Gymnastics - Lesson 4

This week was our fourth lesson for kiwi sport. The thing that I found challenging was doing a forward roll on a beam.I also really enjoy jumping on the trampoline and doing forward roll and I also like to walk on the beam and practice a back roll.        

Tech - Clock Design

This week was our last session for tech on our first rotation. We all finished our clock that we made. The clock I designed was a bird. I really liked my final design like the bird and the colour. I really enjoyed painting the design that I made. I would like to say a big thank you to Ms Ferguson for helping us learn different skills for drawing.

Star Dome

Yesterday night we went to star dome as a class. They show as a lot of thing like Jupiter form up close and Saturn. We also saw a Scorpion, a Sagittarius and a hook with the star up in the sky. We learnt that Jupiter has 67 moon and Saturn ring are made out of dust and little pieces of ice. The person who was showing us these cool thing was Tobias.    

Information Report - Emperor Penguins

Emperor Penguins

Did you know that penguins are a bird that have a special kind of oil . The special oil that they use is to keep the feathers nice and dry when they go hunting in the sea.  Did you know the female go hunting and the male stay and keep the eggs warm.

Penguins have white bellies, black backs ,a  long beak, short neck and blacks eyes. They have webbed feet to help them walk on the ice. Penguins don’t have wings, they have flippers instead for swimming in the ocean. The black and white colours on their front and back is called counter shading, which means they can camouflage in the water.

Did you know that penguins are carnivores that eat fish, krill, squid, crustaceans, amphipods, cephalopod and silverfish?  Penguins take turns hunting for food to feed their babies.

Emperor Penguins live in cold, icy places like Antarctica and the South Pole.They live next to the ice, snow and the water.

Did you know they live in large groups called colonies to keep them safe from predators?

Did you know that there are some dangerous threats for penguins? Some of the predators are leopard seals, eared seal, orcas, sharks, sea lion and killer whales.

There are 18 species of penguin in the world and they are found in different countries.

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This week for writing we made an information report about penguins. The structure we used was called TIPS. It stands for title, introduction, paragraph, and summary. We talked to our critical friends after each paragraph, so they could help us to check that what we had written made sense, and that we had used the right language features. 

One Small Step - Independent Reading Challenge Response

This term for reading we have been reading from selection of texts that are linked to our inquiry topic of Space. What that means is that we chose a text to read then used reading response prompts to answer questions about a book. I found it interesting to read my friend's feedback to my responses. Mrs Anderson showed us how to turn this feedback into a dialogic conversation so that we talked more about our learning. My favourite part of this was the create tasks because after answering 5 reading responses I had a good understanding of the information that I was doing.

Gymnastics

This week was our second session for gymnastic. We did forwards rolls on a beam, we practice backward rolls, cart wheel, handstand, we balance on a beam, we build our strength but the thing that I found hard was doing a forward rolls on a beam and practice doing the back rolls. 

Tamaki College

Today was our orientations session at tamaki college. The first subject that we did was math, we went on a site called billy bug. On the site it tech us how to do coordinates. After we went on the site we use coordinates to make a alien. Then we went to our next subject and it was science. We did experiment with dry ice like making a bubble. After we are done doing science we went back to school and I would like to say a big thank you for all the teacher that tech us these awesome things.           

Laika: Summary

LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7giOpL4zg

Today we used our skimming and scanning skills to find the information and detail we needed to write a summary. Skimming like a low flying plane. You look over the information once, (this should take about about 3 - 5 seconds). Scanning is like a helicopter, you find what it is looking for and then hover over until the information has been found. To practice these skills we created a DLO that summaries Laika's journey in Sputnik 2.

Kiwi Can

This terms we are learning about integrity for our topic for kiwi can. Integrity is some who is it true and honest to people and owning up. A example of integrity is someone who is responsible for there own actions or there mistake. The thing that I found interesting was learning more about integrity.

This photo show a role play that show integrity because in this role play some boys was going to buy something but while there were walking there wallet drop on the floor and then there were there where some boys that went out of the shop and find a wallet on the floor and tries to find the owner.      

Place Vales Partitioning

This DLO show how I used the strategy of place vales partitioning to solve addition questions. During our math lesson I practiced using this strategy with number and words question. When I was answering the words questions I had to look for the math so that I knew what numbers to work with. My screencastify shows the strategy I used. The more I used this strategy the more the easier it got.              

Tech: Design Clocks

Today was our first day of tech for this term. For tech we used a laser cutter to cut out our shape of our clocks. After we used the laser cutter to cut our clocks out we paint the front of our clocks. After that we use the hair dryer to dry our painting.   

Procedural Text

This week my partner and I made a DLO to remind us what we need to include in a procedural text. We found out that a procedural text tells us how to make or do something. It is a set of instructions that makes the reader understand a set of steps clearly.