Monday August 1st

Good Morning Year 8.

Hope you have all had a great weekend.
Whanau Time   8.30 - 8.55am      Junior ASSEMBLY
We welcome Whaea Lorraine to D Common, she will be our extra teacher for the next few weeks. Mrs Smith has had her operation, She is back at home and recovering.

Please remember that our headphones are issued to be cared for by the person to whom the number is allocated. Too many are being taken by those without, only three people are in the position of not having headphones due to faulty headphones. Once you lose your headphones please do not borrow others, and as you take your headphones , please leave the bag in the storage bin. At the end of a session or day, the expectation is you will put your headphones back in the bag with the wires gently wrapped, Thank you those who are doing this really well.

Thank you to students and whanau rooms sharing their chrome books, it is awkward as they wear out, they have had a busy life. Just remember where you have borrowed from so charging at the end of the day is easier for all. If there is an issue with your allocated Chrome book please inform us so we can do all we can to help.

After issuing your equipment for day job one is to open, read, action then clear unnecessary email.

9.15 - 9.55 am MATH (See maths link for lesson)


9.55 - 10..25   Mr Cochrane's Writing Group are in the Breakout Targeted Teaching Room.
He is waiting for the rest of the published descriptions. 
Make up your own report: e.g. Zombies take over Kawerau
We are looking at report writing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_NmVtnEEA8
All Others  . Working on KIWI KIDS NEWS. 

BLOCK 2 LITERACY.

Finish off your digital dust jacket and complete your blurb about the story.
Write an explanation of your dust jacket. See the exemplar of what is required
Exemplar (You must explain why you designed the cover the way you did, link it to the story and ideas in the story...)


Scary Mary is a Reading Comprehension Activity for you to move on to once the Dust cover activity is completed and approved as completed by one of the Teachers. It is in Google Classroom "literacy" for Mrs Addenbrooke's Literacy group. (The girls in Mrs Smith's class have been invited to join this group and can do this work then turn in for Mrs Addenbrooke to mark.     8DA Literacy., if you wish to do it as an assignment and turn in. Please see Mr Cochrane if you need it loaded in to his Literacy group in Google Classroom. Mrs Smith's boys can get the link and add yourselves to Mr Cochranes class for now.

TEACHING Workshops will be held on report writing. You must attend one today, we will let you know when we are doing them.

BLOCK 3  INQUIRY

Please refer back to work on blog from last week. there are various items there to help you have tasters of Olympic themed studied. You can do them entirely or use them as a springboard to develop your own inquiry. As well we have the following links to help you develop or choose an Olympic Theme. They will be loaded on to our website too.

Olympics Research Ideas and Help.

Career pathways

The Olympic Games and other global sports events provide many unique career opportunities for non-athletes. You could research the range of career options and investigate the courses and qualifications required.

Useful links

• Six Olympic careers for non-athletes
• 30 unique career paths with a sports management degree
• Vocational pathways
• Careers New Zealand

Explore the Olympic values

The Olympic values are respect, excellence, and friendship. The Paralympic values are determination, courage, equality, and inspiration.You could explore how these values are demonstrated by athletes during the Games and the importance of these values in your own life.

Useful links

• Video – Olympic values
• Video – The Olympic and Paralympic values

Follow famous sportspeople

Olympic athletes are inspirational with their fierce discipline and natural talent. You  could research famous Olympians from the past and present day and send their best wishes to our New Zealand team.  

Useful links

• Olympic athletes
• The 13 greatest paralympians of all time
• Rio 2016 – The inspiration hub
• Facebook – NZ Olympic team
• Share your support for the New Zealand team

Olympic mascots

Mascots are popular ambassadors of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. You could investigate the mascots for this year's Olympics and Paralympics and look at mascots from previous Games. You could explore ways that the mascots spread the Olympic spirit, communicate the Olympics values, and promote the cultural identity of the host countries.

Useful links

• Mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Olympic Games mascots

Opening ceremonies

You could view opening ceremonies from previous Olympic Games and discuss how each host country represents their cultures, values, and national identity. You may consider how New Zealand might represent itself in an opening ceremony. What aspects of our cultures, values, and national identity could we highlight?

