Character Web

LI: to novel study.
This week for reading  I chose to do a reading task called character web. On the google drawing we had to put a photo of a character in our book into the middle box, I chose to do the witch because I was reading the witches. There were four other boxes, each box had something that we write about the character. The boxes were personality, acts like, feelings and looks. I learned by doing the the character web.

Figurative Language

LI: to revise the structure of a recount and reaffirm the marking criteria
For writing we had to go onto a slide and learn about figurative language. Figurative language are similes, metaphors, personifications, hyperbole's and understatements. After we learnt about them we got into teams and we did a little quiz to see if we knew what sentence went under in one of the figurative speeches. We then had to write our own simile, metaphors, personifications, hyperbole's and understatements. I learnt by doing this slide show.

Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: To learn the basic grip on a Tennis Racket.
For kiwi sport this term we were going to be doing Tennis. A person named Peter was going to be our coach throughout the time that we are doing Tennis. For our warm up we had to get into pairs. One person would drop a ball the and the other tried to catch it. For the activity we were learning the forehand and the backhand technique. For the forehand the dominate hand is at the bottom of the racket. For the back hand the dominate hand is at the bottom and the other hand is above the bottom hand. I learned by doing the forehand and the backhand technique.

Cyber-smart | Smart & Legal

LI: to understand legal use of images.
For cyber smart we were learning about legal and illegal uses of images. We went on a slide show and we had to work on one specific slide. The slide that we had to work on had a green box and a red box, the green box was represented as legal images and the red box was represented as illegal images. In the green box we had to write the definition of legal images, we also had to write down two sites where we could find legal images and we had to give one example of a legal image. Same with the green box in the red box but we had to write the definition of an illegal image, we also had to write down where we could find illegal images and we had to give two examples of illegal images. I learned by learning about legal images and illegal images.

Maori

LI: to learn about the Maori culture, history and language.
Two weeks ago we watched a video that had only the Maori language, for our task for Moari this week we had a google document with a script of the video, and we had to translate all of the script into English. Before that we had some new things to say in Maori, they were ae which means yes, there was kao which means no and there was aua which means don't know. We also learnt some new words, they were teina - younger, tuakana - older, tungane - brother and tuahine - sister. I learnt by learning these new words.

Kiwi Can

LI: to be respectful in the public.
For kiwi can we talked about how we could be respectful to other people in the public. For our energizer we got in to groups of five or four, when we got into group one person from each group was going to be chosen as a leader, the leaders have to go to the kiwi can supervisor to get a challenge, the leaders then have to come back to the group and try to explain what the challenge needed us to do.When we finished the challenges we would do the challenges in front of the other groups. We then had to talk about our strengths and weakness's, basically what we are good at and what we are not good at. For the activity we played a game called "Human Knots", we had to get into two groups and we had to get into a circle. We then had to hold hands with the person that is not next to you in the circle. I learnd by talking about how we could be respectful in the public.

Commenting

LI: to make a cyber smart comment.
Today I commented on Ong's blog, his blog was about him doing his advertising 3.0. I learned by commenting on Ong's blog.

Basic Facts

LI: to remember basic maths facts.
or basic facts I did the speed demon challenge up to 20, my time was 5m and 23s. I learned by doing the basic facts.

SSR Selfie

LI: to summaries and retell a text.
For SSR selfie I chose to do an SSR selfie with a book named "Ask a Scientist". This book is about science. I learned by doing ssr selfie.

Commenting

LI: to make a cyber smart comment.
Today I commented on Ong's blog, his blog was about him doing his advertising 3.0. I learned by commenting on Ong's blog.

Basic Facts

LI: to remember basic maths facts.
or basic facts I did the speed demon challenge up to 20, my time was 5m and 23s. I learned by doing the basic facts.

SSR Selfie

LI: to summaries and retell a text.
For SSR selfie I chose to do an SSR selfie with a book named "Ask a Scientist". This book is about science. I learned by doing ssr selfie.

Imaginative Recount Editing

LI: To revise the structure and reaffirm the marking criteria.
For writing we had to make a second imaginative recount about winning something and we had to edit it. My imaginative recount is about winning a weet bix triathlon. For the editing we had to highlight what we would change in our writing. I learned by editing my writing.

Company/Business Categories

LI: What is a business.
In groups of eight we had to put companies in different categories that they belong to. For an example if we had McDonald's as a business we would put it under the food category because McDonald's serve food. The categories that we had were TV& Movies, clothing, shopping centers, food, technology, toys, miscellaneous, transportation and sport. First we needed to split our group in half and both groups had to put the business's in categories, when we finished we had to compare what we did the same and what we could've changed. I learnt by putting the business's in categories.

