SLJ

Kowhaiwhai is type of maori art.

First we had to watch the video first to know what to do.

Second we made a copy of this google draw.

Lastly we had to change the background then copy and paste the Kowhaiwhai.

SLJ

 This second teaser task was called "Scavenger Hunt." We watched Nanogirls video and she said that we had to find the materials around our home or our class.

First, I watched Nanogirl's video and she said to find the equipment she had in your house or in the classroom.

Afterwards, we went to go and find the materials Nanogirl had said. We only got got some of the materials and they were a plastic cup, a plastic spoon, a coca cola can, a tin, a thick box, a piece of paper, string, and tin foil.

I enjoyed this task because I had to find different materials around the class.

Comment - SLJ -W1 - D1

 I did a comment on Giovanni blog post. His blog post was about him and junior making a snakes and ladders game.

LI: to make postive comments,.

SLJ-w1-t2

 SLJ Task 2 was about comics.

First we had to read a aritcle the article was called Practical Joker Admits To Faking Story of Dentures From The Deep.

Lastly we created our own comics. It showed this comic we had to write in the boxes we thought they  said.

Art work -

For summer learning jurney we created art works on this site. I picked the liberty statue the artist of that is frédéric auguste bartholdi.

I changed the color background to dark blue because it would look sunny.

I enjoyed coloring in the librty stature.

Fractions of set

Fractions of sets means a whole group divided into smaller groups

A set means a group of something.

Fractions are a whole thing cut into equal pieces.

Here is an example of a fraction of a set: I have 16 beans and my friend wants some. I divided the 16 beans into 2 groups, both groups got 8 beans.

LI: to define fraction set.

 

OAR - Reading

 For reading we carried on doing QAR. QAR means Question-Answer relationship. There are 4 things for QAR they think and search for,on my own, author and you and right.

Think and search means the answer is in the text  but you may have to look for different places to find it. 

On my own you can come up with your own answer even if you did not read the text.Right there means the answer is right there in the text.

Author and you mean there's no answer in the text you have to come up with your own background.

The book we did was change our school uniforms. The book was about changing their uniform for good reasons. 

We had to put the right question into the right QAR boxes. After we put them in the right boxes we had to answer the questions.

I liked learning new techniques and new strategies for reading. QAR helped me with different sorts of questions like on my own and think and search questions. The QAR task was very hard.

QAR - Reading

For reading we learned about QAR. QAR means Question-Answer relationship. There are 4 things for QAR they are think and search,on my own, athuor and you and right.

Think and search means the awnser is in the text  but you may have to look different places to find it. 

On my own you can up with your own answer even if you did not read the text.

Right there means the answer is right there in the text.

Athuor and you means theres no answer in the text you have to come up with your own background.

I enjoyed learning new thing in reading like QAR.

LI: to speactate your fact to opioan.

Touch rugby - kiwi sport

For the past 3 weeks we learned how to pass and catch the ball to be ready for a touch game. 

First we practise 3 man settle. 3 man settle is when someone runs up with the ball and puts it down then the team mate comes to pick the ball up then passes to the next person. 

Lastly we played a game of touch. We got put into 3 different teams. There was one team on sub then the other two teams playing each other. The focus was to run straight and make a 3 man sittle. 

I enjoyed learning basic skills of touch. My favorite part was doing the 3 man settle it was fun because we learnt how to pick up the ball and pass and so if we were real game we can do the 3 man settle.

LI: to learn basic skills in touch.

Inquiry | Emergency Shelters

Emergency Shelters are used to protect people from disasters. Disaster like earthquakes, storms, rain and volcanic eruptions.

An Emergency Shelter needs the correct material. Concrete is the strongest material for storm protection because when a thunderstorm strikes concrete nothing will happen.

The shape of the shelter is a type of 3d trianglur shape.

The prediction for the materials is that concrete is good because it is strong for storm protection.

Wool was picked because it can keep things warm.

Wood was picked because it can protect the roof from falling.

LI:

Maori names

We carryed on doing the same task for the past 2 weeks. Each week we get new names to translate in english.

The blue text are the boys name and the black text is the girls name. Maori words end with vauls so j-h d-t d,l - r and v - w.

The next activity we did was called conversation we had to figure out what did the sentence means in English for eg : Ko John taku ingoa = My name is john.

I enjoyed learning new things in maori.

Writing

Storyboards is basic images that show the camera angles and character movements for each scene.

