Martin Luther King Jr

L.I Is to know about non violent activist.
This week for inquiry we had to make a google slide and then we had to choose a non violent protester to research about, We had to split our group up into twos and threes I was with Fanini. We had to present our inquiry work to the class when our number was called Me and Fanini were the number 13.

HomeTown

L.I To describe the hometown I live in.
For this activity we had to talk about what is special about our home town. My home town is Tamaki Makourau in English that means Auckland. The first thing I like about my hometown is that you can get a good view from the sky tower. The second thing I like about the home town I live in is that we have beaches so we can swim on a hot day. The last thing I like about my hometown is the restaurants.

Ice Ice Baby

L.I to keep yourself safe around your environment.
For the SLJ Summer Learning journey about how to stay Safe offline and online. We had to write 3 or more things on how to stay safe oline and give people help about what is online and offline. We had to make a copy of this footprint and right our ideas down.

Idioms

L.I to learn a whole bunch of idioms.
This week for reading we had to get into groups, In my groups were Spelman, Alayah, Fau and Me. we had to make a copy of this google slide that says Idioms. We had to take screenshot's of a text that say's the idiom that we wrote. This reading task was Hard.

Fun facts

This week for the Summer Learning I completed the first challenge. For the first activity we had to go onto a site and find three facts that we liked. The first fact I did was The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud. The second fact was New Zealanders love cars with 2.5 million cars for 4 million people making them one of the countries to have the highest car ownership rate in the world. The last fact that i chose was Dairy farmers produce a whopping 100 lg of butter  and 65 kg of cheese each year for each person living in New Zealand.

Kiwi Can

This was the final week and we had Mrs Piho. For kiwi can we were recapping on what we did throughout the term learning about the new topic which is respect in community, school and the environment. After that we played the games that we chose they were 10 second tag, Invisible touch and Octopus. We played these games so we could decide what games we wanted to play.

The first game that we played was ten second tag in this game Mrs Piho would say someone has either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 and she would also point at a person because she didn't know our names. The next game we played was invisible touch in this game there is two teams and Mr Wong calls out a number and that number of people from the front of each line run around the basket ball hoop and then Mr Wong would have to say someones name and that person would have the invisible ball, And if someone tags the person with invisible ball now has the ball but the person who had the ball previously can tag that person back.

The last game we played was octopus.

Inter School athletics

On Wednesday Some people from panmure bridge school went to Loyd elsmore running track. They went there on a bus, The 400 M sprinters went first after that it was the 4x100 M relay race heats, We came third place our 4x100 relay final was at 1:50 so it was the second to last thing. There are also ball throw, discus, long jump, high jump, and shot put. The first thing I did was 4x100 M relay. After the relay I had my 75 M sprint, the other sprinter there were fast I came 5th place. Then I had some lunch and had to wait until 1:50 to get to do the 4x100 M relay final. Sione T went first then did the transition to Victoria, Then She did the transition to me then I ran as fast as I could to Charlize so I could do the transition with the Batton and we came 6th.

Martin Luther King Jr

This week for inquiry we are researching about Non violent activists. The activist that me and Fanini chose was Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King Jr was a civil rights activist who led most people like African American to what they believed in. Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta and died in Memphis.
Here is the link to our notes

Find Draw Animate Act

L.I to learn a whole bunch of new words.
This week for reading we had to get into a group of three but the group I was in only had two so I joined because I had no group. I wasn't in a group because I wasn't at school on Monday. The must do was to  make a copy of a Find Draw Animate Act. find a image, Draw out the word, make an animation of the word or make a video of the word. A word that I didn't know was ruse but now I know what means. The meaning of ruse Means trick.

Perfect tenses

LI: to identify the verb tenses: simple perfect, past perfect, continuous perfect.
This week for writing we had to get into a group of two but I had to get into a group because I wasn't at school on Monday. The must do for this week was to make 20 slides with verbs on them and once we did that we had to inflect them. Once we finished inflecting the 20 words we had to make a video on 7 of the slide. I learnt by listening to the people in my group and looking on the writing site to know what to do.

