LI: To design and make a paper plane that will fly the furthest.

For this week’s maths, LS2 has been learning about measurement and distances by building paper planes to understand the maths behind it. After making them, we then analysed our data of the paper air planes we flew. Our group designed multiple planes to verify which of the planes flew the best. The plane that went the furthest was the plane I made. Lastly we versed group by group and measured the flight distance accurately. 

Today, Panmure Bridge School and the rest of our Manaiaklani cluster visited the Hoyts Cinema at Sylvia Park to celebrate the annual Manaiakalani Film Festival. The Manaiakalni Film Festival is an event where the schools within the Manaiakalani cluster come together and showcase a series of short films made from different classes to share new ideas and inspire eachother.

The schools within the Manaiakalani cluster are Panmure Bridge School, Sommerville, Point England School, Fidelis, Ruapotaka School, Glenbrae School, Tamaki College, Glen Innes School, Stonefield School and Glen Taylor School.

My favorite film is ‘Photos day’ by Room 4 of Point England. I liked the way they showcase their problems on photos day.

Something I enjoyed about this event is that we can sit and relax and watch the movies.

LI: to identify the 4 different modes of transport and their changes over time.

The 4 different modes of transport are air, land, sea and rail. We explored more about the types of transportation and how they have evolved over time to build an understanding of how humanity makes changes to vehicles like cars, boats, trains and planes.

An example of air, land, sea and rail based vehicles are planes and helicopters, cars and trucks, boats and yachts and trains and trams.

I found this task challenging because I had to include simple and interesting information about sea, land, air and rail based vehicles. An interesting fact I learnt during this activity was that there are multiple inventors that are mistaken to be the creator of the plane and society has confused different inventors as the first people to make a plane.

LI: To create a family tree.

For this weeks Te Reo Challenge, we created a family tree which is a representation of the members in your family and from which side they come from. For example, I come from my mother and father however my mother and father come from their parents, which are my grandparents.

I found this task easy to do because I familiar with this topic and in creating family trees that represent my family.

For this art piece, we needed to learn the basics of painting such as tone, blending & brush strokes.

Tone is the way that colours come in different forms such as light to dark. The way to change its form is to add a darker shade to make it darker and a lighter shade for a lighter color. Blending is how more than one colours combine. Brush strokes is the way the paint is applied to the art piece.

We chose a bird that is endemic to New Zealand and researched five facts about them. We chose birds because the New Zealand bird of the year award is going to be announced soon on the 31st of October. We looked through different videos that taught us about the technique used in order to get a nice background.

Narrators are important vessels of information that often retell to us the events that are happening in a story. However, narrators use different perspectives and point of views to influence the audience’s reaction to the story. These perspectives are first person, second person, third person, third person limited and third person omniscient.

While first, second and third person are familiar, we introduce ourself to third person limited and third person omniscient. We also explored the different pronouns that each point of view uses and how the author influences the reader’s perspective on a text by the use of vocabulary and point of view.

I took interest in this activity because I revisited a familiar topic and revised myself on the vocabulary used in each person was well as introduced myself to third person limited and third person omniscient.

Today we reminded ourselves what questions were asking us to do with the information we had. It is important when you are answering questions about a text you have read that you know what information you need to look for to find the answer.

We created a collaborative DLO to help other strengthen their connections to the language of questioning using an exemplar text from Readtheory.org and our own questions.

I found this activity interesting because I revisited a topic I was familiar with but built a stronger understanding of what I should provide in my answers when asked questions that include the words who, what, when, where, why, which and how.