Tree frog Adventures

Today I played a maths game called Tree Frog Adventures. It had all sorts of math, from basic addition to decimal and fraction conversion. It is a very good game for practising your maths.

Quizizz

Today the whole class had a game of Quizizz. We use this website to help us recall our basic facts quickly and also have fun while we are doing it. Today though, we had another person competing, Mrs Anderson! I tied with her on basic facts which is a very good result. 

6 Sentence Stories

This is my DLO on 6 sentence stories. We use these to practice fitting a lot of detail into one sentence and also to help us with using pictures to write stories. We started off with writing about Mrs Anderson, but then moved on to using photos to write short stories describing objects and people in them. All of these photos were taken by Harris Burdick.

Duffy Assembly

Today Henry Tuipe'a from the Duffy theatre came to PBS to talk about reading. He told us a story about how when he first found out about books he thought they were DVD cases that the DVD's had been stolen out of, how reading had given him confidence and about how when he was rejected by a girl in the library he cried for 7 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 10 seconds and read books to comfort himself and take him somewhere else, but when he rejected her she cried for 7 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 10 seconds. He also talked about how when he found out he was coming to our school he thought to be like a hero, he would have to wear his undies on the outside, but his flatmate told him it was a very bad idea and thankfully he didn't choose to wear them like that. It was a very funny story and we all had a great time listening to him.

Cross Country

Today there was inter-school cross country. Thirty four Panmure Bridge Students went to Bailey Road school, which is where the inter-school is held. It started off with the Year 3's and went all the way up to the Year 8's. When the Year 8's started off I was at the back, but during the race I slowly worked my way up to come 4th, Gozan coming behind me at 5th, and Zahn getting the best result of coming 1st. We all had fun during it and cheering each other on. When we had finished our run we all ate and then lined up and came back to school, muddy and tired but happy.

Tongan language week Pourquoi story

Long ago, before it had been discovered by European settlers, Tonga was a far, unknown and distant land.

In a kingdom on the edge of the ocean, in a forest just behind the beach, lived a Tongan king named Lepote. But he was no normal king, for he was obsessed with perfection and cleanliness. Every tapa had to be straight to the nanometre, and if even one speck of dirt was found, the servant responsible for cleaning was whipped mercilessly by Lepote himself until screams of pain could be heard from miles away (This had happened numerous times, and almost half of his servants had been whipped).

The servants had begun to resent him, but with his mighty army of two thousand guards he soon put an end to any rebellion that might spring up. The servants began to lose spirit and the will to persevere. Many soon abandoned Lepote in search of a more kind and fair king and soon only Lepotes Head servant and five other servants remained, mainly because of the servant that had returned the night before bleeding heavily, saying there were bandits and they had killed the servants before him, dying twelve minutes later. With no other choice, the servants were forced to stay and attend to their wild tempered and perfection-seeking king.

The day soon came where Lepote had become bored, and he decided to hold an event. He announced, to his remaining six servants: “I have decided to make a challenge, where you may tell me to do anything. The person who gives me the hardest challenge which I cannot complete will become the new king.”

Except for the head servant, all of the servants thought this would be easy, but it was not, for Lepote was a fierce and formidable warrior. One by one, they challenged him to slay magical beasts plaguing Tonga, but one by one, he slew them. By slaying them though, he gained magical trophies like an unbreakable sword, a shield that always reflects light, even in darkness, a bow that could not miss, and many more artefacts. These even helped him to slay the beasts, making the battles easier every time instead of harder.

The servants were all confident when they swaggered up to Lepote with their challenge, only to see him return confidently and very much alive, and slink slowly away. But the head servant was more confident, and he chose more cautiously. He pondered on the challenge for three days and two nights, and finally, he knew the answer and what would make him king. When the sun rose and the sky turned the colour of candy floss, signifying a new day, he approached Lepote and said. “Mighty king, I have pondered on your challenge and have carefully thought about my challenge in turn, finally coming up with an answer. King, I ask you, can you swim in the ocean?” Lepote laughed at the head servants request. “Hahaha! Easy! I will show you, servant, and I will remain as king!” The head servant smiled, knowing the outcome already.

