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17 December 2014
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9 November 2014
A logician visits a distant planet inhabited by two groups of aliens, compulsive liars and faithful truth-tellers.
She comes to a fork in a road - one road goes to the left, the other to the right. She meets two aliens there, one a liar, the other a truth-teller... but she doesn't know which is which.
The logician must ask just one Yes/No question to discover which road she should take to reach their leader. She thinks for a moment and then asks her question.
What question might she have asked?
Post your theories and ideas...
2 November 2014
This session will introduce you to a number of concepts relating to scale. The learning you've recently done on fractions and multiplication will help you.
For some of these problems you should work with others to solve them so you can discuss the issue. You might find drawing examples on the whiteboard or in your maths books helpful also.
Scale is a practical way to represent something that is large using correct proportions. For example,...
31 October 2014
Halloween Reflection
Self Study
I have currently researched conspiricies and theories such as: "The Moon Landing", "The Illuminati", "The Quantum Theory" and "The M-Theory". I have also discovered my IQ level and studied "The Myers-Briggs Test", an intellectual examination.
School
I have had a relatively "Laid Back" day, with cooking Halloween treats such as: Chocolate Noodle Spiders, Eyeballs in Jell-o, Crispie Candy Pumpkins, Ghost Marshmallows and Pretzel Chocolate Bones. On a more informative note, Totara has been learning mainly...
On tuesday i got to start one of my new correspondence book and i also learnt how to do perimeter Yesterday we had sport it was so fun. And today we did some Halloween cooking.this morning we did Maori with Kerry and we got to dress up because its Halloween. In English we got to do our on poems it was really fun.Yesterday me and Anna both made really good progress with our project we got the parent permission form do...
this week i did not learn much but i did some work on my project and i also learnt some stuff on mean median and mode and some perimeter work in maths that was kind of fun. caricatures for my project is almost done.
The week was ok ish and i hope that next week is better than this one.
WE MADE SOME AWSOME FOOD AND IT WAS YUMMY. reflection is boring (said in a depressed tone)
Its 16 days to my birthday.
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This week has been normal we have done:
Maths- working with perimeters of composite shapes and perimeter problems. which went quite well and i understood it after it had been explained a few times.
Science- we attempted to do more work on the class science movie but it didn't get very far so it will need some assistance.
English- we went further into the Jabberwocky and started making my own nonsense words for it.
Options- I am making a portrait of myself and i think it looks pretty good then the next day i played more electric guitar and on...
friday
today we made loads of yummy Halloween treats. I remade the slide show for celebration. I also did some hard maths i felt like i did a good amount of work today but the cooking was very time consuming but in the long run it was worth it.
i have done loads of thing this week and i am really proud of my self like...
spelling did ok don't know score
jabberwocky poem and more
writing about imovie script
research about imovie
and a bit or reading manly for research
loaded photos
did played around with imovie work (seince)
mathes...
24 October 2014
Today I have made a lot of progress on my bow and I am not too far away from tillering it witch I am really excited about. School this term has been really boring and the work hasn't been challenging me, and I don't see the point of going to school if I'm not learning anything/having fun.
I don't know what my next steps a...
I haven't learnt much new stuff this week and if i have a i cant remember i have a bad memory. i enjoyed starting options and doing more rock band stuff my game broke at middleton so i was depressed.
i started doing maths at khan accadamy and i liked that i had a french test and got 85% also making a gear list for the tramp i did an evil drawing and played guitar we did spelling and maths it was annoying.
...
23 October 2014
Your house is 24m long and 16m wide. You decide to plant shrubs around the house to protect the exterior walls from direct sunlight. Starting with a shrub on one corner of the house, shrubs will be planted 1m apart around house and 1/2m out from the house. How many shrubs will you need to surround the hou...
1. What angle is made by the two red lines drawn on the two sides of the cube, as shown in the illustration?
Answer...
If the ends of the two red lines at the bottom left and top left are connected by a third red line along the invisible left face of the cube, then since each of the red lines joins two opposite corners of same-sizes squares, those three lines form an equilateral triangle. Hence at each corner of that triangle, two red...
22 October 2014
21 October 2014
Monday Reflection
SELF-EDUCATION
I have recently been studying the Bhopal Tragedy and the Chernobyl Disaster, as I industrial accidents, theories and conspiracies interest me. I have learned the configuration of vectors and scalars and how to measure one dimensional velocity. This is helpful towards my Communication and Leadership Exam, as my presentation is about industrial disasters.
