Production 2017

Last night and afternoon, PBS held the production at the hall. Many families and friends came to watch the show. We all had a great time and tried our best. We were having lots of fun and giving our best. 

Elections Kahoot

This week Mia, Sky, Savelina and I were focusing on kahoots. We had to make a kahoot based on elections. We had to make 10 question based on elections. 

Kiwi Can

Today was our last session for kiwi can for term 3. We were split into 4 groups and we played objects. We then went outside and played hand soccer. We had to get the ball to our goal using our hands. We were numbered and when our number was called out we had to run and get the ball to our goal. 

Critical Analysis - Coca Cola

This week LS2 has been focusing on advertising. Most advertisements have slogans like 'just do it'. I choose to label a coca cola advertisement. This is my critical analysis. I have labeled all the visuals and attractive details from the coca cola ad. 

The Princess Bride - Narrative Theory

Our class did a film study on the movie "The Princess Bride". We completed many activities about the Opening Sequence, Character introduction, Fantasy Conventions, Shot types and Narrative theory. Hajera and I have completed a DLO about narrative theory. 

What is a Coalition?

We were finding out about what a coalition is and this election coalition, we will be finding out if New Zealand First will be joining forces will National or Labour. We have been following the election results and how it can change/affect the government. This DLO contains who our local MVP is and how will the coalition with NZ first affect the results. 

Scale Drawing

Last week, LS2 were making scale drawings. We had to rule 1 centimeter lines on our original image and enlarge it to 2 centimeter lines on a A3 piece of paper. The ratio of this was 1:2 since we are enlarging. We had to make sure we were copying the original image onto the enlargement square by square so it could look like the original. 

Princess Bride - Fantasy Conventions

For the past week, our class was focusing on a film study about "The Princess Bride". We had to choose one of the activities we had completed, to post. This DLO is about fantasy conventions about the movie "The Princess Bride". 

Democracy in New Zealand

For this election activity, we had to make a flow chart about the democracy of New Zealand. In New Zealand we have the Queen on the top of the flow chart as well as the governor general as her representative.  

Former Prime Minister

Helen Clark is a former prime minister of New Zealand. She is a very powerful women who made New Zealand more noticeable around the world. Helen Clark was the 37th Prime Minister and was the second women to hold the office. She was a great leader of New Zealand. 

Government Party Jigsaw

Since this week is election week, we are learning about elections. In our learning we have completed an activity called 'Government Party Jigsaw'. In this jigsaw Mia, Mishaan, Ofa, Javeylor, and I have added the leaders of the main party and what electorate they are in. 

Read an eBook Day

Today is read an eBook Day and is a celebration of modern storytelling. This is on September the 18th this year. To celebrate, LS2 read some books using the Tamaki College Overdrive site. Tamaki overdrive has different types of subjects, collections. and levels you can choose from. We can read books anytime and anywhere we want to. If you want more information about 'read an eBook Day' you can click here. #ebooklove

Say it Tika

Since this week is Maori language week, we had to protect our unique Maori place names by pinning Maori streets names. Vodafone is helping Google maps master our Maori place names. We had to go to say it tika's website and pin the streets or cities we think need improving. 

Tamaki Overdrive

Tamaki overdrive is a great website to explore new books and read them online. Its great since you get to choose which subject, collections and level you would like. You also get to listen to audio books instantly in your browser. What I like about this is that you get to choose more than 4 books. I found this book in the fiction sections and this book is called "Mr Stink" and is written by David Walliams. 

Two Word Sentences

Our main focus in writing this week is two word sentences. We picked a two word sentence and turned the both into compound and complex sentences. For compound sentences we had to add a fanboy connective and for our complex sentence we had to add an AAWWUBBIS. Two word sentences use a subject and a verb. A subject is a person or thing that is used in a sentence and a verb is used to describe an action.

Tamaki College - Experience Day

Today the year 8's went to Tamaki College to experience secondary school. We had our own year 9 timetable with classes on them. This was a great experience. In science with Mr Stoddard and Mr Singh, we were learning about static energy/electricity. Static electricity is a contrast of electric charges inside or on the surface of a material. In our math classes we had Mr Jones and we played a game of battle ships and learnt about coordinate grids. In our English class with Mr Stevenson, we were finding visual images to make connections with new vocabulary. In our PE class we were playing turbo touch with Mr Moyes. 

A big thank you to Tamaki College for hosting us. We all had a fun time and a great day of learning.