Mind Map

This is my mind map. It is a brainstorming app that I used along with others in my digital technologies class, to plan our animations. The application is called Mind mup.

Design Brief Template

CONCEPTUAL STATEMENT:

In the context of Healthy Living I will design and produce an Animated story for students to be used to help them decrease weight and show them how to live healthier.

My digital story does relate to the context of ‘Healthy Living’ because my story is about students learning ways to stay healthy.

My digital story is useful for my target audience because they are able to relate to the displayed animation.

SPECIFICATIONS:

The outcome will include:

Sprites

Commands

Backdrops

Sprites: Athlete Students Teacher	Yes
Backdrops: Classroom Basketball Court	Yes
Commands: Control Events Look Sense	Yes
Feedback that I received about my digital story included: Hi Fine Your story is good, but there is grammar mistakes. Also make the characters move, instead of teleporting. It will also help if you make your story more interactive. Mengchun Hi Fine, I like how you've included a group of people. It's more effective. There are some spelling errors. Please fix it. Besides the spelling errors, amazing work. Keep it up! Yvette
Changes I have made to my digital story include: Correction of grammar Movement of characters (Switching costumes)
The way that I feel about my digital story is happy. This is because I am happy with the end product. I could also use Scratch or create digital stories to explain certain things to classmates or  teachers.

Thanksgiving tasks

This is my prezi that explains why the Pilgrims left Holland. Check it out to understand one of the most important times in American history!

Why are stars are not visible during daytime? Fine & Yvette

Have you ever wondered why stars aren’t visible during daytime? Majority of people believe that stars have disappeared as the sunset rises, but stars are still there, just hiding. Stars are hidden behind the bright blue rays that are received from the Sun.

Stars are luminous points in the night sky. They are produced when a nebulae (spinning tornado of gases, dust and cloud) creates a ball of helium and hydrogen. Soon, this sphere flames up and creates a star. When the helium and hydrogen gases interact with each other, they form an explosion or scientifically known as a ‘Nuclear fusion’. The more nuclear reactions that occur on this star, the brighter the star becomes.

As the Earth is spinning on its own axis, it absorbs darkness from the moon and light from the Sun. This is because one side of the Earth is facing the bright light from the Sun, while the other is facing the dark moon. It’s like when a person is facing the light, and the back of their body is dark. This creates the illusion of day and night. Due to the Suns bright blue light, we are not able to see the stars that are actually still there. Luckily as night falls, the stars shine brightly and are visible to the human naked eye.

Isn’t it amazing how we aren’t able to see stars at daytime, when they’re actually still there? Inside the storage of many minds, you will not discover information about why we aren’t able to see stars in sunlight. The world of astronomy may be big, but its a triumph to know we both have learnt just a small amount of knowledge about it.

Healthy Living

Healthy Living

This is my scratch project. This animation displays students learning about how to be healthy from an athlete. If you can't see the animation on here, click on the link above, to experience it! Please comment on some of the aspects that you like about this digital story. Also comment on any changes that you would recommend that I make to this digital story.

Creating Tasks

This is a google form created for students who have read the article "Night Light". Check it out!

Creating Tasks

This is a presentation that  is a follow-up task for students who have read "Sun Facts". Check it out!

Creating Tasks

This is an information poster about the Moon Illusion. Check it out for cool facts!

Creating Tasks

This is a brochure that contains cool facts about America. Check it out!

Creating Tasks

This is a brochure about cool facts about the Earth. Check it out!

Creating Tasks

This is my creating task for Shooting through. Check this out for cool facts about stars.

Creating Tasks

This is my creating tasks. Scroll down, to answer questions. 

Worldwide Bedroom Comparison

Room 9 was set the task to compare bedrooms from all around the world. We found most of the bedrooms in the art gallery shocking. Majority of bedrooms that were showcased, had poverty written all over them. I chose to compare a child in The West Bank, who lives in a very unstable and unsafe environment, with a child in America, who sleeps in a proper personalised bedroom. Check this diagram out, to witness the differences and similarities these children both share. Justin is 8 years old,

Bilala is 6 years old. 

