Tamaki College Tech

This week at Tech for graphic design's we continue to try and finish our layout of our game so we can soon use the 3D Printer to print out what we need for the game. After that we got to make a moon on tinkerpad.com which is the website you use to print out your games. But we used it to practice and learn how to use it. So first when we started making the moon we had a shape of a cylinder we made the width larger and the height taller so we can copy the shape and then group them together then it should get rid of half of the shape then it will make it look like a moon. Then we started by making two circles that are the same height and width then in the middle of both of them would be a square but the same size as well. If you group them then it would make it look like a pill then we would copy it and make it a little smaller then group them then there should be a hole in the middle. Then we added the first letter of our first names and last names. Then we got to make our teacher it was fun cause we were starting on the website so it might look bad like mine, Now we are used to using the website cause of the practice we had also our teacher said whoever has the best looking one gets there one printed. Tech was actually fun and educational. 

HIIT

So this week we had no kiwi sport so our PE teacher called our class to come and do HIIT. So we were working on our body strength. So we started off my doing boxing we had our right arm on our cheek and with our left arm we had to try and touch each others shoulders if we did touch there shoulders then they had to do a burpee our a press up. Then we wore our heart rate monitors and we were working on our strength to make our heart rate come up. We did pull ups and most of the pull ups I did boosted my energy up. Then we did press up's and then mountain climbers. Then we had to get into a circle and we had to follow the pattern of the song which was called Bring Sally up and we did squats well following the pattern and we had to try and make people finish the song with out stopping.

Math's game//Number Challanges

So this week we got to make our on maths game. So since it's nearly the end of term 2 we decide to gather up all our prior knowledge and make a maths game about different strategy's we did this term. So I decided to make a basic facts maths game so more people can get fluent with there basic facts. It was hard making a maths game because we had to link the right stuff to each other. So after I finished my game I added characters that I made and made it into a GIF. Then we would put it on the correct answer slide or the wrong answer slides. After that I let a few people play my game but my feedback was that my questions were to hard if you want to make people fluent with there basic facts. I didn't get time to fix it. Then we presented our maths games to the whole class and I also got the same feed back so I fixed my maths game and made it better. I felt such a relief to finally finish my game 

Rhythm Interative's vist to PBS

This week the whole school was visited by Rhythm Interactive. We had a instructor and his name was Johnny he played a beat on the Djembe and we would copy him. He also said that if you can say you can drum it. If you are wondering what a Djembe is its African drums. So Johnny started by just playing beats on the Djembe and we would copy the beat but then we listen to the pattern and the rhythm of the beat then we would do it in steps and it made us know how to play the beat off our her hearts. My class helped new students to our school play the Djembe because some of them were nervous. I enjoyed it at the show because it helped learn something new and it was fun. 

Rhythm Interative's website

Tech//Graphic Design

This week at tech the year 7 group were working on choosing a game we can play on paper and turning it into a 3D game but before that we got into groups of 3 people or 2. So we had to think of how we can turn it into a 3D game. The game we started to focus on was hangman my group decided just to use Lego blocks to build the structure and so it was easy to build it. Our first idea was to to curve out a wooden person and wooden hook and us strings to pull the person up but we thought that it might be to complex. We also had two games but we would be working on the other game next week.

Kiwi Can//Reflection

This week for kiwi can our topic was integrity and our theme was responsibility. So first up we got into five lines then we started talking about what we do at school that is responsibility. Then we got to play a game and in the game we had a partner and there was a cone in the middle of us and our kiwi can teachers say to touch your heads,knees and toes then you could try and grab the cone before your partner. It was fun because we got to work on our body movement. Then we started talking about our topic and theme it felt good to know that I was showing responsibility at school. Then we played another game which was more fun cause we had to try and focus on the ball and jumping over the skipping rope at the same time who ever missed catching the ball went into the middle and had to swing the rope around but carefully cause it might cause injuries. I had fun at kiwi can.

Kiwi Sport//Gymnastics

This term for kiwi sport we had gymnastics. Our coach's name was Steve and he taught us to not be afraid and give a shot of everything. So my group started by jumping on a trampoline and do a forward roll on the mat I tried it and it was fun our coach didn't recommend doing a flip but just roll. Then we got into the next station and on that station we had to do a handstand on the wall and also pull your self up on a bar it was hard for me I couldn't properly do all of the activity's but I gave all of them a try. Then on our last station we had to balance on the beam and jump in the middle of it and still balance. Then we had to do a cartwheel then we had to forward roll down the mat.

Who am I??

This term for tech we changed groups to do different things in tech. My group is in a graphic class now and this was our first task. So first we made a google drawing then we uploaded images of characters we like and music we like. I added a lot of songs from my favourite rapper. I added anime character and brands and also video games. 

Vostok 1

This week for Reading l was working with Miiana, Matthew,Avalon and Te Pounamu we created a Animation about the story of how Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space. We went to the stardome last week and saw a display about Yuri Gagarin and decided to use our digital creating skills to make an animation. We first planned it out on a paper using the s chart. This showed us the order of how he went into space, where he was from and what type of rocket he went on. Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Cosmonaut. People called him a hero and a town was named after him and they even made a stamp of his face. He became very famous. When we were making our plan we were using our skimming and scanning skills to help us know the order of the event in the story.

My favourite part was making the rocket drawing. Also we used every bit of time usefully to find info and to confirm our information. Another favourite part was hearing what Gagarin said after orbiting the earth. The quote is from 1961 but i still believe it is true today. We should all be cooperating with each other not fighting.

“Looking at the earth from afar you realise it is too small for conflict and just big enough for cooperation”.

