Measuring Time

My class blog post for measuring time (Mr Ogilvie's maths) can be found here:

Food Storage and Preservation

My class blog post for food storage and preservation (Mr Wong's reading) can be found here: 

Hyperboles & Personification

My class blog post for hyperboles and personification (Mr Wong's writing) can be found here:

Food Preservation | T-Chart

Different food containers are used for storing and preserving a range of different foods, however they have exceptions that depend on how it is needed to be stored.

Food Containers
Food Containers are made from hard plastic but flexible plastic. Some of the pros are that they come in a range of sizes for all foods, and they are spacious. Some of the cons are that that they are not suitable for oven cooking, and are not able to keep foods warm/hot.

Mason Jars
Mason jars are glass storage jars, and only come in one shape. Some of the pros are that they are airtight, and are transparent, which allow the contents to be seen. Some of the cons are that they are fragile, and have metal lids (which can rust).

Gastronorm Pan Containers
Gastronorm pan containers are stainless steel receptacle. Some of the advantages are that they are suitable for oven cooking and buffets. Some cons are that the edges are extended which make them difficult to store or cook properly, and they don't come with lids.

Conclusion
These are the three different containers that are suitable for three different situations. The three different situations are: fridge storage, storing fruits or pickles at room temperature and for storing buffet foods.

Plastic containers are good for storing foods in the fridge, because they come with lids and are stackable, which keep things organized. They also come in a range of sizes.

Mason Jars are good for storing fruits or pickles because they are airtight. They are very suitable for those circumstances.

Gastronorm pan containers are good for storing foods like buffet servings, because they keep food warm and are spacious, meaning they can fit lots of food in it.

LI: to compare products using reciprocal reading.

Commenting Thread

Commenting Thread encourages others to talk about their learning and use open question to have conversations. Commenting Thread consists of a greeting, positive feedback and an open question.

I have continued the comment thread with Shinaye, which talks about figurative language.

LI: to create a dialogic conversation using the comment function.

Writing | Hyperboles & Personification

I learnt how to use hyperboles and personification to identify images. Hyperboles and personifications are a kind of figurative language.

First, I looked at doing the hyperboles, which are exaggerations.

I observed the images and came up with a situation that included the circumstances in the images, then used hyperbole lists to find accurate hyperboles for the images.

Then, I focused on doing personification, which give an object a human characteristic.

I did the same with the hyperboles and observed the images. I used personification lists to find accurate personification for the images.

LI: to use hyperbole and personification to narrate events.

Basic Facts Boxes

Basic Facts Boxes is an activity that challenges a persons skill to complete basic maths problems quickly.

This week I did the Speed Demon challenge up to 10 and completed 5 boxes for addition, subtraction and multiplication in 3 minutes and 38 seconds.

LI: to remember basic maths facts.

SSR Selfie

SSR Selfie is an activity that encourages readers to engage in understanding the general ideas of a text and using the information to summarise and retell a story.

Cool School is an interactive choice book that allows the reader to choose different paths. Each path results in different outcomes. Cool School is about how the reader will behave at their first day of school.

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

Maths | Time

Time is an ongoing sequence of events happening.

There are many other ways to measure units of time, three different kinds are: singing, egg timer, and pendulum.

The tempo and speed of a song depends on how someones singing it. Washing your hands should take 40 seconds. Making a bed should take 1 minute.

The pendulum measures time by the amount of times it swings. The swings will be different depending on the length of the string and the weight of the pendulum. The pendulum took 40-50 seconds. 

An egg timer depends on someones progess with something, and measures time by counting down the minutes depending on someones process on something. Brushing your teeth takes about 2 minutes. 

Singing, egg timers and pendulums are only three of many other ways to measure non-standard time. 

LI: to investigate the units of time.

Metaphors

My class blogpost for metaphors can be found here:

Time

My class blogpost for time can be found here:

T-chart

My class blogpost for pros and cons T-chart can be found here:

Commanding Conversations

The Commanding Conversations can-do activity encourages people to engage in creating short conversations based off their observation and deduction skills on an image.

I completed the Commanding Conversations can-do activity for 10 different images and was able to write 3-4 sentence conversations for each image.

LI: to write descriptive conversations.

Typing Tutor

Typing Tutor is a can-do activity that helps others improve how quickly and accurate they can type without having to look at the keyboard or be reminded of where the keys are.

I completed my Typing Tutor keys for U, K and R. I enjoyed completing this activity and I think I could improve on how fast I type the keys.

LI: to learn touch typing.

Current Events 2020

Current Events is an activity that uses reading strategies to help others observe a picture and find information by observing the media.

I completed Current Events about the unity (haka) dance of the Maori Ferns and Indegenous Womens All Stars NRL. We observed a video and found out information about what was happening.

LI: to use reading strategies to find out more information.

Fact Find

Fact Find is an activity that encourages others to engage in learning about new topics. Fact Find encourages others to research and develop a new understanding of different things.

I completed Fact Find on the Mona Lisa painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1500s. The information I found was very interesting and I was able to summarise general ideas of the texts.

LI: to learn about something new.

Commenting Thread

A comment thread is a stretched conversation that consists of a greeting, positive feedback and an open question. A comment thread is made using the commenting function on blogger. A comment thread is made to encourage others to open up and act on feedback given by other people.

I started a comment thread on Shinaye's blogpost about metaphors. Her blogpost was well detailed and gave general information about metaphors.

LI: to start a dialogic conversation using the comment function.

