Fishing for the Future

Fishing for the Future

Each year, the amount of fish in the marine waters are rapidly decreasing in
New Zealand and you wouldn’t have expected you could be the reason why. 

The cycle begins with the hands of a stranger like you and me, and the careless
actions of letting go of your plastic waste. World wide, over half the percentage of marine
pollution is plastic, affecting hundreds of our sea-animals.

This can simply kill a sea-animal in mistake of food. Plastic takes a long time to break
down, which will be bound to affect at least a single marine-animal. Plastic pollution takes
a big hand of this, but as well as a fisher. 

There are rules that should be followed when catching fish, like it being strictly 30cm
big to take home. Too big of a fish, means it won’t be able to breed more, and too small
of a fish means it won’t grow to size and won’t be able to breed. 

Next time you go fishing, remember to…

Hold the fish with a wet towel, as their protective coating can come off using just
your bare-hands, and put the salt-water fish in salt-ice too keep it fresh for cooking
and storing when it is the right size to catch. 

So let’s fish for the future and change our ways, with open-minds for out-come.
Taking action now, will be a huge benefit in future for our fish generation.

Last week Panmure Bridge had a special visit from the Hiwi the Kiwi, and are now taking part in the fun writing competition for an exciting prize. I chose to write an Explanation, to provide facts about the important situation. Using my book as planning, I wrote ideas for my final writing. Everyone finally DRAFTed our work with a partner, deleting mistakes and unnecessary words, rearranging ideas, adding left out words/punctuation needed, fixing the sentences/structure & languages and talking about all of these with a friend which was Angela. This is my final Explanation, for everyone to read.

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Rythm Interactive's visit to PBS

This week on Tuesday, our school had a visit from Johnny again from Rhythm Interactive. Most of the seniors we're here on their first visit, where the Theme was still the same. Everyone in the hall was given a drum in front of them, and the LS2 especially was helping guide the Juniors through the act. We patted on Djeme's, following/repeating the beat Johnny played. We sang an interesting song as well, which translated to mean "Together we can make a change". This inspiring song, and wonderful play entertained everyone. As a great way to end the visit, Johnny donated 7 drums for the school! It was a fun experience doing this again, and an event everyone took part in, even teachers. Our head leaders, helped express all of our appreciation in a few words in which he greatly loved.

In 3 Days time, Nyjah and I created a design for Robotics to help Mrs. Kirkpatrick and the PBS Robotics group. Our idea was to include the Panmure Bridge logo, the EV3 Robot, and a Lego Crane to suit the lego universe field idea. It was cool to see the design come together, because at first I was really nervous to start as this was a really big job put in our hands. Nyjah and I are really happy without the out-come, and are excited to the official version, fixed by better handed artists.

Ballet w/ Chloe | Black Swan, White Swan

This week on Monday, LS2 had the opportunity to learn Ballet with dance educator, Chloe. We rehearsed the choreography of Black Swan White Swan from Swan Lake. First we warmed up to the foot-work, and hand flow exercise for the dance in groups. Slowly flapping our arms in an up and down motion, and walking across the hall. Our completed routine began with leaping from the side lines into positions and fell into a swan pose, and ended with a group ending pose. LS2 really enjoyed taking this Ballet Class, so we would like to thank Fiona for helping make this possible and also our Coach Chloe for tutoring us this amazing lesson.

Tech | Graphics w/ Mrs. Ferguson

This week Friday at tech, the year 7's began creating 4 3D game designs on paper. Mrs. Ferguson showed us her 3D game creations of Tic Tac Toe, Checkers, Tower of Hanoi, and a flexible plastic dinosaur and squid. As my ideas, I drew a Tic Tac Toe Board with the x's and o's replaced with apples and bananas. Then I drew a 5 x 5 puzzle of a fruit bowl. My third I idea I was able to get down was a connect for with small pictures on the front of the plastic circles. I am planning on doing my first idea, because I really enjoyed playing with the 3D Tic Tac Toe that Mrs. Ferguson made.

Main Idea & Details | Waltzing Matilda

In reading we looked at a Poem written by a rich and wealthy man, about the life of the poor in Australia in the 1800's. We read Waltzing Matilda, and in partners we worked collaboratively to write the main idea of the poem and the evidence and detail that proves it. Fui and I discussed the simple idea of the poem in 3 main parts. The swagman attempting to steal the sheep, the police arriving to arrest him, and the man trying to escape by a water-hole.

20 Word Summary & Picture | Waltzing Matilda

This week in reading we took a look at Australian poem written by Andrew Barton about a swag-man and his crime called Waltzing Matilda. We defined a few words in the poem that we didn't understand, and went over the meaning behind it. In partners, we made a summary of the poem by listing 20 words in the poem, then filtering it down to the 6 most important words and making a summary using those words. Then thinking about the first paragraph, we created an imaginative drawings of what it might look like as the poem had no pictures to go with the writing. I drew the Coolibah tree, the billy boil, the water-hole, and of course the man by the Coolibah tree, singing. 

Click here to view the Poem - Waltzing Matilda

Kiwi Can

This week in Kiwi Can we were focusing on motivation and what motivates us to do certain things. The first energiser we played was Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Cone. In partners, we were to compete against each other to be the first to grab the cone. One of the kiwi can leaders would say Head, Shoulders, Knees and that's where we had to put our hands. The cone was set in the middle of each two people, and they had to try to be the first to reach for the cone and successfully grab it before the other person. Next we play an activity in 3 groups. We basically played helicopter jump rope whilst passing around a ball. It was difficult trying to focus on two things at once, trying not to get hit with the skipping rope, and trying to catch the ball. Failing to do these things would've lead to an injury. I enjoyed the games we played, and we are trying to think of another catchphrase.

Collaborative Maths Vocabulary Challenge

L.I: Strengthening connections to Maths Language.

This week in Maths we completed a Maths Vocabulary challenge to help strength our maths language. As a class, we first explored the different ways of saying "Hello", looking at it in different languages and how we use the word in different situations. Then we were asked to discuss the word "plane" with a partner. Out of misunderstanding, everyone thought of it as a air-craft and not the maths meaning of it being a flat plane (surface). We worked collaboratively in pairs to drag words in their related topics being either Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Equality, Inequality, Variable, and Answer using a the explore tool and maths dictionary to find out what some words mean and trying to place each word in a section. Doing this activity will help me understand a wider range of Maths meanings when it comes to problems.

Tech | Graphics

This week Friday was tech at tamaki college. The year 7's continued with Mrs. Ferguson in Graphics, first finishing off our DLO of games that make you think. Then Mrs. Ferguson introduced us to 3 words we would be focusing on; Dimension/Size, Tone, and Oblique. 2D Shapes have 2 sizes of width, and height, and 3D shapes have the exact same +depth. We learnt how to easily make 3D Shapes, including squares, and triangles, and tried to draw it ourselves. Then we used tones to colour them. We can control the tones by the force we use to get a lighter or darker colour, and we tested this by doing 3 shades with the pencil from light, medium, and dark. We first tried it with a pencil, then used any colouring pencil making the top of the cube light, the side of the cube dark, and the front medium. I enjoyed trying to make the shapes look 3D, and using tone to help that. Today the year 7's also received their wood work creations from the last rotation. I am really happy with my bird-house, and can't wait to take it home to show my family.

Literary Devices

Click the link here to go to my DLO

This week for reading our teacher challenged us to create a poster using a google document. We had to explain the definition for Hyperbole, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, and Onomatopoeia. Using images as an example, and attributing it too. We used a table to organise the layout of the information, and we could colour the background/font/table.