Kiwi can|Reliance|Self-control|Self-discipline

LI:To copy with challenges and bouncing back

This week for kiwi can our theme was resilience and out topic was self-control and self-discipline and our catch phrase for this week our catch phrase was, "Kiwi can says control yourself don't shout kiwi can over and out.

Activity

This week our activity was called four challenges, in this game each group had to try and complete their challenge in one minute because once we finish that challenge we have to move to the next one.

The first challenge my group had to do was try and match the colours in Maori and English. The challenging thing is that we had to try and think which colour in Maori matches with the colour in English and some of us didn't know the colours in Maori so we had to try and our best to get it right. We work this challenge out by singing a song which has all of the colours in English and Maori so it can make it easier for us to complete this challenge.

Our second challenge was that we had to try and write the alphabet backward on a piece of paper. the thing we found challenging was trying to write the whole alphabet without making any mistakes, the way we worked this out was by singing the alphabet forward so when get stuck we can sing the alphabet and then we can write down the letter down.

Our third challenge was making our own actions for our catchphrase this week. The thing we found challenging was trying not to copy the normal actions and the other groups one and trying to make our own actions by working with our group, we worked this out by thinking of actions that link with the words in the catchphrase.

Our last challenge was to do 5x push ups, 5x sit ups, 5x burpees and 5x squats. The thing we found challenging was trying to do all of those exercises in one whole minute, our way of working this out was trying to do this as fast as we can and to try and do it without mistakes because it wouldn't count. 

Poem and speeches

Today our whole school(PBS) went to the hall to listen to 12 kid from different classes to say their poems and speeches and a special person man Steven from tamaki college came to judge the kids poems and speeches and there will be first second and third poems and speeches.

 My favourite poem was said from a little girl who just stared this year and that girl is Micela's. I liked her's because her speech was about humpty dumpty and her poem was really old and I like that we get to hear it again. My other reason is that she is a new kid and she's 5 years old and she had the confidence to say her poem in front of the school.

My favourite speech was Fau's because her topic was all about mental health and I think her topic is a good one because some of us need to try and complement someone or try and make someone feel better if their feeling sad and now I think about it I can't remember the last time I complement someone to someone like a family member or a stranger. The thing I like about her speech is that she spoke loud a clear so everyone that's listing can hear her.

Ihumatao

LI:To separate facts from opinion

LI:To identify the main idea in a text

This week we are finishing our last slide about Ihumatao, we had to pick a side so we had to agree with the government or the Maori people that don't want the 480 houses built there. I choose the Maori peoples side because it's their land so they have the right to choose what happens at Ihumatao. Then we had to tell them three points that the Maori people get to decided, one of my points was that the Maori people get's to decided because they own all of the places in Aoteaora/ New Zealand. The last part was out conclusion, my conclusion is I think the Maori people have the right to decide what happens to the land because they owned it first so they decide.

Lever|Wheel and axle

LI:To make a windmill and learn about a lever, wheel and axle

Today we are learning about a wheel and axle. We had to get find a partner because we had to complete this google draw that has questions about a wheel and axle, once we finished answering the question we had to make a windmill only using a piece of paper and a straw but on the inquiry site it has instructions of how to make a windmill. Once we made we had to take a photo of it.

Two days later we had to combine our group with another group because we had to make a lever using a stick and there weren't enough. We had to try and make a lever by using stuff in side the class. A lever is like a see-saw if a small person goes on one side and a heavy goes on the other side the see-saw won't move so those two people have to be the same weight to make the see-saw move. Once we made a lever we had to answer three questions on another google drawing about our lever but the last question you have to answer by drawing our lever.

Ratio problems(WIP)

LI: To earn and look after money by creating with math

We are learning about ratios this week so we had to make a quiz or a game about ratio word problems, ratio facts or ratio problems. My group decided that two people do ratio word problems, three people do ratio problems and one person do ratio facts. I decided to do the ratio problem task with two other people in my group and we made a game. Since we are making a game we making it on a google slide so when you present and when you answer the 12 questions it will show you a right or wrong slide. We made 12 questions because each of us can do for questions each since their are three of us.

Swimming

LI:To learn water safety and new skills

This week the first stroke that we did was stream line for a warm up. The next stroke we did was the same thing but we just had to roll on our to take a breath. Then some of us did freestyle to the platform, freestyle is when you do three arm strokes and then you rotate onto your side. After that we did backstroke with no arm strokes, when you do backstroke that's when you you have to go back and swim. Then we had to try and do something that no one in my group has done before. This is stroke is called survival stroke, that's when we had to go on our backs and do breast stroke kick. The final stroke we did was full breast stroke, when you do breast stroke you have to do these four steps which are pull, breve, kick and glide.

Here are two photos of my group doing some of the swimming strokes we did today.

Print design rules

LI:To identify the four areas of print design.

We are learning about the print design rules. The print design rules are composition, layout, colour and text. We had to figure out what slide is good or bad and we had to move the slide under a slide that says composition, layout, colour or text. We had to figure out which slide is right and which slide doesn't have one of the print design rules. Once we figured out where to put the slide there will be a thumbs up and down on top of the slide and if the slide is alright we had to take out the thumbs down but if it's bad we had to take out the thumbs up.