Conversions | Units of Measurements

L.I: To show learning of how to convert and be interactive with your D.L.O.
This week for Math we filled out a form to choose what we needed and wanted to learn more about to help us get a better understanding of that topic. I felt that I wanted to learn more about conversions and measurements. We had to ask a question we want answered in that lesson so we can get understand what we needed to from that lesson. We learnt how to convert between units of measurements that are used for specific reasons. First we learnt to convert between mm, cm, m, and km which is usually for measuring length and distance, etc. Then we did ml and l which are usually for measuring liquids like water. We lastly learnt the conversions of mg, g, kg, t which are usually for weighing things. We had to go away after the lesson to show our learning and understanding of the topic and create a D.L.O not only showing our learning, but being able to be interactive with the viewers. I did this by writing equations for each reasons of measurements and using a place value house others can use to do it. If you would like to do it, click the link below to work it out before seeing the answer.
- Conversions Presentation

Interactive Book | WW1

L.I: To learn about the conflict, causes, and resolution to World War 1.
This term for inquiry were focusing on peace relating to conflict and resolution. We're re-searching and learning about WW1 and it's conflict and resolution in that. We first paired up and completed two activities from an interactive notebook with our partner. My partner was Florence. The first was WW1 Vocabulary list which was about words under WW1 that was related to the topic. For that, there was a template which was the word, then we had to find the definition, and an image. Then next one was a timeline that leaded up to world war 1. We had to look at a site that gave us the answers to what started and leaded up to WW1.

Media Construction: Gimmicks | Co-Co Crunch Cereal

L.I: To identify gimmicks used to attract and persuade people to purchase the product.
This week  for Cybersmart we re-capped what media is, and examples of it. For this session we looked at gimmicks which are used when advertising product, to get people to purchase it. It usually depends on the audience they are aiming the product for, like kids. To show our learning and understanding of the usage of gimmicks, we went on a site where we could create our own website advertisement for a cereal brand using some gimmicks. The name of the cereal was "Co-Co Crunch". We could pick a gimmick to use for specific parts it needed. This helped us actually create one to get a better understanding. In the end we used the photo to help explain the gimmicks in it. Our creations weren't real advertisements for the cereal, but would help us get a better idea of what it was about. You can check out a photo of my advertisement website I created above and check out the site used below.

Cereal Website Creator - Mediasmarts

Character Kete | The Best Worst Thing

L.I: To infer information about a character.
Today I completed the Character kete Can Do for Reading. The book I chose to make it about was called "The Best Worst Thing". In the Google Presentation above, I had to summarise the book, and complete the template which was to type to title and take a photo of the book in the first slide. Then choose a character from the book and write what items they might carry in their kete. I chose the character Kathleen because she was one of the main characters in the book. After listing the items, we had to explain why we said those items. I haven't finish reading the entire book, but the first part is about a murderer being on the loose around their neighbour hood and Kathleen and her sisters being scared straight.

Conflict and Resolution | Sparks

L.I: To analyse a story for its conflict and resolution.
This week for reading we read a text called Sparks to find its conflict and resolution. We first talked about what conflict and resolution are and what they mean. After reading the first two pages as a class, we discussed the characters and what the conflict might be. Then we went away to show our learning by making a copy of a conflict and resolution template. We had to read the rest of the story and fill the information needed in the template. A story connected to the one we read, is Man and Sea from in the cultural story about the black octopus and the chief son. The conflict for that is when the two started fighting and the ideals from the two characters was the chiefs son wanted to kill the octopus and the black octopus wanted to kill the chiefs son. The resolution was the octopus was killed and the chiefs son returned home to the village with the blood of the black octopus remaining.

Maori Session | In the Beginning

This week Wednesday we had the first Maori session of term 4 with Ms. Whaea Odi. In this session we were read the story "In the Beginning" by Whaea Odi and then watched a video of the story created in sand art. We then rehearsed the lyrcis of a Maori song called - Hoki Mai e Tama Ma and looked at the lyrics for it which the page had in English and Maori. Then we researched and looked at the tribal areas (rohe) in Aoteroa/New Zealand. Here are the sites I checked out - Map | Te Kahui Mangai, and Trible-areas. We would continue to learn the song and the areas. We also talked about how New Zealand was discovered by a man named Kahe and his wife. They were in the pacifics and used the coconuts there, for food and drink on the way. They followed the way of the stars when It was night and the sun when morning. They moved there for more space because the islands were small and it would be too crowded there so they discovered New Zealand and moved there. In the next lesson we would be talking a bit more about the tribal areas and the song.

Kiwi Can

This week we began our first session of kiwi can with a new theme and topic. There was also a new leader to cover for Ms. Lily, who was Ms. Page. Our theme is respect and our topic is for our school. Under respect we are learning about values and what respect means. Values can be for our school, or anywhere else. Respect means to appreciate, care, and accept the things and people around us.

We first got straight into our energiser which was was called Rules vs No rules. For this, we played a game of tag without rules and then with the rules. For the first round we played without rules where everyone was the taggers and even if you were tagged, you could continue tagging other people. At the end of that game, everyone thought without rules it wasn't a proper game of tag and it was unfun.

Then we played the round with the rules where Mr. Mat and Ms. Peho went around tagging people with a pool noodle. If you got tagged you had to sit on the lino whilst you wait for everyone else to be tagged to finish the game. In this version of playing, everyone thought it was fun bu more difficult which makes it a proper game of tag. We also played another round where we had to hop which made it more harder too.

We came back to the mat and discussed discussed values we have in and out of school. Then we split into four groups to begin our activity. One person from each group went up to find out what the activity was about and tell the rest of their group. It was a scenario where there was a shared lunch but two students didn't bring any food. We could make an act where we did the version of a bad acceptance and good acceptance. In my group was Florence, Ellenora, Miiana, and Angelica, and we all decided to do re-enact a good act for the scenario. The other groups decided to do the bad version of how the scenario went. After everyone was finished preforming the short acts, we talked about what happened in them, then came back on the mat to finish up the lesson.

We lastly had a game of GKQ which stands for general knowledge questions and the last master started the game off with any person then going any direction from there. The master for last term was Fanini. Each of the leaders would ask questions and whoever was the first to answer between the two won, and continued playing to verse the other people until the last person. In the end me and Ms. Page versed, and I had won the battle. We finally re-caped what we did and the new themes and topics before saying goodbye to everyone and heading off back to class.