Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
Today I was commenting on Juels blog - post and it was about keeping you Google Drives tidy and not messy. It was a good blog - post He had a blurb, a DLO, a LI (Learning Intention) what he learned. 

Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn how to bat

Today we had Kiwi Sport with Alison (Kiwi Sport Teacher) I learned the batting position, the things you need to do is:

Knuckles aligned

Shoulder width apart

Bat on your throwing shoulder
Elbows out
Eyes on the ball

When we did that we played Scatterball again but this was different. It was all the same you bat and field, but when you field and put the ball down on the cone, you have to sit down to let other people get the ball. The batting team batted, and the fielding team fielded. Then we switched and played one round. When we played Scatter we played 4 corners.

How you play is you need Four cones, bases or anything. When you have that you need one person in the middle to count down 5 down to 1. When the person gets to 1 everyone has to be at a base, and the person picks a base to get people out. When then they keep doing it until there's only one person left. We played three rounds. First one normal, second we had to walk backwards to a base, and third round we had to walk like any animal. When we played those three rounds we had a recap on what we did today and left to class. 

Kiwi Can

LI: to have Positive Relationships
Today I went to Kiwi Can and when we got there we went straight away to the Energizer. Our first game was called 21, we got into a circle and had a ball, it was kinda like hot potato except you can hold the ball longer. We past the ball around and we counted while the ball was going around, when we stopped at 21 the person is eliminated. We played one round and then had a session time. We were talking about Conflict Resolution. We were talking about what we would do when someone was angry. Our suggestions were: Wait for him/her to calm down, include them with you and more to come. When we finished that we played another activity called Guess the Emotions its kinda like sherades except a llot more people act it out. So we got into groups, then we had someone in the front to try to guess the emotions. They would look away from the Whiteboard because Miss Lily wrote the emotion on it, so we would have to act it out. When we finished we had about 10 rounds and played GKQ          (General Knowledge Questions). Then we left to go to class.

Google Drive

LI: to organise our files correctly

Today 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. We even got a example on the Whiteboard to have an idea on which files to put in which folder. When we finished we got into buddies and helped each other on tidying up our Google Drives. 

Self Monitoring

LI: to self monitor our understanding of a text
Today I made a Google Doc about self monitoring. We had a table, and we had to write the words, we didn't understand. We had to also use the Fix Up Strategies to understand what the words meant. The Fix Up strategies were:

1. Re-read
2. Read ahead
3. Find out what unknown words mean
4. Stop and think
5. Create a picture in your head
6. Ask questions
7. Make predictions
8. Make connections
9. Look at pictures, illustrations, charts, and graphs
10. Ask for help

W did it with a partner for some help as well. 

Duffy Assembly

Today we had Duffy Assembly and our guest were Tayla Hodson Tomokino, and Matt Johnson. When they got here we were singing the Duffy Song "Read About It". When we finished singing Tayla and Matt went to the stage and talked about how they became famous, and how they got to where they are right now.  Matt and Tayla have done a  lot of stuff. Matt is a rugby player who right now currently plays for the Blues. Tayla is an accountant, commentator, and a interviewer for SkySports. Tayla and Matt have a lot of achievments they've done in their lives. 

Then Tayla was talking about when she was little she was in her Granddad's shed. Then she saw a article/newspaper and saw her mum in it. Then she told her Mum, and wanted to be like her. Six months later when she was 6 she won her first race in BMX. Then she carried on and traveled the world. The she talked about why she stopped. She said "I wanted to try something different, because I won 4 champions in four years in a row!". Then she showed us her first jersey, and her first trophy. Tayla was even a national and international BMX champion. 

Matt also has played for the Melbourne Storms in the League. They are really great and they even have future plans. Matt wants to recover from his injury and go back and play for the Blues. Tayla wants to graduate in a help sportsman and sportswoman with contracts. When they finished they were talking about reading and giving us advice saying "If you don't like reading it is probably because you are reading what you're not interested in". Then we ended it by Tayla and Matt giving us our Duffy Books. 

Minute o Win it Olympics Reflection

Over the past few weeks LS1 has been having their own mini Olympics. Well Minute to Win it Olympics. Last week we were playing a heap of games based on the Minute to Win it challenges. Some were easy some were impossible for some people to complete. For Example today no one could do a challenge called Stack Attack. Then obviously they beat us. We had blog post to do as well, and when the team finished the blog they could practice the activities, or challenges. Everyone tried really hard doing the challenges. I was just hoping to at least practice each activity once or even twice. Then at the last day of the week we would have a mini challenge. We had a table and we would put the scores in it. If you could do it in a minute you did it, but you also had to do it fast in a minute.