SSR Selfie

Inquiry

LI: to understand what is needed to sustain human life away from earth
Space is a huge place where there is nothing. We are learning about sustain life on planets. There are six main elements of life. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulphur. Our work was to pick a planet to study, and research to try to find out if that planet can support human life in the future using help by machines. The planet I picked to study on is Mars.

Decimals

LI: to practise solving decimal addition and subtraction problems
Decimal problems using both Place Value and the Written Algorithm. One of our task was to solve a bunch of Decimal Problems both Addition and Subtraction. We then had to make a poster saying "What Are Decimals", and "How do you add and subtract decimals".

Play Dialogue

LI: to write a narrative in the for of a play
Recently we have been working on a project to write a narrative. But the narrative is in the form of a play. So we have started to write our Orientation and parts of  the dialogue. We have also made a storyboard so it could give us a brief idea of what we are going to do for the dialogue and the play. We are carry on with this project so it is a Work in Progress.

Basic facts boxes

L.I to remember basic maths facts.
For basic facts we have to time our self and do a challenge which is either, Speed Demon or Brain box. We have to do the challenges up to: five, ten and twenty.

Kiwi Sport

L.I to develop body movements of balance, rotation and strength.
This session is the last session for the term. For a start we had to do stretches. The stretches we did were: L shape, Seal, Butterfly, cat, straddle and back, front, side support. On each we had to push our self to feel the burn. We had to do each of them for 10 seconds and move on to the next one.

We had three rotation the first rotation had: going backwards on the beam, cartwheel on the box, cart wheel on the stage and forward roll on the bench. The second rotation had: star jumping off the trampoline, backwards roll down, 1 leg/scorpion hand stand and the half/180 jump. For the trampoline jump we had to get a high jump and move into a star shape position. For the 180 turn we had to jump on the spring ramp and turn half way.

The last rotation had: Hand stand against the wall, front support, parallel bars and back/side/front rotation. For the hand stand against the wall we have to hand stand putting one foot on the wall and the other stretching out and then switch. We then ended with telling the most difficult part of the challenges.

Synthesizing

LI- To Skim and Scan.
For reading we are learning how to skim and scan. We have to use the knowledge that we have about skimming and scanning and use it to do the task. We all had different books that we have to skim and scan on. We also learnt about howto use and find keywords. We had to make a connections poster. Text to self, text to text and text to community. Synthesising is finding out the new understanding. Our synthesising poster is to write down our prior knowledge, the new information, and new understanding.

Cleaning my drive

L.I to be organized and prepared.
For Cyber Smart we have had to clean our drives. We had to put our slides, drawings, sheets and document.

Ki O Rahi Interschool

L.I to use and improve our skills in Ki O Rahi.
Ki O Rahi interschool was great and fun. We learnt more and improved our skill as we played against different school. We had lots of fun playing and participating in this new interschool. The three groups from our team was from year 5 to 8. We had three groups: PBS 1, PBS 2 and year 7 and 8.

Every team had six games and was great. PBS 1 had won 4 and lose 2. PBS 2 had won 3 and lose 3. We never got to hear what the other group had got. We thank Kelly sports for making this interschool happening. Most people did not know much about the sport as it is a Maori way of making peace.

African drumming

L.I to learn African drumming.
Johnny from Rhythm Interactive taught us four rhythms on the djembe. We copied on the drums thatwe had and we started to do other different rhythms.

He taught us in singing and clapping on to the beat that he created with his hands and drums. One of the call and return tunes was "I like chocolate cake" and "so do I."

Johnny teaches a message to children. That message is that "together, we make a change." We had learnt that if you can say it you can play it. We learnt new instruments. When we got the answer to what the instrument is called we get one drum from five and we got all and two other drums.

Baisc Facts boxes

L.I to remember basic maths facts.
For basic facts we have to time our self and do a challenge which is either, Speed Demon or Brain box. We have to do the challenges up to: five, ten and twenty.

Commenting

L.I to help other with the things they are missing.
For Commenting we have to write which helps the person that we are commenting on to fix the mistakes they have made.

SSR Selfie

L.I to summarie and retell a text.
For SSR Selfie we have to read a book for fifteen minutes and then summarise the book. We have to take a selfie with he book that we are reading.

Synthesising

LI- To Skim and Scan.
For reading we are learning how to skim and scan. We have to use the knowledge that we have about skimming and scanning and use it to do the task. We all had different books that we have to skim and scan on. We also learnt about howto use and find keywords. We had to make a connections poster. Text to self, text to text and text to community. Synthesising is finding out the new understanding. Our synthesising poster is to write down our prior knowledge, the new information, and new understanding.

Zoo trip

L.I to learn about the animals in the Auckland Zoo.
We had first learnt about the animals in Africa. We had learn about giraffes, zebras and ostrich. We learnt that an ostrich can run up to 70 mph (miles per hour). They are heavy and they have not much feathers which are the reasons why they cant fly. The tallest giraffe in the zoo was 15 feet. The giraffes have a blue tongue because the blue toungue helps them not have a burnt tongue.

We then got to see the meercats. They have a communication system. We then got to see the lions which were having lunch. A lions night vision is 8x better than humans night vision. We then got to see the rhinos which are pretty big. They have horns which are made out of finger nail like material. When we saw the zebras we saw a little zebra right next to the mum because zebras have a pretty close relationship.

Next we saw Flamingos and found out that their knees are at the waist, and their ankles are where the knees normally are. We later saw Asian Elephants, specifically Burmese Elephants from the Sri Lanka Region.

After we went exploring around the zoo. We went through the whole of the Africa Region, the Australia Region where we got to see Wallabys, turtles, and more.  We went to parts of the South America region looking at monkeys and more.

