PBS Holiday Reading Program-Activity 1 Day 2

For activity 1 day 2 I had to make a DLO that tells you 5 facts about the sky tower. For the DLO I decided to do a google draw because I think that it is easier. The website that I went on was Wikipedia and Sky City Auckland. The websites helped me find 5 facts. I had a lot of fun finding facts about the Sky Tower. For the Sky Tower photo I went on labeled for reuse but I didn't attribute it.

PBS Holiday Reading Program-Bonus Activity Day 1

For the bonus activity of day 1 I had to choose a ride then I had to write down who I would recommend the ride to, why I would recommend the ride to a friend and I had to write down how I might feel if I was on the ride. I could only use 25 words to write down the things. I used a google draw and added a Corkscrew Coaster photo to show you how it looks like.

PBS Holiday Reading Program-Activity 2 Day 1

For activity 2 day 1 we had to write what the minimum height is to ride the Stratosphere and we had to write why we think that there is a height restriction. I used 2 photos to show you what the Stratosphere looks like and how the people are reacting while they are on the Stratosphere. I decided to make a google draw to show tell you about the questions.

PBS Holiday Reading Program-Activity 1 Day 1

For activity 1 day 1 I had to use a google maps to find where Rainbows End is located in Auckland, I had to find out how much it costs for a family pass and I had to find out how much it would cost for my family. Rainbows end is at 2 Clist Crescent. For my family it costs 580 dollars to go to Rainbows End for the gate price because I added up 62+62+62+62+62+62=372, then I added up 372+52+52+52+52=580. It costs my family 540 dollars for the online price because I added 58+58+58+58+58+58=348, then I added up 348+48+48+48+48=540. 

Raz kids

For raz kids I read Every Dog Has Its Day. This book is about a bull dog named Roscoe. Roscoe's owner chained him outside because the owner had to go work. One day 3 boys went passed Roscoe. One of the boys had a candy bar in his candy. Roscoe jumped to grab the candy bar, but he was chained a couldn't go any further. The boys laughed at Roscoe because he wanted to get the candy. The next day a boy grabbed a stick put it up high. Then Roscoe ran and tried getting the stick but he couldn't. The 3 boys laughed again. On the other days the boys didn't pass Roscoe anymore. Roscoe was sad wanted the boys to come. There was a rat who was watched Roscoe. The rat helped Roscoe. The rat went into his hole because the 3 boys were back. The boys grabbed sticks and started throwing it at Roscoe. Roscoe started running away then suddenly the chain broke and Roscoe was free. The boys tried to catch Roscoe but they were too slow.  

Addle

For a can do I did Addle. For Addle you have to drag the numbers in the spaces to make the sums correct. This game is on transum if you want to play it. If you get all of them wrong at the bottom it will which line is wrong. If you get all of them right you cam claim a trophy at the bottom. I got all of them right. This game is kind of tricky. I got all the answers right because I first new that the numbers that was red would make the answer. Addle helped me use different numbers to make a number like 12 or 20. 

The link-Addle

Commenting

For a must do I did commenting. I commented on Alice's blog. The blog post that I picked was find,draw,animate and act. Alice did a amazing job, but didn't really explain. I really liked the way she added the find, draw, animate and act. The link to blog-Alice's blog

Electoral Process

LI:To understand the electoral process. For inquiry this week we had to do elections. The election activity I did was to make electoral process. For the electoral process I had to make a padlet on what is an election?,why do we have elections? and what happens during an election? When I went on the padlet I had to sign up because I wasn't signed up before. Then I had to write down the title, questions and the answers for the questions. You can change the background if you want. I learnt to answer questions about elections.

The link-Padlet

Mixed Problems

LI:To problem solve.
For maths this week we had to do 3 activities. The activities were mixed problems, pencil code and making a interactive times tables grid. I finished all of them but I decided to blog the mixed problems. For the mixed problems we had to answer word problems. The operations were add/sub,  multi,div and prot/rati. Some of the word problems was hard and some of them was easy. For some of the word problems I had to tell other people to help me. I had to write down how I solved the problem. I didn't know what protracters and ratios meant so I had a lesson with my teacher.I learnt to solve different kind of word problems.

