Finding Area In a Fiction Book

 Today Ponui and Pakatoa reading groups were finding out all the different part of a non - fiction book, such as, Tittle, Index, and Subtitle. We read a book on Mapopraphica facts. As a whole group we had to find the right place to put the arrow on. I enjoyed doing this activity because it helped me learn where all the right things are.  We all communicated to each other to figure out the right spot on the book. When some people got it wrong we all helped that person out so that they can know where it is. I got 2 answers wrong, and thanks to everyone for helping me get the right answer.

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Spaghetti Bridge Testing

For the past few weeks Ms Kirkpatrick's inquiry group have been constructing their bridges out of spaghetti pasta. In the beginning everything was pretty easy until the weeks started flying by and the assignment was nearly due. It was also difficult because of the limited supplies. The limited supplies forced all the groups to trade with one and other to get the project done. Zane, Coree and I built a cantilever bridge that was only able to hold one brick. The original design was too difficult to execute so we simplified it. If we had added more triangles or cross braces our bridge would have been able to hold more bricks. The total span of our bridge was 42 centimetres making it the second longest bridge. Sanujan, Jack, and Jericho had constructed a bridge that was able to hold six bricks in total. It was hilarious to see the bridges break and some of the designs were amazing. Personally I think that we had the best looking bridge and was only rivaled by Nyjah's. This has taught me that we should always look at strengthening the deck and to never become an architect.

CARE Award - Respect | Researching The Song Respect

Today I completed another task for my respect CARE award, CARE stands for Confidence, Attitude, Respect and Excellence and Innovation. For it I needed to research interesting facts about Aretha Franklin's song Respect. Along the way I found many new and interesting things like for example; the song's been used in the movie Forrest Gump, although I've watched it I never noticed the song

Tech Reflection - Decorative Letters|Names

We are three weeks into our new orientation at Tamaki College and we have finished our name art. They are different because we did them in decorative letters for example instead of writing an 'I' I did a candle. Mr Pineda (Tech teacher) has laminated it for us and they look great. I drew some patterns from my culture because it is my culture.

Tech Reflection - Charity Box Vocab Saying

For the past few weeks Ms Kirkpatrick's inquiry group have been constructing their bridges out of spaghetti pasta. In the beginning everything was pretty easy until the weeks started flying by and the assignment was nearly due. It was also difficult because of the limited supplies. The limited supplies forced all the groups to trade with one and other to get the project done.Zane,Coreef and I built a cantilever bridge that was only able to hold one brick. The original design was to difficult to execute so we simplified it. If we had added more triangles or cross braces our bridge would have been able to hold more bricks. The total span of our bridge was 42 centimetres making it the second longest bridge. Sanujan, Jack, and Jericho had constructed a bridge that was able to hold six bricks in total. It was hilarious to see the bridges break and some of the designs were amazing. Personally I think that we had the best looking bridge and was only rivalled by Nyjah's. This has taught me that we should always look at strengthening the deck and to never become an architec

Duffy assembly

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

Hipposandal DLO

Today for reading our group read a story about Horseshoes. After we finished reading and answered the question we move of to the making DLO. For this activity I need to make the DLO that shows labeled Hipposandals. One of the thing that I learnt was Hippo is the Latin for Horse.

Tech - Graphics

Today is the second week for the DVS tech. We carry on last week's drawing. Our teacher is called Mr Pineda. I learnt how to shade a drawing. The hardest thing about drawing is the size so I used ruler to measure the words. i am still drawing my name, so after that i can color it in. 

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi can we were focusing on our topic perseverance. Perseverance is when you don't bother doing something but you need to keep trying and never giving up. Everyone in the world will have a time when they be through perseverance.  First thing we did was we talked about this topic and how this could help us in the future or in school. For our enegiser we played a game called named strangle. It is when you grab each other hand and make a line until everyone is tagged. And then at last we played our activity which was invisible touch. The game play goes like rugby touch but without no ball. Even though some people loss, they did not give up and tried again.

Basic facts boxes

Mr Wong created a fun math challenge for us. It was about fun facts up to 100. There were two strategies, which was addition and subtraction. I only got to do the addition part because i still have work to finish off. Maybe another available time i can do the subtraction part. I used my place value strategy to work out the addition fun facts. This really helped me with my learning.

