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These are blog comments to a classmate, PBS student, Our class blog, and Manaaiakalani cluster blog! The whole purpose behind this was to help us make a proper blog comment without any negative or wrong spelling!

Tamaki College Visit

Today Miss Bunce and and Mr Dunn came to our school from Tamaki College to talk about a few things. First we had Mr Dune come up and talked to us about the Samsung scholarship for those who are coming from this school into Tamaki College. These scholarships were only for those that were going to Tamaki College and have good grades. These scholarships were sponsored by Samsung and will be presented at Prize giving. Then we had Miss Bunce come up and helped handed out the certificates for our participation towards Technology with her. We had to create a moon rover that will have traveled further than 3 meters. They came in and presented the certificates for our work.

Why Math is important!

This is a video that some of my classmates and I collaborated on. We made this video about why Maths is important. We went for a relaxed and funny comedy video, since more students went for a serious approach. 

Flag Votes graph

This is graph and information about the flags that our school voted for.

Choosing the new flag

All the pupils in Panmure Bridge School voted for which ever flag they liked best, in the options above. We had 4 minutes to read each flag's meaning behind it independently, 3 minutes to get with a partner and talk about your reasons for why you like the flag you're going to chose, 2 minutes to find a new buddy and talk with them about it, and then 1 minute to find a group of 4 to discuss your own perspectives on each flag. We did this because we work better together. 3 of the people in our group chose the last flag in the picture, for reasons such as: I made personal connections to it, It represents multiple cultures and also because it is instantly recognized as New Zealand's. 2 of the people in our group chose the first flag for reasons such as:  I liked the design and because it's easily recognized as ours due to the Silver Fern. Although they are very alike, we still had reasons for choosing the other flag. The 3 of who chose the red flag, liked it because it represented blood, yet some of us chose the black flag because it represents our history and the night.

The flags we chose are above. The first flag is the flag that 2 of the people in our group voted for and the last flag is the one that 3 of the people in our group voted for. 

Basketball: Year 7 n 8

Today the yr 7 and 8's have had their last session of basketball. We had another game of golden child and also had a game of basketball. 

Why we should have maths in school.

This is my Writing Sample about 'Why we should have maths in school'. I am going for this because if you read it, it will give you my reasons. 

Get 1! Give 1!

This poster is basically about our maths strategies from around the class. Our class has shared the best maths strategy to each other and also gave one back. That's how we got the title. After all that we looked at our results and chose one the best strategies from our list and use it next year. 

Alan Duff DLO

Today we had a very important visitor that came to our school today and his name was 'Alan Duff'. He was the creator of Duffy and he came to our school because 

Aretha Franklin RESPECT

I researched about the very well known song ‘Respect”by Aretha Franklin for a CARE Award task Respect. I found out that the song was originally by artist, Otis Redding. Aretha Franklin's song won two grammy awards as it was said to be one of the best R&B songs of the era. Franklin’s song focuses on female empowerment and is about a strong confident woman, wanting respect from her partner.

The Lyrics to the song can be found at this link: RESPECT LYRICS

And the song can be found at this link: RESPECT SONG

Working with my Critical Friend

Today, Room 5 and Room 6 students collaborated together, to alter and edit copied documents of their writing samples from Term 4. I worked with Samantha on this, and first we worked on my document. We used the rubric to help us see what stage our text was at, and the next steps in order to move our writing to the next level. Our critical friends help us by seeing the mistakes in our writing that we don't see ourselves. Me and Samantha went around the class and videoed a few people and ask them how their work was going. That was a really great lesson and the rubric was very helpful to our writing samples. 

Term 4 response

Learning Intention:

To reflect on personal goals set in Term 1.

Dear: Term 1 Shantay

Did I do well? sometimes I think I’ve been the WORST ugliest student Mrs Anderson has ever had. In fact I’ve done well in my test. Mrs Anderson says that I’ve gone up in Writing(not being cocky) but yeah I have enjoyed this year as much as you expected to be. Thank you for giving me the advice on how to pass my goals and YES! I’ve received 2 certificates (Kiwi Can and Self Managing) Mrs Anderson is a very polite kb teacher!! She knows how to keep us in line with work and stuff... even though we don’t listening (us naughty children) but yeah! I like my class with Mrs Anderson! DID YOU HEAR? I have finally reached the end of this year but out of blues I got told I was sports leader!! I was pleased to be the next leader for Panmure Bridge School. Anyways enough of that, I think I’ve been a one of a kind student to Mrs Anderson and Miss Donaldson. But yeah Thank you for giving me the chance to set my goals for this year.

From: Term 4 Shantay

Alan Duff DLO

This is my Alan Duff DLO. He came to our school to visit!