Put the narrative title above and the storyboard.

There might be writing below the storyboard if there is not a lot of details in the storyboard. If there is alot of detills there does not need any description at the bottom.

LI: to create a storyboard from a narrative.

Maths - fractions

We made fractions with plastic cups.

Fractions are a whole cut into equal pieces. A half is a whole cut into two equal pieces. A quarter is whole cut into four equal pieces.

We made quarter and eighths with cups.

First we grabed a felt then draw a straight line through the cup. Second cut on the line straight down then it made quarters. 

Lasly we made it into eighths we did the same thing again. 

I enjoyed making fractions by using a cup.

Here are some example of quarters,halves and eighths.

LI: To define fractions.

 

Reading

 For reading we were learning about making connections and skimming and scaning.

The first activity we did was table mat we had to find facts,keywords,definition,prior knowledge and key questions. 

The second activity we did was making connections there are three meaning for making connections they are text to self, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is when the text has a famliar thing to your self. Text to text is when another book has a famliar idea. text to world is when everyone in the world has a famliar thing from the book.

Synthesis has three main texts. They are prior knowledge, new information, and my new understanding.

Prior knowledge is when you already know something. New information is finding facts that you already know. and my new understanding is that you're answering why you think it happened and explain how your knowledge has grown.

I enjoy learning new strategies in reading.

LI: to skim and scan

Athletics

 Athletics is a fun activity day. There were 4 diffrerent colors we got dressed in it was blue,red,yellow, and green.

First we played a game. The game was called rob the nest. The point of the game was there was a tagger and that tennis balls were in the middle. Everyone grabbed the tennis balls and put them into their colour huluhoop. 

Next we played long jump. Long jump is a game that everyone had to grab a cone then drop it down were you landed if you landed far then everyone that means you leave your cone there then other people have to reach it.

After that the next game we played was sponge relay. The point of the game was to get in to a bag then jump to the sponge. Then get under the blue plastic and get out to jump over the line then put your sponge into the water run back. Then we had to squeeze it in our backet.

Lastly we did a 60 meter sprint. It was 1st 2 3 place. Year 5,6 and 7,8.

I enjoyed playing of these activity my best activity was sponge relay.

LI: to have playing sports.

Comment thread

I did a comment thread. I commented on Sasuke blog post. Sasuke's blog post was about stopping fights and arguments.

I enjoyed  reading Sasuke blog post.

Basic facts

 I did the speed demon challenge on my basic facts boxes.

I went up to division. My time was 6m and 25 seconds. I got 88 right and 2 wrong. 

I enjoyed learning my basic facts and division. I could get better by speed up my time by skiping my wrong answers. I got the same time.

LI: to rapidly recall basic facts.

   

 

basic facts

 Today I did the speed demon challenge. I did mutiplication. I got 83 right and 7 wrong and my time was

7m 18s.

I got the same time.

 LI: to rapidly recall basic facts.

Manaiakalani film festival | Comment thread

I went to the movies to watch the Manaiakalani Film Festvial. 

There was many films from other schools. We came on a bus from our school to the movies when we got in the thearter it was huge. 

Lastly we had to be seated quietly. After every movie we had to clap.

My favorite movie to watched was the Glen Iness movie. The movie was about cheering someone up with some compliments. I asked how they can get better on there film.

LI: to give postive comments to people

Screen play | Script | Writing

A screenplay is a script, which tells what the actor has to say, how to say it and when to say it.

A screenplay has the name of a person speaking, what they are saying, how the person is saying it and the scene name. It needs the name of person speaking to know who is speaking. The scene name tells what will happen next. Screenplays include how the person should speak so the actors can add expression to their film.

The scene name has to be in all caps. The speech doesn't need to include speech marks and the different features of a screenplay need to be separated so that it is easier to know what is happening.

It is important to know how to write a short screenplay so the actors know what to say and how to say it. It is also important to keep it short so actors dont have to waste their time reading the script.

LI: To convert a story into a screenplay.

Maori names

This week we learned about Maori names. A lot of the maori name pronunciation sound like the English name they came from.

We matched the right english names to the right Maori names. If there is j,s that means the Maori letter is h. l and d is r. v is w and b is p in maori.

I enjoyed learning new words in Maori.

LI: to learn basic names in maori.

Maths | Fractions practise

Fractions are a whole thing cut into equal pieces. We made fractions on a google slide first we had to find pictures on pixabay and last we had to create that fraction we made.

