Romeo & Juliet Scene | Pop-sickle Stick Act

This week for Writing we have been looking at one of Shakespeare's many popular plays, Romeo & Juliet. After watching a video on YouTube of a summary of the play, we chose a scene and got into groups. Working with Florence, and Nidhi, we decided to create a different DLO from every one else. We needed printing and a few Pop-sickle sticks to put together our Pop-sickle stick act. We used an ipad to record and then voice recorded the script. 

Personification - Perspective of Shoes

Today for writing we looked at one of the figures of speech; personification. This is giving a non-living thing a human ability/quality. And we explored different ways of using it. Like "the clock watched over us".  Then we went away in partners using the idea of the perspective of shoes as our writing subject. My partner Florence and I, used the 5 senses to express the detail in our perspective. After everyone finishing in less then 10 minutes we shared them. It was challenging because we couldn't communicate to our partner either, and we had to sit facing back to back. Our strategy was to write on separate lines to get our ideas out and put them together so it made sense.

The Vile Victorians (Horrible Histories) | Presentation + Kahoot

For reading we explored Horrible History books and created interactive presentations to showcase our learning in-front of the class. My partner, Florence, and I read "The Vile Victorians". We specifically looked at the child labor and schooling pages because that really interested us. We were inspired to create a Kahoot quiz using the same questions, answers, and information from the book. The point was to guess the punishment fit for the school crime. What I discovered was how in the Victorian time, it was normal for teachers to physically punish their students. 

Transformations

This week for Maths, we created a poster to remind us about the 5 different types of transformations that we looked at. These were translation, enlargement, reflection, rotation and symmetry. We created our own shapes and objects using only 3 shapes. Using triangle and 2 rectangles, I made a rocket. Can you match the shown changes with their written value?

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2019

This year was the 12th film festival for all the schools in the manaiakalani cluster, to come together and watch a few of the selected films. One of my favourite movies to watch was from Tamaki College about re-making a broken rocket because it was funny and impressive. On the way there and back, LS2 looked after a junior from room 6 or room 7. Mine was Aaliyah. This year our LS2 movie was a skit about fruit and milk. Everyone including me, really enjoyed watching some the movies.

Foodprint Visit

This week, the creator of "Foodprint"; a growing app to save a surplus of wasted food and also a close friend of Mr. Ogilvie, visited us to talk about her business and her idea. Michal Garvey introduced us to the realisation of the overproduced amount of food we have compared to what we actually need. She  created this app with hard work and preparation, and dedication to act upon this. "Foodprint", currently only in New Zealand is giving stores and people more opportunity by servicing the food that could've been wasted.

The Gunpowder Treason Plot | Guy Fawkes Day

Today on the 5th of November, is Guy Fawkes day. You might celebrate this by lighting fireworks or going out, but do you know why we have it? This celebration became from the Gunpowder treason plot in 1605. When Guy Fawkes and 13 other plotters attempted to assassinate the King James and parliament. I created this presentation with Florence about the story behind it. Find out what Guy Fawkes day is, the Gunpowder Treason Plot, who was involved in the assassination, and why guy fawkes and the 13 plotters did it. Remember, stay safe on Guy Fawkes!

Stand Up - A History of Protest in New Zealand

This week in reading, Waiheke group read a book about some of New Zealand's most historical protests. This book was called "Stand Up - A History of Protest in New Zealand".  During reciprocal reading, we made a list of vocabulary, questions, and predictions. The task was to complete a literacy weaving from everyone making their own strip and using two words each from the book. I chose Protest Signs and The Depression Riots. Our summary above made up of two example protests in the book, shows how the people protested and why. What is protesting? It is expressing your opinion on a cause using signs, banners, marches, etc.

Robotics (Tech) | Tamaki College

Last week Friday we continued robotics with Mr. Keishnier by controlling our robots to move. We've already began making our robots move around, and we have been controlling them to go in a certain path or pattern. Like following the lines of a square,  rectangle, and triangle. Last week we made our robots move in circles, and tried making them move in a figure of eight which was very difficult. With all the tasks we complete, we took photos of the steps on mblock and take a video.