kiwi Jingle bells

Today I did an activity called Kiwi jingle bells. I first listened to a kiwi Christmas story so I know what to do. Then I wrote my own kiwi Christmas song it had to have places in NZ.

I really enjoyed this activity it was fun making the song. 

Santa costume

 Today's task for Summer Learning Journey I made a new design for Santa's costume.

We first drew our costume then picked different colours for the costume.

I really enjoyed this activity.

Haiku Poem

For another summer learning journey task we needed to copy the template to create an Haiku. We created this by using the 5 syllables 7 syllables and the 5 syllables again. We also drew the Christmas tree and the presents. I really enjoyed this task as well as it was really cool and fun to do.  

Summer Learning Journey / Task 9

 For a another this weeks summer learning journey. We needed to create an slide. This slide was worked really well with my group as we shared out ideas and really found the task really cool to do. I think this task is one of my Favorited tasks so far. But Hope to see more tasks coming . Have a great and safe holiday.

Rise up

For this task we needed make a song by showing what our school is like. I think I found this task really interesting  and fun to do as I am able to create an song about our school. 

Hope you have fun reading our chorus about our school.

 

Te Reo Maori

For this week's summer learning journey task . We needed to copy an slide deck and translate the English into Maori. This was really fun and cool to do as i really enjoyed doing this task.

Optical Illusion

Today's summer learning journey task we needed to create an Optical Illusion, The DLO showing above was create by me and my partner(Liletina) from LS2. I really enjoyed doing this activity  because it was fun and cool to do. I created this by using the drawing tools and making it really cool to see.  I really liked working with my partner as we find different types of illusions and deiced to pick an illusion we should create by using the drawing tools.

Kowhaiwhai pattern

Today I created a kowhaiwhai pattern that represents summer.

We were aloud to draw our kowhaiwhai pattern or make a template for it.

I enjoyed making my kowhaiwhai pattern. 

  

Presentation

Today for inquiry my group and I presented our emergency shelter to Mr Ogilvie and Mr Wong.

The presentation was about our shelters and about why our shape can protect people from natural disasters.

First we practised our script so we don't forget what to say.

Our presentation was bad because we kept laughing and I was nervous of speaking in front of everybody.Our feedback was about things we had to work on.

I think my group need's to practice on our eye contact and how to stop laughing.

Scavenger hunt

The first thing I did was watch a video It was from Nano girl.

Nano girl is a scientist she creates fun activity's for people who do the Summer learning journey. 

Then I collected materials like paper, cardboard, Aluminium cans, and tin foil.

We recorded us going on a scavenger hunt around the class.

It was easy because all we had to do is find materials. 

Fishy false teeth

This week I read an article called fishy false teeth.

I first read an article then did an activity about the character in  the article.

Then I created a comic strip. It was about two fishermen they were fishing and one of them sneezed and their teeth fell into the water. 

I enjoyed this activity is was easy because I have a good imagination.

Art Colouring

The first activity I did was colouring in a famous art work called women combining her hair.

After that I made a google drawing and wrote down information about the art.

The questions were like what is the art name and who is the artist.

This activity was easy because all I had to do was colour in.

 

Maori

Today I learned about North Island town Maori names.

I first went through a list of Maori town names, and matched the English town names to the Maori town names.

I enjoyed this activity. It was challenging because the town names were long.

LI: to learn Maori place names

QAR Template

This week I read a book it was about graffiti and trying to persuade people of how graffiti is good for the community. 

There were four different questions. 

The first one was right there it is when the answer is right there and you can point at it.

The second one was think and search it is when there is lots of different answers in the book.

The third one is author and you it is when the answer is not in the text and you have to use your own knowledge that the author has given you.

Then the last one is on my own it is when you can come up with an answer yourself.  

Then I had to answer ten questions about the book.

This was challenging because the question was hard and because I did not understand some of the words in the question.  

Kapa Haka performance

This week we watched a kapa haka group perform for the school.

The first thing that happened was that they did an entrance ceremony and then started to perform. When they entered they used a conch to let the people know they are coming. Then they introduce their weapons and tools during a song and dance.

The last thing LS1 did was play a Maori game called Maui and Matua with Matua Ngarimu. We used the rakau's and we would have to move to the left if they said Maui but if they say Matau we would move right. 

We thanked the kapa haka group by the boys from our kapa haka group performing the haka.

I enjoyed watching this kapa haka performance. My favourite part was when they showed different moves for the Rakau.

