Maths | Geometric Landscape | WIP

LI: to earn and look after money by creating with maths.

A geometric landscape is a piece of art that is made with straight lines and possibly circular and other shapes. I used triangles as the main shape of my art piece. I used cold colours for the sky, warm colours for the mountains and green shades for the ground.

We needed to calculate the length and height of our canvas/art framing. We used a meter ruler and a protractor to make our lining result exactly straight. Within the shape would be our frame. The protractor was used at the 90 degree angle to make sure that the measurement and calculation of our art frame exactly straight.

We made our geometric landscape art using a ruler or a meter ruler to get our straight lines. We needed to make sure that the lines for our art weren't to dark because in geometric art, there aren't lines on the mountains/art. Then we could colour in our art pieces. This piece of art is a work in progress. There are still a few points and assets to be added to complete this artwork.

Kiwi Sport | Water Safety | Swimming

LI: to adapt to water safety

The year 5's from LS1 took a bus to the YMCA public swimming centre to learn water safety. Each group was introduced to new swimming instructors. My new group instructor is Keryn. She is James's replacement for this week. 

We practised our streamline and backstroke. There are a few main parts to do a streamline and backstroke. They are:

Streamline

• One hand over the other.
• Arms behind your ears.
• Don't take your arms apart unless getting air.
• Be sure you don't tilt and keep your head straight. (Try not to wobble it to much).

How to breathe (Streamline)

• Take your arms apart and tilt your head to the side.
• Use circled arm streamline when breathing.
• Put arms back into Streamline after breather.

Backstroke

• Float on your back.
• Move your arms in circles one at a time.
• Make sure your thumb(s) are/is the first to come up out of the water.
• Rotate your hand so your pinky/smallest finger is the first to go back into the water.
• Be sure you don't tilt and keep your head straight. (Try not to wobble it to much).

Water Safety

It's important to know the ways of water safety. This is because in situations with deep water, you will be able to with-stand this situation and prevent danger to yourself or another. Take the ocean as an example. If you know how to swim, you could stop yourself from drowning in deep parts of the ocean. If you hadn't learnt how to swim, this could have caused a very problematic and dangerous situation. We learn water safety because it will have an impact on future situations. 

Writing | Advertising (3.0) | Analysing

LI: To learn about persuasive tools in advertising.

This week, we had to find an advertisement of one of our favourite items/things. We had to answer 5 questions about the advertisement we had chosen. The 5 questions were:

1. Who is the author?
2. What is the purpose of the message?
3. What techniques are used to attract and hold your attention?
4. What point of view is represented in this message?
5. What information or points of view may be missing from this message?

The advertisement I chose had a celebrity endorser. The celebrity they used in this advertisement was Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart was used as the father of a daughter. The partner of the daughter is ready for a 'First Date' and Kevin Hart lends the keys to his new car for the date. Kevin Hart has a 'Hyundai Blue Link' and uses it to track down the car and wherever the boy and his daughter goes.

The main point of this advertisement is to show people that the Hyundai Blue Link can track down your car anywhere it goes. It's easy to use and also works as a key and watch.

Reading | Synthesis | Questioning | Beat Bullying!

LI: To separate fact from opinion.

Like all the other weeks, we were introduced to another article. The article I have done is called "Beat bullying". This article is a persuasive text which talks about bullying and why we should stop it. It talks about what bullying does to children and how it could have an impact. I agree that we should stop bullying and start being welcoming and positive. 

Duffy Assembly | Jamie Wall

At this Duffy Assembly, we were introduced to Jamie Wall. Jamie is somebody who documents sports and writes about many different sport games and publishes them online to be read. Jamie is originally from wellington and works for Radio New Zealand, Stuff, Maori TV and News-hub.

Inspiration
At the age of 9, Jamie's father had bought 2 copies of the same book. The book was called 'Men in black'. It was a book about all and every all black's game which included the players, the scores, results and information like such. Jamie's father offered the extra book. Jamie took the book and started reading it. Once he had finished, he kept reading it over and over until he had memorised all the information.

Years later, Jamie heard that a job offering had come up which was to document sports games. Before they could accept him, they asked questions about what he knew. This is when the book came in handy. They answered questions and every single one he answered was correct. Thanks to the contents of the book 'Men in black', he has a job in which he watches from the best seat of sports games and writes about his point of view and the game.

This Inspiration led to Jamie becoming the author of a book called 'Brothers in black'. Brothers in black is a book about the brothers that play in the all blacks and the long brotherhood in NZ rugby. Originally published on 5th of August 2019.

Kiwi Can | Resilience | Dealing with challenges

LI: to deal with challenges.

We need to practice dealing with challenges and to deal with them easily in the future. Our activity this week was picture bus stop. This activity helped us by noticing the different challenges shown and to focus on the different ways that we can handle and/or accomplish our challenges. We had a discussion about different challenges we might face or have faced and how we might or what we had done to solve or resolute to the challenge.

Activity - Picture Bus Stop
To play Picture Bus Stop, there are different groups and in the different groups are a big piece of paper and a pen/pencil/felt/marker etc. The groups are given a photo with a various situation or challenge. We had to explain or write down what we thought the challenge was and what it made the person(s) in the photo feel. Frustrated, Angry, Sad etc.

There were different photos and we had 2 minutes to complete writing down what we thought was portrayed in the photo. Then each group swapped photos and again, wrote down what they thought was in the photo.

Dealing with challenges means to co-operate with the challenges you set for yourself and what other people have set for you and trying to complete them willingly. Resilience means to cope with your tasks, bounce back at mistakes and never give up on yourself.

Theme - Resilience

Module - Dealing with Challenges

Catchphrase - Kiwi Can says, when there's a challenge, don't go over it, don't go under it, just go through it, and just do it!

Maths | Art | Geometric Landscape

LI: To measure length and calculate perimeter and area. 

We learnt how to calculate area, perimeter, width and length. They are 4 different ways to measure. An explanation of each would be:This week for art I am doing geometric landscape I used the triangle shape for my sketch. 

Area
The area is the space inside a shape or your targeted object. For example, a 3 by 3 pixelated square. The area of the shape would be 1. This is because the only remaining inside square, excluding the outer squares equals to 1.

Perimeter
Perimeter is the outline or the outer layer of something. If you take your hand as an example, the perimeter would be your skin. The reason for this is because the 1st layer or the outer layer of your hand is skin.

Width
The width is how wide or thick/thin. If something is really wide, the width result would be a large number (most likely in decimals). Wide is another way of saying width, but is used with different vocabulary. Examples: This apple is WIDE. The WIDTH of this pencil is 9cm.

Length
Length meaning how long something is. If we see the length of the skytower, is 328 meters/1,076 ft. The length is the mathematical way (or another way) of saying tall.