Useful links

• Industrial revolution performance from the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony
• Highlights of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony
• Highlights of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games opening ceremony
• Olympic Games opening ceremony highlights from 1980 to 1992

Research the history of the Olympics

The Olympics has a rich history encompassing the Ancient Games and the Modern Games. You could investigate the origins and traditions of the Olympics and explore how the event has changed over time.

Useful links

• Ancient Olympic Games
• Ancient Greece: The Games at Olympia
• BBC: Primary History, Ancient Greeks

Monday 1/8/2016

Maths Monday 1/8/2016

WALT: find angles using a protractor.
Success Criteria
1. Read and record numbers accurately using degrees
2. Use the array line as your starting point
3. Line up the vertex of your angle with the notch.

Activities.
Warm up activity
1. http://www.mathplayground.com/reflect_and_rotate.html
2. Watch this clip to show how to use a protractor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4xCOUNEInI
3. Practice by drawing angles.
Draw these angles in your maths book. Remember to add the degree
A. 90
B. 45
C. 180
D. 75
E. 20
Check with the teacher before moving to the next activity.
4. See next link:
http://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/angles/measuring/reading-protractor-level22.pdf
5. Game: http://www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html
 

Literacy Friday 29/07/2016

Here is what you need to complete for today's work

Finish off your digital dust jacket and complete your blurb about the story.
Write an explanation of your dust jacket. See the exemplar of what is required
Exemplar (You must explain why you designed the cover the way you did, link it to the story and ideas in the story...)


Scary Mary is a Reading Comprehension Activity for you to move on to once the Dust cover activity is completed and approved as completed by one of the Teachers. It is in Google Classroom "literacy" for Mrs Addenbrooke's Literacy group.    8DA Literacy.

Friday 29/07/2016

Lessons for today.
Next week you will be doing an assessment around Geometry.
We have yet to cover mapping.

Warm up activity. Try these games
1. http://www.math-play.com/Geometry-Math-Games.html (Choose your own game from this list)
 

2. New Zealand Mathematics for year 7 (and for year 8 please see me for this).
Choose your own area you need to work on from Chapter 12 Geometry. Please ask for help if you need it. You will need to do this work in your maths book and not on a google doc.
Remember to refresh your memory of the language of Geometry.
Examples: Translation, reflection, rotation, enlargement, symmetry, clockwise, anticlockwise, tessellation, scale factor.
3. Check review test on page 347-348 chapter 12.
4. https://nz.ixl.com/math/year-8 See this sight for all the examples you need to know for year 8 geometry.

OLYMPIC GAMES -THINKER'S KEYS

THINKER'S KEYS 

THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Complete 10 of these thinker's keys. Please put your answers on a google doc and share with either Mr Cochrane or Mrs Addenbrooke.

THE REVERSE                                           THE BAR                                   THE RIDICULOUS

Name 10 things you would               Use BAR to improve the                  Try to justify this statement

never see at the Olympic                   design or use of a piece of                "No athletes should be 

Games                                                sporting equipment.                          sponsored by governments

                                                                                                                      or commercial enterprise.

THE INTERPRETATION                 THE WHAT IF                                           THE VARIATIONS

Give some possible reasons             What would be some possible                Suggest many ways that

for a sudden change of venue           consequences should the                        the host countries could for the games.                                   Commonwealth Games                          be selected.

                                                          become more popular than

                                                          Olympic Games.

THE COMMONALITY                      THE BRICK WALL                         THE DISADVANTAGES

What are the commonality               Consider some alternatives              What are some disadvantages

between a spectator and a                 to the fact that many sports               of the marathon being run

top athlete?                                       people will never compete in           over such a long distance?

                                                          in the games.                                     Suggest some solutions to 

                                                                                                                    the problems.

THE PICTURE                                  THE QUESTION                                 THE CONSTRUCTION

The answer is an Olympic Games       Name 10 things you would

medal. What are 5 possible                  never see at the Olympic

questions?                                             Games.

THE COMBINATION                             THE PREDICTION

List and then combine some of             Suggest a sport that may be 

the attributes of a javelin and a TV       in the Olympic Games 50

                                                               years from now.

What could this picture have to

do with the Olympic Games.?

THE BRAINSTORMING            THE FORCED RELATIONSHIP       THE ALPHABET

Brainstorm solutions to some       How might a long jumper use some    List words associated with

of the problems for the host          or all of the following to leap 10         the Olympic Games- A - Z.

country due to the expense of       meters - a book, some straws, a        

holding the Olympic Games.        radio and a bottle?

