Category: Ako | Learn

Tree Octopus

LI: To carry out a guided reasearch process. 

This task had many lessons, but that will be disclosed later on in this post. But for this task we carried out reaserch on the North-West Pacific Tree Octopus which you can also call Octopus Paxarbolis. This is a octopus that navigates in rainforests, using the powerful suckers located across their tentacales.

More information will be shown in the DLO which will be by the end.

For now, lets focus on those ‘lessons’ that I was talking of in the start. The truth is, this “Tree Octopus” is actually a internet hoax, which means its actually fictional. Yes you heard right, this is a made up sea creature that has websites of websites of information located all across the internet.

Letter To Grandma

LI: To vary our sentence lengths to create pace and impact.

My partner and I have been focusing on the story “The Boy in Striped Pajamas” which focuses on a boy named Bruno who is sent to live in a new home far from his old home in Berlin. He has moved to Auchwitz due to his Father being an high ranking officer.

With this story LS2 has learnt how to vary the length of their sentences to create speed and depth. To do this we recaped on the types of sentences such as simple, compound, and complex. To vary between these is to use a pattern that works, such as short – medium – long – medium – short. A simple sentence would be the base, adding a brief 1-3 word sentence that still adds a hook for the reader to invest more. Then using a compound after that (2 simple sentences combined by a FANBOYS) can give the story some depth and interest. Now to use a complex is easy but so effective !

Now combining those two can help us with the task “Letter to Grandma”. In this task we act as Bruno sending a letter to his Grandma back in Berlin while nhe explains the situation and how he feels of the house. The hard part of this task was to sound like a 10 year old Bruno. But I still pushed through.

FANBOYS are connecters helping you connect and link relate ideas and show balance (Simple sentence + FANBOYS + Simple sentence).  FANBOYS: For, and, nor but or yet so.  “A WHITE BUS”  stands for; as, although, after, while, whenever, wherever, when, where, how, however, if, though, than, even though/if, because, before, unless, until, since, so that.  To add extra details or elaboration on the main idea.

Lowest Common Multiples

Group 2 of LS2 have been learning and some revising on “Lowest Common Multiples” (LCM). 

LCM consists of multiplication where you find the number in common between 2 numbers multiplication order. For an example you could use 4 and 7 up to 5 to find the LCM. You times both up to 5 and if there is the same number diagonal from eachother. (4, 8, 12, 16, 20.) and (7, 14, 21, 28, 35) in this case, there is no common multiple up to five. But if you know your four times tables if you add 2 on you can make it to 28, which the 7 times table has making it the answer.

Place Value – Group 2

For maths group two’s task was to learn how to solve place value problems and how we use place value in different area’s. Place value is the place of a digit in a number that tells us how much it is worth. For example if there was an equation that said what is 100 more than 4,628,297 the
answer would be 4,628,397.

Short Division

For math this week group 2 we lerning about long division how to do long division When you do long division, you are finding out how many times one number can fit into another number. You start by looking at the first digit of the big number (the number you are dividing). You ask yourself how many times the smaller number can fit into it. If it can’t fit, you look at the first two digits instead. Once you know how many times it fits, you write that number on top. Then you multiply it by the smaller number and write the answer underneath. After that, you subtract to see how much is left.

Anne Frank – The Annex

For this week of writing, I have learnt about the terrible story of Anne Frank and her life in the annex.

I first needed to learn about what the annex was, who was Anne Frank, and why was she so important? My teacher had given us a website that gave us a visual website of the annex. It was a small little back house that fit 7 people but was probaly meant for about 2, 3 max. It was behind a business office that was covered in Nazi soilders.

I read the information that was connected to each object. I found out that the water use was limited towards both families in the annex, and that they could probably never shower for their 2 years in the annex. The life was indeed very poor.

It lasted for 2 years until a few months away from the end of WW2, on August 4th 1944 2 Nazi German officers discovered the annex entrance behind a bookcase, they found the 8 Jewish people hidden and all 8 were arrested. 7 died execpt for Otto Frank, (Annes Father).

Multiplication

This week, LS2’s math Group 2 has revised on multiplication algorithim, even creating a DLO.

We first had to have a little recap js to get our minds in the right space for math and to get familiar with algorithim again.

We then started the book work that got slowly more difficult. It had questions that would ask like what the missing values would be, and regular question.

I lastly created my task and bloged my work. The DLO should help younger students get a good idea or fully master the algorithim.

 

First Tech of 2026

This week LS2 and LS1 went to tech for the first time of 2026, some being for the first time ever.

First off, LS2 hopped off the bus entering Tamaki College, seeing old classmates and seeing our possible teachers. Year 8 was split into two groups, A and B; I was in A. We made our way to the class with Miss Roy, I was doing sewing.

I then, sat in our assigned seats and I was given a sheet of paper which will be used for the rest of the terms rotation class. I wrote my name, school and answered some basic Health and Saftey questions.

I then had to find all the danger inside of a image which would then allow nus to finally start using the machines.

Lastly I completed the task and started on the machine, I was then given a recap on how to use the sewing machine. I used a peice of paper that had curvy lines and sharp lines to practice on my sewing skills, I was very quickly refreshed on how to use the sewing machine.