Kiwi Can | Understanding Emotions

LI: To learn how to understand emotions.

This week in Kiwi Can our energizer was called Body Emotions and our Activity was called Emotions Charades. In body emotions we had to do different tasks and at the end we had to share how we felt while doing the task. For our Emotianal Charades we had to act out a short performance without using words and other people had to try and guess what emotion we were feeling. Our big T ( Theme ) was still resilience and our little t ( topic ) was still understanding emotions. Our catchphrase was " Kiwi Can says, If you feel it, let it out, don't doubt ".  

MOTAT | Mind Lab

LI: To learn about technolgy and transportation.
Part of PBS had a great opportunity to go the Mind Lab in MOTAT ( Museum of Transportation And Technolgy ). The first thing we did was have a trip around MOTAT to shave some time for the other groups.

Making the Electric Car
( Also parental guidence is needed for kids making this project ) The materials needed were 4 skewers, 1 battery pack with a red and blue wire, a piece of cardboard for the model of the car, two batteries, a motor, a mini ( preferably plastic ) fan, tape, scissors and wheels ( tiny plastic circle with a hole in the middle ). My partner was Spelman and we split our jobs so that I would make the motor and the fan and Spelman would make the car. After we finished we taped everything together and our car was working and it was very fast.

Making the flashlight 
The matierals needed were building blocks, 1 LED Light ( Light Emitting Diode ), 1 Motor, Cogs that connect to the motor and spin it and axles. We had to get into groups of three and in my group there was Farzana and Bella. We struggled a bit on getting the light to turn on but after we did we started building the base of the flashlight. After that I came up with a triple cog system idea that was hard to build but we tried it. In the end we didn't complete the flashlight.

Cybersmart | Smart Searching: Key Words

LI: To use keywords for better searching.
We carried on from last week and scanned websites quickly for key information that we had to copy and past into three different slides. If you don't know what we did last week click on the cybersmart label and it is the second one from the top. First we made three copies of the slide. Next we copied and pasted our questions into the slides. Lastly we copied and pasted the information from the sites into the slide.

Writing | Perusaison

LI: What is Persuasion.                                                                                                                        
For writing we are learning about persuasive language. We have to make a poster about the ways you can have an argument. Bias means to take side. Perspective means the way that you see it. We started with a video from kid president. There are six things to do in a argument: Breathe, love, Distract them from the long talk and others.

Maths | Basic Addition facts up to twenty

For the first lesson of maths we are learning all about money. There are some task to pick. In our groups we had to pick who is doing what. Xavier and I are doing basic facts upto 20.We did a quiz. We wanted to see of anyone can pass our quiz. In the quiz there are 16 questions. Make sure you read it propley. You could also make games. When you check it off and the teacher says it's good you get more money (Not Real Money). In my bank I only have 74 dollars and I need to get more money to buy important things. If you would like to play my Game it is the slieshow below. 

Swimming | Water Saftey

LI: To learn water safety skills.
Our first lesson for water safety was used to get into groups and show the instuctors our swimming ability. I was put into Elisabeth's group. In Elisabeth's group, we practised streamline, backstroke and freestyle.

Duffy Theatre

LI: To encourage others to read books. 
This week PBS ( Panmure Bridge School ) had a performance from Duffy encouraging us to read books, They performe in places all around New Zealand to encourage kids to read more books. There were only three actors so it was hard. The characters in the play were called the puzzler, the dismantiler Sam and aunt and Duffy. In the story Sam and Duffy liked a game called Magic Bricks, Duffy gets teleported in the game for doing his grandma's dance ( the Dumpling ). Duffy had to find a way out and fast. They had to read there grandma's book and decipher her hidden code. After the play Me and Andrew thanked them for showing ua the play. 

Kiwi Can

LI: To understand emotions.
In Kiwi Can our new theme was resilience and our topic was emotions. Our activity and energizer were called Emotion Disco. In this game one person would be wearing headphones and the other people had to act an emotion without saying what emotion it was. The person in the headphones had to try and say what emotion they were acting out. Lastly our catchphrase was " Kiwi Can Says, If you feel it, let it out, don't doubt just get it all out ". Our new catchphrase was telling us to let all our emotions out instead of keeping them in because they would eventually burst.

