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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,.

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 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.