Weaving a Tall Tale

This week l had chosen weather l would like to try flax weaving. Flax weaving is a traditional maori weaving you use flax which is a plant that is mostly know in New Zealand Maori. For this activity l had to chose weather l would like to try flax weaving. l think l would because it is apart of my maori culture. l think l would enjoy making my own Flax weaving because l enjoy learning more about the Maori culture. 

Something Smells Fishy

Fish Fact #1: The oldest known fish in the world is a 65 year old Australian lungfish - FALSE

Fish Fact #2: Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids - True

Fish Fact #3: Starfish are a type of fish. FALSE

Fish Fact #4: Fish communicate with each other by making low-pitched sounds (moans, hisses, etc) True

Fish Fact #5: Fish usually swim together in groups called ‘classes FALSE

This week l had to use my smart searching skills to find out if these 5 facts were real or fake. l tried to find out if these were real facts or fake. l think l got all of them right and used my smart searching skills good.

The Great Taupo Cycle Challenge

This week l was working on one of my Week 2 Summer Learning journey activity. For this activity l had to list three people l would like to have on my support crew if l ran the  The Great Taupo Cycle Challenge. l chosen Tom Boonen, Marianne Martin and Beryl Burton l picked these three people because they work hard for what they want and are good famous people.

Awesome Animals

This week l had to create my own beasts. Knowing that we have different kinds of animals in New Zealand we had to create our own beasts or animal. This is how mine came out. It is brown because it's dark, deadliness all around it. It has a big grin on it's face to scar people away and a red eye to scar people away from him to know not to touch him.

Living on the Edge

This week for l had to write a letter to my best friend or family member about my trip to tundra.

Greeting Angela l am having a great time in tundra it very cold her and there are a lot of mountains. The most thing l am exited to do is go Hiking in the Mountains. We are also going to be doing River Floating in the Tundra. It is so different to wear we live it is cold here and where we live it is hot. From Avalon

Blink and You’ll Miss It

This week for this task l had to answer question about weather l think that logging should be allowed in New Zealand and What l think about logging?  l had to list 2 reasons why. 

Why should't we have logging?  

1. l think we should't have logging in New Zealand because you have to cut down the beautiful trees in our wonderful land. 

2. They should't because l think it and destroying everything. 

Why should we have logging in New Zealand? 

1. l think we should have logging in New Zealand because people can make a lot of New house out of the wood. 

2. They should have logging because some of the trees can get destroys so they cut them down so no one gets hurt. 

What do l think about logging? 

l think that it is bad because you are destroying New Zealand and soon we will have barely any trees around. 

 

How to make Butter chicken

This week for the Summer Learning Journey for this activity l had to pick my favorite food and make a DLO that showed the Ingredients you would need and the steps. l added in the Ingredients and the steps to show others how to make my favorite dish. 

More than Meets the Eye

This week l had to imagine that l met Sir Edmund Hillary and l was interviewing him and l have to ask him 5 questions what would they be. These were the 5 questions l would ask him in person if l was interviewing him. What kind of questions would you ask him?  

1. Why did you climb the mountain?  

2.  Why do you like to explore a lot about wild? 

3.  Would you ever regret what you did? 

4. Why did you pick the spot you picked. 

5.  Were you scared to go the mountain.  

DOC Ranger

This week l was working on Being a DOC ranger. l was making a DLO to show the 3 Good things that would be great as being a DOC ranger and the bad things about being a DOC ranger. l wrote down the things that would be great and the bad. l would like to be a DOC ranger because l can help and teach others about animals and how to look after them.

Giants Among Us

This week I needed to deiced if i wanted to see Tane Mauta I would like to visit him because this is apart of a Maori Legend and because l am from New Zealand. I known that Tane Mauta was the father of the earth, and the mother of the earth hineahuone and that is the Lord of the forest. l made this DLO to show that if l would like or not want to go to see Tane Mahut in real life. l added facts even tho we didn't need to put l thought l would add in something extra. l also added in a image of what Tane Mahut looks like. Would you like to go to see Tane Mahut in real life. 

Digital Footprint

This week l did my 3rd task for the Summer learning Journey. For this DLO l wrote down the steps for being Digital Footprint safe when on devices. The first thing l did was l made a copy of the footprint and wrote inside the steps to keep safe when on device. Make sure to be safe when ever online or any devices and follow these simple steps. l enjoyed making this DLO because l could teach others how to be more safe online. 

