Kiwi Sport | Gymnastics

LI: To improve on our gymnastics skills.
We started off by recapping our stretches and skills. The stretches included Straddle, Butterfly wings and us trying to put our noes on our knees and toes.

First Rotation 
The first rotation included front/side/back support, A handstand on a bar, A cast on the trolley, holding our tuck and L Shape and doing little swings on bars. This rotation focused on improving our arms.

Second Rotation 
The second rotation included a blue line which we had to cart wheel on or over, a mat to do a 360 degree jump, a bar which we had to bunny hop over and a beam which we had to try and do different steps on.

Third Rotation
The third rotation included a ramp to do a backwards roll on, a big blue mat to do a handstand and a forward role, a spring boared to do a straight jump and a trampoline to do a dive role.

Writing | Play Orientation

LI: To write a narrative in the form of a play.
The next step to writing our play was to make dialogue. We had to get into pairs ( or a group of 3 if your group was uneven ) and choose people in the play that we would talk as. We had to color code the lines so when Mr Wong's reading groups read it they know where there lines are. We also had to read eachothers dialogue to make our dialogue fit with there's. This DLO ( Digital Learning Object ) is a W.I.P ( Work In Progress ).

African Drumming

LI: To learn African Drumming.

Johnny from Rhythm Interactive taught us four rhythms on the djembe. Johnny Taught us by singing and clapping the rhythms for us to copy. One of the call and return tunes was " I like chocolate cake ","So do I. Johnny Teaches a message to children. That message is that “ Together we can make a change. The instruments Johnny showed us were called a harmonica, Shaker, Claves and more. I enjoyed doing this Drumming lesson with Johnny because now I know how to play more instruments and Rhythms.

Cybersmart | Drive Cleaning

LI: To organise our files correctly.

We had to organise our files correctly to save storage and get faster at finding what we need. We did this because throughout the year some people including me have not filed what they needed to. We also did this lesson to teach us the importance of filing things away propley.

Ki O Rahi Interschool

LI: To use and improve our skills in Ki O Rahi.
Some of LS1 got the oppurtunity to play in a Ki O Rahi Interschool and it is pretty fun. We learn't more skills while also using the knowledge that we had on the game. The event was open for year 5,6,7 and 8. We broke up inot 3 groups and the groups were PBS 1, PBS 2 and the Year 7&8.Kelly sports was a big help setting up the Fields, Playing as Referee and packing things away.

Each group had 6 games and PBS 1 ( The group I was in ) won 4 games and lost 2. Again we thank Kelly Sports for helping out with this event. Not many people are fimiliar with this sport as it is a maori sport that is played for peace.

Zoo Trip

LI: To learn about animals.

This week on Thursday Learning Space 1 ( LS1 ) went to the Auckland Zoo to learn about animals. The year 5’s ( And some year 6’s ) went with one of the guides called Patrick who showed us most of the African animals. First we saw the Giraffes, they have tall necks, brown patched fur, a long blue tongue that prevents their tongue from being sunburnt and giraffes are herbivores ( Plant eating animals ). Next we saw the Zebras which have black and white stripes all across their body, Fast running legs and they are herbivores. Also if in case they come across a predator ( things that will eat them ) they will group up and run away to inform other prey that danger is coming. Next we saw the Ostriches, They are the largest living bird in the world, but they do not fly. A male adult Ostrich can reach heights up to 2.1 - 2.8 and a female adult can reach up to 1.7 to 2m, they can reach up to speeds of 70km/h.

Next we saw the Meerkats. They are small animals that have white fur and sharp claws to dig for food. They usually eat worms, bugs, scorpions and snakes. After that we saw the Great White Rhino. Actually it’s name is a mistranslation between languages and would’ve been called the Great Wide Rhino because of is wide mouth. These animals are also herbivores and mostly eat grass and their vision isn’t that good. They are very fast runners for their size. The next animal we saw was a Lion, they are fierce predators and live in prides which have one male leader. All lions eat other animals like Zebras, bulls, young elephants, giraffes and rhinos. Then we went to see the flamingos, Flamingos have long thin legs and it looks like there knees are backwards but those are actually there ankles. Flamingos have there own dance to attract other flamingos. The last animal we saw was the Asian Elephant. There were two elephants name Burma and Anjilee. Elephants are herbivores and usually eat leaves.

Basic Facts

LI: To remember basic facts
This week for basic facts I had to answer which are addition, subtraction, multiplacation and division. I did Addition and subtraction up to 5 because I knew it would be quick for me to complete. 

Writing | Dialogue

LI: To write a narrative in the form of a play
This week for writing we had to write a play 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.