THE DIFFERENT USES               THE INVENTIONS                           THE ALTERNATIVE

Find 10 different uses for a          Invent a new training regime for a     List some ways that you may 

discarded hockey stick.                top athlete.                                           attend the games with out 

                                                                                                                  actually buying a ticket.

Literacy

Thursday 28/07/2016

1. Silent reading for 20 minutes.
    Continue reading your chosen novel.
2. Continue working on your dust jacket. Instructions to make a digital dust jacket
3. If you have finished your dust jacket write your explanation about your dust jacket explaining why you used the pictures you did, colour and text styles. See the exemplar link. Exemplar of what you need to write.
4. Continue reading your novel.

Olympic Math

OLYMPIC MATH
 In the Quiet zone work area and along the wall in the work Zone 2 (on either side of the doors of the Resource room) are 38 Olympic Math Cards, there are 4 questions on each card. Try and do at least 1 card of 4 questions each day.


Olympic Logic Math Challenge

This is a Stage 3/4 Challenge, We are looking to see if you can solve this problem with logical thinking and the ability to work systematically.

Can you deduce the missing information in this sporting situation?

Medals count

Given the following clues, can you work out the number of gold, silver and bronze medals that France, Italy, and Japan got in this international sports competition?

• Japan has 1 more gold medal, but 3 fewer silver medals, than Italy.
• France has the most bronze medals (18), but fewest gold medals (7)
• Each country has at least 6 medals of each type.
• Italy has 27 medals in total.
• Italy has 2 more Bronze medals than gold medals.
• The three countries have 38 bronze medals in total.
• Frnce has twice as many silver medals as Italy has gold medals.

Word Challenges.

Word challenge 1

Your aim is to create as many words of 2 letters or more using the supplied letters only once in each word, and always including the letter A.  No proper nouns are allowed.

P    G    S      T      T     I       H    E      plus A only letters to be used each time.


Can you find a 9 letter word?

Good 30+
Excellent 40+
Outstanding 50+

Word Wheel Challenge 2

Your aim is to create  as many words of 2 letters or more using the supplied letters only once in each word, and always including the letter T.  No proper nouns are allowed.

L   E    N    E    I    A    V     N      plus T   only letters to be used each time.

Can you find a 9 letter word?

Good 15+
Excellent 18+
Outstanding  22+ 

Thursday 28th July 2016

Greetings all, this is an important notice for students in 8DA and 8SS and any new student (s) in 8IC.
We need you all to have completed your Blog set up and share with either Mr Cochrane or Ms Addenbrooke. This is so we can link them to our Year 8 blog ready for sharing work with the wider community. Please can this be your first job this morning. Some of you will also need to review your blog as they cannot have inappropriate pictures, music or comments linked to them as they are a school linked site going out in to the world wide web. Please can you delete any inappropriate pictures.

OLYMPIC INQUIRY PREP TASKS

Under the Inquiry Link are a series of Activities to do. What we would like you to do is work through the Activities, and as you do them think about something that really inspires you to learn more about. Note down your thoughts so you can reflect on them and prepare to develop them into a Focus Question with 4 supporting questions to base your Inquiry on. You will be asked to have questions ready for your Inquiry by next Monday.

OLYMPIC INQUIRY PREP TASKS

Under the Inquiry Link are a series of Activities to do. What we would like you to do is work through the Activities, and as you do them think about something that really inspires you to learn more about. Note down your thoughts so you can reflect on them and prepare to develop them into a Focus Question with 4 supporting questions to base your Inquiry on. You will be asked to have questions ready for your Inquiry by next Monday.

Maths

Tuesday 26/07/2016

1. Warm up activity. Same activity as yesterday.
Making groups of one.
http://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_fractions.html

2. Adding proper fraction tutorial.

3. Work sheet. Adding fractions.
http://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/fractions/addition/like-proper-medium-hor1.pdf

4. Study ladder own choice of number activities.

Preparing for the Olympics

Wow, in another few days the Olympic Games in Rio will get underway. It will be an exciting time as we see how we compare to other individual athletes and teams in the World.

The following article is an update of our athletes arrival in Rio, the latest successful athletes to make the team, and the preparation underway as athletes prepare themselves for the competitions.