What is special about where you live

This week l was working on my 2nd task for the Summer Learning Journey. For this task l was talking about what is special about where l live. l wrote down something to explain What is special about where l live. l like where l live because everyone is quite and their are not that much gang stuff around our area. l added images of what my community looked like and my street. l think l have done a great job and have told the truth about my area. That it isn't perfect everyday it is quite and sometimes people have bad things. l hope you enjoy my blog post about What is special about where l live. 

The Legend of New Zealand

1. New Zealanders are also called kiwis but kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand’s native flightless bird.

2. Queen Elizabeth II is officially Queen of New Zealand, represented in the country by a Governor General.

3. The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland although its capital city is Wellington.

Today l started the summer learning Journey my first activity was to find 3 facts about the The Legend of New Zealand l added images to show Auckland. l enjoyed finding out more things about New Zealand. l started off with finding 3 facts off the website and adding images.

Where in the world am I?

Today me and mele were working together to on this DLO. The first thing we did was made a DLO this was a challenge to use our researching skills. These sidles will talk about different kinds of places in the world. The first sidle talks the opera house in Sydney Australia. We had to add 5 intresting facts about the  opera house and answer the questions. They were 10 places altogether they were called Taj Mahal in india, Mona lisa in france, The leaning Tower of pisa in italy and many more. l added in the images and mele wrote down the information. l enjoyed making this because l could learn more about other countries. We worked as a group to make this all happen before lunch and we did l think we worked well together.

Richard Pearse

This week we were making Animations that talked about a  kiwi person that infected something. l was working with Savelina, Angela, Brooklyn and Joshua. We were all working as a group to make the animations in different boxes we all drew different kinds of things. l drew the aircraft, Grass and the farmer house. l enjoyed making this with my group because we could tell others about Richard Pearse. Facts about him he was the very first person that infected an aircraft it took him a very long time to build it and a lot of planning. l liked how we drew the images to tell the story 

5 City Sails

This week we were making 5 DLO's about Auckland city sails. The first activity l did was create a sign that Welcomed people to Auckland. l drew all this myself. The first thing l did was draw the palm trees with the tools on google draw. l then drew the sky tower and at the end l added all of it together and this is how it came out. l think l created a perfect sign to welcome people to Auckland. My Favorite part of the sign was the Sky tower. My next activity was Making the recipe for the Anzac biscuits. l added the Ingredients you need and the Directions to make Anzac Biscuit. l added some images to show what they are suppose to come out like. l learnt a lot about this because  now l can make my own Anzac Biscuits at home myself. The next activity we did was l had to research 5 different places on a map. Different sidles have different kinds of places on a map. The next activity l did was we had to pick where we would live and why. l picked Great Barrier Island because it had great sea views and more. The next activity l did was l had to locat 5 places on a map that were adventures in auckland l enjoyed making this because l could locate places. The last activity l did was make a collage of images to show different places in Auckland all of the places l picked l have been. l think these places are great to go to with family and enjoy. 

What is Steampunk art

This week we were learning about Steampunk art. Steampunk art is a type of history that was used in the 19th century. First we had to research what steampunk is and find a image to draw. l find a image of a heart that was mixed with steampunk art. l started with drawing out the image and making sure it looked great. This was based on how the Victorians used steampunk back then and now. l drew my image then digitally drew it on a goggle drawing. l also created a DLO with Angela to talk about how the Victorians did washing back then. It was interesting learning about how hard it was to do washing.     

Manaiakalani Leader Speech

Manaiakalani Leader Speech

Hi, my name is Avalon and l would love the opportunity to be your, Manaiakalani
Leader for 2019. It would be an absolute privilege and honour to become one of the 2019
Manaiakalani Leaders because l know I can help and inspire students to learn more about
digital learning. I have tried really hard this year to become more confident in my learning
and have made the most of all my learning time by participating fully. Over the last few years
I have shared my learning with teachers and have presented in front of my class, and to people
who visit our classroom.  I have received my silver Respect and Excellence and Innovation
badges this year and am working on my Attitude badge. I wear these badges, along with
my uniform, to show pride in myself and our school. I enjoy commenting on my classmate's
blogs because I can make positive, thoughtful comments to help them with their learning.
I also try really hard to reply to comments l have received. This year I have posted 160 blog
posts which as you know means I have shared my work 160 times with my global audience.
I have 775 blog posts altogether and this year received my Panmure bridge 500 blog post
badge. I try to help younger students inside and outside of class whenever possible with their
learning, and really enjoyed teaching room 4 how to post their work on their blogs.
I know that finishing my work is important and this keeps me focused. I always post more than
5 blog posts a week and hope to receive the PBS 1000 blog post badge by the end of Year 8.
My goal is to become a Manaiakalani Leader by the end of this year for 2019.
l promise to represent our school in a positive way and would love to be a part of the
Panmure Bridge team who showcase their learning when we have visitors.
This is why l want you to consider voting for me to become manaiakalani leader for  
Panmure bridge 2019.

