Wednesday 31 May 2017

WWAIPAT - Summative task

Summative task

Create a care plan (settlement plan) for a migrant family that has just arrived in Hamilton.

Success Criteria:
1 - 3-5 information Areas
2 - Short and sharp / Sentences that start with a verb economical language)
3 - Images
4 - A slogan that sells Hamilton to your Migrant Family (The Actual slogan of Hamilton is 'The City of the Future"


Questions to consider:
  • What would you show them of our local area to get them familiar with Hamilton and the Waikato? (Job Centres/ Schools/ Supermarkets/ Banks/ Doctors/ Transportation depots or routes).

  • How could you support them with learning the language? (Language classes/ Kiwi slang guide).
  • How could you help them to become accustomed to NZ culture? (Food/ Clothing).
  • What emergency contacts might they need?
  • Are there any cultural groups that they could join?
  • How could you help them to understand the NZ school system?
  • How will you continue to support them over the next 6 months?


1. How to Make your own Brochure:
In DRIVE click new - Connect more Apps - Search ludipress - Connect -

2. Open ludipress - Choose a template - BEGIN publishing

DUE end of Week 6 on Friday:)

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Cracked CLock

Starter:
Problem Solving

Block 1

Class on IXL while mini lessons are taken.

Group 3
Figure it Out, Number, Book 3, Level 3, page 12, What a View!

Group 2
https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/multiplying-25

The Outsiders
-Fractions, decimals and percentages booklet
pages 14 and 15 (When finished go on to IXL)

Block 2
PAT Reading Comp

Block 3
Publish Character Writing

Buddy up - Feedforward and feedback - Based on the S/C

Summative Task: Create a care plan for a new migrant family in Hamilton
If time, finish giving detail to yesterdays Padlet Activity
-Tuning in  / Generating questions and answering them)




12:20 line up outside... Start walking to CC.

Block 4
TECHARTS

Monday 29 May 2017

Summative Task WWAIPAT

Create a "Care Plan" for a Migrant Family moving to Hamilton to live

FORM - I suggest create a Web page through "adobespark page"
Poster, brochure??

Websites to obtain information to help you on your Inquiry:



Tuning in Questions:

Made with Padlet

Red Cross - GUEST SPEAKER

Red Cross Refugee Centre - Guest Speakers - Helene and Maria
- 1000 refugees in NZ each year, 170,000 migrants.
- Syrian examples - Some people choose to leave and take asylum, some go to UNCHR Refugee Camp.
- Case Report is done here to profile the family - Reasons for leaving etc.
- What are the requirements to be able to come to NZ? NZ does not discriminate. We take those who do not speak English, those who are severely disabled etc.
- We take people from all over the world. They go to the Mangere Resettlement Centre.
- At Mangere (6-8 weeks) they have health assessments, referrals to the hospital, English language assessments.
- All families go to Work and Income - They apply for residency (They must be here for 5 years and then they are able to apply for citizenship)
- 8 week rotation - Arrival day on a Friday. 7am in the morning they get on a bus and come down to the centre on Boundary Rd.
- 26 June next lot of families come.
- They are allocated a volunteer family who take them home, feed them, take them to Work and Income appointments, take them to the supermarket, teach how to make payments, help with understand the language, doctors visits.
- All furniture is provided by the centre - often no phone, TV and internet.
- What would be the first thing that you would take if you had to leave?
- Families can be separated - Stories shared.
- It is not easy to move to a new country - many families have had to leave people behind, contact with back home is difficult (need for phone/internet).
- Most refugees have no idea about NZ it is just a word - many are uneducated and may not have looked at a map before.
- They don't have cars and they don't know how to drive - some have never had to find their way and many have never left their house.
- The social workers visit the families - support for 9-12 months (Pathway visits).
- Challenges - Bills, health, family troubles, bullying at school, managing children and other responsibilities, transportation, 

How many people do you work with?

Settlement Support Team - Made up of social workers/cross-cultural advisers/case workers.

How long have you been working with the Red Cross?
3 years.

Why do you support refugees when there is poverty within NZ and people here that need support?
Always wanted to support refugees, realised that she could help from here and did not need to go overseas to help. For every refugee that we take we change their life - The difference that refugees make to our country is huge.
We can't change the whole world but we can help one step at a time.

Do other countries take refugees?

Canada, USA, Europe

Have you ever had just children come without families?
Not in NZ but when I worked in London yes because the borders were very different to here. I don't think that NZ Immigration would take a minor.

Where do most of the refugees come from?
Syria, Burmur, Columbia, Pakistan, Somalia.

How many people do you have come each arrival day?
Roughly 35 people coming to Hamilton each week.

Why did you choose to work for the Red Cross?
Mostly because of the values of the organisation - they make me want to aspire to be a better person each day.

How do the refugees pay to get to NZ if they have to get a flight?

Immigration NZ pay for flights, certificate of identity (like a passport) and other documentation.

Are any families ever unable to support themselves?
In statistical analysis after 5 years refugees do better than the average NZ born person.

