Teaching At Stonefields!

Talofa Lava, just yesterday after school Mason,Victoria M,Gideon,Jasel, Mrs Tofa, Miss Woodhall and I came from our school to Stonefields School. The whole purpose of this was to teach some teachers how to use a website we've been using for the past few weeks to make a floorplan of their own. (yes, yes how the tables have turned, we're teaching the teachers) After our introduction Mrs Tofa & Miss Woodhall explained what we've been learning since term 2 started. Once they were finished we all (the students) explained what we'd learnt using the website, I wrote something like: ''using this website I learnt to be precise with each object I place in the floorplancreator, I also learnt to have accurate exact measurements when placing an object''

After Mason did an Demonstration on how to use floorplancreator.net. 

Overall I enjoyed going around working with the teachers, helping them if they had any difficulties using the website, getting to know their different unique ideas and getting to know themselves.

Pause Breathe Smile :)

Hola, In the middle block today we did our second lesson of Pause Breathe Smile. For those who don't know PBS helps you reveal your inner mindfulness. My point of view on the PBS, its calming & I think it'd be helpful towards the people who have a lot of things going on in their mind to get a glimpse out of reality. 

Technology: Graphics

Mālō e lelei, for our first lesson in tech we started of by coding a dice on the Microbit labeled as Graphical Dice. Below is a screencastify of the simulated Dice in action.

Lesson 2: Step Counter

The second code we coded on the Microbit was a step counter. To make this work we slipped the microbit in to our shoe/pocket and the microbit would count our steps on the leg the microbit was in. Here was the code. 

A similar code we coded measure your stride from our steps. 

Maths Lesson: Fractions

Talofa lava, during maths today we worked on a challenging maths problem (personal opinion). Below is the problem.

With the brain of my peers I finally understood the problem. Here was their working out:

1/8 + 1/8 = 2/8

2/8 - simplify

2 ÷ 2 = 1

8 ÷ 2 = 4

________

= 1/4

Meaning I could use the 1/8th cup to measure the cocoa powder.

Pepeha

Technology: Coding with Python

Bula Vinaka, Today in Tech we coded a flashing heart using python. Python is a coding language. Here is my code for a flashing heart on a Microbit!

Along with a screencastify of the flashing heart in action on the simulator.

Architecture

Hola! Today in Room 7 I created a floor plan of my house using the website: floorplancreator.net . 

WALT: We are learning to create accurate floor plans for building a house.

Today we have started on our Project based learning beginning with Maths. First we started off with searching up a app called floorplancreator.com to this project. 

What I learnt from doing this activity is before building a house you need a 

• Floor plan.
• Where the rooms are going to be.
• The measurement of the house .
• And if the door goes in or out. 
• Think carefully on where you'd want to put specific rooms

If I was in the building industry I'd be a supervisor.

Floor Plan - 2D

Floor Plan - 3D

What I learnt from this activity is, I'm not going to be a house designer. Knowing that designing a house is carries a lot of time and error encourages me not to be a house designer.

Week 2 Kiwican Lesson!

After a long sweaty morning tea, we had a lesson held by kiwican. With the topics integrity as our big T and honesty as our little t, we played a game to test out h
ow good we were in expressing our integrity and honesty. To show how good we were in expressing that we had a little chat and started our energiser/activity.

Game no.1 

Splash was the first game we played, it's a bit like the game bang except we had to change our action from a gun to a ball of water to gesture when the caller calls out the name of the person beside you from the left and the right you’d have to say the exact words ‘‘splash’’ otherwise in delay you’d normally be out. Another instruction part of the game is that if the caller calls your name you’d have to duck so your peers next to you would have to splash each other. In reality our kiwican leader beat us being incredibly quick, also with our finalist hayden.

Game no.2

The second game Farm Animals, our team was off to a rusty start for we were constantly out first. Until the second to last game we came second to last but hey it's better than nothing. When the last round came we merged with an opposing team representing our original farm animal a dog. We lost.

In conclusion my favourite game was Splash because we were all participating and trying our best to hear the name and advance to the finals. The lesson was fun and we ended up with 45 points!

Sky Tower Trip

 

With a radiant day ahead of us, a trip to the sky tower was up ahead! Oh the views we saw, the heights we advanced to, a trip to remember.. Level after level, higher and higher like a crows nest we fled. 

As two groups lined up we set off on our journey marching towards the escalator to find the inside of the edifice building. We stood and waited in many elevators to get to our many destinations when suddenly POP! Goes our eardrums for the air pressure gets the best of our ears. Exiting the elevator follows the sounds of relief, as our ears get the chance to recover only to be put back in an elevator once more.

Level 51, our first destination awaiting til our arrival. In short, there was thick glass made as flooring to be walked on, telescopes to look out of, buildings to be admired from afar and a breathtaking view for miles! Back to the objective of our outing was to see what, how, when and why structures were built and to that day we had tons of questions answered, meaning we had an idea of the topic we’d be learning for this term.

After going down a few floors we made it to the sky tower’s refuge. The place was like a donut, though we were the sprinkles walking around and observing our surroundings. In that location is where we got some of our questions answered.

Back up we went to the 60th floor, which is the highest we’d been. Enough to give you butterflies, you could lean on the lopsided glass, which made it easier to see below but still very nerve racking. Oh, once again when I said the view was ‘breathtaking’’ I meant it was truly captivating and charismatic for our project based learning !! 

T1 (Health & P.E) 3 Types Dogs Who Help Society

Task: List and describe three situations where relationships between people and animals have been, or are, important to human well-being.

T1 (Science) Animal/Insect Classification

Task: Prepare an A3 poster classifying the parts of the animal kingdom.

T1 (Science) Imaginary Animal

Task: Design you own imaginary creature and include a diagram. Label body parts and give information on habits, habitat, size and diet.

T1 (Science) Animal Vs Insects

Task: Create a table that explains the differences between animals and plants.

T1 (Technology) Sewing A 3D Toy Animal

T1 (The Arts) - Jungle Book Poster

 Task: Develop a poster promoting The Jungle Book movie.

T1 (The Arts) Three Music Videos Containing Animals

 Task: Find three contemporary music videos that feature animals. They could be animated or involving either real animals or humans dressed/performing as animals. For each video describe what the creators of the video are trying to achieve. Be sure to include links and/or put them on your web page.

Song #1: Katy Perry - Roar (Official) 

Song #2: Carmen Twillie, Lebo M. - Circle Of Life (Official Video from "The Lion King")

Song #3: The Jungle Book | The Bare Necessities Song | Disney Junior UK

T1 (Social Studies) Cows

Task: Choosing one domestic insect or animal in paragraphs - fully explain how they are economically valuable to human society. It would be good to support your points with researched data.

T1 (English) Baloo - Jungle Book

Task: Create an A3 mini-poster on a character from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Include some background information on Kipling.

Personally I enjoyed watching the Jungle Book movie, along the way I developed a favourite character.

Read about him below!!

T1 (English) Monkeys - Mini Seminar

Task: Create and present a mini-seminar on your favourite animal. This should be approximately 3 minutes long and you can use visual aids to help you present your information.

Shalom! As I mentioned in my past blog post, we've been learning using ''Project Based Learning'' This is my very first project I worked on, I will be posting more, but for now check this out !! 

Coding the Microbit

Hello! Today in our Technology class in Tamaki College we coded a Microbit to choose from 1-3 either rock, paper or scissors. It would randomly give me rock paper or scissors when I shook the Microbit. 

Personal Opinion: I was rather intrigued when working with the Microbit, but yes overall it was fun!