Buddy reading with Room 4 and 3

Today in LS2 we had some children from room 4 and 3 come up to our class. As they entered our classroom, our teacher ordered us to pick a buddy to read with. Ma'ata and I went with a little girl from room 3. We read her a book called "Just a Bush". She was a very good reader. It was a really good way to help them read.

PBS Character Parade

Today our school had a great Book Character Parade. What is a Character Parade you ask? Well, it is sort of when you dress like a character from a book. It can even be one of your favourite books. One of our teachers, Ms Maude, was the organizer of this years Character Parade. The purpose of this event was to bring books alive for the younger students and juniors. I dressed up as a witch from a book called The Worst Witch. My friend also joined me and came as a cat. I thought everybody had a fantastic time.

advertising and their language features

Today our teacher gave us a task to explain what advertising is, their purpose, and what language features they used. As a group, we read and searched up what advertising was. But first our teacher gave us a dictation challenge. We were given a piece of paper to stick on the window. Then when the teacher said 'Go', one person had to read the paper, the other person had to tell the writer what the words were, and lastly the writer had to write as quick as possible. Later on our teacher gave us another challenge which was to write down what advertising meant, it's  purpose, and what language features they use (as seen above).

Attributes and Images - Charlize and Jessie

Today we were learning how and why we attribute our photos. We attribute our photos to show thanks to the person who took the photo. Attributing photos is also quite easy to do, except when you have to get the authors name, license, and website.First we  clicked on search tools then went to Usage Rights then we clicked on labeled  for use. after did that we went to go and visit the site. When we finished on the site  we had to find the person who put it up on images and  the license.

Adding decimals

Today I have made a DLO on how to add decimal fractions. Our learning intention was adding with decimal fractions. This also gives tips on what to do when you add decimals together. Like to add the tenths first, then you add the ones. But make sure the decimal points are in line.

Ruapotaka blog commenting

Today we have been posting blog comments on some of Ruapotaka School's blog.  I chose three blogs and commented on them. The work that these people did was really good. Their posts are very good. 

Leadership Talk

Yesterday we had a lady called Lynne Le Gros from Spark, came in our school teaching us about leadership.

Why was she talking about leadership? Well, one of the reasons why is because it was leadership week. And who better to talk about on leadership day, than Sir Peter Blake. If you don't know who that is, he was a sailor who won in the 1989 to 1997 race around the world. He had the fastest time, so he made New Zealand very proud. Sadly, one day his ship was attacked by pirates and was murdered. So he is a great example of leadership because he believed in himself. After her speech on Sir Peter Blake, she gave aus a piece of paper and told us to right down who we look up to as a role model and why. After that she gave us a card (picture above) to write down what we wanted to be when we got older and what our dream for NZ would be. Lastly, we received some gifts from Lynne.

Last day of orienteering

Today was our last day this term for orienteering. We all had lots fun. Today we had to find 22 controls around the whole school. I am not sure what place I came but I think my time was 12 minutes.

Life Education booklets

Today all the year 8's this afternoon have been doing our life education booklets. Our booklet talks about making decision, whether it would be a good or bad one. It also talks about our organs in our body and how they work. Did you know our feelings connect not just to our brain but also our heart? When we make decisions, our brain sends messages to different parts of our body. When we wave hello to somebody, the brain sends a message to the hand saying to move up and wave from side to side. Our brain is just fascinating like that. I still have not read this whole book yet.

Map challenges

Today for reading I played called Deduction. It is a map game where you will be asked follow the instructions to get to a certain place. I got 100 % for all the map challenges I finished. 

Our talk on Get Wise

  

Today we had a inspiring man called Jeremy to talk to us about GetWise. His talk on GetWise was how we could be better at saving money. For example, we could get a bank account. A bank account can be really useful to put all your money in. If you keep on putting money in your bank, you can receive interest. Interest is extra money the banks awards you for saving your money in your bank. He has a saying that goes " Spend Some On you, Save Some Too". 

He also talked to us about what we can do to get some money. Like doing chores, selling and trading, garage sales, and even doing jobs for your neighbour. Then, as you get older, you can start working in places like fast food places ( KFC, McDonalds, Fish n Chip, ect), in a supermarket, a waiter or waitress, and more. When you do jobs like these, always do your very best. People are watching you all the time, even if you don't know it. You never know if the manager might get you to do something even BETTER.

But there was a really important topic he talked about was "Cross Roads". This means you can choose the "easy" road, or the "hard" road. You come across a whole lot of cross roads in your life. For example, if your friend tells you to steal something from the shop, the easy road would be doing it. The hard road would be saying NO.

These lessons Jeremy was teaching were very inspirational, motivational, and awesome. He is a very nice and funny guy. He made his speech about GetWise really fun. I really liked his stories he told about how he use to work at the supermarket. It really show he is passionate about all his things he talked about. He did a great job.

Deduction - Trapped!

Today for reading I have been playing this game called Deduction. This gave is very good for 7 to 11 year old people with their reading. In this game, you have to read a passage sort of like the passage above. Then, you will be asked questions like "What was the text about?" You would have to move two cyder blocks into the right section. The one you think is correct has to go into the one with the light glowing. If you have moved these two blocks, but they don't work, it is probably because they are in the wrong sections. So just move them around again. The purpose of this game is to work on our deductive reasoning skills (deducting means to conclude a fact by reasoning).

Washington and Jim

Today we went on this website called Story Starters. You first go on scrambler, where you type your name and writing level. Then the scrambler gives you a topic to write about for your story. Then it will ask what you would want to write on (newspaper, notebook, postcard, letter). When you have chosen one, you start writing your story and drawing you picture. My story was on about a depressed president who rode a sloth to work. The point of us doing this activity was to practice our writing.

Life Education

Today we had our first session at the Life Education bus (the Harold bus). Nicole was teaching us about our body systems and which part of the brain holds our emotions. We were also talking about our nerves/reactions, circulatory (to do with our blood), and our muscles. In this picture, Nicole is showing us on her screen the heart. We would talking about how come our heart looks like this and not a love heart like we see in emoji's and stuff. Then we also talked about how our emotions connect not just to our brain, but our heart too.