Athletics Day

Last week, was athletics day. For athletics we did fun activities to verse against each team in our year or class group. We were each in different colour groups. The colour group were green, blue, red and yellow. I was in green, with Victoria, Chavda, Alex, Matthew and Karlos. The activities we did was the egg and spoon race, rob the nest, rock paper scissors, long jump, discus, shotput, frisbee and, bean bag race and the sponge game.  After we did the activities we did sprints to see who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd. We could wear mufti in our team colour or anything else. For me it was really fun playing all these activities. All the activities were really fun, especially the sponge game and rob the nest.

Montagues & Capulets Fight | Scene

This week we learnt about the story Romeo and Juliet. We watched a short video about the story to learn about it. After watching the story, we chose a scene. Haylee, Taheesha, Miiana and I chose the scene where the Montagues and Capulets slaves fought. Then we wrote a play of the scene in our own sentences using the Shakespearean translation. After writing our scripts, we presented it to the class. We created a DLO to show the montagues and capulets fight in pictures.

Shoes Story | Personification

Shoe Personification Story

After waking up from a long nap, it was time for me to get to work. I could smell the stench coming from her feet as she stepped into me. I could feel my whole body getting compressed by her feet. Ohh ! I was so glad that it didn’t start raining. If it did rain my perfectly styled hair would get wet and it would be all messy. As I was walking, I could see many shoes all dirty and scruffy. I felt like I was the only perfect and clean pair of shoes, but then I saw my worst nightmare, a muddy puddle. I was doomed, as my owner stepped into the puddle. I held my breath tightly as well as my mouth. When I opened my eyes in relief, gasping for air, I saw my whole body covered in mud. I guess my owner doesn’t really care about me. As my owner stared down at me, I gave her a dirty evil look. She gasped as she saw how dirty I was, but it was too late. If only she used those two eyeballs in her head then I would still be looking perfectly fine. I could still feel mud stuck in my teeth. I was still mad at my owner after a long day of work. Finally, she took me off as I was tossed into the washing machine. I started dancing with the bubbles. After a long shower I felt fresh and clean. I felt dizzy as I came out of the machine, but I could finally relax after a hard day of work.

This week in writing, we learnt about personification. Personification is giving non living things human abilities. To understand more about personification, in partners we wrote short personification sentences about shoes. We pretended that we were the shoes. For this activity our challenge was to not talk to each other while writing and turning back to back. As Haylee and I were writing, we thought about personification and the 5 senses, which are feel, taste, look, hear and smell, to help us. We also thought about the shoes perspective. Haylee and I did a great job writing this story without talking. 

Reading Presentation

For the past few week we have been reading and creating DLO's about the Horrible Histories books, in partners. My partner was Haylee, and for the past weeks we have been reading Henry VIII. Henry VIII was the king of England who married 6 women for a son. The pattern was divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. For this book Haylee and I decided to create a kahoot and a 5 sentence, 10 syllable summary about Henry VIII and his 6 wives. After creating the DLO and kahoot, we presented it to the class, so they could learn what we learnt about king Henry VIII. Most of the class got the questions correctly for our kahoot. From this book, we have learnt about the recent events about Henry VIII. Something that I found interesting was how Henry VIII had six wives, just because he wanted a son.

Transformation

This week in maths we learnt about transformation. Transformation is changing objects or a form. Rotation, reflection, translation and enlargement come with transformation. Rotation is turning, reflection is flipping/mirror image, translation is sliding and enlargement is making something bigger. To understand more about transformation we created a DLO about each of these parts.

Foodprint Visit | Michal

This week Michal came to visit us to talk about food print ( a social enterprise app). Michal was working on her company for 2 years and has been open for 6 months. She told us how food waste became a problem to the environment, because it could be distributed to others who need food. She also told us how 1.3 billion of food has been wasted every year and how 20 million loaves of bread in NZ has been wasted a year. This can cause methane gas which makes climate change. Michal has been helping NZ's environment, by creating an app called Food Print. Food Print helps provide food to others, a  lower price than the price you would normally get food instead of wasting it. Michal talked about the designing of her app, (the right name, the logos, colours, recognisabality and its catchy). So far Michal has 250 cafes that have joined her with this app. I have learnt a lot about enterprise, different information and food waste.

Tech | Robotics

This week in tech for robotics we learnt how to code the number 8 using our m bots. There was sheet of the number 8, we could use to see if our m bots made an 8 and so our m bots could follow the line. I successfully made the code, so I recorded it. We coded 8, so we could practise since we will be coding our initial for the next few weeks. After coding and testing the number 8 we tried a different code, so when we put our hand in front of the m bot it goes backwards and if we put our hand behind our m bot, it will go forward.

Tech | Robotics

This week in tech, for robotics we wrote a code to make the letter D. Before coding, we did a kahoot about coding. When we started coding, we tested it to see if we created the letter D. There were many mistakes in my code, to make D but I still tried and I finally made D. After making the code, I recorded it. Next week we will code our initials.

Fireworks Provocation

This week, we created a DLO about fireworks, whether we should stop having fireworks or we should have them, with reasons to back up each point of view and our opinion. In pairs, we researched, if we should ban fireworks or not. For this activity I was working with Haylee. We think that we should ban fireworks, because it can distract and harm dogs and children.

Firework Safety

This week since it was Guy Fawkes, we created a DLO about fireworks safety to show the room 2. For this DLO, I worked with Miiana, Taheesha and Eyaka. With the fireworks safety, we included 5 simple important firework safety rules with some photos. After creating the DLO, we showed it to room 2 and 4. One of the important rules while near fireworks, is to always keep away while a firework is lit.

Literacy Weaving | Protests

This week in reading, for the book, protests in NZ, we created a literacy weave. We chose 2 words from the book, to retell it. On the top and bottom, we added the pictures and in the 3rd and 5th boxes, we added the words. The words I decided to choose was Environmental and 2003 GE ( Genetic Engineering ). After making the literacy weave digitally, we printed it out, than weaved it together. To me, I think that the literacy weaving was fun to make.

Summarising | Protests In NZ

Our summary- The history of New Zealand protesting started years ago. What were they protesting? One of the first New Zealand protests were between the Maori and Pakeha in 1881. Government were taking land for settlers - destroying fences to make way for new roads. The people of Parihaka used passive resistance to peacefully protest. The Women's Suffrage was a significant protest to New Zealand. Countries from all around the world in 1893, were discriminating and giving titles to women. It wasn’t an equal argument between men and women. Kate Sheppard was a brave woman who stood for her right and opinion. The petition had more than 500 pages and was signed by over 25,000 women.

Depression Riots 1932, A lot of people were unemployed and struggling. That's what made people think that the government wasn’t providing them with enough help and that's what started the protest. As Marches became Riots, messages became violence. A few months passing ahead, unemployed men fought with policies and smashed shop windows.


This week in reading, we read a book called "Protests in New Zealand". While reading the book, we did reciprocal reading as a group. This book is about all the protests that have happened in New Zealand, in the recent events, like women suffrage and the great strike. To understand more about the protests, we created a summary of it as a group, using the vocabulary we wrote while doing reciprocal reading.

Guy Fawkes

This week, since it was Guy Fawkes, to understand more about it, we created a DLO showing who Guy Fawkes was and why he was a special member of the plot. Guy Fawkes was a world's famous  plotter, who was part of the plot to kill King James I and was very good with explosives, which is why he was a special member of the plot. The purpose of this task was to learn about the story behind Guy Fawkes and to understand more about him.