I enjoy learning new skill in maths.

LI: to identify fractions.

SSR Selfie

For SSR selfie the book I did was robots. 

The author is Chris Oxlade. The main topic was about how robots are made.I learned no words. My most interesting word was atlantic.

I enjoy learning new reading strategies.

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

Synthesis

Synthesis has three main texts. They are prior knowledge, new information, and my new understanding.

Prior knowledge is when you already know something. New information is finding facts that you already know. and my new understanding is that you're answering why you think it happened and explain how your knowledge has grown.

I enjoy learning new strategies in reading.

LI: to skim and scan

Duffy Theatre - bex meets milly

 We watched a performance by duffy theatre group about the coggen. A coggen is a mythcal creature that is a mixture of a cat, dog, and chicken.

Before the show, the actors introduced themselves. Then we sang the Duffy song.

Then the actors performed for us.

Lastly the duffy group held a question and answer session.

I enjoy watching the Duffy theatre.

Maori

 This week we learned about Maori names, a lot of them sound like their English names.

The blue text means its a boys name in Maori. The black text writing means its a girl in Maori. We searched up the Maori words in the Maori Dictionary so we can find the proper meaning to it.

I enjoy learning new words in Maori.

Reading - table mat - making connections

 For reading we were learning about making connections and skimming and scaning.

The first activity we did was table mat we had to find facts,keywords,definition,prior knowledge and key questions. 

The last activity we did was making connections there are three meaning for making connections they are text to self, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is when the text has a famliar thing to your self. Text to text is when another book has a famliar idea. text to world is when everyone in the world has a famliar thing from the book.

LI: To skim and scan.

Maths - Fractions

Fractions are a whole cut into equal pieces.

A half is a whole cut into two equal pieces.

A quarter is whole cut into four equal pieces.

Here are some examples of a quarter and a half looks like.

LI: to define fractions.

Maths- Division

 For maths we made division storys.

 To make maths problems into a story we splitted into 4 parts. The first part was how many objects, the second part was who you divided with, the third part is how much you splitted and The last part is to write the proper question eg: 12 ÷ 12 = 1.  

LI: to divide objects evenly.

Writing - narrtive planning

 A narrative is a fictional story.First we had to create what would happen in the story then choose which one you want to do.

Second list down topes. Topes stand for title,orientation,problem,event and solution.

Lastly you had to write down your plan in the topes.

LI: to write up a short narrtive.

Kiwi sport - Touch

 For kiwi sport we practise basic touch rugby skills. 

The first activity we did was tapping the ball drill we had to go up to the cone put the ball on the floor and tap it with your feet.

The second activity we did was a passing drill. We had to line up in groups then pass. 

The last activity we did was to run with and with a partner then try to pass the ball quick when the person on the other team is about touch.

I enjoy  learning new things about touch rugby.

Reading

For reading we learned about skimming and scanning

Skimming is reading topic sentences to get a basic idea of a book or text and scanning is looking for keywords to find information you need.

We skim and scan on this book called ants on the march.

Next we pick three key words from the book and do one definition.

Inquiry - cool and warm

Insulators are used to stop heat from moving place to place. Five materials were tested for the ability t0o insulate: glass,plastic,metal,paper, and polystyrene. 

The best insulator for keeping things warms was glass,plastic and paper. The worst were polystyrene. 

The best insulator for keeping things cold are glass. The worst things that keep things cold were tin.

The best insulator for both is paper.

LI: to learn and practice experimental methods. 

Maori - Kupu

This week we translated Maori words into english words.

The task we did was called kupu. Then we highlighted the english words in green if they were right. 

Then we did this card activity. We had to match the right picture with the right words. 

I enjoy learning new maori words. 

LI: to learn about maori.

Comment thread

I commented on Elaario blog post. His blog post was about division and maths. I ask him if he was quick at answering divison question.

 LI: To have positive comments on blog posts.

 

Basic facts boxes

Today I did the speed demon challenge. I did mutiplication. I got 83 right and 7 wrong and my time was

7m 18s.

I did not beat my time.

 LI: to rapidly recall basic facts.

SSR Slefie

 LI: to summarise and retell a text.

For SSR Slefie i picked a non fiction book the book is called Poppy field. The main topic was about poppy the book is about world war fighting and poppy.

Kiwi sport- Touch rugby

We learned about touch rugby skills.

