Kiwican (Emotions)

LI: to be resilient
Our new theme for the next few weeks is resilience, and our topic was Emotions. We first recapped what we did last term, and we then did our energizer which How does it feel. We had commands told to us and we had to do them. Our activity was emotional charades, so we had a scene and we had to do it.

MOTAT (Museum of transport and technology)

LI: to learn about STEAM
We went to MOTAT which was a really big museum with interesting and amazing stuff. We first went looking around MOTAT viewing artefacts, and saw a bunch of cool things. We saw a firestation with a firetruck used back in the days. We even saw a telecommunication exhibit with dial phones, and stuff like Morse codes. We then saw a car exhibit and saw a supercar, a car that Queen Elizabeth 2nd used, and saw car engines. Next we saw a old village with a classroom, church, workshop.

When we finished looking around we firstly made an electric car! We first had to make the body of the car using cardboard. The he engine was a motor and a fan. The wheels were small wheels, and a skewer. We then had to connect the parts in some way.

Lastly we made a flashlight using some connecting blocks. We first had to use the motor again, and connect a LED light to the motor and span a cog to make the light flicker. We then had to use the connecting blocks, cogs, and more to try to keep the LED Light on instead of it just flickering.

Keywords

                     

 LI: to use keywords for better searching
Keywords are words in the paragraph or text that kind of sum up the whole text. So we picked a topic to do, and picked komodo dragons. We first had to make a question about komodo dragons, and then find the keywords. We then had to make up more questions, and then look on sites. We then had to find the keywords in the paragraph.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Deannes blog - post. Shee was blogging about what she did for Maths. On my comment I complimented her, and gave her feedback. .

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts
I took on the Speed Demon Challenge. I did Multiplication and it took me three minutes and 18 seconds to finish the equations.

Avengers

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read "Avengers: Storybook Collection. It was such an amazing book very awesome and enjoyable. There were a bunch of mini stories in the book, like Falcons story, Hulks story, Avengers going against Thanos, and more.

Facts and Opinion

LI: to separate fact from opinion
Fact is a statement that is completely true, and a Opinion is someones belief or thought to something. We first did activity and got a statement and we had to prove if it was Fact or Opinion? Our work was to read a book on the Problem about Possums in New Zealand. We then had to find out the main idea, and find the facts and opinion in the book. We then had to make a poster about if we should exterminate possums, or protect them.

Money, money, money!

                       

LI: to earn and look after money by creating maths
For the rest of the term we are going to do a game involving maths and money. We have to register for a job, and then when finishing it you get paid. There are also insurances, fines, rent and more. So I did two things throughout the week. I registered to do Decimal Facts, and Decimal Word Problems.
Link to my quiz: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfpbzhrod6qqxNyCzVzFsUH7unh0xlE2Vvfk1AdEVbBAdMyw/viewform

Water Safety

LI: to learn water safety
We first got sorted into groups and then started our lesson. We first did a starfish in the water, and then we had to flip and do it looking up. We then did the dolphin dive. We had to dive in and try to touch the floor, and then go back up and repeat it. After we did starfishes and put a fist up and shouted "Help!". Next we did a skill which was to do a starfish, then tuck our knees in and try to get our face in the water. Lastly we had to high five our teacher and try to do a skill we knew how to do.

Persuasion

                                  

LI: what is persuasion
Persuasion is trying to make someone think the same way as your, or make them side with you. So for the next couple of weeks we are going to learn more about persuasive writing. Then lastly we are going to make a persuasive speech. So we had to make a poster about how arguments could be based on perspective, and how it could also affect the argument when being bias.

Lunch NZMA

LI: to make healthier choices when eating
NZMA donated food for a specific amount of children, and I was lucky enough to be one of them. When I first got given the food I was so excited because I got a glimpse at what we were going to eat earlier and it looked delicious. In the lunch there was a samosa that was really delicious, a burrito, a fruit salad, and a soft blueberry muffin. It was so good.

Kiwican

LI: to be resilient
Our new theme for the next few weeks is resilience, and our topic was Emotions. We first recapped what we did last term, and we then did our energizer which was silent disco. We had to pick a emotion and show it by doing a dance, or doing an air instrument.

