Tech (Wood Work) - Continuing our Designs

This term the year 7's are continue their woodwork designs with Mr. Grundy. We have 3 weeks left to finish up our designs from last term, and take them home. I am still working on creating my bird house, and today I have started the front side of my Bird House. I still have my sides/walls to do, and the lift-able roof on the top. After completing the front of my Bird House, I will need to go to Mr. Grundy to get the hole for the entrance cut out. We also started writing what we know about How to create a design out of wood on a piece of paper. This will help to write the report cards. I really enjoy my designs, as it is an original idea and I would love to take it home.

An Agent of Change

An Agent of Change is someone who has the mentality and dedication to use every opportunity as a chance to improve and make a change in their learning. Today we created Agent of Change D.L.O's talking about how we can be agents of a change and what we will do to become agents of change.

7 Timetables Game - (Practise/Exercise)

This week in Maths we were given a Timetables Maths game to practise our 7 multiplications using our prior knowledge. The exercises were the basic times tables, to matching the answer the the multiplication, then answering the multiplications shuffled. In each of them I was able to get a 12 out of 12 and I enjoyed this way of practising them.

Click here to play - 7 times table

NZ Transportships in WW1

A troop ship/transport ship is the source of transportation used in the world wars to get to from one place to the other. After researching more about them with my group, I was very interested in finding out that the most people carried on a ship was over 6,000 people. You can take a look at the D.L.O Nyjah, Julian, Alex and I collaboratively created about them.

The 7 Continents of the World

There are 7 continents of the world, do you know what they are? Today Nyjah and I created a D.L.O about what they are and 3 interesting facts. Doing this helped us build our general knowledge about the world and helped us learn to collaborate. In only a few minutes, my partner and I were able to create an informational D.L.O helping you understand little bit more.

Kokako Bird Infographic

L.I: To recount and explore the learning and experiences from our year 7/8 camp.
Last week the year 7's and 8's had their camp at Kokako Lodge, and this week we are doing activities based around the environment and our experience there. This first activity showcases an info graphic about the Kokako bird, which is what the place was named after. We had to include information like Diet, Habitat, Appearance, and Predators. I also included 2 facts about the general bird.

50 Words Challenge (Screen Castify)

This week for writing we worked in small groups to create our own answers in 50 words exact to why Kokako Lodge is a great place to take yr 7/8 students on camp. I worked with Nyjah and Chavda and to do this listed ideas by look at our diaries, camp photos, LS2 writing rubric, and outside the box. We were also challenged to use these language features - simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, a comma, correct beginning and end sentence punctuation, an exclamation mark, a simple, and brackets. Using any of them would earn us 5 points for one. After completing our 50 words, we had a total of 90 points. We also made a screen castify about this, and you can watch it above.