Tech Reflection

This week for tech we continued Pewter work with Mr. Grundy at Tamaki College. We've all created workbooks to plan out and fill out some information about our designs for the cast. Everyone has made at least a list of 4 people that we might consider gifting our pendant too. I'm personally still finding my silhouettes, and need to choose one person that I'll be making this for.

Tech @ Tamaki College Reflection

This week Friday the year 8’s started their first session of tech at Tamaki College. This term we are working with pewter in  Mr. Grundy’s class. On our first day we looked at a few examples of some of the things we might be creating, and Mr. Grundy also showed us the process of how it is created. Then we started making up some of our own ideas for the pewter.

Activity 3: Concluding the Journey

1. Which activity did you enjoy the most? This is my favorite activity of all of them, because I really enjoy being able to reflect and talk about my amazing Journey with the programme this year.

2. Which activity did you enjoy the least? There wasn't a single activity that didn't serve a purpose or meaning. I've learnt something from each one, that took lots of effort. So I don't have an answer for this one.

3. Three things you've learnt while completing the programme? I've learnt a lot more about climate change, and what is happening to our environment. Another thing is about the current wild fires in New South Whales which is actually impacting a lot of Australia. And lastly is quality over quantity, as I focused more on my learning rather than just getting all the activities done in a day.

4. What changes/improvements you would make to the programme for next year? A update for the programme might be to create a list of names with a link to their blog, of those who have registered to the Summer Learning Journey. This would help a lot because I don't know what schools, what classes, or even what students to look at in the cluster and it's really difficult to find them by myself. A change I would make to myself is try to look at more schools out of Panmure Bridge School too.


Sadly, this concludes the Summer Learning Journey for 2019-2020. It's time to reflect on everything we've learnt, and enjoyed this year with the programme. I've had a lot of fun with other participants, and the Manaiakalni team! I absolutely loved the theme this time, and looking at change makers. And my one piece of feedback is that the website has really improved and things are easier to access and locate. Best of luck to everyone in the cluster, and I hope you have enjoyed my blog posts (-:

Blog Post Analysis Reflection

Today we updated our blog post data analysis graph for 2019. In the beginning of the year when I made the first blog post analysis graph, my goal was to reach 500 blog posts this year. I didn't achieve my goal, being at 415 counting this post. I think this is because I somewhere in the year I stopped blogging Kiwi Can, Kiwi Sport, and Tech reflections. Above are the differences between the updated version and the other version of the blog post graphs.

Gymnastic

This week Thursday we had gymnastics Kiwi Sport with Steven. We warmed up by doing our basic stretches, and playing an energiser called stuck in the mud.  Some equipment has changed, but the rotation circuits stayed the same. In the first one my group started with, there was the beam, line matt, wedge, and smaller beam for forward rolls on a flatter surface. I enjoyed trying to keep my balance on the beam, and trying to make my cartwheels straight on the blue line. The next one we moved to had the bigger wedge, the long cartwheel matt, the springboard, and the trampoline. I liked jumping on the springboard and landing on the matt, and trying to hold a cartwheel for long. The last one we went to had the bars, handstand matt/hand bars, octagonal tumbler, and the other hand bars. I found the trampoline forward dive challenging since it was nervous for me first doing it.

Kiwi Can Reflection

This week Wednesday we had our first lesson of Kiwi Sport. Our leaders are Ms. Page, and Mr Alapati. Our theme is Positive Relationships and our topic is Positive communication. First we discussed the topic and our understanding of what we will be learning. Our first activity was up, down. We had to get into a circle and when the leader said down, we had to bob our heads down but when up was said we had to look up and stare at someone. This had to show honesty and be truthful if you were out. We then went outside to play our next activities, and for the first one we needed to get into small groups of three and stand in a circle. I worked with Sakina and Florence. We each numbered ourselves off like every other group, and once a leader called out a number, that person ran around the circle. The two partners built a tunnel with their arms and body, for the runner to go through. In the middle there were only 5 hoops to stand in, but if your runner was last to get in a hoop then the group was out. The final activity for the afternoon was a trailing game. Two partners had a leader, and someone holding onto their shoulders at the back. Each pair's leader was trying to tag the other person at the back of another pair. My pair was Florence, and it was quiet hot out so we got out in the first few rounds. This game showed communication because the person at the back had to signal when someone was coming and the leader had to keep an eye out. We finished up, and said goodbye to our kiwi can leaders and headed to the fale to spend the rest of our time before going home.

LS1 Minute To Win It Mini Olympics Relflection

For the past weeks LS1 have been having a minute to win it mini Olympics. This week we had our final games in the hall. Only 6 minute to win it activities would be held there and those 7 games we would be the 7 past games we had through the weeks. The activities were - Back Flip, Bit Dicey, Stack Attack, Floatacious, This Blows, and Ready Spaghetti. Then we had to fill out a google sheets that shows who in our team would be doing which activity. Chris did back flip, I did Bit dicey, Jordan did Stack Attack, Farzana did Floatacious, Sakina did This Blows, and Chris & Farzana did Ready Spaghetti. Also in the past weeks we have been having the minute to win it mini Olympics we have chosen a Emblem, Motto, Whakatauki, Entrance song. Our entrance song was the Thunder Instrumental. I won a gold for my team, and came first in bit dicey with 43 seconds. Sakina got 23 seconds in this blows, Farzana & Chris tied with 3 other teams in Ready Spaghetti by being only 1 can within in the one minute, Jordan wasn't able to complete Stack Attack in a minute, Farzana was close but couldn't do floatacious in a minute, and lastly Chris got 6 pencils in a minute. Unfortunately I was not able to upload the video of my win of Bit Dicey but I was able to get the video of me trying to stack the dice (the camera didn't catch me winning).  I think that this terms inquiry was very fun, even though I failed at a lot of games. Inquiry this term was not only to have fun but to show the values and qualities in a person that makes a good team.