Thankyou

Today we shared our Leader ship scripts for people to vote for us. We as year 7's got up and read out our speech's we were all excited put scared at the same time. I was so scared put l gained the confidences to read out my speech to the school leaders and some of the year 8's. l was so happy with how my speech came out and how l got to share my potentials with everyone because l can tell and show people that l can be trusted inside and outside of the class. Everyone made a goggle sidle of images to show people what l do to help our school. l think l did a great job with my speech.

World War 1 Medal

This week for inquiry we were making medals for men from World War 1. We had to find a men from World War 1 and make our own badge for them. l made a badge for Emest Albert Yoxal for serving in World War 1. l enjoyed making this because l could show my respect to him and every other men that went to World War 1. I chose to pick this man because he helped us in many ways like serving our country and giving up his life.

Plane Distance Data

This week, the year 7’s have been going through different team building activities and challenges that show our leadership. Today, our challenge was to get into groups of 4, and each create a paper airplane to throw for the furthest distance, and beat the other teams. We all created our paper airplanes and tested our airplanes inside the hall. We worked as a team to pick the right airplane to test and see if we won. We all threw our airplanes and at the end 1 person from every time had to come and throw there airplanes and see who went the rarest. Our teams one went the rarest and Julian threw it. We won this challenge it was good to win because that meant we were show Integrity and we were working as a team to win this team challenge.

Leadership

This week the year 7's were learning about leadership. Leadership means working together talking and having a leader because everything wouldn't be fine without a leader to control and help our teams. l was working with Chavda, Jack, and Neaveh. We worked together as a group to complete our challenges set. The first activity challenge we had was to write down and answer the questions we were given. l was the leader of my group and l was trying to help others and tell them if they need help. The next thing we did was go inside the hall and do our next leadership challenge as a group for this activity we needed all of our craft stuff in each group then we sat away from each group we had to try and create the biggest pyramid out of Colored Paper, Scissors, and White paper. Those were the things we needed for our challenge. The last group challenge we did was we played a game that would help us work as a team this challenge was called tunnel crawling we had to go underneath people's legs and stomach to get to the other side of the hall it was hard put we worked as a team to  lost of the first round the next round we won.  

Maori Pioneer Battalion

 This week l have created a Timeline about the Maori Pioneer Battalion. I worked collaboratively with Chavda. We have created this Timeline to show the war happening in different years like 1914, 1915, 1916 1918 and the different months. l learnt that the British declared war against Germany. We also made a collage of images of the men doing the haka and more l think that they did a great job serving our country even though they aren't here today we still know they helped us in everything that is why we are here today.

Athlectics

This week we had Athletics day we all dressed in our house color and enjoyed working together in our group. l was in yellow team with Carl, Fui, Aungnaing, Alex and Angela. We all came in our color and tried to work as a team to win first place. The first activity we did was throwing the Frisbee in side of the hop and at the end we had to see how much we had all together. The next activity we did was rob the nest. What we needed to do was get as many balls in the our circle they was also one person that had a pip on that person could tag anyone from other teams. The next activity we played was high jump for this activity we had to go in a line and try and jump the fairest and then cone it. After that activity we did the sponge race for this we had to line up in our groups and try and fill up the bucket with water we had to go under a pole jump over a rope and put our sponge in the water and run back with it. After that we played shot put we had to throw the ball with our shot skills. Then after that we moved onto discus there were 3 different kinds of spots to throw the hop over and they were point 1, 3 and 5 we tried to stick with 1, 3 because it would be easier for use and because at the end of the game we won with 57 points. After that we moved onto the next activity for this we had to line up as a group and lay our chest and stomach on the ground and when the man says go we had to run and jump up and try and grab a ball. After that activity we had a bark under the shad for 20 minutes then we moved on to the egg and spoon game for this we had get into our line and have a spoon and a fake egg on top of the spoon and walk in and out of the cones and walk over the chair and wait until the man says run back and we run back we won that round. After all of those activity we had lunch which was sausages we ate our sausages and our own lunch and went and played when lunch time was finish we sat in our class outside and all the races in each class fasted. l enjoyed Athlectics day because we could have fun and play in the hot weather and work as a team.