Kiwi Sport/ Boxing

L.I to learn all the things that we learnt from the sessions that we have had with Pax.
This week for Kiwi Sport was our last week with Pax, having our boxing sessions. The first thing that we did was we had to get into partners and then grab the gloves and the noodles. The person with the noodles stand on the outer side of the class and the people with the gloves had to stand on the other side of the person with the noodles. We were recapping on our counter moves. we had 2 minutes to do each counter move The first one was the jab cross guard right upper cut left hook, Then the second one was jab jab cross bridge left hook. The last one I forgot what it was.

Inferring thoughts and emotions

L.I to infer thoughts and emotions. This week for reading we had to infer what we had watched in a video about birds. The inferences we had to do were about thoughts and emotions. We had to include the evidence, to show our inference. So we had to take a screen shot of a inference that we can write about in a text box on our google slide that we had to create, we had to link the time of the moment so you can just click on the link and it will take you to the YouTube and the time that was linked.

Kiwi Sport

L.I is to learn defences.

Today for Kiwi sort we had to learn how to block punches but first we had to get into partners and we had to but on some boxing gloves and we had to learn how to go under punches and and we have to learn how to block hits and first we had to put the gloves on. The three defences were guard, bridge and roll.

Inferring

L.I to infer information from a picture.
This week for reading we had to get into groups the people in my group were Leon, Liane, Alice and me. Inferring is when you read a book, Then think about the pictures in the book or imagine what happened in the book.

Our task for this week was we had to infer what we saw in the picture on our slide. Inferring means reading between the lines and inferring could also means thinking what other people are feeling. We had 4 pictures to infer and some of them was pretty hard because you might not know anymore inferences.

Trench Warfare

L.I: Is to learn about trenches and rodents that were in WW1.

This week for inquiry we had to write information about what were in trenches. So we first started by talking about it to our teacher then we got back into our partners and then we had to watch videos and read off a website  called BBC once we did that we had to write more information in the text boxes.

Maori

L.I is to learn about the name of fruits in Maori.
This week for Maori we had to make a DLO about fruits. First we watched a video about Maui pulling up the north island Then Maui went to show his mother but his waka which made the south island.

Kiwi Can

L.I: is to learn about how we can respect the people in our community.
This week for Kiwi Can we were still talking about protect your legs, in this game we had to get into a circle and we had to protect our legs by using only one hand to block the ball and hit the ball and try to hit it in another persons legs.

After that we sat in our four lines and we talked about what and how we can have respect for our community. when we finished talking about respect for our community we played our energizer hand soccer in this game Mr Matt put us into two teams, we all had a number my number was 10 so if Mr Matt said some numbers like 8, 9 and ten then they would have to run to their cone and hit the ball with only one hand my teams name was cookie potato and the other team was all whites my team one ten to six. When we finished playing the game we had our GKQ we played the master version Mojtaba and the Master at the end was Sandra.

Touch

L.I is to try our best and have good sportsmanship when playing sports.
On Tuesday some of the year sixes and year fives went to the fields near the tamaki river and the Dunkirk park.  First we challenged stone fields we lost. they were the best school to play sports. we had a little brake for the hard work, the score from the last game we had was 0 to 7.

Once we had our rest we challenged syilver park we tried our best but we still lost we also didn't get any trys. When we finished that we went with Mrs bailey took us out to practice our 3 man and two man drives and also our stepping. Once we all finished our games of touch we all went back to school but  the year sixes lost all of their games we only got one try. The year fives only one of their games.

Maori

L.I to create a DLO showing thing about Paikea. This week we made a poster about Paikea, First Whaea Odie told us the story of The Clay woman with visual pictures of the pages in the book. It was about how humans in the Maori traditions were created since there were already gods.

Kiwi Can

L.I is to have respect for our community.
This week for Kiwi Can we had the same topic and Theme from last week. The topic is Respect for our community and our theme is respect. Some of the important people in our community are the police officers, ambulance, and the firefighters. Then we played our energizer it was called remote. Once we finished playing that we sat in our four lines and we talked about respect for our community.

when we finished talking about that we went outside to play invisible touch in this game we had to get into two lines and when Mr Matt said a number that number of people had to run around the hoop, and the he said someones name and that person had the ball, if the person with the ball gets tagged that person who tagged the person with the ball now has the ball.

Film festival comment

L.I: to learn how to make good comments on other people

Today we went to hoyts movies to watch each movie from different schools across Tamaki.

