Inquiry | Prove it | Venus flytrap | Presentation|

This week for inquiry my group (The Living Inquiry Learners) Did a video about the Venus flytrap. The video was about how a living organism uses MRS GREN, we chose the Venus flytrap. We had to prove that the Venus flytrap is living. We made a slide presentation explaining how the Venus flytrap uses MRS GREN.

Commenting | Ellenora's Blog

L.I to comment positive comment on other peoples blogpost. This week I decided to comment on Ellenora's Blog. Her blogpost was about kiwi can. I said that she needed to work on her spelling because people might not understand what she is trying to say.

Cybersmart | Netiquette

This week for Cybersmart we learnt rules on how to act online/internet. I have written 5 main rules for when online/internet. The rule that I think people should follow is number 5,3 and 1. We edited a slide that had dos and don't. It meant what should we do online/internet and what we should not do online/internet. If you follow these rules the internet will be save and no trolls.

Kiwi Can | Accountability

This week for Kiwi Can we talked about owning up and accepting the consequences. We also did a re-cap of what we talked about last week. This week the games we played were hand soccer and snatch the cone. To play hand soccer you will need two goals and two lines of girls and boys.

Number yourselves up and one person would say a number and if that is your number you have to stand up

and touch your goal Once you have touched the goal then you have to use one hand to get the ball into the other

teams goal. To play snatch the cone you need to get into 2 lines of girls and two lines of boys. You then want to

find a partner in those lines and there will be a cone in front of you and your partner. Then someone will say a

word and that word is the magic word and once the person has said the magic word then both you and your partner has to

snatch the cone before your partner gets it. At the end of the session we did pizza points we got 24 out of 25.

Maori | String games/Making

L.I to make string shapes with a string. This week we made some cool things with our strings. the things we made were two diamonds,Cup and saucer,Effile tower,Witches hat and a parashot. The photo is Fau she has made the two diamonds. I know how to make all of the string things. The things we made with the strings were very interesting because I learnt how to make things with string. I might do these all the time at Maori time.

Fractions | Type,Equivalent,Percentages and Decimals

L.I to understand corresponding fractions,decimals and percentages. L.I To understand mixed numbers, Improper, Proper and equivalent fractions. I learnt how to figure out what type of fraction a fraction is. I also know what percentages a fraction would be and what decimal a fraction would be. This week for Maths we had to complete a fractions task. On the first D.L.O was the Fraction we had to use, what type of fraction the fraction was, how we can show it as equivalent and how we can show it with materials. On the last D.L.O was how we can show the fraction with materials, the fraction we needed to use, how we can show a fraction as a percentage and how we can show a fraction in decimals.

Show and Tell | Descriptive Writing

L.I to turn a boring piece of writing into a interesting detailed piece of writing. I learnt how to Show and not tell. When you tell someone a text/opinion it will sound boring and if you Show a text/opinion then it will sound interesting and detailed. This week for our must do we had to make a Show and tell Descriptive writing D.L.O. On the D.L.O was a picture of what we had to Show and tell. The photo was a man walking his daughter into the crystal blue ocean. Also their were 2 text boxes that had Show and tell written on them. For tell we had to write a boring description of what the photo looks like and for the Show we had to write a detailed and interesting description of what the photo looked like.

Inference

L.I to infer about a text from a book. I learnt how to infer about a text called Boost. I also did a Think chart. It was where we had to infer about something in the text and the boxes next to it is your evidence. So you have to Show how you got your inference. We also had to do a storyboard explaining three of your inferences. On the Story board we had to add some things that explained the classroom.

Audio book Recorder

This week for writing we had to make a narrative about a dog named Tom. Tom was lost in a forest and couldn't find his owner. After we finished the narrative we had to make a audio book. A Audio book is where you record yourself reading a story. The tool we used was Online voice recorder.

Kiwi Sport

This week was our last session with Haymish. We played a game of rippa rugby. What we had to do was get into 4 groups. Two groups would battle each other. To win your team needed to get the ball to the goal. If someone rips your tag off then you need to pass the ball to your other mates in your group. Remember if someone rips your tag pass backwards, if you pass forwards then the ball has to go to the other team. You are not allowed to block the teams throw. You need to stay in your team zone if someone in the other group has the ball because the other team scored a goal then stay in the team zone. At the end of the session we had to talk about what we have done over the weeks and say thank you to Haymish.