Read Theory Progress

I have compared the grade levels l have made throughout the year.
On July for my grade level l got 2 because l just started using the reading program.
On November the grade level that l got was 4 l think l was getting better on this reading
program and l was getting good grades. On February my grade level was 5 l went a
level up from the last month which was November l think l did a great job because
l went up a level.  I think l did a great job because l went from 2, 4 and 5.

Wolves

This week was book week we read a book by Emily Gravett she was the author of the book called Wolves. This book was about a wolves and a rabbit to know more about this story you can read this book. l created this DLO to tell people about Wolves. l made a table so l could split the Myths and facts. The Myths were for the things l think that wolves did and the facts were the research l did. l added in images to show the author and a image of the book.

Tech

This week for Tech we were making squares with diamonds. First we drew 5 by 5 diamonds so we could get our shape we needed then we used that shape to cope on to our colored paper and cute them out so we could get a square. Then we made our squares some people made 6 squares and some made 3 l made three. l think it trued out great because l made it and because l could show off my skills. 

Meerkat

This week we read a book about Meerkets. We learnt a lot of new things and facts about Meerkats we made DLO to show and tell people about Meerkats. l wrote down some Facts and information about Meerkats and what l find out about Meerkats. l added imagest to show what they looked like. l enjoyed making this because l could tell people about MeerKat and what they do.

Kiwi authors we know? Bar Graph

This week for Book week we made a graph to show how many people in our groups know Kiwi authors. This bar graph shows the Amount of people in my group who knew these authors. Lyndey Dadd has 6 people that knew him in my group. Witi Ihimaera has 7 people that have read his books and knows him as a author. Riehie Mcaw has 5 people that know him as a author. David Hill has 3 people in our group that know him. Joy Cowley has 6 people that know him and last of all Craig Smith has 2 people that have read his books. l enjoyed making this DLO because we could show others and tell others the authors we know. l think that Witi Ihimaera has the most people that have read his books and know him as author.

WW1 Amstrice day

This week for Armistice Day me and Angela were working together on this DLO. We first picked our question that we wanted to know about l picked How did doctors cope with disease and Why did they use Mustard Gas. l wrote down all the things l find on google and turn them into my own words so l wasn't saying what they wrote. Then l made a comparison to show the different between WW1 Doctors and Doctors Now. Angela made her own sidles and comparisons about her questions we added in our resources that we used like our websites.  l enjoyed making this because l could learn what l haven't learnt before.

What is the most important book you have ever read - why

This week for book week l made a DLO on What is the most important book l have ever read and why. l picked Ghost because l love this book and because it is important to me. l wrote down why this book was important to me and why l like reading and more things. It has a title to say what it is and fake ghost on the side. The background is white and the text has the question and my text last it has a image of what the book looks like. 

Sisters Setting

This week for Book week l made a Animation drawing about a setting that was in the book Ghost. l drew the two girls laying they heads together. l decided to pick this image because it looked wonderful and because everything in the story ends good. This image was easy to draw l used the Google drawing tools to draw this. l think it came out amazing and perfect.  

Ghost cover

This week for Book week l was working with Angela to make this task. We had to create our own cover about a book. We first chose a book we picked a book called ghost. We recreated the cover it has a sun set and the two sisters. l thought this came out great because we got to draw the sisters and we recreated it so it was ours. l enjoyed making this because we got to recreate it and the most thing l liked about it was the sunset.

My Reading Path Way

This week we are having book week. For book we we made a DLO showing our path in reading and how we first started when we were in the Juniors. This was my own reading path Journey l enjoy reading a lot because l can get images in my head an go on adventures. Reading helps a lot because you can learn more words and tell others about the book you have been reading. My favorite book of all of them has to be Ghost because it is a children's graphic novel.

Armistice Commemoration

Today we had a Armistices Commemoration. This was our own Armistices Commemoration for the men that fell and were killed in action in World War 1. One of our visitors was one of the men from the New Zealand Army force. This Commemoration was about how World War 1 ended on 11th November 1918 and how men went to War and lost their lives. We started with Mr. Johnson talking about the Armistices day and why it is Commemoration. Then the school leaders spoke more about Armistice Commemoration and thanking everyone who came out. We all started singing the National anthem and we faced the flag and the songs the last post and reveille played we watched that flag as it came down and went up. This was time for the remembrance of the men who went into War and never came back to families. To people from each classroom went up grabbed the big poppies and layered them down we all had our names on them. The meaning of poppies is about Harmony, Peace, and hope. We had the man from the New Zealand Army force come and speak to us about why he wanted to join the Army force he was great because he told us everything about the Army force and his experience. Everyone was being respectful about the men who were fighting for our country we had a cross in the middle on the ground and we made our poppies and added them on top.