MRS GREN | 7 Life Processes

L.I: To learn MRS GREN and understand the meaning of the 7 Life processes.
This term for inquiry we are doing "What's Living?" and we are learning about organisms. The class learnt about MRS GREN which is used to help remember the 7 life processes. The 7 life processes are - Movement, Respritation, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduce, Excretion, and Nutrition. We had to create a google slide about MRS GREN. We could work independently, in a pair or maximum 3 people. I worked in a group of 3 with Sakina and Farzana. In the google slide we include attributed images and a good description about each life processes with the help of some sites. This is my first time learning about MRS GREN and the 7 life processes.

Maori Translations

This week for Maori we had to make a google document writing down 20 Maori words and translating them to the meanings. The meanings were mixed up so we had to match them up. I wasn't able to find the meaning of 2 words which were - Pariri, and Manawareka. We used google translate and Maori dictionary to help us with our work.

Cyber-smart blog commenting

L.I: To write a positive, thoughtful, and helpful comments.
This week for cyber-smart we went over how to make smart comments and that is positive, thoughtful, and helpful. Everyone in the class was given 3 or 2 peoples blog to comment on. I was given 3 and they were - Nicole, Jayden and Fanini. We had post the 3/2 comments we did on a google slide and explain them. I also linked the home page of each person and a link to the blog post that I commented on.

Kiwi Can

Today we had Kiwi can in room 7 with Miss Lily and Mr Matt. Our new them for this term is integrity. Integrity means doing the right thing when no one is looking. Our topic for this week is making good decisions. Making good decisions is when you do the right thing or what is best. First we had energiser and we played 21. We had to get in a circle and played with a ball. We had to pass the ball around in the circle and count to 21 starting from 1. Who ever has the ball in their hands at 21 was out. We have played this game before. Sooner or later we played with 2 balls. Then we came back on the mat and sat in 3 lines. We talked about what integrity  means and making good decisions. Our new chant for this week is - "Kiwi can says - good choices are not a test, good choices are made by the best." Next we played terminator tag. For this game everyone was in and we had to try and tag each other. If you got tagged, you had to sit down on the mat where you were and when your tagger was tagged then you could stand back up and play again. We had about 3 rounds before coming back on the matt. Before GKQ (General knowledge questions) we discussed how we could make good decisions and when we make good decisions. We also talked about some bad decisions we make. Lastly we had GKQ. We had to sit in a circle and 4 people from the circle in order went. The buzzer was bacaw. We did our goodbye chant and lined up outside ready to go back to class.

Type of Text

L.I: To assess Author's Purpose and determine the reliability of information given in the text.
This week for reading we had to go on 4 different sites. We had to determine ourselves and answer the following 4 questions - What type of text is it?, What is the purpose of this text?, What is the target audience?, and is this source of information reliable for learning about healthy food and eating? This had to be done on a google slides. The DLO must also include a video or recording of you talking. I record 5 videos in total, 1 video on explaining each type of text, and 4 other videos talking about each separate site. The 6 different types of text are - Procedural, Explanation, Information Report, Narrative, Persuasive, and Recount. I also made a template of the layout showing what everything means and what everything is.

The Multiplier

L.I: To understand how to split a multiplication to help work out the answer.
This week for maths we had to go on a site called The multiplier which is game that helps you solve big multiplication equations by being able to split them. We had to randomly pick one equation that we liked and solve it showing the way we split and the answer. We had to create a DLO putting the information on it. I also added a bunch of photos from The multiplier game to go with the text and show what the game is like. I explain what the game is, My equation, and the answer to all the 6 questions. We also had to answer 6 questions. Here are the questions and my answers which are also in my DLO:
How did you use The multiplier? - 
I used it by splitting the number to help me find the answer
What numbers did you use in the problem? -
In the problem I chose the numbers were 54 x 7.
How did you split up these numbers? -
I split the number 54 into 2 groups - 27 x 7 and 27 x 7.
Why did you split the numbers in this way? -
I split them this way because they were both the same which meant all I had to do was double it and I had less work to do.
Why was that the easiest way to split the number? -
This was the easiest way because it was half of the number 54 and I could easily work out 27 x 7.
How could you show that in a diagram? -
I could show it in a diagram by showing the 2 groups I split the number into, adding the split number multiplications, adding the answers from each of the split number multiplications to get my answer.

Explanation | Structure and Language Features

L.I: To identify an explanation text through its features.
This week for writing we had to create a DLO that can remind us the structure and language features of an explanation text. For this writing session we are talking about explanation, one of the type of texts, since we already covered recounts. Explanation is telling how something works or why something happens. We were divided into groups and looked at an explanation text and a recount text. Then we had to use a Venn diagram to write down the differences and the similarities between them. To help us we used a writing site that has all the different type of texts but we clicked explanation because it was the text that we were talking about but didn't know much details about it. After that we did the must do/task for writing. Everyone used the writing site for help. I created this on a google draw because it was best choice.