Cecillia & Victoria:River Safety

What we have been dong for Aquatics Inquiry is River Safety. My partner Victoria and I having been working collaboratively. We learned a lot about river safety, one thing that we learned was that you NEVER cross the river when there is a flood. What I liked about Aquatics Inquiry was that we get to learn new things about River Safety or Water Safety.

Comparing Schools In Korea To Schools in NZ.

For reading we have been reading this book called "Annyong means "Hi". What we done in our DLO was that we had to compare Korean schools to NZ's school. My partner Mere and I have been working collaborative and learning how Korean schools are different to NZ's schools. One thing that we learned was that Korea schools have 4 storeys high and NZ schools only have 1 to 2 storeys high.

SPaG Punctuation

We learned where we have to put the punctuation in our sentences. We also have to check where we put our punctuation so it makes sense. The first we done with the class was "Let's eat Miss Anderson." But when we saw that it didn't make sense we knew that there was a punctuation missing, it was a comma. "Let's eat, Miss Anderson." When we done that we got into groups. In our group was Victoria,Paige,Reon,Lyndon,Tiare and I. We had to fix up all the punctuation that was missing and that was in the wrong place. 

Mere & Cecillia: River Safety

LS2 have been doing river safety. Our learning Intention is To promote water safety. Mere and I got some ideas and put this DLO together, we learned that you not aloud to cross the river when you are alone. Also you need to check your clothing and equipment. It is very important to learn water safety and river safety.

Strategies For Multiplication Problems

The past weeks for maths Miss Donaldson's maths group has been doing three different strategies. What we have been doing is Place Value, Rounding and Compensating and Doubling and Halving. These strategies are fast and quick because we can get our answers by using these strategies.

Home Learning : Kate Sheppard

This week for our Home learning we have been searching Kate Sheppard. My partner Victoria and I Learned one fact about her is that she made NZ the first country to agree that women have the right to vote.

Doubling And Halving

So today Miss Donaldson's maths group learning how to do a strategy by doubling and halving. This strategy is quick because we halve the even number and double the odd number and we used our multiplication for this strategy. After we done that we add them altogether. 

Shoe Narrative-Cecillia and Jessie

Shoe Narrative

By Cecillia and Jessie

On  a sunny afternoon, I was abandoned by the fish and chip shop. I was wondering, who will notice me, as people will going pass me I realized that nobody wanted me. I could feel rocky bumps just  coming  towards  me like I was invisible. As  I felt the wind was bursting like a fireball I felt that I was left behind. When I see other shoes like me I just feel so jealous and  I feel like I’m not the only one  who has felt like this before. Has I was by the fish and chip shop I could hear sizzling coming towards  me has if I was hungry and wanted to be like humans that can walk.

As the people come out of the shop I feel like that I have no idea what to do and I just feel like that nobody in the world would want me even if I have holes everywhere. I just wish someone, anyone can just pick me up and take me home somewhere safe.  If someone really does take me home I’ll be the happiest shoe of all time. As the sun set went down I realized that someone came looking for me but he or she came closer I realized it was a dog who wanted to chew me  up and to be his or hers toy. As the dog took me home, the dog showed me his collection of other shoes some of them were like me.

Today for writing we had to write a short story for 15 mins. We had to use the 5 senses and personification to help us point a picture with words. My partner and I Jessie had to write a sentence each  until the 15 mins were done we had to proof read our work.

Using the 6 Thinking Hats to explore a ballad poem.

Today LS2 activity was to use the 6 thinking caps and we had to learn about Charlotte Anne. Our Prior Knowledge was that she was like the other ladies (cleaning and serving there husbands). But when we watch this video we were shocked because she wore men clothes and helped the mens cut trees. She is a hero because she was the only women who didn't wear dresses or skirts.  

Kyle Mewburn

So today Kyle Mewburn came to Panmure Bridge School and what he did was told us about his favourite book "Hill and Holes". Also what I didn't know about him was that he wrote the book "Kiss kiss Yuck yuck".

Reading:Synthesizing - Cecillia

Here is synthesizing activity. Reon and I had to write our prior knowledge, when we write what we already knew we got together as a reading group and put all our information on the whiteboard. After what we already knew Miss Anderson gave us a information about gorillas on a paper. What we had to do with it was to find some new knowledge about gorillas and write it down on the whiteboard. We got together and Reon and I synthesize.

Multiplication and Division

Today for maths we have been learning Multiplication and Division. I got 143 out of 143. So I have improved before.

How To Say Basic Greetings In Thai.

Today for inquiry, Thailand group did basic greetings and we had to learn them. I learned that Krup (men) & Ka (women). Click here to say basic greetings in Thai.

Structure Information Report

This week for writing we have been learning about Structure Information Report. This DLO is about what a structure information report will need.

Virtual Tour Of Thailand

So today in Inquiry, Thailand has been doing a Virtual Tour Of Thailand. So Jessie and I  have to look up some buildings in Thailand that people will attract to. After that Jessie and I had to copy the site and then paste it to our DLO when Jessie and I  done that Jessie and I had to attribute the person who took the picture. 

Home Learning - William Henry Fox Talbot

This week LS2 got homework. My homework buddy was Victoria. Our homework was looking for some facts about William Henry Fox Talbot. The interesting fact about William Henry Fox Talbot was that his book "The pencil of Nature" was the first book that had photographic illustration. Click here to see our video. 

Map Challenge

This week for Inquiry we have to do a map challenge. What we had to do was to answer all the questions and find it on our map we had to draw and write. It was an awesome task for us because I learned that it takes 6135.58 miles to get to Thailand from NZ.

Structure Of An Information Report

Identifying the structure of an information report

LI: to understand the structure of information reports

Your challenge: Use the key to help you show the structure of an information report. Highlight the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion by changing the background colour of the table. Highlight the other structures by using the highlight function.	Key
	Introduction		Body Paragraphs
	Interesting fact (to hook readers in)		Title of body paragraph
	Description of topic		Topic sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about
	Tell the reader what the report is about		Special knowledge to help the readers understand
			Conclusion

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera muscolus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

In the week we have been learning to understand the structure of an Information report. What we had to do was highlight the introduction,body paragraph and the conclusion. 

E-ako

Today in maths we were practicing our multiplication and division on e-ako. We have 70 points so far and we need 143 left to do.

Synthesizing

This week for reading we learned about SYNTHESIZING with Miss Anderson. What we did here was that we created a cover for a biography of George Washington using what we already knew about them and what we found out after researching. The new information helped us think about what their picture would look like, what the title might be and what background would match their achievement.

Maths - Mathsmulti game

Today LS2 done maths. What we done in Miss Donaldson's Maths group was that we had to finish our DLO and play mathsmulti. What I done in Mathsmulti was mixed where all the times table are mix. I got 100% but what I need to work on is my 11 and 12 times table.

Maths - Using Our 5 Times Table To Solve Our Problems

So what we done for maths was that we have to make a DLO and show how we solved our 6,7 and 8 times table.