SCHOOL EDUCATION
I have learned the history of Pi, the irrational number, originally derived from the 16th letter of the Greek Alphabet. Pi and other...
What is reflection on learning?
It is when you write about your day and memorise it. It's thinking back on what you've done. Some people would say it's like a diary or a journal. It's not always writing and can be done by talking with others.
How can it help learning?
If you make a mistake and your write about it, you don't go back and make the same mistake again.
Some people like doing reflections because it is an easy way of thinking about what you've learned.
It creates a record of learning which can be reused.
It reinforces your points.
It...
19 October 2014
17 October 2014
fridays learning achievements today
Me and Owen made a new slideshow for the term 4 week 1 celebration. We made a number of slides and cropped Duncan's photos from swimming.
i also transferred a video clip by using the URL to locate the video for celebration. I now know the short cuts for apple like how to open up the search button by pressing command and space this allows me to quickly opening the search button while browsing the internet.
i am really proud of what i have learnt and realy injoyed the process of learning...
I started off today with my agriculture correspondence, this month I am looking at Bees and how to maintain a healthy Bee hive. My individual project it to make an English long bow, today Owen and I trimmed the wood with the skill saw and then I did some finner work with the drawblade and spokeshave, I really hope that this bow works not like the last time!We finished the day with celebration and our area of car...
16 October 2014
What I have Learned Myself
Today I studied Quantum Mechanics, The Quantum Theory and The String Theory
Quantum Physics includes physical phenomenons at a nanoscopic scale.
Quantum Theory is a theoretic basis of modern physics that explains the nature of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level.
String Theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one dimensional objects called strings.
What I Have learned At School
I have learned in Science that Potassium...
today we learnt how to locate the centre for enlargement witch is what we use to intersect lines to.
we also went to since we lighted up the Bunsen burners and boiled up the water. plus we chucked tea bags into the hot water the water diss coloured like normal and with the cold water it stayed in the bag and the water was cle...
MATH
Math was fun cos we did some enlargement.
BAND
The band got set up today.
SCIENCE
At science we were learning about diffusion.
SPORT
We did a lot of running races and i crunched my toe.
Today i learnt about enlargement at maths and at science i learnt about diffusion.
at sport we did a beach race and i...
Today I learnt for maths what centre of enlargement meant and how you work out where it is and what the scale is.
In sport I learnt how when we start off for a race how to pace myself so I don't get tired.
In science i learnt that the different temperatures of water can make alot of difference and can make different things seperate fas...
16/10/14
Thursday review- Anna
Today I learnt how to make tea with warm water and make M'n'Ms loose there colour in science with diffusion = when something spreads into something else. Also how to enlarge shape using there "center of enlargement" in Maths.
I enjoyed playing an electric guitar for the rock band.
I didn't enjoy feeling bad and hurting my knee during spo...
12 October 2014
26 September 2014
23 September 2014
my circle art was of my dog lynx. i found the circle art challenging because of all the shadows but instead of shading we had to make the circles smaller and darker after 3 weeks of hard work most of us had the circle art finished i am proud of the finished product but i will not be doing it again mainly it was the fact it took forever to fini...
21 September 2014
Kia ora koutou!
The weeks are flying by and it is almost the end of term 3! Totara are working hard on a couple of assignments at the moment: The biological effects of climate change and visual art sculptures relating to climate change. This term we have tried to incorporate Social Science, Science and Visual Art learning around a common topic - climate change. The rationale behind this is to give students a chance to explore ideas in more depth...
18 September 2014
Today we began a series of sessions for students to help them learn about what sort of citizen they are in the online world. This is particularly important at the age and stage many of our senior students are at.
Here is an overview of what we did and ideas for how this can be transferred into the home:
Firstly we did a survey of the tools/services we use to connect and communicate - this entailed us brainstorming the various tools students use...
17 September 2014
Model of a carbon atom...
Work through these activities to learn about elements - you don't need to follow this order so can mix it up, as long as you give each activity a go:
Review the research we did last week and add to it - spend 5-10mins on this and make your text on the document using the suggestion tool so we know it has been added to...
Next, choose five out of the following six activities:
All about atoms - short reading activity....