 I commented on Room 1 from Tamaki primary. Their movie was about a song called ants go marching one by one. I think the event was great for the schools because the Manaiakalani schools got to gather up and watch movies that the other schools.

Max Gimblett

This week we have learnt about Max Gimblett. We got into partners or a group. My partner was Xavier and we had to finish this task. We had to find the key facts about him and that was where he was born,when he was born,where his art has been displayed, he did something interesting in 2015 and 2016. After we were finished that we moved onto the other slide. On slide 4 we had to find the definition of a quatrefoil. The definition of a quatrefoil is an ornamental design of four lobes or leaves.

fraction question

L.I:  Is to learn how to use thirds, fourths and fifths as a question. This week for maths I was learn how to use thirds, fourths and fifths as a question. First I had to make a google slide, then make questions that people can answer and that all so make sense. After that I had to re read the questions to make sure the answer make sense and the answer is the answer that we thought of. We had to work in a group the people in my group were Matthew, Lorenzo,Oscar and me.

Boxing

LI: To learn how use footwork and learn new hand moves.
On Thursday morning we had a boxing season and it was our second one. So we first started by siting down on the floor in the school hall then we went over the rules at boxing after that we had to wear our gloves then wear our boxing gloves after that we had to get into partners and then name our self partner one and partner two I was partner two after we did that we went over the rock position again and the jab and cross punch. After that we one partner had to put there left hand our right hand up and the other partner had to punch it by doing the jab or cross.

Next we learned how to use our left hook and right hook it was similar to a cross but I bit different after that we learned how to do a proper up a cut to learn how to do that one partner had to put both hands horizontally. The other partner had to do a uppercut to the glove. Then we learned how to do foot work and they first taught us how to move froward while doing the rock. How you do it is to put your right leg forward and your left leg behind it then we learned how to move backwards while doing the rock and that is to put your left leg back then your right leg back then after that we got back into partners. 

We had to say to each other what to do my partner started first and I told him to move back forward then back again then forward again after that we did combos one of them was Jab,Cross,Right hook, left hook, Left up a cut and right uppercut. The combos we had to do were pretty Confusing to remember.

Evaluating

LI: to evaluate writing samples using the PBS writing rubric at the bottom of the site.
This week for writing we had to go back to our writing from last week and evaluate our story and highlight all the structure and language features. It was pretty easy to do. We had to give someone else our Chromebook so they could read our work. and give us either a R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 or a R6. We had to pass our Chromebook to someone then we had to pass the Chromebook we had to another person. I gave mine to Matthew and he give mine to Giovanni We also had to get and give feedback to others so they can fix what they did wrong. Giovanni gave said my writing was a R3 or R4.

Te Huarere

L.I: Is to learn about the different types of weathers in Maori. In Maori we were learning about the weather through the past three day and we were also learning about the what had happen around that area. in Taranaki Parihaka is a place and the settlement of the Europeans and the Maori people had the settlement. Sunday was cloudy, it was rainy on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday it was sunny.

Kiwi Can

L.I is to respect others and the environment.
This week for Kiwi Can was our  second time going to Kiwi Can when we got there we had to get into four lines. We played centre ball and bus stop. We played our energizer first called centre ball. first we had get into a circle and number people off. and when kiwi can called all the one people then all the one people have to run around everyone and to their standing spot to run in the middle to get the ball.

After that we had our activity bus stop. In this game we had to get into five groups then Ms Paige gave us a pen and paper to write a Boy name, Girl name, Animal and the Colour. If your group had the same as another team you would get 5 points and you have your own and word you get 10 points. than you would have to write one word for each box starting with the letter that has been called out.

It was basically the end of the day we had to get into our point, we all had to agree on each other by putting our hands up using our fingers to show how much points we should get for each station of the point system but the max of points we could get was 5 not 6 or ten. So then the point's were settled, the points were 5, 5, 5, 4 and 4, our total points were 23.

Prototec

L.I learning my time tables.

Today I was learning my timetables so that we could get good at it because for my maths group we are learning about timetables. We are having are test on timetables so why I was learning my timetables so that I when we have the test I can just say the answer fast and that I do not need help doing our time tables also so I don't have to think about what the answer is.

