Tood Teach

 L.I To learn how to make Mapo pork and eggplant.

This week for tech the year 7's made Mapo pork and eggplant, The Mapo pork and eggplant was really tasty as I could taste the beef mixed into the rice. I really loved cutting the onion into pieces and put it into the pan. I also loved mixing the beef into the onion.  

Dance Class#1

LI: To make shapes collaborative 

Today for kiwi sport we had dance class with Miss Rebecca. We were expressive with our dance moves and for this week our theme is me and my body. Then we were using effective movement.We had to move our body to create shapes and we had to freeze like a star,stick .After that we played a game the point of the game is to be creative, make shapes, freeze, and to hold the position and that there is no wrong way to dance. We had to move around  and when Miss Rebecca says freeze we all have to freeze and if she says elbow then we have to find someone and go elbow to elbow we enjoyed and had fun at today kiwi sport.  

Visit to Life Education

This week we went to Life Education. We went in groups. I was in group 1 which is the volleyball team. The first session was about our Hauora and our brain. First we watched videos about Kapi, and what’s happening to him. He was getting bullied, which caused him to play video games all day in the weekend, not cleaning his room, or even having a shower. Next we learnt about the brain, and the brain cells. There are about billions of brain cells, and you think 7,000 thoughts a day. That was what we learnt for the first session. The next session we learnt about how bad drugs are to our brains. We also sent a letter to Kapi, about how he can help himself build his walls back from Hauora. I learnt a lot of new things.

What Is Science

L.I To find the three most vital ideas from the information to help us find the answer “What is science?”

This week we watched a video which helped us understand what science is. While watching the video, we took notes, by selecting and rejecting the information. We used the information to identify the three most vital ideas. We shared our ideas and negotiated on where to put the information, whether it was four very important ideas or three most vital ideas. We also collaborated and respected each other's opinions for this activity.

We think the three most vital ideas are:

• Science is an answer and has the power to destroy and heal.
• Science includes physics, chemistry and biology.
• Science is discovering new things

Science/ Summarising

L.I: To summarise the information.

This week for our reading topic (science), we created a summary using the information from our post it notes. In our summary, we skimmed and scanned to find the important keywords. We also shared our ideas and collaborated to create our summary. For our next activity, we used a question dice to help us create three interesting questions that we wanted to research. We all worked together in these activities.

The three most interesting questions are:

• When was science discovered? 

• Why is science important?

• How is science different from the past to today?