Linc-Ed Evidence - Writing

This term I have given evidence for 3 literacy goals on Linc-Ed. I've proved adding technical words relating to the subject, I've written an explanation and I've written and used ideas that related to my topic.

Elephants Toothapaste - Immersion with Nicole and Kothar

For most of this immersion I was not present because I was attending Kapa Haka but when I did get back I quite enjoyed it. I joined a team of girls who had almost finished the project of successfully making "Elephant's toothpaste" when I got back to immersion the girls had changed how much water they put into the mixture which made the mixture a success and it started foaming and it over flowed the milk bottle. The paste was filled with huge bubbles and it was mostly made out of air but it was cool to watch overflow. The surprising thing was is that the mixture was really warm? but I really enjoyed the experience I got.

Reflection - Projects T1 - T2

Last term (Term 1) we had our first projects for the year. I chose to pursue in fairtrade because wanted to raise awareness for un-fair trade. So that people can know what really happens in the chocolate industry. I think we did really well at this. At the start we wrote out our how might we. Ours was very good for our group because it helped us through out the whole project. After that we figured out what we actually wanted to do so we decided that we want to spread the word around the community by sending an article about fair trade to a newspaper of Hobsonville point. We contacted all of the newspapers and magazines of Hobsonville and asked if they would take our letter and publish it. A lot of the responses were no but when the Westerly answered it was a good answer they said yes! We were so excited by this we got to work straight away. We all came up with a sub topic each for our letter and then we got to researching straight away. When we had finished our research we quickly finished our writing plan and started with our article. We went quite well with our article and we got it finished on time for the newspaper. We also created posters and flyers for the school to put up around the school for the school chocolate fair. Some times we struggled with team work and communication but other than that it was a successful project.

Reflection - Maths T1

In term 1 I had maths with Felicity. We were working on fractions, proportions and ratios. We mostly worked on fractions like improper fractions, addition of fractions, subtraction of fractions and equivalent fractions. I really enjoyed improper and equivalent fractions because they were so easy for me. But it was good to learn all of the types of fractions and how to work them out it will be very helpful for the future. But I'm excited to learn more about volume and area this term.

Reflection - Literacy T1

In term 1 I had Hogwarts with Felicity and it was quite good because it was challenging but I did struggle with all of the follow ups. Overall we did about four pieces of writing two were persuasive one was creative writing and one was an information report. I really enjoyed writing the information report because I chose to write it about Beyonce. She's been my favorite singer/artist since I was little. But it was still really challenging for me because the last time I had done a information report was when I was nine I think. But there were really enjoyable parts of Hogwarts like I really liked my reading classes because I really enjoy reading it's one of my favorite subjects. Hogwarts was I really good class for me because it gave me a taste of what it might be like in high school. I did enjoy Hogwarts but I'm happy I can have a break from Hogwarts and try something new.

Weekly Reflection - HPSS Interview

Yesterday on the 7th of June the high school students came to our school to interview us about climate change. I was really happy and excited cause I got to work with my friend Jacinda and Maya. The interview went really well because there was no awkwardness because we knew Jacinda. It was really cool to see Jacinda again cause I really miss her she's one of my best friends. We got through the interview really fast which was good but if there's a next time I definitely try and focus more. Other than that the experience was really great.

Weekly Reflection - Felicity's Immersion

Term 2 Week 5
30.5.17

This week we started our immersions. I started with Felicity's immersion which is about energy to do with nature. For example plants, animals bacteria etc. On Monday Felicity told us a few facts about energy in plants and well basically anything. She was telling us that everything has energy it even paper! I was so shocked by this fact I started looking at everything differently knowing that it has energy in it. We also did activities were we had to sort animals and plants into different categories. We were also told that we were gonna make a fair test by growing a bean seed in a cup of soil. Then on Tuesday Martina and I paired up to run our growing a bean seed fair test. Martina and I are testing whether a bean seed will germinate without sunlight. We started out planning our experiment and how much water we were gonna give the plants. On Tuesday Martina and I planted our beans and had one on the window sill and one in a cupboard. Then we gave them both the same amount of water and then we let them sit and grow. Wednesday, Felicity was away so Trudy was teaching our immersion. We talked about food webs and food chains and how much more complicated food webs are than food chains. After we all got to draw our own food chains and webs. Some kids even shared their food chains and webs with the class on the white board. Then we finished off with an activity on studyladder.

Weekly Reflection - Specialist

Term 2 Week 5

31.5.17

This week in speacialist I had PE (Physical Education). In this session we had a game of basketball, Long ball and octapus. The basketball game was really exciting and fun and everyone was trying their hardest and having fun. Everyone was working together really well it was a great game. Longball was the complete opposite of basketball. Even though me and a lot of other people tried our hardest quite a lot of other people were mucking around. This made other people miss out on more time to play longball which was sad. I didn't get a turn at kicking the ball which was really annoying. We also got a talk from the teacher about other people's behaviour which took up a lot of our PE time which was really unfortunate. But other than all of that the PE session was really good. Next time I hope that people will be more sensible in our next speacialist.