Kauri Run, Bike, Run!

Kauri Run, Bike, Run - On Monday the Kauri team (year 4-8's) went to Halswell Domain for run, bike, run. Xanthe & I had to take the year 6s for a game of French cricket! We had 3 groups, one group played tricky tag & the other 2 groups played French cricket. After this the year 7/8s played a game of dodge ball. They split the teams up fairly, and my team win the first round. We were half way through the second round when we had to go for our event! The year 7/8s all raced together. The individuals went first & then the teams went. I was coming second out of the girls after the first run and then got ahead in the bike. In the run I ended up beating all the individuals and one team beat me!  I was super proud of myself! We walked back to school with our bikes & our medals on. 

Technology

On the bus to technology - On Tuesday the year 7/8 students went to technology. On the way there I sat next to Samara and Natasha on the bus. On the way there the noise level was alright, because everyone was just talking to the person beside them, but some people were speaking too loudly to the person next to them. I think that I spoke quietly to the person next to me, but since we had three people sitting together we probably were a bit louder than the other people on the bus. On the way back I sat next to Samara near the back. It took a while for the textiles and design group to get to the bus but once they got there we left straight away. On the way back I think that our noise level was louder than on the way there, I think that this was because everyone had just finished their last rotation. Next week I think that I need to work on speaking quietly to the person next to me even if I am in a three.

Kapa haka

Kapa haka - Today at Kapa haka we practised Harirua and Taitapu. We started practising Harirua because this is a new song for us, we went through this a couple of times before the teachers in Kapa haka told us how we were going to perform this song. The girls start off singing the start of the song then the boys join in and we all sing through it again. The teachers asked the year 7/8 girls to try and sing a part in this song but we couldn't do it very well so the year 5/6 girls got to sing it instead. After we had been through this song Matua got us to go through Taitapu (our school song). Since we have actions to this song some people are still learning them, this means that sometimes some people are banging into each other. After we had been through this song a few times and gone over some actions, some other people from the senior area came up to me and told me that I had to go to the new Te Hapua center so I had to leave kapa haka early. 

WALT - Know the equivalent decimals and percentage forms of everyday fractions.

WALT - Know the equivalent decimals and percentage forms of everyday fractions.

For this activity first I had to watch three videos on line so that I could understand how to convert fractions, percentages and decimals. After this I had to do some bookwork in my maths book to start to understand how to do this properly. Once I had finished the bookwork Mr Ladbrook had assigned everyone in the group two IXL tasks that everyone had to get to 100 in before they could pass the maths group. I think that I achieved extended abstract because I got 100 in both of my IXL activity. My next step is to get a teacher conference.

Here is my evidence that I completed the two activities:

This is my evidence to prove that I completed my first IXL activity.

This is my evidence to prove that I completed my secoND IXL activity.

WALT - I can evaluate writers’ purposes and consider how they have used structure and language to suit these purposes. (Eg: I can make decisions about why the writer has written a piece of writing and how they have used particular structures and words to meet the purpose.)

WALT - I can evaluate writers’ purposes and consider how they have used structure and language to suit these purposes. (Eg: I can make decisions about why the writer has written a piece of writing and how they have used particular structures and words to meet the purpose.)

Our task was to read three school journals and do our follow up sheet which I linked below. I think we achieved extended abstract because we completed our follow up to a high standard. My next step is to get a teacher conference with the teacher.
This is my reading follow up I did with Samara

WALT - I can evaluate the overall arguments and make an informed decision

WALT - I can evaluate the overall arguments and make an informed decision.

While we were doing this task I think I did well because I contributed ideas to our group discussion, and I tried to think outside the box whilst we were reading our texts.

I can gather, evaluate, and synthesis information across a small range of texts

Names: Jakob and Sam L

NZ Should Change Its Flag?

Reason/Evidence For Changing	Evidence Category (highlight)		Reason/Evidence For Keeping the Flag the Same	Evidence Category (Highlight)
Because the current flag lacks identity.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		Because it is memorable for our elderly.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
Because we have got the union jack.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		Because it got flown at Gallipoli on Anzac day.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
Because our flags almost identical to Australia's one.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		The flag represents Kiwi history that makes us unique.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
All New Zealanders have a say in the vote for the new flag.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		The flag hasn’t changed since 1902.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
We’ll still get to remain part of the commonwealth.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		It represents the country that our soldiers fought for.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
We are no longer a British colony, so we shouldn’t have another country's flag on our flag.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		It reminds us of events and achievements that happened in the past.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
Overall the evidence for this side is strong because we got all our evidence from sites online and triangulated our answers, to make sure they were right.			Overall the evidence for this side is uncertain because all of the information hasn’t got enough evidence to prove that the flag should stay.

Leadership meeting

Leadership meeting - On Monday Mr Ladbrook held a leadership meeting for the 2016 leaders. Miss O'connor came as well. Mr Ladbrook split everyone up into two groups - The house captains were with Miss O'connor and the rest of the leaders (such as the heads, cultural ambassador's, house point coordinator's and sport's coordinator's) were with Mr Ladbrook. I was with Miss O'connor as I'm one of the house captains. She wanted to ask us if we could create a google slide of how to show the care values at Oakland's. Xanthe and I got to do the cloak bay presentation, this means that one week each class in the school will look at our google slide and, use it to their advantage by showing these care values in their cloak bay. Each pair of house captains got a area of values each and also created a google slide for each class in the school to use. After this Mr Ladbrook came back in and told us that we had decide on a game that we were going to play on Monday as this is run, bike, run. Xanthe and I decided on French cricket, I don't know how to play this but Xanthe showed me a google doc so I could understand how to play.