Census - Maths

Electronics - Tech

Planter Boxers

Rm 12B have been designing and planning planter boxers. We are finding the volume and we have measured out our scales on a piece of wood. Once we had finished measuring on the wood, we got them cut by Mr Sutherland and Mr Billings. The next day we did a lot of nailing and hammering, finally they were complete. Here is a picture of me hammering the wood together,

Inquiry - Unsustainability

This term in Room 12B, we have been investigating in some unsustainable topics. Our task was to create a presentation; involving unsustainable topics. I have chosen deforestation, I created my presentation on a slide. In my slide, I have added some facts, pictures, questions; (that I have answered), and some sites where I found the information. I have also done another topic with Aimee, we did ours on the deforestation.

Raccoon Predator - Inquiry

In class, Rm 12B. Have been researching on some predators all over the world. We were given the task to choose a predator and find out it's characteristics, and special features that make it a predator. I chose a Raccoon, We found different sites and information about our predators. I created my presentation on a slide, Here is my slide,

Book Review - Brave Bess

In class, we have been given a task to read a certain book, and write a book review on it. There are different groups, and each group has a different book. Every few days, we decide where we will read up to next. My groups book is Brave Bess. Once we have finished the book, we write a book review, here is mine,

Yasmin - Book Review - Brave Bess:

Brave Bess, is a heartwarming story that tells a true story of courage and loyalty. Perfect for anybody with a sense of adventure.

A tribe of horses will show their self in various ways; but will just one stand out the MOST?

A galloping group of men and horses travel far and wide to succeed in their most desirable award. What will tear them apart? Travel a journey in this tense and gripping book. Will the Turks succeed in this most vivid book of World War I history? In my opinion, Brave Bess is a capturing book that will make you stop and wonder. What will happen next? Enjoy the thrills of excitement and depression, as a roller coaster of waves will leave you hanging. “Towards the beginning of August, an army of more than 18,000 Turks swept over the sandhills and delivered a surprise attack on Anzac outposts near Romani.” Will Bess survive? How will this affect the story?

Who do YOU think will survive? What is depending on Bess? Find out by reading Brave Bess, A true story of courage and loyalty, written by Susan Brocker.

I recommend this book to ages 8+ and would be very glad to give this book a rating of 4.5. Very well written with pleasant descriptive language.

Reading - Literature Circles

In Room 12B, for literacy, we have been focusing on our literature circles. For our literature circles, we have gotten into small groups, and we each have the same book. Each day, we choose where we are going to read to in our groups and each discuss about the book the next day. In our group, we are reading a book called Brave Bess. The story is about a war horse who was one of the only survivors, and what it was like in war and how it felt for her. We each have different jobs to do each night, my two jobs are being the artful artist and the discussion director. For the artful artist, I create a piece of art to do with the story, and the discussion director I come up with questions for the group to answer.

Pick A Path - Writing

Room 12B have been creating a piece of writing, to do with sustainability. We have been given a task to either write about; Moving to a new planet, (because our one now has been destroyed), or thinking up your own topic to do with sustainability. We have created these on slides, so we can link to different pages; for E.G, You find a whale in a net, what do you do? Cut the net free, or Ignore It. We have linked these into sustainability; because our focus this term is on sustainability, saving the planet. My Pick A Path is about saving the whales, I chose this because some people have a thing for capturing whales, sometimes killing them. In our stories, we go on an adventure, the aim is to complete the Pick A Path and to either save our planet, or save whales, or whatever topic you chose!
Here is what I have so far. It's not finished yet though.

Complex Sentences

Rm 12B have been focusing on complex sentences, we made our own complex sentences, with subordinate clauses, and embedded clauses. When we had put the subordinate and the embedded clause, we had made our complex sentences! I made a slide, and put my complex sentence on there. at the start; I searched up a painting and chose one, I started to describe it and add the subordinate and embedded clause. Here is my one,

In room 12B we have been investigating in our new school uniform. We went in pairs or groups and we had to make some spreadsheets, that had most of the recorded data. Firstly, we had got a spreadsheet from Mr Billings, that contained all the information, useful or not. From there, we had to delete all the unuseful information, and kept the height, age, year and more. Once we had done a few tasks involving the information, (also on the spreadsheet,) we made a graphs, graphs that show the uniform sizes for girls, and a boys one too, when we had finished that, we put them on a slide, and wrote some facts about each graph, Hanna and Ruby were in my group with me.

