Year 8 learning blog: November 2016

Wednesday 30 November 2016

Thursday 1/12/2016

Thursday
You now only have one more week of school. 2 days are activity days, one day is options and one day is prize giving. Remember you still need to manage your own behaviour until school is finished for the year. This is not the time to give up but the time to finish well. How do you want to be remembered during year 8. You have one week left to show us.
Today is going to be a little bit messy with different teachers working with you throughout the day.
Lets all have a great day again and show our visitors how awesome and well behaved we can be.

Block One.

Maths- Practise fast recall of basic number facts. https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/pods/tableofcontent/mathematics-pod-rapid-recall-drills-developing-mental-strategies-5330307?sf=Class781010

Activity- Word number problems.
WALT: Finding the maths in word number problems.
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/pods/tableofcontent/mathematics-pod-word-problems-all-strands-10190307?sf=Class781010

Kiwi Kids News- Choose your own article. Answer the thinking questions and recall questions in full.

Obstacle course- Whaea Kelly will run this with you.

Block Two
Reading- Boy on a bike by Bronwen Wall.
Peer reading. Discuss the main ideas in the story. Draw a map of the North island. Make on your map the different place they stopped at and visited. Check your placements of the town using an Atlas.

Answer these questions
1. What was the reason for his trip?
2. How do you think he felt doing something for someone else?
3. Did he get a reward for his efforts?
4. What would you do to raise money for a charity?
5. What charity would you raise money for and why?

On google drawing create a dust jacket of this story. Write your own blurb about it. (Must be at least a paragraph)
Would you recommend this book yes/no, why or why not.

Block Three
Mannequin challenge.
Add your inquiry and any published work to your blog.

Pack up at 2:30 clean up commons. Meet in Target zone to discuss today's effort, outstanding student, Friday Merit assembly, Finish day with Karakia.

Monday 28 November 2016

Tuesday 29/11/ 2016

Morning everyone.
Yesterday was a good day. It was great getting the letters in. We are still waiting on a couple of students to send them through so we can print them off and send them to Kaikoura primary school.
I have also read through a couple of your inquiries. So far they are looking great. Don't forget that your whanau will want to see this so add it to your blog.
Lets all have another great day today.

Work for today
Math- http://www.battleshiponline.org/
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-isoball
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-mystery-temple

Study ladder- Free choice of math activities.

Kiwi Kids News
http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/india-puts-lions-trial-murder/
http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/pokemon-trading-card-sells-77000/

Read through both article. Choose one of the article to answer the recall and thinking questions.
Do this on a google doc.

Writing- First if you haven't sent through your letters please send them through so we can print them out to send to students in Kaikoura.
Continue working on your inquiry. It was due yesterday however I think so of you need more time to complete it. It does need to be handed in by lunch time.

Reading- Peer reading school journal story
You have a choice of 3 stories.
1. The big dig- Once you are finished write design a quake proof road. Label the parts and explain how it would work.
2. Painting the town- Once you are finish explain what part of Kawerau you would like to see street art, what kind of street art and why. Draw some of your own ideas.
3. Read Namu and Waeroa. and Te Namu. Draw and label the different parts of a sand fly/mosquito. List the thing people did to stop getting bitten by them.

Coding
Follow the link to practise the skill of coding. Start at the beginners level.
https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/?utm_source=Teachers&utm_campaign=2ba9488dfd-Media_Kit_Teachers_2016_11_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0a72eab762-2ba9488dfd-68977793

Monday 28th 11 2016

Morning everyone,
Hope you have all had a fantastic weekend.
You only have 2 more weeks of school left. Lets all make it a fantastic last couple of weeks.

Maths
Challenge- http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-worlds-hardest-game-2
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0--sudoku

When you have finished these 2 game you can have free choice of maths activities on study ladder.

Kiwi kids News.
http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/frenchman-finds-gold-house/
What would you do if you found Gold under your house.
Answer the recall and thinking questions.
When you have done that create a list of things you would spend the money on.

Morning tea
Writing- Finish publishing letters to students from Kaikoura Primary School
See Google classroom for other activities.

Reading- See Google classroom for reading activities.

Lunch

Inquiry last day to finish off your inquiry.

Wednesday 23 November 2016

THURSDAY 24th NOVEMBER - Week 7

THURSDAY 24th November - week 7

Reminders:

Payment and outstanding notices for Activity Days must be sorted by tomorrow at the latest. If your family has something to do on one of those days then a note must be brought to school from your parent/caregivers urgently as we will otherwise need to forward to truancy that you are/will be absent.

BLOCK ONE:
8.55 - 9.45 Mathematics - Algebra Mastery Test
9.45 - 10.25 Study Skills - On Google Classroom - Literal Word Meanings.
Fast Finishers can start looking at the Writing Skill exercise. on Google Classroom too.

BLOCK TWO:
11.00 - 11.45 Letter Writing Skill Activity Lesson One - Google Classroom
11.45 - 12.30 Reading - Poetry The Fridge - Google Classroom

BLOCK THREE:
8DA at PE

ARE YOUR INQUIRIES TURNED IN? THEY ARE DUE TODAY!

