Tahuna Torea Visit By Cecillia, June and Jessie

Yesterday at lunchtime we went to have lunch at Tahuna Torea. Once we got there we had lunch, everyone was having fun. Why we went to Tahuna Torea? because its linked to our topic for reading we are learning about Godwits. First we explored was the beach where the Godwits come after that we waited until it was our turned to explored the wet lands where the Godwits find there food. LS2 learnt a lot and where Godwit's migrate. Godwits migrate from New Zealand to Alaska that would take them 8 days to get there but they would need to go to Australia than Japan then Alaska. So they are really fast to fly to Alaska. It was really interesting learning about the Godwit and where they Migrate.

My Term 1 and 4 Letters

Dear term Four Jessie,

When you read this you will be at the end of your year eight journey. You will be enrolled into college.But this year I really want to achieve my goals for term 1 to term 4, the first thing I want to achieve is how to be a confident speaker  so I can talk in front of the class and share great ideas to other people like Mr Johnston, Mrs Kirkpatrick,Miss Donaldson and even Mrs Anderson, the one question I always ask myself is have I  presented in a assembly this year.But all the things I need to do to achieve my goal is to join in most of our school activities. You always have to practice a lot and always have top focus and contribute, but the more I speak to teachers and other people the more you will be confident.

From Jessie

Dear Term 1 Jessie,

Wow it’s been along time Jessie,it felt that I haven’t seen you in ages.I can’t believe it,it’s nearly at the end of the year wow. Can you believe it you made though the year 3 more weeks to go you can do it.I’m not really excited  about next year, to be honest aye. To be honest do you want to leave this school? If you leave this school you going to miss your friends and teachers. I know you have some ups and downs at this school but you always don’t care and make yourself happy. By 2k16 here I come 2k17. By Panmure Bridge School.

From Jessie

This is my two letters I did the first one was my letter to Term 4. And the bottom one is my to my term 1 journey and what I've achieved throughout the whole year.Even though it's my last year at Panmure Bridge I have enjoyed myself even when I first started this school. I was a shy little girl but know when I got used to this school I am a confident student at Panmure Bridge School.

Reading Follow Up - Group D

For the past few weeks we have been learning about Pigeons. In our reading we have been spilt up to 4 groups (R group,E group,A group and D group.) In our group we have been working collaboratively and getting on task.In Group D was Cecillia,Jane,Juanita,Ma'ata,Latham,Harlem,Lyndon and I.Basically we were deciding if Pigeons are Pests or are they special.Our whole group thinks that pigeons are special and pests at the same time.Also we were learning to develop the comprehension  strategies of making connections,identifying the authors purpose and point of view,identifying main ideas,or evaluating.   

Godwit/Kuaka Facts

 Today for in Inquiry we have changed to our new topic for this term. Our new topic for this term is all about Godwits/Kuaka Birds. We are learning to  use smart searching skills to find information and it record it in our words also to identify Godwit/Kuaka. This is my DLO about Godwits and what they do.For this topic we were learning to find what Diet,Habitat,Appearance and what predators they have.

Film Festival Post

Today Panmure Bridge School went to Sylvia Park for the Film Festival. Panmure Bridge really likes all the schools movies, but specially Tamaki Primary and Glen Brae's Film Festival movies. But my favourite movie at the film festival was Making  Choices from Tamaki Primary, I really liked that movie because it   tells you to make good choices and do the right thing. From our school Panmure Bridge my favorite movie was Kiwi Can from Room 5, I liked that movie because it tell us what  Kiwi can is really about. Every single year all schools in the Manaiakalani Cluster goes to Sylvia Park to watch other school movies that they made. Here is a Link to the Manaiakalani Film Festival Movies.Link

Hyperbole DLO

This week LS2 have been learning about Hyperbole,Hyperbole is a deliberately used exaggeration that is not meant to be taken seriously. Also Hyperbole's are used in speaking and writing for effect or to make a boring story more interesting. LS2 has been working on sentences that have hyperbole's and Similes. This is my DLO on hyperbole's and it says what they are.

