2015 Final Newsletter - Term 4 Week 10

Weekly Update Term 4 Week 8

Update to the parent newsletter

Dear Parents and Whanau

Sorry...I left the date off the following notice. The date for this trip is Friday 11th December.

Room 10/11 End of Year Celebration trip. We have organised a big day out for our students. First we will attend a movie followed by lunch on the foreshore, finishing off with a walk to the pools for a swim. These activities will be covered partially by the Activity Fee. Students will need a big lunch and snacks , have their togs and towel, hat and sunscreen. We will notify you shortly of any further cost. The movie is Hotel Transylvania 2. This starts at 10.00 am and goes for approximately 90 minutes. This is the link to further information (http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/hotel-transylvania-2/)

Weekly Newsletter - Term 4 Week 7

Weekly Newsletter - Term 4 Week 6

Red Cross First Aid Training

Today we have Anita from the Red Cross teaching us about first aid and what to do in emergency situations. This is an extension of our learning from our Term 1 W.I.T called Save a Mate. 

We are going over the DRSABC first and discussing our circulation system.

Wit review

INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS - Review and Reflection

Our group names: Abbie,Shanelle and Briana

Our Product: Terrariums,Minion Jar and Tea light

Questions:

Look back at your questions in your W.I.T. book, write down any that you have not answered.

We have answered all of our questions.

Were there any extra questions you had to research? Write these here.

How much the spray paint would cost?

Surveying:

How did you survey your prospective customers?

We ask them which product they would buy out of our three selections and how much they would pay for each one of them.

How many people completed your survey?

28 ( Rm 10+Mr A)

Do you think that was enough people and a range of people to get a good idea of what people would like to buy? Why do you say that?

Yes because most of our products were for that age group and most of them sold.

Summarise what this information told you. Did you use this information to choose what to make.

No because we had already decided that we were making all three. We were only surveying about the price and how much we were going to make of each.

Profit:

Do you think you make a profit or a loss?

Profit

Tell me what materials you needed and the approximate cost (even if your parents bought your supplies).

Tea lights : $3

Spray paint: $8

Food colouring : $1

Plain Flour: $6-7

Salt: $3

Jars: $1

Wine glasses: $1

Googly eyes: $6

Ribbon x2: $5.50

Using the data collected from Mrs McA and Mr A work out how much money you made from sales.

$45.50

Now work out how much profit you made. Explain your working carefully in the box.

$14 because we spent $31.50 and altogether we made $45.50 from the products at the carnival.

Finally, work out the percentage of your products that sold and didn’t sell.

9 minion jars: 100% sold 0% not sold

10 tea lights: 10% sold 90% not sold

Terrariums: 90% sold 10% not sold

Group work:

What went well for your group?

We finished before the deadline and we had enough time to make a poster for our products as well as an ad for the school. We found good products to make earlier on in the wit so we had enough time to make it. 

What didn’t go well for your group?

A few disagreements, nothing major. Just miscommunication.

What could you do differently next time if you did this again to improve your profit?

We need to work on making sure everybody knows what is going on and future steps.

Do this but as an individual.

Name (person 1): Abbie

Thinking about your contributions to your group. How did you make a Positive Difference to your group?

I showed our group Pinterest and that is where we got all our ideas from so that made a very big difference for finding ideas.  

What do you know more now that you have completed this WIT?

You have to make sure you are selling something for the right audience and the right price people would pay. I learnt how to use the design process and how it helps to use it to create a successful product. About Surveying and how you can have an open question and a closed question and what effect they can have on your data whether it be good or bad.

What new vocabulary did you learn?

Innovation: Process

What is one thing that you personally would do differently in how you worked as a group member?

Making sure that I made my ideas heard and thought about by the other group members. 

Do this bit as an individual.

Name (person 2):

Thinking about your contributions to your group. How did you make a Positive Difference to your group?

Suggesting that we could make more than 1 product and make 2-3.

What do you know more now that you have completed this WIT?

More about surveying, open and closed questions when surveying. How to make an average from something.

What new vocabulary did you learn?

innovation,craft product,Design Process

What is one thing that you personally would do differently in how you worked as a group member?

offering more ideas into the group, and try and bring more materials

Do this bit as an individual.

Name (person 3):

Thinking about your contributions to your group. How did you make a Positive Difference to your group?

What do you know more now that you have completed this WIT?

What new vocabulary did you learn?

What is one thing that you personally would do differently in how you worked as a group member?

Frankley Carnival

Check out our finished products ready for sale at the Frankley Carnival on Friday. Today we will be analysing our sales results. 

