Friday 30 November 2018

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi Can we learned about "Respecting our Environment." So we went straight into our Energiser our Energiser was called "Four Corners" If you don't know how to play "Four Corners" I will show you so this game can be played with a bunch of people. Miss Paige named the four corners and a group of people have to go in those four corners when she say "Four Corners" Someone has to be in the middle closing their eyes and spinning around then he stops and eliminate the corner that is the loudest. Chris was the first person to be the person closing and eliminating groups from 4 corners.

Later on in our Kiwi Can Session. We talked about What is Respect? What is Environment? and What are some of the things that affect the Environment? People had many ideas not just random Ideas we had amazing ideas to share out to everybody.

Then we got straight into our Activity. Our Activity we played called "Invisible" Touch" There was 20 people of us so Miss Paige split us up into 2 groups of 10. Invisible touch is played when someone calls out a number , whatever number gets called has to run : Example , number 3 three people have to run around the basket ball hoop and the other team will run around the netball hoop. Miss Paige would say a name on who has the ball then we or they have to defend and try tag them. So if we tag the person who has the ball you have the ball , Now its time for you to use your stepping skills and trying to score an try for your team. After that we finished the game and Team 2 won , the team i was in.

Boxing | Punching Combos

LI: To learn how to coach other people.
LI: To learn different combos and defences.
LI: To learn how to counter attack.

This week for boxing we have been going on with counter attacks. We learnt how to coach ourselves and pax will just help us out. First we played a warm up called "Stuck in the mud". After when we were all warmed up we put our gloves on and had gotten into partners. One person had gloves on and the other was the person with the noodles.

We had to first to combos with the noodles. The first combo was guard, cross, left hook, cross. The person with the noodles will have be the coach.
We did different combos with our partner which was including the slip.

We swapped positions whoever was wearing the gloves is the coach and whoever was the coach is the person wearing gloves. Then we did the same thing.


Wednesday 28 November 2018

Cybersmart - Quiz

Quiz

LI: To create a quiz based on being safe on the internet.
 This week we created a quiz on google form based on being safe online. We had to create questions and we test the peoples knowledge on being safe on the interent. To get our ideas we played a game based on being safe online. It gives us questions that are the right level for us from the grade we chose. I chose Grade 6. It tried out Grade six and I am up to level 7 the last level. They gave us questions we have to find answers to about safety online and also gives us tips and information about words related to being safe online.


Tuesday 27 November 2018

Inferring thoughts and emotions


LI: To infer thoughts and emotions.

This week for Reading we have been talking about Inferring and Inferences. We had to infer from the a video called "For the birds" by Pixar. We had to look at the emotions and facial expressions and infer what they are feeling and give evidence.

Inferring is when you read a text or when you see something that the creator/ author hasn't directly written it but they have been giving hints or messages to make an idea.


Thursday 22 November 2018

Verbs

    LI: to identify verb tenses.
    LI: to identify the verb tenses: past, future, and present continuous.

    This week for writing we were talking about verb tenses. The verb tenses we were talking about was called simple past, present continuous, and simple future. We had to find verbs that we can find all 3 verb tenses. We had to create a DLO based on verb tenses. We had to list 20 verbs. We had to create videos and do images. We worked in partners for this. My partner is Miiana.

    WW1 | Peace | Trench Warfare

    LI: To find out information about trench warfare in WW1.

    This week for inquiry we were talking about trench warfare. We watched different videos and the BBC site about WW1. The information we found we put them into topic sections. We talked about the health and medical conditions and the  things in the trenches. One of the health and medical conditions is trench foot. Trench foot had happened to almost every soldier. This is caused by the wet and muddy conditions in the trenches making the feet soggy and wet.

    Kiwi Sport | Boxing | Defences

    LI: To learn how to use the defences in boxing.

    This week for boxing with ax we were talking about the defences in boxing. We first played a warm up called snatch the cone. We had to pair up with someone and get into a line there was a cone in the middle we had to try get the cone before your partner.

    Then we were talking about the defences. The first defence was called guard. We our partner had to get a noodle and hit our head softly with it. We had to put our gloves above your forehead so you can protect your head if it was a real punch.

    The other defence was called bridge. Your partner with the noodle has to try hit you with the noodle but you move back. You use your footwork. This was called a bridge. We use this when someone attacking you with a punch you can defend.

    The other defence was called Slip. Our partner had to put the noodle up and tap our shoulder with it. We had to move side to side with our head but looking up.


    The next and last defence was called U-roll. We had to put the noodle on our partners shoudler and our partner had to go under and around up.

    Wednesday 21 November 2018

    Kiwi Can

    LI: To learn how to respect our community.
    Thsi week we were talking about respecting our community. We first talked about the places in our community and how we can respect our community in different ways. We also talked about making our community a safe environment. We also talked about the things that make our community a bad environment.

    Our enigiser for the day was called Tunnel ball. We had to get into a circle and we had to get a ball and that ball will be in the middle of the circle. We have to try get the ball in between the other persons leg but make sure the ball does not come through your leg. We had to use one hand to hit the ball. Me and Charlize were the two winners. 

    Our activity was called hand soccer.  We had to get into 2 even groups that had 11 people in each, there were 2 goals. We all had to number ourselves 1 to 11. Mr matt will pick an amount of numbers. For example he says 3 numbers and the 3 numbers are 6, 7 and 8. So whoever is that number gos to the middle and try to hit the ball in the other teams goal but you need to use 1 hand only. 