What keeps you in this profession?
Little moments like taking a family to the Circus and seeing the children's reaction - they are always so thankful - we are giving them wonder new experiences that they may never have had the opportunity to have in their home country.

Thursday 25 May 2017

Ted Ed

TED-ED - Term 2 Week 5

Is math discovered or invented? - Jeff Dekofsky

Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient and hotly debated question.


1. The Fibonacci sequence is perhaps best known from its appearance in the novel and movie "The Da Vinci Code." What are some of the real world applications of this famous sequence?

2. Name at least one mathematical idea or principle that you feel is a universal truth. Support your choice.

3. What special name did the Pythagoreans give to the number 1, the source of all creation?

4. What mathematician believed that "God created the natural numbers ... all else is the work of man"?

5. What famous phrase did Eugene Wigner coin regarding mathematics?

6. What mathematician incorrectly boasted that none of his work would ever serve a useful purpose?

7. What centuries old mathematical theory re-emerged in the 20th century to explain how DNA unravels itself during replication?

Agenda

Block 1
TECH ARTS

Block 2
MATHS
Class on IXL (Computers) while you take some mini lessons

Group 1
Rounding and Compensating (Multiplication) 
The Sting netball fans are going to Christchurch to watch a netball game. Each bus has 48 people on it and there are 14 buses travelling altogether. How many Sting fans are heading to Christchurch?

Group 3
Rounding and Compensating (Multiplication) 
The Sting netball fans are going to Christchurch to watch a netball game. Each bus has 48 people on it and there are 14 buses travelling altogether. How many Sting fans are heading to Christchurch?

Group 2 
Rounding and compensating (Division) 
Sarah uses eight bus tickets every week to travel around town. She wins 152 tickets in a radio competition. How long will they last her?


https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/multiplication-and-division-pick-n-mix-1

Block 3
LITERACY - Computers

-Publishing their Character Essay
Individually conference with them checking against the success Criteria (All will have a computer)

There is a seperate Success Criteria for each paragraph -
Refer to flip chart 2016 ni interactive board

Physical Features (students know)
Environment (Students know)
Behaviour - Students to practice language features they know
Affect on others - Students to practice language features they know


Physical characteristics

Block 4
CC - Guest speaker from Red Cross to talk to them about their Summative Task:


Summative Task Brief:

"Create an Information Brochure for a Refugee migrating to Hamilton"

Agenda Book:

29th May 2017
Tomorrow is day 4
Homework: 30m character essay (Due Wednesday)
Extra for Experts:
Ted Ed:

Notices:
Reminders:

Signed:










Tuesday 23 May 2017

24th May
Tomorrow is day 1
Homework:
Finish unpacking the treaty of Waitangi

Notices:
Warm Donations

Reminders: FOCUS

Signed:

LOI 2

UOI3 - Where We Are In Place And Time - The Aliens and Earthlings Scenario


Your Tasks:
1. Make a T-Chart of the positive and negative implications for the Earthlings.
2. Describe how this makes you feel in one sentence.
3. Give 3 tips on what the Earthlings should do.
4. How do you think this story links to the Treaty of Waitangi?

WWAIPAT

UOI3 - Where We Are In Place And Time - Fleeing Syria

Alan and Gyan Mohammad are teachers from Syria. They are also Kurdish refugees with muscular dystrophy who fled Syria in wheelchairs. After escaping the bombs and Islamic State, they were stuck in Greece for over a year. This is the heartwarming moment when they are finally reunited with their family in Germany.


Thursday 18 May 2017

Zodiac

Maths

Otago Maths - Problem Solving


Use your problem solving strategies to solve the problem below:

Extension:
Reword this problem to put it into another setting, and write your own similar problem. Swap your problem with someone else in your class.

Tuesday 16 May 2017

17th May
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework:
Finish the questions about the "Scots" Migration
Notices:
Reminders:
Signed:

SCOTS

UOI3 - Where We Are In Place And Time - Migration in History

WALT(s)
- Understand historical migrations
- Recognise similarities and differences for various migrations of people to NZ
- Impact of Migration on settlers




Key Inquiry Questions:
Describe this group of people.
Who are they?
Where have they come from? What push/pull factors influenced their migration to New Zealand?
What challenges or opportunities did they face?
What happened next?
What similarities or differences can you draw between this group of migrants and others?

WWAIPAT - Literacy link

Literacy - Dramatic Monologue - Independent Writing - Wednesday 17th May 2017

After watching the short clip yesterday?
- What did we learn about this character?


Today you are going to use your notes from the last session to begin writing your own dramatic monologue - (Step into the mind of the girl- What are her thoughts? 


Remember to keep in mind the following Success Criteria while you are writing:
We will know we have achieved this when we can portray a character through their internal voice. Use punctuation and carefully selected vocabulary to portray your character’s thoughts.

