Touch rugby | Kiwi sport

This week for touch rugby we focused on how to plant the ball. 

Planting the ball is placing the ball under your legs with both hands on the ball. To practice planting the ball we played a game in pairs. We would have to run to a cone then put our right hand up to initiate the touch. We then planted the ball for our partner to pick up. After our partner had picked up the ball they would have to pass it back to the planter. The planter had to make sure they were behind the person who picked up the ball, so that it wasn't a forward pass.

The second game we played was bibs verses non-bibs. On each team a certain group of people had rugby balls. They had to avoid being tagged by the people on the opposing team that didn't have a ball. Same went for the other team. If you had a rugby ball and you got tagged you would have to plant the ball for whoever tagged you. They would then have to try and avoid players.

The last thing we did was an activity that had one attacker and one defender. As we progressed, there were now 2 attackers. The attackers had to make sure that they would make the defender commit to getting them. They then had to pass the ball to there teamate who would get a try.

I suggest trying these activities if you're a beginner in touch rugby or planting the ball.

LI: To learn how to plant the ball. 

Kupu revision | Maori

In Maori we were revising our Kupu task from last week. 

Like last week, there was a list of Maori words to find the english definitions of. To help translate some of the words we used Maori dictionary. Some of the words that I knew the meaning of were: Moana/Sea, Kai/Food and Maunga/Mountain. One word that was new to me was Putiputi/Flower. 

There was also another list of places that we needed to translate into english. Some of the places I knew were: Maungarei/Mount Wellington, Moungawhau/Mount Eden, and Maungakiekie/One tree hill. 

LI: To revise Maori words and phrases.

The Witches | Reading

The Witches is a novel about witches in disguise who want to do horrid things to the children. If there is a kid by themselves its most likely they'll be taken away by a witch.

These witches aren't the kind that are green and have creepy hats, who ride on broom sticks. These witches are REAL. They have terrific faces that will spook people out of their skin. The only reason they aren't caught easily is because they disguise themselves as ordinary women with ordinary jobs. The lovely teacher who shares knowledge with the classroom, could be a WITCH! 

Witches are ALWAYS plotting on a way to terrorize children. There are certain ways to figure out a witch and they're: a REAL witch will always be wearing gloves, a REAL witch is as bald as a boiled egg, you might catch them scratching there head because of wig - rash, witches have slightly larger noseholes than normal people and the rim of each nose hole is pink and curly.

Witches is a book, that should be interesting for little kids and older kids. The book is very interesting.

LI: To study a novel.

 

Maths in jobs | Maths

 Different kinds of math is used in all jobs, in cooking chefs use measurement, estimation and counting. 

In cooking measurement can be used to measure the amount of an ingredient. Estimation can be used when getting ingredients because people can guess how many ingredients they'll need depending on how many people will be eating. People can then count the amount of ingredients to get. 

It's important to be good at measurement in cooking because the dish will turn out nicely. Even when people are at home they could make their own food. 

Not being good at measurement could make the dish have a one sided flavour. If the chef is not good at estimation and counting then they could make to much or too little of a food.

Maths is a very good skill to have in any job, make sure to practice as much as possible.    

Inquiry | Tempature experiments

Insulators are materials that limit heats movement.

Insulators are used to stop heat from traveling. Five materials were experimented on for the ability to insulate: glass, plastic, metal, paper, and polystyrene.

The best insulator for keeping things warm was polystyrene because it only lost 8 degrees over time. The worst insulator for keeping in heat was tin, plastic, and paper because they lost 10 degrees over time.

The best insulator for keeping things cold was paper and polystyrene because they only lost 2 degrees over time. The worst insulator for keeping things cold was glass.

The best insulator for both hot and cold was polystyrene.

Kupu | Maori

 In Maori we were doing a task called Kupu. 

We had a list of Maori words to translate, we were using the Maori dictionary to translate them. The english translations in green were the ones that are correct. The words I knew were: tane/boy, makariri/cold, ka pai/good and wera/hot. One word that was new for me was rangatira which translates into chief. 

Inquiry | Experiments

 This week in inquiry we conducted expirements. We did the experiment to figure out the absorbency of materials. We also did the experiment to learn about experimental methods, consistancy and precision.

First, I gathered a specific amount of materials. We got 100ml of water inside a beaker, we also put exactly 5 drops of food colouring in the water. 

Next, we got 50g of our material. We tipped all of our water onto our material, we then carefully tipped the water out into the beaker. We looked at how much water wasn't absorbed.

Lastly, we wrote down our results on a recording sheet. To be consistant and precise we had to learn how to use the equipment correctly. 

I learned that rocks aren't very absorbent, and diapers are very absorbent.

LI: To learn and practice experimental methods.

Formal & Informal | Writing

Formality is knowing if the situation is formal or informal and knowing what language to use. There are also different kinds of formality in some cultures. 

Formal means when you have to follow the rules. An example of formal language is: "Would you like to watch the rugby game with me?" Example of formal situations are: meetings, interviews, funerals and church.

Informal is when you don't have to follow the rules. An example of informal language is: "Chur broo wanna go watch rugby, eyy?"Examples of informal situations are: playing at the park, going shopping, birthdays and hallowenn.

Sometimes formal situations can be similar to informal situations, for example: having a meeting at the park or having lunch at a meeting.

 LI: To identify formal and informal language.

Te Reo Maori

This week we learned how to say body parts in Maori. 

First, we did a task called Te Tinana. We re-arranged the Maori words with the English words so that they would match body parts.

Next, we highlighted the body parts that we knew, the ones we didn't know we left blank.

I think I should try to expand my Maori vocabulary because I didn't know that many words. 

Maths | Converting measurements

Converting measurements is to multiply or divide, the width or length of an object.

When a measurement has been multiplied by 10, then the decimal moves right once. 

When a measurement has been divided by 100, then the decimal moves left twice.

Place value houses are good to help with converting.