Showing posts with label Creative space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative space. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Term 4 Extension Research
This term we our theme was art alive. And in yr 7 & 8 Extension we looked at the different aspects of art. It was quite, interesting and I was in the 'Art Historians' group. This meant I got to look at what they, do some famous art historians and I got to look at different artists too. I learnt a lot more than I originally thought I would.
Thursday, 24 September 2020
South-America Research ~Extension Term 3~
Here is my extension research for this term. We had to choose a continent and then we had to research countries in that continent. I enjoyed this and even though we had a lockdown, I'm quite happy with the standard I finished this too!
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
My Family Documentary
Hello There this is my Term 1 DLO, It's been a while and I never got this completely done. I'm sharing some personal information, but it's pretty much, why I am the way I am and live here in New Zealand. It also shares an animation which is available on the slide deck below. Enjoy!
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Term 4 Reflection (Extension)
This term in extension we are learnt about UV light, and a man called ray even came in to work with us. We made UV sensors and learnt about the ozone layer and some of the effects of climate change.This didn't relate to our school-wide theme for the term but we still learnt heaps.
We did however visit K.P.M.G in week 3. At K.P.M.G we learnt all about drama. We rewrote Romeo & Juliet in 5 sentences, we put on a play, and did heaps more. As always we all had a lot of fun and it was very educational. I can't wait to visit them again next year, to learn about more.
We made UV Sensor in extension this was all possible because of ray. UV Sensors detect how powerful the uv rays from the sun are. This allow us to be sun smart, and take precautions. Especially for people in place like New Zealand. Where there is no Ozone layer. With the help of Mr Ray, we have successfully made the sensors that detect the ultra-violet rays from the sun. We even took some UV readings.
I think I did well this term, but I definetly have done better. I did however work very hard in term 1 and 2 and got some good marks then too. I did however learn a lot, even though half the stuff we did, I had already done in robotics. I did however have much more fun learning about UV sensors and lights in extension. In future I would like to, maybe make have a D.L.O but this term has been pretty busy with prize giving and picnic and all these trips.
I enjoyed this term and can't wait to come back in 2020!
We did however visit K.P.M.G in week 3. At K.P.M.G we learnt all about drama. We rewrote Romeo & Juliet in 5 sentences, we put on a play, and did heaps more. As always we all had a lot of fun and it was very educational. I can't wait to visit them again next year, to learn about more.
We made UV Sensor in extension this was all possible because of ray. UV Sensors detect how powerful the uv rays from the sun are. This allow us to be sun smart, and take precautions. Especially for people in place like New Zealand. Where there is no Ozone layer. With the help of Mr Ray, we have successfully made the sensors that detect the ultra-violet rays from the sun. We even took some UV readings.
I think I did well this term, but I definetly have done better. I did however work very hard in term 1 and 2 and got some good marks then too. I did however learn a lot, even though half the stuff we did, I had already done in robotics. I did however have much more fun learning about UV sensors and lights in extension. In future I would like to, maybe make have a D.L.O but this term has been pretty busy with prize giving and picnic and all these trips.
I enjoyed this term and can't wait to come back in 2020!
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Sunday, 3 November 2019
K.P.M.G
Today we had our 4th K.P.M.G Trip. As always it was to support this terms inquiry topic "Life's A Stage". We did some fun and activities and as always learnt heaps. Read on to find out more!
When we arrived at K.P.M.G it was around 10 in the morning. We then had to wait for a whilst the staff got ready. It wasn't to long of a wait and we entertained eachother in the meantime. After a couple of minutes we were greated by Justine, someone we meet everytime we visit K.P.M.G and she led us to the room we will be spending our time in. When we entered we were greated by a couple of staff members, and morning tea. There was chocolates muffins, brownies and fruit, it was all very delicous.
After grabbing a quick bite we were greeted by someone from a copany called Pop Up Globe. She, told us about William Shakespear someone you may have heard of before. The woman told us about what, when, where and why her company does what it does. We learnt that Pop Up Globe was a company that recreated shakespear plays in a recreation of a theatre shakespear made, and destroyed.
We focused on one of shakespears well known plays "Romeo and Juiliet". It was forbidden love between 2 star crossed lovers, whose death brought their families together. We had to summarise the whole story in 5 sentences and then again but each line had to have 10 syllables. This is exactly how william shakespear wrote his stories. After we all presented our groups work we played some games.
After those activites we went to lunch, and let me tell you it was delicous to. I mean common who doesn't like pizza, and salads. It was healthy but also had some yummy additions. I'm pretty sure you can tell the food that ran out first. During lunch we sat down and socialised in friendly chats and games. Time went by pretty quickly because soon after it was time for our next activity.