Resource Requisition l Inquiry

 Most natural disasters are common and can be found at any time in the world.   

Humans need shelters and protection during a natural disaster. Storms may be common disasters but are really powerful sometimes.

All materials can be useful for something during a natural disaster, e.g: wool can keep you warm, stainless steel is a strong material that can not break, cardboard is an inside wall, etc.

Shelters windows could use strong clear plastic, since they are strong it would be hard for it to break, Popsicle sticks can break easily but if you put a lot of layers there's a chance it can not break

Mathematics also can help during buying products to prevent natural disasters. The mathematics to measure our products we are using for the shelter.

Natural disasters come in all sorts, and sometimes make global problems around the world.

LI: To prepare materials order for construction

Kiwi sports

This week I practised three man settle and two man settle.

First I did three man settle. It's when one person with the ball runs forwards and gets touch. 

Then the second person runs and passes the ball to the third person.

After that I did two man settle. It's when one person run forwards and gets touch.

Then the second person runs and passes the ball to the person who got touched.

After we did a touch rugby game. We were split into three different group two teams play and one team subs. 

I had fun using three and two man settle in the game because it gets us down the field faster.  

Division

This week I learned about division.

I first had to make a google slide and write down what division is.

Division is splitting a group into equal pieces. 

Then I talked about what remainders are and how to divide the remainder equally.

Remainders are the amount that remains from a equation.

You can work out the question by leaving the remainder or dividing it equally.

After that I talked about how to use division to solve strategy's.

In division you can solve strategy's by using advance level.

Then I talked about place value in division.

When you are dividing big numbers that are 10x bigger they move to the left.

 

Maori

This week we learnt about names and conversation. 

We first had a list of English and Maori names that I to matched together.

The names were easy because the Maori and English names sound the same. 

Example: Lorna in Maori is Rona, Mary in Maori is Mere.

It was fun and easy for me.

Reading Tasks

This week for reading we did three tasks for this week.

The first task I did was table mat. You had to find six keywords and then find the definition for the words. 

Then I had to find 4 fact, 2 key question, and questions I would ask.

The next task I did was making connections. I had to do a text to self, text to text , and a text to world.

After that I did Synthesis I had to write my prior knowledge.

Then I had to talk about my new information that I learned from my book.

After that I had to talk about my new understanding.

Maori

 This week we learned how to translate names in Maori

We changed letters because the Maori alphabet doesn't have some letters like J S and B.

Then we had a whole list of names to swap the letters.

I enjoyed learning about names and learning new things.

LI: To revise and translate words from Te Reo Maori.

Knowledge

For maths we had to share knowledge and tell each other something we learned from measuring, addition, subtraction, and geometry 

I talked about Addition and how you use this strategy in a maths problem.

Then I gave him a example There are 7 apples in one basket and 4 apples in the other. So, we add 7 and 4 to find the total number of apples. To add 7 and 4, we can count forward 4 steps from 7 The symbol used to indicate Addition is + (plus symbol). So, 7 and 4 can be written as 7 + 4.

He taught me about converting measurement and showed me examples like Adding a zero can be wrong for example 50+0= 50. 50 can’t change to 500.

Then I changed partners I talked to him about money and how money works on a place value system.

I gave him some questions like I have 30c I find $1 and my friend gives me $5.60 I buy a candy bar that cost $2.70 How much money do I have left.

He just gave me example like If someone have $10.30 and my friend gave me $6.70 and I find $2.40 how much do I have?

Then he showed me how to work it out First I add 30 and 70. 30+70=$1.00. Then I add $10.00 and $6.00=$ 16.00 and $2.00 equal $18.00. Lastly I add $1.00+$18.00+40=$19.40.

It was hard teaching I don't think I would be a good teacher. I would be better next time.

Touch rugby

For kiwi sports we practice skills for touch rugby.

A two man settle is when the person with the ball plants it. Then the person behind him picks it up and passes the ball back.

A three man settle is when the person with the ball plants it. The dummy-half comes and picks up the ball and then passes the ball to the third person.

A three man settle is when one person plants the ball. Then second person grabs the ball and then passes it to the third person. 

Learning these skills helped to get down the field faster. 

Inter school touch rugby tournament

On Wednesday some people from ls1 and ls2 went to Dunkirk Reserve for a friendly touch rugby tournament. The competition was split into year 5, year 6, year 7, year 8 different year groups.

I played in the year 5 team. The first team we vs was Sylvia park we lost to them by 5 nil. 