Letter, BBQ Tables

Yasmin ~

Our eating areas could use some touch ups. There's bumps and slopes that can be quite annoying. It's a race for kids to have the ‘best seat’ around the lunch eating area, if you're too late, hey, there's always that spot on the ground! I think, we should put some brand new marvelous funky; barbecue tables in our sheppard area. It would be a GREAT opportunity for our school, and to make lunch time; a lovely place to eat and socialize with our friends. We have some fabulous seats now, but how about turning it up a notch? The tables would be a perfect opportunity for every student. Socializing is a MAJOR part in our lunch time, it is about spending time with your friends and the most important… EATING! So let's make an opportunity bloom! Why not!?

The whole of Sheppard area has contributed ideas on why we would need them. Why WOULD we need them? Well I was thinking, socializing, comfort and class time. They would be some of the MAIN reasons why we would need them, because we all like to talk to our friends, (socialize) and we all like to be able to talk to the person in front of you; beside you or diagonally facing you. With the seats NOW, we are only able to talk to the person beside us, left and right. Whereas if we had the BBQ tables; we would be able to talk to the person in front, to the side, AND diagonally, how cool would that be! Then there's comfort, we want to be nice and comfortable, (those seats look pretty comfy) well this can be annoying, our lunch boxes fly off our thighs when we eat. It’s the seats that slope so it falls. Wouldn’t it be MUCH more hygienic if we had the tables? Firstly, food would not fall on the ground when we eat, and finally; our lunch boxes would STAY put where they're supposed to be.

For making money, I was thinking; we could do a fundraiser and save up enough to buy roughly 5 tables. Each student would have to raise a fund of at least $10 to help out in buying the tables. All excess money could be used for helping out our school. Like we could spend it on school supplies. Or just to help out those other niggly little jobs around our school; maybe even sprucing up some OTHER, lunch eating areas like Hillary, Nepia or Te Kanawa. I had some ideas that we could use to MAKE, the money… We could help people around our area; We can host a BBQ to collect some money, which ties into making baked goods, we could even have a garage sale! See; all these ideas would come into good use, we are tying our project in with our topic, change makers. We are making a change to our SCHOOL, and the students!

So what about that ‘excess’ money; what could it go to. Well; we could spend it on helping OTHER, lunch eating areas, Hillary, Nepia or Te Kanawa. Possibly even fixing some flowerbeds or gardens. Planting some greenery in our nature trail, and so on. We could even give some to the canteen so we can have more yummy treats! Wouldn’t that be cool!

All in all, I think we should get these AMAZING, OUTSTANDING, FUNKY tables! Wouldn’t it be such a treat for all the students! These tables provide us with the three points I made in the second paragraph; socializing, we would be able to talk to more people, maybe even make some new friends! Comfort, our seats NOW slip off our laps because they slope and can be quite uncomfortable to sit on. And one of the MOST important… class time. With these tables, we are able to learn whilst we can all be required with a bit of fresh air! These tables would be the PERFECT opportunity for all of Sheppard and the school.

I hope you consider this idea,

Many thanks,

Yasmin McFedries,

Sheppard,

12B

Chalk Motion

This week, 12B have been creating chalk motions. Chalk Motion, is a site that lets you create a drawing and puts it into a slide. After you have finished the drawing, you are able to access the slide and put words onto the slide to give it an explanation of what your drawing is. Here is my one,

http://tinyurl.com/jnekx6p

Rube Goldberg Machines

To connect to our inquiry topic, change makers. We all worked in groups to create our different Rube Goldberg machines. For it to work, we all had to contribute, explain ideas, bring items, it involved, commitment, self management and perseverance. It tested us in different ways, and we learnt how to interact with others frustration. We showed self management, to make sure we all had items to help out with our creation. In the end. all our hard work paid off with our group winning with a total time of 21.03.

Grandads Blood Pressure Pills.

