Whale tail - Harakeke and Kete by Jaylee

The fish on the whale tail describe the sea and how whales live in the sea with different kinds of fishes . I did different colours of fishes because in the sea there are more and different fishes who have different colours . The harakeke is showing respect to Maori people for how they make things out of the harakeke leaves . The harakeke fibre was used for ropes, fishing lines and net making .
My whale tail is going forward to describe a kete hanging up on a washing line as you can see . I did three main colours on a kete to show , many love and respect goin through . The reason why i did yellow and red and a light pink its because it shows love and enjoy on how maori people enjoy making a kete

Duffy Confidence CARE AWARD by Kahu

Last week I did my first Duffy for 2022. First, I picked a book that I have chosen from the library. The book I have chosen was Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It was written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. Next, Chisa and Te Raumati helped me write my Duffy script for assembly. Afterwards I practised my script before assembly so that I knew the words so I wouldn't mess up. Lastly, I presented it to the whole school about the book I read and the escorts picked their books.

Agent of Change by Carson

LI: To set learning and personal goals An Agent of Change is someone who makes switches to their learning opportunities. Each year we set goals for ourselves to help us strengthen our connections to our learning and challenge themselves. LS2 uses the phrase ‘Agents of Change’ as this is how we see ourselves. My DLO shows the goals I have set myself this year so that I can become an Agent of Change

Agent of change by Sasuke

LI: To set learning and personal goals. An Agent of Change is someone who makes switches to their learning opportunities. Each year we set goals for ourselves to help us strengthen our connections to our learning and challenge themselves. LS2 uses the phrase ‘Agents of Change’ as this is how we see ourselves. My DLO shows the goals I have set myself this year so that I can become an Agent of Change.

Relationships : Building connections by Santana

 

LI : Complete this DLO in groups to help you strengthen your connections with Relationships. Last term my group worked on building connections to strengthen our relationships with other people. Me and my group answered the given questions and more. 

We gave opinions, answers and worked really hard on this activity. We worked through our troubles and finished the work on time. I enjoyed this task quite a lot because we had a real hard time trying to come up with relationships and all sorts of things. I really enjoy tasks like these because they challenge me and occupy me for a while.

Anzac Poem by Elaario

LI:to use colours that relate to your emotions from the music.

For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems.

CARE Awards 3 Famous inspiring Quotes by Kruse

I am currently working on my Excellence badge. To achieve this my challenge is to complete 5 tasks that help me strengthen my connections to the PBS CARE value of Excellence. Excellence helps us to strive in our tasks and goals. My challenge in this task was to create 3 motivational posters to help inspire others. I created this DLO to show my understanding of the task.   I liked this activity because I got to choose 3 of my heroes that inspired me to have faith in my dreams and to work hard.

Cinquain Poem by David

  

 This term we have been building our leadership skills. Our challenge today was to write a cinquain poem to help us strengthen our connections to description that describes leaders who inspire us. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. 

Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives that describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun. I found this activity fun because when writing the cinquain poem I learnt new words and their definitions other than just writing hard worker into more powerful words.

Vision Board by Ariana

 A vision board helps us to visualise our goals and what we want to achieve. This is a part of our Careers learning as we know we will need to be setting goals to help us achieve the career goals we want to achieve in the future. 

My board shows what I want to be when i'm older, where I want to move, the college / highschool I want to go to next year, what I hope my dog will be, and etc. This activity made me think a lot about the future and the present because most of the time I would be stuck thinking about what I want to be and where I want to go, and things like that.

Kelly sports Cricket by Kingston

 This week we had our first session of Cricket. Our coaches name was Bart. This session we learnt about catching and throwing. Before we learnt about catching and throwing we did a warm up game of batters vs fielders. The batters had to knock the ball off the cones and the fielder had to pick them up and put them back on the cones. 

Next we partnered up and threw a tennis ball to someone so they can practice catching. The catcher had to make his fingers point to the ground or to the sky depending on how high the ball was thrown and you must catch with two hands. The thrower had to do under arm throws to the catchers. Then we did a team challenge to knock over the cones, the class was split into two and the first team to knock over all cones wins. After the skills practice we played a game of non stop Cricket were you have a team of fielders and batters, coach Bart was bowling for both teams. I enjoyed this session of Cricket. Two things I need to work on is hitting the cricket ball and precise throwing.