We talked about what we had to work on. We had to work on spreading out on the field and all of us not running after the person with the ball. 

Then we vs st Patrick it was a draw the scores were 1 to 1. We did really well it was just people saying  negative words to each other.

After that we vs Sylvia park 2 it was a draw the scores were 3 to 3. We did good we just had to practice our catching. 

Lastly we vs Stone field we lost the score was 5 to 0.

It was challenging and I learned new skills in touch rugby.

 

Table mat

 LI: To make connections.

For reading I had to fill out my table mat. 

I first had to read the book and write 6 words that I don't know.

Then I had to pick two words and write the definition for them.

After that I needed to write four facts about the story.

Then I had to find two key questions about the story and questions I would ask.

Lastly I needed to write down my prior knowledge that I learnt from the story.

Touch Rugby

Today we learned some basic skills for touch rugby.

First we learned how to tap the ball, catch, and pass the ball.

Afterwards we played passing drills to get better at committing to the ball and catching. 

I lastly had to practice passing the ball and getting the goal.

I enjoyed this and I had fun.

Insulators

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

The best insulator for keeping things warm was polystyrene. The worst was glass.    

The best insulator to use is polystyrene.

LI- To determine the insulation properties of materials.

Skimming and scanning

For reading we learned about skimming and scanning.

Skimming and scanning help with your reading .

I first had to find six key words.

Then pick two words and write the definition of the words.

After that I had to find four facts one of my fact were: A spiders egg sac feels like silk.

After that I had to to find 2 key questions about the book.  

I also had to write down questions I would ask. 

This activity was fun and enjoyable.

LI: To skim and scan

Experimenting

This week for inquiry my group and I did an experiment. The  experiment was to see how much water would be absorbed by the stones.

I first got the materials I needed for the experiment.The materials I needed was a tote tray, a jar, beaker, 100 ml of water,  and stones.Then I measured the jar of stone and it had to way up to 50 g.

Next I poured the 100 ml of water into the jar of stones and then I poured it out into a measuring cup.I had to see how much water was absorbed and how much was not absorbed.

None of the water was absorbed.

This experiment was fun. 

Te Reo Maori

This week for Te Reo Maori we learnt how to say body parts in Maori.

The first activity we did was highlight the words we knew.

Our second activity was matching the words into the right place.

This week for Te Reo Maori was good I learnt how to say new words.

Basic facts

This week for speed demon I did all ten multiplication. I got some wrong but I fixed it to make it right. My time was 11 minutes and 5 second. This is a challenge to see how good you are at your multiplication. It was very hard. My next challenge is to get faster and get them all right.

SSR selfie | The Gruffalo

 For ssr I read a book called The Gruffalo. It was about a mouse who lied so he avoids being eaten at the ending everybody's scared of him.

Monday routine

What is a recount?

A recount is retelling something that happened in the past.

A recount structure stands for tree 

The t stands for title the title tells the readers what the story's about.

The r stands for reveal it tells the readers a intro of what the story gonna be about.

The e stands for event it tells the readers about the whole story.

The e stands for ending it tells the reader about your reflection of what you did in the story.

 

The gruffalo

For art we had to colour in section of the gruffalo.

We were put into groups and we had a section each to colour in.

We had to practise blending with a scrap piece of paper.

We coloured in our art and blended different colours together to get the right colour.

When we were finished we hung it on the wall.

It was tiring. 

Safety plan

 This week, we assessed the risk, hazard and consequences that could happen while lighting a fire and making s'mores over the fire, then doing it in person. We made a safety plan for making a fire and for making s'mores. 

First, we discussed the hazard and risks for the first safety plan. Then, we wrote down the hazard and risks. A hazard while making a fire, is the fire itself. However, the consequences could be getting burnt by the fire.

After writing down the hazards and risks, we talked about what the consequences could be, how we could prevent it, who is responsible for it and the emergency plan.

Next, we made another safety plan for making s'mores with the fire. We repeated the process but made different hazards. After making the safety plans, we went onto making the fire and making our s'mores.

Mr Ogilvie lit the fire and started to demonstrate how to make the marshmallows. After the demonstration, we made the s'mores.

I found this activity quite hard because I couldn't cook the marshmallows without burning them.

LI: To assess risk with a safety plan.

Governing Topics

Governing topics are actions that the government can control.  The two most important topics to me are health & economy.

Health is keeping people healthy to stop spreading the virus.

Economy helps you to spend your money wisely. 

I chose these two topics because they are important to me.

