Blog Commenting

Today I commented on Sakina's blog. I commented on her Tengu Lessons blog post. I thought that she did a amazing job. I have also made a blog post about Tengu. I really liked how she had a description about tengu in the beginning of the presentation because the viewers now what the tengu is. I also really liked how she had photos of tengu which also gives them an idea of what the tengu looks like. I really liked the lessons and summaries of the tengu stories Sakina completed.

Here is a link to Sakina's blog post and my comment below - Tengu Lessons

Kiwi Sport | Swimming

This week Thursday we had our third session of swimming at the YMCA Lagoon pools in panmure. First everyone sat on the wall and listened to what the swimming coaches had to say. They talked about hyperthermia and hypothermia. Hypothermia is when you are at low temperature and Hypothermia is when you are at high temperature. The effects of hypothermia is that your teeth start chattering, you start to shiver non stop, and your teeth can go to a blue or purple as well. To stop someone who is having hypothermia you can put a blanket over them, change their clothes if they're wet, and put them in the shower. You can turn the shower all the way to hot because our bodies don't react to switching temperatures so fastly, so you have to slowly turn it up at a time. Then we got split up into the groups with the coaches we worked with last week. I was with Cameron. First everyone sat on the wall and quickly went through how to get in for different types of water. We safely got into the pool and practised doing the skeli on our stomachs and backs. For the skeli, our hands had to go in a up then down motion, keeping our head up when we swam. We did this on our back and our front. Our focus was to relax. Then we did submersions into the water. The first one we did was the dolphin dive. We had to go into the water and try touch the floor for the first one and then get up to go again to the other side on the platform. We then dived in and try to go far and as low as we could. After doing this a few times, we gave Cameron a high five and swam to the end in any technique to head out.

Compare & Contrast | International & National Bridges

 L.I: To Compare and Contrast Panmure Bridge to a local equivalent.
L.I: To Compare and Contrast Panmrue Bridge to an international equivalent.
This week for inquiry we had to take a look at international and national bridges that we could compare and contrast with the Panmure Bridge. For this we had to work in partners, my partner was Farzana. First we had to compare the Auckland harbor bridge, with the Panmure Bridge. We had to make a copy of a this vs that D.L.O and insert the following information in the boxes - Year built, Length (span)/Height/Width, Cost, and the Materials. We researched all the information and filled in the boxes. Then all the pairs came on the matt and shared their answesrs. For the next compare and contrast, we had to compare the Panmure Bridge with another national bridge. Farzana and I decided to do the Te Rewa Rewa bridge. All the questions were the same but we had to find out one extra question which was which type of bridge it is. Finally for the last compare and contrast, we could find any international bridge to compare to the Panmure Bridge. For this one, we did the Storseisundet bridge in Eide Norway.

Lessons from Tengu Stories

L.I: To create a D.L.O talking about the lessons tengu stories teach people.
This week for reading we had to look at different tengu stories and think about the moral or lesson it teaches people. I used a google presentation because I can show different stories for each slide. I only used three stories/tales and linked the site so you can read it too. We also made predictions in the first lessons and questions to find out when reading. In some of the tengu stories there are consequences to things that had happened earlier in the story. Tengu is a japanese myth that people made stories of inlcuding it but I enjoyed reading the ones I could.

3D Models | Toothpicks & Blu tac

L.I: To construct models of polyhedra using everyday materials.
This week for maths we created 3D shapes using toothpicks and blu tac. I decided to create two shapes, a cube and a traingular prism. Once we created the shapes we had to take photos of them and stick them onto a google slide. I included the amount of vertices, edges, and faces each of the shapes had. Each of them were fun to created and didn't take over 5 minutes to complete. I decided to write in a short description the process I went through making it. We had to make a template for each model/shape as well.

Smart Media | Word Cloud (How does my blog potray myself?)

L.I: To think about how our blog potrays you.
This week for cyber-smart we had to create a list of words on wordcloud we think our blog might potray us. First we went back and edited the wordclouds from last week and added or changed the words up. Then we had to make a new wordcloud for this week sharing ideas of a list of words we think people might think of us when they see our blog. We planned out a whole bunch of words first thinking about how the school blog portrays us and gave ideas for that. The LS1 bloggers are Chris, Farzana, and Sakina. After making the wordcloud we had to put it on our Smart Media slide. I used up to 35 words and used the shape of a message because I thought it suit the theme of what we were learning about.

Kiwi Can

This week Wednesday we had kiwi can in room 7 with Mr Matt and Ms Lily. Our theme is resilence and our topic is goal setting. First we recaped what we talked about last week then had our energizer. For this weeks energiser we played Snatch. One of the other teachers went around giving someone each part of a rope. Then we had to set it down on the floor infront of us. Mr Matt put some cones in the middle of the rope and spread them out. The rules were we couldn't dive in or else we were out, and we couldn't go on our knees to go get it. Ms Lily played music and we had to go around the rope anti-clock wise. When the music stopped, we had to try and grab a cone to not get out. If you didn't get a cone in the end, you were out and you had to sit on the side. If you and someone both grabbed the cone at the same then you and tio rock, paper, sisccors for it. We started with one practise round and then started the real games. The last two people standing were Andrew and Matthew. When the music stopped, Andrew quickly grabbed it just before Matthew and one the game. I enjoyed the energiser Snatch but didn't like when I went to get the cone because I scrapped my knees on the floor trying to get a cone which caused me to get out and it hurt for a short while. Then we came back on the matt and talked about goal setting and what it means. Goal setting is creating creating something you want to achieve. We also talked about how we can celebrate when we complete a goal. A lot of people had great ideas like having a party, spending time with family, or treating your self with some sweets. Then we played our activity which was octopus. The girls stood around one side of the room, and the boys stood around the other. Mr Matt stood in the middle holding two pool noodles and standing in a hoop. He couldn't move and had to try and get people with the pool noodle from where he was standing. If you were tagged by him then you had to stay where you were when you got tagged and try to get other people. Ms Lily would say something for the girls and boys to do and you had to get across to the other side without getting hit. For example, she might have said crawl, then we had to crawl to the other side. This game was also veyr fun and the last person standing was Lorenzo. We lastly came back on the mat and had GKQ which is General Knowledge Questions. After GKQ we did the points. We got 5 for each one but 3.5 for respect. We said goodbye to Mr Matt and Ms Lily then went back to class.