Monday 21 November 2016

Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Tuesday 22nd November 2016

We are very lucky to day to have Mrs Cannell coming in to our Common to take each home room for a special introduction to "Dreamcatcher", a special careers programme.

Each whanau class will have a 45 minute session in the art room this morning in either block one or block two.
Mr Cochrane is at the athletic sports, we wish all our competitors good luck, and our congratulations for making the team, we are proud of you.

All students will be using a chrome book for Mrs Cannell's lessons, How you manage them will have an impact on whether you get to use them later in the day or remain on pencil and paper tasks.

9.00 Miss McNicholas and 8CM
9.45 Mr Cochranes class 8IC

11.00 ( beginning of block 2) 9DA

Maths 22/11/2016

Maths
All work is to be done in your maths books.
You must make sure that you have included all your working.

Practise activity.
Group 1 Naming fractions- Page 274-275 NZ curriculum Mathematics
Stage 5 Early additive.

Group 2 Adding and Subtracting decimals- Page 88 and 89 NZ curriculum mathematics
Level 4A

Group 3 Order of Operations- Page 52-53 NZ curriculum mathematics
Level 4B

Extra for experts
Group 1- Page 278 improper fractions
Group 2- Page Page 95 Fact file (Find the message)
Group 3- Page 51 Investigation

Sunday 20 November 2016

Maths Monday 21/11/2016

Saturday 19 November 2016

MONDAY 21st NOVEMBER 16

MONDAY 21st NOVEMBER 16

Welcome back after a great weekend, summer is on it's way 😄,
Thank you to those who are coming to school with their uniform sorted and their equipment necessary for learning, (pencil, rubber, sharpener and book.)
Thank you to those who are remembering to politely line up outside.

REMINDERS:
1. Money for Activity Days to come back URGENTLY with permission forms.
2. Those picked for Interschool Athletics, remember it is tomorrow - Tuesday, one or two notices were left on tables after school on Friday!! Make sure your whanau know.
3. Chrome Books. These are being issued again for certain subjects and activities On condition

You are logged in under your school account.
You prepare a play list ( no more than 5 minutes to be spent doing this) then u-tube is off.
There is n multitasking on facebook, gaming or u-tube.
Work is completed and turned in correctly.
IF THESE CONDITIONS ARE NOT MEET YOU WILL LOSE THE RIGHT TO COMPUTER ACCESS. We have proof from the last week you work far better in books, as you do not have distractions.

BLOCK ONE:

8.55 - 9.45 am Mathematics.

9.45 - 10.00am Handwriting. You are to choose one piece of text from any book, ( or one of the handwriting cards from the trolley) and copy a minimum of 3 paragraphs into your literacy book in your neatest handwriting.

We are looking at shapes of letters, even size, the way letters are sitting on the line and where tails drop to (no more that 1/3 of the line underneath. It is important we practice our writing so we maintain a style that is easy and fluid to produce, and legible to be read.

10.00 - 10.25am STUDY SKILLS. - On Google classroom. You will need your literacy book and worksheet from Thursday.

BLOCK TWO:

11.00 - 11.15 am if you did not have an opportunity to complete the two following tasks on Friday, please spend 15 minutes completing them now.

1. A survey for Mrs Mees about MANA cards and PB4L

2. A survey from Mrs Martin-Paling and Ms Addenbrooke about using Chrome Books.

THESE MUST BE COMPLETED TODAY THANK YOU.

11.15 - 11.45 Senses Task, based on Touch. We will in Whanau classes brainstorm a variety of words and phrases to describe sensations of touch, Next go to Google Classroom to do this Language Activity.

11.45 - 12.30 WRITING ( Quotation Marks - Google Classroom)

BLOCK THREE

1.10 - 1.50 pm READING on google Classroom

1.55 - 2.40 pm INQUIRY Your individual Inquiry needs to be turned in by Thursday, this will be assessed and entered on Kmar for your overall report grade.

Sunday 6 November 2016

Maths Number

Maths Number.

Warm up activity
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=31152
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=28975

Today we will be doing something a little bit different.
Today you will be working through word problems and pulling out the maths in the problems.
Below is a link/practise activity before doing your activities in google classroom.

Group 1 https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=30547
Group 2 https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=31428
Group 3 https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=13163

Activities on google classroom.

When finished you can have a personal choice of maths activities on study ladder.

Saturday 5 November 2016

Week 5 Term 4 Monday 7th November

Monday 7th November

Have you remembered to bring your Activity Day form back? We will be putting people in to Activities to fill spaces if you do not reply by tomorrow Tuesday 8th. Some Activities are almost fill and others may have to be cancelled if you do not get your preferences in, remember, these are ideas you asked for and teachers have put time in to organising, so its now up to you. These are two compulsory school days.

We have visitors in the common on Wednesday and Thursday, we know you will show MANA to our visitors, they want to see how things work in our common, share you skills.

FINALLY : A CHALLENGE....
WHICH STEP WILL YOU REACH TODAY? We know what we step we should aspire to, how about making sure 100% of us do it.

