Return Ticket, Please! & First Up (Venn Diagram) | Independent Reading Challenge/Dialogic Response

This term in reading, we have been focusing on creating responses from school journals around our inquiry topic space, and leaving our own feedback on other responses by peers. This lead to dialogic conversations about our D.L.Os and having learning conversations with others to help our ability and work improve. I enjoyed the 'creating' responses because we are able to showcase our knowledge about the article, in a fun way for others to enjoy or learn from too. The response above is a Venn Diagram about one the two recent articles I read, separating their differences and listing the similarities as well. The dialogic conversation I had above, was with Nyjah about her visual chart for the article First Up.

Science Investigation

This week as inquiry, Mrs. Wells from Tamaki College came taught a small group of people including me about science. We began learning about independent and dependent variables. Independent is what will be changed about an object, and the dependent is what will happen from what it does. We were specifically talking about being able to planting a bean. We talked about the ranges of what we would be changing, and a hypothesis about it. Out of the 9 options, I chose to find what out what will happen if I added salt in the soil to my plant. I am excited for the next lesson.

Multiplication Written Strategy (Place Value)

Last week we were using as many different multiplication strategies to solve 10 equations. Then we were to choose 1 strategy out of the ones we did that was easiest for us. Then there were 3 multiplication written strategies, and we had to pick one of them to show others that strategy to solve it. The equation is about the cupcake factory, and I chose to do it with the place value strategy.

Google Earth (Planet Distance)

This week Mr. Johnston came in and taught LS2 about our inquiry topic space, and the real distance and size of planets. We learnt that on scale, planets seem very close to each other and doesn't showcase the actual size of the planets, because it'll be too big, it is defined by something like a 1 meter in real life. Everyone was amazing and surprised when Mr. Johnston got out a giant sun, the size of the white board. He did a lot of measuring to make this scaled sun. We took a guess at the distance of each planet before being proved completely wrong by Mr. Johnston. We then created Google Earth's of the "solar system", choosing where the sun is from any point in New Zealand after learning from Mr. Johnston. I worked with Nyjah, Mele, and Marieta to create the distance of the planets using a piece of paper with their meter distance. We placed the sun at our school, on the theatre. I was enjoyed doing this, and making a google earth of the solar system.

New Zealand Sign Language | NZSL Week

The past few weeks, we have be learning about the NZ Sign Language, which is very different from other signing. This includes learning the alphabet, phrases, and words. Using our knowledge about NZSL week this year and the sign language, we each created posters. It was interesting watching interpreted songs in New Zealand signing, and finding out more about the NSZL week this year.

Kiwi Can | Gymnastics

This week Thursday was Gymnastics with Steve in the hall. Stretching before preforming any type of gymnastics trick, is very vital. After doing that, we warmed up by playing a game called Toilet Flush, and played like Stuck in the mud. If you were tagged, you had to get on one knee and put one arm out. If you wanted to get out of the mud then someone had to pretend to sit on your knee which was the toilet, and push your arm down which was the flush. Next we got back into our rotation groups from last week. We started at circuit 2 like last time as well. There was the beam, cartwheel line, forward roll beam, and the cartwheel bench. I tried each of them, and enjoy getting multiple goes at it before time was up. At the next circuit, there was a backwards roll square, a handstand mat, a gymnastics spring board, and a trampoline. I tried each of them at this rotation many times too, and enjoyed all of them. At the last circuit we went to, there was a hand stand matt again but against the wall, the bar lifts, lift up bars, and the leg bench. I enjoyed circuit 1 the most (with the trampoline). This week I was surprised that I did all of the activities, and wasn't hesitant or scared to try any of them this time. Espicially the backwards roll, I was instead excited to try it this time.

Kiwi Can

This week we had Kiwi Can with Ms. Pee ho, and Ms Page. Our new theme is Integrity, and our topic focus is honesty. Integrity means to do the right thing even when no one is looking, and honesty takes
a big role in that. Telling the truth betters you and others, even if it is hard to get out. To get us warmed up, we first played three sports. The actions were shooting a basketball, karate kick, and fists. This was fun, but we only had a few rounds of it. Our main activity of the day was role playing. Whatever our idea was, we had to include showing integrity somehow. My group was Chavda, Florence, Pua, Neveah, and Jonathan, and our idea we were given window. Our acting was about 4 people tossing a ball to each other, but one throws it too aggressively and causes to break the window of another persons house. The owner came out and asked who did it, but to only receive lies from all but 1. Jonathan owns up to his mistakes, and everything was okay. It was interesting watching everyone else role plays for their idea that they were given, and I learned that our truth affects others around us. We finished our Kiwi Can session with a game of GKQ (General Knowledge).