Athletics

Today Panmure Bridge School participated in the athletics day. Athletics is when you do a bunch of field activities with your class. There were 4 house colours. They were red, blue, yellow, and green. There were 9 field events. They were rob the nest, hurdle and sponge relay, shot pot, discus, lifesaver, egg and spoon race, rest/dance station, long jump, and the Frisbee race. My house group was red. In my group I had Jeremiah, Harlem, Chavda, and Junior. We all enjoyed the activities that we participated in. We had students from Tamaki College to help us with the activities. My favourite activity was the hurdle and sponge relay, because I liked it how I got wet. The last field event that we did was sprints. Each year group had a different meter mark to run from. Overall I came 2nd for the year 7 girls. 

Read Theory Progression

Today as an activity LS2 created read theory bar graphs. First we needed to find 3 grade levels that we progressed during February, July, and November. I first started on grade 3 and then I moved up to grade 5. I am currently on grade 6 moving up to grade 7. Read theory is a helpful site, because it helps develop peoples reading knowledge and language. 

Myths and Facts - Wolves

This week at Panmure Bridge is book week. Book week is when we do activities to help us develop our reading skills. Last time we created a DLO based on information about Meerkats. After creating the Meerkats DLO Mrs Anderson read another book. It was called Wolves. This book was illustrated and written by Emily Gravett. After Mrs Anderson read it to us we were to make a T chart. This T chart included myths and facts. A myth is something you know and a fact is something true. For this task we were to write down we we knew and what we learnt. One of the myths that I already knew was that wolves are types of dogs, because both can reproduce a dog or wolf. 

Meerkats

This week at Panmure Bridge is book week. Last time we created a bar graph based on our reading questions that we got asked. After creating the bar graph Mrs Anderson read one of her favourite childhood books to us. It was called Meerkat Mail. This book was illustrated and written by Emily Gravett. After listening to this book we were to create a DLO that explained facts and information about Meerkats. Above shows the DLO that I created on my own. 

Bar Graph - Do Illustrations matter? Why

   

This week Panmure Bridge School had a book week. A book week is when we do activities that reflect back to information based on books. Today LS2 did a bus stop challenge. A bus stop challenge is when a group of people answers the question in about 1-2 minutes. Before doing this we were to get into groups. One we were in our groups we were to start writing as many answers as we could. One of the questions that we answered was do Illustrations matter? Why. Every group was to write on every paper. There were a lot of answers as we counted. After this happened we were to choose one of the questions and create a bar graph based on our chosen question. Marieta and I chose this question, but we created our own graphs. The amount of yeses that we found were 18, and the amount of no's that we found were 2. One of the answers were yes, because it makes the book more appealing and no, because a good book should be able to make you imagine.

World War 1 Questions

Today Marieta and I created a DLO based on our questions of World War 1. For this task we were to create a DLO that included information about our question and images about our question. Before we started creating this DLO we were to note down questions about World War 1. After that we were to choose one of the questions and talk about it. Marieta and I decided to answer the questions what was the food like in World War 1. Marieta and I used our researching skills to find helpful websites that helped us find information about based on our question. Did you know that during this event families sent parcel to their husbands, sons, and brothers?

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.