Basic Facts

LI: To remember basic facts
This week for basic facts I had to answer questions that are related to addition, subtraction, multiplacation and division. I did Addition and Subtraction up to 100 because I wanted to challenge myself

Basic Facts

LI: To remember basic facts
This week for basic facts I had to answer questions that are related to addition, subtraction, multiplacation and division. I did Addition and Subtraction up to 100 because I wanted to challenge myself

Prototec | Maths

LI: To remeber basic maths facts.
This week in maths I was doing Prototec. Prototec helps us with our Basic maths facts, and how fast we can recall them. For this task I had to complete one of the tasks on prototec, I then had to explain how I did and I had to insert screenshots of my task in the slide below.
Link to Prototec.

Explain that Idiom | Reading

LI: To practice using idioms
This week for reading I did Explain that Idiom. For explain that Idiom you have to choose I idiom then create a video showing that idiom being used. Idioms are phrases that don't usually mean what they would mean. Like a piece of cakes means the task was easy to overcome. Not a literal piece of cake.

The Idiom I chose was Spin a yarn. Spin a yarn means that someone tells a long and far-fetched story. To see more about my video watch the slides below.

Anywords / Writing

LI: To recall and play with words.
For writing this week I played Anywords with my mum ( Crystal ). In Anywords two players have to face off, trying to create as much words as they can. Once the board is full or neither player can think of a word then that is game it. Make sure to keep your score below. 

How to play:

• Players write words vertically or horizontally. One letter per square.
• Each new word must be connected to a previously written word.
• All connections must make sense. For example, ‘d’ and ‘f’ can never be next to each other in any direction by themselves because they don’t make a word, but ‘i’ and ‘t’ can because they spell ‘it’
• Each word created is one point for the creator.
  

  

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retell a text.
This week for SSR Selfie my book was called Ninja Kid 3. My book is fiction book and it tells you about a nerdy kid called Nelson who becomes a Ninja on his 10th birhtday. 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.

Writing | Complex Sentence

A complex sentence is a full simple sentence with an incomplete idea added on with a subordinating conjunction and a comma (Sometimes).

The subordinating conjunctions are remembered using an acrynom: AAAWWUBBIS which stands for - After, Although, As, While, When, Until, Because, Before, Is, Since.

A complex sentence can be made using the steps shown below in the slide show.

LI: To write meaningful and interesting complex sentences.

Kiwi Can | Role Models

This week in Kiwi part of LS1 were learning about role models. Role Models are people that we look up to, people who show expectation and people who show you the right path to follow. We also had a new Kiwi Can leader, his name is Lilo.

Energizer
Our energizer today was called "Hammer". Mrs Grace would call out up, down or Hammer. In this game we were playing with a partner. Your hands had to be placed stacked on top of one anothers.

When down is called the top person would move there hand to the bottom. The same thing works for up, if Mrs Grace calls up then the bottom person would become the top person. If Mrs Grace called Hammer, then we would have to try hit the person in the middle.

Activity
Our activity was called noughts and crosses. The noughts and crosses we were playing is very similar to the real noughts and crosses, but instead of using noughts and crosses we used people.

LI: To discuss what role models are.

Visualising

Visualising is drawing an image, map, mind map, or infographic about text that is difficult to understand.

To visualise a difficult sentence, break it up in to parts and then draw each part.

If there are any words that are unknown they should be looked up in the children's dictionarys, children dictionarys are best suited for young learners.


Visualising is a good to easily understand difficult texts.
LI: To learn about visualising.

First Waka

Originally there were no people in New Zealand. The first people to settle in New Zealand came in a series of waka.

The first ten waka were named Kurahaupo, Takitimu, Mataatua, Tainui, Te Arawa, Aotea, Tokomaru, Horouta, Uruao and Arai-te-uru.

Most of the waka visited the North Island. Some of the places the waka landed at were Te Awanui, Tauranga Moana and Horomaka.

