Emergency shelters

 Emergency shelters are protection against natural disasters such as a storm or an earthquake. 

The Protectors requested aluminium foil, hard plastic, metal poles, clay,  chicken wire, and plaster of Paris. 

The aluminium foil is for the inside of the shelter, the foil is used because it is a good insulator and heat reflector. 

The hard plastic is for the windows, the hard plastic is used because it’s easier to shape than glass.

The metal poles are for stabilisation, it was used because it is a heat reflector insulator.

The clay is used to form most of the shelter, it was used because it is tough, so if the shelter topples over then the poles will not easily break off.

The plaster of Paris and the chicken wire is used for a similar purpose as the aluminium foil, they were used because they were used to hold the clay.

The tin can is used for the door, the front and the back of the shelter. The purpose of this shelter was to protect against bush fires. 

Emergency shelters are used worldwide and are very important. There are a lot of steps you need to do to build an emergency shelter.

Volcanoes Names

 I did an activity that was based around translating the English names of volcanoes around Auckland to Te Reo Maori. 

 First I searched up the Maori names on the Maori dictionary 

 The second thing I did was matching the Maori names with the right volcanoes. 

Lastly I checked my names and I got them right. 

Here is my volcano names doc. 

Screenplay /Writing

 Screenplays are parts of a story that is speech. 

Screenplays have the scene names and what the person, has to say in the scene and how the person should say it. Sometimes screenplays have a short sentences about how the person should act. 

The scene names tell who should be speaking and when they should be speaking. 

Here is an example of what a screenplay should look like and my narrative. 

L.I To convert a story into a screenplay/script 

  

Maori

This week for Maori we translated names of people. 

First we matched Maori peoples names to English names of people. 

Next we translated names of people. Then we went on the mat to learn our left and right in Maori.  

Right in Maori is Matua left in Maori is Maui. 

Next I checked my Maori names. 

Emergency shelters

 During this week's inquiry session, we were learning how to design an emergency shelter. 

First, we designed a quick sketch of an emergency shelter on a piece of paper. We had to draw our design from a front angle and a side angle. We also had to think about what shape would be suitable for natural disasters such as strong winds. We used an octagon because if the wind toppled it over then it would still maintain its shape. 

 

Next, we designed a 3D version of our emergency shelter. To help us make the 3D shapes we used an app called sketchup. We had to replicate our paper design. 

Lastly, some changes we think we could make is, getting rid of some of our pillars, because the storm is capable of blowing down the pillars which will make the octagon roll repeatedly, and we could take away one of the windows so that there's a less likely chance of things flying through it.

The things I liked was sketching the emergency shelter on sketchup and looking for different emergency shelters.

Here are some photos of our sketch up.

Touch

 Today for Kiwi Sport we practised doing three man settle and two man settles. 

To practices these skills we got into groups of four and we had letters one person was a,b and c, and one person had to wait. To do the three man settle I planted the ball so that the person behind me could pick the ball up and pass it to me. 

Then we played a game called walking touch. To play walking touch we couldn't run we had to walk.  We also kept on doing those skills so that we could move up with the ball. Then I chucked the ball to the people that were on the far side of the try line so we could score a try. 

I enjoyed practising those skills even though I already knew them I still had fun. 

Here are some photos of us doing those skills. 

Fractions

A fraction is one whole thing cut equally into peaces.  

The  simplest fraction is halves. Halves are a whole thing cut into two peaces. 

below are some example of origami papers folded into halves. 

Quarters are a whole thing cut into four equal peaces.  below are some examples of origami papers folded into quarters. 

 

L.I to identify and create halves,and quarters. 

Inter school touch tournament

 On Wednesday some people from LS1 and LS2 went to Dunkirk Reserve for a friendly touch rugby  tournament. Competition was split into Y5,Y6,Y7,and Y8 different yeal groups. 