Identifying Decimals

L.I: to Identifying tenths, hundreds and thousands.
Decimals are numbers that are less then one and more than zero. We also learnt about how to divide and multiply. We learnt how to say thew decimals into fractions. We had been given a decimal and we had to convert it into fraction and type the decimal after and before it.

Dialogue

LI: to write a narrative in the form of a play
A play is what we are writing for other groups to perform. For our play we are now writing down the dialogue. Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in a movie, book, play and more. We had to write down a dialogue for our play in the form of text messages. We had to use two of our characters from our play. We had to write at least 4+ text message pages.

Hiwi the Kiwi fishing fir the future

L.I to be responsible in the sea and when fishing.
We have had a great show about how to be a responsible fisherman. The guests were Hiwi the kiwi who was a minstrel or Mark De lacy. We had learnt about legal fish size (which is the size that the fish has to be to take the fish home.) We had also talked about life jackets and safety because of some men who go fishing think that they are to good to fall out their boat so they wear no life jackets. We also learnt about that you have to use a wet towel to pick a fish. We had learnt these by singing some of Mark De lacy songs and challenges that he gave us that we had to answer the questions to. We had a big challenge for who ever had the best dance style can get prizes.

Fractions of sets

LI: to calculate fractions of sets.
Fractions of sets is what we are doing. We are learning about how to solve word fraction problems and getting the answer in number way and word way. We use division to solve the problem because of the problem is What is one half of ten.

Cave Creatures

LI- To Skim and Scan.
For reading we are learning how to skim and scan. We have to use the knowledge that we have about skimming and scanning and use it to do the task. We all had different books that we have to skim and scan on. We also learnt about howto use and find keywords.

We had to make a connections poster. Text to self, text to text and text to community.

Ghosts are real!

L.I to learn to plan a narrative.
Narrative is a type of text that is fiction which is a made up story. For Writing we are learning about how to write a narrative. We are planning a narrative which is a play that is going to be performed by the other writing groups. We have just started planning the orientation.

SSR Selfie

L.I to summarie and retell a text.
For SSR Selfie we have to read a book for fifteen minutes and then summarise the book. We have to take a selfie with he book that we are reading.

Basic fact boxes

L.I to remember basic maths facts.
For basic facts we have to time our self and do a challenge which is either, Speed Demon or Brain box. We have to do the challenges up to: five, ten and twenty.

Maori season (Tau)

LI: to learn the seasons in Te Reo Maori
The word for seasons in Te Reo Maori is Tau. Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter also have their own words in Te Reo Maori. We used a website called "Te Ara Encyclopedia" to learn about the seasons and the events happening in the seasons.

Solar System

LI: to learn the planets in our solar system and the words in Maori
For Inquiry we are doing space. Our work was to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about the planets in our solar system. We have to write then record the Maori and English names for the planets in our Solar System.

Paper and Plastic Fractions

LI: To relate fractions with division
This week we were learning how to divide and how to use fractions using paper and plastic. We had to cut the paper into the amount of pieces. We had to answer the questions answered on the box. We had did this using pieces of paper.

Basic facts boxes

L.I to remember basic maths facts.
For basic facts we have to time our self and do a challenge which is either, Speed Demon or Brain box. We have to do the challenges up to: five, ten and twenty.

SSR Selfie

L.I to summarie and retell a text.
For SSR Selfie we have to read a book for fifteen minutes and then summarise the book. We have to take a selfie with he book that we are reading.

Table mat information gathering

LI- To Skim and Scan.
For reading we are learning how to skim and scan. We have to use the knowledge that we have about skimming and scanning and use it to do the task. We all had different books that we have to skim and scan on. We also learnt about howto use and find keywords.

Atribution

L.I to learn how to attribute.
For cyber smart we have learnt about how to attribute. Some people already knew how to attribute. This task was easy since I knew how to do this.

Kiwi Sport

L.I to develop body movements of balance, rotation and strength.
For a start we had to do stretches. The stretches we did were: L shape, Seal, Butterfly, cat, straddle and back, front, side support. On each we had to push our self to feel the burn. We had to do each of them for 10 seconds and move on to the next one.

We had three rotation the first rotation had: going backwards on the beam, cartwheel on the box, cart wheel on the stage and forward roll on the bench. The second rotation had: star jumping off the trampoline, backwards roll down, 1 leg/scorpion hand stand and the half/180 jump. For the trampoline jump we had to get a high jump and move into a star shape position. For the 180 turn we had to jump on the spring ramp and turn half way.

The last rotation had: Hand stand against the wall, front support, parallel bars and back/side/front rotation. For the hand stand against the wall we have to hand stand putting one foot on the wall and the other stretching out and then switch. We then ended with telling the most difficult part of the challenges.

Kiwi Can

L.I to learn how to be integrity.

For kiwi can are learning about our topic, responsibility. Responsibility is taking action when needed. For example leading a team to victory (That's what I do, I carry teams). Our catch phrase is, "Kiwi Can says: Responsible is what I am, and that's the way of Kiwi Can.

For the activity was not really a activity because we had to write down the three things that we need to work on and achieve before the end of the term.

After we had a reflection on what we had talked about during the session. We spoke as a group about different integrity we have against the school, home and community.

Explanation

LI- To Write and Explanation.
Explanations about how something works or why something happens. We had to write a explanation about whatever we wanted. We were learning about explanations, information report and procedure. Procedure is a text that giving instructions. A information report is about, about things that have happened which are things like events. We are going to make a explanation about what we want but about what we know.

Counting stars in Maori

L.I to learn about the weather and counting stars in Maori.
For Maori we were learning about some Matariki and about two other stories which relate to Matariki. We then had to chose between making posters about counting stars and the weather in Maori by showing photos.