Silent Maths Challenge

Today for Maths LS2  had a Silent Maths Challenge to complete.This challenge was about flight  testing and graphing. The reason why we had a Flight challenge was because our topic for this term  2016 is all about (Flight.) Each group took time to fly there final paper plan.Slowly by slowly each group had to record  there measurements within how far there paper plane goes. My group was the 4th group to fly our plane. For the 1st throw we did was 5.80m that's how far our first one went.For our 2nd throw was 6.20m then went onto our 3rd and last round it was 6.96m. When all of the groups were finished our teacher Mrs Anderson told us to do one more round so we did. For our final and last round we did was 7.57m. Congratulations to Thomas's group who won, against all the groups and who went the furthest at 14.1m.

Paper Planes Experiment Maths

Yesterday, LS2 worked  collaboratively  as a group on a maths  challenge. For  this  task the teacher didn't  talk too us because it was all  about following instructions.  We  had to read the instructions  of the  presentation.  I  really enjoyed doing this task because  we had to  create a  paper   plane that flies the furthest. In our group was Ceceillia,Jane,Latham,Lyndon and I. Our topic was all about Flights, our task was to make a Paper Plane that flew it's distance.We were using our smart searching skills to find sites about how to make paper planes.It was a really fun math challenge activity thing that my group and I really enjoyed it.

Hydrartion and Dehydration

This term Panmure Bridge School has been a water only school (we can only have water at school).  LS2 were given a task to create a DLO about what hydration and dehydration is. In this DLO I worked with Charlize, Jessie and Afu.  We have explained what hydration, dehydration is.

Rhythm Interactive

Today we got to do Rhythm Interactive they are a group that tour around New Zealand and other countries. They basically teach us African Drumming. It was really fun because we got to match the beat and sing as well. We also learnt different techniques to drumming. They didn't really speak because they were trying to prove a point, they were trying to prove that actions that are louder than words. I totally agree with this because I also think this as well. I learnt that we can connect beats so it can sound longer.  I would like to say a BIG Thank You to Lucy and Johnny for coming to our school to teach us new techniques about drumming and a HUGE Thank You to Mrs Eeles for asking Rhythm Interactive  to come to our school Thank You so Much for coming.I realy enjoyed myself Thank You.

Reading Challenge

For the past few days for reading we had to work collaboratively as a group to complete the task. First, our teacher told us nothing, instead of saying anything she wrote what she needed to say on her laptop, from there we worked as a group to figure out what to do. We first had to read a big book as a group and write what happened in the story in exact 25 words. Our next task was to fill in the blanks for these 2 other stories, the first one we got was slightly easy but the second one was slightly harder because it used harder words and it had an longer story. As we worked as a group we got the task finished and filled in all the gaps by trying it. We had to follow the instructions and understand the meaning of the story. We were learning to skim and scan so we could find the word that best fitted in the gap. I really enjoyed this task as we had to follow the instruction because it was an different way of doing the activity. Our learning intention was to follow instruction's and making sure we had to read for meaning and understanding. 

Read Theory Results

Today for reading we started off with doing Read Theory for 20 minutes. While doing this, I learnt to understand the text and to think about what the question is asking me to. This site will help you with your reading. When I want to answer a question I would always look back at the text to make sure I get my answer correct.

Decimals

Today for maths we were learning how to recognize decimals and how to order decimals. We were recognizing decimals by using fractions to help us. ( e.g : 0.5 would be 5/10 in a fraction ) We practiced ordering decimals on a online worksheet which we had to read the question and solve it out in our maths book. I was also learning the places for the decimals. I really liked learning about decimals because I was learning something new and it links to fractions which could also help me with fractions.   