Jar-Tastic

Frankley Carnival - make sure you come to Room 4 on Sunday and check out these great products:

Make-Tember

In the last two weeks of Term 3 some of us have been involved in a learning task called Make-Tember. This involved taking some learning from this term, summarising it and creating a tool that other students could learn from.

The three options were: 1. Water Safety - from our AWE Water Survival skills sessions 2. School Pepeha - learn more about this by watching the video! 3. Quality Blog Comments - watch the videos to learn how to write a quality comment on a blog. Students involved were given choice as to how to present their work.

Check out some of the final results:

 The rest of us were keen to watch them. We decided to give some constructive feedback to those involved.

Here are the criteria we came up with:

1. We understand the message (the message is clear).

2. The quality of the product (e.g. easy to hear, not fuzzy, not shaking).

3. Creative e.g. interesting, has a hook, entertaining.

 We used this to give product a rating out of 3.

Weekly Newsletter Term 4 Week 4

Messages of Support for the All Blacks

Today in Literacy we wrote messages of support for the Rugby World Cup final against the Wallabies. We discussed the intended audience (the All Blacks, coaches and support staff), the message we wanted to get across and how to incorporate the writing technique of "Personal Voice."
Here are our messages of support:

Good luck All Blacks!

You can do it! We believe in you! Have fun, enjoy the time out there because you won’t have that experience for another 4 years. Even if you don’t win, You still got in the final and NZ will still be proud. You are a really good team now all you need to do is show it!

We will be watching on Sunday at 5am,  since it’s that early you need to win!

Shanelle and Michaela

To all of the All Blacks,

We hope you have a great game against Australia in the World Cup final. You’ve made it this far so you can waste the Ozzys in the final. We hope you six All Blacks have a great life after leaving the team. We think the score is going to be 28/9 to the ABs. Go the All Blacks!

Kind regards, Ethan and Ari.

To The Mighty All Blacks:

I have been watching some of the games but i really liked the game against France, the score blew me away. Richie Mccaw you are a good leader may you have a great last game. I wish all the luck to you guys and hope you win just like 4 years ago. I will be getting up in 5 in the morning to watch you guys win, i really enjoy watching rugby and seeing all you big tough guys getting nailed it makes me laugh. My favourite all black is Julian Savea he plays very well. The All Blacks are the best team in the world! and i mean it!

But If you can’t do it just keep on keep on keep on trying.

MAY THE ALL BLACKS SMASH THOSE AUSSIES.

We hope that you play like you did against France and smash the wallabies. Make New Zealand proud and win the world cup for your supporters. Make us proud.

Go the All Blacks hope you win the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. We will be cheering for the team to win. Thrash those Wallabies. You can do it because you are the best team ever.

From Will and Daniel.

Dear all Blacks

I hope you win the world cup finals and beat the wallabies. Bring victory home to New zealand with some thrashed wallabies.

From Jack and kaino

Lay down and rest

There is no need to stress

For the country's behind you

Even me two

We've got your back we've got you side

Good luck All Blacks

And win with Pride

-Emily

Dear All Blacks

Hello there team i wish you guys all my luck for the 2015 world cup final. Give it your best shot and waste the Wallabies we got to win this world cup final. Play hard and try hard!

“Hello Team” congratulations on getting into the final game of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. I wish guys you all the luck on your next continuing game Win the Rugby World Cup like you did 4 years ago. Give the Wallabies a wiping and show them how New Zealand plays give it 100%.

I am really excited for you to play heres some advice don’t kick the ball at the wrong time. I wish you all the luck Richie , Dan cater and all those players that are leaving the team, I wish you all the best luck.

Dear the All Blacks

To the All Blacks I hope you do really well in the rugby world cup, get your head in the game and beat Australia. I wish you good luck and I hope you can hear my dad yelling TRY through the tv. If you guys win I will be dancing all day and I would never forget the moment you win.

From Izzy

To The All Blacks,

We hope you have a great game against Lostralia. Remember to play your best and even if you don’t win, keep moving forward. You have set a great example for New Zealand we are proud of your accomplishments, win or lose. For you All Blacks with your last game. Enjoy it.

From Isabelle & Eliala

Go All Blacks!!

You will make our nation proud even if you don’t succeed, but we believe you can do it because you are a great team. Don’t look back because you are rising higher. If you are playing your last game make it the best game you can.

