African Drumming Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Angelica's blog - post. She was blogging about what she did and her experience with African Drumming. On my comment I gave her some feedback, complimented her, and also gave her a question to answer.

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts
I took on the Speed Demon Challenge. I did Multiplication. It took me 3 minutes and 6 seconds to finish all the multiplication equations.

The Mouse Island Marathon

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read "Geronimo Stilton: The Mouse Island Marathon!". It was such an amazing book very funny and enjoyable. It was written by Elisabetta Dami, who's pseudonym was Geronimo Stilton.

Mars

LI: to understand what is needed to sustain human life away from earth
Now I am learning about what is needed to sustain human life. There are six main elements of life. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulphur. Our work was to pick a planet to study, and research to try to find out if that planet can support human life in the future using help by machines. The planet I picked to study on is Mars.

Play Dialouge (Work in Progress)

LI: to write a narrative in the for of a play
Recently we have been working on a project to write a narrative. But the narrative is in the form of a play. So we have started to write our Orientation and parts of  the dialogue. We have also made a storyboard so it could give us a brief idea of what we are going to do for the dialogue and the play. We are carry on with this project so it is a Work in Progress.

Gymnastics

LI: to develop body movements of balance, rotation and strength
We first started off by playing Tag but we had to navigate around in specific ways like hop around with one leg. We then did some stretches. We did the L - Shape, Seal, Butterfly, Cat, Straddle.

We then did another rotation. But some of the activities were different.
Rotation One: There was a beam to walk forwards on then stretch your legs to the front and back. We also had to cartwheel across or along a line. Lastly there was another beam we had to do a forward roll on. We then had to do a 360 degrees jump. We then had to do bunny hops on a beam.

Rotation Two: There was a trampoline to jump on and we had to do a dive roll. We then had to do a backwards roll. After we had to do a full handstand, and a cartwheel. Lastly jump of a board and do a 180 spin in the air.

Rotation Three: We had to do a handstand on a wall on bars. We then went on bars held ourselves on it. Next there were parallel bars and we had to hold our touching our bottoms then swinging. There was a beam and we had to do a Front, Back, and Side Support rotation. Lastly there were bars we had to push ourselves up.

Decimal Problems

                        

LI: to practise solving decimal addition and subtraction problems
We learnt how to solve decimal problems using both Place Value and the Written Algorithm. One of our task was to solve a bunch of Decimal Problems both Addition and Subtraction. We then had to make a poster saying "What Are Decimals", and "How do you add and subtract decimals".

Drive

LI: to organise our files correctly
We were organising our Google Drives to save some storage. We did it because during the year we could put more stuff in our Google Drive and so it could help us work faster. As well as not having to waste time to organise it.

Ki O Rahi Interschool

LI: to play Ki O Rahi
We first went against Tamaki Primary. It was a rough start losing 3 - 9 to Tamaki. We then went against O Puau and won 12 - 4. Later we went against a different O Puau team and lost to them 5 - 3. After we got our heads back up and went against Stanhope, we won by 13 - 9. Next we went to play against Saint Patricks and won to them 14 - 3. Lastly we went against Stonefields and won 5 - 3.

White Water Actoin

LI: to synthesise the text

Synthesising is finding out the new understanding. For our work we had to do a table mat again but with another text. Our task was to fill in our Table Mat which was finding information about the book. The making connections poster is to fill in the boxes. Our synthesising poster is to write down our prior knowledge, the new information, and new understanding. The text we are doing now is "White Water Action".

African Drumming

LI: to learn african drumming
Johnny from Rhythm Interactive taught us four rhythms or beats on the djembe drum. Johnny taught us by singing and clapping the rhythms for us to copy. One of the tunes Johnny taught us was "I like chocolate cake" and "So do I". Johnny teaches a message to children. That message is that "Together, we can make a change".

African Drumming with Johnny was a really fun experience. As well as being a new experience.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Chisa's blog - post. She was blogging about what she did for Writing. On my comment I gave her some feedback, and complimented her.

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts
I took on the Speed Demon Challenge. It took me 5 minutes and 21 seconds to finish all the equations.

SSR Selfie

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read "Charlie and the Chocolate factory!". It was such an amzing book very funny and enjoyable. It was written by Roald Dahl.