Maths | Basic Facts Boxes

Basic Facts Boxes is an activity that challenges you on how quick you can solve basic maths equations that use all four operations.

Today, I completed 5 boxes for the Speed Demon Challenge up to 20 for addition and subtraction in 3 minutes and 19 seconds.

LI: to remember basic maths facts.

Maths | Time

Time is a continuous sequence of events taking place.

The main units of time are: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years etc.

Three different ways to measure time are: Water clock, sand clock, and pendulum.

The water and sand clocks were made using plastic cups and the pendulum was made using a small weight tied to a rope.

With the water clock, a hole was drilled in the bottom of a plastic cup and there were lines which were used to measure how long it would take to get to one mark from another. This was the same for the sand clock.

The water clock measured time by how long it took for the water to reach a mark. The sand clock did the same. The pendulum measured time by how many times is swung.

There are many other ways to measure time, but water clocks, sand clocks and pendulums are good ways to measure time without electricity.

LI: to investigate units of time.

Reading | SSR Selfie

SSR Selfie is an activity that assists people with their summarising skills and using their general ideas of a text to retell a story.

I completed my SSR Selfie on a book called 'The Whispering Swarm' which is about the life of Michael Moorock.

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

Reading | Reciprocal Reading | Food Storage | WIP

This week we used T-charts and the reciprocal reading process to identify the pros and cons of food storage containers.

First, we read different texts and summarised the information we found. Summarising the information helped us identify what the container was used for.

Then, we identified the pros and cons of the container using a T-chart.

We observed the images and used deductive reasoning to determine the cons of the product that weren't explained in the text. We determined the pros by thinking about what the challenges were and what was required for the challenges.

After that, we moved onto doing finding information about another product.

This activity is a work in progress.

LI: to compare products using reciprocal reading.

Writing | Metaphors

 A metaphor is comparing two things that have a similar feature (by identifying one thing as the other).

Metaphors are one of multiple types of figurative language. Figurative language is a form of describing that takes basic characteristic and sets an interesting image.

There are three parts to a metaphor. They are the object, the comparison and the meaning.

A metaphor example is: The boy was a thorn in my side. The object is the boy, the comparison is the thorn and the meaning is that the boy is annoying.

By using metaphors, people can describe things like food, feelings, sound, colour, and more. Metaphors identify a comparison.

LI: to describe things by metaphors.

Kiwi Sport | Water Safety

Today, Shanti's swimming group were focusing on recapping basic swimming skills in addition to backward kicking and submerge freestyle.

First, they recapped how to enter the pool safely.

They practiced the swimming skills they focused on last week and then did backstroke, backward kicking and submerge freestyle.

For the backstroke, they used a kick board and floated on their back while kicking.

After that, they did the backward kicking. For the backward kicking, they did a backwards kicking streamline.

Finally, for the submerge freestyle, they were able to use any swimming method and swam under water through a hoop.

LI: to develop knowledge of water safety.

Cook Island Language Week

LS1 was given multiple Cook Island Language Week challenges to complete.

This week, I completed five different Cook Island challenges. They were: greetings and farewells, days of the week, colours, months and numbers.

With each challenge, I developed an understanding of different Cook Island words and how to pronounce them.

I provided the English words for greetings and farewells, days, colours, months and numbers and included the translations in Cook Island. I then recorded a video and showed how to pronounce the words in Cook Island.

LI: to learn about the Cook Island language.

Commenting Thread

A comment thread is a stretched conversation that consists of a greeting, positive feedback and a question. A comment thread uses the comment function on blogger.

Farzana started a comment thread on my SSR Selfie about Energy. She asked the question 'What more do you understand about energy?' and I replied by telling her about kinetic and potential energy. I asked her the question 'Do you know any information on the building blocks of science?'.

LI: to create a comment thread.

Basic Facts Boxes

Basic Facts Boxes is an activity that challenges peoples maths skills and how quickly they can solve equations using all four operations. I completed my Basic Facts Boxes activity up to 10 on multiplication, division and addition. I completed five boxes for each in 3 minutes and 38 seconds. Here is proof:

LI: to remember basic maths facts

SSR Selfie

SSR Selfie stands for 'Silent, Sustained Reading'. SSR Selfie is an activity that helps people with understanding the general ideas of a text and using the ideas to create a summary.

I did my SSR Selfie on a non-fiction book called 101 cool science experiments which is about experiments for the audience to try out. I enjoyed this book, I found the experiments interesting to read.

LI: to summarise and retell a text.

Descriptive Writing 2020

Descriptive Writing us an activity that helps people use descriptive language features to make sentences interesting. I did the Descriptive Writing Challenge where we are only allowed to use metaphors, idioms and similes to create descriptive sentences.

LI: to describe using interesting language features.

Reading | Compare and Contrast

Compare and contrast is an activity that is based around identifying and looking at the similarities and differences between two things. The Dippy Dinner Drippers is about a family that always eats messily, and Space Food is about a class that learns how to preserve food in space.

The differences between the two narratives is that Space Food is a cross between an information report and the Dippy Dinner Drippers is an all fiction story. Space Food talks about the bacteria and viruses in food and the Dippy Dinner Drippers narrative talks about eating messily.

The similarities between the texts are that they are both narratives, and that the two texts both talk about food. The last similarity is that the two narratives both include messages/morals which are: (The Dippy Dinner Drippers) eating messily will result with consequences, and (Space Food) that preserving food decreases food waste.

Compare and Contrast assists with understanding as well as establishing information from two texts.

LI: to understand texts using reciprocal reading.