Auckland Harbour Bridge

This week fro Inquiry we were making a presentaion about the Auckland Harbour Bridge. I learnt that General Lord Cobham came to perform the ceremony. The Navy was sent to the harbour bridge to provide the guard of honour. The prime minister had given a well paid tribute to the men that had built this. General Lord Cobham pulled the tozel and the harbour bridge was open. Did you know that they wanted a bridge so they asked government if they could build a bridge from Auckland city two the North sore. The government said no because it would take to long and would b e to much money. So they asked one more time and the government said you can make a bridge put you have to pay for all the material so they made a plan and gave it to the government and he said put you still have to pay for all the things and material. It costed 6 million to pay for all the materials like steel and more. The bridge is made out of truss which are triangles and lattice girders these are long tunnels connected together by triangles. They had to pay a toll which was 20c each time you went by.

Market Day

This week for inquiry we focused on Enterprise and Economics. Panmure bridge held a market day which meant each class was able to sell their own items. As a class we all decided to hand make rainbow crayons. Rainbow crayons because not only did the colurs attract our buyers, but we priced it right at $1. Our economic success was great, because we used recycled broken crayons, we were gifted the moulds and there were no labour costs. In total our gross profit was $96.00, but the net profit was $88.00. 

Weekly Grocery Shopping

In Math, we were given a collaborative group challenge to complete for the week. We were to imagine that we had a budget of $200 to spend on weekly shopping for our ‘family’. The amount of people in our family would be the same amount of people in the group. In this case there were 6 for Avalon, Fui, Te Pounamu, Nyjah, Joel, and myself. We had to choose a supermarket site to look for groceries online, and make sure we bought enough proper food fit for 6 people. We chose Pak n Save because we were all familiar with that market. We started off by creating our breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was also decided that every group could have one fast food or takeaway dinner. We chose Burger King which we spent $30 on by getting everyone a stunner meal. After that we started writing down the list of ingredients and items of what we needed to make each meal. With somethings we found it was easier to buy it pre-made like waffles, spring rolls, garlic bread, pizza and etc because if we didn't that would mean more ingredients to buy money and more money would be spent. As we went along writing the prices, we were adding them up. We decided to round the cents because otherwise it would be too hard and take longer to calculate. We were told to buy at least one bathroom or cleaning household item that we might need. For us it was bar of soap and a packet of sponges. Sometimes when we were trying to stay in budget, prices would go over too much and sometimes only by a little bit. After taking out some things we really didn't need, and getting good quality for good price we were sure we had it. As we finally totalled up the prices we found we could get maybe 2 or 3 more items but we decided not to. In the end our total price was $184!

Athletics

                                      

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 Nyjah, Nevaeh, Jonathan, Giovanni 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.

Shakespeare

This week we were learning about Shakespeare. l was working with Angela, Nyjah, Chavda ans Marieta we made our own script in Shakespeare language and how he use to write his plays. We made a video on chatter pix which is wear we draw a line threw the mouth on the photo and record our voice. This was really fun to create and learn more about because we got to create our own scripts. We deiced to chose the fighting seen because we all found it interesting than the other sense that were in the play Romeo and Juliet. We each had a script which we had to say when we were recording the chatter pix. We also added some facts and information about William Shakespeare and how old he and when he died. 

Personifcation

The morning shines upon my face and the thick glass protects my face from the roaring wind.

People stare and people laugh but all I do is glare right back while they pass.

Then all of a sudden I hear a ring by the door and someone puts their hand on my face.

But I wonder if they ever use soap..I get shoved in a box then I peek through the whole and see the

things I’ve never seen before. After days of being loved, things started to change.

My hand tied in a not no longer able to undo and my feet begin to feel poor as I’m

thrown in front of the door.  I see the Sun I see the night I see what goes by me whenever I am left

alone. As I touched the brown muddy black puddle my holes give way for the brown water this makes

me drown and I hope for a bath. My ripped holes make all the water come threw l am scared what to do.

My hands aren’t tied l am being dragged through the black muddy water l can feel the rocky muddy

ground as l went under for a second dive. Still waiting for that bath!The last thing I heard was the roaring

wind across my face the last thing I knew was it was time to say goodbye and off to the bin I started

to cry being alone broke my heart but being unwanted tore my apart.

This week we were learning about Personifcation l was working with Angela to make write our

Personifcation about a pair of shoes. Personifcation is painting a pitcher in someone head and

giving something a real life thing. The Challenge we had to do was to get into partners face back

to back and write a Personification story on the a google doc that we were both working on the

hardest part was that we couldn't talk to each other we just had to write and hope that we had

the same ideas. My favorite part about this was learning more about Personification and working

with someone else to create a story about two pairs of shoes. l think we worked well togetter

and write l really well made Personification.

Vile Victorians

This week l was working with  Angela we were making a presentation that talked about the Vile Victorians we used a book that was about Horrible History that had facts and information about Vile Victorians. Our first sidle talks about the names that they would come up with and how Queen Victoria didn't care about children the first sidle also had a video for an example for what names the kids have and teachers.  Our next sidle talked about school punishments they went threw if they didn't go to church or messed a day of school teachers would make the worse punishments so that the child would think about what they did and so next time they come to church. The next sidle talks about the school teachers. School teachers back then were really cruel and not nice to the children also woman would get paid more then men. Our last sidle tells you facts and information about Queen Victoria a fact l found interesting was that 20th of June 1987 she was crowed queen. What I found this interesting because we got to learn about the history back in the older days.