Ripper Rugby and Rugby Tournament- Jessie

On Wednesday the  31st on August we went over the road to play against other schools  in the Manaiakalani Cluster. Our students had so much fun that we really didn't care how much we lost and how much we won all we matter  about was how much  team sprit we had.  Our first game  was against Barley Road School 3-3 when we were versing them they were pretty easy to bet. After   our game finished   we had a 5 min break then we went to go and verse Point England we knew that they were gonna be hard to play against but we never gave up so we kept on trying.Our score against them was 2-7.After we played them we went to go play Glen Brae they were pretty easy to bet and hard but unfortunately we lost,but we so bummed  that we congratulated the school we versed.After we had our 5 min break went to our field to go and verse Tamaki Primary, the score against them was 2-3 but unfortunately for the other school they lost, when we were versing them we had lots of fun and the year 5 and 6's were cheering us on.  After we played against them  our team had a little play then we went to go to the field again to verse Sylvia Park, unfortunately we lost against Sylvia Park the score was 5-3. When we were waiting for the results, we were so excited that we thought that was the last game. When our teacher Mr Ogilvie asked us if we wanted to play our last game we were so excited that we wanted to play again. But when we were going to the field we didn't realize that we were going to verse Sylvia Park, when we were versing them we knew that we were going to lose but we gave the sprit and never gave up. So the score was 5-3 and we won against them.
I want to Congratulate Mr Ogilvie and the Otahuhu College people (Manu,Rolon,Lesly and Biya) that came to support us and help us with our games. Thank you very much for coming.



Glen Brae v Panmure Bridge ( 3-1)
Bailey Road School v Panmure Bridge ( 3-3 )
Point England v Panmure Bridge  ( 7 - 3 )
Tamaki Primary v Panmure Bridge  ( 2 -  3 )
Sylvia Park First Game v Panmure Bridge  (  5 - 3 )
Sylvia Park last game  v Panmure Bridge ( 3 - 5  )

Language Features - Writing

This week our writing group is learning to Identify the Language Features and the job it does with a sentence. In this DLO I have explained what a a Noun,Verb,Adverb,Adjective,Similes, and Metaphors are. We had to make a DLO  on  Language Features and how to use them in a sentence and in our writing.

Advertising - jane, Jessie,Pote and Eric

Today, we have created a DLO on Advertising, this was created as we discovered the purpose/reason behind advertisements.For this activity we had to make a  25 worded paragraph about what advertising is and how they influence you to buy. 

Orienteering - Yr 8 and 7

Today we played another game of Orienteering. My partner ( Juanita ) and I worked together as a team, I thought playing Orienteering  was a good sport because it makes us do exercise  and it shows us how to read a map. My partner and I were timed and our time that we started was 2.40 mins  as we were competing other team mates we both realised that some other team mates were doing the same curse as us and some weren't. When my partner finished the 1st course we moved on to the 2nd course, as we were finishing my partner Juanita was having a race between this other girl Charlize, but bad luck my partner Juanita bate Charlize just by a few seconds. Finally our time was 25.10 mins.

Life Education - Jessie

 

Today we had Life Education with Nicole. We were learning about our body system and how it works.  First we were learning about how the heart works and how it works and how it got the name Heart and how it is compared with the Love Heart. We learnt that the heart is the size of your fist  and it actually looks like your fist.  

After we finished learning about how our heart works we moved on our Nervous,Muscular, and the Circular System. As Nicole was telling how our system works. After that  we played  a game named Clap on Time it is all about when you clap on time to the rhythm if you don't you have to sit down.   

Persuade,Inform,Entertain - Reading

Today for reading we are learning how to use PIE in our reading and using games and activity's. PIE P is for Persuade  I is for Inform and E is Entertain. In  the last Picture it tells  how much I got right and wrong and in the 2 3 4 pictures it shows what I got wrong and right just by using PIE.

Orienteering - Sports

Today we done the Yr8 orienteering and what  they told us was, what we do and what  not to do.  It was a good experience  for me because it is good because  it is just like fitness. My time was 12.15 it is a good time because it tells me that I could do it better.