Inquiry task | Compulsory task

This week for inquiry we learnt about the circulatory system did our compulsory tasks.Our compulsory task included a explanation, a fish bone template, a poetry/prose and a sculpture. In my group (The living inquiry learners) we did the sculpture,the explanation, the fish bone and the poetry/prose.I did the Explanation, I did the poetry/prose, Pua and Sione a did the sculpture and Alayah and Miiana did the fish bone. In the explanation i had to write about all the parts and what they do. In the poetry/prose I had to write a narrative about the circulatory system. In the fish bone Miiana and Alayah had to think of as many parts as they could in the circulatory system and in the sculpture Pua and Sione had to draw all the parts in the circulatory system and the label them.
Link to the explanation

Kiwi Can

This week for kiwi can we talked about our topic (Accountability) And the Theme (Integrity).
The game we played was Hand soccer and Shark attack. To play Hand soccer this what you do:
There will be 4 hoops and their will be a bunch of people running around the room. So the 4 hoops are your safe pads.
That's were you have to be when someone says Shark attack. If the referry takes away some hoops then it will be
harder. The next game was Hand soccer. To play hand soccer you will need two goals and two lines of girls and boys.
Number yourselves up and one person would say a number and if that is your number you have to stand up and touch
your goal. Once you have touched the goal then you have to use one hand to get the ball into the other teams goal.
Later on we did some GKQ and it was fun. We got a perfect score of 25 because we got 5 for all of the points. So
we might get a chance of winning a free lunch with the Kiwi Can leaders.

Commenting | Nicoles's Blog

L.I to comment positive things about someones blog. This week I have commented on Nicole's blog. Her blogpost was about her commenting on Victoria's blog. I think she needs to work on writing a bigger comment.

Maori | Story | Weave

Story,Raranga video

L.I to make a raranga fish. I learnt how to make a weaved fish/ika. First we read a story. The book was called Ngake and Whaitaitai the two taniwha of wellington harbor. The book was about two Taniwhas by the name Whataitai and Ngake. Whaitaitai and Ngake got into a fight and Ngake made a big hole in the harbour because he wanted to escape. Then Whaitaitai tried to make another hole. Whaitaitai thought that he was big and strong like Ngake and he got stuck in the sand. Whaitaitai wriggled around to try to escape but he just sank into the sand. After a few years Whaitaitai would call help everyday but no one heard. One day a bunch of wakas floated across Whaitaitai and Whaitaitai would yell at them to help him. But after the people in the waka played a song/waita. Soon he came free. 

Math Fractions Think board

L.I Count forwards and backwards to name a whole number. L.I Recognize the whole object, part of a object and equal parts and their names.I learnt about what a numerator and the denominator is. The numerator is how much parts/pieces you have and the Denominator is the lower number that is means how much parts/pieces you have altogether. The way that I remember the Numerator is by calling it number and for the denominator I would call it Divider/Decrease. Our must do was to blog our think board. On the think board we had to show a fraction with equipment, Show with a fraction, Other names to call a fraction and a word story about the fraction you chose.

Inference Detective

L.I to infer information from a text. I learnt about what inferring means and how you can use it to . The things you need to be looking for are who the characters are,What kind of person they are,How the character is feeling at the time and where the action is taking place. I had to infer 3 texts about 3 different things. I learnt this by reading the texts carefully and saying how I think they felt when that thing happen. Inferring is when you think about a text and guess how they might of felt when those things happen to them.

Word Master

L.I to master words. I learnt how to figure out what words mean by doing this task but in my head. I learnt this by picking a word from slide 6,7 or 8. On those three slides there will be words that you have to pick from and you have to choose one for slide 2 and 3 and 6 words for slide 4. I think I will improve in reading now because of this strategy because now if I don't understand a word then I can break it down into words that have similar sound.

Rippa Rugby

This week for Kiwi Sports. We first had to get a belt and two tags.Then we got put into groups there was for groups i was in group four group four was really good at the games we played.I liked the games because it was really fun.The games we were playing were ripa rush we liked playing that game. We all had tures and number one and two were first and then it was number three and four. Then number two was playing number four and number one were playing number three it was fun playing against our friends.We all had fun together.

