Building a xylophone.

 Today I made two xylophones from paper and glass cups.

I put water in the glass cups so when I hit it it will make a different sound. I cut the paper in smaller pieces so when I hit it it will make different sounds.

when you hit the objects the sound vibrates in it to make sound.

below shows 2 videos of me hitting the objects.

Presentation | Inquiry

We presented our inquiry presentation to the teachers of LS1 the teachers are ,Mr Wong & Mr Ogilvie.

Before presenting our inquiry, we practised our script and timed how long the whole presentation took. The presentation expectation was to be within 2 and 3 minutes.

The feedback that we got was to not write a recount on what we worked on together, but instead talk about the main points of the activity. 

Te reo Maori

 Today for SLJ we worked on te reo Maori.

first we had to fix the gaps that spell (What are you doing today) in Maori and then it says what are you doing and have to fill the gaps in and lastly we get to answer the same question but at the end was my choice to choose.

Below is a google slide showing what I did.

Optical Illusions

 Today for SLJ I worked on making Optical Illusions.

Optical Illusions are geometric pictures or patterns that are mainly coloured in black or white. We were suppose to make our own optical Illusion.  

Below shows an Optical Illusion I made and coloured it in black and white.

Kowhaiwhai Pattern

 Today for SLJ worked on making a Kowhaiwhai pattern.

We had to copy and paste the Kowhaiwhai pattern repeatedly so it could make a pattern. After that you could change the background to colours that you think represents a tanerore or a colour that represents the summer.

Below is a picture of my creation of the Kowhaiwhai pattern.

 

Commenting

 Today I blogged on Ahli's blog for SLJ. 

I commented on his Insect Art blog post and I liked his blog, I was also impressed on how well done he has done his art 

Insect Art

Today this task for SLJ is Insect Art.

First we watched a video showing an artist making insects from leave's, twigs and other thing in nature.

I made my insect from 8 twigs, 4 small spiky leaves, 1 tiny pine cone, and 1 empty nut shell.

The insect I made was a spider and the materials took a lot of time to get.

Fishing False Teeth | Summer Learning Journey

 Today for SLJ I was doing a task called fishing false teeth.

First I got to read an article about fishing false teeth and after was a template showing characters in the book and showed who they are and what part they play in the story.

Below shows a slide with different picture and have to make a comic out of it.

 

Nanogirl scavenger hunt | Summer Learning Journey

 This week we were working on a Nano girl task for SLJ. We got to find 7 materials to get for our scavenger.   

We got scissors, Aluminium foil and cans, egg cartons, ruler, thin cardboard, and paper.

Below is a video showing the all the materials.

    

 

Art Coloring Book

This Morning we worked on one of the task that summer learning Journey put on their blog. the task that they did was Art Coloring Book, the site showed many different pictures of famous painting or famous landmarks, we got to pick a picture and had to colour the pictures in, there are different colours that you could choose to customize it. I picked one of the pictures and coloured it my way.

Inquiry

This week we were doing our Resource requisition, shelter materials.

First we figured out what materials we needed to make our shelter outside ls1. We thought of Wool, Plaster, Clay bricks and Aluminum cans. The cans hold up our roof so it won’t collapse the clay bricks to make our shelter wool take a while to burn so my group and I chose wool.

 

Then the layers of the structure had clay on the outside layer, aluminium cans on the inside layer, the wool will be on the inside of the aluminium cans and the plaster of paris is to hold the materials together. 

After my group and I corrected our shelter materials and model with Mr Wong we finished and got our materials.  

Not most materials can protect against natural disasters.

Touch Rugby

  We continued with practicing 3 man settle and 2 man settle with Coach Mark.

First we practised 2 and 3 man settles to get ready for a game of touch. Coach Mark told us to aim for one person when we drive the ball down the field.

Next we played a game of touch. The game was for learning how to play and how to use a 2 and 3 man settle.

