Creativity

In this Term we are learning about the 6 c's a certain one that we are learning about is creativity. As you may know our school is having a community fair on Sunday the 8th starting from 10:30am to 3:00pm. Some of the things that we have learned is...

What kind of thinker am I?
What creative thinking skills do I have and which can I work on? - I think that I am creative when it comes to things like giving ideas to the group and I can work on making my ideas more out of the box and having perseverance and vision when making a project.
What aspects of creative thinking do I find the hardest? - I find think outside of the box hard because I think I am more of a logical thinker than creative.
What Creative thinking did I bring to my group for this part of PBL?
What are my creative strengths when I work in a team? - I think that my creative aspects when working in an group is that I am able to think of ideas even when it is a hard topic.

For this lesson we had to come up with 100 ways to use a paperclip using our creative thinking, we did this collaboratively

Here is the task.

Collaboration

Collaboration,

As you may know our school is having a School community fair on the 8th of march on Sunday. For this us year 7/8's have been making games for the juniors to play at the fair. We have been working on our collaboration skills. For this some we have been referring to six bullet points about how are collaboration looks and and sounds like in our Group...

• work highly effectively and interdependently, identifying and using each other's strengths and skills
• make important decisions that take into consideration different perspectives and the mutual benefit of the group
• take active responsibility for the way the group works together to create a quality product
• have highly developed social and emotional skills and an ability to communicate across a range of different people
• respectfully raise and explore different options and are able to move forward in the direction the team identifies
• have a good understanding of different points of view, express their viewpoints and empathise, listen and learn from others.

I think that everyone in our Group has done really well and has put alot of work into the game we are making. I think that I have done a good job of giving ideas to the group that will have the best outcome for us and for the game. An area of collaboration that I should work on is building off everyone's ideas and to have everyone's ideas somewhere in the project.

Do you think that your collaboration skills are good?

Reading task Week 3 - Term 1

Hey there guys this week for reading we have been reading an article;e about the Caritas Organization. For this we were learning about Papua New Guinea, Here are some facts about Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea is made up of over 600 islands, They hold many species in their forest that we have not come across yet, It's population is about 8 million people. For our task we had to write what are knowledge was about the Papua New Guinea Caritas was and then what we learnt from reading the text after was. Our goal for this task was to Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. For this I made a potable water filter drink bottle to take around with you. You can dip this empty can into a lake and come out with clean potable water, ( this does not actually work. ) Here is my Task.

Maths Task Week 3 - Term 1

Maths Task,

For our maths task this Week our goal was to Use a variety of 
strategies to calculate the area of rectangles, parallelograms and triangles. These strategies are called formulas. The formula for rectangles is Area = length x width ( A = lw ) The parallelogram formula is Area = base x height ( A = bh ) and the triangle formula is 1/2 bh ( 1/2 base x height. ) For this we all created six different questions, 2 parallelograms 2 triangles and 2 rectangles. Here is the task.

Formulas
Awnsers

Do you know how to find the area of a shape?

Writing Create task Week 3 - Term 1

Writing Task,

This goal is one of the first ones for the year. Our goal for writing this week is Create content that is concise and relevant to the curriculum task. For this task we had to make instructions for a game for the fair this coming march ( I'll have more on that. ) For these instructions I did bean bag toss. here is my task.

Bean Bag Toss Instructions,

Step 1: Setup 5 bins one behind the other the first bin being 5 points then 10 then 20 the 45 and then 100.

Step 2: Mark out the line that they need to stand at to throw the bags depending on age, a meter for ages 3 to 6 and ages 7 to 12 2 meters. 

Step 3: When playing the kids need to be able to throw

The bean bags into the bins and the challenge will be to add up the points

That they got from getting the bean bag in the bins.

Have you ever mad a game for a fair?

Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi,

We started of this Term by learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on February the 6th 1840, about 5 years later the New Zealand wars began. while the wars were taking place the British Government took plots of land from the Maori because of rebelling against the Government. In 1872 the wars ended but the Maoris were still suffering because of the land that was taken from them. Nowadays there is a Group called the Tribunal group and they support the Maoris by letting them claim their land that was taken away for them in the 1800's. I think that if the Treaty was modified then we would be able to be at peace again and live together normally.

What are your ideas about the Treaty?

Kaupeka 2020

2020

Hi Guys welcome back to my Blog for 2020. Hope you have had an amazing holiday. Today I'll be talking to you about some fun things that we will be doing in the Kaupeka hub this year for 2020. This year I am looking forward to the leadership groups for the Year 8's that we get to choose these groups are the... Environment group, the Media team, the Arts team, the Googlers team and the Pals
( Physical Activity Leaders. ) I am not quite sure about what group I want to go too but my goals for this year is,

- Make my to a high standard,
- Help other people and step up more,
- Be able to leave a good reputation at this School.

In the Holidays I went with my Family to Queenstown on a roadtrip it was fun.

What did you do in the Holidays?