Reading log

LI:To summaries and retell some texts. For a daily 6 task I did reading log again. I did it again because I am not really good at summarising things. For reading log you have to read a book for 10-15 minutes then you have to write down your summary of the book.You have to write down the book title, the date, who was in the book and the summary. The book that I did was Whitebait Season. When I first read Whitebait Season I got interested in it. I learnt to summarise books and texts.

Reading Log

LI:To summaries and retell some text. For daily six this week I did reading log. I had to make a copy of the reading log on daily 6. Reading log helps me practice summarising things. For reading log you have to read a book for 10 minutes then you have to write down the summary. I read and wrote about Space holiday. You have to write down the book title, the date, who and the summary. I don't need t make any more copies of the reading log because it has a lot of tables to write your summary.

Math Monster Subtraction

For a can do I chose to do maths. For the maths can do I did Math Monster Subtraction. Math Monster Subtraction si game where you get questions on subtractions and each answer you get correct a monster appears. You need all 12 monsters to appear. Once all of the 12 monsters have appeared there will be subtraction questions that you need to work on. Math Monster Subtraction helped me do my subtractions more better. I am getting kind of fast at answering subtraction questions. I had a lot of fun playing Math Monster Subtraction. 

The link-Math Monster Subtraction

Reading Jigsaw

LI:To find and compare similarities and differences between suffragettes around the world. For a reading activity I chose to do the reading jigsaw. For this activity I had to find 3 suffragette's from different countries. I had to write down the person, the time active, why they are famous for and a quote that they wrote. The people that I did was Kate Sheppard, John Stuart Mill and Lucy Stone. I had to search up Great Britain suffragettes and United States of America Suffragettes so that I could find a person. This jigsaw was the easiest activity I have done about the women votes. I had a lot of fun looking up for suffragettes. The jigsaw helped me learn about new things.

Commenting

For commenting I chose to comment on Lovey's blog. Lovey is from Tamaki Primary School. The blog post that I picked was technology milkshake. Lovey did a great job. I liked the way she added a photo of the milkshake. The link- Lovey's blog

Kiwi Sport

For kiwi can today we had Andy. We were still focusing on throw.We had kiwi sport in the netball court. The first activity we played was called fruit salad. We had to get into groups of 5. I was with Victoria, Sandra, Alayah, Florence and Charlize. We had to name our groups. We named our group cherries. Andy had to call out 2 groups. When Andy called out  2 groups they had to swap corners with each other. If Andy called out fruit basket we had to get surround Mr. Ogilvie. We had to be in the center third when we were playing fruit salad. The next thing we did was recapping on what we did last week. After we recapped on what we did last week we were doing shot put. Shot put is kind of like discus. For shot put we had to have dirty fingers, dirty neck, clean palm and elbow up. If you were right handed you had to face the hall and if you were left handed you had to face LS1 and LS2.  We had to get the shot put ball and had to bring it up to our neck. We couldn't grip the ball. Our legs had to be a little bit shoulder with a part. We had to twist our legs at Andy. Our chin, knee and toe had to be all in a row. Once we did chine, knee and toe we had to go low then high,we had to twist our legs again and had to throw the ball. Once we practiced doing shot put we had to get into partners and we had to throw the ball towards the grass. When we threw it the ball was dirty so Andy told us to move back and do throw the ball on the net ball court. i had a lot of fun throwing the shot put balls.