Kiwi Can

This term's topic at Kiwi Can is Integrity. The definition of Integrity is to be responsible even though no ones looking. I learned at kiwi can to own up to the right things and also tell the truth our it would cause more problems. I understood more as I was at Kiwi Can about Integrity and Honesty.  We also got to play a Role play game. We each had to get into groups and also each group got a object. My group had a wallet we never knew the object the other groups had but our group got a Idea to show honesty. Our Role play was about showing honesty about who's wallet it is and give it to the rightful owner. One of the groups had a ball as there object because they had to represent owning up to the right thing. I felt great that I was learning more about Integrity and Honesty. 

Sputnik 1,2,3//The Space Race

Today My reading group were reading a book called space race. The space race book is about the soviet union launching the first satellite before USA. The book was very interesting because I learned more words like flopnik and sputnik. Sputnik means Traveller in Russian and Flopnik means failed traveller in Russian. The first satellite that soviet union launch was called sputnik 1 and many more satellite that were launch by the soviet union. The satellites were Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2 and Sputnik 3. My group then created a slide about those three satellites we all worked and different things some of us work together to write down stuff like timeline and explanation. I was writing about Sputnik 3 and did you know that it was 23 inches but weighted 184 pounds. Then we presented it as a group to each other and our teacher and we got some positive feedback. We needed to work on some stuff but I believe we surprised her.

Tech

This week for tech I was up to sawing my wood plank. So our teacher Mr Grundy had a white board list when we don't know what to do then we write our name on the board and he will call your name and come to you and help you. Without the process I wouldn't understand what to do. So I was suppose to make a joint and I am almost finish doing it I just need to clear a hole that my plank can fit in. After that we got to play a game it include small sticks and the last person with the last stick is out. If we win against Mr Grundy we win a handful of M&Ms.

Agent of Change

Today my task was to create a google drawing about my learning goals and my agent of change. Agent of change is someone that changes a problem into a changing opportunities. One of my learning goals was to become a student leader and set a example to the kids. I also want to be confident enough to share my ideas with my group even when I think it's wrong. 

WW1 Transporter Ship

This week me Matthew, Joel and Nidhi worked together creating this DLO. This DLO tells us about the troopship or transport ship that was used in World War one. While reaching about these information we have found out a lot of interesting facts. All of us worked collaboratively to gathering these information. Making this DLO was a lot of fun and we have learnt a lot of things.

7 Continents Facts

Did you know that south America is the 4th largest continent. With our partners We learnt about the 7 continents in the world and the placing of each continent of how large each is. learning about different continents surprised us because of these fact that we did not know, but as we didn't know about different facts we still knew about our own facts that we know about the 7 continents.

Collage//Camp//Kokako Lodge

This week our task was to create a collage of what we did at camp. So we added photos of what we did each day on day one we went hiking I didn't find it fun because I was so tired. On day two it was our first rotation task and I started by doing archery then our next task was kayaking and it was fun it was my favorite task that whole day. Then we had Raft building it was amazing and hope we can do it again. On day three I did high ropes and I was so scared when I got on the beam but I mange to do it so I was proud of my self then we did and then we did two more activity which were really fun then we did pancake race in our groups which were fun and yummy. Then we had our camp concert it was the best night we spent at camp I was in the baby shark group which we did the the baby shark and it was fun and funny. Then the next day we got to choose what to put in our sandwich for lunch. After we packed our stuff we got on the bus and went swimming and it was fun we had lunch there and our sandwiches were yum. Then we went to school and waited for our parents to pick us up and my mum was happy to see me.

Kokako Lodge//Siri

 

Today, we have been given a challenge for writing by our teacher Mrs Anderson. Our challenge was to write in exactly 50 words, a response that Siri (An automated program on Apple devices) would give us if we asked it "Why Kokako Lodge is the greatest place to take year 7 and 8's on camp?" Although Mrs Anderson wanted to make this more of a challenge. So what we could do is gain points by using different Language features that would give us 5 points each. If every feature was used, then you could gain a total of 40 points. Although for another 5 points, you needed to make sure that everyone in your group was working together, and that a learning conversation was taking place. If you had exactly 50 words, and you used different references, you could even have 100 points total! Once you finished writing, you needed to digitally create a Siri conversation showing Siri's answer. The final step was to create a Screencastify that had us voicing over the whole conversation. For this activity, I worked with Julian, Alex, and Jack. We had a lot of fun, and enjoyed recording the most.

Dare//Impact Message

This week for Inquiry as a class we created our own poster to warn people of the Impact they will get when they drink and drive. I decide to work in partners and together we created a DLO about Drinking and Driving. Before we created this DLO a police officer named Constable Cyrus came to talk to us about what could happen when you drink to much and smoke to much and more stuff. After that we talked with our teacher about what we could write on our posters. 

Thank you Constable Cyrus for joining us with our learning. 

Self and Buddy Evaluation

This week for writing we got into partners and then we had to read each others recount then we had to rate each others recount. We had to use a google slide to read what level they are on. Then we had to rate ourselves of what you think of your own writing. I and my buddy showed honesty to each others work. So then I had to write down what I need to work on my buddy also had to write down how good I did and what I need to work on. 

A boy on a bike

This week we were learning about a book named a boy on a bike. The book is about a boy and his dad that travels around New Zealand to raise money for the Saint John's company. The boys name was called Mac he wanted to ride around the North Island on his bike to make people know he is serious about raising money for the Saint John's so they can buy ambulances and other gear. Our task was to reflect where mac went to and what he did. I think he was so brave to stand up for the Saint Johns company to raise more money for the Saint John's company to get more ambulances and more gear.