Athletics Inter-school

Yesterday we had out inter-school athletics. I participated in four events which was 400m, 100m sprint, high jump and long jump. I place 4th in 400m, 3rd in 100m sprint, 2nd in high jump and we didn't get told what we placed in high jump. I think our school did really well because we are a small school but placed mostly in the top 5. 

Graduation Dance

Since graduation is coming up the year 8's had been having dance lessons. We have learnt the cha cha, rock and roll, circle dance and the barnyard dance. One of the hardest parts was learning the thread the needle which took place in the rock and roll dance.  I think it was the most complicated dance move that we have ever learnt. My favourite dance is the circle dance because it is fast and upbeat. 

Athletics Day

Today was our school Athletics day. We had different activities to take part in such as long jump, rob the nest, ball throw and more. To make it more fun and exciting we got to compete in teams, my team was the yellow team although we didn't win as much games as possible we still got to have lots of fun and learn new things. My favourite activity was the rob the nest game because we got to steal other teams eggs. At the end of the day had our school sprints where all the finalists that placed in their heat raced. I raced in the year 8 girls race as well as the school finals where you race the fastest seniors, it was really hard but I came 3rd out of 8. 

Fire Station Visit

Since our inquiry focus is "people in our community" we got to visit the fire station. They gave us a reminder of a few fire safety tips such as having a smoke alarm in your house and also what they do as a fire fighter. Did you know that fire fighters aren't there just to save people from fire accidents they are also first responders so they are trained to do that. The fire fighters showed us their training course and

Mussel Problems

This week's maths learning was based on fractions and proportions. Zahra and I worked collaboratively to find the solutions to the equations. I think the last problem was very challenging because we had to use our multiplication skills and multiply big numbers which was very hard.  

Fractions Games

This game helped us order our fractions from smallest to biggest. It was also timed and kept record of your score so you can see how your doing. You had to pop the balloons you thought were in order, it will make a noise if you are incorrect. I think I did really well considering I'm not the best at fractions. If you would like to play the game and challenge your self (click here)

Navigating Narritives- Summarising

In one of our novel studies activities our take was to make a summary of the book. To help us with this we choose 20 important words from the text that would be useful for the summary. From there we selected 6 words that were very important and we then used those 6 words to write our summary. I think that Nazella and I made a good summary because we have understood the book. 

Navigating Narratives - Feedback

In reading, we have been giving feedback to our partner. After reading the text for 20 minutes, Mia and I gave our opinion of how we were while reading. Nazella said that I could talk about the book and how I made an understanding. I was also able to describe the pages with my own words.

Police Visit

Since our inquiry focus is about people in our community we got a police visit from Constable Cyrus and a few others. They were to show us the Eagle Helicopter it was great because it flew into our school and we had never had this happen before. Did you know that the Eagle Helicopter finds everyone that they are looking for on the police lookout. We then got to see the police dogs and how they train, these dogs also displayed some of their tricks which was very interesting because we hardly see dogs do this.  

Badminton

Today we had Badmington. We learnt our forehand and backhand skill. To help us with this technique we worked in partners, we both had turns hitting with our forehand and backhand then rotated while doing this we kept a rally. A rally is keeping the shuttle from going on the ground and involves two people. I found today's lesson hard because I'm not the best at badminton  and the technique is challenging. 

Manaiakalani Film Festival

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary for the Manaiakalani film festival. We went to watch a few of the movies from our Manaiakalani cluster. There were different little movies about dancing, skits and experiments. After we watched a few movies we got to watch them online and leave positive comments about this. One of my favourite movies was a film by Ruapotaka school it was about Rugby values, i found this interesting because the different types of transitions in the video and the helpful advice that was given. 

Thank you Letter

My gold care award activities was to write a thank you letter to a teacher or other staff member. I choose to write my thank you letter to Mrs Anderson because she has helped me though my learning and as well as being the best leader that I can be. She has made creative learning activities such as making movies and interesting topics for reading. 

Poster showcasing life at PBS

One of my Gold Care Award activities was to "create a poster showcasing life at PBS". I added in pictures of the different activities that we do in our school like our Dance Production that happened in Term 3 which was great. We also have had camp at the start of the year which really helps with our survival skills and we got to try new challenges like the high ropes, chariot racing and more. 

Guy Fawkes Safety Rules

Since this weekend is going to be Guy Fawkes we had to give others a reminder on the safety rules of this. One of the reasons why was to keep everyone safe over the weekend. A rule that wee came up with was to keep children out of reach of Fireworks. This was an important rule because children will think it's fine because it won't harm you but it is very harmful and can cause serious issues. 

Screencastify - Finding fractions of an amount

This is my screencastify I made in class. I displayed a strategy in maths that I have been working on, which is fractions of an amount. I showcased how to work this equation out using the strategy and also what I did to make it work. To help us overcome speaking we wrote a script to help us explain our learning. I think this new learning is really a great experience because it is a different way of displaying your work and showcasing our thinking.