KiwiSport

L.I. To learn water safety.
For Kiwi sport it was the last week. For today we got to wear the life jackets. We first put the life jackets on and we did our safe entry into the water. We first had to swim to the wall and get into a group. We had to grab each other's life jacket and lay on our back. This was a chain pose and we had to move our feet to push us to the other side and back.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 We then had to get into a circle holding each other's life jacket and then let the smallest person into the middle so that the other people can keep the small person warm. The other way of doing this if you are alone is to tuck your knees into your chest and then use your arms to tight your legs to your chest. This is the HELP pose. HELP stands for Heat, Escape, Lessening, Pose.                                                                                                                                                                                                           Lastly we did our pencil entry. We had to put one hand behind our head and the other on our shoulder using one foot to step into the water. We all had to do it and then we jumped into the water and then high five the instructors as we are jumping in. We then had to shower with the life jacket and put them away. I felt great and happy.

Rugby Profile

LI: to apply our inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the Rugby World Cup

For this activity we had to pick Rugby Player from the Rugby World Cup and we had to make a profile on them. Like when they were born, their height, weight, their position. We also had to put a picture in and some facts about them.The player we picked was Sonny Bill Williams. He is a former New Zealand boxer and former league player. 

Places to visit in Japan

                                        L.I: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, and maths skills to complete the task. Our task was to pick five places in Japan we really wanted to visit. We had to add in facts and why we wanted to visit the place. The places we picked were Mt Fuji, Osaka, Tokyo, Sapporo, Kyoto. Mt Fuji is the tallest point in Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan and the city alone is 3 times bigger than New Zealand. Sapporo is the largest city on hokkaido island. Kyoto is the largest city in japan and Osaka was once the capital of Japan

Vein Diagram / Japan & New Zealand

L.I: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.
We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, and maths skills to complete the task. The task was to find the differences between New Zealand and Japan and what they both have in common. We learnt New things as we researched about New Zealand and Japan. I have found out that Japan is made up of  6,852 islands.

Rube Goldburg Machine

LI: to make a working Rube Goldberg machine using the six simple machines

LI: To make a working rube Goldberg machine by using the 6 simple machines. Over the past weeks, in groups LS1 had to make a Rube Golderg machine, We used the 6 simple machines. Wheel and axle, Lever, Incline plane, Pulley, Screw & wedge had to be included. The challenges were turning a Chromebook on, helping Mr Wong roll dice and hitting a putter. Our scenario was turning on the Chromebook. On the last week our group had managed to get the machine finish. We used four different types of simple machines a wheel and axle, pulley, incline plane and a lever. For the wheel and axle we used a car. For the Pulley we used a string from a yo-yo and latches from the window. For the incline plane we used a marble roll down a ramp. And used the dominoes as the lever. The most challenging task was creating the machines and trying to apply the 6 simple machines and communicating with our group to know what is going on and how we could help. I'd change another way of putting dominoes up without it falling because we always had to keep putting it up. And the amount of sellotape we used.

Rugby positions

                                      L.I: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, and maths skills to complete the task. The task is to match what the player position is. We then wrote some information about them and about what their position does. We have also made the position layout of where each player is. We searched up facts about them and found some amazing records that players have made.

Rugby Events

L.I: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.
We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, and maths skills to complete the task. The task was to write down the memory that you liked that was about the Rugby World Cup. We had to do three so each person did one. We had to also add some videos of the highlights of the game, if our favorite memory was about a specific game.

World time

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, inquiry, and maths skills to complete the task. The task we were doing was to find the kick off time of the finals for different countries. We had to find the USA standard times, New Zealand standard time and other standard time from different countries. The meaning of AM and PM. AM means Anti meridian and PM means Post meridian. AM means before morning and PM means after noon. While researching we learnt that big countries like Australia have different time zones. USA has a western time and eastern time because it is a big country.

Thneed

LI: to create an advert using the skills and knowledge we know
For the next couple of weeks we are going to be creating Advertisements. A print advert and a television advert. But in the adverts we have to include the critical analysis. Our product was a Thneed. A fictional product from the story "The Lorax". We did a fictional object so we could come up with our own ideas.

Faulty reasoning

                                        LI: to understand faulty reasoning
Faulty reasoning is arguing or talking with someone but your facts or statistics don't make sense or aren't true. There are different types of faulty reasoning: Illogical / simplified Assumption, Circular reasoning, over-generalization, biased argument and contradiction. Meanings are on the slide. We had to read a text and find the faulty reasoning in them and then put them onto the slide.

Kiwi Can

L.I to cope with challenges.                                                                                                                  We learnt how to face our challenges and experience/attempt them. We looked at 3 different types of challenges and wrote about our feelings when we face those challenges. We figured out coping strategies in groups of three. The activity was about getting in groups of three and writing down a plan, and the challenges we want to write about.