Kiwi Can

For kiwi can we had Mrs.We were still focusing on resilience. Piho and Mr Latu. The first game we payed was kind of like bip bop bounce. We had to get in a circle then Mr. Latu had to point to someone and say tiger, buffalo and hay. If Mr. Latu pointed at you and said  tiger you had to say roar. If you Mr. Latu said buffalo you had to say hoo and if Mr. Latu said hay you had to say hoe. If you were to slow to say it you had to sit down, if you do the wrong sound you had to sit down and if you said the sound when the other person was being pointed you had to sit down. For the 1 round we had to practice so that we could get used to the game. Then we had get on with the real round. After we played the game we played target zone. We had to get a hula hoop and had to throw it onto 1 of the cones. There was 3 cones. 1 of them was worth 10 points, the other cone was worth 20 points and the last cone was worth 50 point. We had to throw the hula hoops one by one. Mrs. Piho counted the points. Mrs. Piho and Mr. Latu said that the class with the most points will get a prize. We had to have 1 turn each at throwing the hoop. Our teacher had to throw the hula hoop 2 times because Alayah and Sila didn't want to go. In total we got 230 points. The chant is kiwi can says step up your game challenges we face we will not fear.

Voting Jigsaw

LI:To learn about the leaders of the party election.

For inquiry this week we were doing elections. We had to make a copy of a party voting jigsaw. Then we had to write down the names of the party, the leader, the picture of the leader and their electorate. We also had to add the attribution so that you didn't copy of a person's work that they don't want any one to copy. I asked some of my friends for help because I didn't know some of the leaders, their electorate and the party. I also searched it up so that I could find the ones that I don't know. I didn't know what the electorate meant, so I searched it up and finally found it out. I learnt to learn about the leaders part, electorate, logo and what they look like.

Suffrage Movement POV

LI: To make connections, identify main ideas, summaries, evaluate and synthesis facts through learning conversations. For a reading activity I chose to do my point of view about the suffrage movement. For the pov we had to tell our own point of views about the suffrage movement. We had to make a DLO to write down our pov. I did it on a google slide because I thought that it would be easier for me. When I did my point of view I thought about what I was going to write and make a plan in my head. I think that Kate Sheppard is the bravest woman in New Zealand. I found it fun to write down my point of view about the suffrage movement.

Hauora Video

For inquiry this week we had to make a video or a animation about the meanings of the 4 dimensions of Hauora, but first we had to do the planning. We either had to get into pairs, groups of 3 or groups of 4. I was working with Florence and Miiana. Taha Tinana is Physical Health. Physical Health means when you be healthy. Taha Hinengaro is Mental Health. Mental Health means when you express your feelings and thoughts. Taha Whaunau is Social Health. Social Health means when you have relationships. Taha Wairua is Spiritual Health. Spiritual Health means when you think about your religious beliefs. Florence, Miiana and I had decided to do a video. We had to make the video over and over because we said some parts wrong and we couldn't see the Chromebook clearly so that we could see what our script was. We did make a video but then it got deleted, so we made another video. I learnt to make a video about the meanings of the 4 dimensions of Hauora.

Free Rice

Today for a writing can do I did Free Rice again. To play Free Rice you have to donate grains of rice for free to hungry people. If you want to donate rice you have to answer questions. If you want to know if you got the answer right you have to look at the top and it will say incorrect or correct. If you get 5 questions right in a row the owner will send 50 pieces of rice to hungry people and if you get 1 question right the owner will send 10 pieces of rice to hungry people. For Free Rice I donated 180 grains of rice. Free Rice is a amazing game because it can send grains of rice to people who are hungry. This game can save hungry people's lives. 

The link to the game- Free Rice

Maori Language Week

LI: To teach people some Maori skills.
This week we had to do Maori language week. We had to work in a pair and had to look at links and videos to see how to do Maori language. I was working with Victoria. For the DLO we put in the happy birthday song, the some parts of the calendar, numbers to 10 and our Pepeha. You could use a google draw or a google slide. We had to record our voices and link it. It was a lot of fun learning about Maori language. My favourite thing is the happy birthday song. Maori language week helped me learn a lot of Maori things that I don't know. We decided to add links to what we were saying in Maori. I couldn't read the Maori words but I tried saying it.