Grandad's Blood Pressure Pills.
Today, me and the rest of red group; read a story on a small boy who swallowed blood pressure pills. However, Mr Billings did not tell us the title. We had to infer/predict and when we did, we had to explain, why and how they were showing this. Here is my inference chart,

Yasmin

I think that the mum has just found out about something horrible and the kid hasn’t realised it or what's going on, he could have eaten something poisonous. It sounds like the boy is quite young. He could have taken some adult medication or medicine he is not allowed to take that could be dangerous. Maybe eaten things he is not allowed to eat.

The mother shouts, “You did WHAT?” and she runs around madly. The text; I can sense my mother's fear and that is making me scared. The description in the sentence; I sit in my booster seat, unable to even look out. The crash above my head like bolts of lightning in a storm. I feel annoyed, it's not fair! I know this is about me but they ignore me. What is going on, is it poisonous?!

Tips And Tricks Using Google Search

Today in reading we have been looking at tips and tricks in google search to help us with our learning. This is website we used today to find our information
http://motto.time.com/4116259/google-search/
I am going to tell you two simple tricks to use if you are ever stuck not finding something, Use quotes to search for an exact phase, the first one is; searching a phrase in quotes will get only pages with the same words in the same order as what's in quotes. The second one is; Use an asterisk within quotes to specify unknown or variable words, searching a phrase in quotes with an asterisk replacing a word will search all types of that phrase.

Tips And Tricks Using Google Search

Today in reading we have been looking at tips and tricks in google search to help us with our learning. This is website we used today to find our information
http://motto.time.com/4116259/google-search/
I am going to tell you three simple tricks to use if you are ever stuck not finding something, Use quotes to search for an exact phase, the first one is; searching a phrase in quotes will get only pages with the same words in the same order as what's in quotes. The second one is; Use an asterisk within quotes to specify unknown or variable words, searching a phrase in quotes with an asterisk replacing a word will search all types of that phrase. My final one is;

Maori Body Parts

Today in class, for Te reo we studied on the maori parts of the body. We took a test on the maori body parts, we matched them up to get the right answer, for example, your Iho is your nose. After we had finished the test we created a google drawing and labeled all the body parts on a cartoon person. On my first test I got 3 wrong, but on the second I go 100% this is my one I created,

Maori Body Parts

Today in class, for Te reo we studied on the maori parts of the body. We took a test on the maori body parts, we matched them up to get the right answer, for example, your Iho is your nose. After we had finished the test we created a google drawing and labeled all the body parts on a cartoon person. On my first test I got 3 wrong, but on the second I go 100% this is my one I created,

Relevance And Reliability

Some people in rm 12b have been creating presentations, about Relevance and Reliability. Our task was to open up a number of websites, Mr Billings had ready for us, and to decide if they were fake or real. Our first one was the selfie shoe, I did not believe this, and I was right, our second one was, the tree octopus, I believe this, but I was wrong. Our third was, dehydrated water, I did not believe this, I was right. Our next one was, the flat earth society, I believed this and it was real. Our final one was, the dog island, this was not real and I did not think it was, here is my presentation,

Relevance And Reliability

Some people in rm 12b have been creating presentations, about Relevance and Reliability. Our task was to open up a number of websites, Mr Billings had ready for us, and to decide if they were fake or real. Our first one was the selfie shoe, I did not believe this, and I was right, our second one was, the tree octopus, I believe this, but I was wrong. Our third was, dehydrated water, I did not believe this, I was right. Our next one was, the flat earth society, I believed this and it was real. Our final one was, the dog island, this was not real and I did not think it was, here is my presentation,

Technology- Emergency Light

In technology we have been making emergency lights. It has been a lot of fun! So far I am up to hot glueing, (the final stage) as you can see in this picture below.

I used the colours rainbow as you can see in the picture above. We had to do A LOT I think I did pretty well, trust me it isn't easy! It is really cool how you do it BY YOURSELF, not really any help unless you don't understand.

We have to do A LOT of soldering and A LOT of connecting, but it gets REALLY exciting when you get into nearly finishing! On my front cover, I have a picture of an ambulance, and my flashing lights are above it, here is my front cover,

Bubonic Plague

In room 12b we have been studying on some diseases, some of the disease were; The Plague and Chicken Pox. I did my presentation on the Bubonic Plague, what we had to do was, find some information on our specific topic and put it down on a presentation. We gathered information on some weird but true crazy cures, and research, here is my presentation.

