ASB Getwise

 LI: To be wise with your money

Today we worked with Marlon, Marlon told us all about how to make wise choices with money by watching how we spend money. Making smart choices with money means that you are being careful of what you spend and making sure that you have saved enough. To have a better understanding of this Marlon played a game with us. We got into groups of five, In the game we are given 1800 fake dollars and we must spend our money wisely on our trip to fiji. Our group counts as one whole person and we must pay for passport fees, Plane ticket, Accomodation, Travel Insurance, and activites. During this journey we learnt how to make wise choices with our money without being in debt and learnt how to budget money and make smart choices.

Financial Capabilites

LI: To plan a night out that fits within the given budget of $45.00

Today for maths we are learning about Financial Capabilites adn how to make wise choices with money by budgeting this also ties in with our Get Wise learning. Our task for maths today was to plan a night out that fits with in the given budget of $45 for the smith family. We must answer the questions with the answer we got from the strategy that we found most easy and was more efficent for us also known as finding the most efficent strategy for us.

Map of the world in Te reo

 LI: To find the Maori anme of Countries and Contenints of the world

Toady for Maori we are learnign how to map and our task that we were given was to translate the names of countries and contenints of the the world into the maori translation. We were given 12 country names in Maori and our job was to translate them into english and find them on the map and then to create a DLO of the map of thw world with the maori names of countries and contenints.

Maori

 LI: To find the translate the contenents of Britan and South America

This week for Maori, Whaia Ode came in and taught us the different countries of South America and Britain. We worked individually in this activity. In south america I learnt that another way to say Argentina in Maori is Aaketina. Learning this was very interesting because it helped me build my Maori Language. 

Moment in time

LI: To use the language features and structure of published poem to help use write our own poem.

We looked at the language features and structure of a poem called ‘A Moment in Time’ and used our experiences from camp to follow the structure and collaboratively create our own moment in time poem.

To describe what we heard, what we saw, how we felt and what we wondered we used our senses, adjectives and adverbs.

Ajectives are words that help describe and add more detail to our sentences

Adverbs are words that describe verbs such as the lady sat quietly in that sentence there are a combinations of verbs and adjectives where the adjective describes the verb.

 

Settings

 LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader

A setting is the place, time and environment of a story to help a reader make a connection to your narrative you need to use your words in away that helps them form a picture of what you are describing in their mind.

To do this we looked at an image and thought of 10 words that described and showed what we could see. Once we had thought of the adjectives or adverbs we used our smart searching skills to help us find synoymns that made our descriptions clearer.

I found this interesting because it was fun to use powerful words or adjectives to make our statements more powerful by using word hippo to use powerful words to add to our paragraph.

Pulley

 LI: To create a diagram about the Pulley system

Today for inquiry we are learning baout simple machines, the first simple machine we are learning about is called a pulley. A pulley has a wheel with a grove in it where the rope or cable goes into and his then attached to the load and is then pulled from the opposite end to lift the heavy load up. We also had to explain what a pulley is within 25 words meaning explaining it breifly what it is.

I really like this activity beucase I find it interesting to learn about simple machines and find it intersting how they work.

Sir Isaac Newton

LI: To learn about Isaac Newton

This week in Reading, LS2 has been working towards Simple Machines. Apart of this, we were required to learn about Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton is a physicist, mathematician, theologian and a Astronomer. We were also required to create a DLO with the following questions: Why is his work important? What did he find out? How does his work connect to simple machines? 

I found this interesting because it was really fun to learn about Sir Isaac Newtons research about physics and gravity and how to can benifit scientest nowdays.