I enjoyed the 2 man settle and the game of touch but I need to get better at 3 man settle so I won't get confused on who the person will pass the ball to.

Fractions | Math

 A fraction is a whole thing cut into equal pieces.

A half is a whole thing cut into 2 equal pieces.

A thirds is a whole thing cut into 3 equal pieces.

A quarter is a whole thing cut into 4 equal pieces.

Below is a slide that shows all fractions up to 10.

L.I to define "fractions'

 

Maori names - Rua

This week for Maori we did a session with Wheae Odie.

 The first activity we did was learning left and rights in Maori.  left in Maori is Maui and right in Maori is Matao. We played a game to show if we learned our left and rights.

Next we had to match English names with Maori names. 

For example Warena means Warren and Wikitoria means Victoria. 

 I enjoyed this activity because it helps me learn new Maori words.

Emergency shelter | Inquiry

 This week, our company (Global Savers) brainstormed ideas for an emergency shelter design.  We needed to think of a main shape and design of the emergency shelter.  We also needed to think about what our shelter will be designed to resist.

 My group used a design programme called SketchUp, that allows people to design and create anything they want in three dimensions. 

We chose to use a hexagon shape to make this model Me and my group chose this shape because it seems like a very strong shape.

We made the walls thick so it could keep people inside of it safe.  We would make the shape tall so incase of an emergency we could fit quite a few people in there.

Maori Names

 This week for Te Reo Maori we did a task called Maori Names.

First I went on Maori dictionary to search up the Maori names and then put the English names near what the name meant in Maori.

We also learnt new words. The words we learnt was front, behind, left, right, in and out means in Maori.

After I marked the Maori with Whaea Odie to see if they were right.

I enjoyed this because I learnt new Maori names.

Duffy Theater - Bex meets Milly

 We watch a performance by Duffy theatre group about the Coggen. A Coggen is a mythical creature that is a mixture  of a cat, dog, and chicken.

Before the show, the actors introduced themselves. Then we sang the Duffy song.

The the actors performed for us.

Lastly the Duffy group held a question and answer session.

I enjoyed the Duffy performance 

Fractions

A fraction is a whole thing cut into equal pieces. 

A half is a whole thing cut into two equal pieces.

A quarter is a whole thing cut into four equal pieces.

Here is an example of what each fraction looks like.

 

Touch Rugby | Kiwi Sport

Today for Touch rugby we learnt the skills on how to play the game.

The first skill planting the ball. We had to place the ball between our legs so when we plant the ball we step over the it and let the other person get it.

Second we learnt passing the ball and planting the ball in different cones. My partner I worked with was suppose to pick put the ball and pass it to me to plant it to another cone.

Lastly we did Defending and Attacking. Defending and Attacking were 2 teams. One team was the defender and one team was the attacker. The attacker was suppose to hold the ball and get it to the other side without getting touched and defender was suppose to stop the attacker from getting the ball to the other side.

I enjoyed this activity because it teaches me how to learn the basic skills of touch rugby.  

Division story problem

For math I learnt how to use division.

I shared the number evenly among how many groups there were. 

For example. I got 2 objects and shared them evenly among 2 groups.

I gave them 1 object each and wrote the algorithm. 2 ÷ 2 = 1.            

                                                                                                             

I enjoyed this activity because it teaches me how to divide numbers.  

    

Kupu

For Maori our work was called kupu. 

The kupu task was about translating Maori words into English words.

For example, tama is Maori for boy, and whenua is Maori for land. 

We also worked on writing the daily routine in Maori and had to translate Maori words from a Maori song to English words to understand it more better.

I enjoyed this activity because I understand new Maori words easier 

Touch Rugby

Today we learned some basic skills for touch rugby.

First we learned how to tap the ball, catch, and pass the ball.

Afterwards we played passing drills to get better at committing to the ball and catching.

I enjoyed this activity because we learned basic touch skills. 

