Leadership Challenges

This week is the leadership week for the year 7's. Leadership week is when the year 7's gather together to develop their leadership skills. Yesterday we all got into groups and we started completing different challenges together. Throughout these challenges we were communicating, collaborating, and showing team work. Our first task was a given question that needed to be answered by our groups. The question was how can you motivate others to drink water. It was challenging, because we weren't allowed to talk during this challenge. Our team's idea was to create an animation based on kids drinking water. We also discussed about the word teamwork. Teamwork to us means a group of people coming together to share new ideas and agree on each others opinions. After this we headed to the hall to complete another challenge. For this challenge we were to create the largest pyramid by using isometric diamonds. We worked as a group by discussing what each person was to do during this challenge. Angela and I were tracing around the template, while Jonathan and I were cutting it out and placing it on the piece of paper. As a result Alex's group won for this challenge. Lastly we were to find another group to work with. This time we were to gather our shapes together and build the largest pyramid. This time we were allowed to talk. In my group I had Angela, Mele, Jonathan, Jack, Neveah, Avalon, Chavda, and myself. This meant that there were 2 groups with 8 people in it. Before starting this challenge we came together to discuss about what each person was going to do. Avalon, Angela, and Neveah were drawing, while Chavda and Mele were tracing the templates. Jack and I were placing it on, while Jonathan was collecting the isometric diamonds for the cutters. As a result our group won this challenge. Were all enjoyed our time, but at the end of the day everyone are winners. 

Leadership

This week the year 7's were learning about leadership. Leadership means working together talking and having a leader because everything wouldn't be fine without a leader to control and help our teams. l was working with Mele, Jonathan, Angela and I. We worked together as a group to complete our challenges that were set for us. The first activity we had was to write down and answer the questions we were given. l was the leader for my group and l was trying to help the people that needed it. The next thing we did was go into the hall and do our next leadership challenge as a group for this activity we needed all of our craft stuff in each group then we sat away from each group we had to try and create the biggest pyramid out of Colored Paper, Scissors, and White paper. Those were the things we needed for our challenge. The last group challenge we did was we played a game that would help us work as a team this challenge was called tunnel crawling we had to go underneath people's legs and stomach to get to the other side of the hall it was hard put we worked as a team to  lost of the first round the next round we won.  

Maori Battalion Timeline

For Inquiry, Miki, Josh, Nevaeh and I worked together as a group to complete the Maori Battalion Timeline DLO. This shows the timeline of the Maori Battalion's time on the battlefield. We all show a lot of respect to the people who have fought for our king and country. The white skin and the dark skin people were separated. They also have different jobs the British got the better jobs and the Maoris got the worst and least paying jobs after the war. In the battlefield they worked as a team and became friends. Then went their separate ways.    

 

Reading: Book Week | Wolf Myths and Facts

This week has been book week. We have had quite a few challenges based on the stories we read as young children. Our teacher Mrs Anderson has also set us a few challenges based on a few books that she read as a child. This one being Wolves. It is written by Emily Gravett, and illustrated by her too. This book explains and gives a few facts about wolves, and includes lovely images to paint a picture into your head. Our challenge, was to come up with around 5 myths about how wolves live, and them research them  and see if they are true or false. This task could be done alone, or with a partner, so I chose to work with Jack.

Story Line

on tuesday we had to create a DLO were we would make a lie from when we were 5 to the age of 12 and tell the person that is reading the DLO what was my favorite book and it went from clifford the big red dog and hairy maclary to the guardians of ga'hoole this was another one of my favorite activities for book week.

Meerkats

this week is PBS book week and we have been doing really fun activity and also our teacher has been reading books from a lady called Emmily Gravett. She writes really good picture books her books teach us different this about things like wolves phobias and meerkats. She made me learn that meerkat are related to mongooses and that they do everything together and eat really weird stuff.    

Tech: Creating Isometric Cubes

Today for tech we have been working on making isometric cubes it was a very fun activity we had to use a grid that our tech teacher had printed for use so we got rulers, white pencils and three different pieces of paper. This sounds much more fun than it sounds. I liked it because we got to cut out stuff and do lots of very fun things this was the best time if had at tech this term.   

Book Week: Do You Read the Blurb

This is the the question we had to answer along with a lot of other questions this activity was really fun and interesting. In the bar graph at the bottom it is the results of everyone's opinion the green is yes and the red is no and as you can see that most people prefer to read the blurb than others.  

Reading: Book Week | Re-Design Cover

This week is book week for Panmure Bridge School. What we are doing for this week are a few challenges based on the books that we have read in our past, and about reading in general. For this challenge, we were to re-create the cover of a book that we read in our childhood. The book that I did was Noah Dreary, and I worked on this activity with Jack, and Fraidon. We had all read and loved this story, so it was an easy choice between which book we did this on. I had a lot of fun doing this activity, and I believe that Fraidon and Jack had just as much fun.

Our Remake:

Original:

Book Week: Alphabet Key

Around The World And Eighty Days	New Moon
Butterfly	Over Sea, Under Stone
Catching Fire	Peter Pan
Divergent	Queen Of Spades
Ella Enchanted	Romeo And Juliet
Fangirl	Star Trek
Glitch	Twilight
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire	Under The Never Sky
I Am Number Four	Vampire Academy
J.K Rowling	Wonder
Kite Runner	Xanadu
Lion King	Yeti And The Bird
Mockingjay	Zoomer

This week is book week for Panmure Bridge School. What we are doing for this week are a few challenges based on the books that we have read in our past. For this challenge we needed to do an alphabet key on book tittles/Authors. I did this task with the help of Fraidoon and Julian. I found this task really easy and I will try to do harder challenges next time.  

Book Week Challange

Today we have been going down memory lane and also it is book week for our school our school's name is Panmure Bridge so it is panmure bridge book week. This is my book history from age 5 to age 12. I think my favorite book would have to been Guardians of ga'hoole because I love the the way it looks and how I can make the voices up in my head and also it is like a fighting book and the parents sound cool but mainly it is because there are no humans in the story. 

Armistice commemorations

Today we had a commemoration and it was for armistice. It was one of the most heartwarming moments of my life. We were joined by a person from the NZ army. I was so amazed by the way that everyone was so respectful and focused and I was proud of Aung Naing for doing the flag and also I was most amazed at my brother and Taiva for saying the oath calmly and confidently. The reason we commemorated the soldiers that lost their lives was because it is armistice but it was our own armistice commemoration. We also learnt new songs and they were called the last post and the other one was called reveille. Before we all got together we planted the poppies. Then before the commemoration ended one of our teachers read the flanders field poem.         

Armistice Day Commemoration

To commemorate those who fell in the first world war LS2's task was to create a photo collage of people and soldiers celebrating the end of the first world war, I worked with Julian. Another task that we were set was researching World War 1, over 18,000 New Zealander soldiers died in World War 1, and around 37 million people died all together. World War 1 caused so many young men and women to lose their lives, whether from bombing, trenches or disease, their sacrifice should not and will not be forgotten.

WW1 Facts

for inquiry we have been learning about world war one and in world war one there was a lot of things introduced and also used. like there was the trench life and miniguns and we also learnt of other things that was very satisfying like there were zeppelins and submarines I thought submarines were built in the 2000 but we learn things every day.    

The War of Somme

                    

for a reading activity we were talking, reading and learning about the war of somme. I learnt that over 200, 000 french lost their lives. it was sad fun and quite interesting to find out about the war of somme. The thing I found hard about finding out the answers was finding the information on the list.