Swimming

LI: To learn about water safety

For the past 3 weeks PBS have been attending swimming lessons at the Panmure Pools. This is a completly free opportunity for the students to learn how to be safe in the water. LS2 have been taking lessons with 2 different instructors, James and Shantee. James's group was all about how to float on the water, swimming strategies and strategies to get in the pool. We would swim in freestyle, dolphin and backstroke. Shantee's group on the other hand was about trying to swim faster in different styles and just getting better in general. The sessions are going to go for the whole of term 3.

Tech - Painting

 LI: To learn how to make shades and mix colours

This week for tech instead of coding we were learning how to make shades of a colour and make new colours by mixing! I really enjoyed doing this because its something new and I like creating art. We had 3 different colours to start with, red, blue, and green. We also got a little bit of black and white. First of all we got little pieces of cardboard paper and cut them into smaller pieces to paint on. We then got the colours and painted on the pieces with some of the possible colour outcomes. We then added some white and black to make the colours lighter or darker. When we got enough colours we sticked them onto a bigger piece of paper in a circle to present the colour mixes.

Hauora Poster

LI: To create a poster on canva to show what hauora is

Our objective for this task was to make a Hauora poster based off what we know of athletes. We wrote what we might think an Olympic athlete would use the four areas of Hauora in their training or during the Olympics. Hauora is the four walls of our well-being. They are our physical, mental, spiritual and family well-being. I enjoyed this task because I was able to look at Hauora through an athletes eyes and see Hauora from an athletes perspective.

Ancient Greek Olympics

LI: To give a presentation on the Ancient Greek Olympics

(PREZI LINK)

Last week, LS2 gave presentations to the class about what we know on the Ancient Greek Olympics. For this task, my group used Prezi to present and recorded a Screencastify to present to the class. Prezi is a good way to keep your audience entertained by animating the different areas of your slideshow.

We talked about what the Ancient Greek Olympics was and what took place on the five days of the Olympics. We also gave 5 fun facts about the Ancient Olympics.

I enjoyed this because it was fun to present and learn about the Ancient Greek Olympics as well. One fun fact that I learnt about the Ancient Greek Olympics was that one athlete trained by lifting a bull calf everyday until it was a full grown bull.

Song RESPECT - C.A.R.E

LI: To research Aretha Franklin's song RESPECT

                         

Aretha Franklin was an american song-writer, she is regarded as the most influentual female vocalist of the 1960s. Her signature song is 'Respect', its peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 on June 3 1967. Her full name is Aretha Louise Franklin. The song was put in the album 'A Brand New Me', and in the genre R&B/Soul.

Hauora - Olympics

LI: To show our understanding of Hauora in context.

Athletes at the top of their field train both physically and mentally because it is both the body and the mind that need to be healthy to have balance as an athlete. It is important to enjoy and celebrate the results of what hard work has led to since it might be a one time opportunity. Olympic athletes that have earned a medal should be proud of themselves, and olympians that have unfortunately lost should be grateful for the opportunity.

Tech | Flow Chart

 LI: To see and understand the connection between the written code, the block code and the flow chart

This week for tech after we warmed up using the dice tutorial we created a dice flow chart that has all of the possibilities of the dice. The dice could display a number from 1 to 6. After this we compared the mblock and python code to the flowchart through a DLO, I worked with Lukah to create this.

Tech | Coding in python

LI: To code a dice for kittenbot using python 

This week for tech we warmed up with the dice python tutorial. Whilst doing this we made our kittenbot display a number from 1 to 6. After this we compared the mblock code and the python code both used in this session through a DLO created by me and lukah.

Olympics Challenge 3

 LI: To find the most efficient strategy

Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are going on at the moment LS2 are doing maths tasks related to the Olympics. For this olympic challenge we had to find out how many right angles were on a olympic badminton racket. Our clue was that there were 250 squares on the racket. The strategy that we used was multiplication. When we finished our DLO we made a screencastify explaining our strategy. 

Mindfulness

LI: To practice mindfulness

Today, we focused on mindfulness and having a peaceful mental well-being. Sometimes, our mind isn’t concentrating well and is doing something called ‘mind wandering’. We calmed ourselves down by using the Pause, Breathe and Smile method.

Mindfulness is calming your body and your mind, focusing on your mental health, focusing on what’s happening right now, removing the negativity from your mind and being mindful of yourself and others. Mindfulness is a way to balance the 4 pillars of your hauora.

Often in a frustrating situation, our mind enters the red zone. The red zone is when we feel angry, anxious, frustrated, irritable, stressed, overly excited, worried, distracted or any other negative emotion that we usually cannot control. We use a mindfulness technique which helps us to be calm, clear, content, balanced, peaceful, relaxed, curious and engaged in what we are doing.

The mindfulness bell is used to clear our mind of any negativity in your mind. The bell is treated like a Taonga because it is a delicate and traditional piece of peacefulness.

This session of mindfulness was helpful because it can help yourself and others become calm in stressful situations as well as focus on what is happening right now and being aware of your emotions.

Olympics Challenge 2

 LI: To find the most efficient strategy

Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are going on at the moment LS2 are doing maths tasks related to the Olympics. This task was about the difference between the bronze, silver and gold medal winner scores. My strategy was to add 00.001 on to the silver medal winner score as the gold winner won by 00.001 point!

Olympics Challenge 1

LI: To find the most efficient strategy

                        

Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are going on at the moment LS2 are doing maths tasks related to the Olympics. This task was about Michael Phelps, he is a competitive Olympian that attends swimming. Every stroke he takes moves him 2 meters, he competed in 8 seperate events during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. All of the races add up to 1.5km, since every stroke takes him 2 meters, you'll have to divide the total by 2 which results in 750.