Keeping it warm & cool

Insulators are used to stop heat from moving place to place. Five materials were tested for the ability to insulate: glass, plastic, metal, paper, and polystyrene.

The best insulator for keeping things warm was polystyrene. 

The best insulator for keeping it cold was paper.

The best insulator was polystyrene.  

Te Tinana

This week for Te Reo Maori we did a task about our body called Te Tinana.

We worked on how to say different body parts.  For example puku means stomach and ngutu means lip. 

We highlighted the body parts we knew in blue and the ones we didn't know were left blank . 

We had to match the Maori words with the English words.

Before the Te Tinana activity we had to match Maori words with different pictures that were showing different weathers. 

This helps us learn more Maori words easier 

Mixed word problem

 This week I learnt how to use brackets for math.

First there were word problems that we had to finish. When we wrote the answer we had to use brackets to tell the reader we are doing that equation first.

Lastly I wrote the amount as a sentence.

L.I to write word problems in order using brackets.

 

 

Safety plan

 For inquiry we checked out the hazards, risk, and consequences that could happen during making a fire and smores.

First, we discussed different hazards and risks. Next we wrote it down. A hazard for the fire is the fire itself and the consequences are getting burnt.

Then, we discussed some consequences that could happen. Consequences can be how can we prevent it, whose responsibility is it, and the emergency plan.

Mr Ogilvie lit up the fire and then demonstrated how to roast the marshmallows. After he demonstrated we made our own smores.

After, we made another safety plan for making the smores with the fire. We repeated the same process but wrote down different hazards, risks and consequences. Then we made smores.

 LI: to demonstrate prior knowledge 

Making connection

LI-To identify and describe connections.

 Connections are similar and relate to text to self, text to text, text to world.

Text to Self relates to actions between the book and the yourself. For example 

the mouse is confident to the Grufallo. My connection is I am confident to the teacher when I show feedback.

Text to Text relates to action from the book to another book. For example the mouse tries to get out of being eaten. My connection is the gingerbread man runs away to get out of being eaten.

Text to World relates to the actions between the book and whats happening in the world. For example

The mother squirrel collects food for her children. My connection is mothers in the world go to the shops to collect food to feed their children.

These 3 things help people to understand what they are reading. 

 

Setting description

A setting description describes what a place looks ,smells, feels, sound like.

When describing the look of something people use adjectives like: yellow, shiny and more.

To describe the feeling of something people use adjectives like: cold, damp, jagged and more. This helps people to understand the feeling of something.

To describe the smell people use adjectives like: mud, fresh and more. This helps people to understand the scent of something.

When describing the sound of something people use adjectives like: fast, quick and more.

A setting description helps people to link to that setting is because more information is covered about that setting.

L.I to write a setting description.

Risk & Hazards

L.I: to assess the likelihood

This week we were learning about hazards and risk.

First we had to give each situation a number that relates to low, likely, possible, elevated, extreme risk.

Second we wrote consequences to go with the situatioan. Consequences are something that results from the situasituation.

Our group discuss the risk if it was low, likely, or extreme risk.t

LI: to assess the likelihood 

LI: to assess consequences

Multiplication word problems and coding

For math I learned how to make multiplication word problems.
First I made stories for the multiplication word problems. I used the group size and the number of groups to make the stories. Second I coded the answers to say incorrect or correct. Last I wrote the answer to see if the coding worked.
L.I to identify and solve multiplication word problems

Hazards & Risks

L.I to demonstrate prior knowledge.

My group learnt how to identify risks and hazards.

First, we discussed what hazards and risks are.  Hazards are something that can be used to cause injuries or pain, and risks are the possibility that something will happen to cause harm or pain.

Then, We focused on finding four hazards at home, four hazards at school, four hazards in sport and four hazards in our community.

After that, we worked on identifying the risks that the hazards cause.  We put our understanding of each risk and hazard into a google slide.