Sunday 14 May 2017

Agenda

15th May, 2017
Tomorrow is day 6
Homework:
-Welding plan
-FOCUS prep (learn lines)

Notices:
-Camp Adair
-Welding

Reminders:
-Full school uniform

Signed:

Wednesday 10 May 2017

maths

If London was at War

Literacy - Writing from the environment - Notes and Annotation

If London Was At War

Watch the video again - this time take notes on the things you notice and what they are doing e.g. guns fire.
Try to record at least 5 nouns and their action

Writing Model

- What type of writing is this?
- What is it about?
- What would Laura have had to do in order to write this?
- Do you notice a pattern in the writing?

- Annotate your copy of The Sea with the language features that we have discussed.
- Select 4 activated nouns from your Writer's Notebook that you will use next session to begin writing your own poem.

Monday 8 May 2017

9th May, 2017
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework!
Comp questions - refer to blog

Extra for experts:
Read another migration story

Notices:

Reminders:

Signed:

Sunday 7 May 2017

Reflective Prompts

Reflective Prompts

Reflection before the activity
-       I think this lesson will be about……………because
-       I wish I knew more about
-       The question I have about this is why/how/who/where/when…….
-       -This has made me think about
-       I already know…………about this
-       I feel……………..because…………
-        
Reflection during the activity
-This puzzles me because I thought I didn’t understand………
-The connections I am making are…………
-Now I want to know……………
-The questions I still have are………….
-If I were the teacher I would do …………..next because

Reflection after the activity
-I am surprised by……………..because I thought that…………….
-…………………..really helped me learn when they…………………..
-Next time I would……………..differently because………………..
-I feel proud of…………………
-I found it challenging when……………………..
-I will use this learning again…………….
-I think the purpose of this activity was…………………
-I still want to know………………..

Migration Stories - Hamilton 2016



Reading Comp: Escape from Eritrea


  1. Where is the horn of Africa?
  2. Where is Yemen
  3. How did his mother and father feel about him fleeing the country?
  4. How did he escape?
  5. Describe his army day?
  6. Why hasn’t he returned to see his family since arriving in NZ, 2013.
  7. Writing - Step into the shoes of the main character! Choose your own context - Write a 'Dramatic Monologue" have fun.





  1. Why was New Zealand “too safe” for Tafadzwa?


  1. Tafadzwa walked 40 km to school and back, how much more is that than you ‘walk’?


  1. How come Tafadzwa was lucky when the cobra attacked?


  1. What were the scars on Tafadzwa’s back from?


  1. Why do uou think Tafadzwa’s Mother moved to Otorohanga before she brought her son over to live with her?

  1. What does running ‘give’ Tafadzwa?




The Fight to be Safe
Comprehension Questions
1. Describe the contrast between the interior and exterior of Tatiana's house.
2. Tatiana said "I was not aware of the reality. As a child I thought everything was perfect". Explain what she meant by this.
3. Why did Tatiana's parents tell her they were going on a vacation rather than telling her the truth?
4. Why did Tatiana's father have to return to Columbia? How would this have affected his family?
5. Why did Tatiana wake up every morning in Ecuador crying?
6. Find two quotes from the text that show Tatiana's feelings about NZ - when she first arrived and after she settled in.
6. What are some of the differences that Tatiana describes between NZ and Columbia?
7. Why do you think Tatiana would like to go back and thank her old teacher?
8th May, 2017
Tomorrow is day 1
Homework!
Choose a close family member you would like to complete a character description on
tomorrow we will start to write about their physical appearance

Extra for experts:
Creative writingTed Ed.

Notices:

Reminders:

Signed:

Ted Ed: Term 2 Week 2

Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full

The scientific method is widely used to make many scientific discoveries, but Robert Full suggests the possibility of finding world-changing results with less formulaic approaches. In his TEDYouth Talk, Full describes the unlikely way he studied gecko’s feet and how these beneficial discoveries could eventually save lives.


1. How do gecko's feet stick and unstick so quickly?

2. Design an original product based on your knowledge of gecko feet. Explain it's purpose and how it works.

3. What did Tanya, a student in Robert Full's lab, need to figure out before she could answer her question?

4. What is another animal that exhibits an incredible phenomenon, and how can it be used to make life better for humankind?

5. Do you think animal research is important? How far should we go in using animals in our research labs?

6. What did Anne, one of Robert Full's graduate students, discover about spiders?

7. What is the name of the gecko inspired robot built by the Stanford group?

Thursday 4 May 2017

Pre assessment

Pre Assessment


Through the lens of CAUSATION - Why is it like it?

4 contexts

UNIVERSE

GLOBAL (Life on Earth)

LOCAL (New Zealand)

INDIVIDUAL (self)

TASK 1 - (LOCAL)
-Identify the 5 biggest moments in NZ History that has helped shaped NZ today. ( inter-connectedness of the past, present and future) Justify your reasons. Try and provide detail around these events.

TASK 2
-What significant events have helped shaped who you are?
Create a timeline of significant events in your life that have shaped who you are

Tuesday 2 May 2017