Healthy Relationship by Taua

LI: To understand how a healthy relationship has a positive impact.  
This week our Inquiry lesson was focused on showing how we think healthy relationships can have a positive impact. In our DLO, we showed how healthy relationships can impact something in a positive manner and what healthy relationships are to us. We all have different opinions on healthy relationships and what we think it could have an impact on. This activity was challenging because I had to explain what Healthy relationships and Unhealthy relationships.

Statistical Inquiry: Should Covid Vaccinations become Mandatory? by Ayden

LI: To carry out a statistical inquiry  
Kruse and I carried out a statistical investigation to find out peoples opinion on if vaccinations for Covid become mandatory. We made a google form for people to answer their opinion about the question we posed. After we then proceeded to make a spreadsheet to organize our information and we used the sort tool to make it easier to read. Once people had filled out the form we were able to gather information and people’s opinion on to a pie chart. Their were 4 Graph bars. The first graph bar was the gender of Ls2. The second graph bar was the culture students identified as and the third Graph bar was about people’s opinions. For the opinions most students think it should become mandatory because there is a less chance of being sick and people can go more places. The second highest opinion was maybe. Then lastly two people said no because it should be up to the person if they want it or not. I enjoyed this activity because we got to work in peers and hear what people have got to say about a statisticial investigation we carried out.

Kandinsky Art by Fala

LI:to use colours that relate to your emotions from the music

 

For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems. Our next step was to listen to a montage of music, and use colours to represent how we felt listening to each song. 

The circles had to be concentric, meaning they started in the middle of our page, and progressed outwards. This art was based off a Russian artist by the name of Wassily Kandinsky. He would normally listen to opera music and paint how he feels.  

Agents of Change by Aiden

LI: To set learning and personal goals  

An Agent of Change is someone who makes switches to their learning opportunities. Each year we set goals for ourselves to help us strengthen our connections to our learning and challenge themselves. LS2 uses the phrase ‘Agents of Change’ as this is how we see ourselves. My DLO shows the goals I have set myself this year so that I can become an Agent of Change.  

How Aotearoa came to be by Paul

LI: To digitally design the North and South Island based on how they were described in the story. 

We watched a video about how New Zealand came to be. North island: Maūi fished up an enormous sting ray which became the North Island. South island: On his voyage to visit his mother Papatūānuku why got stuck and froze which resulted in the creation of the South Island. Our challenge was to digitally design/draw the North and South Island based on how the Myth and Legend depicted them to look. This activity was enjoyable because I learnt about the origins about New Zealand and because I like drawing.

Sailing by Josh

 L.I: To learn how to sail

On Monday we went sailing at Auckland Sailing Club. Our instructors Colin, Holly and Steph taught us how to assemble the sailing boat. Steph rigged one sailing boat and left it as an example so when we get stuck on our own boat we could go to the example bout and see what's wrong. After she built her boat she chose two people as an example of how to work the boat.

   

Secondly, when we finished our bout we had to put it in the water then get and choose the person that is steering the boat and who is controlling the boom. When we were in the water we had to follow one of the instructors named holly. She was in the power boat with an engen so most of the people couldn't catch up with the power boat. Lastly, we had lunch then got into our boats and hooked up all of the boats together. After hooking up all of the boats the main instructor taught us how and what capsising is. When we got far in the ocean we were playing, Simon says. One of the funniest was when she said pop a big manu. Then she said Simon capsized your bout so all of us did capsize. It was a fun experience at sailing. I got to learn something new and it's always fun to do something that you haven't done before. My favourite part of the day was when we all had to capsize because the difficult part was to get back on the boat. I would like to thank the St Johns Rotary for giving us the awesome opportunity.