Photo Gallery by James Mollison

My Maths Strategy

This is my math strategy. It explains how my maths group (Hexagons) completed similar equations to this.

A Special Friend

A special friend

A special friend is someone who is different from the usual companion and someone you have a powerful bond with. They are people who stand out from the others, and they are people who share their care and support for you in different ways. Special friends are unique and share a strong connection.

A special friend is someone who is able to comfort you in difficult occasions. They are willing to do anything in order to avoid you lamenting dreadful occasions. A special friend is someone who is able to look at the bright side when in the darkest times.

Angel - My Special Friend - and I became friends 7 years ago. We attended the same school and were in the same classroom each year. She’s attending another intermediate now, but our friendship is still strong. Angel and I have known each other since we started school.

Angel is a friend who is special to me because she is able to understand my personality, dislikes and likes. She is also able to make me laugh in situations that I feel droopy. We are able to confide secrets within our friendship. Angel is able to acknowledge my individuality.

Special friends are very important to individuals. Special friends are able to experience good, bad or even exciting situations together. This is important, because if you did not have a friend to depend and rely on, you would feel isolated from reality.Special friends are a major part of our life.

This is my explanation of what a special friend is and who my special friend is. This task was set to all Room 9 students in order to help them with their exams.

Phases of the moon

This is a presentation a few of the students in Room 9 created. It explains the phases of the moon in a simple way that is understandable to most audiences.

Why are stars not visible during daytime?

Have you ever wondered why stars aren't visible during daytime? Majority of people believe that stars have disappeared as the sunset rises, but stars are still there, just hiding. Stars are hidden behind the bright blue rays that are received from the Sun.

Stars are luminous points in the night sky. They are produced when a nebulae (spinning tornado of gases, dust and cloud) creates a ball of helium and hydrogen. Soon, this sphere flames up and creates a star. When the helium and hydrogen gases interact with each other, they form an explosion or scientifically known as a ‘Nuclear fusion’. The more nuclear reactions that occur on this star, the brighter the star becomes.

As the Earth is spinning on its own axis, it absorbs darkness from the moon and light from the Sun. This is because one side of the Earth is facing the bright light from the Sun, while the other is facing the dark moon. It’s like when a person is facing the light, and the back of their body is dark. This creates the illusion of day and night. Due to the Suns bright blue light, we are not able to see the stars that are actually still there. Luckily as night falls, the stars shine brightly and are visible to the human naked eye.

Isn't it amazing how we aren't able to see stars at daytime, when they’re actually still there? Inside the storage of many minds, you will not discover information about why we aren't able to see stars in sunlight. The world of astronomy may be big, but its a triumph to know we both have learnt just a small amount of knowledge about it.        

This is an explanation that a classmate and I wrote together. It explains the illusion of stars disappearing during daytime.

Cycle of the Medium-Sized Stars

This is a google draw that is based on the creation of Medium-Sized Stars.

Compare and Contrast

This is my Venn-diagram on comparing two of the articles I've read in the Independent Reading Challenge Series.

American Brochure

This is my brochure that includes information and simple facts about America. Check it out!

Maths Strategy

This is my Maths Strategy. I solved this equation by changing one of the numbers into a tidy number.

One Small Step: Rewritten

This is my FlipSnack. It includes my re-written version of One Small Step.Check it out!

Solar System Paragraph

The Solar System is apart of the galaxy usually known as ‘The Universe’. The Solar System consists of eight planets, and more than a quadrillion amount of stars. In ancient times, people began to create constellations with the stars. Most people say that they’re able to probe the stars but do they realise stars are light years away from us, somewhere floating in lost gravity? Light Years away, Earth is spinning on its on axis. This process produces an illusion of day and night: One side of the Earth absorbs light from the Sun,  while the other side absorbs darkness. Because of the nuclear fusions happening inside the Sun, day is caused when  bright blue Sun rays hit Earth’s atmosphere, hiding stars from the naked human eyes. Astronauts who travel to space are trained so they’re able to help expand knowledge in space explorations and technology. We believe, that our solar system is unique.

