How has technology changed the way we learn?

Technology has changed the way we learn these days. Did you know technology connects us to the world? During the 1900’s, children in classrooms used blackboards to write their follow up work on. These were called slates.

Slates were called slates because they were made out of slate. After using blackboards, notebooks and ink were introduced in classrooms. Notebooks were better than slates because they would keep things safe, and unlike blackboards it was not easy to wipe out the work. This meant students had a record of their work.

Inkwells were replaced by pens, pencils and rubbers. Rubbers are used to rub things out if mistakes were made when writing with pencils. This meant students were able to try new things without worrying about making a mistake in their work.

Nowadays we now use computers. Computers are digital learning devices. They help us look through the internet when we are finding the answers to new learning. We can create DLOs (Digital learning objects) like slideshows, google draw posters, movies and spreadsheets on one device. We can see our learning at our class google site at any time,  and our blogs let everyone in the world see the work we publish.

In 2018 we are using our digital devices instead of using blackboards or notebooks which shows technology has changed the way we learn.

How have camels adapted to their environment?

Camels have adapted to the desert because Camels normally live in a hot area.  Did you know in the desert it can get up to 42 degrees of heat? This is probably why camels can drink up to 46 Liters of water in one session.

The extreme heat makes the sand very hot so on their feet camels have special pads that help them walk on the hot sand they also have webbed between their toes to help them walk easily. Camels have doubled eyelashes and has ears that are covered in long hair. The Eyelashes and ears help so sand cannot go in their eyes or ears. Nostrils can close so sand can’t go into their nose.

Camels have thick lips that will help them eat sharp foods like thorns, cactus, twigs, and bones. In the Cactus they produce water.

Camels can survive without drinking water for 30 days. Camels also have thick fur for the shade that is on top of their hump. In the Camel's hump, they have fat. Fat helps them helps them have energy when they can’t find food.

Nowadays camels still have adapted to a very hot and dry desert. The desert has no water, but in the cactus, they produce water for the camel's hump.

Wild Boar

Today for reading me and my group made a poster showing facts about the Wild Boar. As you can see I have made 5 facts about the Wild Boar and I also added a image.

New Zealand Jobs 1870's

John, San Kyaw, Affonso and I used our smart searching skills to find the types of jobs that women and men in New Zealand this in the 1870's. We noticed that the jobs people did back then were a lot more physical than many of the jobs we do today because they didn't have the technology we do to help them.

Curling

This term I have learnt about the Winter Olympics. I did this because the Winter Olympics was held and it was on going until the 25 of Febuary. Our sports we choose was curling. We choose to do curling because we wanted to know what it was and how it works. I have made notes about everything that is based on curling.

How Chinese New Year is Celebrated? - Explaination

How Chinese New Year is Celebrated?

How Chinese New Year is Celebrated?

Chinese New Year is one of the biggest celebrations in the world. Celebrating Chinese New Year involves food, animals, and colours such as red and gold.  These 4 things are very traditional. Everything during this festive holiday means something.

Gold is known as the most beautiful colour. It is worn by royalty or people of importance. It also stands for wealth. Red is also a very important colour during the Chinese New Year holiday as it represents good luck. In China, red envelopes that have money inside are given to children and unmarried adults. People also decorate their houses with red banners. Food also symbolises something meaningful to the Chinese culture.

For instance, noodles are eaten for happiness and for a long life with good health. Egg rolls stand for wealth because they look like gold bars. Fish is thought to increase prosperity while oranges and tangerines symbolise fullness. Like the food and the colours all around the world lanterns are a special part in the Chinese New Year.

Usually lanterns that are a part of the Chinese holiday are red. Lanterns symbolise the wish of a bright future or, as many others believe, it is done to send wishes when love ones pass. Traditionally, lanterns are made from oiled rice paper which covers a bamboo frame.

As usual, Chinese traditions are meaningful to everyone who is from China. From the food to the dancing. As long as this Chinese tradition keeps going the identity of the Chinese people will always remain through the years. Kung hei fat choi to everyone. (This means Happy New Year in Chinese)

Jeremiah & Joshua V

Today Jeremiah and I were writing an explanation about How Chinese New Year is Celebrated. In our writing explanation Mrs. Anderson gave us a simple tip of what goes into our writing explanation. It was called tiic (title, introduction, information and conclusion). In our explanation we put in what colors they use, the food they eat and why the food is important during the chinese New Year.

Activity 1 day 1 - PBS Holiday Blogging Challenge

For this activity we had to find the location of Rainbow's End. I have screen shot a photo of where It is. Rainbow's End is at 2 Clist Crescent, Auckland 2104. For our next step we had to use our smart searching skills to find how much would it cost for a family pass. I went on the rainbows end site to check how much it costs for a family pass. The results I got was $62.00 for adults and $52.00 for children. Then I added up $62.00 + 52.00 and it was $114. So it cost $114 for a family pass. Then for our last step was that we had to find out how much would it cost for our family to go. I think it cost $280 because 52 + 52 + 52 + 62 + 62 = 280 as I have got 3 brothers and 2 adults. 

Cross Country

Last week the whole school went over to dunkirk to have our cross country. When we walked down there were classes name. We sat next to our class name. Mr Oglive had to call out the classes to have a run around dunkirik. We the other classes ran we cheered them up to keep running. When it came to our turn we ran as fast as we could but we ran 2.8km. When we came 1st 2nd and 3rd the teachers wrote down the names of them. Then they would go to the interschool. I did'nt come 1st 2nd or 3rd.