P.E, Rugby Skills, Passing

In P.E we have been doing rugby. For our first time, we did rugby passes, we got into a small group and stood in a line, one person on the end would be holding the rugby ball. Then we threw the ball to the person next to us, we had to make sure that the person with the ball had to be in front of everybody. We were making sure that we were swinging as the ball went across our body, and when we were throwing the ball, and when we were catching we had our arms ready to catch the ball. We started off walking and passing and then we moved onto jogging, once we had finished our passes we played a game. The aim of the game was to try and get a 'try' in a small area, we had to sort ourselves into two teams. One team started with the rugby ball, you throw the ball to someone in your team and try and get to the side of the box to win and get the try, I enjoyed P.E I liked doing the passes and the game was lots of fun!

Everyday Life Symmetry

In Rm 12B for maths we have been doing everyday life symmetry. What we had to do was collect some photos of everyday life symmetry, we had to place them on a google drawing and figure out how much lines of symmetry each photo had, this is my one,

This Shell Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


This Leaf Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


These Music Notes Have 1 Line Of Symmetry In Each One
 

This Table Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


These Teeth Have 1 Line Of Symmetry


This Tomato Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


This Orange Has Many Different Lines Of Symmetry


This Butterfly Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


This Butterfly Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


This McDonald's Sign Has 2 Lines Of Symmetry


This T Has 1 Line Of Symmetry


These Swans Have 1 Line Of Symmetry

Inquiry Hair

Thi

Protractors

Last week, and this week, we have been working on protractors in maths. We had to measure and find out the degree of different shapes. After we had done that, we made some tables out of paper in shapes of, rectangles, squares and triangles. Here is my one, we had to add up the total of all our angles on each shape, when we add up triangles, they all equal 180 degrees.

Powhiri

Today when we did our Powhiri, we started with a Karanga. We called on the Manuhiri. Once the Manuhiri sat down, Fergus stood up and spoke. After Fergus had finished our class, (room 12b) sung a waiata, Tutira Mai Nga Iwi. After, room 6  stood and spoke once they had done that they sung a waiata and presented the Koha and finally sat. Fergus stood and took the Koha, and then we did a Hongi with the other class. Once that had finished, we all entered the hall (marae) and shared our banners explaining a little more about them. once we had both done that we all walked to our class and shared learning and some kai I was in the group that shared our money slides, then room 6 wen't back to their class.

First Day At Electronics

Today was my first day at Electronics, I looked at the Get Ready Get Thru website and learned how to be prepared for an emergency. We also learnt that we should be prepared for any type of emergency, If I prepared a kit for an emergency, my family would need a torch with batteries or a self chargeable torch, food and water for 3 days including the pets and a radio. We looked at some helpful tips and what sort of supplies you would need in an emergency helping your pets and just for you and your family. Altogether I would need 45 Litres for my family and my pets. We watched a few clips on Get Ready Get Thru and it showed us and reminded us that we need to be prepared for any emergency anytime anywhere, they demonstrated what it would be like if it happened the next morning or at night how you would be prepared once you woke up knowing you had supplies.

Mu Torere

How To Play Mu Torere💖💕💓💝💗

1- When you start, you can only move the stones on the outside of your area so you can’t win at the start.

2- You can’t jump over other stones to get to the path you want to.

3- You can only move one stone at a time.

4- The object of the game is to try and win, you win by trapping the other player so they are unable to move.

5- The game finished when you or the other player is unable to move.

6- The game uses strategy and technique may the best person win!                   

Anzac 8 Tasks

Anzac 8 Eight Tasks

Gallipoli Map
Last term me and some other girls in our class made a 3d gallipoli map. We used scrunched newspaper and stuck it on. Once we had done that we used white paper cut it into strips and stuck it on top of the newspaper to give it an effect we used pva glue. After we had done that we painted the hills and I chose to outline mine in yellow to give it some texture and an effect. After we had finished all of that we wrote in vivid and labeled some of the places such as, Anzac Cove, Sulva Point, Sulva Bay, The Dardanelles and C. Helles. I found it hard to paint the dardanelles there were bits of newspaper everywhere! Making these 3d maps was loads of fun and I like what I made, here is my one.

