Comment Thread

LI: to create a diologic conversation using the commenting system.

A comment thread is a diologic conversation between two people but instead communicating with the comment system on blogs. A comment thread consists of a greeting, something that you liked or learnt and a question. This repeats until the conversation ends.

I am continuing the comment thread with Farzana about a book about Malala Yousafzai. The progress with this conversation has moved on to the topic of inspiration.

Maths | 3D Shape Illusion

3 Dimension is an illusion that makes a piece of art or other look realistic although it is only on a flat piece of paper, canvas and such.

Mr Ogilvie's Maths group was trying to finish off their 3D Art Illusion with Shapes. The objective was to transfer a 3D art piece which was done on an A4 piece of paper and we had to transfer it onto an A3 by doubling the measurements.

I completed my transferring and 3D Shape Illusion on the A3 piece of paper. Here is my result!

Kiwi Can | Role Models

Being a role model is guiding somebody into the right direction and telling them right from wrong.

 In Kiwi Can, we played an energizer called 'Hammer' and an activity called 'Knots and Crosses'. The energizer was to encourage listening to instructions. The activity was to encourage listening and following rules.

I enjoyed this weeks Kiwi Can session and learning about being a role model. I think I could improve on having a fast reaction.

LI: to learn about being a role model.

Maths | Basic Facts Drills

I decided to complete a Math can-do called Basic Facts Drills which is an activity that is used to help improve quick basic math problem solving, in subtraction and addition.

I completed my Subtraction Drills sheet 2. I enjoyed this activity.

Reading | SSR Selfie

Today, I completed the reading can-do; SSR Selfie. SSR Selfie is an activity that is used to help and improve summarizing and retelling a series of chapters or stories.

I did my SSR Selfie on a non-fiction book called 'HUMAN BODY' by Margaret Hynes.

LI: to summarize and retell a story.

Reading | Marco Polo | Visualizing

Visualizing means drawing or imagining a physical picture in your head in order to help find an understanding of something that is difficult to understand in a text.

In this activity, the objective was to research about Marco Polo and record the information on a slide deck.

Visualizing is a good strategy to use as it helps people understand difficult parts of the text and it is easy to use.

There are four different types of media that can be used when visualizing. They are: Drawing, Map, Mind Map and Infographic.

LI: to find out about Marco Polo.

Writing | Complex Sentences

A complex sentence is made up of two ideas joined by an AAAWWUBBIS. AAAWWUBBIS consists of ten conjuctions: Although, After, As, While, When, Until, Because, Before, If & Since.

This activity is used to help improve the correct usage of complex sentences and to build an understanding of what complex sentences are.

 The objective was to create correct complex sentences with given words and images.

LI: to write meaningful and interesting COMPLEX sentences.

Inquiry | First Waka | Aotearoa

Originally, there were no people in New Zealand (Aotearoa). The first people who came to New Zealand arrived in a series of waka.

The first ten waka to arrive were: Kurahaupō, Tākitimu, Mataatua, Tainui, Te Arawa, Aotea, Tokomaru, Horouta, Uruao, Ārai-te-uru. These waka all landed in different places in New Zealand.

All of these waka were strong in different areas. For example: Mataatua was identified as one of the greatest traditional boats used to migrate towards New Zealand.

The objective of this activity was to build an understanding of where the first ten waka of Aotearoa journeyed to.

LI: to learn about early exploration.

Comment Thread

LI: to start a diological conversation.

A comment thread is a diological conversation through comments. It starts with giving a comment including feedback and then adding a question for the other person to answer. Today I replied to two people during the comment thread.

Kiwi Can | Listening

LI: to learn to listen.

Today in Kiwi Can, we talked about listening and paying attention. First, for the energizer we played 'Cone it'. Then we played 'Chinese Whispers'.

The energizer was to encourage listening to instructions and to practise paying attention.

The activity was to practise listening and gathering information by listening to what somebody has to say.

Today, I thought the energizer 'Cone it' was a good activity to help encourage listening skills because we needed to listen out and pay attention to what Miss Grace was saying.

Reading | SSR Selfie

Today I decided to complete the can-do activity called SSR Selfie. SSR Selfie is an activity that helps young learners improve their methods of summarising and retelling stories using their prior knowledge and what they have read. I did my SSR Selfie on a book called Nothing Scares Me by Gene Kemp.

LI: to summarise and retell a story.

Kiwi Sport | Rippa Rugby

LI: to understand the movement and rules of rippa rugby.