Kiwi can

Today group B went to kiwi can. We first played a game called Objects. Mr Malu had to put an object in the middle and we had to use it as an object. We had a hula hoop, paper and a box. We had groups of 4 to play the game. Then we went outside and we played hand soccer we were put into 2 teams. It we had to use our hands to hit the ball to the goal. After we played a ten down game. We had our own number. When Mr Malu picked a number we had to go in and hit the ball to the goal. 

I think we just played a game at kiwi can. But when we played the games I think we were collaborating durning all games.

Scale Drawing

This week and last week Learning space 2 were working on our Scale drawings. We had to practise drawing a butterfly on a small piece of paper.  Then we made our own scale drawing using cartoon characters or animated movie characters. I chose to do Anger from Inside Out because It felt easy to do. Then Miss Kiripatrick printed our small outline photo of our character and we ruled our grid lines. Then we drew another grid  onto a big sheet of paper, twice the size of our smaller picture. Finally we made our own name plate on a google drawing. The thing that I found hard about drawing this was that I kept on thinking too much about it and I made a few mistakes. The thing that I found easy was the colouring in. I am happy because I got there in the end.

Character Introduction - Princess Bride

Today Learning space 2 were focusing on the Princess Bride. Firstly we watched the movie in the school's theatre. When we came back we had to talk about what we learnt about the shot types and the clothing the charters were wearing. Learning space 2 were making a Google drawing to show what we have learnt from the movie. I choose to make a Charater Introduction about Weasly. I had to descibe of what Westley was wearing in the flim.

Captain Underpant

Today I have read a book called "The adventures of Captain underpants". This was to help me improve in my reading and help my reading knowlege. This book is about 2 boys name George and Harold They were both comman. This book helped me a lot because I can understand what they mean to me. 

Election

Today Learning space 2 were focusing on Eletions Results for 2017. Javeylor, Mishaan, Viva and I were making a slideshow about What is a Coaliton? We found out a coaltion is like joining anothor bigger party. We also found out about Who our Local MVP was. We choose to pick Denise Lee because she was the New Zealand politician Natioal Leader.

Read an eBook day

Today was the Read an eBook Day. Learning space 2 were givien the oppintunity to read a book on the Tamaki Collge Overdrive at school. We had to choose any books from the Tamaki College overdrive. I choose a book that was easy to read. It had diffrent kind of storys. These names were put into pictures fruits, furnitures, food and plastic boxs. I think this book was intresting to read. There is a photo above that shows what I did during the Read an ebook day.

Read an eBook site

Food tech with Mrs Heka - Rotation 2

Today at tech we made mini spaghetti pies with Mrs Heka. First we got our cooking gear ready to go. Viva went and get the pastry. I was getting the Spaghetti and Sheredded cheese. Mrs Heka told us some insrutions. So Viva got the cup to trace on the pastry. Nickaiela and I had to cut out the traced cicle. Then Nickaiela put the spaghetti and shredded cheese together in the bowl. Mrs Heka came around to give us the cupcake trays and she sprayed the cupcake trays with the cooking spray. After we had to put the the pastry on the cupcake trays. After we all had to clean up the mess we did while Mrs heka was putting the pies into the oven. She gave us a number so we can remember what trays were in. After cleaning our mess we waited for 30 minutes until our pies were done. 30 minutes later Mrs Heka tooked out trays but she was saying the numbers. Then I got the spoon from the tray and We had a turn taking out 4 pies each. At the end of the session we all ate our mini spaghetti pies.

Kwi can session

Today we went to kiwi can with Mr Malo/Malu and Mrs Latioa. For kiwi can we played a game called bit, bot, bounce. Then we learnt about taking risks behaviors. Then we went down to the courts and we played a few games we played hand sccoer. We also had team groups, group A and group B. Then we talked about what we did well and what we didn't like doing.

Tech with Mrs Heka

Today at tech we changed our technogly groups. The group the I was in was food tech with Mrs Heka. We were exicted because food tech was the best rotation. I was also got put into groups. I was with Viva and Nickaela. First we had to plan what we had to do. 1 person had to wash the dishes, 1 person had to dry the cups and 1 person had to put the cups away. Also Mrs Heka gave as some really instresting rules that we were not ment to do. She showed us everything that goes with the kichen. We were were making Oreo milkshake. The first thing that we had to do was to get our cooking gear ready. Then we had to grab some oreos with the table we had to open the oreo up and take the white cream out. After we had to put the oreo's into the bowl. Then we had to put a milk into the cup and we had to put icecream after we had to blend the oreo milkshake on the blender. At the end we had to clean up everything. At the end we had to drink our Oreo milkshake. My milk shake was yummy because we all worked together.

Fraction problem solving

Today Calvin and I were working together to make a DLO about fractions we were learning new things durning maths time. We also had some question about fractions. I founded it hard because I was working out the unknown answer. We made a DLO about what can we help for other people to learn. We also used our startgety to work out the whole number.

Rewindable learning

Yesterday for dance we had a dance teacher her name was Zoe. We were split into groups. The group I was in was I see red which was group B. This was challeging because the hinge was too hard. Then today we had to practice our dance moves. My group had to rewind the video so we can practice again and agian. Then we had to present our dance to the class.

Yesterday for dance we had a dance teacher her name was zoe. We were splitted into groups the group I  was in was I see red which was group B. This was challeging because the hinge was to hard. Then today we had to practice our dance moves. My group had to rewin the video so we can practice again and agian. After we had to

Winter learning Journey awards

Today at assembly Rachel came to hand out some prizes and certificates to the people who participated in the Winter learning Jounery.  There were lots and lots of people who had paticipated. There were also lots of LS2 sudents that won a prize. On the stage there were 6 prizes their was 5 LS2 students that won the prizes and 1 LS1 student. I had fun completing the activities in the Winter Learning Journey. A big thank you to Rachel and her team for blogging with us.