Tag: Term 4

KPMG Thank you Letter (Justine)

Dear Justine,

I was just wanting to give all of my thanks to you and KPMG for all of the amazing activities you have prepared for us. I had such a magnificent time at KPMG. I loved all of the generosity and joy from all of the staff in the company. The experiences throughout all of these terms were incredible. My friends and I had such a great time.

 My favourite time when I was at KPMG was probably term two because we got to learn all about space. I really enjoyed all of the activities we got to participate in, it was SO much fun. My favourite activity was definitely using clay to create aliens. I loved all of the different ideas given from each one of us. I also really enjoyed all of the food. It was so DELICIOUS!!

What seemed really challenging this year at KPMG was working together with my group. Especially because of what happened this term. This term my group and I didn’t work well together to create our song and choreography. Mrs Burton gave us the idea to come all together and brainstorm on what song we could sing. I really liked this idea because it really helped us a lot. It especially helped me to open and contribute more to my group. 

Thank you so much for taking your time to read this letter. I am really looking forward to coming back next year to KPMG for another adventure. I hope that you have a lovely day.

Sincerely,

Catherine

Year 7 student at Pt England School

One City – Two Earthquakes

Task description: This week we have been learning all about Christchurch and the devastating earthquakes that happened in 2010 and 2011. Our leaning intention was to find clues within the text and read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning to make a conclusion or an assumption. This week we read an article called “One City – Two Earthquakes.” We learnt the different ways to stay safe during an earthquake. For our task we had to create a piece of digital art showing how to drop, cover and hold. I chose to create a scratch project to show how to drop, cover and hold please check it out below. Please feel free to leave a positive comment on my blog.

I have also created a review about the article, check it out here!

Manaiakalani Film Festival Blog Commenting

Task description: This week was the annual Maniakalani Film Festival! We were lucky enough to see our classes movie on the big screen at Hoyts. This week for our writing task we were able to watch some of the Manaiakalani Film Festival movies and create positive, thoughtful and helpful comments on the class blog of the movies. Here are some of the movies I watched and some of the comment that I left on some of the class blogs. Please leave a positive comment on my blog!

Five Facts)Tokelau Language Week

Task Description: This week in room 10 we have been learning all about Tokelau language week. For this task we had to first watch a video that had interesting facts in it. Then we had to start trying to find some facts to add into our five facts. After that we had to re read our facts to see if we left any mistakes. Finally we had to send Miss Parrant our task so that she can see if we copied anyone or copied from her. Remember to leave a positive comment on my blog, thank you. 

Recount: Marshmallow Challenge

Task description: This week we have been learning to create a recount adding lots of descriptive language. We had a fun activity to complete called the marshmallow challenge. After completing the challenge we had to write a recount about our experience, check out my recount below. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. 

This week in room 10 we were planning to create a fun marshmallow challenge. For this class on air Miss Parrant wanted us to have a fun activity to work as a team. This is  for our make it work term 4 focus question for this term. In this activity we had to get into a group of how many we wanted, but my group was from other tables but we still thought that we were still work as a team. Here are there names were Maddison, Sophia, Alepina, Emzjull, and me.

Before we started Miss Parrant had to quickly present what items we needed, we had ten marshmallows with 20 spaghetti sticks. Then we had to start figuring out what our design should be. At this point my whole group started saying random ideas that popped out of their head, but the thing was we had to think of a way for our marshmallow to stay standing like a normal tower. While we were thinking of what design we should do Emzjull’s suggested was to break the spaghetti into little pieces as well as the marshmallows and build them into a tower getting bigger and BIGGER.

When we were trying to figure out what our idea should be Maddison and I thought if we could create a tower by using the spaghetti sticks and marshmallows not broken and then we had to create the tower going like one spaghetti stick had 2 marshmallows stuck onto it and do the same on another stick. After that we wanted to add two sticks onto the top of the two sticks on the bottom and just keep on going until the tower will get taller and TALLER.

We all decided to go with Emzjull’s idea in the end and broke up all the sticks and marshmallows. Our tower did get to stand for a little while but as we waited for the timer to countdown our tower kept falling apart. Once our 15 minutes were up we kind of had a tower but we had to hold it so it would stand.

This was a really fun activity that helped us to work as a team. I hope we can do more experiences like this for our term 4 focus make it work.