Time

  Rounding is finding the nearest ten, hundred, thousand.

Addition and division are both strategies the are used for rounding. To round the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set of numbers like 5,7,1,9,3 and then add them altogether which would make the number 25. Then divide them by the amount of numbers there are which makes 5.

Now this is were the rounding begins, if the number is 5-9 that makes the number go up. If the number 0-4 it makes the number go down. For example 21.85 then it becomes 21.9

Time

 Rounding is finding the nearest ten, hundred, thousand.

Addition and division are both strategies the are used for rounding. To round the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set of numbers like 5,7,1,9,3 and then add them altogether which would make the number 25. Then divide them by the amount of numbers there are which makes 5.

Now this is were the rounding begins, if the number is 5-9 that makes the number go up. If the number 0-4 it makes the number go down. For example 21.85 then it becomes 21.9

Risk Assessment

First we had to go and read about our plan as a group.

Then we had to pick a activity to do for the plan.

Next we picked how many people were aloud to play and how much helpers we needed. 

Then we picked the location to play the game at.

After that we talked about  what could go wrong in the game or what can cause it to happen.

Then we discussed who's responsible for it.

Next we had to plan a emergency plan for the situation. 

Lastly we started putting our ideas down on the plan.

Making Connection

The point of connection is to help the reader understand.

Text to text is relating something to another text.

Text to self is when you relate something to your self.

Text to  world is when you relate something to the community. 

It is important because it help people with there reading and understanding.

it is important because it helps people with their reading and writing. 

Time

There are three m's and it is mean, median, and mode. 
Mean is known as average.

To do the mean you add all your numbers up then divide. To divide you check how many numbers are there and that's the number you divide. 

Median, if you have five numbers you make them least to greatest. You choose the number in the middle and that is the median. If you have an even set of numbers you choose the two middle numbers then add it and divide it by two.

Mode, you write the numbers least to greatest. After that you choose the numbers that appear the most.

LI investigate units of time.

Character trait

In reading I learnt about fact and opinion. During this activity, I also learnt how to infer.

Firstly I wrote facts about the characters in the Gruffalo story.
For example: Snake strangles the mouse

Next I wrote opinions about the things the characters did in the story.
For example: The snake is strong because he strangles the mouse

Finally I created a character trait about each character personality.

I now understand that to get an opinion I have to use clues and keywords.

 

Setting Description

Setting description is created with an image of what a character’s place looks like, sounds like, smells like and feels like

When describing what the background looks like use adjectives such as logs, grass, and trees. 

Sounds like, describes the sound of a character or the place. For example hissing and chirping.

Smells like, describes the smell of a character or their surroundings. For example, the snake's place smells like mould and bark.

Feels like, describes the touch of something. For example the log feels prickly and hard.

LI:To write a setting description.

Risk Assessment

We learnt how to identify the levels of risk. We also learnt about assess likelihood.

First, we learnt about the five levels of danger. They are: low, likely, possible, elevated and extreme. Assess likelihood is to assess how likely it is that someone is exposed to the hazard.

After that, we rated 15 scenarios by the levels of risk. Then we discussed the consequences that can occur by the scenarios.

Lastly, we wrote down our own scenarios and rated the potential risk level for other people to try.

LI To assess the likelihood
LI To assess consequences

Hazard and Risk

LI: To demonstrate prior knowledge.

We investigated the hazards and risks in different places. 

First we played Octopus and Four Corners. While we played these games, we identified if there were any dangers or accidents happening. 

Afterwards, we identified the differences between hazards and risks. Hazards are things that can cause harm to people and the environment. Risks are the outcomes of causing harm to people or the environment.

Next, we listed down four hazards that could happen in our homes, schools, community and sports. 

Lastly, we made posters that showed the risks of the different hazards.

This activity was amazing.

Character Description

Character descriptions tell about a character's appearance, their experiences, and their personality.

The appearance describes the characters face, their hair, their body, and their clothes.

The experience describes the characters family, friends, where they live, special interests, their hobbies, their talents, their secrets, and their achievements.

The personality describes the characters behaving, what kind of person they are, what they say, what makes them interesting, or different. 

The reason for this activity was to describe using figurative languages and literal.

LI:To write a character description

The Gruffalo

LI-To visualise part of the story

Visualisation is a strategy to help you think and use your imagination.

You have to listen to the story but you don't have a pictures to look at.

You have to thing about the words that describes the person or the animal.

Then you make up a picture in your head of what it looks like.

