Maori

LI: to learn basic words in Te reo

today for Maori we had to get back into our group from last week and we had to sit down with our teacher and she told us new words and we learning about brothers and sisters and when she asked us how many younger, older brother or sisters we have in Te reo we had to say a number of how many we have. we then had a task to complete we had to find places in new Zealand and other countries and we had to find the Maori name for it so we had to translate the English name into Maori.
Tenia - Younger
Tuakara - Older
Tungane - Brother
Tuahine - Sister

Kiwi Can | Respect

This week for kiwi can our theme is respect. Our first energiser was called follow the leader. For this game there was a leader for each 4 - 5 groups. Each leader got a scenario for example to spell the school backwards. Then had to go back to our groups and explain what we had to do. 

Writing | Recount

This week our task was to write a recount with the topic of winning a sport I then picked Netball. After we finished writing our recount we had to mark 7 different areas. Ideas, S&L, Organization, Vocab, Spelling, Punctuation and Sentence Structure. From 3-5.

Basic Fact boxes

LI: to remember basic maths facts.

This week I did the speed demon challenge up to 20. I completed all. In 4 minutes and 54 seconds. I could have got a few wrong put it means i would of need to read the questions clearly. 

Commenting

This week for commenting I have done a smart comment on Bella H's blog post about her recount.

Inquiry | Companies

LI: To sort out different companies and label them.

This week for inquiry we have been continuing in businesses. We had gotten into groups of 8 and split our groups into groups of 4. We had gotten a deck full of paper  that had companies on them. In our groups of 4 we had to sort them out and label them. We had sorted it out into fashion brands, transports and banks, games, services, miscellaneous, digital companies, tech companies, sport companies, food companies, car brands, and emergency services.

Bookmarks | Reading

This week we had to read Roald Dahl books for our activity we will be doing in the term. I am now doing witches. Then make bookmarks so then we can keep track of our reading. On the bookmarks we had to create or write what a good reader would use to read. 

Orchestra | Music

This week a few students from Panmure Bridge school had the opportunity to take part by watching the orchestra performance held in Auckland city. It was a wonderful trip watching every schools taking part and seeing the people play the instruments. Including the violin, Harp and other wonderful instruments.

It was based on telling stories by the music. 

Kiwi Can | Respect

This week our catchphrase is " R.E.S.P.E.C.T, Find out what it means to me"  We were first talking about unique and what it means and how to respect yourself and one and other. Our first energiser had to include what people like. Each side had people dislikes and likes, Example: One side had spaghetti and the other had bake beans. One person could pick one side and then say an argument

Maori

L.I to learn about Te Reo Maori.

This Week in Te reo we had learnt of different ways to greet whanau (Family). For the First activity, we had to watch two videos. In those videos they showed people talking to each other in Maori. The next thing that we had to do was write down the English sentences for the Maori sentences. For the next activity we had to do the same thing but it had to do with a family, for example: 'Ko wai te papa Lisa? The main words that would help us with it was  kuia (Grandmother/old lady), koro(Grandpa/old man), mama(mom), papa(dad)

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise the text.

This week I have read the book "the witches" Its about the author talking about different types of witches and is warning people to watch there back. To be able to finish this task you would need to read a book either a non-fictional book or a fiction book for 15 minutes and making sure you know this book really good. 

Then summarise the book by answering different types of questions from the book. Example: Who are the main character? 

Word Definitions | Maths

LI: to research

This week we had to complete an activity in order to find out our study topic for this terms maths. We did this in groups. The activity we had to do was to find the definition and the function of specific words that related to the topic. The words we had to find definitions and functions for were hints to our topic. Not all words had a function. We had to make a table and do some research on the words. Once we finished finding the definitions and functions, we had to put our prediction at the bottom the google doc and say what we thought the topic was going to be.

There were 21 words in total. We had to divide and conquer to complete the task within a certain time limit. After we discussed the answers we had to say our predictions and specifically state every answer we thought as well as the prediction. We are now studying aircrafts.

Basic Facts boxes

This week I have completed the speed demon up to 20. It took me 4 minutes and 37 seconds And completed the time tables. I could have gotten a few wrong but it tells me that I should have read the questions properly and to keep practising.

Commenting

This week i have commented on Sulia's blog post about her business and enterprise (Inquiry). Her blog post is about the definitions of enterprise and business. I have also done a smart comment.

SSR Selfie

LI: To summarise and retail a text. 

Today for SSR Selfie I have read the book France. It has a lot of interesting facts and news about this book. Did you know that France children have 5 weeks as a normal holiday?

Vocab builder | Poetry or rap

LI: To build knowledge of vocabulary. and links words create to the wider world.

This week we identified our knowledge on vocabulary. We had to answer a bunch of text. For an example we had to find a word that had different meanings. Then we had to make a google slide deck and add a bunch of poetry and raps.  

Maths

LI: To recall skills and knowledge for addition, subtraction, multiplication, fraction and place value. 
This week we have recapped our knowledge on maths. We did addition, subtraction, multiplication, fraction and place value. We also used different types of strategy like: written algorithm, Basic facts, tidy numbers, place value, rounding and compensating and reversing. To reverse if you have an equation for example 40 - 38. You can use addition for this equation so then if will be 38 + ? = 40. The answer is 2 

Inquiry | Companies

LI: to learn what business and enterprise is 
This week we learnt the definition of enterprise and business. The meaning of enterprise is a project or undertaking, especially a bold of complex one. And business is a a company the trades or exchanges. We had to find fifty or one hundred companies or more by the end of this week. We had to answer a bunch of questions like (What the sell and how much they sell if for)   

Lotto Recount | Writing

LI: To revise the structure of a recount and
We are now identifying our knowledge on our recount skills. In a recount there has to included a structure (TREE). We are now practising how to write a recount for our test. This recount is all relating to winning the loto.

After that we had to mark our recount using the 7 marking skills. We had to rate our marking 3-5. Ideas, Structure and language, Organisation, Vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure. My total mark was 28. 

Maori

This week we had the first session of Maori for term 4 with Whea Odi. This term we are doing more activity's. The first DLO there were Maori gods that we had to find the definition for. We had to find and write down different goddess for an example Rangi-Nui. 

Next we had to watch a video. Then do another activity, For this one we could either use the Maori dictionary and find the definitions of the words for an example (Roa) and use images.  

Kiwi can | Respect

This week was our first session of kiwi can term 4. Our new theme is respect. We learnt different meaning of respect with our new kiwi can leader is Mr Simanu and Mr Latu.

Our first game was called Tooty fruity. For our enegiser it was all relating to our listening skills. We had different commandments. Apple was to jump forward, orange was to jump back and banana is to do a 80% turn then we .

Our activity was one truth and one lie. For this game one person could tell one truth and a lie while everybody else guesses to pick the truth. For an example I was one of the people that got to say "1. have I been bungy jumping before and 2. I eat fast food everyday after school" The truth was number 2.