The google slide shows what the hazard is and the risks that the hazard can cause.  The hazards that we put for school are:Bookshelf, Glue gun, Being late, Not completing work, and some others.

The purpose of this activity is to understand the risks that hazards can cause.

Character Descriptions

Character descriptions describe the character. There are three areas to cover in a character description, personality, appearance, and experience.

The appearance describes the face and hair, the body, the clothes.

The experience describes where they live, their friends, interest, hobbies, talents, secrets, and achievements.

The personality describes what kind of person they are, how they behave, what they say, what makes them interesting and different.

The character description uses figurative and literal language. This activity helps people to write a character description using the appearance, experience and personality.

L.I to write a Character Description. 

The Grufallo

Visualizing is a reading activity that uses coming up with a picture of something in someones head.

The Grufallo story needs people to visualize how the Grufallo looks.

Visualizing is a good activity that people use to understand the books.

LI:to visualize the main ideas of a story.

T-Chart

This week we found pros and cons of food storage containers by using T-charts and the reciprocal reading work.

First my group and I chose a container to read about. We read the text and summarised the information to get an idea of what the container was used for.

After reading the text we found the pros and cons of the container using a T-chart. We also looked at the images to find the cons.

Then we repeated the work again on different containers.

This is a WIP (work in progress) that will be finished next week.

4 x tables

Multiplication is an easy way to add a large amount of the same number.

For example 4+4+4+4+4 which is adding in 4 groups of five so 4 x 5 = 20.

This slide show will tell you about 4 times table.

L.I to identify multiplication and word problems.

Space food & Dippy Dinner Dippers Venn diagram

The differences between other words can be used with a Venn diagram.

The Dippy Diner Dippers is about a family that are messy eaters and Space food is about preserving food when going to space.

Space food gives actual facts and shows what micro organisms do to your food and the 
Dippy Dinner Dippers is a family that eat a different combination of food.

Both of the stories are fictional books and the texts are narratives.

   

Figurative language

Figurative language is the hidden messages thats explained from a person.

Simile means comparing two things using like or as.

Hyperbole means exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.

Metaphor means two things that are compared without us in like or as.

Personification means giving human to objects or ideas.

Understatement means expression with less strength than expected.

L.I Figurative language

Kiwi Sport: Swimming

Today I practised my water safety skills at the Lagoon Pools.

The first skill I practised was streamline. To do streamline kicking  I put my hands pointing above my ears. I had to jump in the water kicking with my legs.

Then I practised rotation kicking. To do rotation kicking I jumped off the platform and had to be in the water  rotating my body around.

Lastly I practised the dolphin kick. To do the dolphin kick I jump in the water with our legs together and kicked at the same time. I had to jump in the water and I had to put my back up and down.

I got better at the dolphin kick but I need to improve on my kicking

L.I to develop knowledge of water safety

Swimming

For our swimming session the year 5 had to go to swimming groups we went last year. We went to each of our swimming groups.


Our coach was called coach James. He taught us how to float instead of sinking or drowning.
I had to put my body's flat so we can float.

If we put our head up while we float we sink.
I also got taught how to swim faster and kick with our legs.

I used a swimming technique called the dolphin. I had to point my hands above my ears and when I jumped in the water I had to put my legs together and kick.


I used another technique called the frog kick. I had kick my feet and swim down to the other side.

After I jumped off the platform

we had to high five his hand and we had to get out of the pool

Multiplication

L.I Learn about times table.

Multiplication is an easy way to count the same number in other ways. For example 7+7+7+7+7+7 is counting 7 six's that is 7 x 6 = 42

Explain idioms

This week in reading we worked on idioms. We got to pick two or three partners for the work.  '

We had to pick 2 idioms which was by the skin of my teeth and don't judge a book by it's cover.

We had to write a script after we chose our idioms we went and recorded our self's showing the idiom. 

I enjoyed making and recording the idioms 

L.I Practise using idioms

Old

L.I building vocabulary.

