Inquiry | Model Materials

LS1 has been learning about emergency safety shelters for Inquiry. For the previous and current week, our focus has been on what materials we will use to build our shelter, and how much of that material we need.

LS1 first thought about the shape of their company's shelter and what the shelter is going to protect against. By using that understanding of their shelter, they thought about the materials that they would use for the walls, the ground, the windows and doors (if they have any); and the inner wall layers.

Once they decided on the materials they would use, they needed to calculate how much of those materials they would need for their shelter. The measurement could not be in weight. Measurements that were used often for this task were cubic centimeters and cubic meters.

LS1 enjoyed thinking about which materials they would need for the shelter, and measuring how much material they would need by using their understanding of material properties.

LI: to prepare materials for construction.

Writing | Kapa Haka Performance

On Monday, Panmure Bridge School all went to the hall to experience a kapa haka performance, which was presented by a small kapa haka group.

The kapa haka group performed an entrance ceremony by blowing into a horn and introducing themselves in Maori. Then, the visitors performed their haka.

Once they finished their haka, they informed us about three different Maori tools; the poi, the taiaha and the ti rakau.

In return, Panmure Bridge School's kapa haka group (boys) performed a haka to thank them for performing for us.

Panmure Bridge School enjoyed watching this performance and learning about different Maori tools. This was a great opportunity to learn more about the Maori culture.

LI: to experience and learn kapa haka.

Reading | Novel Study

Mr Wong's reading groups continued their novel study on a Roald Dahl storybook.

They read through certain chapters of the book that they chose and made text-to-self, text-to-text and 

text-to-world connections. They also continued their story web and completed a comprehension task with it. 

In our blog post, we talked about what happened in the chapters we read.

By the end of each week, LS1 should have come up with a new understanding of the book and learnt how to

do a novel study.

LI: To study a novel.

 

 

Maths | Statistical Investigation

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups have been focusing on statistical investigations. They did another statistical investigation and worked on improving their maths skills.

They filled out a survery and had the opportunity to choose which skill they wanted to work on next. The choices they had were: Fractions/Decimals/Percentages, Division and Student choices (meaning they could select a different skill they wanted to work on).

Mr Ogilvie taught the students in groups, depending on what they chose. After that, they made a slide to show their understanding of what they had learnt.

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups enjoyed developing their maths skills and sharing their understanding with other people.

LI: to use statistical investigations to improve a skill within maths.

Reading | Novel Study

Mr Wong's reading groups continued their novel study on a Roald Dahl storybook.

They read through certain chapters of the book that they chose and made text-to-self, text-to-text and 

text-to-world connections. They also continued their story web and completed a comprehension task with it. 

In our blog post, we talked about what happened in the chapters we read.

By the end of each week, LS1 should have come up with a new understanding of the book and learnt how to

do a novel study.

LI: To study a novel.

 

 

Writing | Storyboard

This week, Mr Wong's writing groups have been focusing on storyboards. They know that storyboards are short but very detailed descriptions of a scene. Storyboards also include very detailed illustrations of the scene.

First, they read through their narrative and broke it down into a minimum of four scenes. They had to draw detailed illustrations to visually show their story. They left space underneath the illustrations for their descriptions of the scenes.

Mr Wong's writing groups enjoyed illustrating and describing the scenes of their narrative and learning the usage and purpose of storyboads.

LI: to create a storyboard from a narrative.

Maths | Statistical Investigation

This week, Mr Ogilvie's maths groups used statistical investigations to find out the average score of each group in Athletics Day.

First, they were given a class's score points. They added up the data sets for each group using repeated addition and multiplication. They recorded the total scores on a google sheet. Then, they found out the averages of the class group scores using their data sets. They added up the all the group scores and divided it by the amount of classes which was 9.

In their blogpost, they explained how to add a data set and how they found the average group score for Athletics day. They recounted what they did, as well as explaining how they did it. 

Mr Ogilvie's maths groups enjoyed doing a statistical investigation to find out the average group scores. They also enjoyed using repeated addition and complex multiplication to find out data sets.

LI: to explore statistical investigations.