Reading Progress

For the past two years I have been taught by Ms Kirkpatrick and Mrs Anderson. They are both great teachers and to help us enlarge our knowledge they provide us websites such as read theory. While I have been in Learning Space Two I have been practising my reading by using Read Theory. Today the class have gathered information from our Read Theory accounts to create a statistical graph that shows our improvement between last year and this year. 

Touch Cluster

On Tuesday the 13th (which was yesterday) part of the year 5,6,7, and 8 at Panmure Bridge School went down to Dunkirk for the touch Inter Schools. There were 11 schools including us which. The schools that the year 8 yellow team (my team) verse were Tamaki Primary, Pt England, Glenn Taylor, and Stone Fields. We manage to beat Tamaki Primary 5-1. We then verse Stonefields which we won 4-2. After that we verse Glenn Taylor and unfortunately we lost 3-2. Our fourth game was against Pt England. Unfortunately we lost 3-0. After our four games we went into cross over. So since we came 3rd in our pool we got to verse the team who came 4th in their pool. Surprisingly we versed our other year 8 team. We all played our hardest, but we won 2-1. We then played for 5th and 6th against Tamaki Primary (second game against them). We won 3-2 against them. I would like to say a big thank you to Mr Ogilvie for making this happen and also for coaching and supervising us.

Book Week

This week is Book Week. For book week we were splitted into groups. After that we were to answer questions based on books such as: What is your favorite author?, Do illustrations matter? Why?, Do you read the blurb of the book? etc. After answering each questions we were to make a bar or pie graph on one of the questions. I picked the questions: How important is the cover and Why the cover is important? We used the information that people wrote on the paper to help us make our bar graph and pie chart.

WW1: Who Were Apart Of The Allied Forces?

Today we have been learning more about WW1. We have listed many questions we would like to figure out. Our main question was, who were the allied forces? This question was something our group talked about, and was something we could agree with to have a understanding to our answer. 

Armistice Day: Collage

Today we remembered the people who died in world war 1 and created a collage about when world war 1 ended. These photos show people and the soldiers celebrating when the war ended. We added photos of the newspapers that came out when the war ended. We learnt that 135 countries participated in the world war and over 500,000 unknown soldiers fell.

Collaborative Comprehension: Battle Of The Somme

Today for reading we are learning about the Battle of the Somme. For this activity I worked with Carl , we worked collaboratively and helped each other to finished this task. I learnt that the war last 4 months/181 days and I learnt that the word catastrophic in this text means hectic or crazy. The Battle of the Somme, it was a battle between British and German but it started between French and German. French soldier order British army to help them beat German soldiers, but at the first day of the war many young British soldiers had died. The most challenging question for me was 'Explain in your own words what the British plan was?' because I need to make my own opinion.

The Ocean

The Deep Dark Ocean

Down Down Down in the deep dark ocean lives some terrifying

sea creatures. So deep some sea creatures haven’t been

discovered yet.

In the ocean there are many scary animals like:

different types of sharks, different types of whales and

many more. The most dangerous creature to roam the

seas is the shark. The most famous shark is the Megalodon shark

people say it still roams the ocean but it has been extinct for

2.6 million years.

Even tho swimming in the deep blue ocean in dangerous places

are risky it is still beautiful. In our world the ocean is very vital

because it produces the rain in our world and it also provides 50

times more oxygen to our world and it also cover 70 percent of

the earth's surface.

Did you know that there are seven oceans in our world.

They are called the: the Arctic Ocean the North

Atlantic Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean, the

Indian Ocean, the North Pacific Ocean, the South

Pacific Ocean, the Southern/ Antarctic Ocean. These

are really important because it again provides 50

percent of our carbon dioxide and covers 70% to

71% percent of our earth's surface.

The ocean is a very vital part of this world.

It has two sides to it the beautiful side and a

very dangerous side. It is very important because

it is part of our water cycle.

Tech Reflection

Today at tech I was finally up to carving my designs. Before we carved our designs we had to draw and colour them onto the cardboard we had to carve on. I found this activity not that hard because I had watched my friends carve and I already knew what to do.

Maths Problem: Radius, Circumference And Diameter

Today we played the Radius and Diameter game on Khad Academy and we were to make a DLO with three of the problems and explain how we solved the three questions. For one of the questions it says: If the radius is 7.5 what is the diameter. This was pretty easy because all you had to do was times 7.5 by 2. The answer was 15. There were 2 others that we explained in our DLO. If you don't know what the radius and the diameter is well the radius is half the circle and the diameter is times the radius. I have worked together with Alex and Fraidoon to create this DLO. 

Converting Fractions Into Decimals

Today for maths we played a game which was for people who have finished their work. This game was called Puppy Chase Fractions to Decimals. This game was pretty easy because all you had to do was convert the fractions into decimals. If you got the right answer your puppy would move forward. This was a race so I tried my best to get all answers right. At the end I came first. I got 100% which means I didn't get any wrong.

Tech Reflection - Art

Today we had tech. The tech group I was in was art. I have finished drawing all of my cultural designs on my piece of paper which means I know have to copy my designs on to a wooden plank and then carve all of the empty pieces. 

Shake Out!

