Photo Frames

LI: to create a photo frame.

We had to make photo frames to prepare them for the market day and we could then sell them. We had to choose a theme so that we could make a frame about what we picked my theme was the ocean and we could go to four stations. The decorating station was were we had to make accessories for our frame and the drawing station was where we could design our frames and the painting part is where we could paint our frames and the last one was where we had to make a google draw and design our frames digitally. I used Stickers, pipe cleaner, glitter, and pom poms   

Tennis

LI. to play doubles tennis.

in kiwisport we played rallys. Were we played in pairs. We started with challenging the other pair to see which pair will be the champions. It was normal of tennis rules. Our coach Peter served the ball to us. Then we start to play against each other. We then had our two champions. It was champion versus champion. when they were playing they were taught to hit the ball gently to practise there aiming.

Kiwi can

LI: To Respect others for their differences.

In kiwi Can we learnt about how to respect others for the differences in culture, religion, and customs. We talked about what differences we had. Some were our ideas beliefs and their thoughts. And to see what the differences were we played a game to show what they are. We had to get into partners and we were numbered 1 and 2 we person had to turn around and the other person had to change his/her own appearance. They could change their hair or facial expression. I really liked the activity becuase it taught us that we are not all the same and that we can be different.

Commenting

Today i commented on Angelica's blog post her post was about a book she read called the lion song and she had a DLO about her fiction follow ups.

Athletics day

Last Week Friday we had Athletics we played different games the games we played were. Lily pad gladiator, rob the nest, Life saver, egg and spoon, Sponge relays, Shot put and we had a rest station.
my favourite game that we played was rob the nest. we were split into teams yellow, green, blue, and red i was put into yellow and we had to get as much points as we can when we played the different games. and at the end we had our sprints were we had to race other students in our class. and a big thank you to Mr ogilvie for setting up the whole event.

Basic Facts

 LI: To Remember Basic Maths Facts 

This slide called basic facts help us to learn our basic facts and helps us with: Addition, Subtraction, multiplication, and Division. this is a google sheet that helps us learn our basic facts by doing challenges with our basic facts.

SSR Selfie

The book that i read was Matilda from Roald Dahl the book was about a little girl called Matilda and about how her parents treat her badly and. her family watches TV and goes to lotto or sell cars and they ignore there own daughter and they punishes there daughter because she reads books and Matilda want to get them back.

Writing

LI: To identify the parts of a narrative

LI: To investigate figurative language

We had to get into our groups and we had to come up with character we had to make a name, personality, age, weakness and strength and a description about who they are. we then had to also choose a another character and we had to vote for a character so we had to characters male and female the two characters where Jarell and Patricia. and we then made a setting description about the setting.  

Coffee Shop

LI: to balance supply and demand for a profit.

We played a game the showed us about supply and demand and we had to buy stock and sell it. We played it becuase we are learning about supply and demand and we had to learn how to make a profit out of selling something. in this game we could adjust the amount of items that we put in the coffee and we could also see how much money we could make and the objective of the game was to make as much money as we can make in 14 days. 

Paper Air Plane

L.I To measure and time the airplane.

This week for maths we had to measure and time the airplane. My Prediction was
I think my airplane would be in the air for 10 seconds/My airplane will go 1  meter away.

Why: It would be in the air for 10 seconds because the wingspan is 15 cm. It  would fly two meters because the airplane only spins. Our prediction that we made as a group was incorrect because our airplane flew 6 seconds and did not fly for 10 seconds

My Prediction was Incorrect because my Airplane  went further than 1 meter. We made 3 Graphs one was Distance,Timer and Distance and timer.
I learned how to make a origami airplane(Turbo Twisters)

Tennis

LI: learn how to volley a tennis ball.

This week we practised tried volleying a ball in tennis. We had to used the forehand and the backhand technique to practice our tennis skills. We did this in a group of 4 and we had practised volleying with the different serves that Coach Peter had taught us.

Maori

L.I to learn how to control a poi and learn how to understand something related to location.
This week in Maori, we learned how to control a poi. A poi is a Maori object that is used to increase flexibility and strength. It is also used for dancing. The activity that we had done was translate different types of words that describe location. for example: Roto and in English it would mean inside.

Newspaper

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

Guided reading

LI introduced during session and on needs basis

For Reading we had to make a newspaper artical about advertising a new principal and. and we could use canvas to make posters about it and we had find or create and photo of a principal that will replace the one that is current. And I made the new Principal Miss Honey to replace Miss Trunchbull becuase she is kinder than Miss trunchbull. And I think that she would help students in the school.

Kiwi Can

LI: to Have Patience

We were learning about how to be patience and what are some good things about being patient . we first had an activity where we got into pairs and we had to have two fingers and and the other hand flat as a plate and the other person had to do the same thing and we had to lift our finger up and grab the other persons finger. we then talked about being patient your kiwi can leader said that if you had a chocolate bar and you waited 10 minutes then you would get a bigger one. we then played a game and we had to get into a line and we had to squeeze the persons shoulders and when it got to the last person they have to then try and grab the cone before the other team.

Descriptive writing

LI To identify the parts of a Narrative
LI To investigate figurative language

 This week I have completed my task for writing, my task was called setting description. We had to use the 5 senses to make a setting description. We had to find an image or get one from the class site. Once we find an image we had to put it on a google drawing. Next we had to write a telling and a show description of the picture we choose. The difference between the telling and showing sentence in that when you write your telling sentence your just telling them what you see but when you are writing your show sentence your describing the things you see.

Character web

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

Guided reading

LI introduced during session and on needs basis.