Bookmarks

LI: to novel study.
For reading we are doing some novel study but to save the spot were we are reading we needed bookmarks, in doing that we made our own book marks. We made our book marks on a google drawing so we could print them out and cut them, but on the book marks we had to add what we were learning about this year for reading, so my group chose to write down the reading strategies we learnt about. I learned by making my own book mark.

Maths Vocab

LI: to research.
For our maths topic that we are going to be learning about are planes and aerodynamics. In groups of three for maths we had to create a document with a lot of boxes, we then had to put words into the boxes. One side of the boxes would be the definition of the word and the other side of the boxes would be the function of the word, some of the words don't have functions so then the box is just blank. We then had to guess what we were going to be learning about for a few weeks into the term. I learned by working with my group to do the functions and the meanings of the words.

Maori

LI: to learn about the Maori culture.
For Maori we recapped on what we did last week, we had recap on what questions to ask in Maori. The question that we had to work on was No hea koe?, witch means where are you from?  We also had to translate countries into Maori. I learned by working on how to say No hea koe and by translating countries into Maori.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn how our selves and others.
For our second session for kiwi can we talked about how we can respect a persons unique personality. For the energizer we played a game called "Verses", basically we chose chose between two things and we had to explain why the thing we chose was the best.

For the activity game we played was called "Might vs Wisdom" we got split up into two groups and one group was going to be might and one was going to be wisdom, the wisdom group had to solve some word riddles and the might group had to do three activities.

We played another game called "Bang", we had to get into a circle and a person has to call out the others in the circle. The person the person calls out has to duck down and the people next to the person that ducked down has to shoot each other with their hands, the first person to say bang when they shoot beats the other person and the other person sits down. I learned by talking about how we could respect others.

Business Companies

LI: What is a Business.
In groups of three for inquiry we had to make a slide show with definitions of enterprise and business. We also had to write down one hundred business's with products of what they sell, the price range and a picture of the business logo or the business itself, we learned by making a slide show with 100 business's.

Rap Lyric and Poetic & Vocab builder

LI - Build knowledge of vocabulary, and links words create to the wider world.
This week for reading we made two slide shows, one of the two slide shows was a little game to see if people know the difference between poetic verses and rap lyrics. The other slide we had to build vocabulary by using a template, in the template we had headings to help us what we had to write. The headings were "The label" (the object), the function ( what it does), associations (what it goes with), category (what it goes under), similarities or differences, multiple meanings. I learned by doing the slides with my group.

Recount Markings

LI: To revise the structure of a recount and reaffirm the marking criteria.
For writing we had to make an imaginative recount about us winning one million dollars and what would we spend with it. When we finished the recount we had to mark our writing in seven criteria, they were ideas, structure & language, organization, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.

We had to mark our writing with points from 3 to 5. I learned by writing a recount and by marking it using the criteria.

Math Recap

LI: to recall core skills and knowledge for addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, and place value.

For this weeks math's task we had to recap on what we did this week. We had to recap on our adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, calculating area and calculator perimeter, and fractions. For Adding & subtraction we had to recap time and decimals, with time and decimals we had to recap the strategies we used to do time and decimals. The strategies that we used were basic facts, tidy numbers, place value, repeated addition, rounding and compensating, written algorithm and reversing.

For multiplication we had to recap on our times tables. For division we had to recap on our grouping/sharing. For fractions we had to recap how to identify a fraction and sets of fractions. I learned by recapping of what we learnt for math's this week. We learnt these skills by doing equations and by playing a game called scattergories

Maori

LI: to the history of the Maori culture.
For Maori we had to watch a video that had only the Maori language, we then had to translate those words into English. We also had to translate some Maori words into English. The words the we had to translate into English were Kupu, Hoa, Koa, Moa, two translations of Noa, Ngutu Roa, two translations of Roa and two translations of Toa.  We also had to use three of the Moari words in one sentence

Kiwi Can Term 4

LI: to respect ourselves and others.
For kiwi can this week we started off with a Niuean greeting because it is Niuean language week. We also had a new kiwi can instructor, his name was Si Manu.

The energizer that we played was a game called "Frutti Tutti", in the game there were three fruits, each fruit would represent an action, one person would say the fruits in any order and we have to to the actions that the fruits represent. Apple was jump forward, orange was jump backwards and banana was to jump 180 degrees around.

The activity that we played was a game called "A Truth and a Lie", the rules of the game was to tell one lie and one truth, and the others have to guess what was a lie and what was the truth. This week I learned by playing the games and by respecting myself.