LS2 2016 Reflection.

Today Sylis and I made a movie. The movie we made was about our 2016 reflection. We took photos from the LS2 Shared Photos folder and made a collage from the year. We added our kiwi sport, school trips and work. It was fun because we looked at the photos and it reminded us of some good times we had this year. 

Visit From ASB Bank.

Yesterday Jeremy from ASB bank came to our school to talk to us about being wise with our money and how you can grow with your money. He started off the lesson by telling us about him and how his childhood was. He told us about the cross road which is taking the easy life with no challenges, so you will just cruise along then die, but taking the hard life with challenges you work hard to achieve the job you want to achieve.  Then he told us how he made money, he worked in a supermarket by stacking all the foods on the shelves and his mate and him challenged each other and they worked so hard that people and the manager saw how hard they worked. His mate worked by bringing in the trolleys from the car park and no body needed to worry about waiting for trolleys because they were always there! His mate and him worked so hard that they were promoted up to working at the checkouts. He had explained how to make money other ways by selling homemade lemonade and other things! It was really fun and he had even given us all an ASB wrist band! I think everyone is now switched on with their money.

Authors Purpose.

Today for reading I played a game to help me understand authors purpose. The game was fun and the objective is to read the story then guide the correct answer into the light bulb, then you guide the wrong answer into the light bulbs which aren't lit up! It was fun and also helped me with my reading!

Shipwrecked: Story.

Today I wrote a story about a nerdy inventor who is shipwrecked on a desert island. I went onto a website called Story Starters. I spun the wheel and it came up with a nerdy inventor who is shipwrecked on a desert island! When I had my idea I wrote the story!

Speech 2016

Kia ora Panmure Bridge/ LS2 I am here to talk about why making movies is more interesting and entertaining then doing school work!  There are many types of topics to make a movie on! For example: you can make a movie that makes maths fun by writing out a script, finding actors and making an epic movie about a subject which is so boring into something fun!

Have I hooked you in yet?

Well my first point is I want to make students from PBS to want to make movies! It could be a sad movie, an action movie, even a funny movie! Why should you solve boring equations when you can make a digital learning object to help others to solve equations in a fun way!

Who actually wants to do maths, reading and writing in books or on your devices when making movies on those subjects helps but also makes the learning fun, am I right? Did you know that it is really easy to make a movie, with just 4 steps you can create a movie to make your parents/ teachers proud!  

If you are like me I hate maths, I think it is the worst thing ever invented and when I made a movie on learning my times tables I actually started to like maths! Wait did I just say that? So when I make movies some of the best movies I have made have had  something to do with maths. But my point is to show why it is better to make movies on the subject than answering the questions that we may already know!

I hope the information I have given you has made a choice in your mind on whether making movies instead of doing the tasks the way that you could do or if you could make a movie on how you show your learning when doing the tasks given to you! Thanks for listening to my speech and hope you try my type of learning!

                                                 

Ana, Daniel and Harry listened to my speech then collaborated together and discussed what I did right and what I need to improve on! I need to try to talk slower and look at the audience more to keep them entertained!

Sub Words.

Sub Paragraph

The man took the subway to his subcellar. On his way he stopped to check out a submarine submerging down to the subterranean, subzero water. When he received a call that he could study about the substratum under the earth's soil. Than he received mail from the subordinate staff, he suddenly felt his heart subvert as he read the daily subtitle.

                           
Today Zeba, Mere, Ana and I found as many words in the dictionary that start with SUB! The words we were looking for were the words that are below or under for example: Subway (is an underground train!) Or a submarine (a boat that can go under water!) When we found our words we used some of them to create a small paragraph the sub words we used in the paragraph are underlined so you can see which words are sub words!

Spellzone Spelling Game

Today I played a spelling game called spellzone where you have to answer the questions by spelling out the prefix words as fast as you can. I got lots of the different words correct.

Words That Start With UN.

For spelling I wrote all these different words that start with UN. Some of the words I found were: Unprofessional, Unthankful,Unblocked and a lot more. I filled up all the squares with the words I knew. The words that we did were prefix words.

ANZAC Letter.

We had to write a letter from the eyes of the ANZAC soldiers in the trenches. We researched what it was like in the trenches and I wrote this letter. We wrote notes and read the diary of Captain Charlie May which you can read for yourself here: LINK

The Golden Girl Story.

The Golden Girl:

Rebecca quickly shut her eyes, the bright light covered by her eyelids.  He proceeds, sprinting towards her. She screamed and he got closer and closer. She ran towards a cliff side, and down the bottom was a lake. She wept. He got even closer. She jumped! A few minutes later she swam to shore and he disappeared! “Whew!” she sighed with relief.

Rebecca rapidly opened her eyes, wiping the water away. She ran through the woods. She lost her breath. She sprinted. She now knows he found her.

She woke up. Couldn’t see. She reached into her pocket. “Where’s my phone?” She questioned. She couldn’t see whether he was still there. Her eyes blinked. They opened. Her arm was so stiff she couldn’t feel the rope bashing against her. She saw a knife on top of a barrel.

Rebecca wonders where she is. She kicked the barrel and the knife was released. She cut her way out. There he was on the veranda. “I must be in a barn.” She told herself. She smashed through the hay bale. Tackling the man to the rusty floor. She jumped off.