After lunch, were asked to stand in a line from tallest to shortest. I didn't love this part because I am one of the shortest people in extension, 5th shortest to be exact. Anways so we were put into order from tallest to shortest and then given a number between 1 and 5 we started from the tallest side. I was given the number 1. Thus meaning I was in group 1. Along with me in the group there was Bethan, Paikea, Alison and Justice the tallest person in extension. Yes I was the shortest person in my group too!
Our job was to put together a short play which was close to 3 minutes long. It didn't have to be exact, we decide to mash up 3 well known stories the title was, "Captain Drac Sparrow and the Three little Pigs". We rehearsed this and made back drops, we even had sound affects and a good ending. When is was time to present we were ready.
There were 2 groups before us and both of them were pretty good, when it came to our turn our group was quite prepared and non of us looked nervous. I was only worried about the amount of practice our groups did. When it started a few changes were made but we rolled with it and didn't think to much about it. The plot was good and there we some funny and dramatic moments. I accidently made a dramatic moment when I caught the hat Justice through in mid air, but it was only a reflex cause it was going to hit somebody so. Shhhh!
Once each group had performed we played some charades, whilst the judges confirmed the placements. Most of the answers we related to drama or our plays. But some of them were just random movies we have seen recently or are in theatres now. Pirates of the carribean was one of the most easiet ones possible. A lot of the plays were related to pirates of the carribean so it was very obvious!
After all the placements were finalised judges finally let us know our places. In each group there was the best actor, in our group it was Justice who played Captain Drax Sparrow. The winning group overall was Grama Measles. The award for the best actor overall went to Amelia and I agreed she put on and amazing show and had something for everyone!
Soon after we packed up and it was time to head back to school. I enjoyed this trip as much as I did every other time we visited and, K.P.M.G has helped us a lot throught the year in many other school wide events. THANK YOU K.P.M.G, we had a great time!
When we arrived at K.P.M.G it was around 10 in the morning. We then had to wait for a whilst the staff got ready. It wasn't to long of a wait and we entertained eachother in the meantime. After a couple of minutes we were greated by Justine, someone we meet everytime we visit K.P.M.G and she led us to the room we will be spending our time in. When we entered we were greated by a couple of staff members, and morning tea. There was chocolates muffins, brownies and fruit, it was all very delicous.
After grabbing a quick bite we were greeted by someone from a copany called Pop Up Globe. She, told us about William Shakespear someone you may have heard of before. The woman told us about what, when, where and why her company does what it does. We learnt that Pop Up Globe was a company that recreated shakespear plays in a recreation of a theatre shakespear made, and destroyed.
We focused on one of shakespears well known plays "Romeo and Juiliet". It was forbidden love between 2 star crossed lovers, whose death brought their families together. We had to summarise the whole story in 5 sentences and then again but each line had to have 10 syllables. This is exactly how william shakespear wrote his stories. After we all presented our groups work we played some games.
After those activites we went to lunch, and let me tell you it was delicous to. I mean common who doesn't like pizza, and salads. It was healthy but also had some yummy additions. I'm pretty sure you can tell the food that ran out first. During lunch we sat down and socialised in friendly chats and games. Time went by pretty quickly because soon after it was time for our next activity.
After lunch, were asked to stand in a line from tallest to shortest. I didn't love this part because I am one of the shortest people in extension, 5th shortest to be exact. Anways so we were put into order from tallest to shortest and then given a number between 1 and 5 we started from the tallest side. I was given the number 1. Thus meaning I was in group 1. Along with me in the group there was Bethan, Paikea, Alison and Justice the tallest person in extension. Yes I was the shortest person in my group too!
Our job was to put together a short play which was close to 3 minutes long. It didn't have to be exact, we decide to mash up 3 well known stories the title was, "Captain Drac Sparrow and the Three little Pigs". We rehearsed this and made back drops, we even had sound affects and a good ending. When is was time to present we were ready.
There were 2 groups before us and both of them were pretty good, when it came to our turn our group was quite prepared and non of us looked nervous. I was only worried about the amount of practice our groups did. When it started a few changes were made but we rolled with it and didn't think to much about it. The plot was good and there we some funny and dramatic moments. I accidently made a dramatic moment when I caught the hat Justice through in mid air, but it was only a reflex cause it was going to hit somebody so. Shhhh!
Once each group had performed we played some charades, whilst the judges confirmed the placements. Most of the answers we related to drama or our plays. But some of them were just random movies we have seen recently or are in theatres now. Pirates of the carribean was one of the most easiet ones possible. A lot of the plays were related to pirates of the carribean so it was very obvious!
After all the placements were finalised judges finally let us know our places. In each group there was the best actor, in our group it was Justice who played Captain Drax Sparrow. The winning group overall was Grama Measles. The award for the best actor overall went to Amelia and I agreed she put on and amazing show and had something for everyone!
