with the a4 piece they have to check with me if they are allowed to go on to the a3.
LI: to understand a budget is a plan for managing money.
LI: to plan a trip that fits within the given budget of $45.00.
This week for maths we have been learning about financial capabilities. FInancial Capalities is about spending money wisely for a budget.
This week's work was about a family planning out to the museum that had a budget of $45.00. We spend $20.00 on admission, $18 for the activites, saved $7, and spend $6 for three ice creams. So there was only $1 left.
I found this activity interesting because it was a bi5t hard to solve all of the questions.
LI: to read for meaning and understanding.
LI: To label Maori place names to a map.
Today was our third session for Te Reo Maori. For this activity I needed to put countries in the right places. Some of the examples are: Argentina - Aketina, Chile - Hiri, and Colombia - Kolompia, Wales - Weera, and Ireland - Airangi. I found this activity easy because some of the names in Maori were similar to the English names.
LI: To translate everyday things into Maori words
This week for the seniors Te Reo Challenge David and translated our daily things into Maori. This challenge was to learn new Maori words. To translate these English words we used Maori dictionary and wrote the word then the sentence that match the word. I enjoyed doing this activity because I learnt new words and how to use it in sentences.
LI: to stop, think and make smart decisions with money.
We had ASB Get Wise coming in, talking about money. The instructer who taught us was called Marlon.
The game that we played was Holiday in Fiji. The budget we had was $1800, we had spend that money wisely. There were six topic we could spend on: Passport, Flights, Accommodation, Insurance, Activities, Food.
The Passport cost $200 but for the emergency cost $400. The plane tickets cost $500 for economy, and $800 for first class. The acccommodation cost $200 and $500 + the food that cost $100. The insurance cost $300. The activities are surfing, snorkeling and sky diving. Surfing is $100, Snorkeling is $200, Sky diving is $300.
My group choose the normal passport that cost $200. For the plane tickets we picked the economy that cost $500. For the accommodation we picked the $200 one. We payed the insurance. For the activities we picked the surfing that cost $100. There was fun points but for my group we got 6 fun points.
We could use the credit card if you ran out of money but we have to pay it later with some of the leftover money. Then, we rolled a dice to decide who had to pay the hospital bill beause we all had foood poisioning
At the end of the session, Maron said to stop, think, and make smart decision with money.
LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader
I heard the seagulls squealed as the majestic and sophisticated river cascading through the rugged passage. I saw the sand moving through the sea clear water. I felt calm but cold I wandered if my body temperature would finish off the battle of the cold and the weak sun.
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A setting is the place, time and environment of a story to help a reader make a connection to your narrative you need to use your words in away that helps them form a picture of what you are describing in their mind.
To do this we looked at an image and thought of 10 words that described and showed what we could see. Once we had thought of the adjectives or adverbs we used our smart searching skills to help us find synoymns that made our descriptions clearer.
I found Word Hippo interesting because it can change any boring word into an powerful word
A bad attitude doesn’t take people far in life. If someone has a different opinion or emotion it doesn't mean that they have a bad attitude.
This is my third task to get my silver attitude badge. This was a teacher set task. This task was about how to label.
Labelling is a giving something a name. To label something, first figure out the name of what you are going to label and write it inside of a textbox. If labelling is not clear add a arrow to make the label understandable.
Make sure that your labelling is clear and easy to understand. Ask for help when you are stuck or don’t understand part of the task and check with someone that the name you used in your label is correct. If your picture is very detailed, have your arrow point closer to what you are labelling so that they can see the specific area that you are naming.
LI: To create a DLO telling the audience about sailing trip.
For this C.A.R.E award activity, I created a poster talking about what some of the year 7 and 8s were able to do during their sailing trip at Akarana Yacht Club. I talked about the three different rotations and the activities.
On Friday, the whole school had a assembly. During the assembly, I got my Silver Respect badge with Te Raumati and Chisa.
The five tasks that I did was: Create a collage about the school, Make dinner for the family, Create a DLO on a respected leader, Research the song RESPECT by Aretha Franklin, and the last task I did was the Write a letter to a teacher or a staff member.
The easiest task was creating a collage about the school and writing a letter to a staff member or teacher.
The hardest was researching the song RESPECT by Aretha Franklin.
LI: To create a DLO explaining how PHN impacts schools and the people of the world.
LI:To learn about Isaac Newton
This week in Reading, LS2 has been working towards Simple Machines. Apart of this, we were required to learn about Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton is a physicist, mathematician, theologian and a Astronomer. We were also required to create a DLO with the following questions: Why is his work important? What did he find out? How does his work connect to simple machines?
