Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: To learn the basic grip on a Tennis Racket

Our new Kiwi Sport for the next 6 weeks will be tennis. The person coaching us for the next 6 weeks is coach Peter. Today we were just learning about the different techniques. Coach peter said that for our warm up we had to get in pairs. One of us would drop a Tennis ball and the other person tried to catch it, This warmed up our reactions. Our activity helped us learn the forehand and backhand technique. The forehand is when your dominant hand ( The one you write with ) is at the bottom of the racket. The backhand is when the dominant hand is still on the bottom but your other hand goes above the bottom hand.

Maori | Ko wai to hoa

LI: To learn new Maori words and phrases
In Maori our new task today was to watch the 3rd part of the video. After the video we had to translate the words and phrases into english. After we had finished the video and the translations we had to answer questions about ourselves, the problem was we had to translate the questions into english as well.

Legal and Illegal Images | Cybersmart

LI: To understand legal and illegal images.

In cybersmart we are learning about legal and illegal images and how to identify them. Legal images are appropriate and give you permission to use it, but illegal images are inappropriate and do not give you the right to use it. We also had to find 2 websites that we can get images from and photos of illegal and legal images. 

Kiwi Can | Respect

LI: To learn about respect.
In Kiwi Can our enrgizer was called challenges. In this activity we had to get into 4 groups and each group had a leader. The leader would go up to the Kiwi can teachers and they would give us a task to tell our group. The group members had to listen to there leader and complete what the leader said. After that we talked a little more about respect and how to respect ourselves. Afterwards we had our activity which was called human knot. We split into two groups and we had to hold peoples hands with both of our hands. The people you were going to hold hands with couldn't be next to you. You had to try and untangle you and your group first.

Kiwi Can | Respect

LI: To learn about respect
In Kiwi Can we continue to learn about respect. In this session our energizer was called "VS" and we had to show our opionion about what we like more for example "Chicken nuggets vs Fries" So if you like fries more you would go to the right side or if you like chicken nuggets more you would go to the left side. Each side would then share a statement about why there choice is better. The Kiwi Can leaders would then choose what side had the better statement and then they would collect a point. Then we were talking about respect again. Our activity was wisdom vs brawn. In this activity we split the class up and see if they can do a physical activity or multiple riddles. We would then come together to talk about what we did.

Maori | Nga Atua | Wiki Rua

LI: To finish tasks that relate to Maori.
In Maori my group ( group 1 ) had to do one more main task which was Nga Atua ( Finding the Maori gods ). After we had finished that task we were trying to say where we are from in Maori ( No hea koe? - Where are you from?, No Tamaki Makaurau - From Auckland ). We were also talking to our Maori teacher about different Maori phrases.

Maths | Definition Finding

LI: To reasearch 
This week we had to complete an activity in order to find out our study topic for this terms maths. We did this in groups. The activity we had to do was to find the definition and the function of specific words that related to the topic. The words we had to find definitions and functions for were hints to our topic. Not all words had a function. We had to make a table and do some research on the words. Once we finished finding the definitions and functions, we had to put our prediction at the bottom the google doc and say what we thought the topic was going to be.

There were 21 words in total. We had to divide and conquer to complete the task within a certain time limit. After we discussed the answers we had to say our predictions and specifically state every answer we thought as well as the prediction. We are now studying aircrafts.

Inquiry | Companies

LI: Finding the definition of a enterprise and buisness

This week in inquiry we had to figure out the definition of enterprise and buisness. Our first task was getting into groups of three ( or four ) and discussing what the definition of enterprise was with our group members. Next we had to find 100 buisness, what they sell and there price range. For example KFC sells chips, nuggets, drinks, burgers and more, there price range is from $1 - maybe $15. The definition of enterprise is a bold or complex project and the definition of buisness is " a buisness can earn profit for the products they sell.

Reading | Vocab Builder & Rap Lyric or Poetic Verse

LI: To Build knowledge of vocabulary, and links words create to the wider world.

This week in reading we are trying to make two slides about building our vocabulary and finding out if a verse is a rap lyric or a poetic verse. In the vocab builder we had to choose a label ( a item ), how the label functions, its associations, the category it is in ( a fork is a piece of cutlery ), the similarities and differences between the label and the association and lastly multiple meanings of it. In the rap lyric vs poetic verse we had to find multiple rap lyrics and poetic verses and people had to guess if it was a poetic verse or a rap lyric.

Writing | Practice Test

LI: To write a proper imaginitive recount
This week in writing we were trying to recap things about a recount. We got into test conditions ( Being quiet and making sure no one can see our screen ) and then we had 40 minutes to write a recount. Our teacher had given us a idea which was us winning 1 million dollars and what we would do with it. In our recounts we had to include an Idea, structure & language ( TREE ), organisation ( time order ), sentence structure ( Simple/Compound/Complex ), Vocabulary ( The "Fancy" words you use ), Punctuation & Spelling. After the 40 minutes we had to mark ourselves in the 7 catergories then we had to find a partner and see if they would agree ( we had to rank ourselves from 3 - 5 ).

Math Recap

LI: To recall multiple core skills.
This week in maths we had to recap over multiple skills. Some of the skills were basic facts, tidy numbers, place value, repeated addition, rounding & compensating, written algorithim and reversing. We also had to use adding, subtracting, multiplying, and division in a game called scattergories. To play all you need is a pen/pencil, a piece of paper or a book and friends. Everyone gets one question like 15 addition and then you have 2 minutes to write down as many ways to add up to 15.

To do reversing a question could be 35 − 23, instead of subtracting it you can try add it for example: 23 + ? = 35 ( 2 + 23 = 25 + 10 = 35 ) ( 2+10 = 12 ), the answer is 12. We also had to calculate the area & perimiter and we had to identify the fractions.

Maori

LI: To learn about Moari
In our first session of Maori we had to first try get into 4 groups of 6. Each group was given a task and then after some time we would have to rotate to the next task. The tasks my group completed were the Kotahi one were we had to try find the translations to Maori words and we also completed the Whakapakehatia task were we had to watch 2 videos and then translate the phrases into english. My group has finished 2 out of the 4 tasks but the other 2 WIP ( Work In Progress ) tasks will be added soon.

Kiwi Can

LI: To respect ourselves
For the first week in Kiwi Can we had a new teacher ( Kiwi Can leader ) and his name was Mr Simanu ( sorry if I spelt it wrong ). Our new theme is respect and our catchphrase was "R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me". In our energizer we had three commands which were Apple, Banana & Orange. Apple meant we had to jump forward, Orange meant we had to jump backwards & and Banana meant we had to jumps and face the other direction ( 180 or 90 turn ). Then we talked about how & why we should respect ourselves. We can respect ourselves by making sure we are in a healthy condition, and we should respect ourselves because other people can also respect us. Lastly for our activity we were trying to guess between two different options like was I a duck or a skydiver. For each question we got right we would get a point. Some people were also lukcy because they got to have a turn asking questions to other people about themselves.