From Abbie and Briana

Sun Safety And UV Radiation - Riley

Over the last two weeks the class have been looking at how we can get ready for spring/summer and take increasing responsibility for our own Health and Well-Being. We have learnt about UV Radiation and the importance of knowing how to keep ourselves safe from the harmful effects of it. Here is Riley's informative and creative infographic:
Sun Safety And UV Radiation

Emily's Comma Learning

I had a writing goal at the start of last term that was I can use basic punctuation that is mostly correct ( A  .  ,  ?  !  ‘  “ ) Over the term I worked on that goal and I knew how to do all of them except one, commas. So I decided to find out about commas and make my own presentation on my learning. I now know what a comma is, what it can be used for and why we have commas. Enjoy :)

Weekly Update - Term 4 Week 2

Weekly Update

Sea Turtles

Room 10's Post on Friday, 4 September 2015

This week some of us were learning about the reading strategy of Summarising. We discussed some techniques that enable us to summarise better. Here they are.

Ella, Emily and Briana Leadership W.I.T

Weekly Newsletter Term 3 Week 7

AWE Day 3

Today in AWE we leant how to use improved objects to save a life. 

I wonder what objects would help someone stay afloat?

We also learnt how to safely tow someone using a rope.

AWE Day#2

Created with Padlet

Te Reo - Pepeha

Why Learn Te Reo?

On Monday the class discussed why we learn Te Reo. These were our ideas. We then discussed what a Pepeha is. Have a chat with your child about this. We also discussed how Maori place names in New Zealand often have a special meaning. This was compared to many English names that were often just named by the settlers after places back in England. We learnt that Taranaki means "shining peak." As Mr A hails from North Harbour, his mountain is Rangitoto...this means "blood sky", the way the sky looked when Rangitoto formed.

Geometry Learning

Today we began some more learning in the area of Geometry. We revisited the learning from last term to help remind ourselves of all the knowledge we had.

Here are the learning goals from Term 2 we worked on:

Draw nets for simple 3D shapes and make models using the nets.
Measure angles using a protractor.
Read and identify: right angles, horizontal lines, vertical lines, parallel lines.
Define 2D and 3D shapes by their features: 
Faces

Edges

Corners

Angles

Vertices (Vertex)

Surfaces

Sides

Corners

Angles

Diagonals

Perimeter

Centre

Here is a padlet of our prior learning and knowledge:

Created with Padlet

Here are the new learning goals we will be working on this week:

Draw cube models using isometric dot paper and make a cube model from a dot paper drawing.

Interpret plan views of a model made from cubes and make a model from someone else’s plan views.

We will keep you posted with examples of our learning throughout the unit on both this blog and each individual student's blog.

AWE Water Safety Day 1

This morning we went to our first AWE session. AWE stands for Advanced Water Education. Here is a Padlet telling what each of us learnt, improved on or thought (please ask us a question if you don't understand something that is written):

Created with Padlet

Ethan and Ari W.I.T

Abbie's Sugar Presentation

Giant Pandas

Seahorses

Snakes

Llamas

Weekly Newsletter - Term 3 Week 5

Weekly Update Term 3 Week 4

Len Lye Centre visit

Visit to Len Lye Centre

Hi everyone

I forget to mention in our weekly update that Rooms 10/11 are visiting the Len Lye Centre on Friday morning. We are travelling by bus with the money for this coming out of the Activity fee. We will be at the Art gallery from 10 - 11.30 am.

We are looking forward to this exciting visit. We will work with the Art gallery the educators there.

Brendon

Gaming and Book Reviews

This week we have been learning how to write reviews of books or games. As a result we were keen to make a website for each to share our writing. Here are he websites, we hope you find them useful:

Booktastic: https://sites.google.com/a/frankley.school.nz/book-tastic/

Gaming Central: https://sites.google.com/a/frankley.school.nz/gaming-central/

Enjoy our writing.

Gaming Review - Terraria by Ethan

Name of the game:Terraria

Your name:Ethan

Platform: IOS,PC,Xbox 360,Ps3 Ps4 Ps vita

Multiplayer:       Yes             No

Difficulty rating of the game:Mediums

cost of game:12$ on pc,5$on ios,20$ on xbox 360,on ps3 24$,24$ on ps4,24$ on ps vita

Genre: Action,Adventure,Fantasy

Age level game would appeal to: 8+

Details (Aim, Setting Characters):Terraria is a fun 2d game and you can do what you want but if you want better stuff you need to kill bosses. you start off with cooper tools and so you don’t need to make tolls.

Rating from 1-10 (10 is the highest score) and a comment about: Smoothness 9 Because the speed and the movement of the camera is really good Story: 1 Terraria does not have a story Graphics: 8 Terraria has pixel graphics.Pixel graphics are good if you like pixel graphics. Multiplayer: 7 Terraria is multiplayer because you can join other people's worlds but it can lag and it is really annoying. How would you rate this game overall: 10 Because it is a amazing game when you get used to it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Would you recommend this game? Yes because you get to do what you want and it is a never ending game.