First we practised catching the ball. We threw the ball above our head and catch it well walking foward and backwards.

Second we practised passing ball. We pass the ball back and fourth to our partners without dropping the ball.

Lastly we played a game. The goal was to try to put a rugby ball inside of the hula hoops when the whistle blows but we cant move the with the ball so our partner has to run to the hoop. Then I pass to him so he can put the ball down.

I enjoyed learning about touch rugby.

LI: to learn about touch rugby.

Reading -

LI: to skim and scan.

For reading we learned about skim and scan.

Skimming is reading topic sentences to get a basic idea of a book or text and scanning is looking for keywords to find information you need.

We were skimming and scanning on this book called meet the kakapo.

We had to find the three main key words then pick one to do a definition on. After we had to attributed an image for our key words.

Then we got 4 facts for the main topic. My facts talks about what there favourite food and what type of bird is it.

Inquiry

 For inquiry we were learning about how precise and consistent the experiment is.

The experiment was how much the material was going to absorb.

First we had to get in groups of three then we had to pick what material then we had to see how much ML we were going to put in our container. We had to use 100ml of water and grab a tote tray. 

Second we had to pick how many drops of food coloring we were going to put in we had to 5 drops of food coloring in our 100ml, then we stirred it.

Next we measure 50g of sand using a scale.

After this we poured the 100ml of water over the sand and waited for the sand to absorb the water. We tipped the remaining water out and measured what was not absorbed by the sand.

I enjoyed doing expeirments and learing about new things.

LI: to learn abd practice experimental.

Maths- Division

LI: to share objects evenly. 

Division is sharing an amount of things among people.

For example: 24 ÷ 6 = 4, the original number is 24 the number of groups is 6 the group size is 4.

The one slide below shows divsion.

Maori - Body parts

 LI: to learn about body parts in Maori.

This week for Maori we learned about the body parts. 

We complete this task we had to match the maori words with the English words. If we know one we had to highlight them in blue.

I want to learn more Maori words.

Formal and informal language

Formal means when rules have to be follow and informal is when rules dont have to follow.

Formal language is when someone uses appropriate language eg: Greetings and hello. Informal language is when its not suitable for speaical places.

Sometimes formal situations are like informal situations eg: a meeting at a park. Informal is abbreviation of formal language eg: don't and do not.

 LI: To identtify formal and informal language.

Basic facts boxes

 

LI: to rapidly recall basic facts.

For basic fact boxes I was doing the speed demon challenge. I got two boxes wrong because I didnt know them and I got 5m and 36 seconds.

Maths promblems

LI: to solve mutipalcation word promblems with a factor greater then 10.

To sovle a maths prombelm that is outside the times tables range, there are six steps to follow.

The first step is to write the number sentence. For example 9 x 13.

The second step is to break up the number that is bigger then ten. For exampe 13 = 10 + 3. then
 multiply the small number. For example (3 x 10) (3 x 2).

The fourth step is to add the number. (3 x 10 = 30) (3 x 2 = 6) 30 + 6 = 36.

The last step is to write the number sentence and add the answer.

Inquiry/Panmure bridge saftey plan

LI: To assess risk  with in a simple activity
For inquiry we did a safety plan activity.

This week we were learning about saftey plan.

First we had to plan what where the location is going to be and pick how many people there is
going to be.

Second we had to pick what could go wrong for Eg: Broken bones and cuts. Then we had do who could cause it to go wrong Eg: stop fights make sure the teachers keep all eyes on the player. 

Lastly we had to do whose responsibility it is and what emergency plan it is eg: If the injury is more harmful, Contact 111, Pause the game, call off the game and Teachers,students, helpers, referee.

The gruffalo rewrite

 LI: To re write a narrtive.

A re write is when you change parts of a story.

To re write a part from the story was the gruffalo you have to pick what character you change, change where they live and what the gruffalo likes to eat.

The change was the fox living in a underground house. The gruffalo liking roasted fox. The first change was fox to lion the second change was living in a dark cave and the last change was the gruffalo liking lion cake instead of roasted fox.

Connections

LI: To To identify and describe connections.

Connections are when something has a smallar idea as something else.There are three main 
 connections and they are text to slef, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is when the text links to what you do. For example- In the story the gruffalo the owl likes to drink tea. my connection is i like to drink tea.

Text to text is when there are stories that have similar ideas or themes. For example in the story the gruffalo the fox is an evil animal. in the rahi and patupairehe the patupairehe is evil as well.