Quote 3- Albert Einstein

I love Albert's quotes because they inspire me a lot. This is for my Care Awards challenge and I have chose this quote because this has helped me to explain my thinking more! 

Quote from Nelson Mandela

This is my second quote! I like this quote because Nelson played a really good role in his past!

Quote from a Inspiring person- Albert Einstein

This is a quote that I ave created for my Care Awards! This quote inspired me a lot because this encourages me to try new things. 

Wahine Disaster

This is my homework presentation. It is about the Wahine Disaster.

Water Safety Current Events

This is my water safety current events. It was about a man who was found on Whangarei harbor floating with a life jacket on. Apparently their was a accident near snails beach but he was with another person with him during the accident. The other man was found before this fella did so I decided to do a current events about him to remember him and Stewart Atutahi. 

Mystics Beat Steel Current Events

This is my current events about the Mystics Beat Steel. I have created this because I like to netball and the Mystics are a New Zealand team.

Cyclone Pam Current events

This is my current events about Cyclone Pam. Apparently it hit the North Island of New Zealand. 

Athlectis Day

Today was good day. We had our school tabloid where everyone had done different activities. The main one was the sprints! The whole school competed other students from the same year level. It was only just our school. The year 7 & 8's had a very challenging race but they all seemed to participate very well!

A Wild Ride timeline

This is a short descriptive timeline about the book I have read. The book is called 'A Wild Ride' 

Reading History

This is my reading history. I liked to read these books because it really inspired me by their cover even though they say 'don't judge a book by its cover' 

Comprehension practice

This is a simple takes that Ms Anderson has set for us. It was strove a practice for our English.

Ifake text: Simple machines

This is my ifake text. Me and Samantha used it to have a conversation about Genghis Khan, the Mongolian leader.  This task was based on our simple machines; Wheel and Axe

Treaty of Waitangi KWL

KWL Chart about treaty of Waitangi. 

Cricket World Cup task

This was my task for the CWC! I had to complete each and one of these task and post them on my blog. 

Cricket World Cup DLO

This is my cricket DLO because it is based on the Cricket World cup. 

Cricket World Cup: Current Events

This is my cricket DLO about the Cricket World Cup. 

Cake decoration for Tech

This is what my group for Cooking at tech this is how to create out cake. we should create the cake.

Japanese task

Japanese task

This is what I have done for Japanese! 

Japanese culture DLO: Samantha and Shantay

This is mine and Samantha's Japanese DLO. I had to chose one thing from a clip that we saw and create a DLO of our choice. I have noticed the buildings in the clip that they were interesting because they looked weird.

Japanese

Me and Mengchun had completed this for Japanese! This lesson took place with Mr Wong.

Food diary

This is my food diary that I have done for homework. I had to record everything down on this so I know my health levels.

Thank You letter to Ms Anderson: Care Awards

This is my Thank you letter to Ms Anderson because she is my teacher and I appreciative the work she does for me! 

Comparison between my Writing Samples

I did 2 writing samples this year and we had to compare them between the both of them. This is basically an Venn Diagram. 

Abraham Lincoln: CARE AWARDS

This is one of my CARE awards challenge. I had to create a DLO on a respected leader. I have chose Abraham Lincoln because he was a interesting president of USA.

Science Jaffa Roll experiment

This is a collaborative piece that my group has worked on. This prezi is about our Jaffa roll challenge that we will be doing at Tamaki College.

Science at Tamaki College

Today the year 7 and 8 syndicate stayed at Tamaki College after technology in the morning. We were introduced to 'Mission: Moon Rover'. The year 7 and 8's split into the two classrooms while in groups of 4. The aim of our mission for the next 4 weeks, is to build and make a moon rover made form materials in a mystery box given at the time, that will scramble at least 3 metres long. The next session will be on Friday afternoon.

The screw: Simple machines

Leaver: Simple Machines

This is sortv'e an simple DLO of how an leaver works! An leaver is a old machine they use to use back in the days.

Basketball homework

This weeks homework for Basketball was to buddy up and study on basketball rule. Next week we will have to be presenting it to our class. 

Basketball Homework

Last week we had our basketball Kiwi sport and we got set a homework task. Our task was to find 2 NBA basketball players that are in the same team and find out what any school they went to and what number their jersey is. I have done these 2 players because it was something different to other peoples choice.  

Photo Collage: Jaffa Experiment

This is a photo collage that my group created, using pictures from the Jaffa Experiment. Our group collaborated together to create a simple machine made form cardboard, using scissors and tape. We created this machines as a path to roll the Jaffa on. The aim of the experiment was to see how far the Jaffa would roll. This collage displays people lining up to roll the Jaffa, our group building our machine and a paper of how we built it. 