Commenting

LI: To make a smart comment.

This week I commented on my friend Vayans blog. I accidentally wrote Ong's name but I meant Vayan's. A smart comment must include positive feedback in the form of question and a greeting with a goodbye. My Greeting and goodbye was Kia Ora and Keep up the good work because I didn't know the Maori saying for goodbye.

Kiwi Sport | HIIT ( High Intense Interval Training )

LI: To get fit at our own personal pace.
HIIT is about working out and resting while doing the workouts at our personal pace. For hit we had to do some pull ups on bars, some push ups and some mountain climbers. We had to get into partners and my partner was Andrew so I had to motivate Andrew to do his best and Andrew did the same for me. For the pull ups we could put our arms in an over position or a under position, for the push ups, we could do the push ups on our knees, one leg or a normal push up. Lastly for the mountain climbers we could do it on the floor or diagonally on the corner of the stage. 

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 | Finished Play Narratives

LI: To write a play in the form of a narrative.
For our final week in making our play we had to finish the dialogue. Once we finished it Mr Wongs reading group will perform it in front of us. First we had to finish writing our own dialouge with our parteners ( or triple ) and then we would combine our story with our groups to complete our dialogue.
After we got feedback from Mr Ogilvie we had to add narrator roles and tie it off at the end.

Inquiry | Life on other planets

LI: To investigate the likelihood of living on another planet in our Solar System
For our last session in inquiry we had to gather information about if a planet in our Solar System can support human life. After we had gathered some information about our planets we had to make a slide explaining why or why not planets can support human life. After we had made our slide we had to present infornt of Mr Wong and get a score from him out of 3. My groups score was 2/3 and we got points for having the slide polished, having a well reasond conclusion and having everyone ( that was here ) speak. If you want to find out more check the slide above. 

Maths | Mixed Word Problems

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LI: To solve word problems of different types.

This week we had to solve different word problems. The problems worked on our Addition, Subtraction, Multiplacation, Division and Proportions and Ratios ( Fractions ). We had 1 day to try and complete all 15 questions and then we had to present our work infront of Mr Wong and on camera. 

Constellation Creating | Skimming, Scanning & Summarising

LI: To use skimming, scanning and summarising.
In reading we had to make constellations out of scures ( sticks ) and Marshmellos. First we had to get into partners from different reading groups and choose what constellation we were going to make. We had to count how many marshemellos and scures we needed to make our constellation. After we had made our constellations we had to insert our constellation and a real photo of the constellation. After that we had to use scanning and write the names of the stars in our constellation and what star is the brightest in our constellation. after that we had to use skimming and give two pieces of information. Lastly we had to use summarising and make a tweet that is similar to twitter where we had to write a summarisation in 40 words or under.

Maori

LI: To state our likings.
For our last week of Maori we had 2 tasks and they were a Maori word puzzle and a DLO ( Digital Learning Object ) stating 4 things that we like. Our Maori teacher said that we had to find the Maori translation of what we like. I enjoyed this lesson of Maori because like the others they teach us some maori language like this week we learnt that "He pai ki ahau" means " I like " in english.

Kiwi Can

LI: To recap learning from the term.

For the final week of Kiwi Can we got to decide what games we wanted to play. We also recaped on what we have been learning the past term which is honesty, integrity, reliability and responsibility. Honesty means telling the truth, Integrity means doing the right thing, reliability means doing what is needed without being told and responsibility means taking care of what is yours. The two games that the year 5's played was Invisible Rugby and Octopus and the two games that the year 6's played were go home, stay home and octopus. I enjoyed this last session as much as I enjoyed the others because like the others they teach us important lessons.  

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retell a text.
This week for SSR Selfie my book was called 100 things to know about the human body. My book is non-fiction and it tells you intesting facts about the human body. 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.