Tennis

LI:To learn the basic grip on a tennis racket

Today was our first session of tennis which is going to be our kiwi sport for the rest of the term. Our tennis couch's name is Peter, he is going to be helping to be helping us how to play tennis.

Warm up
Before we start we had to do a warm up first. In pairs one person dropped a ball and your partner had to try and catch it. This will warm up our reactions.

Activity
Our activity was based on learning the forehand and backhand technique. When we did the forehand we had to put the had that we write with at the bottom of the racket and when we do the backhand its kind of the same position of the forehand but you just put your other hand on top.

Legal and illegal images

LI:To understand legal use of images

This week we have been learning about legal and illegal images which includes attributing. Attributing means showing proof that your allowed to use that image. We had to get into groups and talk about what are legal and illegal images and then we had to think about why we need to attribute the image. Next we had to think about the three main things you need to do when you attribute an image, they are the image it self, the creator and their licences. The last thing we had to do was write down the definition, two websites and 1 example of a image on the legal and 2 examples on the illegal side.   

Kiwi Can

LI:To respect our self

This week for kiwi can our them for this term is respect. Respect means respecting everyone the way you want to be respected.

Energizer
This week our energizer we had to play a game. In this game we had to form 4 groups and then get into a line. Once we did that our kiwi can teacher picked one person from each group to be the leader. We she choose the leaders the leaders had to come to her and read a piece of paper that had instructions for their group. They had to try and memories the instructions. Most people in the groups got to be the leader.

Activity
Our activity for today was called human knot, we had to get into 2 groups. We had to hold the other persons tight, by making a circal. We had to figure out together as a group of how we can untangle and make the circal again. The kiwi can leader timed us of how long does it take to untangle it.

 

Te Reo Maori

LI:To fill out the places, where are we from, and finding the Maori word for some of the countries.

This week we had being working on translate different counties, and different places. We had to work as a group and research on Maori Dictionary.

Commenting

LI:To learn how to comment on other peoples blog

This week I commented on Afatia's blog about reading. She did an amazing style for her book mark it was very creative. The only thing I ask her to fix is to write a little more information in her blurb but everything was okay.

Winning my first cross country competition

LI:To revise the structure of a recount and reaffirm the making criteria

This week we are practising writing a recount 40 minutes for our writing test. This recount had to be about you coming first at something, before we wrote our recount our teacher told us to TREE. TREE stands for title, revel, event and ending. My recount was about me winning my first cross country. When I finished writing my recount I had to make sure that there are no mistakes. Once I checked it the last thing I had to do was highlight sentences that I didn't use our last recount. 

Company label's

LI:To learn and find labels for company's

This week we have been learning about businesses. On Tuesday we had to get into a group of 8 and then we had divided our group into to 2 groups. One group had to finish off our must do and the other group had to go into work space two and finish an activity. The one I did first was finishing off our must do. 5 minutes past and that's when our teachers told us to switched. The activity we had to do was group the all the businesses in the right group. We had 20 minutes to make the groups and if we finish fast we will have enough time to take photos of it. 15 minutes later we finished, we just had to take photos of the group. When we finished taking the photos we had to show the other group our work. 

SSR Selfie

LI:To summaries and retell a text

This week I decided to summaries a fiction book called the twits, it is really funny because Mr and Mrs prank each other and they are 60 years old. One word I learnt was Clutching. This book is by a famous author called Ronald Dahl.

Book marks|Novel study

LI: To do a novel study on a Ronald Dahl novel

This week we had to create a book mark in a group of 5. We had to make on the same google drawing but were not allowed to copy each others ideas for their book marks. My idea for my book mark was putting a picture of a person sitting down on some grass and reading next to a stack of books. Near the top of my book mark I wrote everything you can learn when you read. next to that text box I wrote reading vertical. The last thing thing I had to do was name it.

When we finished our book marks we had to start reading the book we choose, the book I choose was called the Twits. It's about a disgusting husband and wife who are cruel. In this book they are prancing each other by putting worms in her husband's dinner or making your wife walking stick taller so you can make her think she as the shrinks.

