Americas cup

I learnt about the Americas cup my group. 

I read texts and videos to get information and facts about the Americas cup. I sorted them in to main idea about who, what, where, why, when.

Next we summarised the main ideas and wrote 20 words from the text. Then we wrote 6 words that we thought were important. Then we used the 6 important words to sum up the text in sentences. 

After that we evaluated the information and wrote what the text was about, what interesting facts you've learnt from reading the text, and then I wrote down questions that I wanted to know about the Americas cup.

These strategies are helpful to use because they allow you to understand lots of information quickly.

 

The Highway Rat

 Visualisation is seeing a picture or an image in your head by listening to words that describes that image. 

Visualisation is important because if your reading a book with no pictures you can visualise what the pictures look like. 

The story is about a rat the thinks he owns the highway. Then he steals other animals food and if they have no food he steals what ever they have. In the end he gets scared of himself and realises why the other animals are scared of him.  

My Visualisation is different to others because I drew a fat rat and I used up all the space in the boxes.  

We have different Visualisation because some people listened to the other details like the rat riding on a horse and some people drew people and cars because the rat was on a highway. 

Place value and Saying Numbers

 Place value is a System that  groups numbers based on their size. 

The position of a digit determins its value. When we say numbers we we group then within then same hase. For example 15709 has Fifteen thousands, Seven hundreds and nine ones. 

Understanding our base 10 place system  allows us to pronounce big numbers properly. It also allows us to identify numbers before and after. 

Symphony Maths

 I completed 3.1 stages on Symphony Maths. 

I did different strategies up to five. 

I did different ways to figure out the answer like number lines, and blocks. 

While doing Symphony Maths I learnt a lot of different strategies. 

Mihi Whakatau

 Mihi Whakatau is a Maori term for a formal greeting. 

Mihi Whakatau is traditionally used for welcoming, introductions and openings. It is undertaken by the Tangata Whenua (local inhabitant).

The Mihi needs to acknowledge the significant aspects to the place. The Maunga (mountain), Awa (river), and Iwi (tribe) are generally used. 

Introducing Ingoa (name), Oki tipuna (ancestor place) and where you live is important for the audience to understand the position of the speaker. 

Manuhiri is the term used to describe or group the visitors that are being welcomed. It is important to end with warm welcome so the visitors know that there is no hostility in the 2 groups being together. 

       

Basic facts

 I did my basic facts up to 5.

The time I got was 6m 35s I got 100 out of 100 but I still need to get faster. Next time I need to try to get  a lower time I need to memorize the answers so I can get it straight away, and try to get a higher level. 

Prototec

Today I did a prototec to test my math knowledge. 

I got 5 wrong to 1000 and I got 5 wrong on subtraction up to 20. I also got 3 wrong on addition up to 20 and 8 wrong on x ÷ 2 3 5 10.

This prototec was hard and I need to practice my 1000, subtraction up to 20, and x÷ 2 3 5 10.

Print Design Rules

 I learned about the Print Design Rules. 

First Mr Wong taught us about the main aspects of the Print Design Rules, colour, layout, text, composition. 

Next, I figured out which posters were good and bad with my partners. 

Last I reorganised a poster to make it look good. 

To make my poster look better I needed to make the pictures the same size. 

AFL practice

 We learnt some skills that are used in Aussie Football League. 

The first skill we learnt was called handball. Handball was a type of throwing skill handball used for short pass's. To do a handball you have your dominic hand in a fist and your other hand flat like a dinner plate. Then you swing your arms and hold the ball with the dinner plate then you punch the ball with the side of your fist. 

The second skill we learnt was called a drop pot. To do a drop pot you have to have the ball in your hands with a M and face the laces away from your face. Then you kick the mud at your partner then drop ball and kick it. 

Then we played games the first game we played was octopus but we played a different way of playing octopus. The octopus that we played was we handball the ball to the people that were trying to get to the other side. 

Then we played bomb the teacher to play bomb the teacher we did the handball skill and tried to aim for the teachers or the coach. 

I liked learning these skills because it was fun and I got to learn different skills that I didn't know about. 

Handwriting

I learned how to write the alphabet,numbers and symbols properly. 

I watched a video to show neat handwriting. I wrote characters neatly into my writing book. 

I need to write my fours straighter. 

LS1's Learning Treaty

LS1 learnt about the 3 Ps in the Treaty if Waitangi and how they apply to our learning. 

First Mr Ogilvie introduced the 3 Ps in the Treaty of Waitangi. 

Then in groups we wrote statements about the 3 Ps in LS1. 

LS1 figured out the 3 Ps are all connected. After that we used our group ideas and thought about how they connected to me. 

I chose these three statements because they will help other people and help me listen to other peoples ideas and learn from other people.