Today we were learning about New Zealand's National Shakeout day. I worked collaboratively to finish this task with San Kyaw and Tiava. I learnt that when there is an earthquake you need to Drop, Cover and Hold. I also learnt that an earthquake happens when two tectonic plates underground are rubbing together which causes friction on the surface. Did you know that if there was an earthquake happening there usually tsunamis which is the side effect of an earthquake.

Duffy Assembly - Michel Mulipola

Today Panmure Bridge had their Term 3 Duffy Assembly. We had two special guest Campbell from Main freight and our special visitor Michel Mulipola. If you don't who he is, he is a comic book illustrations. It was surprising to hear that he was a professional wrestler, and a semi-professional tekken gamer. He came to tell us about his life story and what he does as a career. I was shocked to hear that he was a semi-professional tekken gamer. He was also here to give out our Duffy Books. The second photo above is a picture he has illustrated for the book Fanene Peter Maivia (Son Of Samoa). The photo is Dwayne Johnson's grandfather. In this book it talks about how Peter Maivia is wrestling for the world title in Samoa, Apia. In my perspectives I think Michel has illustrated this character amazingly. We all thank him for what he had done today and hope he comes again. I would also like to thank Campbell from Main freight who came today and our two librarians who sorted out our library books.

Spaghetti Bridges/Brick Test

Today for inquiry we were testing our bridges that we have been working on from the past 1 to 2 weeks. Everyone in our inquiry group had to build there bridge out of 1 pack of spaghetti. I think the group I worked in did an awesome job because the first time we went up it was only able to hold 5 bricks. It was very exciting when our bridge held up 3 because our group predicted that it would only be able to hold up 2. Since the bridge only held up five and slipped, we came back at the end of the session and tried to carry the most amount of bricks which was eight we didn't really think that it would hold up 8 bricks but it did. Our bridges span was 25 cm and could hold between 5 to 8 bricks.  

Why Do People Build Bridges?

Why Do People Build Bridges?

As you can see there are a lot of bridges around the world.
Bridges today remain for many purposes such as easy access, needing to cross, get
to one place to another, going over and not thru. You see some bridges are still standing today.
Many bridges around the world have a different names instead of a normal bridge name.
There are a ton of bridges that are made for different purposes.

Most people think that Bridges were simply made so you can get from point A to B.
Another reasons is that they built a bridges so people don’t have to risk their lives going threw a river.
Bridges are also made because it is easier, faster and it is a more efficient way to get from city to city.

Back in the 17 century the first bridge was made. It was called the Iron Bridge.
It was made for easy accessible natural resources like: wood logs, stone and dirt and
was built to make an easier route to get to the other side, instead of going over deep
valleys and threw rivers.

These structures have the ability to cover a long distance, which makes getting from place to place very simple.
Bridges are very vital because without them you would have to be going on a vehicle ferry to get to the
other side which takes a lot of time and down and up the valley which takes up a lot of time, but when we
have bridges you can just go straight over which makes it very efficient and easy.

It is easier to see why people build bridges now.

The point was that it could save lives, time, and saves you from going in a
boat and go over the river. There's much more than just the view from a bridge or just crossing it.

For centuries around the world, bridges have improved the operation of society and have also benefited the transportation of necessities. To answer the question 'Why do people build bridges?' I have written an explanation which will hopefully tell people about the importance of bridges and how it has contributed to the shaping of modern society.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days: Character Review

This is my character review. we had to pick a certain part of the book and draw a comic on it. This comic strip is about I boy named Greg who wanted to spend his time inside playing video games all summer, but his mom had different plans for Greg and his family. She wanted her family to spend more time together outside of the house. 

Diary Of A Wimpy: Dog Days: Theme Review

This is my theme review where we had to explain the 2 main themes in this book. The 2 main themes in this book are togetherness and friendship. Togetherness is shown when his mom told him to spend some more time with family and friends. He does show that quality when he goes with his friends and family to spend time at a beach house. He also shows it when he wants to go to the pool with his family. Friendship is shown when he becomes friends again with Rowley.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days: Setting Review

This is my setting review. I had to draw/create the main places that are in this book. The main places were: the beach, the country club, Greg's house, Rowley's house and there lawn mowing service. I found the setting very interesting since it was set in multiple places.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days: Authors Purpose Review

For reading we were given multiple task to review the book. The first task I finished was the authors purpose review. I had to find out what the main purpose or purposes for the book. There were 2 main purposes of this book which was to entertain and to inform you about problems 8th graders have which was in this case staying inside playing video games and not spending time with family and friends.

After School Basketball - Semi Finals

On Wednesday both Panmure Bridge basketball teams (all year 7 & 8) went down to Tamaki College to play basketball which we do every Wednesday. There were two teams named Panmure Bridge Orange and Panmure Bridge Green. It was a big game for Panmure Bridge Orange (my team) since they were in the Semi Finals trying to qualify in the Finals. We verse Stonefields which was the toughest team we've ever verse in the competition. They had some pretty tall students, but that didn't change our hopes of winning. We sticked to our plan which was: always mark or defend a player and get the rebounds. We tried our best to that and at the end won the game. We were happy to make to the Finals versing Pt England. Hopefully we win the Finals and be the first Panmure Bridge year group to win a Basketball tournament. A huge thank you to Mr Ogilvie for making us part of this competition and also for the transport.