YES !!! I did it.!!!
I will do it.
I can do it.
I'll try to do it.
How do I do it?
I want to do it.
I can't do it.
I won't do it.

Where are you starting today? Where will you climb to?

REMINDERS: All computers will be tracked and locked with Hapara, any complaints arising from the use of this tool to focus your learning, and you will automatically loose your chrome book. We do not and will not ever give you permission to play games on chrome books or The Hub at school, we are here to learn and one thing a lot of us seem to need is support to manage social media use and gaming, these are a type of addiction.
All computers will be scanned out and trolleys then locked you will retain your own computer and use it wisely, we will be formalising the return as we are disappointed by the drop and run occurring.
Headphones will be signed out and signed in, if not put carefully back in to bags and returned as asked , you will not be able to borrow them, its called respect of resources.

None of these things are new, however a timely reminder to all.

Lastly, We have purchased some pencils, however we need something valuable from you to swop to get the use of one. Unfortunately the loss rate is most unacceptable, and the way they are found broken as in snapped in half and dropped all around the room shows a lack of respect for our generosity. Trade and you can have one to use. Otherwise we have black crayons available.

Block One
8.55am - 9.55am Mathematics
9.55am - 10.20am Study Skills (google classroom)
10.20 - 10.25 Pack up and return work tools from seated class instructions.

Block Two
11.00am - 12.00pm Writing
12.00pm - 12.25 pm Reading Tools (google classroom)

Block Three
1.10pm - 1.50pm Reading with your teachers in literacy groups.
Group 1 Ms Addenbrooke - Short stories
Group 2 Mr Cochrane - SRA
Group 3 Miss McNicholas - SRA

1.50pm - 2.40pm Inquiry part 4 (google classroom)

Have a great day.

Wednesday 2 November 2016

Algebra Thursday

Thursday 3/11/2016

Warm up activity- Study ladder.
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=28507
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=21372

WALT: use the rule to solve number problems with input and output numbers.

AWS Algebra level 3
See google classroom page 12/13 activity 5 and 6.

Finishing off activity
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=28506

Thursday 3rd November

THURSDAY 3rd NOVEMBER

Good Morning and welcome to your last learning day of the week. Please remember you are not at school tomorrow as the Senior Prize-giving takes place in the theatre.

REMINDER>>We need your activity forms back AND Monies to come in and be paid urgently please. Otherwise we will be placing you in an activity and giving you a bill to take home and be paid. The biking activity at the redwoods cannot go ahead, however an overnight tramp has been offered instead. The cost of that is $15.

Ms Addenbrooke needs Zayne and Taeya to hand in their literacy books. As well Corall, Taeya, Te Rangi and Shaviah have yet to complete their student voice survey, this will be done in your time, interval, today.

BLOCK ONE
8.55 - 9.55 Maths:
9.55 - 10.25 Study Skills (On google classroom) - Thinking Critically. Please check you have completed Mondays Skills (Using Contextual Skills) and Tuesdays (Specialist Language as well)

BLOCK TWO
11.00 - 12.00 WRITTEN LANGUAGE - Cameo Writing (On google classroom)
12.00 - 12.30 READING SKILL - Be Careful - to complete (On google classroom from 1/11)

BLOCK THREE
8DA P.E. All Block
8CM & 8 IC Reading SRA 1.10 - 1.50
Inquiry 1.50 - 2.40 ( Scroll on classroom to see Inquiry Step 4)

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Week 4 Term 4 2016

TUESDAY 1st NOVEMBERHave you remembered to return your notice regarding activity days? Don't miss out because you have not discussed the options and costs with your whanau.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE ABOUT CHROME BOOK USE:

1. We will be checking your use on Hapara

2. If you are not logged on under your name (e.g. those who are lazy and using "Guest" you will instantly lose yur chrome book for the day., and not be able to use the hub.

3. If you are needing to be bumped off a site more than 3 times you will lose the Chrome Book too.

This is a learning tool, many are using them well, some need to improve their self-management.

BLOCK ONE:

8.55am - 9.55 am MATHS:
9.55 - 10.25 STUDY SKILLS - This is on google classroom and is around using Contextual Clues, something we have been working on but yet to master.

BLOCK TWO:

11am - 12pm WRITING - as well as revisiting yesterday's writing activity, please check with your teacher then post to your blog, it is important you all complete a student voice survey. This must be completed today .

12pm - 12.30 pm READING ( ON google classroom, this was put up yesterday, we chose not to do it as we were so busy, however please start and do it now, thanks)

BLOCK THREE;

1.10pm - 2.10pm Reading Group 1 Ms Addenbrookes' group, in Learning area together working on Short Stories. Group 2 Mr Cochranes' group , in Targetted Learning Zone working on SRA. Group 3 Miss McNicholas' group, in main area working on SRA cards.
As well there is an activity on Google Classroom for those who complete their group work with their literacy teacher . This is an activity to support gaps we have seen from testing.

2.10pm - 2.40pm Inquiry Stage 4 Refer to Google classroom and make sure you are coverin

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