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.

Armistice Day

This week l created a DLO of images about Armistice Day. Armistice Day is a day where families can come and see there sons , Great Grandfather and many more men that went into World War 1. Anniversary of the Armistice day is the 11 November 1918 this is the Remembrance of the men that gave there lives and Armistice Day is a time  dedicated to the ones who went into World War 1.  Armistice Day was for service members who have died without their remains and how World War ended. These images show how happy people were and how they celebrated the end of the war. It is Commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany. l enjoyed making this DLO because l could tell people what Armistice Day is and how it is celebrated every year on the 11th November 1918. 

World War 1

This week for  Inquiry l worked with chavda we created a google drawing showing what we learnt about World War 1. The first thing we did was we created a table so we could split our ideas into Facts and Check this meant we had to write down any facts we learnt about World War 1 and we had to check them to see if they were correct or not. The next thing we did was we wrote down all of our facts l wrote down 7 facts one of the facts that l learnt was that 25 million soldiers lost they lives. l checked my facts to see if they were correct and put a tick next to it and wrote why the fact was right. Why we did this was to learn more about the soldiers who died. How l did this was to check my facts and check if they made sentence or not. 

Collaborative Comprehension

This week for inquiry l was working with Mele on the Collaborative Comprehension. This task helped us to read the text and answer the question. Our text was about Battle of the some. This book was about the World War 1 Battle on how the French and British arm defend themselves against the Germans. We worked together to answer the questions. We got all the answer right this helped us a lot with our  Comprehension and to take our time in reading Comprehension tests. Mrs Anderson made us these Comprehension papers to help us threw this. It showed us what to do there were nine steps all together. l enjoyed working with Mele in the Collaborative Comprehension because we could learn more about our Comprehension. The most thing that was challenging for me was looking back at the text again and again