First we played against Sylvia Park. When we played against Sylvia park we lost by 0-5. The skills that we needed to work on was running straight and catching the ball. We also needed to communicate more and not waiting for the ball to come to us. 

Then we played against St Patrick's. When we played against St Patrick's we had a tie 3-3. When we played against St Patrick's we got better at communicating,but we still needed to not stay behind and wait for the ball to come to us. We also needed ton work on catching the ball. 

After that we played against Sylvia Park 2. When we played against Sylvia 2 we tied 2-2. The things we needed to work on was running the ball straight, and spreading out. 

Lastly we played against Stone Field when we played against Stone Field we lost by 2-3. We got better at moving up together in a line and spreading out.  

I liked how my team got better at some of the skills and they were listening to each other more and got better at running the ball straight. 

 

 

Kiwi Sports

This week for kiwi sport we learnt new basic skills. One skill we learnt was placing the ball. To place the ball I had to put the ball down with two hands. 

The first game we played was bibs and non bibs. 

The things we learnt in bibs and non bibs. Was planting the ball to plant the ball I had to  put the ball on the ground with two hands then I stepped over the ball. 

The last game we played was attack and defend. To play attack and defend there were two different teams one team was the defend and one team was the attacking. 

Understanding materials: warm/cold

Insulators are things that stop heat from travelling. The materials that kept stuff warm was the paper cup,tin,and paper. 

The best insulator for keeping things warm was the polystyrene cup. 

The best insulator for cold was the plastic cup. 

The materials were tested with thermometer. The materials that stopped heat from escaping was the glass and polystyrene. 

The insulator best for hot and cold is polystyrene because it has a lower number on both of the experiment. 

Here is the results of the hot and cold experiment. 

L.I To learn and practice experimental methods  

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Touch rugby

 Today we learned some basic skills for touch rugby. 

First we learned how to tap the ball, catching and passing. 

Afterwards we played  passing drills to get better at committing to the ball and catching. 

I enjoyed learning how to do these skills.

Formal and Informal

L.I To identify formal and informal language 

Informal and formal it talks about something appropriate or not appropriate for a kind of situation.

Formal is when you'll have to follow order, because it is something important.

Informal is when you don't need to follow orders, because it is not important. 

Informal and formal talk about different things from each other. 

The videos below show an example of Formal and Informal 

Dividing numbers

L.I To share objects evenly.

Division is sharing an object to the number of groups. For example: There were 15 counters that were shared among 5 people and they got 3 counters each.  

The slide below shows some division examples.  

Visualizing

   This week for reading I learnt how to write a character trait & fact or opinion.

The facts and opinions was about the characters from gruffalo book.

For the character trait I wrote the things about the characters and what they did in the story.

I enjoyed this activity because I got to describe what kind of character they are and got to learn more about these characters.

L.I- To infer
   

Setting description.

Setting description is created  by using looks like,sounds like, feels like and smells like.

Looks like, Is what is in the background. For example: Adjectives like like a scary place in a forest.

Sounds like, Is the sound that the place or the character makes. For example: Adjectives like a

Feels like, For example: Adjectives like a muddy ground.

Smells like, For example: Adjectives like a terrible smell.

The senses that are used to describe a setting can help people create a picture of a setting in their head.

L.I- to write a setting description.

Multiplication word problems.

Multiplication is an easy way of adding the same number over and over again. There are three things you need to look for in a multiplication word problems. The group size, number of groups, and what it adds up to. For example: Sally has 2 jellybeans and Sara has 3 jellybeans. How many jellybeans do they have altogether?

Group size: 2

Number of groups: 3

Number sentence: 2x3=

Answer: Sally and Sara has 6 jellybeans altogether. 

Here is the multiplication word problems.

LI- To identify

 the and solve a multiplication word problems. 

Visualizing

Visualizing is reading or listing to a book without looking at the pictures. Then getting a picture in you head about the story, and drawing it.

The gruffalo use the visualizing reading strategies, It talks about the mouse tricking people by picturing how the gruffalo looks in a bad way.