 Text to world is where the text links to a big theme we would see sround the world and everybody does. For Example- In the story the gruffalo the squirrel tells a story to their children. People get told a story by their  elders because the elders describe what they did in there time.

Connections can help you link smallar things to yourslef, text and world which gains you a better understanding.

Maths

LI: to learn the time tables.
Multiplication is a faster way of counting the same number. Here is an example 9+9+9+9+9+9+9 is counting 9 seven times, so 7x9 =63.

These two slides show the 9 and 7 time tables.

Reading

LI: to do inferring.
For reading we learned about inferring.

We did  two activities for reading. The first activity was fact and opinion. We wrote facts for each character in the story and wrote down the opinions. For example the fox was afraid when he saw the gruffalo.

 Lastly the activity we did is character trait. A character trait is where we had to describe a character in the 
 book.

Writing/Setting Description

LI: To write a setting description.
Setting descriptions describe what a place in a story looks like, sounds like, feels like, and smells like. The following descriptions come from the story the gruffalo.

To describe what a setting looks like, use adjectives like sticks,paths, sand and grass.

To describe what something sounds like, use adjectives such as chirping, rustiling or wind.

To describe what something feels like, use adjectives like smooth,sharp and rough.

To describe what something smells like use adjectives such as flowers and trees.

The setting description is putting all of the adjectives used for describing the sounds, smells etc into sentences.

Inquiry/ Risk Assessment quiz

LI: to assess the likelihood

LI: to assess consequences

This week we learned about assessing risk.

We had to assess risk from then. There are five risk definitions. They are low, likely, possible,
elevated and extreme

The first task was that we had to pick a number out to 1 to 5.
There were fifteen questions and my group and I did a discussion of what number we should pick to see if it was correct,
almost or incorrect my group and I did a vote. 

After voting each question we got two correct answers, two incorrect answers, and the rest

was almost. Then we corrected our answer and did the next task. The next task was we had

to write our own situation from 1 to 5. After that we mixed up the answer and deleted those numbers.

This task was hard but we worked together and finished the task. 

Inquiry-Knowledge Hazards and Risks

LI: To demonstrate prior knowledge

For inquiry we were learning about hazards and risk.

First we did activities. The first activity was four corners.

We had to go to a corner, the corners were spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts and the person had to pick a card if it was spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. The last two people had to guess if the card is red or black. 

The second activity is octopus. The two people that are in it had to say something and the person had to run to the end, and if they got tagged they had to be an octopus. 

Next we had to list down names of hazards for each category (School, home,community, sports). 

Lastly we had to come up with some risks for our harzards.

Gruffalo

LI: To write a character desription.

A character description is used for describing a character from a story in detail.

A character description describres the character in the book including appearance, personality and 

experiences. Some things included in this would be body,face and hair.

Character description work best when using literal and figurative language.

Litreral is there is no hidden messages and figurative there are hidden message.

Visualization-The grufflao

LI: To visualize the parts of the story.

This week we were learning about visualizing. 

We had to vizualize the story of the gruffalo and this animal named the nogard we had to draw was in our head we had to draw each part of the story.  

Writing/Metphor

Metaphors are a comparison of two things with a similar quality by saying one object is the other.

The three parts of a metaphor are the main object, the meaning and the comparison.

An example: Jamal was a pig at dinner. The main object is Jamal, the comparison is the pig and the meaning is that Jamal ate messily like a pig.

Metaphor help describe animals, how they act and feelings.
L.I: to descibe things by metaphor.

Maths/Identify Mutipalcation

Mutipalcation is a faster way of counting the same number over again. To identify mulitiplaction word problem follow these steps.

1.First look for the group size as in how many things there are in the group.

2.Melanie worked 3 hours for 5 days. 5 is the number of group

2.After that look for the number of groups. 3 is the group size.

3.Melanie worked 3 hours for 5 days. 5 is the number of groups

LI: How to identify Mutipalcation

Maths

Multiplication is a faster way of counting the same number. 


Heres an exasmple 4+4+4+4+4+4+4 is counting 4, seven times, so 4x7 =28.

These two slides show the 4 time tables.
LI: to learn about multiplication.

Comment thread

LI: to have postive comments on people blog posts.
For comment thread I commented on Elaarios blog post. I asked him a question, it was if this task was hard? He replied by saying the task was hard.

We want to have comment threads as thats how we can connect and learn from other people.