Reading | Synthesising

LI: To Skim and Scan.
This week for reading we are learning how to skim and scan. We had 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 had to skim and scan on. We also learnt about how to use and find keywords in a text. We had to make a poster about connections. 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.

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retell a text.
This week for SSR Selfie my book was called sound. My book is non-fiction and it tells you about what sound is and how it works. I also had to answer questions like what the book title is, who the author is, who the illustrator or photographer is and more on the slide below. 

Maths | Identifying Decimals

LI: To identify Tens, Hundredths, Thousands.
This week in maths we learnt about decimals that have a number value less than one, but more value than zero. The first thing we had to do was going onto a slide show with questions and decimal numbers, there were questions about the decimals. We had to answer the questions in the boxes, after the answers we had to visually show the fraction of the decimal number on the diagram on the right side of the slide.

Hiwi the Kiwi fishing for the future

LI: To be responsible in the sea and when fishing.
Today we had a special guest called the Minstrel at our school to teach us about how to be responsible when in the sea/ocean and when fishing. He talked about the legal size that a fish must be in order to keep it, The importance of wearing a life jacket, Why it is bad to polute our ocean with plastic, That the plastic that we throw in the ocean end up inside of seabirds, That when we put a fish on ice to make sure that the ice is salt ice and if you are ever going to pick a fish up to use a wet towel. When the Minstrel taught us about these important fishing lessons he wanted us to share them with our family members. We sang songs about the lessons and had challenges in the form of questions to teach us in a entertaining way. Also the prize that you would get for winning a challenge is shown down below.

Orientation & Setting | Plan

LI: To plan a play.
This week in writing we were given the task to make a play for Mr Wongs reading group. The structure of our play was T.O.P.E.S. T.O.P.E.S stand for Title, Orientation, Problems, Events and Solution/Resolution. This week we worked on our orentation. In the orientation we had to write the characters and the setting ( Location ). To describe the characters we had to write how they look, sound and act. Lastly we had to write a setting that puts a picture in peoples head.

Maori | Seasons

LI: To learn the seasons in Te reo Maori.

The word for seasons in maori is tau. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter also have their own words we used the Te Ara website to learn these words.

Kiwi Can

LI: To follow through with what we say.
This week in Kiwi Can we were learning how to follow through with what you say. Our topic was Responsibility. Our energizer was called 21. To play we had to make circle and count to twenty one without going around the circle. Also if 2 or more people say the same number then you have to restart. Our activity was called Goal Setting. To play we had to write down three things that we are going to do and how we will achieve those goals. Three things we can strive to complete by the end of the term are doing the end of term play, taking out the trash and finishing all my work. To follow through with what we say we could remind our selves until we can do it without a reminder. We can show this by doing as we were asked. This is shown by doing our duties/chores.

Kiwi Sport | Gymnastics

LI: To learn new gymnastics skills.
We learnt new skills and they were called scale, cat leap, the turn and more. The rules of gymnastics are no flips and have fun.
Rotation 1
In rotation 1 we he do tothe same thing as last week so if you want to learn more about what we did check out last weeks Gymnastics blog post. The only new thing we did was practicing our cat leap on yellow mats.

Rotation 2
In rotation 2 we learnt how to mount onto a beam. After we mounted the beam we had to do our scale and then we would walk to the end of the beam. Next we had to do our cat leap on the blue beam. Next we had to bunny hop over a beam. Lastly we did a ford role on a beam.

Rotation 3
In the last rotation we had to do a straight jump off a spring bored. Next we had to jump off a trampoline and do a dive role. Next we had to do a backwards role of a ramp if we are struggling and if we were excpected to do it on the floor we would. The final thing we did was combining all of our skills from the past couple of weeks. For our last activity we had to do a cartwheel, backwards roll ( on the ground ), a straddle, Front/Back/Side support, two strait jumps and a handstand.

Maori | Matariki

LI: To learn about matiriki.
To day we began to learn about matariki, by reading a book called "Night Sky". Matariki is the sign of Maori new year and it begins on the 25 of June. The stars disappear at the begining of April and reappear in the sky through June. This marks the time to start planting so that the harvest is ready for season.

Writing | Explanation

LI: To Write and Explanation.
Explanations are 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 gives instructions. An information report is about things that have happened for example events.

Cybersmart | Image Attribution

LI: To attribute images using our knowledge of copyright and fair use laws, to credit where credit is due.
This week in cybersmart we are learning how to attribute images. We had to find three images and attribute them. On our final images we had to write down steps on how to attribute. to find out more look on the google document below.