Book Week Challenge

This week is book week for Panmure Bridge School. This week we are doing a few challenges based on the books that we have read in our past. For today's challenge, we were to go to the past, and create a DLO that showed our favourite books as a kid. Ageing from when we started school, to our favourite book now. This activity was pretty easy, since I started reading at the age of 7. Still it got hard from time to time to remember which books we read as a kid. In the end, it was fun to remember what we used to like as a kid, and comparing those stories to what we like now. I really enjoyed reading Geronimo Stilton, The Stinky Cheese Vacation. I enjoyed it because of the location, and characters. In this story the two main characters are Geronimo Stilton and his Uncle Stingysnout. This story takes place in a Castle. 

Armistice Day Commemoration

It has almost been one hundred years, since the beginning of Armistice. On Sunday at 11 o'clock November, it will be exactly 100 years. Since the 100th year of Armistice is during the weekends, we commemorated Armistice Day, today. The school has replaced our normal school assembly with Armistice Day Commemoration. Ofa, one of our Manaiakalani Leaders, said the Karakia to start the commemoration. Following him, Mr Johnston (Our School Principle), said his speech. During that time we were joined by a representative from the New Zealand Defence Force, and two people from the Board Of Trustees. After that Tiava and Jeremiah (Head Students) recited the Ode of remembrance both in English and in Maori. We then listened to the Last Post, while the New Zealand flag was being lowered, after that Flag was lowered. It was then raised, when was Reveille playing. To remember this event poppies with the signature of the students will be placed on the fence in our school. To finish of the Commemoration, we sang the New Zealand National Anthem. 'WE WILL REMEMBER THEM, WE WILL REMEMBER, LEST WE FORGET'.

Armistice Day

On the 11th of November at 11:00am all the countries who fought in World War 1 signed a treaty which would eventually bring WW1 to an end. The soldiers were delighted to hear the news and the people who live in the allied nations celebrated by doing many things like marching. Families were happy to get confirmation that they will not lose any of their loved ones. The Armistice was signed in a secluded area in Compiègne, France. WW1 was a deadly conflict resulting in 16 million deaths. Due to the many lives lost many were not identified. To commemorate the unidentified fallen soldiers there are Unknown Warrior tombs around the world which people can go to and show respect. It has nearly been 100 years since the end of World War 1. To mark the special occasion, the New Zealand Reserve bank brought out a 50 cent coin which has details that represents World War 1. For this activity I have worked with Jeremiah.   

Teaching Joseph Algebra | Attitude | Gold C.A.R.E Award

Last year I managed to get all of my Sliver C.A.R.E Awards completed, and this year I'm focusing on getting all of my Gold C.A.R.E completed by the end of this year. This blog post is about the last task I completed. This task is about tutoring someone who needs help with their learning. For this task I decided to teach Joseph, Multiplication Algebraic Equations. I gave him two equations to solve. Joseph was very keen to learn something new.

Panmure Bridge | Manaiakalani Film Festival

Our movie captures our learning journey last term about the structure and construction of bridges. This was a very exciting term for us as we were a part of a research study carried out by the Augmented Human Lab at Auckland University. This meant that not only did we access our learning through our smart searching, we also had the opportunity to see our learning in context through the augmented reality (AR) lens with an expedition created solely for us. Along the way we discovered that back in 2009 Mr Johnston and a group of students had created a movie that told the story of Panmure's first bridge. Inspired by this, we created our updated homage to their movie and our learning.

Task Created With Teacher | Helping Juniors | C.A.R.E awards

Unfortunately we do not have an image of myself, since I was also the person who took photos. 

Throughout the year, 8 students including myself were picked to go to the Junior sections, to help the juniors with their Reading, Maths, and blogging skills, but on our first day we only focused on helping the juniors read their books and with their maths. My job was to bounce between classes and help both juniors and seniors out.( If they needed help) It was really interesting to see how the juniors were very interactive with their learning. Throughout our session we got the chance to see what they do on their iPads. On their iPads we went on their maths site and tried to solve out maths equations they received. We also went on Sunshine Classics. (a digital program for reading)

Collaborative Comprehension | The Battle Of The Somme

This week, we did something really different. What we did was collaborative comprehension. This means we collaborate and work as a team to complete our set task. However the only difference was, we didn't work in groups. Rather we worked in pairs. Since this task was in reading, we were to choose a person from Ms Kirkpatrick's group to be our partner. After we got into our pairs, we started on our task. Our task was to infer a story called The Battle Of The Somme. After we read the context we were to answer many varieties of questions that link to this context. This task links to Mrs Anderson's Inquiry sessions. They inquiry sessions were about Peace. For this task I worked collaboratively with Angela.