Positive Relationships by O'Ninesha

LI: To understand how a healthy relationship has a positive impact

 

This week our Inquiry lesson was focused on showing how we think healthy relationships can have a positive impact. In our DLO, we showed how healthy relationships can impact something in a positive manner and what healthy relationships are to us. We all have different opinions on healthy relationships and what we think it could have an impact on. This activity was amazing because I was able to write about how a healthy relationship looks and why it's important to have one.

Statistical Inquiry: Should Covid Vaccinations become Mandatory? by Ayden

LI: To carry out a statistical inquiry

   

Kruse and I carried out a statistical investigation to find out peoples opinion on if vaccinations for Covid become mandatory. We made a google form for people to answer their opinion about the question we posed. After we then proceeded to make a spreadsheet to organise our information and we used the sort tool to make it easier to read. Once people had filled out the form we were able to gather information and people’s opinion on to a pie chart. Their were 4 Graph bars. The first graph bar was the gender of Ls2. The second graph bar was the culture students identified as and the third Graph bar was about people’s opinions. For the opinions most students think it should become mandatory because there is a less chance of being sick and people can go more places. The second highest opinion was maybe. Then lastly two people said no because it should be up to the person if they want it or not. I enjoyed this activity because we got to work in peers and hear what people have got to say about a statistical investigation we carried out.

Kandinsky Circles by Oscar

LI: To use colours that relate to your emotions from the music.

  

For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems. 

Our next step was to listen to a montage of music, and use colors to represent how we felt listening to each song. The circles had to be concentric, meaning they started in the middle of our page, and progressed outwards. 

This art was based off a Russian artist by the name of Wassily Kandinsky. He would normally listen to opera music and paint how he feels. I enjoyed this activity because I was able to express how I felt using the colors that represented the emotion I was feeling.

Kandinsky Art by Leon

L.I: To use colours that relate to your emotions from the music  

For art we painted concentric circles within a square. The art design was created by Wassily Kandisnsky. Wassily Kandinsky is a famous Russian artist who is known for creating art by listening to opera music. Each stage of music would make him feel an emotion. Whatever emotion he feels, he picks a paint colour to describe his feeling. 

He then does circles starting from the center until it gets big. When the circles fill up a big amount of the page, Kandinsky then colours the background with whatever colour that decribes the feeling he has. LS2 was listening to differnet sounds playing in the background. We were creating circles with colours that match our emotions. We started creating circles from the center and until it gets big enough. We then coloured the background. The activity was very fun to experience. I liked the different colours people used and I also liked how I was mixing colours.   

Kandinsky by Texas

LI: To use colours that relate to your emotions from music For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems. 

Our next step was to listen to a montage of music, and use colors to represent how we felt listening to each song. The circles had to be concentric, meaning they started in the middle of our page, and progressed outwards. This art was based off a Russian artist by the name of Wassily Kandinsky. He would normally listen to opera music and paint how he feels.

 

Concentric Circles by Joshua

LI:to use colours that relate to your emotions from the music For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems. Our next step was to listen to a montage of music, and use colors to represent how we felt listening to each song. The circles had to be concentric, meaning they started in the middle of our page, and progressed outwards. This art was based of a russian artist by the name of Wassily Kandinsky. He would normally listen to opera music and paint how he feels. I enjoyed this because I got to show my emotions by painting the circles.

Kandinsky Art by Fotu

 

For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems. 

Our next step was to listen to a montage of music, and use colors to represent how we felt listening to each song. The circles had to be concentric, meaning they started in the middle of our page, and progressed outwards. This art was based of a russian artist by the name of Wassily Kandinsky. He would normally listen to opera music and paint how he feels.

Kandinsky Art by Xavier

LI:to use colours that relate to your emotions from the music 

For the past couple of weeks LS2 has been investigating mood and atmosphere. We started by reading a variety of ANZAC poems, and highlighting how each sentence made us feel. Afterwards we answered different questions about how we felt during the poems. Our next step was to listen to a montage of music, and use colours to represent how we felt listening to each song. The circles had to be concentric, meaning they started in the middle of our page, and progressed outwards. This art was based on a Russian artist by the name of Wassily Kandinsky. He would normally listen to opera music and paint how he feels. The Kandinsky art was a good idea to show your emotions in painting.