Information Gathering | Making Connections | Synthesising

                           

 LI: to skim and scan
Making Connections is a connection you have with the book. There are three types of making connections. Text to You, which is something in the book that is related to you or has happened to you. Text to Text is what is in the text that relates to another text. Text to World is something in the book that relates or happened in the world. For our work we had to do a table mat again but with another text. Synthesising is finding out the new understanding.

Our task was to fill in our Table Mat which was finding information about the book. The making connections poster is to fill in the boxes. Our synthesising poster is to write down our prior knowledge, the new information, and new understanding.

The Synthesising Poster is a Work in Progress.

Zoo Trip

LI: to learn about the animals in the Auckland Zoo
We first went to an area in the zoo where they show animals from Africa. We first saw Zebras, Giraffes, and Ostriches. It was really amazing to see how well the Giraffes, Zebras, and Ostriches stayed calm while being together. We focused more on Giraffes, and learnt some facts like the reason Giraffes have blue tongues are to keep it from sunburning.

We then kept exploring the African region and saw some Meerkats. We learnt that they communicate with each other when a predator comes. So one would be a lookout and if it sees a predator it will make a squeak and it will tell the others to come back in the burrow. After we saw some lions and learnt facts like that their night visions is 8x better than a humans. Next we saw rhinos, specifically "White Rhinos". We got to touch a rhinos horn and learnt that their horns are made out of the same material as a humans.

Next we saw Flamingos and found out that their knees are at the waist, and their ankles are where the knees normally are. We later saw Asian Elephants, specifically Burmese Elephants from the Sri Lanka Region.

After we went exploring around the zoo. We went through the whole of the Africa Region, the Australia Region where we got to see Wallabys, turtles, and more.  We went to parts of the South America region looking at monkeys and more.

Identifying Decimals

                      

LI: to identify tenths, hundredths, and thousandths
Decimals are a value that is less than one, but more than zero. We learnt how to say the decimals, the way to make it into fractions, the number before and after. So for example: If I had the number 0.5 in words it would be zero point five, in fractions it would be 5/10, the number before is 0.4, and number after is 0.6.

Hiwi the Kiwi

LI: to be a responsible in the sea and when fishing
When on a boat or any kind of vehicle that goes on water you should always wear a life jacket to keep you safe. If something goes wrong and you fall off it might be too late to put on your life jacket. We also learnt some fish sizes like a Snapper being 30 centimetres. If you catch a small fish it should be let go because its too young. If its a big fish you also should let that go because it might be breeding babies. A lot of sea birds are dying now because of plastic. Seabirds are too stupid to realise its plastic.

We also learnt some tips when catching a fish. For example when holding a fish you should use a wet towel because if you use your bare hands it damages its scales. You should also use salt water when washing a fish cause it might get bad really quickly.

We also sang some songs, listened to minstrel, answered questions, and did challenges.

Dialogue

LI: to write a narrative in the form of a play
We are working on our play and now writing down the dialogue. Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in a movie, book, play and more. We had to write down a dialogue for our play in the form of text messages. We had to use two of our characters from our play. We had to write at least 4+ text message pages.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Liletina's blog - post. She was blogging about what she did for Writing. On my comment I gave her some feedback, and I also gave her a question to answer.

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts

I took on the Speed Demon Challenge. I did Multiplication. It took me 3 minutes and 5 seconds to finish. 

SSR Selfie

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read "Hotdog!". Hot Dog is a series written by Anh Do who is a best selling author. The Hot dog series has 6 books in it.

Fractions of Sets

                       

LI: to calculate fractions of sets
We had to solve a bunch of equations on fractions and division. Fractions are a whole, cut into equal pieces. Division is sharing things equally. So our task was to solve division and fraction problems. The equations were like 3/4 of 28. We had to show how we worked it out. We got shown a way on how we could solve the problem.

Ghost are Real!

                        

LI: to plan a narrative
Right now we are learning about Narratives. A narratives structure is TOPES: Title, Orientation, Problem, Events, and lastly the Solution. We had to write down ideas for a play and we had to plan it. Our own play was going to be performed by another group. We first planned on our Orientation. In the orientation we had to write down our characters and how the act, and look. We also had to write the settings so where the play was going to be.

Seasons

LI: to learn the seasons in Te Reo Maori
The word for seasons in Te Reo Maori is Tau. Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter also have their own words in Te Reo Maori. We used a website called "Te Ara Encyclopedia" to learn about the seasons and the events happening in the seasons.