The nograd use the same reading strategies, it also helps us visualize a picture in our about how he looks.

Visualizing is a very good reading tool you can use, to improve your reading skills.

LI- To visualize the parts of the story.

T-chart/Reciprocal reading

This week we found pros and cons of pros and cons food storage containers by using T-charts and the reciprocal reading process.

The first thing my group and I chose a containers to read about. We read the text and summarised the Information to get an idea what the containers were used for. 

After reading the text we found the pros and cons of container using a T-chart. We used the images to think about to think about what challenges were and what we needed for the challenges. 

Then we repeated  this process for other containers to find containers that were suitable for our purposes. 

This is an working progress that will be finished next week.

Metaphor

A metaphor is an comparison of two things with a similar quality by saying one object is the other.

A metaphor is kind of figurative language.   

One example of an metaphor is "The girl is a thorn to my side" (The girl is annoying). The main object is the girl. The comparison object is the thorn.

Another example is " She has a heart of an lion"(She is brave). The main object is the girl, and the comparison object is the lion.

L.I To describe things by metaphor. 

Multiplication and word problems

Multiplication is an easier way of adding the same number over again. We learned how to identity multiplication word problems. To identity a word problem follow these steps.

Melanie worked 3 hours for 5 days. How many hours did she work in total?

1.First look at the group size and how many things are in the group
2. After that look for the number of groups.

3 is the group size. The number of groups is 5.

The example below shows 5 x 3=15

L.I To identity and solve word problems

Dippy dinner drippers/ Space food

 Similarity and differences talks about the text, it can also help figuring out stuff.

There are different types of ways to spot differences and similar things one way you can spot it is by using a Venn diagram.

we had spot the differences and similarity by using a Venn diagram.  

I found the differences and similar things by using Dippy Dinner Drippers  and Space Food. Something similar of both are they both talk about eating.

I felt happy after this activity because now I know the method about using a Venn diagram. 

L.I To understand texts using reciprocal reading 

Kiwi sports / Swimming

Today I practiced my water safety skills at the lagoon pools. 

The first skill I learnt was gliding. To do gliding well I had to do a big push with my face in the water. Then I had to put my arms out in front of my head and i had to have a straight body while going through the hoop. 

The second skill we learnt was floating. First we practiced  floating on our tummy then we practices floating on our backs. To float well I had to lye down on our tummy with our face in the water with my arms by my side. To float well on my back I had to lye on my back facing at the sealing and my arms my side with your tummy up and your head up. 

The third skill we learnt was rotating. To rotate well I had to rotate from my front to to my back by putting my face in the water, Then role my body with my arms out in front of my head. 

I got better at rotating and I need to improve on my arm strokes. 

L.I to develop the knowledge of water safety. 

Smiles

Smiles are a comparison of two things using  like"or "as...as.

Like smiles are used when describing an action. For example, "Akifa laughed like a squirrel. "

As...as similes are used when smiles use adjectives. For example, "The man's muscles are as big as an elephant".

L.I - To describe things by similes.

Tangrams

Today I learned how to make a tangram.

 I re arranged the pieces to make a animal shapes.

First I made a square piece of paper because tangrams are made from a big square.

Then I folded the square into various and cut them out. 

Lastely, I tried to copy the animals off the T.V using the tangrams pieces. 

Multiplications

Multiplication is an easy way to count a lot of the same number. Multiplication is like doubling groups or skip counting. For example 5+5+5+5=20 is the a lot of the same numbers an easy way of counting this number is multiplication: 4x5=20. Another example is 2+2+2+2= 8, which is 4x2=8.

L.I to learn the times table.

Measurement & Volume

The stranded measurement of volume and capacity is millilitres and litres. Volume means how much space it has and capacity means how much liquid it has in it. 

LI: To expand standard forms of length.

Marsking Art

This week I learnt how to do geometric masking art. Masking means hiding things. Geometric means simple shapes.

