Tech

For the subject for tech this term we were doing tech, in the session we learnt what input, algorithm and out put was, to do that we played a game and we made examples of input, algorithm, output. We then got robots and plugged them into our computer, and programmed them to do things. I have represented my school by showing the approvable behavior while at tech.

Treaty of Waitangi Summary

LI: to make a summary.
This week for reading we read a text about the history behind the Treaty of Waitangi. We worked in groups write some words about the text down and highlighted the words that were the most important. We then made a summary about it and highlighted the important words. We also had to choose two words each from the list and illustrate them.

Writing an Explanation

LI: to collaboratively structure and write an explanation.
This week for writing we worked in groups to write an explanation using a plan and an acronym, the acronym was T.I.I.C, the acronym stood for Title, introduction, information and conclusion. An explanation is a form of writing that tells you why or how something is the way it is. Our explanation was about why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines. 

Kiwi Can

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings

For Kiwican this term our Theme is Positive Relationships and our theme for the next couple of
weeks are Fairness and Fairplay. We first started off by playing our Energizer which was changing
places. We then talked about how fairness and fairplay could go in a game situation. For example you
can be fair to people in a game by having an equal amount of players in each team. We also talked
about what courtesy was. Courtesy is being polite and having manners toward other people.
We also talked about Common sense which is making wise choices. Lastly we talked about
Consideration which is being thoughtful of others. Then all those words come up to Empathy.
Empathy is being all those things we talked about together. We then did a roleplay on Empathy.
Our role play was about a person who got hurt by the other team, while his teams help him up and
the person who hurt him helps him up.

Cricket - Kiwi Sport

Today we had kiwi sport, the sport that we would be playing for the term for kiwi sport was cricket. For our bowling warm up we got into teams of 4 - 3 and we had to hit the wickets with a ball, if you hit a wicket you have to put a wicket through the hole in a cone, there are four cones and the team who has no cones left wins. The next version of this game was the same but the difference was that when you get all cones you have to hit all of the wickets. For our fielding and batting warm up there are three batters, each batter has two balls to hit, once all balls are hit the batters run from where the balls were hit and to a cone, the most amount of runs from one of the batters before the people put back the balls win. The skills we learnt were batting, communication, fielding, bowling and teamwork.

 

Ordering Numbers

Today in maths we worked in our thinking reams to find the answer to two maths questions. In the photo you will see my group, Less Same Mire working out the number value of our group name. To do this we used addition strategies and our place value knowledge.

In the second activity we worked in our groups to put the population numbers in order. To do this we used out place value knowledge. 

National Current Events

Today we created a map DLO that shows current events around New Zealand. We have 6 national current events in New Zealand. The article we found most interesting, Ardie Savea being banned on tik tok. He was banned  from his doctor for dancing when he was supposed to be in bed resting because of his knee. The most shocking article was Southland flooding. Lukah, Acien, Vayan, Afatia, Liletina, Azatulah and I worked as a team to complete this activity.