Advertising | Inquiry | Frame

LI. To design an advertisement poster for our market day. This week we have been making and designing posters for our school market day. The reason we are making posters so we can hand it out to students and students could by our frames that we made.

Kiwi Sport / Tennis

LI. to play doubles tennis.

We played rally's. We played in pairs. We started with challenging each other to see who will be the champions. It was normal rules.Peter served the ball in. Then we played. We then had our two champions. 

Just Frame It / Inquiry

LI: To make a frame. Just Frame it is the name for our company. This Friday is selling day where people come and buy our product. Each class has created a different product. This product needs a lot of time and effort. We had to use tow whole day for this. We thank Our teachers for making the frame for us. We had a choice to make one big frame and one small frame

Kiwi Can / Respect

LI: To respect others for their differences.
This week we learnt how to respect other beliefs,ideas, and customs also learn about other cultures,religions, and costume
We talked a bout it. Hold your tongue (meaning think about what you are going to say in your mind before you say it psychically to people).

Activity : This week our activity was spot the differences. How you play is you need to be in pairs then one person changes the appearances  while the other person turns around.  Then the other person turns around and tries to find the differences about the person. After that you switch places with the other person. 

Commenting

This week i chose to comment on angelica blog post about inquiry.

Basic Facts

LI: To learn basic facts. This week i did my basic facts and a got all of the addition correct.

Athletics

Last Week Friday we had Athletics we played different games and sports my favourite game is called Lilly Pad also it was a new game in athletics

We went to different teams my team was Blue. I had a lot of fun and I got really tired. Thanks  Mr Oglive for make this day happen.

SSR Selfie / Guts

LI:  to summarise and retell a piece of text in the book you are reading. This week i chose to read the book, Guts. Raina wants to feel better but then it's the opposite  for her. Even her mum has a angry stomach.

Tennis / Kiwi Sport

LI: learn how to volley a tennis ball.
This week we tried volleying a ball in tennis. We had to used the forehand and the backhand technique to practice our tennis skills. We did this in a group of 4 and we had practised volleying with the different serves that Coach Peter had taught us.

Maths / Graph / Measurements

LI: To learn to record and to measure the fly distances for the type of plane.This week we had to make a paper plane and test it ten times to get a consistence distance.We could work in groups but we weren't allowed to share the same measurement because we chose different types of planes. 

Writing

This week we chose to characters from each group. Then we had to write a paragraph about each 

character. Their names were jaerell and Patricia. Then we had to full out a google draw.We had to full out the characters box.  

Coffee Shop screenshots / Inquiry

LI: To learn enterprise and business.Our task for inquiry was to play a coffee shop game. But that was not all it was about how enterprise and business works. We had to see how much money we can make in fourteen days. Then we had to take a screen shot of the day ending. One last thing was to make a recording of one full day.

Maori / Poi Poi's

LI: to learn about Te Reo Maori & Maori
We did our task which was completing a sheet. Our sheet was Wiki Ono. The sheet Wiki Ono was just translating a few of words but before that we were playing around with Poi Poi's and doing actions with them and even did a song.

Kiwi Can / Respectful Communication

LI: To use respectful communication. This week our theme for kiwi can was respectful communication. Also we talked about what is patience. Our energiser and activity was based on patience. The main park of the game or the first thing you need to do to play these games are patience because you have to wait and waiting can be frustrating but that what's patience is. 

Welcoming A New Principal / Reading

LI: To novel study and complete comprehension task. This task required to write and design a front page report about advertising for a new Principal. The new Principal in this poster is Mr Millar. We had to write and draw a photo of the new Principal at school. We had a choice of doing a headline,New, photo and caption.

Commenting / Liletina blog post

This week i chose to comment on liletina's writing blog post.She has written a story with speech marks and all the part of her story made scene.

Basic Facts Boxes / 2019

LI: to remember basic maths problems. This week I have completed my basic facts task. I got them all correct but on little mistake was done. My goal is to get every question correct and get 100% hundred percent.

SSR Selfie

LI: to retell what happened in the story. The book i read was Alex rider this book as about o boy how covers his uncles death and find out who killed his uncle.

