Athletics Day 1!

Today we had our athletics day, we had some Tamaki students come over to PBS to help with the games.We had to be split up into groups of three, my group was John, Thomas, June, Zeba, Te paki, Paige, Juanita, and Breeana, John was our leader. We had to walk over to the hall for our first game, our first game was rob the nest,when we got inside the hall the Tamaki college students told us how to play it then we got to play the game. The next game was hurdle sponge relays, we had to jump over the hurdles to get to the bucket of water and go back to put the water in our team bucket, who ever had the most water won. The next game we played was Long jump, we had to go to the shade shelter by room 5, who ever jump the furthest, there team had won. The next game we played was shot put throw, then the last one was discuss hula hoop throw. My favourite game was the hurdle sponge relay because we got to get wet and it was fun.

Hockey: 2nd Session - Afu

Yesterday us year 8's had another session of Hockey with Carly. First we started re-visioning the skills we practiced. One of the skills we practiced was dribbling the ball with our hockey stick. But the catch was, when Carly yelled out 'SWITCH!' then we had to switch with someone with the same color hockey stick as us. Some other things we did to was bouncing the hockey ball on our stick as many times we can and bouncing the hockey ball on our stick as long as we can without letting the ball drop. My favourite game I played was Shark because I liked whacking other peoples balls out of their hockey sticks.

Inquiry: The connection between the Kauaka and the Maori people

Today we have been making a storyboard on the connection between the Godwit and the Maori people. This task was our last task for inquiry. Our learning intention was to describe the importance between the Godwit to the Maori people. You can have a look at our story board if you want to, but you don't have to.

First Session - Hockey

Today for kiwi sport we had Mel taught us some basic skills for hockey, we played a game first called bull rush. The couch picked 3 people to go into the middle, then they had to call out something (e.g. Run if you are wearing a red jacket ) then you have to try and run to the other side, but if they touched you you will have to stay still and try and tag the rest of the people. It was a good warm up to get us started for hockey. Then we had to go to the hockey sticks and stand behind them, when everyone was behind one we had to go and get a ball from the bag. Then the mentor then showed us one of the basic skills, which is called dribbling. We had to hold the top of the stick with our left hand, then hold the coloured bit with our right hand, we had to move the ball side to side with the hockey stick. Then we had played a game called traffic lights, there was 6 different colours. Green - dribble the ball, Orange - stand still and move the ball side to side with the stick, Red - stop and make sure the ball is still, Purple - move backwards while dribbling the ball, Silver - dribble the ball fast, Blue - use the stick to move the ball by spinning. When we played that we had to play a game of hockey, we had to try and get the ball in between the cones. Then we had to hold the ball in our right hand, and the stick in our left hand, then we had to throw the ball and hit it with the stick. I enjoyed our first session of hockey. 

Godwit bird - Afu, Charlize, Juanita

Last week Charlize Juanita and I have created a popplet about the Godwit bird. We had to include Migration, Habitat, Diet, and Appearance. I learnt that a Godwit can fly from NZ to Alaska without stopping, and it takes longer than a week. Take a look at it and see what you did not know about these amazing birds.

Writing - Afu and Charlize and Maata

Today and Yesterday for reading we had to right a story about rescuing, we had to work in partners my partner was Charlize, and Maata. We had to plan our story first on a paper, after that we had to sit back to back with our partners. We had to write one sentence then the other person has to write a sentence, then we kept carrying on till our time was up. This writing is called 5 minutes of... I really enjoyed doing this because it was challenging when had been timed and we had to write a sentence each till our time was up.

Smog in China

Yesterday we read an short article about smog in China. After that we read the whole text, we then had to highlight some of the text and put S-T (Self to Text, something you read that sounds like one of your life experiences), T-T (Something you read that sounds similar to something else you have read), or T-W ( Something you have read that is happening in the world now). The point of this task was to relate to other things that I've read, seen, or that has happened in the world.

Hyperbole

Today I created a DLO about hyperbole and the task that we did yesterday. This DLO shows what hyperbole is and how hyperbole can help enhance in your writing. The task we did was True or false and Fill in the spaces, my favourite one was fill in the spaces because it was challenging and it was hard to think of the words that best fits in the space. 

Team Paper Plane

Today for Maths the whole class was put into a group, in my group there was Sylis, Mere, Silivia, Harry, Thomas, and Ana. We had to pick the best planes from our team that had flew the furthest, and then combine them. We had 8 minutes to make it, then we had to chose the best person that throws the paper plane for the competition, we had Thomas throw the plane. We all had to sit down except the people that are throwing the plane. They had to throw the plane three times. Our measurements were 11.20, 14.00, and 14.01. Our teams paper plane plane went the furthest, but the other people still did well. I enjoyed doing this activity because it was a collaborative challenge, it was fun and it had some learning behind it. 

Writing quiz

Today for writing we had to do a quiz about recounts, My score was 8 out of 10. I think I done well because I got most of them write. I enjoyed doing this quiz because it was challenging.

Paper Planes - Afu

Yesterday Mrs Anderson showed us a slide show in silence, the slide show had the challenges we had to do. We were put into groups, my group was Ana, Silivia, Sylis, Thomas, Mere, and Harry, we had to work collaboratively to complete our challenge. Our challenge was to see who flew the paper plane the furthest. We had to trial to test our paper planes, and we also had to make different paper planes.    

Inquiry: Jean Batten Timeline - Afu

This week on Tuesday and Wednesday we have created a timeline about our famous flyer Jean Batten. In this timeline we had to algorithm, I chose to do a 4 and 5 algorithm. I found she became the first women that had flew over the South Atlantic interesting. I chose to put links of where I got the information from, and if those links don't work you can click on this - Link 1

and Link 2. 

The Shake Out

The Shake Out from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.
A large Congratulations to Latham, Reon, Sylis, Daniel, and Jasmine for making this movie about the shake out, they have done a really great job. I really enjoyed watching this movie.