Gaming Review - Minecraft

Video Game

Review

Name of the game: Minecraft

Your name: Riley, Will

Platform:  Xbox, PC, Tablets, Ipads, Ps3

Multiplayer:       Yes ⚪            No ⚪

Genre:Imagination

Age level game would appeal to: 5 to 40

Details (Aim, Setting Characters): Minecraft is a fun crafting game with only using your imagination, building anything you can think of. Welcome to the world of blocks everything in the Minecraft world is made completely out of blocks, including yourself. You can also be joined up in multiplayer and play with other people and building with them. There are different types of game modes;there is creative and survival. Creative is a free building mode that lets you build anything. Survival is a mode where you have to survive by also crafting things and hide from mobs which are called, Creepers, zombies, spiders, skeletons, enderman etc, so watch out, and you have to build shelter, craft things using material that you find.

Rating from 1-10 (10 is the highest score) and a comment about: Smoothness 8, Minecraft has really good graphics it may glitch, but it depends what platform you are playing on. Story 8, There are different kinds of versions that a guy named Notch had created. They were selling out fast of minecraft in the early years that  Notch had made. It was one of the best games around where he lives. There is lots of a story about minecraft and how it was created. It is such a great game. Graphics 7, The graphics are really good, although sometimes can't see in the dark properly when it turns night time and can't see straight ahead as far. Multiplayer 10, It is the best it is not fun without people in your world and testing your traps, or help build something, it is the biggest thing people love in minecraft. How would you rate this game overall: 4 and a half stars

Would you recommend this game? yes we would recommend this game why because it is not creepy it will not scare people and it is also appropriate for little kids.Why or why not?

Book Reviews

Ella West is an author for 11 - 15 year old readers. Her books are sophisticated and mysterious. Ella West wrote Night Vision about a girl named Viola that has a disease known as XP. Some people described her condition as “ The Moon Child”.  Viola’s life was lived at night. Her parents got her a pair of expensive night vision goggles to go outside and see at night. One night Viola witnessed a death and could never give out what she saw that night. It was her deepest secret.

I rate Night Vision 9/10. If you are planning on reading this book I recommend to read a page and see if you like it. I would suggest this book is for a sophisticated reader. It is an easy book to visualise. Night Vision for my opinion is for 10-11 year olds and over. I really liked this book and I hope you do too. By Eliala

Morris Gleitzman

 After

This book is about a young boy named Felix who has in the past 2 books have gone through many dreadful deaths of

close friends and family members. In

this book you will feel like you are Felix

and go through what he is going through. You will definitely get lost in this book and it will be hard to put down.

In the last 2 books Felix has escaped an orphanage because Felix saw Nazis burning books. Felix loves books so he was disgusted that any human being would burn innocent books. From there on it's all about Felix's adventure on finding his parents. You might be a little confused about Felix escaping from an orphanage to find his parents but if you read the book it will tell you what's going on.

On the way to finding his parents Felix found a little girl named Zelda who has no parents anymore because the Nazis  burnt down her house and burnt her parents. Zelda is one of my favourite characters because she is very strong in what she believes in and she is very smart for a 6 year old. Zelder is very brave and has a lot of courage. This made me think about my character and what I am. My other favourite characters are a girl named Yuli and Barney as well as Felix. They all have a meaning in the story and have a very good charter to play.

The plot is that the Nazis leader Adof Hitler is going around telling Nto Nazis kill innocent people and burn books. After Felix realises what is going on and what Adolf Hitler is doing he joins forces with a special group called The Special Society.               

If you are planning to read this book I would suggest reading Once first then read Then. This book would probably be suitable for sophisticated readers (11 above.) I really liked one particular saying that one of the characters Barney said “Everybody deserves to have something good in their life once.” Then Felix said “

“I have. more than once.”

Book review by Ella

In this book ( Rosie and the secret friend, the fairy bell sisters) the characters are… Clara bell, Lily bell, Rosie bell, Silver bell, and Squeak.(Squeak is the youngest.)

The Author of this book is Margaret McNamara.

This is what happens in the book…

There is a little island called SHEEPSKERRY ISLAND.

But in summer the humans come and stay in the little cottages, so the fairies have to stay in their little fairy houses all summer!

But one day Rosie went to one of the cottages called White Rose Cottage, she wanted to have a look. But she got caught by one of the human children. Rosie  became great friends with the human child (Louisa).The human was on crutches.

Rosie couldn’t tell her sisters about Louisa, so she didn’t know what to do!...

I would rate this book a 10/10 because the book was really adventurous and exciting because Rosie got caught by a human but then she got let go.

My favourite part of the book was when Rosie got caught because it was really scary because she wasn’t allowed to show herself to humans.

(I haven't read the whole book yet but I am nearly done.