Reuben's Blog

Hello, For this Term our PBL driving question is How can we speak up to discrimination in a Podcast, Ted talk, Poetry slam or Drama and on the 3rd of July we will be going live to all the schools in New Zealand. I am doing a podcast on racism with my friend Logan Hammond and we will be talking to Max Martin ( My cousin ) and what he thinks about racism. Here is m y invitation:  I will be going live first at 10:00am - 10:15am.

Hello, About 3 weeks ago we went to Diana Issac to play volley ball balloon sports. Diana Issac is a retirement village. The reason we went is to be visual in the community. When we got there we got pair up with someone, it was really fun and I got paired up with this lady called Shirley and she was a children's athletics record holder. Once we got to know them we got into balloon volley ball. It was very fun and I hope we do it again before I go to high school. Have you ever been to a retirement village before ?

Hello, This week we had to experiment with google drawings. Today we got set the task of creating a self - portrait on google drawings. This is so hard so please don't judge. Here it is: Have you ever done a self portrait before ? 

Hello, For winter sport this year I am doing rugby. We had to play rapid rugby for the first couple of weeks and now we play proper rugby with scrums and line outs. Our team are really good and we have only lost 2 games. I play half back and I really enjoy playing rugby. Have you played rugby before ? Image by Otago Sport Depot

Hi guys, Welcome to another blog post. Today I will be sharing my reading task. We have been leaning how can we use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions?  This week we got to pick what article we got to read, we got three  choices the  Australian Ball Tampering , the Climate Change Protes t and the No Rep Sport I chose the No Rep Sport article. We had to create a Venn Diagram with the authors opinion and my opinion. Here is the slide: Do you have a reading task you have to do ? If so what was it ?

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I am going to be telling you about my maths video. As you may know our school do their reports digitally. So for this to work we have to our maths video digitally. Part of our report is evidence of our work and this term for our maths evidence we had to do our video on screencastify. Here is my video, Hope you like it. Have you done a maths video before ?

Hello, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be telling you about my reading task for this week. This week we had to write two paragraphs based around a story. The story we did was Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka and it was about how the soldiers wanted to take the land of the Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka. Here is my reading task, I hope you like it. What book have you read lately ? 

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be telling you about breakout EDU this is just a fun game the googles did to help our team work ability's. Breakout EDU is a game where you get give clues around a room and 2 or 3 locks you have to crack open. The theme for the game was based on the movie Wonder. My group was really good at finding the stuff but working it out needs a bit of work on. I am not sure how much time we got. But overall it was really fun and I hope we do another one  later on in the year.  Have you done a breakout EDU before ? Image from Vector illustration of Cartoon Padlock. 

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I am going to talk you about my bingo card. This week we had to present their speech in home bases which means our timetable for week 5 had to change. We did speeches until morning tea and after morning tea we worked on or bingo cards. Our bingo card was a doc shared with everyone with 9 tasks. We had to complete 4 tasks. We had to do the middle maths problem solving, one of the literacy tasks, one of the maths task and one of your choice. I did the middle problem sol ving, the Carmen  Sandiego task, the book track task and the basic facts task.  What task would you do ? 

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. On Wednesday all of the teachers in New Zealand didn't work because they were going on strike because they thought that they were not getting payed enough money for the hours that they worked. I think that the teachers should get more money because then we are allowed to get more sports equipment and more trips to see the world. On Wednesday me and my friends went to QE2 pool. We had lot's of fun flipping the rafts on the slide, tackling people of the inflatables and chilling out in the lazy river. What did you do on the teachers strike ? Image from Clipart Library

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post I hope you are having a good day. Today I am going to share with you one of our reading task that we have to do every week. My goal for this week was to Identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text. The teacher made us read a book online called Global Perspective: Racism. Then we had to Identify three main ideas from the text. Then explain why the author has purpose of putting it in. What do you do for reading ?