Art Design

LI:To create a piece of art using rotation, translation and reflection.

For maths this week we had to finish of our art work. We either had to dye the squares, color it with pastel and paint it. I painted 5 of the designs, I dyed 2 of the designs and I colored 2 of them with pastel. Last week we had to draw the design but this week we had to paint, color and dye. The designs had to include rotation, reflection and translation. The designs had to be reflected rotated and translated. The designs also had to be light on dark or dark on light when we were painting, dyeing and coloring. I liked the way I did my design and i'm happy about it. We had to be careful when we were dyeing, painting and coloring. I kind of made a mistake when I was doing the dye. I colored 1 of the designs with pastal but then I remembered that I had to color it with crayons and I did color it with crayons. I learnt to make a piece of art.

Speech Brainstorming

LI: To create a persuasive speech

For writing this week we had to brainstorm about our 2 to 3 minute speech. Wed had to brainstorm our 2 to 3 minute speech on coggle. The brainstorm is about blowing fidget spinners. Last week there was 3 topics and I chose to do blowing fidget spinners because it can distract other people from doing their work. The things that I wrote about was my point of view, the solution to the problem and some facts. I had to go on the LS1 site to go on coggle. On coggle you can add people into it, you can write things down, you can download the coggle that you write and you can do other things too. I learnt to brainstorm ideas on my 2 to 3 minute topic. The link- Coggle

TPS Commenting

For commenting this week we had to comment on a Tamaki Primary School student. I chose to go on Teresa's blog. The post that I picked was te wiki te ora Maori. Teresa did a great job. I liked the way Teresa added photos. The link- Teresa's blog

Summarising

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about.

For other I chose to do another reading task. I chose to do the reading frameworks. I just finished the summarizing. For the summarising I had to write down 20 important words about the votes for women, I had to chose the most 6 important words and I had to use the 6 word to sum up the text in 3 sentences. This was a group challenge but we had to make our own copy of the google slide. We had tell each other our 20 words and had to give 1 important word to each other. After we had to write the 3 sentences. We had to work as a team to finish it off.

Sketchnote

LI: To create a sketch note that shows your understanding.
For reading this week we had to to choose 1 activity and had to do it. I chose to do the sketchnote. For the sketchnote we had to show our own understandings of the women votes, and the meanings.The meanings we had to write down was suffrage, vote, change and radical. I had to make a copy of the google draw to do the activity. There was shapes and arrows all around the google draw. I deleted some of the shapes and arrows because I didn't need it. I didn't know how to do a sketchnote so I searched it up and told me how to make a sketchnote. I had to look at the sketchnotes on images, videos and links. For the sketchnote you could work in partners, but I decided to do it alone. I learnt to make a sketchnote.

Art Work Planning

LI: To create a piece of art using rotation, translation and reflection. For maths this week we had to make a plan for our art work. For the art work we had to involve reflection, translation and rotation. I didn't do rotation because it was the hardest for me. We did the art planning because next week we are going to make it. I had to do a lot of work on the plan. Our designs had to translate, rotate and reflect. The colors for my art planning is purple, blue and green. For my art planning it has patterns. The patterns is that there is 3 purples, 3 greens, 3 blues, 1 of the colors is diagonal and the purples has light on dark, the greens has 1 dark on light and light on green and the blue has 1 dark on light and 2 light on dark.

Tongan Language Week

Today we did Tongan language week. The teachers had to put us into groups with 1 Tongan expert in LS1. After we had to learn Tongan things from the experts. W then had to go on sites and a youtube video to learn from there too. Once we watched the video and read the sites we had to pair up with someone in our group. I was working with Alice. We had to write down things about Tonga. Alice and I chose to write down numbers to 20 in Tongan and colors in Tongan. I learnt a lot of things about Tongan language. I enjoyed learning about Tongan language. One of the things I liked learning about was counting numbers in Tongan.
The link to the sites and video- Tongan Language, Digital Dialects, Tongan Resource

Reading Log

 For a daily 6 I chose to do reading log. I had to go to the class site then I had to go on daily 6 and press on reading log. Once I pressed on reading log I had to make a copy. Reading log helps you practice your summarizing. For the reading log you have to write down the book title, the date and the summary. I wrote about The Surprise Invitation. Reading log is helping me to do a summary and helps me to practice summaries. I don't need to make more copies of the reading log because it has a lot of reading logs on the google docs.

