Pick the Place

Today for maths we conducted a statistical investigation to find out which camp site we would be going to. The camps that were suggested are Mount Albury (Blue), Lake Waihonu (Red) and Marama Island (Orange). The choice of the camp was in the hands of one dice and my hand. 1 and 6 was Mt. Albury, 2 and 5 Lake Waihonu and 3 and 4 was Marama Island. Mt. Albury won because 1 and 6 was cast the most times. We then recorded it as a Chart.

Can I Trust You ?

In Preparation, for our Camp next week we Room 8 had a class challenge.

This challenge included a trio of identical tasks. For the first of these, the students paired up as ones and twos with another. We had to guide the partner, whose number is two (whose eyes are also closed) on a journey to the School Gate.

After the people arrived at the destination the people swapped roles. The number twos were given new instructions when navigating the ones back to the class. The number twos had to make their own route to the class. While the students made their way to room 8 the class was being moved around to make another obstacle course. When the pairs of students arrived they then had to navigate their way through the obstacles blindfolded from one side of the room to the other.

Strike, Spare and Gutter Ball

In the holidays my Mum, Dad, Brother and I drove to the bowling center. It was cold outside but when we went inside it was surprisingly warm. My dad went up to the counter and paid for two games. We gave them our shoe sizes so we can get into the game. As my dad finished changing his last shoe, I told him that he was up first.

He got up and picked up a bowling ball and walked and then when he was close enough a quickened his pace then bowled the ball down the straight line. He hit a lot of bowling pins. He picked up his second bowling ball and knocked a couple more pins. The game had started.

It was my mother’s turn and when she bowled I was amazed because she almost got a strike. There was only one bowling pin left. It was really intense. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. I watched roll, roll and roll right past the pin just missing it. It was my brothers turn. He picked up the the ball and knocked down seven pins. My brother picked up his second ball and bowled it down the alley and hit another two pins.

Dad's Score - 8

Mums Score - 9

Brothers Score - 9

It was my turn I picked up the ball. It was too light and my fingers were too big. I went to go and get another one ....... I came back five minutes later with a new ball. I power walked past my family all the way to the alley swung the ball backwards then released it when it came back. The ball rolled straight to the Gutter. I yelled in my mind Gutter Ball. Noooo! I said to myself again   “Don't worry just get a spare in the next bowl”. I started again, I walked up to the alley and boom. I bowled and it was going straight threw the middle and then that's where it happened. It started wobbling, it kept wobbling and then it curved straight into the gutter. “This is going to be a bad day of bowling” I thought.

Dad’s Score - 008

Mums Score - 009

Brothers Score - 009

My Score - 000

Manaiakalani Speech

Bula Vinaka/ Hello My name is  Avishek and I am in Year 8.

I attend  Saint Patrick's School which is a Catholic full primary school in Panmure

This year room 8 were assigned a very big task of rejuvenating an area  in our school grounds which linked directly with  designing  a garden area where there would be a garden for each class. Following the immersion step of our inquiry model we conducted research to develop more knowledge about school gardens. This involved using the internet, using magazines and visiting other school sites to checkout their gardens.  Using Padlet we recorded our prior knowledge as a class. We made groups and we chose what group we wanted to be in. Again using padlet each group formed questions to guide their research to find out more about their area. I joined the mathematicians/measurements group, who were in charge of measuring and solving problems of the mathematical kind to help the designs and ideas of others come to life.

As a group we created many questions that we would have to answer but when we found those answers on google we all started questioning our answers. Because we had so many questions we had to put them all somewhere. After discussion/consultation with groups, our teacher and reflecting on what we had already done, we remembered the free and easy to use app Padlet, that we had used to brainstorm your Ideas. We decided to put our questions in a padlet.

We examined the area to work out the possibilities and marked out a 8 by 5 perimeter. We created a digital layout, initially we wanted each garden to be 3.5 meters in length and 1 meter in width but as a Catholic School we had another component, the Sacred space. This Holy place was to include a setting that would allow opportunity for people to visit and reflect. This initial design left no room for the sacred space so it was back to the drawing board.

A second digital plan was constructed based on manipulating the models that the building team had constructed. (Insert Photo). We changed the perimeter of the garden to 10 by 8m,  but when we were measuring out the perimeter the group and I decided that it was too small and extended the garden once again to 10 by 10 m. We tied rope round building pegs to line the 10 by 10 meter perimeter, the gardens and the sacred place.

Although we used many other resources like, google documents, presentations, drawing and garden design sites, Padlet proved valuable in recording ideas and responding as a group and as a class.

While our Garden is an ongoing task, we have all developed our research and questioning skills, together with our ability to work collaboratively in groups and collectively as a class.

I intend to share my learning in my blog and a new site we are making for the Board of Trustees.

Pentecost

Cyber smart Footprint: Personal and Private

Personal Profile

We are learning to classify information under the heading personal and private.

Decide whether each item of information below is personal information that you would share online or keep private. Cut and paste to organise items under column A or B

PMI Chart about Archibald Baxter

We are learning to compare contrast key ideas about the story Archibald Baxter.

Archibald Baxter is a conscientious objector who disagrees with war. He disagrees with war because he heard the mayor and a lawyer conversing about not going to war. What they said changed his life and what he thought about of war. Archibald was a very good marksman and boxer. When the government wanted him to go to war but he refused and convinced several others including his brothers not to go to war as well. When the government introduced military conscription he still refused but they kidnapped them and took them to the military bases overseas. They tortured them in many ways but he survived throughout the torture and war then returned home. He got married and had two children. One of their children became a conscientious objector in WWII and the other became a famous New Zealand poet.