Maths

LI: To use statistical and scientific methods to study the effect of wing span and area on lift.This week our task was to make ten  paper planes and measure the distance of how much it can fly. Then we had to make a google spread sheet and make a graph showing how much the ten paper plane flew. Their was a specific graph we had to make it on. It was scatters graph

We had to make a google draw about the mistake and what we should of done before we tested the planes because they didn't fly that far. The planes reached about one meter to two metres.

Setting Description / Writing

LI:To investigate figurative language LI:To identify parts of a narrative This week I have completed my task for writing, my task was called setting description. We had to use the 5 senses to make a setting description. We had to find an image or get one from the class site. Once we find an image we had to put it on a google drawing. Next we had to write a telling and a show description of the picture we choose. The difference between the telling and showing sentence in that when you write your telling sentence your just telling them what you see but when you are writing your show sentence your describing the things you see.

Kiwi Sport / Tennis

LI.to learn the basic tennis movements.
This week for tennis we did fore hand and back hand. We also learned the half serve. For the fore hand and back hand we had to remember to hit the ball gently to the other person as your buddy. Coach Peter teached us the throwing part just with a ball throwing it diagonally to the other opinion. Next we started the serve. The serve was not a full serve but we did half serve, starting on the shoulder and we throw the ball with our left hand and we had to throw the ball high about a meter high and then hit the ball with our racket.

Inquiry / Michal / Food Print

LI: To learn enterprise and business. This week our teacher invited his friend to talk to us about how she started her company which was food print. Her company was about food waste. She use to travel a lot and she worked in the U.S.A for a hotel and then travelled  to London and worked for a shop called Hello fresh.

She saw a lot of food being wasted in her time of working in the U.S.A and London. Her passion was to reduce food waste around Atotearoa. So her company is trying to stop the food waste. She has worked on this company for two years but her company just got lunched six months ago.
She had a lot of work to do for her company that was the logo title colour and many more. There is over 20 million loaves of bread wasted each year in New Zealand. So her mission is to reduce the amount of food being wasted.

Reading / Novel- Matilda / Character Web

L.I To write down there emotions,Look,Personality and Act likes.
For Reading we had to pick a character and find out there emotions,Look,Personality and Act likes. I picked Matilda. Her emotions are special, funny and smart. I learnt about Matilda is that she won't stop for anything in her way if she is trying to get to her goal.

Maori

 LI: to learn about Te Reo Maori & Maori
We did our task which was completing two  sheets. Our first sheet was No hea koe. Lastly we did Ko wai koe which is translating the maori sentences into English.

Kiwi Can / 2019 / Respectful Communication

L.I: to show respect to others around
Today we had another session of Kiwi Can. For kiwi can we learn about respecting others and treating the environment well. Our theme for kiwi can is Respect. Respect means treating people the way that they want to be treated. Then we went into our energiser. The energiser was called quick maths. For this game we needed to get a partner.

We would need need to put 1 of our hands behind our back and we would need to take it out and have a number using our finger. If my partner had 5 finger up and I had 5 then we would need to add it all up so that would be 10. For this game I partnered up with Liane. If we won we would need to go on the other side of the building and If we lost we would need to go to the other side. The winners would need to verse each other. The winner for that game was Hosea.

Then we started talking about how we were communicating in the game. Then we went into our Activity. The activity was called Musical Cones. So Mr Semanu would put cones on the floor and there would be students standing next to them. When the music stops we would need to grab the cone as fast as the other person. The winner for that game was Charlize. We communicated by having fun. Then we went into our points. We got 50 points.

Manaiakalani Film Festival / 2019 / Saint Patrick's School

Today we have just got back from watching other schools movies. All of their movies were great to watch. When we got back we are making another blog post on a schools movie. I picked Saint Patrick's school. Their movie was how to write specific instructions on how to do something.

2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival / Point England School

I watched point Coconut oil from point England school. It was entertaining and very educational.