Synonyms means a word that means the same and

Synonyms means nearly spelt the same.

we've been talking about verbs nouns adverbs and Adjectives

Adjectives are describing word. A noun is used to name a person,animal,place and thing. A verb is an action word. Adverbs are describing a way that something happens.

Also I chose the word old for the

Tangrams

Today I learned how to make tangrams. I rearranged the pieces to make animal shapes.

First I made a square piece of paper because tangrams are made from a big square. Then I folded the square into various shapes and cut them out.

Lastly, I tried to make different animal shapes from the tangram pieces.

I enjoyed making the animals from the different pieces of paper.

QAR

Today I did a reading activity called questioning.I had to put pictures and words from a book to different slides.Right there,think and search,author and me,on my own.

To answer the questions I had to read a book called thirst.The book was about a family that had no water.

How I answered the right questions is I had to read the questions in the boxes and put them in each of the slides but the last slide is my decision.

L.I to identify question types

L.I to locate the answers in the text.

Predictions

In our reading session I did a task were I had to create some predictions on a book. 

My first prediction was that the family would see the fireworks go off. This prediction was incorrect, instead they went to a lake to have a swim.

My second prediction was that people went to a lake to wait for the new year. This prediction was correct.

I got 3 out of 6 predictions correct and the activity was fun.

L.I To predict the events to come.

Light and sound vocabulary

Light is energy that makes things visible. Sounds are waves that can be heard.

First we had to match words from a list with the definitions. We could use a dictionary to help us.

Next we did the Draw,Act,Find and animation.

My group did echo for draw. We drew someone hearing an echo. We also made a video about a person going behind a window and showing an example about what transparent is.

I learnt specific meaning and actions by doing this activity






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Prodigy

Today I played a game called prodigy.

It's kinda like Pokemon but you have to do math questions.

You have to answer the questions to battle the person that your fighting.

Simple sentence

L.I: To show an increasing knowledge of how a range of text conventions can be used appropriately

This week my class and I practice creating a simple sentence. We had to visualise each picture and make a simple sentences. A simple sentence is 1 complete thought. This is an example: "He nearly caught the ball.". That is a simple sentence because its explaining about what he did.

Visualising

Visualising is drawing a picture map, mind map, or infographic about text that is difficult to understand.

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

 If there is a word that you dont know they should be looked up in the dictionary. Children dictionaries are best s for learners. Visualising is a good way to easily understand difficult texts.

 L.I - To learn how to visualise

3D art

Today I did my 3D art. It was hard doing the shapes and I did a little bit of mistakes but I rubbed it out and managed to be done

First waka

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

The first ten waka were named Kurahaupo,Takitimu,Mataatua,ainui,te Arawa,Aotea,tokomaru horouta,Uruao,Arai-te-uru.

Most of the waka visited the north island. Some of the places the waka landed at were Tom bowling bay,

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

L.I To learn about the first waka

Rippa rugby

My class and I went and played rippa rugby. First when we went there we had to be with 2 rippa rugby players. We played a game to warm us up. The game was there was 2 teams and we had to get a ball and give it to the next person and then sit down. After we had  to play rippa rugby. We played rippa rugby and it was fun.

Place value

Today I made a blog post about my place value.  The slide show tells you what a place value is and what it includes.

Listening

KiwiCan was about listening

We played 'bop the cone' to practice listening for instructions.

We also played 'Chinese whispers ' to practice listening and hearing information.

I thought Chinese whispers was a good way to practice listening skills.

Kupe & cook Early NZ Exploration

Kupe and cook are 2 important explorers in new Zealand's history

Kupe arrived in NZ in the 1100's. He traveled by traditional methods on a traditional sail to 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 NZ Aotearoa after seeing mountains under the clouds.

Cook arrived in 1769  Captain cook found new Zealand Because the queen of England told him to go with his voyage and find a new place.Captain James cook went to find new Zealand Captain James cook was famous of finding a country.