Learning the different areas in a fiction book

 Today Ponui and Pakatoa reading groups were finding out all the different part of a non - fiction book, such as, Tittle, Index, and Subtitle. We read a book on 100 facts. As a whole group we had to find the right place to put the arrow on. I enjoyed doing this activity because it helped me learn where all the right things are.  We all communicated to each other to figure out the right spot on the book. When some people got it wrong we all helped that person out so that they can know where it is. I got 2 answers wrong, and thanks to everyone for helping me get the right answer.

Wheel words

Today we played a game of wheel words. It helps us with our learning and our thinking. It always help me with my vocabulary. And you can also learn and find new words. We had 10 minutes to try and figure out as many words as you can with the letter in the middles. My middle letter was I. I managed to find out 11 words all together. I recommended this game for little children to learn their punctuation and spelling.

Whare Hauora Blessing

Panmure Bridge School is the home of New Zealand's first Medicube. The purpose of this new building is to make sure that children are fit for school and that they get a sense of focus so that they do not worry about getting sick. Our nurses will carry on doing a good job and making sure we are healthy. Like every new building at Panmure Bridge School the Maori blessing took place early in the morning and as we are in kapahaka, we were asked to perform a waiata and represent our school. Our waita was He Honore which was a nice soft waiata that we sang to with just an acoustic guitar. We were all proud of our efforts and it was a honour to partake in this event. The Kaumatua went around the medicube blessing the building in Maori. We all followed the visitors into the medicube looking at the space the health nurses will be working in.

Note Making - Buildings and Structures

At the beginning of our learning of buildings and structures we wrote down what we knew about what they are and what their purpose is. The questions we were asked were what is a structure, who is involved what materials is it made out of, and famous examples. Their were a lot of famous examples as we hear about them fairly regularly. At the start we did not have a good understanding of what they are and we are now using that as foundation so that we can add more information.

Similarities & Differences - Auckland Viaduct Harbour bridge & Golden Gate Bridge

Today we have created a Venn diagram which compare and contrasts the similarities and differences of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Auckland Viaduct Harbour Bridge. The similarity which most people will not think of is that they are both built in Westernised nations. As Ofa (my partner) and I searched for information we found three similarities and fourteen differences. The Golden Gate Bridge is equal to 27 of New Zealand's viaduct harbour bridges as the viaduct bridge is 330 ft and the Golden Gate Bridge is 8,981 ft.

VR - Virtual Reality

Today is a really fun day, because we are learning using VR and Magic Window. There are some people doing VR and some people doing Magic Window. Me, I use VR to learn about bridges and how they construct them. Thank you Yvonne and her research team for making this possible, it is a very great idea to use VR to learn about bridges. I learn and see lots of things like: how they use punt to cross the river and how Panmure Bridge has made. Yvonne and her research team is from Augmented (AR- Augmented Reality) Human Lab at Auckland University, they work hard so they can give us an experience of Virtual Reality. We also do some test like eye test, 3D shape test and we also have a test that we need to walk in straight line so we can see if we are balance walking in a straight line 

Rugby Union Inter School

Yesterday PBS year 5 to year 8 students had Rugby Inter School at the Auckland University rugby ground. We had 2 different teams from our school.
The Boys year 7 and 8 Open team played 5 games. First was Pt England which we lost 5-1. We then went unbeaten for the rest of the day beating Glen Innes 4-3, A Barbarians team 4-2, St Pius 11-2 and Bailey Road 4-1. This means we finished 2nd overall.
The girls Rippa Rugby team played Bailey Rd and drew 2-2, they then played Sylvia park and won 7-6. This meant they won the competition.

Kiwi Caper Orchestra Trip

Today went to the Kiwi Capers Orchestra, we watch a performance by Auckland Philharmonia. We listen to 3 pieces of music and one of them was from Romeo and Juliet. We also watched a dance performance from St Kentigern and Ngatapuwae. It was fun watching the Auckland Philmornia play their instruments like: Violin, Trumpet, Trombone, Cello, Triangles and many more. There are different section of intruments, Brass has the Trumpets and Tuba, Woodwind has the Flutes and Clarinet, String has the Violing and the Harp and last one is the Percusion, It has the drums, triangles and Cymbals

Wheel Words - 10 minutes

Today we played a game of wheel words. It helps us with our learning and our thinking. It always help me with my vocabulary. And you can also learn and find new words. We had 10 minutes to try and figure out as many words as you can with the letter in the middles. My middle letter was E. I managed to find out 13 words all together. I recommended this game for little children to learn.