2015 Reflection

As you may know last year was 2015. My highlight of the year was getting to know the year 8 students more. One thing i enjoyed the most about 2015 was learning new things throughout the year. Another thing i enjoyed last year was our singing assembly's that we had every Friday's. My goals for this year are to do home learning and to be more confident in class.

Google Expedition

It was a normal Tuesday morning for the senior students, but there was one difference. The bell rang and I ran to class. As I walked into the street I saw little cardboard boxes that were glasses. When Miss Hockley was finished doing the notices the year 8’s had to go to technology. Once the year 8’s left Mrs Tele’a had to explain to the year 7’s what the google expedition was, but first we had to get into our maori groups. Once we were in our groups and Mrs Tele’a was finished group tahi (1) went to maori with Miss Tito’s Group rua (2) went to do their literacy work and Groups toru (3) which is my group had to stay in the street with Mrs Tele’a and Mrs Clark’s son, Mr Clark.

Group 3 got to be first because our group was bigger than the others. Mr Clark let each of us get the glasses. We all had to make sure that we were being careful and holding them with 2 hands so that we didn’t break them. In the tiny cardboard box there was a phone which was connected to Mr Clark’s Iipad. Mr Clark’s ipad had different locations that we got to see. When the teachers had picked a place we then had to look through the glasses to see where we were. When you looked through the glasses you could see everything and it felt like you were actually in the place. In most of the places there were things that we had to spot like animals, insects and people. Whenever the teachers wanted to ask us questions or needed to talk to us they paused our screens so that it says “Paused by teacher” or “Waiting for teacher”.

We saw a lot of different places and learnt more things about different animals and insects. Before they changed the places, we had to wait for the teachers and answer questions about the insects. Some people tried to touch it but they remembered that it was only a picture. When group one came out of maori we had to go to Miss Foamatu and write about what we did in the street. Group two went to maori with Miss Tito and then it was group threes turn in the street with Mrs Tele'a and Mr Clark.

Finding a theme in the text

                    

This week we have been learning about how to find a theme in the text. First we had to read the poem on the slide and find clues that lead us to the theme. Then we had to think about what the theme of the poem could be. When we found the theme we had to write down why we thought it was the theme. I think the theme of this poem is good can come from bad or A cheerful attitude can overcome obstacles. I thought this because the speaker was sad at the start and happy on the last part.

The Secret Underground

                     
For literacy we started this presentation that is about the secret underground. The secret underground text is about the different animals that live underground. Its about how to a use to there surrounding and to there envoiriment.

Immersion Assembly

Monday was the first day of term 4. In the morning we had our school immersion assembly. Every term we have an immersion assembly so that we know what we are learning about for the term.This term our topic is Survivor. This term team 5 is learning about how human in different parts of the world survived.

Team one is learning about how different animals adapt. The teachers of team 1 said that they were going to the zoo for the day to see the different animals. Mrs George did karaoke for the kids because they didn’t really have anything to tell us and the winner got a prize. For karaoke they sang Roar by Katy Perry. The winner of karaoke was Mrs King’s daughter Marika and her prize was a trip with team 1 to the zoo.

Team two are studying dinosaurs.They played a movie about dinosaurs. Miss Nalder was dressed up as a paleontologist. A Paleontologist is a person that studies dinosaurs and other animals. Miss Berry was dressed as barney and Miss Nalder picked 3 students to go and hug her.

Team three are learning about dinosaurs and making their own. The team three teachers dressed up and made up dinosaurs names. They played a movie with all of the teachers dancing.

Team four is learning about the habitats of different animals. Mr Goodwin played a movie with 5 students in it. They were all in different habitats with different animals. They had to guess where they were and what animal was behind them.

Team 5 is learning about how humans in different parts of the world survived. The teachers were acting on a show. They had to eat a plate of noodles with chopsticks and the person to eat the most won. When they started Mrs Clark quickly ate them and won. Miss Clark was the only one who knew how to use chopsticks because she was from asia. The other teachers were complaining because they didn’t know how to use chopsticks.

The Bullet

This week i have been working on the bullet. The bullet is a book that is about a brother and sister that moved neighbour hoods and schools. I thinnk that its also about making the right choices or you'll be in trouble.

Thinking Blocks

In my maths class we have been working with ratio's. This week we had to go on thinking blocks and practise our ratio's. For the past 3 weeks we have been working on this On thinking blocks there are 8 questions on every stage.