Drumming by Piripi

Rhythm Interactive came to PBS and the whole school got to play the african drums at the same time. Everyone really enjoyed listening to the rhythm and trying to follow what Jonny was drumming. Piripi was amazed at how good at drumming everyone was.

Matariki Information Posters

Rongoa Facts by Efariama, Kapri, Kyra and Oh S'Mar

Created with Padlet

Continuing to build our Room 9 learning community

This picture shows Dontalian creating a google presentation of one of the ways we continue to build our Room 9 learning community. He used the Ipad to capture images of Room 9 working collaboratively as Critical Friends. Being a critical friend means you have a forensic look at your partner's work. You work together  to find the bits that they got wrong and help them fix their errors. We use the ideas in our Room 9 Writing Toolkit to help us make changes.

Duffy Assembly by Dontalian

Today we had a guest that talked about planes. He told us about some of the planes. His name was Guy Clapshaw. Dontalian worked with Miss Paton to create this slideshow of pictures that he took while he was listening to Mr Clapshaw.

Topic Challenge

Room 9's challenge was to find the answers to each of the three set questions then explain their findings in 25 words. They have done a great job of finding the facts and putting them into their own words.

What is Pollination?

Pollination is a process which pollen is transferred from the anther to the stigma of the plant. Thereby  it makes it possible to Fertilization  and reproduction.

Explain in 25 words that the role bees have in a plant reproduction?

Bees help plants grow. Without bees we wouldn’t get chocolate, coffee, bread and most other foods that we have today.  They help us alot.

Explain in 25 words how plant reproduction processes produce much of our food.

The plants reproduces more so than  before, because the bees have helped it grow  by transferring pollen from one flower to the female flowers stigma.

Kyra and Joshua

What is Pollination?

Pollination is when Pollinators (Bees,Moths,Butterflies) get pollen from an anther(Male) and transfer the pollen into the stigma(Female).

What role do bees play in plant reproduction?

Bees transfer pollen from a male flower into a female flower’s stigma.

Explain in 25 words how plant reproduction processes produce much of our food.

If this process didn’t exist we wouldn’t have foods such as fries that are produced by potatoes which need plant reproduction to grow.

Fine and Halatoa

What is pollination?

Pollinators (Bees etc.) collect pollen from plants and put pollen on other plants so they can grow. Without pollen there wouldn’t be plants and other things..

What role do bees have in plant reproduction

Bees fly to plants. They grab the pollen. Bees carry pollen to other plants. The pollen jumps on to the plant to help it grow.

How plant reproduction processes produce and much of our food

Plant reproduction is creating more plants. More plants mean more fruits and more food that grow in the ground to eat.

Topic Challenge

Yvette's challenge was to find the answers to each of the three set questions then explain her findings in 25 words. She has done a great job of finding the facts and putting them into her own words.

Playing Soccer by Robbie

Playing Soccer

This is me playing soccer with Pah Nwee, Jacob and Tamim. We liked the crossbar challenge the best. We had to try and hit the crossbar by kicking the ball. It was fun.

Soccer is my favourite sport.

Samantha's Digital Tech Blog

This is the link to the blog Samantha made in Digital Tech at Tamaki College. She learnt how to set up a blog and add images to the background. The blog Samantha designed shows some of the things she knows about healthy living. Click on the link below to leave some feedback about her work.

Samantha's Healthy Living Blog

Exploring Bias

This morning we looked how we could clearly explain bias in a paragraph. We used examples from well known fairytales to show how bias can affect your opinion.

Bias is having a strong opinion on something based on your viewpoint. Bias is like a coin, one side is heads and the other is tales. Heads is subjective which means that you let your prior knowledge help you state your judgement and tales is objective which means that you don’t let prior knowledge cloud your opinion. An example of using both coin sides in the same story is Three Little Pigs. If I were to use the subjective side to state my judgement I would feel very sorry for the Three Little Pigs and think that the Wolf was a very bad person. But if I were to use the objective side to state my judgment I would think that The wolf was just trying to say hello to the new neighbours in the neighbourhood and probably was just a bit hungry.

Fine

Bias changes the way you look at characters in a book. Bias can be subjective and objective. Subjective means you make an opinion on what you already know. Bias can also be objective which means you make an opinion on what you have just heard for the first time. In the story The 3 little pigs, the pigs injure the wolf. The pigs did a horrible thing by burning someone alive. They heated up a cauldron with water and just let the wolf drop into the burning water. This was my opinion which was subjective since I believe burning someone alive is horrible and mean. If I didn’t use what I already know I would feel sorry for the pigs since the wolf did blow down their houses and tried to eat them, that would be very scary.

Yvette


Bias is your own opinion or judgement you make through your own point of view. Bias is like a coin with two sides: subjective and objective. Subjective means you use your prior knowledge to make a decision. Objective is when you don’t allow your prior knowledge to interfere with your decision. Having read the Three Little Pigs, I know the wolf demolished the two houses and he attempted murder. He makes the wrong decisions and is blinded by revenge. He was attempting murder and vandalising the Pig's property. I’m being subjective and I know that what the wolf did was wrong because vandalising and attempting murder is wrong. On the other hand, if I don’t use my prior knowledge, I think that the wolf was just trying to be friendly and the pig’s were just being cruel to him. Now, I’m being objective and not letting my prior knowledge interfere with my statement.

Asmah

Bias changes the way you see things. There are two types of bias. One is subjective and one is objective. Subjective is when people use what they know to make an opinion. Objective is when people make opinions about something they are learning about for the first time. In the story of The Three Pigs people think the wolf is a bad person. If my opinion is subjective I know that he destroyed houses and tried to kill the pigs so he is not a good character because he did mean things. If my opinion is objective I think the wolf was just hungry so he isn’t really a bad character. He was just looking for food.

Piripi, Loti, Juliano and Mrs A

Congratulations Tim!

Bias Examples: Jazmine

Research Robbers: Challenge #2

As part of our Inquiry challenge the Research Robbers used their selecting and rejecting skills to help them find information about the greenhouse effect. They used their information to collaboratively create an information poster.

Research Masters: Challenge #2

As part of our Inquiry challenge the Research Masters used their selecting and rejecting skills to help them find information about the greenhouse effect. They used their information to collaboratively create a labelled diagram.

Research Agents: Challenge #2

As part of our Inquiry challenge the Research Agents used their selecting and rejecting skills to help them find information about the greenhouse effect. They used their information to collaboratively create a labelled diagram.