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.

Math week 8

In week 8 term 3 my math group with Nicole, The Humans we were looking at the circumference of a circle. some of the tasks we did were around finding the area of circles using the radius and diameter. The formula for calculating the circumference of a circle is Pi rx2 and the formula for finding the are of a circle is pi r2. The most challenging slide was the one where we had to prove why the perimeter of the circle is smaller than any other shape. My favourite slide was finding the area of the circle using the diameter. 

Immersion with Max

For our first session with Max, we looked at creativity and what is it. We also looked at Tiffany Singh and all her cool artwork and sculptures she chose. This project is to create a moral artwork in front of the school cafeteria using the help of Tiffany Singh. Some of the silhouettes we were looking at were related to our Hobsonville point community.
But for our second session, I didn't get to go because we had to do a writing assessment.
In our third session, we were looking at how silhouettes can resemble all sorts of stuff for example city's which can be recognizable easily. We did a Kahoot quiz about city's and telling what city it is only using a silhouette. We also had to look at some of Tiffany Singh's artwork and tell the story behind them, later on, we were talking about the finer detail Apple put into their iPod campaign for their silhouettes of a famous rockstar band. I liked this immersion because of all the cool silhouettes we had and made. some of the challenges I had was coming up with an idea for silhouettes.

Immersion with Liv

For our three sessions with Liv, we were looking at all the signage around the high school because we are going to be designing some art around the school about our school values. In our second sessi0on with Liv we looked at the photos we took around the high school and put sticky notes on the photos showing all the principal values.We also got to draw something related to one of our school values and my team chose to do a computer with a scrabble game saying Personalised Learning. In the last session with Liv we looked at photoshop but then plans changed so we took photos on the iPad of free space to put art and jazz up the sign's that Emma gave to us. Mine was about the pedestrians crossing in hail while going to school under any circumstances. some of the highlights I had was when we got to do a drawing of the school crossing sign, but some of the challenges I faced was making the computers saying personalized learning.

Harry potter and the philosopher's stone

In week 8 I'm reading the first Harry Potter book in the series by J.K Rowling. This amazing book is about a young boy named Harry Potter how has had a major incident when he was young by the terrible Voldemort. Voldemort tried to kill Harry when he was 1 year old after killing his parents, so the only person left to go to was his mother Lilly's Muggle sister's family. When Harry had lived at their Muggle family's house, he was treated very badly, he got no presents for his birthday, he had to cook breakfast all on his own and Dudley had always bullied Harry along with uncle Vernon and aunt Petuina. Later on, Harry gets a letter from Albus Dumbledor inviting him to come to Hogwarts school of wizardry and witchcraft. Then the real journey begins. This book is really interesting for me because of all the unique and interesting vocabulary J.K Rowling has chosen to use in this fantastic book.

Playground immersion

This week for immersion, We are learning about playgrounds and considering building a senior playground. In each immersion, we have 3 sessions then rotate to another group. This immersion is run by Jono. For our first session we had a look at the coconut park and took notes about all the stuff we could have, some of the equipment I chose was a flying fox, monkey bars, and spider swing.On our second session we had to create a 3-D model of an object in a playground, then Jono told us we might be able to use LC4's 3-D printer to print out our objects we chose to design.
Immersion is to help us decide on a project. Usually, we first do immersion then the teachers have project options we can choose from, but this term we are having project options and being immersed through them. My favourite part about this immersion is when we got to design a 3-D model of our equipment. I will definitely consider this as one of my project options.

The lost girl book review

This week, I have been reading The lost girl by R.L Stine. This book is about a boy called Michael who uses his dads snow mobile with his friends and accidentally kills a teenager, Angel about his size then Angel's soul comes and attempts killing each and every one of his friends in some painful way. This thrilling book shows the perspective of Michael with the fear of being killed anytime. My favourite part about this thrilling book is when Michael finally decides to tell the police about Angel the psycho.

Silverdale adventure park

On Friday week 6 LC7 went to Silverdale adventure park for a trip learning about energy and physics. When we arrived we had a briefing about all the rides and where they are. The thrilling rides that I could go on were the luge which you got to ride in a kart and drive it down the hill and break at every corner, the doughnut where you sat in this seat and slid down a hill, the spaceship which is a 5-D film and the 7-D virtual reality film. The rest of the rides you had to be between 40 to 8o kgs(I couldn't go on them). The zipline was when you had to lie down on a bunch of straps and go down hill in the air. The other one I couldn't go on was the bungy jump, for the bungy jump you were harnessed and then you were flung in the air as high as anything. My favourite ride was the virtual reality film (we watched one about horror and it was really spooky).