The ten waka came to New Zealand to discover new lands for people to live.

LI: To learn about early exploration.

Kupe & Cook

Kupe and Cook are 2 important explorers in New Zealand History.

Kupe

Kupe arrived in New Zealand in the 1100's. He traveled by traditional methods on a traditional sail boat. Myth has it he followed a giant Octopus. He did this voyage to find new land for his people to live. His wife named New Zealand Aotearoa after seeing mountains under the clouds. 

Cook

Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769. He arrived in New Zealand in the Endeavour which was an armored boat. He was trying to find the unkown southern continent ( Australia ) but instead found New Zealand. 

Kupe is important because he was the first documented person in New Zealand.

Cook is important because he mapped New Zealand and opened it up to the world to access.

Writing | Compound Sentences

LI: To write a meaningful and intresting compound sentence.
Mr Wong's writing groups had to write multiple compound sentence.

Compound sentences are two ideas stuck together with a comma and a conjunction.

For this task we had to go through a series of images and we had to describe them all with a compound sentence.

To create a compound sentence you can use the following steps:

First think of two simple sentences.

Next think of a conjunction/FANBOYS ( For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So ) while also using a comma.

Lastly put the sentence together.

There are more examples on the slide below.

Commenting

LI: To create a smart comment
This week in commenting I commented on my friend Leon's blog. In a comment you must include, a piece of advice or a compliment and a dialogic question ( A question that you can make a conversation out of.

Rippa Rugby | Kiwi Sport

LI: To learn the basics of rippa rugby.

This week in Kiwi Sport, we were learning how to rip peoples tags ( Rippa's ), catching and throwing the ball. Our coaches were Justice & Andrew.

First, we were practising throwing and catching. We got into groups and lined up behind five cones and the first group held the ball. The person in the front of each group had to run and pass the ball backwards to the first person in the group on the right. We catch by putting our hands into a "W or w" form.

Next, we all played a fun game of rippa rugby. There were two teams, a green team and a red team (I was in the green team). We needed to tap and pass the ball. This was a girls versus boys game. The boys ended up winning, with a LOT of rips.

I enjoyed this weeks session with Justice & Andrew. I think I could personally improve on passing and speed.

Writing | Simple Sentences

LI: to write meaningful and interesting SIMPLE sentences.

Simple Sentences are sentences with one idea. An idea is one action performed by someone ( an actor, but not a movie actor ). 

The following text will explain how to create a simple sentence. 

first explain the action and the tense for example: Run = The action  Running = the tense, Jump = The action Jumped = the tense.

second explain the actor ( NOT A MOVIE ACTOR LIKE CHRIS EVANS ), for example; A snake, frog, sun and a bird. 

third explain what the actor is acting on for example; a snake on a tree branch, or a frog on some leafs.

Lastly put the sentence together for example; A frog is jumping from leaf to leaf.

Explorers and Adventurers

Explorers are people who travel and discover new things.

Explorers are people who travel to find new things and record them for the community such as Sylvia Earle or Neil Armstrong.

Adventurers are people who travel to take part in something for themselves such as Sir Edmund Hillary,Bear Grylls

Explorers and adventurers need to have or show many different attitudes such as being Curious because being curious lets people learn about new interesting things.

Both explorers and adventurers travel to new places and need similar qualities although their goals are different.

Keywords | Reading

Keywords are words that help to research specific information about the chosen topic. They can also give appropriate information to young learners.

 Keywords can be used to find information that is understandable and readable by children. Keywords are also for narrowing down the information gained by an internet search.

Keywords are useful tool that should be used in every search. 
LI: To create an understanding about keywords.

Legal & Ilegal images

A legal image is an image that can be used with permission by law.

Image creater(s) give legal permission to use their images by adding a sharing license.

It is important to use legal images to help creators, and so users don't get in trouble.

Use public domains ( Pixabay ) to help find more free images.

LI: To learn how to identify Legal & Illegal images.