Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

This week is the teaser week for the Summer Learning Journey. It is day 1 and I have completed activity 2. For this activity our challenge was to create our own Pepeha. a Pepeha is like a mihi that tells other people more about you. I really enjoyed making this DLO because it talks about me and where l come from it was fun making this because l learnt more about my maori side. 

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

Today l was doing the SLJ Manaiakalani Teaser week challenges.  For the first activity we created a profile pic poster on the famous Lorde New Zealand singer. I first added interesting information about Lorde and a image with her name along the side of it. 3 Interesting facts l found out about her is that her real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich- O'Connor, She first wrote her own song when she was 13 years old in the year 2013 and Her most famous song that was released is called Royal. l really enjoyed making this Lorde profile pic poster because it helped me learn more about how she is a change maker to others.  

Tech

This week was our last week of tech so we all tried to finish all of our work so that we would have something to show our family members. I was making a box which l could hide things inside of it making a box was going to be easy because l knew that l could get it done. I also had to finish my paper work which is wear l had to write the steps that it took to make the box and draw some other examples of what l wanted to make in wood works. My favorite about wood works was that we could make what ever we wanted unless it could me made. I would like to say a big thank you to Mr Grundy who helped us make our designs that we wanted to and also to all the teachers from Tamaki College if you if we came to your class to make something thank you so much. 

Blog Post Analysis

This week we created a Blog post Analysis which is wear we find out the data of how much blog post we have gotten throughout these years we have been blogging at PBS. We did a Before and After to show the difference in each year to see if we had reached our goal that we set from the start of the year. My goal was to get more than 100 blog post which l knew l could reach by the end of this year. As you can see by both Blog post Analysis 2017 is the year l blogged the post how you can tell is because orange is the highest with 2018 coming along. These Blog post Analysis both show that l have worked really hard on my blogging journey. I think l could work harder on finishing my work so that l could have got more blog post.    

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!