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.