Rhythm Interative's visit to PBS

Today Panmure Bridge got the amazing opportunity to have a drumming experience with our drumming teacher (visitor) John Boone featuring Wilson! LS2 was able to help the junior kids by helping with the beat of the drums and paying attention. John Boone did not only teach us a lot of drumming skills but there was a reason (theme) behind it. The theme was: Together we can make a change. Everyone listened carefully to the beat, rhythm and pattern on the drums. We all enjoyed the lesson as we had fun interacting with the drums! Another message he included was "If you can say it you can drum it." The drums we used were African drums which are called Djembe. Did you know Djembe actually translates to "brings joy"? Although, everyone had a fun time and a big thank you for John Boone for teaching us a lot of amazing drumming skills and together we can all make a change!

Robotics Design

During week 8 and 9 Victoria and I has created a design for the robotics club this year. We are really proud of how this has turned out. The theme for robotics this year is architecture so Victoria and I tried to link our drawing to the architecture style base. In the drawing we have cross over roads, the robotics EV3 machine, a crane, buildings in the back and a lovely background. At the start we were a bit stuck on how we were going to lay this out but when we linked ideas we were able to come up with this! 

Ballet Lesson with Chloe

Yesterday LS2 had the amazing opportunity to attend and try out ballet with Chloe. A big thank you to both Chloe and Fiona for making this possible. Our first exercise was to firstly loosen up our feet muscles, legs, arms and hips. After our first exercise we started by practicing a few stances and positions. Our first position was to have our feet in a little v shape. After we got the hang of our positions we did a few ballet jumps. Our challenge was to jump using left leg first in the front and using our back leg to push off. After we had finished that we used our hands as our guide using the opposite arm from our front leg and our back hand facing the side. After we all finished the few exercises Chloe taught us the opening to the swan dance. Everyone in LS2 gave everything a go and i'm sure they enjoyed Chloes way of teaching as she was fun and very productive.

Manaiakalani Drawing.

Last week Friday Alex, Jack and I taught a group of Manaiakalani teachers how to draw using google draw. We firstly presented a little DLO about a quick tutorial on how to draw using basic shapes and curve tools. After we gave a quick example on how to draw everyone tried drawing a flower to start  with. I was really proud of how most of them turned out. Teaching everyone was a challenge at first but when I kept going I got more confident and was able to help everyone by giving directions on how to use the tools and explore tool by myself.  

Waltzing Matilda poem / Main ideas and Summary

This week Chavda and I have read a poem called “Waltzing Matilda”. Waltzing Matilda is written by a famous poet called Banjo Patterson. Banjo Paterson wrote lots of famous Australian poems that told what life was like in Australia in the 1880s. We both made two collaborative DLOs. One was about the main idea and the other one was about the actual summary. For the summary we had to unpack the different languages and find out the actual meaning first. Then we wrote in 20 important words, took 6 most important words from those 20 and made a short summary about the story. The other DLO was about the main idea and the evidence to back it up. There were 3 boxes (detail 1, detail 2 and detail 3).

Strengthening connections to maths language

Today Fui and I have been growing our knowledge in maths vocabulary. We have grown our connections to written math problems too. At the beginning of our session Mrs Anderson asked us to think all of the words we use when we say 'hello'. Even though the words mean the same thing a person who is just learning english would find that confusing. After that we were asked to tell our partners what a plane was. All of us said it was a form of transport but Mrs Anderson was talking about the plane in maths (which is a flat surface).  Our challenge was to move the correct boxes to the right places in our DLO to help us notice the words that mean the same thing. For example adding goes to the addition box. This activity helped us with what we needed to know what the words mean in a maths context to help us understand what a question is asking us to do. This was a little bit of a challenge for us because we weren't too sure on some of the words to move to the correct places. so we used a bit of help from the maths dictionary and the explore tool.

Tech (cooking)

Today the year 8s group b had cooking tech today. Mrs Heka was not here today so Mrs Alice was our teacher. We filled out safety, health and hazard forms, named the different equipment and we also did two word searches. If we completed and filled out those forms we had the opportunity to make a health poster when working in the kitchen. My poster was about keeping safe when it comes to sharp object in the kitchen. While completing and filling out some of the forms we helped each other in case someone was stuck. I was stuck on finding some of the words in the word search and luckily the people around me helped out. The words were linked to different vegetables. The word I found the hardest to find was beetroot since it was going diagonal across the page. 

Literary Devices.

This week I have made a google doc (table) about literary devices. The literary devices in the google document are Metaphors, similes, Hyperbole, Personification, Alliteration and Onomatopoeia. I have written the meaning about each one and I have included pictures for an example. This also gave me a recap about each literary device so I have a better understanding of them.