Book week special assembly

Today we had a special duffy assembly. It was special because this week is book week so we dressed up as characters from various books. We had a woman speak to us about the book Gansta Granny instead of Duffy. As the image shows she dressed up as well. We did this to bring the magic of reading to the Juniors.

Attibuting Images

This is my attributing images DLO, where we searched up things involved with the Olympics this year. We had to make sure the images were free to use, then we put a link to the site they were from and put the lisence for the photos as well.

Advertising

Today we read a text on advertising and learnt some new things about it, then creaate this paragraph using 25 words exactly to explain our knowledge of it.

Winter Learning Journey Day 2 Activity 1

For this activity we had to watch a video about the two mascots of the Rio Olympics, Tom and Vinicius. I watched the first of three episodes and I think it was about two people brought together by two balls which symbolised sport.

Winter Learning Journey Day 3 Activity 1

For this activity we have to choose an Olympic sport and list the name of that sport, the aim of the sport, and two rules for that sport. I chose Trampoline Gymnastics since it is a sport that I don't know anything about. I found out that the aim is to get the most points. You can get more by doing diffucult things, like somersaults, by executing them properly (not failing anything), and staying in the air long.

Winter Learning Journey Day 2 Bonus

For this activity we had to create a new logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This is the logo I created:

Winter Learning Journey Day 2 Activity 2

For thia activity we have to list three famous New Zealand Landmarks and why they are famous. I chose the Beehive as one because it's the parliment building. It is shaped like a beehive which is why it has that name, and it was built in 1977. Another building I chose was the Moeraki Boulders because they are special to the Maori people, and the last landmark I chose was the Lemon and Paeroa bottle in Paeroa because it is a massive image of  a drink created by New Zealanders.

Winter Learning Journey Day 1 Bonus

For this activity we had to choose wether it was fair that women were not allowed to compete and also not allowed to watch the olympic games in ancient Greece. I think it is unfair because one of the best NZ athletes is a woman (Valerie Adams).

Winter Learning Journey Day 1 Activity 2

For this activity we researched Milo of Kroton to find out some interesting facts about him. I found out that he was a general as well as a wrestler, he was killed y a hungry pack of wolves when he tried to rip a tree to pieces and also he could lift a bull over his head.

Winter Learning Journey Day 1 Activity 1

For this activity we had to choose and old olympic sport that we would like to participate in and why we chose that sport. I would like to do a pentathlon, which is an event where the competetors have to fence, shoot, swim, ride and run cross country. I chose this because it has more than one sport that you compete in.

Leadership

Yesterday Lynne from spark came to talk to us about leadership. She told us about a a man named Sir Peter Blake who was the captain of the New Zealand team that competed in the Americas Cup. We then filled in some cards about what our dreams are and what our dream for New Zealand is. We then got some things with Spark Foundation written on them.

These are three blog comments that I did on three students from Raupotaka Schools blogs. I commented on Quro, Pallas and Meana from Room 12.

Orienteering

Today was the last time the Year 8's are going to do Orienteering since we aren't doing it again this year and next year we will all be in colleges. Yesterday I won the interschool Orienteering which was held at Point England School. This time we had to find twenty-two controls all around the school except there were two maps with eleven controls showing on both.

Get Wise

Yesterday the Year 8's went into the auditorium and Jeremy from ASB visited us and told us about Get Wise. This is about learning how to get money and how to save money. We all brainstormed how to make some money doing chores, neighborhood jobs, etc. We also learnt about interest, which is when you give money to the bank and the bank gives you extra money for trusting them with your money. We also learnt that most CEO's of big businesses started off in supermarkets either as trolley boys or shelf fillers. He said to work hard as well, because people are always watching you when you work, like your supervisors and he also told us about his friend Tui, who started off as a trolley boy and now owns two supermarkets.

Inferring game

Today I played an Inferring game in which I read a letter and had to infer what type of person they were and where they were moving to. I used my inferring skills to find out that the person lived in Arizona.

Life Education

Today the Year 8's went to Life Education and Nicole told us about body systems and told us about a few of them. We learnt about the Circulartory system, which is your veins, arteries and kidneys, the Nervous system, which contains your nerves, your spinal cord, your brain, and the Muscular system which is your muscles and how your brain controls them and makes them move.