We had to write down what the main character looks like were personality what she act like and her feelings and how she fells. the min character of the book i was reading was Matilda and i had to wrote Matilda is a little girl who is smart clever she fells happy she looks little and looks like and gentle person to be with and acts happy and curious.

Maori

L.I to learn the language behind Maori.

We have been learning Maori language we were learning about the different ways to say goodbye. We also 

watched two videos one talked about why Maori people ask where you are from they say it because there 

is an understanding that is shared by Maori that everyone is linked and can be related. to one another. And

then we learnt about what the Maori use macrons for the use them to make the sound of the letter longer a 

macron is a little line that is on top of the letter.  

2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival Wow! human Evolution

I watched Wow! Human Evolution from Tamaki College. It was about how humans have evolved

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn hot to communicate respectfully

for kiwi can we were learning about how to talk respectfully. and we talked how we would talk to our friends and about how we would talk to our family or teacher and we talked about negotiation it is when you are trying to reasoning with someone to do of get something for you. And then we played quick draw we had to get a partner and we had to quickly choose a random number and then add them both. We then played musical cones and we had to split our class into two different groups and we then had to dance every time the music stops then he have to try and get and cone and put it on your head.

2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival G.IZILLA

I watched G.IZILLA from Point England school. It was about picking up rubbish in school and around us and if you don't G.IZILLA will come for you

Paper air planes

LI: to make a paper air plane.

we had to choose a paper air plane we were going to make and we had to then follow the instructions given to us and we had to work with our partner to make a paper air plane. We made the turbo twister and we had we learnt that there were different folds the two fold we used to make our paper plane were called the valley fold and a mountain fold. After we made it we tested to see how it flies or glides in the air.
Steps:
1-Fold the two sides in half then unfold it.
2-Fold the left top and bottom corners to meet the crease.
3-Fold the point over.
4-Fold the top layer to the left edge.
5-Flip the paper over.
6-Fold the left top and the bottom corners in to meet the middle.
7-Flip the paper over again.
8- Fold the left point over.
9-Fold the paper in half bottom to top.
10-Fold the top down with the align with the bottom edge Repeat it with the there side.

Maths

LI: To develop instant recalls of addition facts.

We had to make a Record, Tally chart, and a Graph about the question we we had to find a questions to use and options people can pick from, my question was favorite movie genres. We then had to record all of the votes that people voted for. And then we had to write a tally chart and count how many people voted for what they liked. After that we then had to make a Graph using all of the data that we gathered and collected from every student in LS1.

Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn the different tennis techniques.

For tennis we learnt how to volley the ball around we had to hit the ball without it touching the ground and we then did relays with your partners. 

Kiwi Can

LI: to understand what respect is.
We are learning about respect we then talked about what you do to be respect full and how you can respect other people around us. and we then played rock, paper, scissors. and if you lose then you have to play with some one who is on there knees and if you lose then you are out and the other person can stand up. we then played animal choir and we split into Pigs, Dogs, Cats and Tigers if he pointed the water bottle at us then we have to sing your song.     

10 words 5 definitions

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

Guided reading

LI introduced during session and on needs basis.

The reading task I was was working on was to find 10 words in the book that I did not know the meaning of and then finding the definition for only 5 of the words that I had found. the ten words i found were Brandishing, Clutching, Idiocies, Mileage, Sawdust, Penicillin, Ignorant, Formidable, Delve, And Glacial. and I found 5 meanings for only 5 of the words. and i then had to find 10 words that can describe Matilda who is the main character

Macrons

LI: To learn what macrons are used for

We had to get into a new group and we had to to watch the video that explain why Maori People ask where you are from they say it because there is an  understanding that is shared by Maori that everyone is linked and can be related to one another. By asking where you are from, you are looking to make connections to that person.

We then watched a video that explains what the macrons do and what they are used for. there are used to  drag out, stretch, or make the sound of the letter longer we then had to finish of the activity it was to translate the Maori word into English and then we had to write the Maori word but with the macrons in the words.

Smart and legal

LI: to understand the legal use of images

We are learning how to find legal images to use. and we ha to get into groups of 4 and we had to read everything on the slide that talked about how to find legal images we had to read to three different ways. the first one is the slow way, the second is the faster way and the last way is called the very speedy way.

After that we then had to come up with a group name your one was Legacy and we had to get as many points and your teacher had to ask use questions and we had to answer and try to remember what we read. we then had to make a Poster and we had to use one of the three ways to find legal images to use for our poster and we had t to then write what we learnt about finding legal images.

Figurative language

LI To identify the parts of a Narrative
LI To investigate figurative language

For writing we are learning about Figurative language we learnt about Simile's, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, and lastly understatement. A simile is Comparing two things using the word like or as. a Metaphor is Comparing two things without using the words like or as. Personification is Giving human qualities to objects. Hyperbole is Over exaggerating to show strong feelings. And the last one we learnt about was a Understatement it is An expression with less feelings shown
Opposite of a hyperbole. After we learnt about them we had to find examples and write them down and then we had to write a definition down.

Author research

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

LI introduced during session and on needs basis.

We are doing novel studies and we are reading Roald Dahl books and the book i'm reading is called Matilda. and we had to read the novel and do one activity and blog about it and the activity i did was author research. I had to write about Roald Dahl about his family how he became and author and what was his life before he was an author and facts about him. 

Fun facts

1. Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot in WW1
2. He invented over 250 new words
3. Many of his characters in books were based on people he had meet in real life 
4. He spent over four hours writing every single day.
5. Did you know that Dahl was a spy