Kelly Tarltons

LI: to learn about the amazing places NZ has to offer.
For one of my home learning challenges I did some work on Kelly Tarltons, Kelly Tarltons is a place in Auckland, New Zealand  where people can look at sea life. For my first activity I had to find out the prices for me to go and the prices for my family to go. For the second activity I had to pick an animal from Kelly Tarltons and make an info graphic about it. For the bonus activity I had to  make a dlo about the opening times and the prices for all the tickets.

Sky Tower Challenge

LI: to learn about the amazing places NZ has to offer.
For this challenge I did some activities about the Sky Tower. For my first activity I researched 5 facts about the Sky Tower, and I had to create a DLO about it. For my second activity I had to create a replacement mascot because the original mascot went on holiday. For the bonus activity I had to find some adventurous activities to do at the Sky Tower and which one would I pick.

Rainbows End Challenge

LI: to research about the amazing places NZ has to offer.
For one of my home blogging challenges I had to do activities about an amusement park in Auckland, New Zealand called Rainbows End, for my first activity I had to find the location of Rainbows end and what the family pack price is, and what it cost for my family to go, for my second activity I had to figure out the height restrictions for the stratosphere ride, and why there is a restriction at all, for the bonus activity I had to write a 25 word explanation for why I should recommend rainbows end to a friend, with an attributed photo/video.

Kawarau Bridge

LI: to learn about the amazing places NZ has to offer
For one of my blogging challenges I had to do activities about the Kawarau Bridge, the Kawarau bridge is a place where people bunjy jump off of the bridge. For my first activity I had to create a brochure about the bridge. For the second activity I had to create a DLO about what it would cost for my family to go, and for the bonus activity I had create a drawing if I were to do this and what feelings I felt if i did this.

Skyline Lunge

LI: to learn about the amazing places New Zealand has to offer.
For my first challenge for home learning, I did tasks about the skyline lunge. Located in Rotorua, the skyline lunge is a place for people to have fun. The first tasks was to find out why they where helmets the the dangers of what would happen if a person did not wear a helmet. The second task was to figure out the prices for my family if we where to go and the activities I'd do if I got the chance to go. The bonus task was to figure out the distance, the time to get there in plane and cars, and what travel choice I'd pick.

Name Exercises

For one  blogging activity, my teacher showed us a some exercises to do, but each different exercise was a letter of the alphabet (e.g.: A = 10 push ups). We then had to figure out the exercise we had to do for our names, my name is Lukah so I'd be doing L - Two Minute Wall Sit, U - 30s arm circles, K - 10 Push ups, A - 50 jumping jacks, H - 20 squats. After I tried doing the exercises with one of my brothers.

Representing my School at an Inter-School Competition

LI: to represent my school at an outside function

For one of my care value tasks I had to represent my school at an inter-school competition, so I joined the volleyball team. We went to Selwyn college to play against Pt England, Panmure District, and many more other schools. We played against 6 teams and each team was a challenge. We lost our first three games but won our three other games. Other than Volleyball I have played in Cricket at Varsity for PBS.

 

Why Having a Positive Attitude Is Important

LI: to create a video about why a positive attitude is important.
For one of my care value tasks I created a video about why having a positive attitude is important. To create this video I used screen castify, I think that having a positive attitude is important because it could uplift yours and others moods.

Tutoring a Person

LI: to tutor/help someone who is in need of help with learning.

For one of my care value tasks is to tutor a person who is in need of help with learning. In my class at PBS we put links to our blogs with our work onto the sheet, so my job was to help a person with that work, I tutored a person with his work and how to get his work finished. I helped him understand how multiplication works and what was the tasks for reading and writing.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn how to be a role model.
This week for kiwi can we talked about role models, what a role model looked like and if we have any role models. After the talk we played two games called picture it and hammer it. The first game was hammer it, our hands would be on top of another persons hand, if a person said down the hand at the top went to the bottom, if they said up the bottom hand would go to the top, and if they say hammer it the top hand has to hammer the hand below it before it dodges the top hand. The second game was picture it, picture it is a game where you get into groups and picture something with the people you have. As always we played end of the road, end of the road is a game where the boys v girls in a game of GKQ (General Knowledge Questions).

