Venn Diagram

L.I To make/create a Venn Diagram about our inquiry topic. We made this Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two main navigators who found New Zealand. My group did five differences and 3 similarities.

Summer Learning Journey Assembly

Last we had our SLJ assembly for 2020. About 80 people registered an about 60 people participated in the SLJ. The SLJ was fun we got certificates and a chocolate. some people for the Summer Learning Journey came to talk about how we did for the SLJ.

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we were learning about fairness and fairplay, But first we played the energizer it was called pushup challenge. In this game we got into pairs and sat opposite each other. We were to try to get the cone first in the practice round. Then we did the competition rounds. After that we talked about giving things a go. we carried on to the activity called 1v1. We got into partners and we had to show our partner drama acts.

Tech

This week for tech we had our second lesson with Mr Grundy. Most of the year 8's were finished what we did last week for the four people we were designing them for. We did 16 ideas 4 silhouettes for four different people. If we thought that we had 16 proper ideas, we wrote our name on the board, and Mr Grundy checked our work.

TOW collaborative summary

For reading we read a text about the history of Waitangi. We read the text and we created a DLO about the text. We chose 20 important words about the topic and chose 6 of them for the most important words. After that we used those 6 words to create a small paragraph or summary. This activity was cool and interesting to learn about.

KiwiCan

For kiwi can last week our theme is Positive relationship. We talked about Courtesy means to have manners, be kind to each other and be polite. Then we moved into the energiser, and we played change places. Then for our Activity we had to do some acting about something negative and positive.

Tech

Last week for tech we started the year of with Mr.Grundy (Metal Working). We all started with an introduction on who our teacher was. He set up some rules to keep us aware of things and safety. We were by learning the types of material we were using. Then we looked at the types of shapes we could make. We then came up with 4 ideas each for 4 people we would give the end design to. Then we looked at the types of shapes we could make. We then came up with 4 ideas each for 4 people we would give the idea of what we could make. We only came as far as finding shapes and ideas for people. Next session we will be choosing a shape and focusing on how we could cut it out and what to do with it.

Why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines - Explanation

LI: To collaboratively structure and write an explanation.

Why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines?

Did you know, each year over 1 million marine mammals are suffering due to the plastic we are wasting? This is not okay! These marine mammals have been suffering from plastic, whether they mistake plastic for food, or even get captured in it, which makes them not able to digest. Plastic has a large effect towards our marine mammals. Plastic is a large, serious issue in our environment! Would you like it if your favourite beach was filled with plastic?

According to ecotricity, scientists have estimated that about 8 million tonnes of plastic have ended up in our oceans every year. The number of plastic waste ending up in oceans could decrease up to a higher number, unless we do something about it! The majority of plastic that lies on the ground ends up in drains, which then leads to our oceans, lakes and rivers. There are New Zealanders out there who have access to facilities for plastic, but why aren’t we doing any better for our environment?

Did you know that plastic takes about 1,000 years just to biodegrade! Plastic doesn’t actually fully degrade, it only disintegrates into smaller particles. About 252,000 tons of plastic are also headed into our landfills every year. A project “Love Your Coast” is one of the projects that are acting now to help have a healthier and cleaner future. Love Your Coast has organised groups of people from around New Zealand to help clean up our oceans and beaches, so our next few generations could be better.

We should act now, so we could have a cleaner future and environment. You could save the lives of marine mammals, by picking up at least a few pieces of rubbish!

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This week for our writing we wrote an explanation about plastic pollution. Plastic pollution in and around our waterways has become a real problem. Each year the rubbish when it drops it goes down into the drain and heads to the rivers, but it goes into the beaches, and the marine mammals eat it.

Kiwi Sport reflection - Cricket

This week we had our first session of our Kiwi Sport for 2020. The name of our coach that we have is Brian, and he is from the HPPC. There were two different things we did, and first was batting so groups of four or five and someone all the batters hit balls then fielding team ran to the field after the last ball was hit. Batters ran back and forth, and they counted their runs. The fielders had to get all the balls back to where they were hit the highest was 20. The second one was bowling we had to hit the wicket with the ball. and put the cones in the wicket.

Thinking Teams

Today in Maths we worked in our thinking teams to find out the value of our team name. My group was the TAKE-AWAYS. to do this activtity we used addition stragies and our place value knowledge. In the second activity we worked in our group to put the population numbers from different countries. We collaborated and used our problem solving skills.

National Current Events

This week we were learn about Current Events. For this activity we had links to four different news sites. from each news article we read, we had to go onto google maps, and locate where these events were happening . We also had to figure out if these news article's: Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone famous or important, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something Negative, Continuity, Emotions, Progress.