11 September 2014
1 September 2014
Friday Food Challenge
On Friday Totara did a food challenge for Jenny's birthday! We made steak & cheese pie, fried rice with bacon, cake pops, pancakes, pinwheels and fruit scrolls, we were judged on presentation, taste, team work and effective planning. "I think this day showed how totara can cooperate" said Kerry, "I think it was insane" said Anna.
Everyone is HUNGRY!
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21 August 2014
For Science today we explored the relationship between levels of CO2 and temperature increase. We discussed the idea of what a hypothesis is and made connections to a similar concept in maths.
Today we conducted this search to help us understand what the thing you change in an experiment is.
This search is the search we used...
Please read the articles (using basic/intermediate level reading material) from the above search and comment what you learn on to this post. Work in pairs at the least so you can discuss.
You need to be certain of...
15 August 2014
This is me presenting my project...
Photography Project Reflection - Helena
I have been doing a photography project and I've finished the project by sharing my project and what I have done with the school, I felt nervous at first but it turned out really well, I think it turned out well because I knew what I was doing and didn’t need plan too much.
During this project i have learnt skills like photography, how to code...
12 August 2014
A couple of weeks ago I ran an art lesson on doodle art. Doodle art is an art were you draw/trace an animal, person etc. lightly then you doodle in side the outline, then you rub the outline out and you have an awesome piece of art.
During the lesson everyone made one, you could choose out of a cat, a bird, a dog or a butterfly.
...
11 August 2014
Kia ora koutou!
Thanks to Helena for taking week 2’s Art lesson. The creations look amazing! We will be working further on this artistic technique in weeks to come. Our visual art session last week combined the elements we have been working on through the year: tone, 3D imagery, symmetry and creativity! These sculptural pieces should be finished by next week. Week 3 started well with a continuation of our climate change topic. Everyone has been given a science focussed ‘question’ to work on during the week. We will be sharing our findings...
7 August 2014
The video Carbon Pollution: Costs & Cures (10mins) is about the costs that use of fossil fuels are costing the world. It also talks about the cures to solve the problem by using solar and wind power. This movie is really worth watching because it outlines pretty much every problem about climate change. I suggest the class watches this as a group.
Questions I have now include:
How can we make everyone use solar and wind power, as well as electric cars, etc.?
Why do we keep using so many fossil fuels...
Todays Solar Power 'Revolution'
This video is about the revolution of solar power which is becoming more and more common,which is meaning the price of solar panels are going down.
'Apple' have created a one the largest solar powered farm to run its data centre in North Carolina. Buildings are starting to become more and more energy efficient they are creating there own power by using solar panels
I think this video is very fascinating, and full of information
...
Vancouver has a goal to be the greenest city, and get the population more aware. Having more friendly modes of transport solar panels and being more energey efficiant. They are going to make it a requirement for 2020 to in high rise areas to be green house gas neutral so the building will be much more energy efficiant and the materials will be more improved.
"Vancouver: Greenest City?" from ETOM on Vim...
the sea has been water pulling cars off the road into the sea
a 150 year storm
bad flooding
100 year flooding just after the 50 year flooding
big road damage near the sea
hurricane winds other 100 miles an hour
two weeks worth of rain
worst winter rain in 280 yrs
unsure if this is what it will be like in the future because of global warming
...
This movie is about how canada is digging up more and more fossil fuels with means like Fraking which is creating lots of carbon emissions and toxic lakes of unusable water and chemicals.
Some of the questions I have include:
Why is Canada still using 20th century fossil fuels for power.
Why not switch to solar and wind technology?
"Leave It In The Ground" (The Oil/Tar Sands) from ETOM on Vim...
3 August 2014
In pairs work through the following questions using the web site IXL:
Converting between fractions-decimals-percentages... easy
Understanding fractions... easy
Converting between fractions and mixed numbers... harder
As you complete these questions, it is important you don't actually try it until both people have had time to think through the answer. Discuss what and why you think the answer i...
31 July 2014
Today we learned:
That saying 'grandma' in Maori is way harder than in English - Olivia
Reuben did a back flip at gymnastics!
I am not really scared of doing a flip and failing any more - Tyler.
The first time I actually landed on my feet when doing a forward flip - Nathan.
We learned about the body parts of a fraction (Reuben). The line between the numerator and the denominator means: divided by (Nathan).