James Martin Anzac Task

James Martin

Who is James Martin? James Martin was the youngest Australian anzac soldier, he was only 14 when he joined the army; he was the youngest Australian known to have died in World War I. He was one of 20 Australian soldiers under the age of 18 known to have died in World War I. His full name was James Charles Martin, although he was rather called Jim. His date of birth was on the 3rd of January 1901, and died on the 25th of October 1915, James Martin was born to Amelia and Charles Martin in Tocumwal, New South Wales. His father was born Charles Marks, in Auckland, New Zealand. At war, after suffering mild symptoms for about a fortnight during which time he refused treatment, he was evacuated to the hospital Glenart Castle 25 October 1915 after he developed diarrhoea. He died of heart failure that night, at the age of 14 and nine months, and was buried at sea the next day. At the time of his death only Martin's parents and his best friend, Cec Hogan who was himself only 16 knew Martin's real age.

James Martin Letter

Thank you again for letting me coming to war. It hasn’t been so bad but I am hoping it will finish soon… Not that it will. The Turks are still about 70 yards away from us, don’t worry I am doing splendid over here. I don’t like the conditions it is so muddy here, although I should have seen it coming. I am surprised I have not fallen yet however I am suffering some minor injuries but I am coping. At the moment currently I am not able to tell the time, in fact I don’t think anybody does, I might ask my mate a bit later… For now I will hope for the best, especially when it comes to my duty to guard watch the base while fellows rest. I am eating a stale biscuit right now, it is the only treat we get! But it is better than nothing. I kind of wish I chose not to go, although it feels good to fight for your country, right? I'm not sure about the other guys but it is getting very tense in the trench, fights have been picking up over who is doing what duty, it is doing my head in! I don't think they realise that they probably won't see daylight tomorrow, guess we'll wait and see. I don't know how much but I am guessing 16 men have died already, hopefully be the 17th, anyway, send the family my love and I hope for the best, stay in touch soon!

Sincerely, James

Menus

This week we have been making menus in maths. We had to create kiwiana food and had to make prices for every meal we made. Some tasks we had to do were adding some meals together and we had to times it and figure out the answer.

New Zealand Notes Research

We made a slide show on the New Zealand Currency, we did the five dollar note, the ten dollar note, the twenty dollar note, the fifty dollar note and the one hundred dollar note. We also made our own two hundred dollar notes.

Quick Write

This week, we were doing a quick writing task. We had a maximim of 10 minutes to complete this. In it we had to include 5 words that were the complete opposite of what was happening in the picture. The words were, fun, run, billings, unicorn and santa. The focus in this was getting ideas down, the picture was about explosions. Here is the photo and my piece of writing.

“Santa Unicorns! That’s all I ever want” yelled Mr Billings “well actually I wish I had hair” he pulled a face, I can’t wait to do the fun run thought Mr Billings; it will be sooo FUN! That night the fun run took place near a construction site about to be finished, “I know I will bring my favourite car because it will be fun! Thought Mr Billings. That night Santa arrived at the showdown of the fun race to give presents to the kids at the fun race, “Aww I want a present” Yelled Mr Billings so loud everyone heard him, even Santa. Mr Billings started to cry very loudly he got Cary (HIS CAR) and started the engine, this fun run is a DUMB RUN!!!! Yelled Mr Billings with fury as he rammed Cary into the fun run, explosive TNT and explosions were everywhere lying down blowing up every second, fortunately Mr Billings did not survive, neither did Cary.

Cyber Safety Word Cloud

We watched a video about Patty on Youtube. In this video a girl was being very mean to Patty, saying horrible things to her face.

The message about this was: If you wouldn't say it in person, why say it online?

Here is the Tagul I made.

Created with Tagul.com

Maths Place Value - Wishball

The other day we did a maths game online which involved subtraction and addition of place value. A number was randomly drawn and we had to add this or take this away from one of the place value. We had to reach a target number using addition and subtraction in less than 20 turns. there were different modes you could do. We could choose from whole numbers to thousandths.