Teaching my Teacher a New Skill

For one of my care value tasks I taught my sub teacher how to say good

Gourds - Cyber Smart

LI: to use smart searching skills.
Four our cybersmart lesson, we learnt that Polynesian explorers used gourds as something to carry water in, we also learnt that they kept the gourds tied to the waka in the water to kept the water cold. We used our smart searching skills and we got into groups and made a DLO about gourds.

Exploring Provocations

LI: to learn about provocations.
A provocation is a speech or act that triggers strong emotions about something. For our learning a provocation we used was 'Should NZ become a cashless Society?'. For our task we got into partners or groups, and we worked in those partners or groups to create a DLO about why we should, why we shouldn't and our opinion.

Maths Team Challenge

LI: solve addition problems with tenths by changing one number into a whole number

This week for Maths we created two DLOs showing how we solved two team challenges that involved adding decimals. Using the most effective strategy we found the answer. The most  effective strategies were written algorithms and place value. In this session we were learning rounding and compensating. The two questions we tried to solve were:

5.75 + 2.0 = 7.75 x 12 = ?

218.99 + 109.85 = ?

Venn Diagram

For one of our tasks for inquiry we had a venn diagram, the space on the left is the space for explorers, the space on the right are the adventurers, the space in the middle is for people who are both. Explorer means someone who is sent to go somewhere and finds uncharted land and an adventurer is a person who has a thirst for adventure. We had pictures of famous people and we had to organise the photos into the right places.

Gourd DLO

This Friday we created a D.L.O on our knowledge of gourds. This D.L.O was created in groups, the group I was in was with Florence, Ellenora, Lukah, Rj and Acein. The D.L.O includes Facts about gourds, information about gourds and a photo of gourds.

Exploring Provocations

LI: To consider both sides of a provocation.

This week we have been exploring both sides of a provocation. A provocation is a speech or action that triggers strong emotions. Our provocation was 'should NZ become a cashless society? After considering both perspectives (sides) we think that it should be balanced so we can use technology and cash to pay. We think that eftpos and cash are both just different methods of payment, so it really doesn’t matter which one you pay with. You can use both methods to buy things since its both money.

Nelson Mandela Research

LI: to research about someone who had a positive attitude despite their difficulties.

For one of my care value tasks I chose to research about a person who had a positive attitude despite their difficulties and make a DLO about the person, a person I chose was Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela is an amazing man who protested for equal rights for White Africans and Native Africans, he saw this as a big problem because native Africans weren't treated right, some Native African couldn't even go to the same school as white Americans. So I created a DLO explaining what I researched about him and his opinions.

Kiwi Can Reflection

LI: to learn about leadership.
For Kiwican we were talking about Leadership. We were talking about what leaders needed to overcome, and what is a confident leader. They need to overcome fear, embarrassment, anxiety, emotions and the negative outcomes of possibilities. Leaders also need to be brave and take risks. We also shared our personal leaders in our lives, like our parents, or even someone famous. Leadership means being responsible, being confident, and patient. A confident leader inspires people to do their best, and is a role model. Kiwi Can really made us think about all the leaders in our life and around the world.

Maths Question DLO

For our maths task this week we split our maths group into smaller groups, we then chose one question that we worked on with our group. After we worked in our groups to create a DLO about the strategy and how we solved the question.

Places Named by Early Explorers

LI: to find out where our early explorers went around NZ.
For inquiry we worked in pairs to find out what places where named by Kupe, Captain Cook and Abel Tasman, first we researched what places that were named by the explorers, we then put a dots of where they are on a picture of NZ, we then created a map that showed exactly where they were instead of just putting dots on a photo. The markers that are green are places that are named by Captain Cook, the blue markers are places that are named by Abel Tasman and the yellow markers are the places that are named after Kupe. Some of the reasons why places are named are: they might name it after an important person/friend, it could also be named of what events happened their, and it might be the physical appearance (what it looks like), it could also be named themselves.

Shared Word Bank

For one of the reading activities we worked in our reading groups to work on a word bank, a word bank is where you choose one word that relates to our learning and we explore all the pronouns, word families, synonyms and visuword screenshot about the word. For the word bank my group chose Navigation as our word because it linked to our learning about explorers and adventurers.

Past & Present

LI: to compare travel time and method of travel to get to NZ
For one of the activities for reading we worked in our groups to do a task called past and present, we had to compare the travel times and methods with Kupe, Captain Cook and nowadays. We also had to include the certain problems that come with all of the forms of transport that we had to compare.