It was fun climbing the rope with your toes to hold on - Nathan.
I learned about the fear of kidney disease - Meg.
Today was the first...
28 July 2014
27 July 2014
Kia ora koutou!
What a great first week we have had! It has been fantastic to have Tyler join us and become part of the Totara team. It is great getting to know you Tyler! Our visit from ERO (Education Review Office) went really well and they were impressed with the learning stories the students had to share. Well done everyone. This week we are running through our new timetable and starting new topics in Social Studies and Visual Art.
Check out the class blog - http://sevenoakstotara.blogspot.co.nz/ - for some snippets of last week. One that...
This is an awesome web site which is focussed on human anatomy. It has lots of fun games and activities on it for students to explore anatomy...
anatomyarcade.com
On the site is an area for games, some of which link to ipad games which look really good - BUT they are not free!
If any students really want these games please send me an ema...
24 July 2014
Since this is my first blog, I will need to get used to this evolved technology we have these days. I taught myself the meaning of Mycophobia' (fear of mushrooms) and Anatidaephobia (Fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you). I enjoyed my potato, and the gym class we had participated in today. I learned from a range of different activities such as backdrops, front-drops and various types of acrobatic activit...
Today we had to brainstorm all the elements that comprise a really exciting lesson. The purpose of this is so that students can learn how to design a learning experience for others in the team.
Initially we will be using our ideas to create a lesson in maths based on our strengths, as identified in asTTle maths late last term.
Here are some of the initial ideas:
-being able to explain something confidently (Olivia)
-using technology and things (Helena)
-it pushes you and it's above your level so you have to try hard and think about it...
This is my first blog, so bear with me if my language is to old-of-fashioned for your taste. I taught myself the meaning of Mycophobia (Fear of Mushrooms) and Anatidaephobia (Fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you). I thoroughly enjoyed my potato with beans, and the gymnastics activities were also intriguing and interesting, we learned from a range of activities, trampoline gymnastics and aerobics. well, I suppose that was my day in a nutshell, there will be more, don't fret. Much obliged ...
Today in totara class we looked at healthy disagreements and unhealthy disagreements, after that we went to hillvew science lab and played around with mystery gasses, my favourite part was making the gasses. Once lunch was finished we went to a gymnasium and had heaps of fun on the trampolines. The main things that I learnt today were class culture, what is required to make gas and how to kinda do a back flip...
20 July 2014
Here is a little challenge if you wish to get into a bit of HTML coding - change the slider images on the class blog...
Find an image of something that happened in the class that you think would make an interesting highlight for the blog.
Resize the image - if using Apple Preview follow these instructions... if using windows do a web search to figure it out. The images need to be 960x400 pixels max.
Download a free text editor (e.g. TextWrangler or similar) and then copy the HTML code from inside the blog Template > Edit HTML, making sure you...
We hope you have all had an amazing holiday and a well deserved break! We are all looking forward to starting a new and exciting term. Firstly, we want to give a very warm welcome to Tyler Selman, it’s great to have you join the Totara team!
We also want to welcome our newest educator to Seven Oaks, Judith Anthony. Judith will be teaching the English program on Wednesdays and has designed an engaging term for you all. It’s great to have you on board Judith!
Here (and below) is our new weekly timetable with a few changes for this term....
27 June 2014
Today we began an ongoing reflection about our experience with the World Peace Game.
Students were asked to consider done of the areas in which they were stretched. They had to consider these (and others that came up as they reflected) using the following questions:
What have I learned?
How will this help me now and in the future?
What will I do about this learning...
24 June 2014
We'd like every student in the secondary school to learn to type - or at least improve their keyboarding skills. Here is a draft for our approach:
Learn about correct posture and set up of equipment/space.
Home keys - this is critical, ensure no switching of sides!
Increasing our expectations for the amount of typing students do - we learn best by doing!
Supplementing this with some games and practice of drills to learn the motor skills - some to start you off are below...
List of online tools to practice typing - each student needs to evaluate...
15 June 2014
Kia ora koutou!
The Peace Game has begun! What an amazing opportunity for students to be working together, meeting new people and attempting to solve some of the worlds current issues. Well done everyone, it has been wonderful to see you all bring your skills to the game and be challenged at the same time.
Well done everyone in your use of our new Google Apps system - one of the advantages of these tools is that both Kerry and Rob can ‘see’...
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