Above is a paragraph that includes information about the Solar System, and what it consists of. The whole class were split into 5 groups. Mrs Anderson wrote over 10 words onto the whiteboard. Each group had to include these words into their paragraph. The people listed below are the students who produced this paragraph:
Fine, Yvette, Pah Nwee and Tui.

Setting: Holiday Reading

This is my poster that includes information about the 'Setting' task. 

Title: The adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-fu cavemen from the future

Author/Illustrator: Dav Pilkey

Genre: Childrens literature

Food, Glorious Food: Holiday Reading Challenge

This poster is my 'Food,Glorious Food' task. I picked the poster's colours to be 'Red, white and blue, due to it being the colours of the Hawaiian flag. I think this food is also a delicacy. We both are enjoying the chocolates. My book is :

Title: Hitler's Daughter

Author: Jackie French

Radical Reading:Holiday Reading

Radical Reading

Book I was reading

Grey Lynn Library

I went to the Grey Lynn Library. I think this was a radical place to read due to it being included in 'Sione's Wedding 2: Unfinished Business'. Unfortunately, pictures were taken on a phone, but my relative deleted it, not realising their importance. At the time I was reading 'Hitler's Daughter'. I also created a new library card.

Title: Hilter's Daughter

Author: Jackie French

Genre: Fiction

Get Active: Holiday Reading

During a power cut in East Auckland, a few relatives and I travelled to 'The Surrey Hotel' in Grey Lynn. We stayed there so we had electricity. We spent our 3 days there, swimming in the pool, relaxing in the spa pool, exercising in the gymnasium and reading at the local library. Luckily, the library and shops were just down the road, so we accessed them easily. We stayed in room 719. On Tuesday, we came back home. In the book 'Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk To Freedom" , it states how Nelson travelled and stayed in different houses and apartments.

Title: Nelson Mandela:No Easy Walk to Freedom
Author: Barry Denenberg
Genre: Biography

Re-writing the end: Holiday reading

This is my poster that includes information about my re-writing of a book. This re-writing may include false and misspelt words, but in the book, it also includes these mistakes. 

Title:The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung fu cavemen from the future

Author/Illustrator: Dav Pilkey

Genre: Children's novel, humor

Make Your Own Activity: Holiday Reading

This is a poster that includes my own very made up task. The instructions to complete this task are included on the information poster. The second poster shows the task. It can be set out any way.

Title: The diary of a young girl: Anne Frank

Edited by: Otto Frank & Mirjam Pressler

Translated by: Susan Masottey

Genre: Autobiography

Character Portrait: Holiday Reading

This is my 'Character Portrait' task. It includes the picture itself and reasons why it does not include some of the facials. The character drawn is Anne Frank. 

Title: The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

Edited by: Otto Frank & Mirjam Pressler

Translated by: Susan Masottey

Soundrack: Holiday Reading

This is my poster that Includes information about what soundtrack I think would suit 'The Diary of a young girl:Anne Frank'. 

                                        Title: The Diary Of A Young Girl: Anne Frank

Edited by: Otto Frank & Mirjam Pressler

Translated by: Susan Masotty

Genre: Autobiography

Make a recommendation: Holiday Reading

This is my poster that includes my 'Make a recommendation' task. This task includes three motives to read this book, and who I recommend it to.

Title: The Diary Of A Young Girl: Anne Frank

Edited by: Otto Frank & Mirjam Pressler

Translated by: Susan Masotty

Genre: Autobiography

Retell the Story: Holiday Reading

This is my retelling of the story 'Wonder'. I adore this book, due to the way it explains how hard it is for a person with a different face. All students had to write their retelling within 25 words.

Title: Wonder

Author: R.J.Palacio

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Sidekick: Holiday Reading

This is my poster that includes my 'Sidekick' task. On this task, we were given the challenge to write a paragraph on why the main character in the story needs a sidekick, and what  you would do to help the main character as a sidekick.

