Swimming lessons

Hola and welcome back to my week 5 blog post.

Every day for the past two weeks we have been doing swimming lessons at QEII. It is fun doing laps up and down the pools and learning new things that we didn't know how to do. My favourite type of swimming is breast stroke. What type of swimming is your favourite? And I can't wait for water safety. See you in my next blog post BYE

Technology!!

Hola everyone!

 Welcome back to my blog. In this blog today I will be talking about... Technology!
Let's get to it!

Every Monday the Kaupeka hub goes on a bus to Technology. Technology is where we learn how to do stuff that we have never learnt before and focus on either a project for the term or one each week. The year 7's do: Food, Fabrics\Sewing, Plastics and Wood works. The year 8's do: Food, Fabrics\Sewing and Metal Work. This term I am doing food with my teacher for the term called Mrs Hubbard. We get to make lots of different types of food such as pasta, omelettes, Pizza, pancakes etc... So fun it's been really really fun and I can't wait to go again next Monday.

 I hope you enjoyed my blog post BYE.

What would you like to do as your project? Food, Wood works, Plastic or Sewing?

Swimming sports

HI!
Welcome back to my week 4 blog post.

In week 4 we had swimming sports. The races you could compete in were 50 or 25m freestyle, 25m or 50m Breaststroke and 25m or 50m backstroke.
I competed in 25m Freestyle, Breaststroke and Backstroke. I came 1st in all of my races and I was really proud of myself at the end.

What swimming stroke is your favourite and do you like swimming?

Week 3 learning update.

14.2.19

Hello and welcome back to another one of my blog posts. Today I will be showing you my learning from the past 3 weeks. The past three weeks in the Kaupeka hub we have been focusing on out PBL question " What is Greatness" and we have been answering that question through a elevator pitch, place mat and filming our self's on flip grid.

I will now show you my work on what I think is greatness. For elevator pitch I chose mother Teresa and I filmed a flip grid of all my ideas on why Mother Teresa is a great person? And this is what I wrote, I think that Mother Teresa is great because she dedicated her life to the poor and sick and dying. She also is great because she wasn't scared to catch their sickness. Then we did place mat for place mat we had to pick three people of a list and one of your own and you had to write a couple things on why they are great and in the circle in the middle you had to write 5 key attributes that they all share. Thanks for reading my blog post. What do you think makes a great person, leader and learner see you next time BYE.

Market day

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?

First we learned what STEAM stood for.

S for Science

T for Technology

E for Engineering

A for the Arts

and M for Maths

Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.

Then; make a table that was able to balance MnMs for the team. We were much better at the second challenge because we worked more as a team and our table actually worked the second time much better then the first time  Technology template

In Literacy we learned to write up science experiments and to write a technology report using the design process of ask, imagine, plan, create, improve and share.

Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.

How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.

My team made this

Reflection

My highlight from this PBL was making the baths bombs and stress balls with Maia because I think we worked really well as a team making them.

Next time I would make more stress balls because we ran out of them very fast.

What did you make for market day and what would you do to make your product better?

St Felicity of Rome

St Felicity of Rome

Felicitas of Rome, also anglicized as Felicity, is a saint numbered among the Christian martyrs. Apart from her name, the only thing known for certain about this martyr is that she was buried in the Cemetery of Maximus, on the Via Salaria on a 23 November.

Feast Day: March 7

Patron: of mothers, expectant mothers, ranchers and butchers

Death: 203 AD

With details concerning the lives of many early martyrs unclear and
often based on legend,
we are
fortunate to have the actual record of the courage of Perpetua
and Felicity from the hand of Perpetua herself, her teacher Saturus,
and others who knew them.
This account, known as "The Passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicitas,
and their Companions," was so popular in the early centuries that it was
read during liturgies.

The year 203, Vivia Perpetua, a well-educated noblewoman, made the decision to follow the path of her mother and become a Christian, although she knew it could mean her death during the persecutions ordered by the Emperor Severus. Her surviving brother (another brother had died when he was seven) followed her leadership and became a catechumen as well, meaning he would receive instruction from a Catechist in the Catholic Christian faith and be prepared for Baptism.

Our Amazing Tumu Performance

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about cultural stories and the big question was;

What is the significance in the 21st Century of our Cultural stories?

First we brainstormed what culture is and came up with lots of ideas.
Culture is Holidays like Christmas, Easter and Halloween. And it's also about dance and food.

Then we thought about our own culture and talked to our parents about our traditions and heritage.
I wrote a post about my family and things we like to do.

In Literacy we read and discussed myths and legends from around the world then we
concentrated on Maori legends.
I read maui and the sun and maui and the big fish in reading time.
I wrote the legend of how the parrot got his colours.

We made a performance about the story Battle of the Mountains.
Some students wrote the script, some students took on the job of making all the artwork,
some worked hard on organising the music and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with
dance and drama.

Reflection

I contributed by dancing and doing the poi.

I think the show might impact on others by teaching them about how we can share stories in a fun way.

What I learned about working with others is that if we work together we can make a really cool dance.