Basic facts

LI:To remember my basic facts

This week I took the speed demon challenge. Instead of doing addition I decided to step it up a level and do the multiplication task my time was 1 minute and 56 seconds. If you don't believe anything I said my proof is at the top of this blog post. 

Kiwi Can|Respect

LI:To respect ourselves

This week for kiwi we are still learning about respect because it's our them for this term. Respect means respecting everyone the way you want to be respected. Our catchphrase is,"Kiwi can says, R,E,S,P,E,C,T, find out what that means to me."

Energiser
This week our energiser is called vs, in this game there will be two topics and we have to choose a side you want to be. Once you choose your side you have to explain why you like this topic and while your explaining it you can't say the other sides topic. The kiwi can teachers had to decided which side expanded the best and the side they choose you get a point. We had to complete five different rounds.

Activity
Our activity was called riddles and brain teasers, in this game we had to go into the library and Ms Mac had to tell us riddles and brain teasers. Some of them I knew but one riddle was hard but after a couple of guesses we final got the right answer. 

Maori

LI.to learn Maori learning, and language.

This week we had our second session or Te Reo Maori. We had to complete a task called Whakapakehatia - Wiki Rua. We had to search the questions, and the names of what it means in English, and write the answer. We first had to understand what the words mean, to do that all the groups practised what it means with the teacher.  We all had to understand, if we forget about what the words means, we were aloud to search the words, and the question in the Maori dictionary.

Researching

Word:	Meaning:	Function:
Fuselage	Fuselage is the main body part of an airplane.	A fuselage is a structural body not intended to generate lift
Horizontal	parallel to the plane of the horizon at right angles to the vertical.	a horizontal translation is a transformation which results in a graph that is equivalent to shifting the base graph left or right
Vertical stabilizer	The tail fin of an aircraft.
Winglet (fin)	The winglet fin is a little fin	To steer the moving object.
Wing	The upper left and right sides of a bird that makes it fly.	It’s a body part on the upward left and right side that helps birds fly.
Rudder	An application of a rudder in steering a boat, ship, or aircraft.
Aileron	A surface in the trailing edge of an aeroplane wing
Elevator	An elevator is something to use for going upper building and going down the building	To transport people up and down buildings.
Nose	Nose is part of a body part.	The nose breath air inside and to our lungs.
Leading edge	The foremost edge of an aerofoil, especially a wing or propeller blade
Trailing edge	The rear edge of the wing
Lift	To hold up something.
Gravity	The force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth.
Thrust	To push with force or shove.
Drag	To pull something to you.
Distance	Distance means how far something is or how far you can throw something.
Length	Length is how long something is or can be.
Wingspan	Wingspan is something that is being used to fly an aeroplane.	It helps you control the plane
Wing area	The wing area is the area of the wing surface.

Weight

Weight is how much something weighs.

Origami

Origami is a type of Japanese folding paper that makes decorations, shapes, and figures.

Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, has applications in the modern-day classroom for teaching geometry,

 

LI:To research

This week we had to research meaning and functions of 23 different words that suppose to give us a clue of what were going to be learning for the rest of the term. We had to complete this task in a group of three, we had to make a table that has three coulombs for the words meanings and functions. Some of the words don't have a function so the blank spaces means the word as no function. At the end we had to guess what we think were going to be learning for the rest of the term. The last guess was right, the guess was making a plane out of paper. 

Writing|recount|Winning $1 million dollars

LI:To revise the structure of a recount and reaffirm the marking criteria

This week we had to write fiction recount about winning $1 million dollars from lotto so we practices for test week which is next week and get into the mood for learning after the 2 week break. We had to make sure we use TREE, TREE stands for title, reveal, event and ending. We had 40 minutes to write our story. My story was about me winning $1 million dollars from lotto on my 10th birthday. After that 40 minutes we had to mark our work between 3-5. The marks will tell me what I think of my idea, S&L, Organ, Vocab, Spelling, Punctuation, Sentence structure and sentence structure. The words that are highlighted in yellow means those are the 5 words I think are at the level 5.