Roald Dahl / Matilda / Five Questions About Matilda / Reading

LI: Attached to comprehension tasks

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

Activity - Five Questions on main Character.
This week I chose to do five questions on the main characters of the novel we need to read which was Matilda and Miss honey. We had to write questions that don't have the answers to it in the book.

SSR Selfie / Matilda

L.I-to summaries and retell a text.
This week I picked the book called the Matilda.
I picked this book because it has hooked my attention.
I really like this book because I find new things about Matilda. In the book it also has that Matilda has super powers and help Miss Honey.

Basic Facts

LI: To remember basic fact. This week i did my addition and got them all correct. and my time was 4 minutes. I would like to beat my time.

Meaning / Supply and Demand

LI: To learn the definition of supply and demand. This week we were learning the definition of supply and demand. We had to make a slide deck of the meaning and examples.

Next we played a game called I supply, You Demand this game used maths. We had to play this game in groups. The money we got was $ 97 dollars.

Maths / WIP

This week we are studying aerodynamics. We learnt what variables are as well as 

independent and dependent variables. Our task this week was to create 12 paper/origami planes focusing on one certain design and studying each aspect of the design and which part of the paper planes are important and how they affect launch and flight.A variable is a feature of an object or thing that can change between multiple types of the object/item. An independent variable is unchanged by other variables or will not be 

changed by other aspects or assets of a variable.

Kiwi Sport / Tennis

I: To learn how to do a rally.

This week for kiwi sport were learning how to do rally's. We got into our warm ups. We had to pick a partner and start. The warm up was testing and warming up our reactions. Coach Peter then introduced LS1 group A to the rally. A rally is when you hit the ball with the tennis racket and you can't let the ball hit the floor. Our aim was to reach up to four hits with the racket. We used the forehand and backhand technique to help us.

Touch

LI: to have fun play Touch

On Wednesday the 6th of November we had Touch Rugby. The team I was in was Yr 6 Team B. We first went against Tamaki Primary and lost 6 - 0. We then went against Point England and lost 5 - 0. We then went against Glen Taylor which was a brutal lost. We lost 5 - 0. We then went against Glenbrae and we lost 4 - 1. Then we went against Panama Rd and lost 3 - 1. Our last game was  against Panmure District and we sadly lost 2 - 1.

Roald Dahl / Reading / 10 Words and 5 Definitions

LI: attached to comprehension tasks

LI - Novel Study. Matilda

LI attached to comprehension tasks. 

The reading task I was was working on was to find 10 words in the book that I did not know the meaning of and then finding the definition for only 5 of the words that I had found.

Figurative Examples / Writing

LI: To learn and practise figurative language.This week we were learning about figurative language. Our teacher showed us examples. Then we had to create our own three examples. We had to chose characters from the Interesting people and characters slide. Then write examples for Literal,Simile,Metaphor,Hyperbole,Personification.

Kiwi Can / Respect / 2019

LI: To respect yourself and others and about respectful communication.. This week we had another session of kiwi can. Our theme for the whole term was respect. We also recapped on what we did and learnt from the past few weeks.

Energiser :
Next for the energiser we played rock, paper, scissors and if you lose go on the knee's, you lose
again your out, if your stand you verse the standing people and if you on
your knees your playing the knees people.

 Activity : 

We did our activityand it was animal quire, you have to say your line correct and also you have a animal. Their were four animal groups. We had to sing for example piggy piggy oink piggy piggy oink piggy piggy oink oink oink. But we had the tigers,kitties,dogs, and the pigs.

Paper Air Plane / Maths / Diagram

LI: To learn the measurement on the paper air plane. This weeks understanding for maths we stared on learning about air dynamic or planes. We had to first know how to make it so the teacher taught us. We had to pick one to study on.My group chose the sky tower. We then had to make it. We had to then measure the parts of the plane.  

Figurative Language / Writing / Examples

LI: To investigate figurative language. Our learning for writing was to understand what is a figurative language. For this task we had to create a slide deck. We had to have examples a simile,Important,Metaphor,Personification,Hyperbole,and a understatement.We had to put in a bit of information of each word. We got into small groups and did a quiz on the first day. We had to write our answer on a white board to test how well we know figurative language.