As the Lepote waded in the ocean, getting ready to swim, he saw how murky the water was. “What is this? Aagh! So dirty!” Lepote then proceeded to collect the dirt and put it in his endless bag, a artifact from his adventures, only to find that more dirt came in with every wave. He continued cleaning then, slowly, almost sloth-like, gaining nanometer by nanometer on the dirt, only to have the head servant point out some dirt in the water, which would make him turn around and grab at that patch, trying to get rid of it. He continued on at this for days, and for some reason, maybe Tonga wanted him to continue at this task and make it cleaner, allowed him to become immortal, making him Tongas immortal water janitor.

The servant returned to the kingdom, happy that his plan had succeeded, and the king learnt that cleanliness is a want, not a need, and the joy and comfort of your people should come first before the cleanliness of your home and the work amount of your subjects. This is how the sea around Tonga remains clean.

This is my story that I wrote for Tongan language week. It is about a Tongan king named Pote who is very cruel to his subjects and loves cleanliness. The moral of it is that you should be kind to people who work for you.

School Cross Country

Today we had the PBS school cross country. We started off with Year 1's and went all the way up to Year 7 and 8's. It started pouring down at the end of the junior block races, and most people got soaked. Luckily, it stopped raining just before the Year 7/8 boys race. During the Year 7/8 boys race, Zahn started off really well and kept the lead for the whole race, coming first at least a whole lap before me. Gozan and I were next to each other for nearly the whole race, with occasionally one of us pulling front of the other. I pulled in front of Gozan on the last stretch of the last lap though, which made him come 3rd and me come 2nd. At the end, Gozan and Zahn just lay down on the floor to rest, but I still had energy so I cheered Latham on when he came 4th. It was, overall, a very fun day.

Using Decimals to sove word problems

Today during maths my maths group and I solving decimal word problems. To start off we answered 30 basic facts questions to make sure we knew them and I got all of them right, which is a good thing because knowing your basic facts is critical. We also practised on a quick recall website called Hit the Button, which can help you greatly with basic facts. The only bad thing about Hit the Button is that you have to click on the answers, so even if you know the answer you still have to move your mouse over and click on it, meaning that even if you know the answer you can still get it wrong by clicking on something else accidentally. The questions all had something to do with money, and were mostly addition, though some where about how much change people would get (Subtraction).

Scratch Game

This is another Game I created in Scratch. It is a FNAF (Five Nights At Freddy's) based game that I have been working on. The main aim of the game is to survive until 6:00 in the morning. You can check the security camera to check where the bad guys are and also close the door when they get too close for comfort. However, there is a catch. You only have 100 power, and if you use it all up, then you cannot check the security cameras or close the doors, and have to sit there hoping that they don't come any closer. I hope it is fun to play.

Scratch Game

This is my simple Platformer game that I created during Tech. It was fairly easy for me, because I have spent a bit of time on scratch and have a bit of knowledge on how to use the code. The controls are the simple ones, left key, right key, up key, down key. I have added in a stickman that actually looks like he is moving, instead of one just gliding across as some people do. Everything I used was drawn/created using the scratch drawing tool.

Sketch note

This week LS2 have been learning about Sketch notes. What we have learnt about them is that they use more pictures than words to symbolise things and are a more creative way of making notes. They also help you stay focused to what you are listening to because why write a lot of words and be real bored and not listen when you can draw lots of pictures and not fall asleep because they're so fun to make. We started off with a topic we knew about, which was Questions and how they help us, then moved on to a topic we are learning about as our Kiwi sport with Andi, which is Run Jump Throw and then moved on to a topic we needed to research, which is Rio and the Olympics. We learnt that you can use a variety of objects to make a Sketch note, such as Stick Figures, Bullet points that can be stars circles, even bullets! To make titles we learnt to make the letters into block letters, or circle the title, and make it the biggest thing on the page. We know that our sketch not doesn't have to make sense to anyone apart from us, because, if you can't use you're own notes, then what are you going to do? We will probably use this form of notes from now on but it's fine by me because I know I'd rather draw a few pictures than write 10 pages of words for notes!

Cross Country training

Yesterday we had Cross country training. For this we run around the school numerous times that increases everyday we do it, and this time we ran 5 laps. We are doing this to build up endurance and hopefully be able to run 7 laps without stopping which is going to be the length we will run at the inter-school cross country at Bailey Road in a weeks time. For this I mostly stick with John the head boy, because our speed and level of endurance are about the same. Mr Ogilvy also times us to help us see if we can go faster or if we are doing good, and John and I did 5 laps in 8 minutes.