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On Monday, we got into groups and did and dictation run. A dictation run is when you one writer and the rest are runners. There are papers with texts on them and the runners have to memorize as much words as they can and tell the writer to write down.

Buddy Reading With Room 3 and 4

Today LS2 did their first buddy reading with both rooms 3 and 4. Buddy reading when the young students come with a book of their choice to read with the senior students. It was really fun and enjoyed reading with the juniors. We asked them questions about the book and what it was about.

Book Character Week

For the first week of the term three, we have introduced Book week. Today we had our Book character parade. It is when anyone can come dressed as anyone from a book. This brings life to the characters and let the juniors know how cool it is to read.

LS2's Favourite Book Genres

I have surveyed many people in LS2 on what their favourite book genre is. My results were surprisingly unexpected. If you look at the graph you can see I have separated the categories into year 7 and year 8. You can tell a very big difference by looking at the two and comparing them to each other.

Attributing Images - Olympics

For LS2's Class activity. We recapped on attributing images and how it shows respect to the owner of the image by adding a link of where it came from and and who made it. We also had to put in the license of the image so that we had respected copyrights.

Learning about Advertising

Advertising is way of businesses to promote their products. Advertisers persuade their target audience’s into thinking like them and trick people into believing their advertisement.

With LS2's start back in the new term we have started learning about advertisement. We did a dictation run on two paragraphs about advertisements. My group them wrote a 25 word text explaining what we know about advertisements.

Lynne's Visit From Spark

Yesterday on the 7th, a special visitor from Spark New Zealand(Telephone/technology company). Lynne from Spark came to talk to LS2 about leadership. This week was actually leadership week and we were all paying respect to the Sir Peter Blake Trust. This is a time where we remember his famous actions into leading NZ to winning America's Cup. Also remembering his famous lucky red socks. Lynne had talked to us about why we look up to them as a leader and their qualities. We thank Lynne and the Spark Foundation for their wonderful gift bags. There were some fun items in the bag.

Year 8 Orienteering

All of the year 8 students have enjoyed orienteering with Leon, Irene and Eliana. We have all learnt new things like how to read the map and figuring out what the different icons are. I really enjoyed running around the school looking for the stamps.

Life Education Booklets

The Life Education caravan has come to our school and given us free booklets with awesome activities about about making choices. I chose to work on the word search activity because it is about the human body and our organs.

ASB Get Wise - Jeremy's Visit

Yesterday, the Year 8's went to the school theatre to meet Jeremy from ASB. Jeremy came to talk to us about being wise with and about money. He told us some very important things in life and how we should always be the best we can. He then showed us a chart that of the different ways to earn money at my age. Things like chores at home, to selling and trading things. Jeremy then pulled up something very important thing that everyone goes through sometime in their life. He called is a cross road, it is when we are going through a situation where we have to pick a path where we want to continue our life through. Jeremy gave us an example of his life growing up and how he to had to think if he is going to go through that easy path, or that hard path where he can actually do something that was good in his life. He also talked to us about growing up and getting your first job. He said that we all should always be the best we can at our job, because you never know when someone is watching you. Also at my age, we should be opening up bank accounts so that we can start saving from a young age and you can never what kind of money you could have in the future. Some sayings which could help you to remember about being wise with money: "Spend some on you, save some too." Speed to your needs, wait for your wants." Jeremy's talk to the year 8's was very inspiring and everyone learnt some thing that they could take from that lesson and think of it throughout their lives.

Reading - Authors Purpose

For reading today, We were given a whole set of activities to do with reading strategies. I worked on the authors purpose and telling if it is inform, entertain or persuade. I did a bunch of activities that help to understand more about the author's purpose.

Story Starter Scrambler

For writing, Mrs Anderson showed LS2 a story starter generator. When you click spin, it gives you an random topic to write about. My topic was: Write a brief biography of a sneaky inventor who discovers she has superpowers. I then wrote about it on a newspaper format layout. You can go to this link to write your own: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/

Year 8 Life Education

Today the year 8 students went to Life ed. We went to see Nicole at the Life ed caravan. For this lesson, Nicole was going to teach us about how the body works the different systems that function. We learnt about the muscular system(our muscles), the circulatory system(our blood) and our the nervous system(our nerves and feelings). We also played some games on  nerves and rhythm/beat. All the year 8's had fun and enjoyed learning about the human body.