Prodigy

For another must do I chose to do other. For other I did prodigy. Prodigy is a maths game to help you learn about maths. You can buy pets, level up, battle people, buy clothes, do challenges for other people, buy potions and buy wands. I decided to battle someone because it is fun and I would learn a lot. Prodigy helped me learn new things on maths. If you play prodigy I think that you will learn a lot of things. The things that I like about prodigy is that you can battle people, get new pets and level up. 

The link to the maths game- Prodigy

Kiwi Can

For kiwi can this week we had Ms Latoya and Mr Malu. We are still focusing on self discipline and self control. The first game we played was bip bop bounce. The first thing we had to do was to make a circle. After Ms Latoya or Mr Malu had to go in the middle of the circle and say bip bop bounce. You have to say bang before Ms Latoya or Mr Malu says bounce. If you are to late to say bang that means you have to sit down, if you say bang before Ms Latoya or Mr Malu says bip you are out and if Ms Latoya or Mr Malu is pointing at someone else and you say bang that means you are out. After we play bip bop bounce we talked about risky with the teachers. The last game we played was all aboard. Ms Latoya and Mr Malu had to tie 2 skipping ropes together to make a circle. We had to try and fit everyone into the circle. We had to discuss about how we are going to fit inside the circle. We had to do 4 levels. In our first few tries we couldn't put everyone's bodies inside the circle but then Ms Latoya and Mr Malu said that we don't have to put our whole body in.Every round we won the circle started to become smaller and smaller. On the last round we Liane could fit her hand in the circle because everyone was around the circle.

Hauora

LI: To understand Hauora and the 4 dimensions.
For inquiry this week we had to make a info graphic on a google draw. The info graphic had to be the meaning of the 4 dimensions of Hauora. To do this task we had to watch a video about the 4 dimensions. After we watched the video we had to get into a group of 4 and had to answer questions that our teacher told us. If you 1 of the questions right you get a point. Once we answered the questions we had to make our info graphics. We still had to be in our group. Each person in my group decided to do one of the info graphics by themselves because it would be much quicker. In my group their was Florence, Alayah, Angela and Fau. The 4 dimensions is Mental/Emotional, Physical, Social and Spiritual. The words in Maori is Mental/Emotional Health- Taha Hinengaro, Physical- Taha Tinana, Social- Taha Whanau and Spiritual is Tha Wairua.
The link to the video- Hauora

Persuasive Speech Plan

Persuasive speech plan

My topic: Stopping people from littering.

My argument: My argument is that people should stop littering.

Audience: Andy Griffiths Group

How will you greet your audience? Hi

How will you introduce your topic in a catchy way? I think that people should stop littering.

Write a rhetorical question to make the audience think about your topic: Do you want rubbish to be everywhere?

What is your opinion? Write a statement that clearly states your point of view: I want people to stop littering because when you chuck rubbish on the ground it will go to the drain and inside the sea where all the sea creatures are. When the sea creatures see the rubbish they will think that it is food. When the sea creatures eat the rubbish they might die.

List some facts or statistics that support your opinion: Places will be nice and clean. The sea creatures will be happy. The sea won’t be filled with rubbish anymore.

Do you have a solution to the problem? The solution is that if we stop littering we will have a clean and happy place.

Say your opinion again and warn the audience what will happen if they don’t agree with your opinion. You should agree with me because if you don’t places will be crowded with rubbish and will smell stinky. Sea creatures will die if we put rubbish in the oceans and other places.

Persuasive speech plan

My topic: Blowing fidget spinners

My argument: My argument is that we should blow up fidget spinners.