Reading | Poetic Verse & Rap Lyrics | Vocab Builder

LI: Build knowledge of vocabulary,and links words to create to the wider worlds.This task was all about building your Vocab skills. The next task we had to do what that we had to find a poetic verse and a rap lyrics.

This week we had to complete two tasks.

First task
The first task I had to make a google slide so my group and I can put our vocab builders on it. Since there's five of us in our group we did 10 each because that means all of us has done two each.

Second task
The second task I had to make another google slide because we had to make a game called Poetic Verse & Rap Lyrics. The way you play it there will be slide that has a poetic verse or rap lyric and you have to guess if it's poetic verse or rap lyric.

Here is one slide from each task we did.

Math

LI:To recall core skills and knowledge for addition, subtraction, multiplication, fraction, and place value.

This week we had to write down everything we learnt through out the year in our math so our teacher can see what we've learnt. We could use 7 different ways which are basic facts, tidy numbers, place value, repeated addition/subtraction, rounding & compensating, written algorithm and reversing. We had to complete four task.

First task
The first task I had to calculate that area and perimeter of different shapes. We had to calculate both area and perimeter of the shapes that had a star next to it but the shapes that don't have a star next to it we just had to do it's perimeter. When I did perimeter I used place value to work out the answer, I knew the operation was addition because we did one with our teacher. When I did the area I multiplied it using written algorithm.

Second task
The second task I had to was about telling time. There were 4 question there. The first two question we had to add minutes and the last two we had to we had to subtract minutes from that time. The way I worked out the first two times was counting forwards in fives and the way I worked out the last two times was the same way I worked out the first two times just I just counted backwards.

Third task
The third task I did was about fractions. The first question had to with fractions, I had to figure out what fraction it is. The next question I had to cut one whole block into 6 pieces. The last two problems I had to find as many ways to give each side the same amount. The way I worked the last three problems was by using division.

Last task
The last task I didn't complete because I ran out of time, I only managed to do the first problem. The last task was about decimals. The first problem I did was addition and it was an easy one. The problem was 0.5+0.4. The answer I got was 0.9, the way I solved this problem was by using place value.

Maori|Term 4

Today for Maori we had to complete 4 different task in a group of six, our group had to have 3 boys and 3 girls. Once we complete one task we had to move on to the next one.

First task
The first task was called Kupu. We had to to find out the meaning of 10 words, some of the words were spelled the same but they mean different things.

Second task
The next task was called Match the Atua to their territory. We had to match the gods to the thing they control so for an example we had to link Tangaroa to god of the sea. Some of them I didn't so I went to search up what they control.

Third task
While we were doing the second task our Maori teach Whaea Odie came over to us asked us question about us and our family in Maori. The challenging thing in this task was trying to understand what she's saying so we can say the right answer.

Last task
The last task we had to do was watch 2 Scenes of a family talking to each other in Maori. When we finished watching the 2 videos we had to fill out a sheet that was about the videos, we had to translate the questions on the sheet.

These google sheets are what we did and they are in order.

Kiwi Can|Term 4|Respect

LI:To learn about respect

Today was our first season of kiwi can for term four. We had two different kiwi can leaders, their names were Mr Simanu and Mr Latu. Our new them was respect, respect means respecting other people the way you want be respected. Also our new catchphrase was called,"Kiwi can says,"R,E,S,P,E,C,T" find out what that means to me.

Energizer
Our energizer was called tooty fruit. In the game we had to make a circle and then one of the kiwi can teachers will say apple, orange or banana. If they say apple we had to take one jump forward but if they say orange we had to take one jump back, when they say banana we had to spin 180 degrees. When we played the game we had to make the circle smaller every time a person is out.

Activity
Our activity was called true all false. Someone will tell something about them that's true tell something about them that's false. We had to go to one side of the room so the person who asked the true all false question knows who picked the right or wrong answer. Every answer we get right is a point to ourselves but the last questions was worth 1000 points.