    Maori | Words


    LI: To find out new maori words and try to pronounce it.
    This week for maori Whaia ode told us to make a dlo based on maori words. We had to do maori words that whaia ode chose for us and put it on the dlo. We had to get into pairs. My partner was Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn and I looked up on the moari dictionary the see how to pronounce words. We had to also add images to what the moari word is based on.

    Friday 16 November 2018

    SSR Selfie | Nelson Mandela

    LI: To read a book and find out what the book it about.


    This week I read the book Little Guides to Great Lives: Nelson Madela. It is called Little Guide to Great Lives: Nelson Mandela. This book is about a man who inspired to the world. His name was Nelson Mandela. Mandela was the first ever black president of South Africa. He was born in a small village in South Africa. Mandela grew up surrounded by hills and green valleys, where he felt free. As he became older he realized that black South Africans were not free at all. Only the white people could vote and have the say on how the country was run. It was dangerous to go against this, but Mandela didn’t let that stop him. He set out a journey to change the way the system works.


    Mounted Artwork

    LI: To mount our finished artwork.

    This week we were finishing off our artwork from last week. We had to cut out our quatrefoils and write a small piece of writing like a recount talking about our three pieces of artwork. We had to do the page setup and all that so the teachers can print them off. We put artwork on a big piece of blank white paper.   We glued on our 3 pieces of art in the the layout we want. We cut out the piece of text we have written and glued it on our big piece of paper. Then we get the piece of paper with our name on it and glue it to the bottom right corner or the paper. Then we put it away so the teachers can staple it on the wall ready so everyone can see it.





    Kiwi Sport

    This week for Kiwi Sport we were learning about combos. We learnt different new combos. We first put on our boxing liners, and boxing gloves. Then we went over our three commandments which areRespect I will have respect for myself, my coach, my peers and the sport of boxing. DisciplineI will have the discipline to turn upto every boxing session and give my 100%. Safety I will not cause harm to others and only practise boxing in a safe environment under the guidance of a coach. Our first combo was Jab Cross, Left Hook , Right hook, Left uppercut, Right uppercut. We had to practise this with our partner. My partner was hosea. We did a different combo. It was Jab Jab Cross. Then we came back to our first combo that we did. I was hard but we managed. We ended up getting punished 12 times. Next week we can do much better. 

    Paikea | Maori




    This week for Te Reo Maori we were talking about Paikea. Paikea is a man who drowned in the sea and a whale that had got sent from the gods saved him and brought him to Aotearoa (NZ). Paikea had 3 wives making him have a lot of children creating Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tahu.

    Touch Tornament | Interschool

    This week week had our touch tornament across the road at Mt Wellington Memorial reserve. We first settled down and played some warm ups. Then we went into our games. Sadly  my team lost all games. We tried our best. It was a really fun day. I enjoyed going to Mt Wellington Memorial reserve.

    Wednesday 14 November 2018

    Kiwi Can

    This week for Kiwi can we were talking about respect. We have been talking about Respect for our community. We talked about the places in our community which is Panmure. We talked about the people in our community and what they do.

    This week our enigiser was called remote. This is how the game works, Mr Matt calls out some words that are on a remote for example pause. When he either pause, rewind, fast forward or play then we do an action related to it. Mr Matt will also trick us by saying go, go back, move forward and stop. If we answer to the trick words in any way it is elimanation. We played two rounds. On the first round Juel was the winner. The second round we added stop. Stop is lay on the the ground, play is just walking, fast forward is fast walking, rewind in going back, and pause is jump. Me and Afatia were the last two people playing, Afatia won. 

    Our activity was called Invisible touch. Invisible touch is when you split into two groups of people and the leaders have to say a number of people who goes. They choose a person who has the ball and the person with the ball has to get it to the other end but if they get touched by someone from the other team the person who tags them has the ball then they have to try go and run to the goal. 




    Thursday 8 November 2018

    Max Gimblett


    LI: To create an artwork based on theme.

    Max Gimblett is a famous artist from New Zealand. For Inquiry LS1 had to find out information about Max Gimblett. The teachers set us a task. We had to find a partner. My partner was Victoria. We had to use our researching skills to find out the answers to the questions about Max Gimblett. We had to use quatrefoils and design them based on the theme which was Christmas, Armerstice Day and Max Gimbletts artwork.


    Thursday 1 November 2018

    Kiwi Sport

    This week for boxing we were working on different combos. We also learnt some new punches like Hok and Uppercut. We also learnt different movements. We twist when we hook and upper cut. We were also going through a quick  warm up with our Jab and Cross. Pax talked about the 3 commandments.
    Respect 
    I will have respect for myself, my coach, my pewhitend the sport of boxing. 

    Discipline
    I will have the discipline to turn upto every boxing session and give my 100%. 

    Safety 
    I will not cause harm to others and only practise boxing in a safe environment under the guidance of a coach

    First we put our gloves on. We had to put our liners on before our gloves. Then we had gotten into a circle and went over jab and cross. Next we had to find a partner and we had to practise the hook and upper cut. Then we worked on our footwork.  We learnt how to move forward and back. We played a little game. Partner 1 had to be the leader and if partner one moves forward then partner 2 moves back. We need to be a distance apart. My partner was kaitlyn.