Water Filters

This term for inquiry we have been focusing on STEAM. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. We have been completing a number of activites to do with STEAM. One of my favourite one's was creating catapults and firing them at a target. For the past few weeks, LS2 have been talking about the amount of water that the world has used. For the activty this week, we were asked to create water filters, by using water bottles. Our goal was to transform dirty water into clean water. Above Nyjah and I have created a DLO explaning what we did to make these, especially the materials that we used. 

RWC 2019 Backpack

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of RWC activties to support this event that is going on around the World. We have been learning, to identify persuasive langauge features in advertising. Above shows the advertisment poster that Marieta and I created about the merchhandise that we chose to sell from the RWC shopping online site. We either chose to sell the hover bike/ a RWC merchandise.Marieta and I decided to sell the Canterbury backpack. 

Rugby Pitch Problem Solving

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held this year in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of activites based on the Rugby World Cup. Today we worked out the measurments of a Rugby Pitch. Angela, Marieta and I worked collabrtively together to work out the maths questions. The strategy that we used the most was the Place Value colunms, because it helped us  through everything, especially when using the long multiplication strategy.Above shows a DLO of our favourite world problem/strategy. Feel free to comment down below your answers. 

Question: 
A rugby pitch has an area of 5400m2. What could the dimension of the filed be?

2019 Rugby World Cup Stadium Capacity

Since the Rugby World Cup is being held this year in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of activites based on the Rugby World Cup. Marieta, Sakina and I worked collabrtively together to work out the maths questions. We worked out the answers, using different stragities and at the end, we would found the best/easiest strategy to use. Above, shows the DLO that my group and I created, using one of  our favourite maths questions. We have also showed how we worked it out and why.

Question: 
Tokyo Stadium is only 3/4 filled. How many people attended the match? 

Te Wiki Te Reo Maori

Since this week is Maori Language week LS2 have been completing a number of activites to include the language of Maori. Above shows the activity that I completed on my own. It shows the national anthem, colours, numbers and phrases in both English and Maori. Did you know that each Maori tattoo has a meaning behind it and that Maori is one of the youngest cultres?

My Favourite Cultral Celebration

'Let me tell you about… the Heilala Festival that I celebrate. This is one of Tongan's most important festivals ever, because it is also known as the King's birthday (King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV). We celebrate this event, by creating, items, performances, clothes and many more. 

Every year, we have young contestants who showcase their talents through beauty and knowledge. People in the villages usually parade around the city  just to show their love and support . This year Yehenara from Hawaii was crowned as Miss Heilala, 2019. Island creations and colourful sarongs are showcased on a specific night, during the 2019 Miss Heilala Pageant, at the Queen Salote Memorial Hall. This year it began on July 22nd, 2019.

This takes place in Tonga, Nukualofa. Each contestant showcases their own performances that retell the story of their lifetime. Most of them usually present a tauolunga, which is a traditional dance that Tongan's do when a special event has taken place.  LI: To understand how and when to use commas. We use commas when: we write a list, seperate dialogue, before any FANBOYS, a city/suburb, date/year, introductory words and a rest in a sentence ( complex sentence/join ideas). Today our challenge was to write about our favourite cultral celebration using 5 - 7 - 10. 5 minutes to write, 7 minutes to share/edit with a buddy and 10 minutes to continue writing.

Exploring International current events

Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening around the world. We thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Marieta and I worked collabritively together to find articles that realted to these groups. The most interesting article that we found out was,74 year old lady gives brith to twins to set world record, which took place in India. 

Duffy Assembly

Today Panmure Bridge School held a duffy assembly. Today we received a special visit from Jamie Wall, who is a sports commentator. Tomorrow he will be heading down Japan for the world cup to report the rugby for Maori Television. He is also known as a author, since he wrote and published a book called Brother in Black. His book is rated the best selling in New Zealand. He was inspired by the book Men in Black, NZ rugby history. Did you know that he was asked a bunch of questions and more interesting he got all of them right, which made him get into this job. At the end of assembly each class was presented with their duffy books, by Mr Johnston and Jamie Wall. A huge thank you to Jamie Wall for coming and sharing his amazing story about his inspiration for books. Stay safe and most importantly have fun!

William Shakespeare

This week LS2 have been learning about William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare writes English poet, playwright and actor. He is famous for the stories he tells us about. Did you know that William Shakespeare created 6000 words that we use today. This DLO talks about William Shakespeare and the story Macbeth. Macbeth is about when a Macbeth killed the King just because he wanted to be King.

Exploring our national current events

Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. Most of the articles that Marieta and I read happened in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Together our favourite article was the new Wellington sculpture showing a large hand balanced on two fingers, with a human face on the palm. 

Provocation and Opinion

A provocation is an action or speech that trigers trong felings about a topic. Curently a major supermarket chain annoucned it wil no longer sell energy drinks to people under the age of 16. My opinion is recorded in my DLO that shows both perspectives. What is your opinion and why? Leave a comment down below for your answer. 

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Have you ever woken up to a day, thinking about the wider world? or ever thought about the feeling of a marine animal? Well today I am here to tell you a number of reasons as to why plastic straws should come to an end. You may of heard about this how many times, which can be boring, but there is more behind this problem. Straws can be useful to us in many different ways, but think about it, our sea animals who have no voice at all have the chance of suffering day by day.

Have you ever been to McDonalds, Burger King, Burgerfuel, or whatever you call it, and ordered a LARGE cup of your choice? Well I I have, but then you end up receiving a straw with it? If you were a person like me, I'd just open the lid, drink from it, and end up leaving the straw on it's own. As soon as I get home I either leave it on the floor without mum knowing, or just leave it lying in the bin.This poor straw has the chance of enjoying 500 years of life in the landfill/ or even worse in our oceans.

According to scientists, the amount of 65,000 plastic straws have been found on beaches from the last 10 years. I mean, what do people do with these straws? Even more shocking, straws have chemicals in it, which can cause a lot of problems. How would you feel if one of your family members went through this horrible situation? What would you do? I know right even more shocking than you thought! According to Getgreenow.co.nz there was a video showing a group of people removing a plastic straw from a sea turtles airway? Poor helpless turtles have to go through this every year, because of our shameless actions! How would you feel if this was you?

This is why our animals are dying! Each and everyone of us have at least thrown a straw away after one use, right? Most people act like it had been the straws fault, but since when did we have straws with feet on them? The problem is OUR actions! If we had taken more responsibility, believe me or not the statistics would've been lower than 65,000! Losing an animal is exactly the same as losing a family member.