Audience: Andy Griffiths Group

How will you greet your audience? Hi

How will you introduce your topic in a catchy way? I think that fidget spinners should be blown.

Write a rhetorical question to make the audience think about your topic: Do you want fidget spinners blown or not?

What is your opinion? Write a statement that clearly states your point of view: I want fidget spinners blown because when you go to school and you bring a fidget spinner you will be distracted and won’t be able to get your work done. If fidget spinners are blown students will finish off their work.

List some facts or statistics that support your opinion: Students will be be able to do their work instead of being distracted by fidget spinners. Students won’t get in trouble. Students will listen to the teacher.

Do you have a solution to the problem? If we blow up fidget spinners students won’t be distracted by the fidget spinners.

Say your opinion again and warn the audience what will happen if they don’t agree with your opinion. You should agree with having fidget spinners blown because if we don’t blow fidget spinners students won’t do their work.

Persuasive speech plan

My topic: Having 10 days of school.

My argument: My argument is that students should have 10 days of school.

Audience:Andy Griffiths Group

How will you greet your audience? Hi

How will you introduce your topic in a catchy way? I think that we should have 10 days of school.

Write a rhetorical question to make the audience think about your topic: Do you want to have 10 days of school or do you want to stay at school for weeks and get bored?

What is your opinion? Write a statement that clearly states your point of view: I want 10 days of school because when you have 10 weeks of school you will be bored. If you have 10 days of school you won’t be tired because you only have 10 days of school and you will go home when 10 days finish.

List some facts or statistics that support your opinion: You might not get tired. You will have a long holiday. What students learn at school they are able to practise it when it is the holidays. Students can be home school when it is the holidays and can finish their work at home.

Do you have a solution to the problem? If you have 10 days of school students might practise work that they learnt at home or might do their work or they might be homeschooled.

Say your opinion again and warn the audience what will happen if they don’t agree with your opinion. All of you should agree with having 10 days at school because if you don’t then students might get stop coming to school and stay at home.

LI: To create a persuasive speech

For writing this week we had to make 3 plans for our persuasive speech, but first we had to go on a padlet and write down ideas for a persuasive speech. After we had to pick 3 of our ideas and write down the plan on a google docs. We had to make a copy of the google docs. The topics I did was stopping people from littering, Blowing fidget spinners and having 10 days of school. I had to write down the topic, the argument, how I will greet my audience, how I will introduce my topic in a catchy way, writing a rhetorical question, writing a statement that clearly states my point of view, listing some facts that supports my opinion, if I have a solution and warning my audience about what will happen.

Free Rice

For a writing can do I chose to do free rice. To play free rice you have to donate rice for free to the people who are hungry around the whole world for free. To donate rice you have to answer questions. If you answer 1 question correctly you get 10 grains and if you get 5 question correct you get 50 grains. The more questions you get right the more rice there will be for hungry people. I like playing free was because free rice can give people who have been hungry for free. You should play free rice so that hungry people don't loose their lives. The link- Free Rice

Commenting

Today I decided to comment on Charlize's blog. I chose to comment on her limerick poem. Charlize did a fantastic job. I liked the way she told me her poem and wrote a blurb. I can write a limerick poem but I might need some help doing it. Charlize's blurb didn't really make sense but there isn't really anything wrong with that. The link- Charlize's Blog

Kate Sheppard

LI: To make connections, identify main ideas, summaries, evaluate and synthesize facts through learning conversations. For reading this week we had to go on a link and do activities about votes for women. I chose to write about Kate Sheppard. I had to go on 3 link and read about Kate Sheppard. Then I had to make a google drawing and write about Kate Sheppard. I chose to add a picture about Kate Sheppard so that people could see how she looks like. One of the facts that I was sad about was that Kate Sheppard died on the 13th of July 1934. When I went on the 3 links it helped me learn more about Kate Sheppard. I learnt to find facts about Kate Sheppard.