Key Board Drills Level 1

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L.I: To learn touch typing.
Today for a writing Daily 6 I decided to do my Key Board Drills. Since I did them all, I wanted to restart and do level 1 again. This task is to get me typing faster and have the ability to copy words, letters and different punctuation faster and use the proper fingers when doing that. For this Daily 6 task I made a copy of a google doc on our LS1 Daily 6 level 1 writing site. It had letters, words and punctuation on the first colum then a blank colum below it so we could copy what the writing had and use the correct fingers. I still find it quite hard so I think I do need more practise.

Government Services

LI: To look at more than one information source when researching.

LI: To record facts in your own words.
This week for inquiry we got into new groups of 6 and pairs then decided which pair would be doing which topic. This time it was Government Services and the options were - Politicians, Councils, Mayors, Libraries, Ministry for Primary Industries and Welfare. My pair was Sakina and we chose to do Mayors and Libraries. We used the the same google slides as the other times we did this activity and we had to find a photo of our topic and attribute the image, find a site that has information about the subject we are doing and link it, find facts, ask questions, write about why and if the teacher fact is true and false, write how do they help our community, and why you would contact those people.

Kiwi Sport

This week Thursday, we had kiwi sport with coach Kevin in the hall. We learnt more about badminton, did some tricks/skills and played some rallys and games. First we played octopus. The starting taggers were Matthew and Raera. If you were tagged by one of them, then you had to stay there and try to tag someone if they pass by you, but you couldn't move. The last two people that hadn't got out were then the new taggers. We played a few rounds of octopus then moved on to the next thing. For this next thing we learnt a new skill. It was the forehand lift. To do the forehand lift you need to hold your racket in forehand grip because it is in the name. You had have your racket foot in front and your shuttle foot behind. You also need to extend your hand out then hit the shuttle when it is thrown to you. We had to practise doing this in pairs so we got into pairs and got rackets for the both of us and one shuttle to share. Each person had to do it 5 times before swapping so the other person could try it. Then we played rallys using the badminton net and this time was only a 1 on 1 so only one person would play and another person on the other side. We got into groups of 8 and went to one of the three courts. We practised doing a forehand serve and sometimes, a forehand lift. If one person got out, the next person would come. After this we sat back down on the hall floor and recapped on what we did before going back to class.

Kiwi Can

This week Wednesday LS1 had kiwi can in room 7 with only Ms. Latoya. Our theme is still respect. First we discussed what we talked about last week which was Empathy. Empathy is like the phrase - put your self in my shoes, which is basically saying see what my life is like, try doing what I do or something like that. The first activity we did was greetings . For this game we had to get in to pairs and Ms. Latoya would show us an action for when she said a greeting in different languages. We would have to do that action to our buddy and they had to do it back. Then we talked about what is different about people and how we might do things differently or act differently for people. Then the next activity we did was props. For this game we had to stay in our groups of 4. Ms. Latoya would pick out a prop and each group had to make it into to something different our make do something different with it besides what it is actually for. In my group I had - Sakina, Akuhata, Hosea, Andrew and Karlos. After playing that, we only played one more activity which was buddy up, buddy down. We had to get into partners for this game and we had to go outside. One of the buddies had to stand in the small circle in the middle facing forward, then the other buddies had to be facing there buddy but they would stand at the outer circle. When Ms. Latoya said buddy up, you and your buddy had to swap positions or places, if she said buddy down then you and your buddy had to sit down, then if she said buddy left or right that means the people on the outer circle had to run right if she said buddy right or run left if she said buddy left. You had to make it back to your buddy quickly, but if you were the last person then you were out. We played this until the morning tea bell rang and I found it really fun.

National News | New Zealand Weather

This week for reading we got into our reading groups and looked at 6 topics that are found in News Reports/Papers. They were - National News, International News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, and Weather. Each one of us in the group had to pick a topic to make a DLO about, I got to do national news. I used a google draw because it seemed like the perfect thing to use for this and I found it easy to do. For national news, I wrote about the weather lately in New Zealand because I thought it was a good idea since we have been having more hot and dry weather. I tried to make my title seem a little interesting or to grab your attention so I also added a questions mark. I tried to make my DLO look a little like a news paper, so I turned most things on it grey or black. I also added images to go with it. The event had to have happened from the 20th of November 2017 to the 27th of November 2017. I found that information from a site called - nzherald which is a site that has a lot of interesting news reports and other things like that. I found it fun doing this reading task and enjoyed making my "news paper" /DLO and finding lots of interesting information about my topic.

(Check out the linked site to see what nzherald looks like and to find some other interesting things that has been happening or have happened.)

Athletics Day

This week Friday the whole school had athletics. For athletics day you could wear mufti which is any clothing, but the teachers wanted us to dress up depending on our team colour. You didn't have to but since all the classes were split into red, blue, yellow or green team they wanted us to show what team we are in by our clothing. On athletics day there are a bunch of activities which and you need to try to beat the other teams by co-operating with your own team and try your best. Depending on what place you came you get a certain amount of points. You only have a certain amount of time to play the activity before Mr Ogilvie pressed the horn which meant move to a different activity. As we did the activities, music played in the background on the big speakers. I was red team, and in red team I had - Raera and Pua. They were great team mates to work with. There were only 9 sessions that we rotated around. Some of the games I can remember was Rest/Dance which was the first thing my group/the year 5's did. Basically we could dance to the music that played or we could rest. I also remember Netball/Basketball and 2 of the teams would sit out and wait for there turn whilst the other teams played for a while. On both sides of the court there were hoops, on one side there was a basketball hoop, and on the other there was a netball hoop. We had the netball and basketballs. One of the teams did basketball whilst the other team did netball and the coaches would count how many points each team got. Another one of the activities was rob the nest. In each team there was a tagger that would tag other people but of course not the other taggers from the other teams. If you got tagged you had to stay there until some clapped between your legs and clapped your hands which meant you were free to go. A bunch of tennis balls and soft balls were scattered around the hall and you just had to try and grab as much as you could. The last activity that I am going to talk about is the Surf lifesavers. One team at a time had to lay on the stomachs and wait for one of the coaches to clap then we had to run and search for a bean bag before anyone else did. Then lastly the winners of each team versed the other winners from the other teams. At the end we had a sprint race for each class.

Key Board Drills Level 3

L.I: To learn touch typing.
This week for a daily 6 I did key board drills since I haven't done it in a long time. Key board drills helps you to learn how to type the right way or how to get you typing faster. To do this, we make a copy of a google doc which has a template. On the template there a a bunch of rows and in the first row, there would be a line of symbols and letters or just one of them, and then we have to try and copy that on the next row at the bottom of the top row but using the correct fingers. This time I did level 3. I still find it difficult so I think I will need much more practise.