Immersion with chris

This week for immersion with Chris, we were looking at designing a playground. In our first session, we visited Catalina playground again to notice all the things we would like to design in our school. But we also had to play on the playground to see what we liked and disliked.

In our second session, we were looking at what makes a good survey. We did this by discussing how to do a survey and creating one. In order to do this, we had to ask two questions about what we would like in a playground, but we had to ask a variety of people. My questions were, where would you like a playground? And what equipment would you like on it? I also choose to ask some LC4 kids and some LC7 kids for my survey. The challenging part of this session was collecting all of the data and putting it into a PI graph in our books.

For our last session, we discussed what sorts of things make a playground creative. Next, we also had to design a dream playground and I collaborated with my friend Amy. Our playground had an automated flying fox, spinny mickey mouse chairs, a swing into a foam pit, an inbuilt pool and monkey bars with trampolines underneath. Designing my playground was very fun, but once we did that, we had to use the HARK feedback technique to give others some specific, helpful and kind feedback.

I really enjoyed this immersion. It was really fun and I would have considered it as a project option if I had time. Some of my highlights were designing our dream playgrounds and surveying different people.

Christella's feedback
1. add a capital letter in the second papragraph

Math week 10

This week for math with Nicole and Helen, we are looking at man-made landmarks around the world. Our task this week is to pick a landmark and research all about it. I am working on doing the pyramids of Giza, collaborating with my friend Christella. Some of our slides are about measurement and geometry which is level 5, but we are also working on probability and estimation which is level 4. My favourite slide to complete is the measurement slide because I think it is quite easy. but a challenging slide is the probability slide where we have to think about if building your landmark is likely enough in New Zealand.

Harry potter and the chamber of secrets

Title: Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets.
Author: J.K Rowling

Recently, this week I have been reading Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by J.K Rowling. This thrilling book is about Harry Potter going to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry for his second-year and is told to not return to Hogwarts a house Elf, Dobby saying there is a plot against him. But harry ignores the advice and finds himself in a lot of trouble with Tom Riddle(Voldemort). Everyone in Hogwarts is getting just as nervous as Harry due to all the attacks on the students of Hogwarts and being left frozen and petrified. But drastic matters take drastic actions so Harry decides to go with his friend Ron and Professor Lockhart (one of the teachers at Hogwarts) to the chamber of secrets and fight off Voldermort for the third time.

This book has 251 pages, but its all worth it with the amount of great vocabulary and amazing sentence starters J.K Rowling has chosen to use. My favourite part would have to be when Harry finally gets revenge on Dudely, his Aunt and Uncle with a snake as Harry can speak parseltongue. A very tense and dramatic part of this book is when Harry and Ron discover that Hermonie, their best friend has just been a victim of the mysterious attacks and left petrified. This book has had me hooked in so much I can't take my eyes off the pages. I would definitely recommend the Harry Potter series for those who like mystery, adventure and magic.

Immersion with Jess and Sarah

For immersion with Jess and Sarah, we were doing a performance. In our first session, we played a game called 'What are you doing', which we had to do in a circle and act out what our peers told us to do. We also talked about facial expressions and body language.

For our second session, we were with Sarah and did some freeze frames requiring different things in dance. Freeze frames are creating a certain image then freezing in it. Then we also did the same thing but with poems. Throughout the session we talked about how dance has a purpose and why we do it. We did this by watching a lot of inspirational videos about how dancing can help you express you, and many other things. In our second session, we also had to create a play about three words which were peach, excited and winter. In my group were Grace, Rhiannon, and Anjani. Our script was about the news talking about spring finally coming and how excited peach farmers are to have winter over.

And for our last session, we were playing some games about drama and discussing how to improvise. One of them was called 'Everyone who'. In this game, someone would be in the middle and call 'Everyone Who' and add something to it, for example, 'Everyone Who' eats apples, then whoever does that, they would run to get another seat while the middle person would try to steal someone else's seat. Jess and Sarah also told us how to play the laughing game it was very fun.

In this Immersion group, I enjoyed playing 'Everyone Who'. Some of the challenges I faced was working in a large group and doing the freeze frame.


Mackenzie's feedback:
1. In the first sentence, it says performance acting. I think you should change that as it doesn't really make sense
2. You shouldn't start a sentence with and. 

Christella's feedback
1. maybe change for to in.

Immersion with Nicole and Helen.

For immersion with Jess and Sarah, we were doing a performance. For our first session, we played a game called 'What are you doing', which we had to do in a circle and act out what our peers told us to do. We also did some acting and talked about facial expressions and body language.

For our second session, we were with Sarah and did some freeze frames requiring different things in dance. Freeze frames are creating a certain image then freezing in it. We also did the same thing but with poems. We also talked about how dance has a purpose and why we do it. We did this by watching a lot of inspirational videos about how dancing can help you express you, and many other things. In our second session, we also had to create a play about three words which were peach, excited and winter. In my group were grace, Rhiannon and Anjani. Our script was about the news talking about spring finally coming and how excited peach farmers are to have winter over.

And for our last session, we were playing some games about drama and discussing how to improvise.  One of them was called 'Everyone who'. In this game, someone would be in the middle and call 'Everyone Who' and add something to it, for example, 'Everyone Who' eats apples, then whoever does that, they would run to get another seat while the middle person would try to steal someone else's seat.

In this Immersion group, I enjoyed playing 'Everyone Who'. Some of the challenges I faced was working in a large group and doing the freeze frame.


Mackenzie's feedback:
1. In the first sentence, it says performance acting. I think you should change that as it doesn't really make sense
2. You shouldn't start a sentence with and. 

Math week 9

This week for math with Nicole and Helen, we were looking at the Pythagoras theorem (a² + b ² = c²). We had to do a slide about Pythagoras, his theorems and who he was. Pythagoras invented the musical scale and the Pythagoras theorem. My highlights of math this week was learning a new technique of math because I love making the most of math. The slide that challenged me the most was the last slide which we had to have the triangle and turn it into a right angle triangle then find out the hight. My favourite slide was when we had to square the right angle triangle lags to find out the value of C.

Bruce mason theatere

On Tuesday term 3 weeks 8, LC2, LC4 and LC7 went on a trip to Bruce Mason theatre to learn about performance, sound and acting for our creativity immersion group. First LC7 was split into 2 groups. Then, we learnt about performing which included, stage managing, lighting and acting. In this first rotation I was acting as I child and it was great fun.

Later on, once we had morning tea, we were doing some activities related to sound and one of them was an example of all the sounds you can't actually hear in reality but was brought in for performing, this is called realism. After that, we moved onto listening to sounds and improvising with the phone audio track. Then it became lunch.

 After lunch, there was a performance by some people at touch campus which is a dance group with disabled people and some not. Then touch campus showed us the Ninebot which is like a hoverboard but you can also command it using Bluetooth. We also did some movement similar to the Ninebot with following the leader. My favourite part of the trip was doing a performance in front of the other LC7 group.