Visualisation helps you to picture things without looking at pictures.

SSR Selfie

For SSR Selfie I read  a book called The stone keeper curse it is a nonfiction book.
SSR stands for Sustained Silent Reading.

The person who wrote this book also drew the pictures.

it was a good and interesting book there were action in it and that's why I liked it.
The book was about a girl and her grandfather went missing and she found him in a different world.

Cook Island language week

I have completed a Cook Island challenge because it is Cook Island language week.  The task that I completed was how to say numbers in Cook Island.

First I created a google slide for where I am going to put my pictures of numbers.

Next I was learning how to say the numbers in Cook Island.

Lastly I recorded my self saying the number up to ten.
 
This challenge was very good because I learnt a new language to count in.

Figurative Language

Do you know what literal language and figurative language means?

Literal language means a sentence with no hidden message a example the pen is red.

Figurative language means a sentence with a hidden message example break a leg.

A simile is a sentence that compares something using like or as.

A metaphor is comparing two things without using like or as.

A hyperbole is when you exaggerate.

A personification giving a human trait to objects or ideas.

A understatement is a expression with less strength than expected.

   

Swimming

Today my group practised water safety skills at the lagoon pools.

 

The first skill my group practice was kicking to kick well they used small kicks and straight leg.

Then my group practised streamline to do that skill well they had to keep their body straight and small kicks.

Lastly they practised submerging they were aloud to do their own swim up they did dolphin dive freestyle.

It looked like so much fun next time I will remember to pack my togs.

 

Rahi and the Patupaiarehe

This week we were learning to summarise.
We also needed to link visualisation and inference to help us.
We filled in a story web to summarise each part of the story.
I used my visualisation from week 1 to help separate the parts of the story.
I used my character inference  traits to use adjectives and evidence to help summarise different parts.
Using good adjectives unlocks meaningful information and I can summarise quicker.
Connecting all 3 strategies helped me to understand the story, character and keywords.  
 

Solving strategies

For maths we had questions and we had to do different strategies. Some strategies is a number line or counting backwards or splitting numbers.

A number line is when you give a number and add onto it.

A splitting number is when you start with the biggest number and count down.

Counting backwards is a strategies.

Synonyms

A synonym is a word that means the same. we have been doing different words for synonym. Some are verb some are noun some are adjective and some a adverbs. Verb is a action word like running. A Noun is the name of something like tiger. A Adjective is a describing word like greedy. A Adverb is the way that something happen like deadly.


 

The legend of Rahi

For reading I did inferring. Inferring is when you think of a fact or observation.

For reading we did two tasks. The first one was about opinion. We had to write a opinion and find a fact about your opinion. I made two one was for Rahi and the other was for Patupairehe. 

Next I did another task it was called character trait. I had to summarise my fact and turn it into a story.

Swimming

Today I learned how to do different swimming skills at the lagoon pools from my coach Shanti.
First I practised how to enter the pool safely.
Next I practised how to swim in a streamline. I also learned how to breathe while doing the streamline.
Lastly I learned how to do a dolphin dive.
I learned new things and had fun.
     

Tangrams

Today I learned how to make tangrams. 

I rearranged the pieces to make a animal shapes. 

First I made a square piece of paper because tangrams are made from a big square. 

Then I folded the square into various shapes and cut them out. 

Lastly I tried to make different animal shapes from the tangram pieces.      

Kiwi sports

At kiwi sport we learned basic drills like setting for volleyball. To set put the right leg in front of the left leg. Next put hands in a diamond shape over the head.

                                                       

                                   

               

Subtraction using place values Maths

We did subtraction using place values. We had to show how we did the answer it was kind of hard. But I now know how to subtract.  I now how to work this problem.

249 - 152 = 97

1. 249 - 2 = 247 take 2 off 152 so now it should be 150 then do 249 - 2 = 247

2. 247 - 50 = 197 then take 50 off 150 so now it 100 then take away 247 - 50 = 197

3. 197 - 100 = 97 after that just do 197 - 100 = 97 

Geometric masking art

I made geometric masking art. Masking means covering areas where there shouldn't be pastels. Geometric means simple shapes. 

We framed our art and then cut off sections with tape. 

Then we made big and small shapes within the section with tape.

We coloured them with pastels we had to colour the shape in one way so it could look better.

Then we ripped the tape off.

We did it very slowly because it might rip the paper.

Ripping off the tape was so tiring. 

I think my art turned out good except for the rips in the corner.