Solar System

LI: to learn the planets in our solar system and the words in Maori
For Inquiry we are doing space. Our work was to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about the planets in our solar system. We also had to write down the Maori names for the planets in our solar system. We then had to record our DLO (Digital Learning Object) and voice over it.

Table Mat & Making Connections

                          


LI: to make connections
Making Connections is a connection you have with the book. There are three types of making connections. Text to You, which is something in the book that is related to you or has happened to you. Text to Text is what is in the text that relates to another text. Text to World is something in the book that relates or happened in the world. For our work we had to do a table mat again but with another text.

We then had a poster to fill in. We had to write down Text to Self, Text to Text, and Text to World.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Kruse's blog - post. He was blogging about his experience at Gymnastics. On my comment I told him the great things he did, and I also gave him a question to answer.

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts
For Basic Facts I had to answer equations which are either Addition, Subtraction, Division, and Multiplication. I did the Speed Demon Challenge, and I did Division equations. It took me 2 minutes and 46 seconds to finish all the questions.

Middle School: Ultimate Showdown

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read "Middle School: Ultimate Showdown". Its about two siblings just roasting each other and giving tips. It is written by James Patterson.

Paper and Plastic Fractions

 LI: to relate fractions with division
We were learning about division. Firstly we learnt a bunch of vocabulary about division and fractions. Our task was a slide and a bunch of task to do. We had to rip papers into fractions or show a division equation with beans. In our task we had to answer questions like: what is the fraction, what is the unit fraction, and a bunch more.

Gymnastics

LI: to develop body movements of balance, rotation and strength
We first started off by playing Tag but we had to navigate around in specific ways like hop around with one leg. We then did some stretches. We did the L - Shape, Seal, Butterfly, Cat, Straddle.

We then did another rotation. But some of the activities were different.
Rotation One: There was a beam to walk forwards on then do a pose. We also had to do a Cat Leap, and a Scale on a line. Lastly there was another beam we had to do a forward roll on. We then had to do bunny hops on a beam.

Rotation Two: There was a trampoline to jump on and we had to go as high as possible then land, then front roll, then do the same thing but a dive roll. We then had to do a backwards roll. After we had to do a routine that was taught to us. Lastly jump of a board and do a 180 spin in the air.

Rotation Three: We had to do a handstand on a wall on bars. We then went on bars held ourselves on it. Next there were parallel bars and we had to hold our touching our bottoms then swinging. There was a beam and we had to do a Front, Back, and Side Support rotation. Lastly there were bars we had to go on and do shoulder push ups.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn about how to be responsible
Our theme was Integrity, and our topic is Responsibility. Integrity to is doing the right things, and responsibility is taking ownership for the actions or the words you have said. Our catchphrase is "Responsible is what I am, that's the way of Kiwi Can!".

Our activity was write down as much things about what we wanted to improve. After we had a discussion about what we all wanted to get better at.

How are earthquakes formed?

LI: to write an explanation
Explanation is a piece of writing or text that explains how and why something happens. For the alst couple of weeks we have been writing down the things we need for an explanation, and polishing stuff up. This week we wrote an explanation about a topic we chose. The topic I chose was "How earthquakes are formed". The structure we followed was T.I.M.E.S.

T - Title
I - Introduction
M - Meaningful Information/Main Points
E - Explain Visually
S - Summary

Table Mat

                       

LI: to make connections
Making Connection is making a connection with the text with three things. Make a connection with the text with yourself, another text, and the world. We then had a table mat and we had to gather information about a book we read about. The book I read was lagoon hopping. In the table mat I had to write down keywords, key questions, some images (attributed), 4 facts, questions we would ask, and prior knowledge we already know about the text.

Attribution

LI: to learn how to attribute
Attribution is when you give credit to someone else's work, such as a picture, video, diagram and more. We have also learnt what copyright and what fair use is. Copyright is to use the owners work responsibly, we have to give credit to the owner, you can buy it if necessary. Fair use is getting permission to use, and you can use peoples work but only part of it. But if you do that you can't make any profit from it, and a bunch more.

How to attribute:

1. Get your photo
2. Link the original photo
3. Then link to the owner of the work you are using
4. After link the Commons or License

Weathers in Maori

LI: to learn the weathers in te reo maori
Matariki is Maori New Year. The whetu (Stars) disappear in August and the whetu reappear in June. The whetu are the Seven Stars or Sisters.  We read two stories that were related to Matariki. We then had to make posters. There were two we had to pick from, counting the stars, or a poster about the weather in te reo maori.