Fireworks Safety reflection

Presenting to the juniors in Room 12 wasn't that hard. They were really focused on what we were talking about. We were talking about the Fireworks safety and 5 rules about it!

Australia and NZ Media mockery!

This is my Rugby world cup DLO. It was a task to do anything with the Rugby world Cup 2015. At the end of the day the All Blacks made their supporters proud because they won the whole thing! 

6 Thinking hats presentation

This is my google presentation about the 6 thinking hats. We have read an article about a girl has has to suffer though her accident. This story was a few years back so we decided to study about it using the 6 thinking hats.

Digital Tech Planner

This is like my scrap google draw planner. I have selected images to create my end master piece on Scratch! This task was set from my teacher at tech at Tamaki College. 

Guy Fawkes safety Poster: Room 12

This piece of work is was made collaboratively by our group. We have created this because its Guy Fawkes today and we wanted to make sure that the Juniors were safe with them! So us as leaders decided to create this piece of work to present to them. 

Problem Solving Revision- $1 and $2 problem

7x Poster

This is my google draw poster I have created about the 7x tables. They are different types of strategy's that can be used for 7 times multiplication questions. They are 6 strategy's with a different equation. I have done a Algorithm, Groups, Fractions, and skip counting.  

Xylophone music session with Mrs Anderson

Today was great! We had music lesson using the instrument Xylophones. It was interesting to see what people know and what people need to work on. We have learnt the song 'Come marching in' We went into pairs to practice the song. After we finished in pairs we buddies up with  another pair which made it our group. We practiced our piece of work altogether to get ready to perform. We performed out piece of music on the Xylophones and it went well for us. Thanks to Fine and Mrs Anderson for helping us. 

Cross Country

Last week we had cross country all though I didn't run because of my knee injury that I had on my left leg. I was encouraging those who did participate and I also took photos of those who ran. They did well! 

Week1 - Term4 - Day3- Maths DLO

Week1 -Term4 - Day2- Maths DLO

Day 2. I have completed this equations using my own strategy. Paige has helped me with this question because I have got a little mixed up. 

Week1 - Term4 - Day 1- Maths DLO

Each day we have to complete a slide each day of presentation that my teacher has created. This is my DLO and strategy that shows you how I have solved this question to get the answer. I have use plus and minus to solve the equation and this is what I've done. 

Ukulele lessons

Yesterday we had Ukulele lessons with Fine, Yvette and Tim. They taught us the chords of the songs and the strum! It was fun and challenging to some people! 

Shake Out!

Today Panmure Bridge School and more others from around New Zealand, did the Shake Out drill. We do it every year on October the 15th at 9:15am so we know what to do in a real earthquake and it was very helpful for us and for our safety. This is my DLO about the Shake Out we did today! 

Story swap with Zeba

I stood outside wondering if I should take a step into the house. As I took more steps it felt like the house was pulling me closer. All these thoughts were rushing through my mind whether to go in or not . I decide to enter the house every step I took one of the floorboards would creek.

I hear floorboards creek but not from my footsteps I wonder is someone in here , had I just broke into someone's house. I was petrified of what was going to happen next. I had gone so far that I couldn't run back know I was to far away to backdown know. So I hid inside one of the rooms. 

I was so intrigued about my surroundings and how old the things were, there was a bed with an ancient hand made doll on top holding a box with a lock.

I am suddenly so interested about what is inside. I start venture for the key in the dark with only a glimpse of light from the windows to see.

Here me and Zeba have done a story swap. A story swap is when you and your partner writes one sentence and carry on until it turns into a story. Me and Zeba had a lot of fun doing the story swap . We both found out what we needed to work on when writing a story. I found out what Zeba needed to work and Zeba worked out what I needed to work on next time we write a story.

Maths Strategy

This is my strategy that I have used to solve my question of the day. At the end I have ended up with the answer of 3670. I have used plus and minus to solve this. 

Maths question.

This is my strategy that I've use to solved this questions. Paige helped me to figure some of the numbers and put them in the right place. 

Morning Session- Learning From Eachother

Today my group was looking at other schools sites so we can learn from there piece of work. We were mostly looking at the recounts and what they need help with, so that we can take those ideas and use it for our own recount writing. It's good to learn from each other because it helps us improve our mistakes. 

Grid Challenge

Today we have been introduced into a Maths game called 'Grid Challenge' This maths activity helps us with our X-tables, Multiplication, and Skip Counting. The aim of the game is to roll the dice and times it by how much you have rolled. Fill in the grid using those two numbers and the winner with the less amount of squares let over, wins!