First we used making tape to make sections on the paper. Then we used the tape to mask places we didn't want to colour in.

Then I made to sections with the tape. Those sections made shapes. We made big sections first the made little sections in the big sections.

Then after that I started  colouring with pastels. Before we stared to colour we had to make sure the pastels were clean. I made the art look good by colouring it in one direction I lifted it up and down across.

Then after all of that I ripped  the tape off carefully so that my paper didn't rip. Here is a photo of my art.

L.I to learn masking art

Light and Sound Vocabulary

This week for inquiry we learnt about light and sound vocabulary.

For the first activity we did was light and sound vocabulary we had to match words from a list with the definitions. We could use a dictionary to help us.

For the Find, Draw, Animate and Act activity we had to choose a word that includes light and sound. The word I choose was transparent and I took a photo of my hand outside the glass window.

We worked in groups and each of us had one word. We used animation slides to do this. there was four people in the group. Our words were vibration, transparent, echo, wavelength.

L.I to learn vocabulary of light and sound

Verbs

For Writing we learnt about verbs there are three verbs mental verbs, state of being , and physical verbs. 

Mental verbs are thinking verbs for example, think, picture, dream, and imagine.

State of being verbs are verbs that identify who or what a noun is for example words like, will, is, was, am, are, were. Physical verbs are action words like, walk, run, swim, shout, and lots more.

We played a game called verb hunt we wrote  down words for all three kinds of verbs.


L.I to learn about verbs

Properties of Sound

One of the properties of sound is that it can travel in every direction when sound travels it dissipates (it gets weaker).

I know this cause when Mr Wong clapped on one side of the class room the meter on the other side of the classroom didn't move. if your far away from the sound you can't really hear it but if your close to the sound then you can hear it. Another properties of sound is that sound can travel around corner.

L.I  To observes the properties of sound 

Properties of Sound

PROPERTY: a characteristic that something is known by. For example, a property of ripe strawberries is that their colour is red.

OBSERVE: to watch and remember what happened.

EXPERIMENT: to observe what happens to something when different conditions are imposed on it.

CONDITION: a state of being.

IMPOSE: to make someone or something do something.

HYPOTHESIS: a prediction or evidence based guess that can be tested to find the truth.

What properties of sound can you figure out? There will be a bunch you can figure out by just experimenting with sound. Watch the video to find out how to do the experiment.

Fill out this table with your observations and hypotheses about the properties of sound.

You will need to use a sound meter like this free online meter by Youlean.

Observation I think...	Evidence	Hypothesis ✅ ❎
Sound is louder when it’s closer to the source and quiet when the sound it’s  far away from the source	When Mr Wong bounced the ball far away from the  Source the meter was low. and when he bounced the ball near the meter	When sound travels it gets softer or weaker
	The meter recorded the same sound on the top,bottom,and the sides but it was basically the same number.	Sound can travel around corners

SSR Selfie

LI: to summaries  and retell a text

Today I had to read this book called The Empty pot. first we had to Summaries the book the then retell it. first i summarise it then i it retold it. The Empty pot is a fiction book and it is about a boy named Ping.

Role models

For kiwi can we leaned about role models. Next we talked about why we look up to them. Then we moved on to our energizer. It is called hammer it's when you have to have your fist out then someone else has to say hammer, up, or down. To the people  in the with their fist out. Then the other people that don't have their fists out if they say any of those words, then the people with their fists out have to up,down and hammer. That means that the people with their fists out that to slam there fists up, down, or hammer. Then after that we moved on to our activity called tic tac toe, but the with humans. So this is how you play it you have to split up into two groups. Then your team and the other team have to do rock paper scissors, and who ever wins there team gets to go first. then after that we take turns. One group is O and one group is X. The team that is O holds up a O and team X holds up a X.   

Complex sentences

L.I To write a meaningful and interesting complex sentence.