Rippa Rugby is a sport where there are two teams and they have rippa's on their waist. One team starts by tapping the ball and passing. The person the ball is passed to has to run to the opposite side of the field and place the ball down on the goal without their tags being ripped but if they are ripped or their team members are ripped 5 times then it's a handover to the other team.

MJ and Glory helped to explain the real rules of rippa rugby so that we could play it. Boys and Girls from each class were separated into differnt parts of the field. The girls played a warm up game which was group passes, then started practising the different methods of dodging being ripped. Next we played a real game of rippa rugby. The red team scored 4 or 5 tries and the black team scored 2 or 3 tries.

Today, I enjoyed this week's session of rippa rugby. I think I could improve on trying to spin to prevent being ripped and using a 'W' form to catch the ball.

Maths | Basic Facts Drills

LI: to learn basic maths facts.

This week I decided to do my basic facts drills on subtraction sheet one. Last week I completed all of my addition sheets and recorded how long it took me to complete them. Today, it took me only 2 minutes and 27 seconds (85 milliseconds to be exact).

Reading | Skimming and Scanning | Bright Fine Gold

Skimming and scanning are two different but similar reading strategies. Skimming is; reading topic sentences to get a basic idea of what the text or book is about. Scanning is; looking for keywords to find the information needed.

The objective of this reading activity was to try and help improve the correct usage of skimming and scanning when reading and trying to understand different kinds of text types and to try find main points of information. 

For this skimming and scanning activity, the main task was to identify which section of questions was skimming and scamming as well as giving answers for each of them.

LI: to find general information and specific facts by skimming and scanning.

Maths | Place Value

The place value system controls where and when to convert a number digit. In this presentation, it will explain what place value is and how the place value house works with addition and subtraction.

When you are adding the numbers, the digit will move to the left however. This will only happen if the number you are adding is big enough to make a full ten, hundred or thousand.

If you subtract the numbers move to the right, like addition, this will only happen if the number you are subtracting is bigger than the digit place you are subtracting it in. Place value houses can also equal to decimals as well.

LI: to understand the movements within the place value system.

Inquiry | Early Exploration

Kupe and Captain James Cook are two different but important explorers in New Zealand history.

Captain James Cook - 

Captain Cook voyaged to New Zealand in 1769. His intention of voyage was to try and find the Australis (The great southern continent) and to map down Aotearoa. Captain Cook traveled to NZ in a boat called the Endeavor. The Endeavor was a British Navy boat and research vessel, also known as HM Bark Endeavor. This is a more modern boat and it was weaponised with cannons.

Kupe - 

Kupe arrived in New Zealand in the 1100's. He voyaged on a more traditional sail boat called a Poti. The legend has it that he followed a giant octopus that led him to New Zealand. Kupe took this journey to discover why his village was lacking sea life but to also find a new place for his tribe to grow. Kuramarotini (Kupe's wife) named it Aotearoa after seeing mountains under clouds. (Aotearoa meaning 'Land of the great white cloud'). 

Kupe is important because he was the first being or documental person to discover New Zealand. Captain Cook is important because he mapped New Zealand and opened it up to the word to access.

LI: to learn about early exploration and New Zealand history.

KUPE:

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK:

Writing | Compound Sentences

LI: to write meaningful and interesting COMPOUND sentences.

Compound sentences are made up of two ideas combined with a 'FANBOY' or 'Conjunction'.

A simple sentence is made up of one idea, but simple sentences don't require to be short.

First, we started with trying to make simple sentences with pictures by having one sentence and one idea, another sentence with another idea and then joining them up by choosing a conjunction.


Macaw Parrot by Couleur | Pixabay License

Sentence 1: The macaw's back feathers are blue.
Sentence 2: The macaw's chest feathers are yellow.

Conjunction: The macaw's back feathers are blue, but her chest feathers are yellow.

Then we had to continue on doing this with four other given images on a slide. This is to help us improve writing compound sentences and understanding what is expected with compound and simple sentences.



I won a bronze Excellence and Innovation badge for this completed piece of work.

Reading | Commenting Thread

LI: to create a comment thread.

Today, I decided to create a comment thread on Leon's blog. A comment thread is a diologic conversation with a set of comments and questions.

With a comment thread, first or somebody else will add in something that you or that person liked and what you or they learnt then a question relating to the topic.

The opposite person then responds to the question and asks another question relating to the topic of the first question. This then starts a digital conversation.

This is the blogpost I commented him on and an image of my comment thread!:

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Kiwi Sport | Rippa Rugby

LI: to learn the basics of rippa rugby.

