Home Learning Challenge E5. Research your family history. Present your findings to your family.

For this home learning challenge I Researched my family history and made a family tree.

Head Boy leadership excellence blog post 2

As Head Boy part of my role is being part and running student council. The student council meets every Wednesday and we talk about ways that we could help out around the school. We have also been discussing about fundraising ideas.

I have shown the CARE value of Active Thinking by Contributing to group discussions.
I have also shown the Leadership trait of Trustworthy by turning up and taking part in it.

Leadership Excellence Kapa Haka Blog Post 2

Every Friday Kapa Haka practises in the hall. We have been practising lots of songs and also the boys have been practising the haka. We also practice the actions for every song.

I have shown excellence by turning up, trying my best and being part of a group.
I have also shown the leadership trait of Goal focused by not giving up and giving it my all.

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.(Reading)

Level 5 - Authors’ Purpose Map
I can describe the author’s purpose in a text	I can identify several features of the author’s purpose The author’s purpose is… The point of view is… The intended audience is...	I can identify several features of the author’s purpose; and explain giving relevant examples and evidence. What does it say in the text to show you that: this is the author’s purpose this is the point of view this is the intended audience
The author’s purpose is… P? I? E?	The author’s purpose is to inform	1.the prey only provided the plant with essential nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous, 2.the carbon dioxide emitted during respiration was derived from the prey being digested, not from photosynthesis conducted by the plant. 3.the carbon dioxide emitted during respiration was derived from the prey being digested, not from photosynthesis conducted by the plant.
The point of view is…	Third person	The researchers, who published their findings 2.A team led by Dr. Heinz Rennenberg and Lukas Fasbender 3.However, scientists thought
The intended audience is...	Young adults	1.Grades 5-8 2. It has some difficult words that some people wouldn’t understand.   3.scientific journal New Phytologist because little kid wouldn’t know what that is.
	I can generalise about the author’s point of view Overall the author informs you well because they have good facts up because they back them up.

L5 Author’s Purpose follow up	I can describe the author's purpose in relation to structure and language choices in a text and give relevant evidence (eg vocabulary used)	I can compare and contrast differences in the author's purpose in relation to structure and language choices between different texts.
Text:World’s Largest Artificial Sun	The author’s purpose is I inform The specific language/ structure choices that the author has made to support their purpose are facts, technical language It has pictures and videos	Specific language choices in the 3 texts:	Structure of the 3 texts:
		Similarities They all have facts and technical language and language about the topic. They all describe the topic.	Similarities They have pictures and video
Text:Laundry Folding Robot	The author’s purpose is inform The specific language/ structure choices that the author has made to support their purpose are facts, technical language It has pictures and videos
Text:Can giant pumps help refreeze the Artic	The author’s purpose is The specific language/ structure choices that the author has made to support their purpose are facts, technical language. It has emotive language It has pictures and videos	Differences They all have different language about different topics	Differences They have different amounts of words and pictures.

Student Led Conference

Careers Education C.V. Writing

In CAREERS EDUCATION we have been learning to write a skills based Curriculum Vitae.

A skills based C.V. focuses more on the skills that we have,  rather than our work history.

Here is a link to our online Modelling Book that shows the process we have followed.

Three things that I have learned about writing a Curriculum Vitae are:

1. It needs to be slept correctly

2. A C.V needs to be formatted correctly

3. It needs to be true

Here is a link to my Skills based Curriculum Vitae.

Home Learning Challenge R7. Research one of the 7 wonders of the world

 Research one of the 7 wonders of the world

Leadership Excellence Kapa Haka Blog Post 1

On Friday kapa haka practised we practised five songs for a performance that we will be doing soon,Some of the songs were the school waiata and Ka waiata.
We also practised the actions for all of them.

I have shown excellence by trying my best and being part of a group.
I have also shown the leadership trait of trustworthy because I have shown up every week and contributed well.

Leadership Council visit, Leadership Excellence blog post

A few weeks ago the student leaders caught the bus to the city to visit the Christchurch City Council Buildings. When we got there we went into a room and we watched a presentation about the council and what they do.

I was surprised about things like the amount of water used per day. Then some people that work in different areas of the council came and we got into groups of 3 and went to the area they work in. The person my group went with worked in resource consent.

I have shown leadership and the CARE values by using active thinking because I problem solved in my group in activities 

Maths Reason with Linear Proportions

WALT: Reason with linear proportions

I have been learning 3 WALTS

Write the answers the problems here (and show your working).

1.

A. 120ml

B. There’s 400ml in pineapple punch and 120 ml in hawaiian.  So that mean that there is more pineapple juice in pineapple punch

C. 250ml

2.

75ml of coconut juice

150 ml of mango juice

75ml of orange juice

3.  

1. Tiny Hawaiian 100ml = 20ml orange, 40 ml pineapple and 40 ml mango
2. Giant tropical 2L

500 ml of coconut juice

1L of Mango juice

500 ml of orange juice