Wright Brothers - Facts Sheet

Today for reading, we made a DLO / facts sheet based on the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers are known by being the first to fly. I collaborated with Sajiha to create this facts sheet. I know many things about the Wright brothers like, they were the first ones to achieve controlled flight. 

Wright Brothers - Main Idea

Today for Reading, we read a Scaffold text based on the Wright Brothers. We first read a website with facts about the Wright Brothers. We then created a Google Drawing with 3 detailed answers to back up our main idea. Our main Idea was that the Wright Brothers were the first people to achieve controlled flight.

Touch Rugby

Today we had our second session of touch rugby. We played lots of games which involved skills we need to use if we ever played a game of touch rugby. Our rugby coach's name was Trevor and he helped us with the skills we need to learn. We first had a warm up running across the court and had to do some of the running skills. We then slit into groups and had a practice of passing the rugby ball. This was a really fun session and I can't wait for next week. 

Octopus

This week, we have been creating a mini inquiry. We used a site called Random Student Generater to pick our topic name. We then decided on a topic with that letter that was chosen. My letter was o and I decided to go with the topic octopuses. we have to come up with 3 questions about your topic and add the diet, habitat, appearance and predators. This was a really fun mini inquiry and hope to do it again.  

De/hydration - Why It Is important to drink water?

This is a google drawing Nazella and I created for Hydration. We have written down why it is important to drink water for the pupils of Panmure Bridge School. We have listed what the meaning of hydration and dehydration. 

Cyber Smart / How To Narrow A Search

This week LS2 have been learning how to narrow a search. We had to make a DLO on how to narrow a search using google drawings. Thanks to Mrs Ogilvie, some of us now know how to search properly. These are the steps on how to narrow a search and, the trick was to use key words. The more key words you used the better results you get. This is an example on how to find the information you want to get by using key words only. To find out the google results you can just search the example or click here and tap the steps to go on google instantly. 

Cyber Smart / How To Narrow A Search

This week LS2 have been learning how to narrow a search. We had to make a DLO on how to narrow a search using google drawings. Thanks to Mrs Ogilvie, some of us now know how to search properly. These are the steps on how to narrow a search and, the trick was to use key words. The more key words you used the better results you get. This is an example on how to find the information you want to get by using key words only. To find out the google results you can just search the example or click here and tap the steps to go on google instantly. 

3D Sketching

Today at tech we have been learning how to draw 3D shaped with Miss Ferguson. I have taken pictures on how the drawing looked like and turned out for me. We have been learning about oblique shaped, isometric shaped and point perspective. We were rendering 3 tones and coloring in the 3D shapes. This has been really fun and I can't wait for next week. 

How Do Birds Fly?

Have you every wondered by birds can fly? Well I have, I made a DLO on the birds body and what helps them with their flight. Birds have different features on them like, having strong wing muscles and hollow bones. This helps them with their flight. Our inquiry topic this term is flight. We are learning about Godwits and other birds that fly. I am looking forward to leaning more about flight and the Godwits. 

Read Theory - Read 20

This term we are doing read 20. Read 20 is 20 minutes of silent reading. We use a site called Read Theory. It helps us with our reading and to understand the main idea, and how to answer correctly. After we read the text we have to answer questions, we have 4 options to choose from. We look for the key words in the text until we find our answer. Read Theory really helps us with our reading and improvement.  

Flight For Feet - Inspector Gadget Review

Flight For Feet - Inspector Gadget 

This week for reading we have been practicing test taking strategies. We have been going over an Inspector Gadget Review which will help us with our tests. Our test taking strategies were to read the instructions that were given, look at the questions, read every word, find answers in the text, eliminate the wrong answers and to choose the best answer.  

Godwit/Kuaka Popplet

This term our inquiry focus was on the Bar tailed Godwit. In Maori it is known as the Kuaka. All the Yr 7's have created a popplet together that had information about the appearance, habitat, migration diet and the preys of the Godwit. We added pictures and videos to give a clear picture of the Godwits. Something I learned was that Godwits never never stop during their migration. We are looking forward to learn more about the Godwit. 

Maths Equations

This week for maths we have been practicing maths problems. Mia and I worked collaboratively together with this activity. We have been solving multiplication problems in everyday contexts. We were doing this because we have our Maths Tests coming up next week.

Cyber Smart

Today the year 8's went off to the library to meet Mrs Ogilvie about cyber smart. The year 7's stayed in LS2 while the year 8's were learning. After the year 8's came back they taught us about cyber smart. They showed us a website called Kids InfoBits. It had information about multiple of things and which category you would choose. There was info for primary, intermediate and secondary. There was also images, clips and voice recording. 

Rhythm Interactive Sessions Visit

Today we had a special visit/session from Rhythm Interactive. This session is our second time in these 2 years. The 2 visitors who held and ran the program were Lucy and Johnny. They travel all around the world and New Zealand to teach kids. We learnt how to play beats and different rhythms on the Djembe drum. In the whole session they did not talk and only used actions. In there saying, they said that actions are louder that words. This was a really fun session since, we worked together and had lots of fun. 

Make dinner for your whole family - Silver Respect Award

For this silver respect task I had to make dinner for my whole family. I cooked roasted vegetables. I added seasoning, kumara, potato's, carrots, broccoli and many more. My mum helped me chop up the vegetables but I did the rest. My family's opinion was that, it was over cooked and I added to much seasoning. This task was fun and enjoyable. 

Leadership

Today the year 7 pupils were talking about leadership, since we will be leaders next year we had to get a reminder of leadership qualities. We listed some qualities leaders should have in the following year. We also talked about role models and talked about some of them. We then made a tagul.com  using words we listed and some role models we look forward to.