Year 8 Orienteering

Today the year 8 participated in another orienteering activity. This time we only did one course, but it was a long one. John and I were partners for this and worked collaboratively to finish the course as fast as possible.

LS2 Group Speech Selections

Today we had our groups selections for the class finalists. We were put in our thinking groups then had to mark each others speeches.In our thinking groups, we all took turns presenting our speeches and then were marked on by the rest of the group.We were marking each other by a rubric made by Mrs Anderson.

Physical Exercise

Hello students and teachers. Some might already know me but my name is Sebastian. Just think about the last time you did exercise? Was it a long time ago? Well, to tell you it was actually worth. A really important part to the human body. In school we all went through it. We sometimes wished we could hide and wait for it to finish. For some of us we couldn’t stand going to the P.E class.

Just think without exercise, what would we do without it! And just think about how the whole world would be? So unhealthy, so lazy and wouldn’t even want to move! Personally, I enjoy doing exercise. It releases any stress in your body and relaxes your muscles. It gives us just that extra strength that we need in our bodies. I play for a rugby team, so I need to be really fit to survive on the field for the whole game.

We all should be doing at least some exercise everyday. Today, many kids are obsessed too much with technology and don’t feel like going outside to play. Technology is taking over children’s need of daily exercise and could end up to kids becoming obese as growing up.

Did you know that being physically active, improves your thinking skills and memory. One of the big positives are reducing the odds of having strokes, heart diseases, diabetes, etc.\

hink, of all the people who have either been diagnosed or even died because of obesity. In New Zealand especially, we have a high rate of obesity. The New Zealand Health survey has showed that one in three adults are obese(which is 31% of the population aged over 15).

A solution to stop obesity in the future is for us kids especially to go outside or to a friends house to play or do some exercise. This is a great way to let go of any stress in our body. We kids should be having at least sixty minutes of physical exercise a day minimum.

Really important to our bodies. It is good to just find someone or even yourself to go do some exercise everyday. It’s not that hardest thing to do.

Time: 2:31	1	2	3	4
Expression	Not using any expression at all in the speech. Sounds like a robot. Does not use the punctuation. Words do not flow	Using some expression for certain parts of the speech. Reverts back in sounding like a robot in some places.	Uses expression in most areas, but not all. Starting to make voice go high and low in certain parts. Starting to get into the role and use punctuation.	Uses expression throughout the speech. Making voice go high and low in all parts. Opens mouth wide so that words flow.
Loud clear voice	Reads in a very soft voice e.g. whisper. May mumble during speech. Words / sentences are very unclear and may not be understood by the audience.	Projects voice in some parts, but may revert back to soft / mumbling voice. Not all words / sentences may not be understood by the audience.	Projects voice in most parts, but may mumble, or speak softly in 1-2 sentences / words. Most words are understood by the audience.	Projects voice throughout the performance. Voice is loud and clear. Every word / sentence is understood by the audience.
Eye Contact	The performer refers to the speech / cue cards during for the entire contest. No eye contact given to the audience	The performer refers to the speech cue cards for some parts. The performer looks at the audience during some parts of the speech contest.	The reader looks at the audience and gives eye contact to the audience most of the time.	Eye contact is given throughout the contest. The performer gives eye contact to the audience during the entire speech contest.
Knowledge of the speech	Reads directly from the cue cards. Strongly relies off the cue cards during the contest. Does not know speech very well. Loses own place regularly and relies off cue cards.	Knows some parts of the speech, but is still reliant on the cue cards. Follows the text for most parts. Still reliant on cue cards to get through the contest. May lose place.	Knows most parts of the speech off by heart. Follows the text. Could easily perform the speech without the cue cards.	Knows the speech off by heart. Memorized the speech.

Year 8 Orienteering

Today all of the year 8 students participated in the orienteering. We all had to finish 4 courses to finish the whole thing. After each course we were given a different map for our next course. Thanks to Leon and Irene for providing this fun activity. Then sadly as we were finishing it started to pour down with rain!

Current Events - Park up for Homes

For reading the whole of LS2 did and current events activity on the recent ark up for homes in Mangere Town Centre on 16 July on a Thursday Night.

Finding Fractions of a Number

For maths, we have been practicing finding fractions of a number in this game I have just played, the computer gives you simple questions and you have to answer them. The strategy used to solve these is easy if you know your times tables and division. In the example in the screenshot, as you can see I have took the number at the bottom(denominator) and divide the whole number by it. then when you have your answer, you times it by the number at the top(Numerator) and then you come up with your answer.

Forgotten Silver

Sir Peter Jackson

For reading, LS2(Learning Space 2) have done a class activity on a documentary we have watched that Peter Jackson has made. We then researched him, why his work and why he is famous.

Rounding Money

For maths my groups is learning to round money up or down to the closest ten cents or dollar.