Kupe is important because he was the first documented person in NZ. Cook is important because he mapped NZ and opened it up to the world to access.

       

Commenting

Today i commented on Hectors blog . I blog on his Legal and illegal blog post. I asked him a question

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Keywords

Keywords are words that help to research specific information about a 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 for narrowing down the information gained by an internet search.

Keywords are useful tools that should be used in every search.

Legal and illegal images

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

Image creators give legal permission to use their image by adding a sharing license.

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

When using images , make sure to check the license for permission.

L.I to understand what legal and illegal images are.

Reading -Idioms

Today me and my friend Xavier made a video of what a idiom There's the example in the video.
We worked hard of making a video.
Here's an  example of what a idiom is easy as pie.

Commenting

I commented on akifa's blog post because of the 3D shapes and the background.

Kiwi can

L.I To communicate  positively

Today My class and I went to kiwi can. We played a game I don't know the name of the game but  I know how to play. First there are some cones and some of them are right side up and up side down. One team had to flip the cones around and the other team gets to put it upside down. The other team won and The other team lost. The next game it was called street fighter. The staff had to call out numbers and we had to do the moves so when he calls out 1,2,3,4,5 which is a punch 2 is two punches 3 is kick 4 is jump twist and punch 5 is you have to put your hands together and split them apart and point straight. We had to move different places so we don't hit anybody. The staff has to pick a person and pick any number and we have to do the action before them I won on every body and I beat half of year 5 and every one was happy

Kiwi sport

L.I To lean how to play rippa rugby.

For kiwi sport we went to the Dunkirk park. We went there for Rippa rugby. First we started of with passing the ball to each other then my partner had to catch the ball. After that we played a little game of rippa rugby. And then we played more rippa rugby. After that we played a little game called Rabbit and rat. We had to get these colours of tags and we had to take the tags off the rats.
Then we left and went back school.

SSR selfie

L.I To retell the story
This book that I read was cool because I like the detail of the book. This book that I read was called Star wars made easy

Basic facts boxes / Addition

Today I practice my basic math's facts. I timed myself and I managed to finish the nearly the whole sheet in 3 minutes and 55 seconds. I personally think I could do better next time. Next time i'l practice my basic facts I will go on to the second basic facts because I was on the first one. This activity was a bit easy. I enjoyed this activity and hope I could do better.

What is a key word

Today I made a poster of what a Key word is. A Keyword is a key that unlocks the meaning of a sentence.

It helps you understand the sentence.

Punctuation marks

This week went learnt about 5 different punctuation marks and how to use them.
First we learnt about what punctuation marks are and how to use each different one
next we created a poster to show our learning.
Our group did examples for how a punctuation mark works.
Hopefully I can use the correct punctuation in my writing.

3D shapes

Today my group and I made a 3d art. It was a bit hard but it was Ok. We made the 3D with 2 shapes and we made the shapes touch

Print Design Rules

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Print Design Rules

Use this document to record your notes as you go around the different posters to identify the four areas of print design. 

Have a balance of pictures and sentences.  Use in images that relate to the text. 

Have margins and align text and images. Use most of the space.

Don't use clashing colours use a harmonic colour scheme. Use contrasting background and foreground colours.

Keep consistent fronts and size. Make sure the text is legible.

Colour

Good	Bad
We can see the text	We can not see the text
We can see the text cleary	We can not see the text clearly

Composition

Good	Bad
This one has picture’s	This doesn’t have any pictures.
This shows the name of the	This doesn’t have a title.

Layout

Good	Bad
The layout is good	The text is in the way of the title
The layout is all in the right place	The profile is near the picture, and the pictures are in the wrong place. Also the title that says about android is bigger than the text.

Text

Good	Bad
This one is good because it is all aligned.	This one is bad because it is has different fonts
This one is good because it is aligned to the left properly	All the text is in a different spot.