Soon after we packed up and it was time to head back to school. I enjoyed this trip as much as I did every other time we visited and, K.P.M.G has helped us a lot throught the year in many other school wide events. THANK YOU K.P.M.G, we had a great time!
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Through the Kids Eyes
Here is our D.L.O it’s a movie that shows what adults see and what us kids want to share. It’s about giving kids a voice to voice their opinion and share their ideas. Sometimes they get ignored and I think adults need to listen to us more so this is a movie we made about it.
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Extension Navigation Explantion
Press the Green flag and sit back and relax as you learn some basic things about navigation!
Credits
Zaeeda : PLANNING, BACKDROPS, CODING
BTS: Song
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Pointing in the Right Direction
What and experience we just had! Today the year 7 and 8 extension had a crash course on compasses with Mr Jacobsen. I for one learnt heaps probably I didn't get it right and I ended up lost! Here is our Extension Experience.
Mr Jacobsen arrived into the creative space where the extension classes are held. He walked in and we immediately sat on the mat, where he was setting up a presentation. The tightly read (Pointing in the Right Direction), this confused me and so I sat down in confusion and curiosity. When we were all seated Mr Jacobsen changed the slide and started to explain. It was pictures of compasses he told us about compasses that were different and that they did the same thing.
Then he changed the slides and we saw an arrow pointing to what was called the base plate and direction arrow. Mr Jacobsen explained that all compasses have it and that it may look different on other compasses. The direction arrow it the arrow pointing us towards our destination and what we should.\
When Mr Jacobsen finished his presentation we headed for the field to find our starting point. Me and Amira worked together, as well all know too heads are better than one. Anyways our starting point was in front of the girls toilets. We ran their and decided on what we had to do, we wrote down the letter and entered the co-ordinates and headed to the next point.
Me and Amira were going quite well and even though we weren't completely accurate. So we decided to go to the next one we did quite well and were going pretty quickly. Me and Amira talked all the way and we very very giggly. I for one was really excited and couldn't wait till the end what will happen with we do the pink one are we doing it right, their is no way to really tell.
The last stop me and Amira made was the point next too room 28. We got their and the point was pointing right towards the girls toilet so we decided to head back to the middle of the field. We handed our paper to Mr Jacobsen and waited for a reaction or some kind of instruction. When the paper got handed back to us I was actually quite suprised and also didn't know what I had done wrong.
We set off from the begging and with some help from Ms Flavell we kept going we got to the second point but we still got it wrong and we ran out of time. However with some decoding and unscrambling we did find out the worlds and we also learnt how to use a compass. it was really useful and Ms Flavell also said (She isn't going into the Forest with me and Amira) it was really funny!'
Overall I think that this was a fun experience and was really helpful. found out that it was much harder to navigate and we should always take our time. I also learnt that me and Amira don't make a good team when it come to navigating but talking on the other hand. I really like this activity and would love to do more things like this!
Mr Jacobsen arrived into the creative space where the extension classes are held. He walked in and we immediately sat on the mat, where he was setting up a presentation. The tightly read (Pointing in the Right Direction), this confused me and so I sat down in confusion and curiosity. When we were all seated Mr Jacobsen changed the slide and started to explain. It was pictures of compasses he told us about compasses that were different and that they did the same thing.
Then he changed the slides and we saw an arrow pointing to what was called the base plate and direction arrow. Mr Jacobsen explained that all compasses have it and that it may look different on other compasses. The direction arrow it the arrow pointing us towards our destination and what we should.\
When Mr Jacobsen finished his presentation we headed for the field to find our starting point. Me and Amira worked together, as well all know too heads are better than one. Anyways our starting point was in front of the girls toilets. We ran their and decided on what we had to do, we wrote down the letter and entered the co-ordinates and headed to the next point.
Me and Amira were going quite well and even though we weren't completely accurate. So we decided to go to the next one we did quite well and were going pretty quickly. Me and Amira talked all the way and we very very giggly. I for one was really excited and couldn't wait till the end what will happen with we do the pink one are we doing it right, their is no way to really tell.
The last stop me and Amira made was the point next too room 28. We got their and the point was pointing right towards the girls toilet so we decided to head back to the middle of the field. We handed our paper to Mr Jacobsen and waited for a reaction or some kind of instruction. When the paper got handed back to us I was actually quite suprised and also didn't know what I had done wrong.
We set off from the begging and with some help from Ms Flavell we kept going we got to the second point but we still got it wrong and we ran out of time. However with some decoding and unscrambling we did find out the worlds and we also learnt how to use a compass. it was really useful and Ms Flavell also said (She isn't going into the Forest with me and Amira) it was really funny!'
Overall I think that this was a fun experience and was really helpful. found out that it was much harder to navigate and we should always take our time. I also learnt that me and Amira don't make a good team when it come to navigating but talking on the other hand. I really like this activity and would love to do more things like this!
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
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