New Zealand Sign Language Week

This week Fiona came to our class and taught us New Zealand sign language. She taught us how to say words in sign language and facts. I learnt a lot information about sign language. Something I found interesting was that over 24,000 people use sign language when communicating to others. Our session with Fiona was great. After our awesome session with Fiona, we created a DLO about sign language. We included information about sign language and images of saying a word in sign language.

Space Race|Sputnik 1,2, & 3

This week for reading in our groups, we created a DLO about Sputnik 1, 2 and 3 of the story "Space Race". In our google presentation we needed to include a timeline of the sputniks, what each sputnik is, a explanation, a glossary and the 5 w's and h. Avalon and I worked on the timeline. Everyone presented their slides they had done individually or with their partner. I enjoyed presenting the timeline to my group and listening to others say their presentation.

Kiwi Can

This term for a great session of kiwi can our new theme was integrity. Integrity means making the right choice when no one is looking. One example of showing integrity is picking up rubbish, when no one is looking. Something I learnt from Kiwi Can was the definition of honesty and why we show it. The activity we played was role play. The role plays were about showing honesty. My group's role play was about cheating in a test, but then owned up to it and told the truth. The image below shows the role play activity.

Main Ideas|The Space Race

This week for a fresh start of reading, we wrote the main ideas of the "Space Race". We created a DLO of all the important ideas, 4 very important ideas and 3 of the vital ideas. We started by writing all the important ideas. Then we picked 4 of the very important ideas from all the important ideas. After that we picked 3 of the vital ideas from 4 of the very important ideas. Joel, Avalon, Chavda, Miiana and I were working together to complete the main ideas. One of the main ideas we thought of was how in 1957 Russia created the very first satellite to launch into space.

Agent Of Change

This week we set up goals to becoming an 'Agent Of Change'. We created a google draw that included what is an agent of change, goals of becoming an agent of change and how to achieve the goal. An Agent Of Change is someone who takes their time to focus on their learning. They practice to improve in subjects and more. I think that I will probably achieve my goal by the end of the year, if I try really hard in school.

Technology-Wood

This week for tech we were doing woodwork with Mr Grundy. We finished off creating our designs. I decided to make the chest of drawers to hide things. Right now I'm working on creating the drawers that can open. Mr. Grundy had glued my joint together. If we were waiting for Mr. Grundy to come to help us, we could write the steps on "how to make a design with wood" on a piece of paper. At the end of tech we quickly played a match game, which was really fun. Today at tech I enjoyed my time doing woodwork. In 3 more weeks we will do pewter casting, which I am really excited about.

Solving A Multiplication Problem

This week for another great day of maths, we learnt four new strategies which were rounding, reversibility, doubling and place value. We solved multiplication equation using the strategies we learnt. After that we created a DLO of a multiplication problem. I decided to do the airplane problem. The strategy I used to solve the problem was place value, because it works with bigger problems, like 1254 x 5. Once we created the DLO, we made a screen castify and explained how to solve the problem. I enjoyed solving the problems and learning new strategies.