TASK 1
Your task is to read the campaign news and then select one of the events to write a brief report on to share.  Please remember to put the work into a google doc, name and share it with your whanau teacher, or your literacy teacher. We do not mind we just want to see our great motivated learners working independently on self chosen tasks.


http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eb053bcb7471510db5fff5aff&id=c630f6d1b3&e=63a70a880c
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eb053bcb7471510db5fff5aff&id=669aab2aeb&e=63a70a880c

TASK 2
As the Olympics are held in Rio this year here are some facts about Brazil. Your task is to either prepare a world map and show where Brazil and Rio are, plus travel routes from NZ to get there: or produce a information flyer with key information to help a tourist travelling to Brazil.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Studyladder+-+Brazil-+Fact+Sheet.pdf

TASK 3
The Olympics have a long history. You can either display this as a timeline, inserting pictures, or do a small inquiry about one of the original items of the Olympics and how it has evolved to the sport we have today.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Studyladder+-+Olympics+-+History.pdf


TASK 4
Research questions. Please choose 4 of these seven questions to research the answer of and write a detailed full sentence to answer.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Olympics+-+Fun+Facts-+Research+Questions.pdf

TASK 5

BE a wordsmith, choose one of these photos, copy and paste the photo onto your answer sheet, then write as many describing words as you can to describe it.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Studyladder+-+Describing+words+-+Athletes.pdf

Olympic Maths

These activities are problem Inquiry style Math supporting the Olympic Games Focus.

They can be done in mixed groups but you will all have to write up your findings.

Please select the Math level you know best fits your skill level, however if you choose to do these in a mixed group across the team, feel free to challenge yourself with challenging tasks.

Olympic Maths Level 2 (Year 5/6)

Olympic Maths Level 3 (Year 7)

Olympic Maths Level 4 (Year 8)

Please see us for any support you need.

8DA MATHS

https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/MTU2MDk0NDA5Mlpa/a/MTg5MjMzNDA4NVpa/submissions/by-status/and-sort-name/list



Morning All, this s a learning curve for us all, here is your math work for today. It is also available in our google classroom site.

8 IC maths

8IC Maths

1. Warm up activity.
http://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_fractions.html

2. Watch video to show you how to add simple fractions.

 

3. Fraction worksheet activity  (Please show your working and make drawings if you need to).
4. Finish off with study ladder.

Tuesday 26/07/2016

Tuesday 26/07/2016

9.50-10.25 Kiwi Kids News- Choose and article and answer the recall and thinking questions. Up load to your blog.



11.00-12.30 Literacy.
Choose a novel from the class library corner. You will silent read for 20 minutes.
Create a dust jacket for your novel.
Use your design from yesterday to help you to create your dust jacket.
The standard for year 8 is the following
http://assessment.tki.org.nz/Assessment-tools-resources/The-NZ-Curriculum-Exemplars/English-exemplars/Visual-language/Static-images/Sweet-as-Sugar
Your picture on your dusk jacket needs to link to the book and the ideas within the text.

Use google drawing to help you.
See link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-QA299RGc
Writing.
We are focusing on report writing. You need to think about a topic that you want to write a report about. It could be an animal, game, sport, a famous personality...for students wanting to go the extra mile think about bigger topics such as, What causes global warming? What are the issues around social networking?..

Watch these videos about report writing before you make your decision.

Welcome to term 3 2016.

Hi everyone.
I hope you have had a wonderful break and your back ready for another term of learning.
As you can see our daily planning will all be done on this blog.
We will still be using google classroom but it will be mainly used for notices and handing out assignment.
One positive part about using a blog is that your parents can track your what learning we are covering in class and help you when you access your learning at home. Also if you are sick and would like to continue your learning at home you can.
The other cool part about this is that we will be linking your own blogs to our year 8 web site. Your parents will be able to go onto this site a comment on your learning and help support you in your learning. Remember that learning here at Tarawera High school is a partnership between you, the teachers, and your parents and caregivers.

We will also be welcoming a new staff member to our team. Charyl McNicholas will be starting with us in week 2. She is filling in for Mrs Smith while she is on leave. We look forward to working with her and wish her all the best for the term.

Our year 8 website will be used to help support students in their learning.
It has a wide range of resources and student blogs will soon be uploaded to this sites.
The link is:  https://sites.google.com/a/tarawera.school.nz/year-8-team-website/

See you all next week.