HIIT

Today for HIIT LS2 worked on building our strength. Three stations were set around the hall for us. Although we all got into partners and completed these challenges together. Victoria (my partner) and I first started with press ups. We took turns at doing different types of push ups like army push ups or spreading our legs when doing a press up so it is a little bit more easy for us. Our next rotation was Mountain Climbers. I found this activity the most challenging as my upper body and legs were getting tired very quickly. Our last rotation was lifting ourselves up just below the bar. My partner had to hold both sides of the pole just to make sure it was stable. When pushing myself up I felt fine but when pushing down I felt very tired. Our final challenge of HIIT was a remake of the beep test. We all did a squat challenge to the song "bring sally up."

Maths Game - Mixed Decimals

During week 9 and 10 I have created a mixed decimals game. I have 5 questions in total and one out of four answers are correct. If you get a question incorrect you can always try again or click on the "help link." If you get the answer correct you move onto the next level. Each level is mixed so not every question is hard or easy. Although, each question does involve decimals and addition. When designing my presentation (game) I decided to have a flower / nature like theme. I made the flowers on the correct slide green and red for the incorrect slide. Each question involves thinking and strategies like place value. Think, Choose wisely an good luck!

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).