Writing | Setting Description | 5 Senses | Figurative Language

LI: To investigate figurative language.

This week we learnt more about showing and telling sentence descriptions. We had to pick a random and tell the reader about the scene for the 'Tell' explanation. In the 'Show' text box we had to try to make the description more advanced by including the five senses and the figurative language types. Figurative language gives the reader a challenge by having to guess what you are talking about and how we would say it literally.

 It also needs including a balance of figurative language and simple, compound and complex sentences. The five human senses we needed to include were: Tell, Touch, Taste, See and Hear. The figurative languages are: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole & Understatement. 

Supply and Demand | Goods and Services | Business and Enterprise

LI: to learn more about supply, demand and business.

This week Mr. Ogilvie invited a childhood friend over to talk about Business and Enterprise. She talked about how she started her business off by scratch and how here original idea was to stop food waste. 

Michal is a small business owner that has been planning for 2 years time. Her business is now 6 months open. She is aiming to be environmental friendly. She is trying her best to help solve the food waste problem & could be distributed to those in need.

Climate Change

Food is needed to survive and is one of the main priorities of survival. The problems come with how food is cared for and produced. Overproduction means 1/3 of food provided is wasted every year. That means 1.3 billion tonnes of food is being wasted! If the food waste goes to the landfill it will have a result of decaying and this produces methane gas which contributes to climate change which impacts the earth.

Food waste

There are 20 million loaves of bread wasted in NZ every year. Wasted natural items and resources. Labour and money is being wasted and technically just being thrown down the drain! That is a big waste because it takes time, money, effort and energy just to put it up into the market. Think about the process of having to make the product and being able to sell it.

Foodprint

Foodprint is an app & business that provides food at low prices instead of wasting tons of helpful food when demand of the product has decreased. The service providers need to cut down the scope to be successful for this. Foodprint is also a social enterprise to help people, businesses and our planet!

Constructing the Business

Naming a business is crucial to making a business and to think about where it’s going to be seen. Will the name fit on screen? What will be shown on the app? Is it catchy? Can it become a brand? The Logo and colours must immediately recognisable so people notice which certain business it is.

About 250 cafes supply the food to meet the costumer demand. Promoting, Advertising, Marketing are things needed to think about in order to grow your business. Hooking in new people & capturing interest are important so that the news of your business will spread and become more popular and noticed.

Credits
A digital thanks to Michal for creating this presentation in order to explain and teach us more about business, supply and demand. 

Maori | Ataata

LI: To understand different farewells in maori.

In Maori, we learned more about the maori language. We learned different ways of saying farewell to people in the maori language. Macrons are added to the words because it changes the maori meaning and the tone of how it is said. Macrons are important in the maori language because it can completely change the meaning of the word. If a Maori word is said or written and it does not include the Macron sound that it is supposed to, it can cause trouble and fuss. Our main objective for this activity was to translate different goodbyes from maori to english.

Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: to learn how to serve in tennis.

This week we learnt a different technique of serving. First we had a short recap of what we learned in the past weeks. Then we got into our warm up which was a rally practice.

A rally is when a ball is served and the two players hit the ball to one side then the other. One bounce is allowed before the ball is hit each time it gets to a persons sign. During our rally practice, we learned a different technique on how to hit and serve a ball.

The Serve
We learnt a different type of serve. It was to take a ball in our hand and pull that hand up to our ear and our elbow had to stick out. Our other arm had to be straight and aiming a small amount above of our target. Then we throw and when we throw again, it has to be the same strength of hit again and again.

Shoulder Aim
Shoulder Aim is having your tennis racket in hand and the round part of the racket resting on our shoulder. Then when we serve the ball, we need to throw the ball up and use the racket to hit it. Instead of hitting underarm, we hit it upwards and over-arm. We did this diagonally because we were facing our character across the net on diagonal sides.

Kiwi Can | Respect | Respectful Communication

LI: to learn about respectful communication.

This week we discussed the different ways of respectful communication. We can communicate in different ways, body language, through postcards, gift cards, social medias and in person. 

Our activity was called 'Keep it going'. The year 5's were split into 2 groups and a line of cones stood in the middle. The Kiwi Can leaders would play some music through a speaker and we would have to dance until the music stopped. When the music stopped, we had to grab one cone and put it on top of our head. The people that didn't get a cone or didn't dance were out.

2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival: Ms Hyperbole & What is Respect?

I watched Ms Hyperbole from Sommerville school. It was very interesting because it involved puppets and it was about introducing a new teacher. While watching this I felt entertained because of how they used puppets to make this mini movie.

During the Film Festival we watched a bunch of movies that were created within our manaiakalani cluster. After the trip, we were told to choose one movie we enjoyed at the film festival and comment on it and give positive feedback. I chose the movie 'What Is respect?'. This is an inspiring movie.

Link: Film Festival Site

Commenting

LI: to give positive feedback on finished work

This week I commented on Diana's blog-post about her basic facts boxes. She completed all 200 questions on the basic facts sheet. Our commenting task is to give positive feedback and write a blog post on it.