*Smash* the shock, as she landed on the ground, was like she had walked on a wet cable. He followed. “You're going nowhere!” He roared like a lion. Her ground shock disappeared. She than bolted over to a telephone box. She huffed her way to the phone. She rang her parents.

“Dad! Dad! I’m in the middle of the woods can you do anything to find me?”

“Hun, what are you on about? Where are you.” Her dad questioned.

“I'm not that sure I think i’m around the old village campsite (Aspen, Colorado) ,please come, there's this man chasing me! Oh and I think he has: black shoes, muddy t-shirt and these ugly pants, like jeans. ”

“Dad dad...” *Bang* Glass shattered.

“Ugly pants aye?” He asked her.

She slowly turned her head. She saw a glimpse reflection off the booth mirror of the man with a gun. “What will I do?” As she muttered to herself.

Rebecca clenched her hands together. He loaded the gun and put his finger on the trigger. She twisted herself around like a wind up toy. Grabbed the gun and stopped.

“Go ahead, shoot me, be like me,  A murderer, a kidnapper. It all starts like that.” He said.

“No it doesn’t.” She yelled.

“Oh yes it does, one miniscule pull of the trigger and bang, you're an instant murderer.”

“I’m not a murderer, I’ll never be!” She declared.

She jumped at the man pushing him to the ground, a long piece of glass passaged through his leg. She wanted to do more (Kill Him!); she didn’t.

He couldn’t feel his leg. She heard sirens. “Dad.” as she ran towards her father. She looked up to the horizon as she was in shock, the sun back in her eyes. She heard the police officer yelling. “In the name of the law, remain silent. They arrested the man.

Days later the Herald published an article telling Rebecca’s shocking story. A constant flow of reporters all seemed to want to know the same thing. Maybe that is what sold papers...

This term we have been learning to write narratives. We used the picture prompt below to help us imagine how this situation came about. We tried to hook our audience in by thinking about the pace of events and the pictures we painted with words.

Elephants Toothpaste.

On Wednesday Mrs Davis and Mrs Dudding from Edgewater College came to demonstrate the elephants toothpaste experiment. We gave our Hypothesises (Our Prediction.) I thought it was going to make an explosion. We did the experiment. What we saw is that it foamed up, (Bubbles) and it started to smoke which meant it was hot. It was fun but safe and we can not wait to see if we do it again.

E-ako Maths.

Today on E ako maths I practiced my place value and fractions. I had to tick which statements were true for example: Poppy had 3/4. It was fun and I have practiced more with fractions.

Presenting At The Manaiakalani Place At Somervile.

Today I presented at the Maniakalani place at Somervile. (Old Tamaki Intermediate.) I arrived there at 8:30 in the morning to prep everything like chairs and other things and I had a practice of my speech. Then other kids from all the schools in the Manaiakalani cluster arrived and we took our seats. All these vistiors from around New Zealand sat watching us. I was 3rd to present. I got up and read out my script then I played my science movie to everyone. When I finished everyone clapped and I sat down and listened to the other people when we all finished we went out side and took a photo together. When I arrived back at school my teacher wrote on the board, #PROUD TEACHER!

E- Ako Maths: Place Value.

Today I practiced my maths on a website called E ako maths. The task was in te reo maori and maths. It was a fun task and when we were asked if we wanted to stop we didn't. It was interesting because it involves place value and fractions! I loved it so much I can't wait for the next time we do it!

Current Events: Bus Strike.

Thomas and I have made this current events DLO about the bus strike that happened on February Friday the 19th to Saturday the 20th. It went on from 4am on the friday to 4am on the saturday. We researched the information we needed and we used the 5W's so it showed when it was, what it was, why it happened, where it happened, who it affected and how it happened. We wrote a point of view from both groups perspectives. For example: Group 1- Bus Drivers. Group 2- The people who use the buses.  The bus drivers did the strike to grab the public's attention so they saw their point of view.

Here are some sources we have used: LINK 1 LINK 2

LS2's Favorite Movie Category.

Daniel and I had to go round the class and ask people what their favorite movies types are! The different types were Sci- Fi, Zombie, Sports, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy, comedy,horror,murder and romance. The classes favorite type of movie is action because they love to watch guns firing and things exploding. It was a fun activity to help us with our maths.

Spellzone Spelling Game.

In class I played a spelling game called spellzone. What you do in the game is your at a spelling bee and you answer questions words that start with auto. For example: Automobile, autograph and lots more. One thing that I really like about this spelling game is that it helps you to understand what the words mean but also its fun.

Group 1's Science Experiment: Mentos And Coke.

For the past few weeks we have been doing science in groups. After we did all the experiments we had to make a movie in our groups. We used scientific language throughout the movie and we reenacted the experiment with our own props. (We used baking soda for our own effects.)

Sum Dog Maths

Today I played a maths game on the website Sumdog. The game is called snowball and it helps you to learn how many things there are and much more. You can change the equations to addition, subtraction,multiplication and lots of other equations. I like to play this game because it helps me to learn my maths in a fun way.

Sumdog Maths

Today I practiced my maths on sumdog. The game was called tower climber. The aim of the game is to answer as many questions as you can to beat the other players and if you get the answers correct you climb higher! It is fun and it helped me with my basic facts, understanding how long different things are and a lot more. The link to the website is here: Sumdog.com