Kiwi Can

This week for kiwi can we talked about our topic (Accountability) And the Theme (Integrity).
The game we played was Body move and Copy me. To play Body move this what you do: you
must have a bunch of people to play with and you will need to buddy up with someone. Then you will
have one person saying something. THe things the person it saying is Pear,apple,banana,fruit salad and
watermelon. Pear means get into a group of four, Apple means go under your buddys legs, banana means
one person goes to the back and the otehr goes in front, Fruit salad means find another buddy and watermelon
means the person in front goes down on their knees and put their hands on the ground and the other person
goes on top of them pretending to ride a bike. To play Copy me this is what you have to do: You will
have to have four groups one person will have a bunch of cards and then your group will have
to choose a leader to get the cards for the group. Their will be numbers on the board and
if you get a 1 then your whole group would have to do that thing that says on the board.
Later on we did some GKQ and it was fun. We didn't get time to do the pizza points because
Rm 5 was waiting to come inside.

Commenting

This week for commenting I commented on Nicoles blog post. She was blogging about her inquiry session. I liked how she wrote a very good long blurb to explain what she did. I thought she needed to work on putting more photos on her blog post so that her blog doesn't just have a bunch of words. If you want to visit her blog then Press here!

Inquiry tasks | Compulsory Task

This week for inquiry we had our compulsory tasks and our elective tasks. In our compulsory tasks we had Explanation, Fish bone, Poetry/prose and Sculpture. In our explanation we had to write about how a organism respires. In our fish bone we had to draw a fish bone organizer showing the parts and functions of the respiratory and the circulatory system. In our poetry/prose we had to show how the circulatory system works by writing either a poem, a narrative or imaginative recount and in our sculpture task we had to Create a labelled sculpture of one of the parts of the respiratory/circulatory system in humans. In our elective tasks we had the Double Sequence Chart, Picture / Poster, Slide presentation, Song Lyrics, Venn Diagram video and word ring. In the double sequence chart we had to draw a double sequence chart and explain how a organism respire.In the Picture / Poster we had to draw a picture or poster showing the parts of the respiratory / circulatory system in humans or another animal but the task must be hand drawn. In the slide presentation we had to make a slide showing what the parts of the respiratory / circulatory system does. In our song lyrics we had to write a vocabulary list for all of the words used in the selected song.We really enjoyed this time doing Inquiry because we get to learn more things about our body. In the Venn diagram we had to compare the parts of a human and another organism that lets them respire. In the video we had to make a video explaining what each part of a human respiratory / circulatory system does and in our word ring we had to Create a concentric word ring of words for the respiratory / circulatory system.

Maori | Word find

This week for Maori we had Mrs Odie. We did some puzzle that were involved in Matariki.
Some of the activities were the word find and we read a booklet. I really like the activities we
did because of the word find. The begging of Matariki new years was is June 15th and it ends
on June the 30th. For the word find we had to find lots of Maori words. We didn’t do the Booklet
because we ran out of time. On the back of the paper we had to write the Matariki Macarena and
write our name of the front. Mrs Odie showed us what some Maori words meant.

Japanese and Lattice methods

This week for math we had to solve two questions using the timetables that Mr Ogilvie has set up for us. The equations are 19 x 17 and 32 x 23. We also had to make a D.L.O using the knowledge that we have learnt. We could make a video off Screen castify. We had to make a google slide and explain how to make the two methods. The fastest and easiest would be the lattice method which is the box one because you don't need to draw so much stuff, but the Japanese method is more time taking.

Structure and language of a Narrative

I learnt what the structure of a narrative was and I know what the language of a narrative is. The structure is TOPES - T - Title, O - Orientation, P - Problem,E - Events and S- Solution. In the orientation you must include the 5 Ws and a hook, In the events you must include what happen and in the solution you must include a description of the final outcome. We had to make a D.L.O explaining the structure and languae of a narrative and how it reminds us about how to write a narrative.

Why do our muscles get tired?

 Flipgrid video
This week for reading we had to write a bunch of words on a document and it had to be words that we didn't understand. We also had to write the meaning of the words we didn't understand. We also had to make a flip grid video explaining what book we read and what it was talking about. We were only supposed to read up to page four but if we want to we could read the whole book.

Inquiry | Compulsory task | Respiratory system

This week for Inquiry we are learning about the respiratory system. I have done the sculpture task, for the sculpting task you had to sculpt out the respiratory system body parts. The respiratory system helps you breath and if you didn't have a respiratory system then you would probably be died. This is the first task that our group has done. This was made and helped by Miiana.