Geometric Landscape

 L.I to make art.                                                                                                                                          LI:to measure length and calculate perimeter and area.
We doing art for maths. We have to draw art that is either: geometric landscape art, 3d shape shading, tapa cloth or a birth of a plant. We first have to plan of what we are going to draw. We have to measure the area that we are using to put our art work. We have to share it between to groups that have 7 people in each.  The amount of space I can use is 19 centimeters in width, 22 centimeters in height, 82 centimeters squared, and 418 centimeters of space. This beautiful geometric art uses shapes such as a circle and triangles. The measurements that were available were: Height 20cm, Width 33.7cm. The area for my piece of artwork is 674cm2               

Commenting

SSR Selfie

WIP Geometric landscape

L.I to make art.                                                                                                                                          LI:to measure length and calculate perimeter and area.

We doing art for maths. We have to draw art that is either: geometric landscape art, 3d shape shading, tapa cloth or a birth of a plant. We first have to plan of what we are going to draw. We have to measure the area that we are using to put our art work. We have to share it between to groups that have 7 people in each.  The amount of space I can use is 19 centimeters in width, 22 centimeters in height, 82 centimeters squared, and 418 centimeters of space.

Advertising 3.0

                                       L.I to learn about persuasive tools in advertising.                                                                                     Advertising is long for ad which is a poster or video that is showing a product that someone is using. For example for rebel sport that have sport wear that they want to sell so they have ads that have people using the equipment or sport wear. The ad is what is what is showing what you can do with the wear and what it could look like. We had to find a ad and analysis the ad like we did for the NZTSA ad.

Kiwi Can

L.I to deal with challenges.                                                                                                                      We need to practice dealing with challenges to deal with them easily in the future. We did a bus stop activity. We had to explain the challenges in the pictures. Topic: dealing with challenges, Theme: resilience.

Flipgrid

         LI; To identify the main ideas in a text.

We are reading pointless painful physical education. I have read the article and it says that we should have less sports time. I think that we should have more time for sports and if you want to know why watch the flipgrid. We had to say why we want this because we are learning about speeches and we have to write a speech for the flipgrid. 

Jamie Wall

L.I to be a better reader.                                                                                                                            On Duffy assembly we had a special guest who was lucky to be Jamie Wall who has traveled to 12 country to watch the All blacks, Warriors and other team that play Rugby, UFC, Boxing, Cricket, Super Rugby and the Fifa WC (World Cup). He got the job he is doing now by reading a big book which was men in black about all the games that the All blacks have played when he was 9. He then wrote a book which is about all the brothers that played for the All Blacks the book is the top selling book in NZ which is brothers in black. He is an author that writes for moari tv, Newhub, Stuff and Radio NZ. Last year he travelled to Japan, Italy, Argentina, France, England, Ireland and Australia (Straya).

Maths

LI:to measure length and calculate perimeter and area.

We doing art for maths. We have to draw art that is either: geometric landscape art, 3d shape shading, tapa cloth or a birth of a plant. We first have to plan of what we are going to draw. We have to measure the area that we are using to put our art work. We have to share it between to groups that have 7 people in each.  The amount of space I can use is 19 centimeters in width, 22 centimeters in height, 82 centimeters squared, and 418 centimeters of space.

Animal crulity

         LI; To identify the main ideas in a text. 
We are reading why we should change school uniform. I have read the article and it says that we should change our school uniforms. I think that we should have school uniform and if you want to know why watch the flipgrid. We had to say why we want this because we are learning about speeches and we have to write a speech for the flipgrid.

Advertising 2.0

 L.I to learn about persuasive tools in advertising.                                                                                     Advertising is long for ad which is a poster or video that is showing a product that someone is using. For example for rebel sport that have sport wear that they want to sell so they have ads that have people using the equipment or sport wear. The ad is what is what is showing what you can do with the wear and what it could look like. We had to make a vocab list of words because these words we were using is what we need to know to do the advertisements.

Screw

 

 LI: to learn about Incline Planes
A screw is devide made of a tube bent spirally around a cylinder and use to raise water. So its used to pick up from a low point to high point. We had to fill in a poster, write down the definition, some answers to a test we were doing, and examples of inclines planes in everyday life. We made our own screw to use our of a tube, a stick, and tape. We had to try to see if it worked if it didn't we had to see what was wrong.

Wheel & axle Cybersmart

  L.I to apply the print design rules.                                                                                                            We were learning about the print design rules and we have to make a poster look pretty using the print design rules. We used the poster that we used for inquiry to make look pretty. We had to pick one of the simple machines that we had made and make it look pretty.

Kiwi Can

L.I dealing with challenges.                                                                                                                      For kiwi can we were talking about the new topic which is dealing with challenges. We were talking about what we can to to get through our challenges. We also talked about what does dealing with challenges means. It means to not to go over it nor under it but go through to achieve it.                                                                                                                                                                                           For the activity we had to do a puzzle. We were given pieces and we had to make a cross with it but it was hard because you had to use all pieces. We had 2 minutes to complete it and no one had complete it. The puzzle was so hard that I will make one and see if anyone else can do it.  Puzzle