Our catchphrase is: "If your feel it, let it out, don't doubt it just let it all out!".

Duffy Theatre

LI: to learn about reading
Duffy Theatre have performed a play for Panmure Bridge School. It was about how Duffy got sucked into the game. It was really bizarre, funny, and great. The characters were: Duffy, Sam (Duffys Cousin), Sams Mum, Dismantler (in the game), Puzzler (in the game).

Firstly Duffy went over to Sams house and got sucked into the game by wearing magical glasses. He got sucked into the game Magic Bricks. It was like Jumanji, so Duffy only had a limited amount of time to get out or he would get trapped into the game forever. They find out that their grandmother was the creator of the game, and learned the algorithm to get out.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Kruse's blog - post. He was blogging about what he did at Kiwican. On my comment I complimented him, and asked him a question.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
I commented on Ong's blog - post. He was blogging about what he did for Writing. On my comment I gave him some feedback, and complimented him.

HIIT Workout

LI: to work as hard as we can, and see our personal results
For Kiwi sport we did HIIT, which stands for: High, Intensity, Interval, Training. We had heart rate monitors to see our heart rate, and we had to work as hard as we could to get out heart rate up. We had three exercises to do.

Mountain Climbers is getting in a press up position and trying to put your knees to your elbows. We then did press ups. We had to have our backs straight the whole time. We also had a bunch of ways to do push ups. Knee Push ups, and a One Legged Push Up. Lastly we did pull ups. We had lied on our back and had to pull up with a bar.

Lastly we did a squat challenge. There was a song that kept saying up and down. So we had to listen to the song, in our squat position go up and down.

Basic Fact Boxes

LI: to remember basic facts

I took on the Speed Demon Challenge. I did Division and it took me three minutes and nine seconds to finish the equations. 

Complete Play

LI: to write a narrative in the form of a play
Throughout the couple of weeks we have been working on a project. This project is a narrative in the form of a play. We have been working really hard on this preparing and using a bunch of ideas to help. Such as making a storyboard, planning the whole plot, twist, and stories, writing the dialogue  in the form of text messages. We've wrote this play for a a bunch of groups to perform.

Mixed Word Problems

                       

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10jAdb0Npei2gfOL4HGLlE4HOwYytYkhm

LI: to solve word problems of different types
We had to solve a bunch of different word problems we had learnt to solve throughout the year. We had to show how we solved the word problem. It was split in categories such as Proportion and Ratios which is fraction, Multiplication is repeated addition, Division is sharing, and Addition is putting more, and Subtracting is taking away. We then had to present one of the equations by showing how we solve it.

Mars and Uranus

                      

LI: to investigate the likelihood of living on another planet in our Solar System
Throughout the couple of weeks we have been learning about the main elements of life and how we could possibly be living on another in our Solar System. The six main elements of life are: Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Sulpher, and Phosphorus. Our task was to pick two planets and try to see if we could live there or not, using machines in the future. The planets I have picked are Mars and Uranus.

Myths Atlas

LI: to summarise a text
For SSR Selfie I read "Myths Atlas". It was such an amazing book very interesting and enjoyable. It was written by Thiago De Moraes.

Maori

LI: to state our likes in Te Reo Maori
We did a word find on a bunch of Maori words like Moana (meaning ocean, or deep sea), and ika (fish). We then had to make a poster on our likes, and we had to write them in Te Reo Maori. We also read a maori Story.

Recap of Kiwican

LI: to recap our from the term
We first as a class recapped on what we did throughput the term. We first talked about what our Theme was. Our theme was Integrity, Integrity means to do the right thing when no ones looking. Our three topics were reliability, responsibility and honesty. Reliability means trust someone and Responsibility means to take ownership for your actions. Honesty means being truthful.

We then played Go Home Stay Home, and Octopus.

Constellations

                       


                        

LI: to skim, scan, and summarise information
Skimming is just reading the book and looking around for information. Scanning is trying to find specific information. Summarising is reading a book and retelling it. So we had an activity to make constellations using skewers and marshmallows. We had to choose a constellation to make and write down information about. The two constellations I have done is Leo, and Scorpius.