The digestive system | Inquiry task

This week for inquiry had to make a blog post showing the work
that we did throughout the week. For the slide presentation Nicole did all of
that and for digestive system writing Nicole did all of that and Pua,Alayah and I did the video

Warriors Trip

This week we went to see warriors train. We got put into three groups and we had three things to look out for in the training and that was Sounds like,Feels like and looks like. The class room whiteboard had a y chart that has the three things on it. We had to write down one of the three things that we saw,felt and heard. I was in group sounds like I wrote down it sounds like communication because the warriors were yelling out each others name so that they could pass the ball to one another.

Kiwi Sport

Today we went to kiwi sport.The first game we played was ripper rush.

The last person who wasn't in the line the fastest has to be the tagger.

We had to run full court to be safe.People were running fast as to get to the line.

Everybody was doing side stepping so they can make it to the line.Some people were getting tag.

Their were like lot of  people were becoming a taggers. 

We had to get a bout and to tags i was the blue team we all had to get into groups there was one 

two three groups i was in  number two.

General knowledge

This week I have decided to do a general knowledge because I want to learn more about different countries. I worked with my cousin Ellenora, the country that we chose was Tuvalu. Did you know Tuvalu is in the southern pacific? We chose Tuvalu because we have heard of it from our family. Did you know the capital of Tuvalu ids Funafuti. We used google maps for the computer generator and to find the closest countries.

Kiwi Sport

This week for kiwi sport we learnt a bit more of how to pass backwards. We had to get in three groups and two groups would stay on the court and the other group would have to stay on the hut/fale. The two groups that are playing against each other, one group will have the ball and the other group wont. So then the group without the ball has to try and rip off the rips on the person who is holding the ball. If someone takes off your rip and you have the ball then you have to pass it to your team mates. Your team has to get the ball to the goal. Who ever has the most point stay on the court and who ever doesn't that team goes off the court and swap with the team that is on the hut/fale.

Cybersmart | Shopping advantages

This week for Cybersmart we had to go back onto the padlet that we edited last week. We had to do the  advantages of shopping in person or shopping online. I did one of each. For shopping in person I said that you can buy the product immediately. For shopping online I did if you don't have a car you can do online shopping instead.

Kiwi Can

This week for kiwi can we talked about Role models. We played a energizer called cat and mouse to play this is what you do: get into lines of four and put your arms spread out. One person will have to say right or left when that person says left or right the four lines need to turn that direction and their will be two people, the mouse and cat. The cat will be holding a pool noodle and the mouse will just have to run. The cat had to try and hit the mouse with the pool noodle so that the mouse is out. Our other game was the cat walk. For this game you will need to have music 2 lines of girls and boys and the 2 people in the middle will have to walk down the middle of the boys and girls and do something their must be music included. last we had a dance battle and no one needs to know how to play that because everyone was born with it.

Matariki

A Matariki Story,Matariki and Matariki Waiata.

This week for maori we had to watch some videos about matariki. Did you once every year seven stars come out and they have names the names are Waiti,Waita,Waipunarangi,Tupuanuku,Tupuarangi,Ururangi and Matariki. Their are six kids and one mother, the mother is Matariki and the rest are the kids. Maoris new year is on June 15th. Sometimes on June 15th people have a feast and people will have food and they would sing a few songs. We might have a feast because that's what our Maori teacher faiodie said. We might be singing the matariki macarena,Ao ke ti a rangi and one other song.

Cybersmart/Shopping

This week for cybersmart we had to make a google drawing say where you can buy a ..... in person and where you can buy a ..... online. I chose a squishy to use in this task.  We made a padlet similar to the google drawing but you had to write down where you can buy the item from.

Volume and Capacity/Flip grid

This is the link to my video

This week for math we had to measure millileters. I measured two plastic containers the first container was 200ml and the second one was 220ml. In the video we had to explain what volume and capacity means. We had to record on flip grid.

Keywords/Video summary

This week for reading I had to write keywords on the follow your food article and I had to summaries four sections of the follow your food article. The four sections that I summarized was the mouth,Small intestine,stomach and the liver. For the keywords I wrote keywords from the text and then wrote how those keywords remind me of the topic/text.