In Kiwi Sport, we focused on learning how to rip rippas, catch and throw the ball. Our coaches were Andrew & Justice.

First, we were practising throwing and catching. We got into groups and lined up behind four 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" form.

Next, we all played a real game of rippa rugby. There were two teams, a green team and a red team (I was in the red team). We needed to tap and pass the ball. This was a girls versus boys round. The girls team won two tries at first. The other team also got two tries.

I enjoyed this weeks session with Justice & Andrew and with Rippa Rugby. I think I could personally improve on aiming my grab when I try to rip rippas and practice running more to gain speed.

Maths | Basic Facts

This week I decided to do my basic facts drills in addition and subtraction and time myself on how fast I do it. I did two different sheets of addition. The basic facts drills is an activity that helps us improve how fast we can solve basic maths problems like 2+8 or 9+3 or 7+5.

I enjoyed doing this activity although next time I think I can improve on compensating and rounding tens to make it easier to do addition. Here are my results (I have also added the stopwatch time for both addition sheets).

LI: to learn basic maths facts.

Reading | SSR Selfie

LI: to summarise and retell a story.

This week I decided to complete my SSR Selfie activity with a book about Malala Yousafzai called 'The right to learn; Malala Yousafzai's Story'. The SSR Selfie activity helps us to summarise pieces of information and stories. It also helps us improve how we retell stories.

This book is about the biography and life of Malala and how she fought for the rights of education for women and females. It explains how she protested for educational rights and the Taliban war. Now she stands at the age of 22 and Malala's protesting has allowed all genders to take part in educational learning.

Maths | Rounding & Compensating

Rounding and compensating a number is taking numbers, observing the ones as well as the tens and then moving them to the highest or closest ten number.

For example, seventy-eight (78). The eight only needs two more to make eighty but if we subtract eight to make seventy, eight is a bigger number than two, therefore adding two would be quicker to making a tidy number.

For maths, the objective was to solve six maths equations using the strategy rounding and compensating and to visually show how to solve the maths questions on a DLO. On this slide, it also includes a number line to help show the maths. 

LI: solve addition and subtraction problems by compensating with tidy numbers. 

Inquiry | Explorers & Adventurers

Explorers and Adventurers are people who travel and set out to discover new things in the world.

Explorers are people who travel to find and discover new things and record them for the community. Such as Ibn Battuta & Jaqcues Cousteau. 

Adventurers are people who travel to take part in something for someone and take unpredictable risks and challenges. Such as Sir Peter Blake & Jean Batten.

Explorers and Adventurers need to have or show many different attitudes and attributes. Such as being a risk-taker because taking risks show that you have ambition, bravery, faith and hope in challenges.

Both Explorers & Adventurers travel to new places and need similar qualities although their goals may be different.

LI: to study the area of explorers and adventurers.

Writing | Simple Sentences

LI: to write meaningful and interesting SIMPLE sentences.

A simple sentence is sentence with one idea. An idea is one action performed by one actor.

A simple sentence can be made by following steps that consider the actor, action, and description.

Simple sentences may only have one idea but doesn't need to be short.

1: The Action and the Tense.
Firstly, explain the what the action is an the tense it was acted in. Run, Jumping, Flew, Shone. Past, Present, Future.

2: The Actor.
Next, say who the actor is. Who is acting out the actions? It doesn't have to be alive. Snake, Frog, Teenager, Sun etc.

3: The Location.
After that, provide an explanation of where this takes place. Include specific details to show a visual representation. A house, the sky, a bird house, a garage etc.

4: Combining.
Finally, create the sentence using the chosen words for action, tense, actor and location. Here's an example: The Sun was shining through the clouds up in the sky.

Reading | Key Words

LI: to learn the function of keywords.

Keywords are words that assist with researching specific information about a chosen topic. They can also give appropriate information to children and young students.

Keywords are used to find information that is understandable by children in order for students can understand easily what information they are reading or using for work.

Keywords are used for narrowing down the information presented by an internet search so that the information researched relates to a specific and chosen topic. Keywords are useful tools that should be used in every search on the internet.

Cybersmart | Legal & Illegal

LI: to understand what legal images are and how to find them.

Legal images are images and photos that the law gives permission to use. The website that the image can be found on provides a license that explains whether somebody can or cannot use the image.

 Image creators have the perk of giving legal permission to others to be able to use their images by adding a share license. It is important to use legal images to help give credit to the creators, and so people don't get in trouble by the law.

It's important to attribute an image to give credit to the creator and so that people don't take the credit for another person's effort. When looking for images, check the license to see the image permissions.