 Today I did an activity called complex sentences. for this activity we had to use AAAWWUBBIS. here is the activity that we did today.

Kupe and Cook

Cook is important because he mapped New Zealand and opened it up to the world to access. 

Cook found New Zealand by following the birds. Cook came to New Zealand October 6th 1769 . 

Cook came to New Zealand because he wanted to map it. He sailed to New Zealand on a ship. 

He was born on 27th of October 1728. 

Cook is important because he mapped New Zealand and opened it up to the world to access. 

Kupe arrived in New Zealand in the 1100's. He Kupe and Cook are two important explores in New Zealand history. 

Kupe is important because he was the first documented person in New Zealand. 

traveled by traditional methods on a traditional sail boat. Myth has he did this voyage to find new land for his people  to live. his wife named New Zealand Aotearoa after seeing Mountains under the clouds.  

Keywords

L.I to identify keywords to search for information about Marco Polo.

Keywords are words that help to research  specific information about a chosen topic. they can also give appropriate information to young learners.

Keywords can be used to find information that is understandable and readable by children.

Keywords are for narrowing down the information gained by an internet search.

Keywords are useful tools that should be used in every search.

Simple sentences

L.I To write meaningful and interesting simple sentences 

A simple sentences is one idea. An a idea is one action performed by one actor.

A simple sentence can be made by flowing steps that consider the actor, action, and description.

Simple sentences have one idea but don't need to be short. 

L.I To write meaningful and interesting simple sentences 

A simple sentences is one idea. An a idea is one action performed by one actor.

A simple sentence can be made by flowing steps that consider the actor, action, and description.

Simple sentences have one idea but don't need to be short. 

Legal and illegal images

A legal is an image that can be used with permission  by law.  

Image creators  give legal permission to use their images by adding a sharing license. 

It is important to use legal images to help creators, and so we don't get in trouble.

When you using images, make sure to check the license for permission .

L.I To understand what is legal and illegal images 

The "Descriptive  Writing" activity is used for practicing  using descriptive language.

The comments function is used to describe any of the gathered  photos.

There is a list of language features to help create descriptions.


The objective of the Descriptive Writing activity is to improve descriptive language abilities.

The Good,the bad,and the ugly- Print Design Rules

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Print Design Rules

Use this document to record your notes as you go around the different posters to identify the four areas of print design.

Colour

Good	Bad
This is good because the colours are not clashing and you can see the text	This is bad because the colours are clashing and you can’t see the text
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This is good because you can see the text and it is easier to read	This is bad because the text is harder to read and the colors are clashing.

Composition

Good	Bad
This is good because it has pictures.	This is bad because this has no photos and it’s going to be hard for people to understand.
This is good because it has a heading and it tells you what type of food it is.	This is bad because it has no heading and people think these are random photos.

Layout

Good	Bad
This is a good layout because the text is good and the picture is good	This is bad because the text is on the corner and the reader will not understand.
This good because everything is aligned	This is bad because it is overlapping with some text and the heading is not at the top.

Text

Good	Bad
This is good because the text is all the same and they are the same size.	This is bad because the bottom text is bold and they all have different fonts.
This is good because the text is aligned with the pictures.	The text and all over the place. The text is also center aligned.

Print design rule ideas

• Composition:
• Add balance when you add picture and texts
• Organising the text and the picture so people understand 
• Layout:
• Align the text and images
• Have margins 
• Colour: 
•  Try not using clashing colours
•  Use a harmonic colour scheme
• Text: 
• The text has to have the same size and fonts 
•  Make sure the text is legible

Print design rule ideas

• Composition:
•  Have a balance of pictures and sentences.
•  Use images that relate to the text.
• Layout:
•  Have margins and align the text and images.
•  Use most of the space
• Colour:    
•  Don’t use clashing colours. Use a harmonic colour scheme.
•  Use contrasting background and foreground colors. 
• Text: 
•  Keep consistent fonts and sizes  
• Make sure the text is legible. 

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