Title: Wonder

Author: R.J.Palacio

Genre: Realistic Fiction

New Cover: Holiday Reading

This is my new cover that I created with the assistance 'Google Draw'. I included an astronaut in the cover because in the story it tells how August hid his face for at least 2 years straight when young due the fact he didn't want his face to be shown.

Title: Wonder

Author: R.J.Palacio

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Casting Choices:Holiday Reading

This is one of the Holiday Reading Challenges that were provided. This poster shows just 4 of the characters in the story.

Title: Wonder

Author: R.J.Palacio

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Tukana Teina Time With Room 1

This is just a few of the highlights that were included in Tukana Teina Time With Room 1. First, we decorated cookies and then ate them. Then, we played with play dough and other toys.

ICAS Participants

These are the ICAS Participants from Room 9, 2014. All students made a terrific effort to finish off their exams with accurate answers. 

Junior Culture Performance Animoto

This animoto includes highlights of the Panmure Bridge Junior Culture Performance on Wednesday 24th September. 

Multiplication In Parts Strategy

This is my 'Multiplication In Parts Strategy Poster'. In this poster it shows a strategy that can be used for multiplication questions. My learning intention was to learn how to solve multiplication questions by using the strategy 'Multiplication in Parts'.

Sentence Challenge

This is a screenshot taken from the 'Sentence Challenge'. In this challenge you have to take the right blocks and place them into the available holes. The blocks have sentences or words written on them. You have to make sure they make sense.

Why do people migrate to New Zealand?

Why do people migrate to New Zealand?

Economic reasons I believe, is a main motivator towards decisions to migrate to New Zealand. According to information collected from ‘Statistics’, the majority of motives towards moving from residence to residence is employment. From the age groups 20 to 69 years old, majority of reasons from moving are all economic motives. Due to economic growth during the 60’s, New Zealand's population increased due to immigrants.

Our task was to explain in our own words why people migrate to NZ. The skill we were practising was to find evidence, to support our thinking.

Apostrophe Challenge

This is the Apostrophe Challenge. This website allowed the student to change a few words to make a contraction. 

Contraction Challenge

This week Room 9 was set three kinds of challenges. One of the challenges included the 'Contraction Challenge'. I completed this challenge accurately. 

code.org/learn

Today at technology studies, the year 7 students from Panmure Bridge School were applying codes in a programming application. We used blocks that gave commands to a character that made the avatar complete its instructed actions. 

Grammar Focus: The Apostrophe Challenge

This is my presentation that includes activities of 'The Apostrophe Challenge'. The whole class was set this challenge. The whole of room 9 completed and marked it together.

Don't Shoot The Square!

This is a website that a few students were set to complete. Today four students learnt about square numbers and roots. In this game we had to carefully make out what numbers were squares and not shoot them. Unfortunately, I hit 5 square numbers! I think I need to work on my accuracy.

Tears of the Albatross

This is a poster that includes information of this weeks story for reading. It retells the story of 'Tears of the Albatross". I rewrote this story for our follow-up task.

Commenting

This is my comment to Isabella from Room 6. This is the link to her blog below:

Isabella's Blog

 This is my comment to Asmah from my classroom. This is the url to her blog below:

Asmah's Blog

This is my comment to Mangila from Glenbrae school. The url link to his blog is below:

Mangila's Blog

Homonyms

This is my poster on how to avoid confusion towards certain homonyms. It shows definitions and examples.

Culture Definition

This is a poster I created. It shows my definition of what culture means. I have summarised this definition by using the 3 sources above. There are 2 definitions in the poster. 1 - What I thought culture is. 2 - What I found out culture is. The final definition is the bottom one. 

Place of Origin

This poster includes the distance from Indonesia/Tonga to New Zealand. The reason these countries are included is because another classmate and I have those cultures in our genes. We have included the difference between our countries. 

Russian Brochure

These are posters that will be created into a brochure. This brochure includes facts about Russia and tourism sites in Russia.

Southern Africa Brochure

These are posters that I created to make into a brochure. These are facts about South Africa and pictures about SA.