Armistice Commemoration Day

Today as a celebration the whole of Panmure Bridge School gathered together for the remembrance of the Armistice Commemoration. We had a representative from the New Zealand Defence Force that joined us. We also had 3 members of our school's board of trustees join us too. This day was a day for our school to gather together and mark the day of the Armistice Day. We celebrated this event by creating poppies. The Armistice Day represented those countries who signed a paper in order to stop the battle. In this event 3 of our school leaders, Mr Johnston, and Ms Kirkpatrick spoke for this event. First of all Ofa started off by saying the prayer. Then Tiava and Jeremiah said the Ode that was translated in Maori and English. During this event Ms Kirkpatrick read a poem based on this Armistice Commemoration. After that the whole school was to stand up and face the flag in silence as it was coming down. Before this event had started each class placed their poppies on the cross. Throughout this event happening 2 students from each class were to stand up and place their huge poppies onto the fence. Jack and I were the students from our class that stood up and placed the poppies onto the fence. At the back of these poppies we wrote our names on it. After this ended the representative from the New Zealand Defence Force came and talked to us.

Armistice Day

Today as a remembrance LS2 created collages based on Armistice Day. For this task we were to create a collage by including images of the Armistice Day. At the same time we learnt about Armistice Day. Did you know that is was signed on the 11th of November 1918. I also created a google drawing based on Armistice Day. This google drawing had silhouette photos of some soldiers that I drew. To complete this task we were to draw a image based on Armistice Day. Savelina and I decided to draw several of images to present this day. Did you know that Germany was forced to $35 billion for the cause of damage?

Tech Reflection

Today for tech was our third session of Tech. Today our teacher was Ms Ferguson. Today we did something a bit different. Today's task was set on a piece of paper using a pair of compass, ruler, and a pencil. For this task we were to draw one of the followings: flower, cube, or a star. I decided to draw a flower, because it was easier for me to draw, since Ms Ferguson drew it. Drawing this helped us practise how to use a compass. The shapes that I used to draw my flower was circles. After drawing our flower we were to colour it in by using colouring felts, or colouring pencils. 

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi Can was our third session of Term 4. Our teachers were Ms Paige and Mr Matt. Going to Kiwi Can helps us develop our key value skills. Our theme for this term is respect. Respect means treating others the way you want to be treated. Showing respect is one of the values at our school. This means that everyone is to show respect to all teachers. Today at Kiwi Can we talked about rules. At Panmure Bridge School we have rules. One of them is wearing the correct school uniform. Today our group was given a question to answer. The question was if you were to change on of the school rules what would it be. Most people said that we should be able to wear mufti to school. Having rules at our school is great, because it tells other schools that we can follow rules that we are given to follow. 

Kiwisport

Today was our second session of boxing with Pax. Today we did the same thing as we did last week. This meant that last week we learnt how to jab and cross by pivoting our back leg. Today we learnt how to uppercut left and right, and hook left and right. We also learnt how to move our legs when we made our punch. When we were to uppercut left and right we were to move our body, so that we had added more power into it. When we were to hook left and right we were to more our too. When making a move with our legs we were to put one leg at the front and the other at back then we either moved forward or backwards. 

Collaborative Comprehension - Battle of the Somme

This week we have been completing different types of collaborative comprehension tasks. These tasks were set by Mrs Anderson to help us on our comprehension tests. One of the tasks that we completed was called the Battle of the Somme. During this activity we found some questions hard, but we were able to skim and scan for the correct words. This text was based on the World War 1 battle. For this task we were to read the text carefully and then answer the questions using our evidence. This was great, because not only did everyone have their answers, but they had evidence to back up their opinions. This week I worked with Avalon to finish this comprehension task. This weeks activity was all about inquiry. 

Basic Facts Boxes

This week for math's Mrs Anderson's math's group did the same thing as last week. We were to complete one of the revision challenges that were set to complete. I decided to complete 2 revision challenges. I completed the basic facts boxes and the math's addition and division problems. Last week I completed the addition box up to 20, but this week I completed the subtraction box up to 20. Answering these questions were helpful, because not only did I get all of them correct, but I got the chance to use different strategy's throughout our math's sessions.