Link to prototec

Maori

This week for Maori we had Whaea Odie. First she read a story called Remember That November. This story was about a school speech. The children think that Andy will win the speech contest. In Andy's speech it was about Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes was a man who attempted to explode the king's castle using gunpowder. In the speech contest Aroha stands up who wore a white feather on her hair. Aroha tells a story about the village Parihaka. Once we listened to the story we had to go on google maps and find Parihaka. Once we found Parihaka on google maps we had to mark it on the Sheet that we were given. Parihaka is in Taranaki.

Organising ideas

Good version

We started climbing at the bottom of the climbing track. There was a sign showing us the way to go, so we followed the sign from the bottom of the climbing track. We put on our backpacks and gear when we arrived at the carpark. I looked at the sky and said about the stars there are a lot of stars when we were walking to the bottom of the climbing track.

Bad version

We started climbing at the bottom of the climbing track. There was a sign showing us the way to go, so we followed the sign from the bottom of the climbing track. We put on our backpacks and gear when we arrived at the carpark. I looked at the sky and said about the stars there are a lot of stars when we were walking to the bottom of the climbing track.

LI: to correct certain structure and language features in a recount. This week for writing we had to read paragraph two of Mr wongs bad recount and we had to rewrite it. The recount was really messed up. Each group had to work on a paragraph I am in Jk Rowling we had to use paragraph two Stephen King used paragraph 4 Dr Seuss used paragraph 3 Dr Dahl they used all paragraphs. For my group we had to organise our ideas into the right order.

Boxing

This week for kiwi sport we had our first lesson with Pax. First Pax taught us three of the commandments which was Respect, Discipline & Safety. For respect we had to say I will respect my coach, equipment and peers. For discipline we had to say I will show up in every kiwi sport and I will give my 100%. Lastly for Safety we had to say I will not harm others and I will practise boxing with safety. If we broke one of the rules we had to do one burpee for the first week, if we break it again we have to do two burpees, it goes on and on. If we did the boxing skills that we learnt outside of the hall we will have to sit in the corner.

After that we did a warm up. We played a game called knee tag. For knee tag we had to try and tag each others knees. Everyone was in. I didn't get tagged by the knee because I defended myself from other people tagging me Once we did the warm up, we had to wear boxing gloves under 90 seconds.The boxing gloves were hard to wear.

 Some of us didn't wear the boxing gloves under 90 seconds, so we all had to do a burpee. After the burpee we got into partners. My partner was Giovanni. After that we learnt the rock. For the rock we had to lift up our right leg, move it back and place it down. We also had to bend our knees and we had to put the boxing gloves on our face, but under our eyes. Then one of us had to push the other person who was in the rock. We did that to see if we would fall.

Once we did that we learnt the jab. For the jab we had to get into our rock position. Then we had to punch straight with our left arm, while our right arm was under our eye to keep us safe from a punch.

M.A.I.N

L.I is to learn about the M.A.I.N in world war one.
This week for for inquiry I was learning about M.A.I.N in WW1 The M is for Militarism, A is for Alliances, I is for imperialism, and the N is for Nationalism. These are the main four that caused ww1 (World war one). We had to add information about each topic, we had to get the information from a DLO (digital learning object), we had to find out which text was the right information for the right topic. I also worked with my friend Chris to do this. After the information and putting them with the right topic, we then had to add in what was the immediate cause.

Conflict and resolution

LI: to analyse a story for its conflict and resolution. This week for Reading we did the same thing as last time, but read a different story which was a true story. We had to write the two sides and write what both of their ideals were. Then we had to write what the conflict was. Then we had to write the parts that lead up to the resolution of the story. The story we read was called Painted Hoe which told us about Wakas. The connection that I have with this story is Sparks because in painted hoe the Maori and the Europeans they fight over the land and in sparks Harley and Dillon fight over the Scooter. Here is a link to my work .

Keyboarding

LI: To not look at the key board wile typing.

For daily six this week i decided to do key boarding. First we had to type in all the words that they have put up without looking at the keyboard.  When we finished one we would have to press the space button and write the next word. Before this you have to read the instructions to play. If you typed in the wrong letter it would turn red and you would have to push that letter again then go to the next letter.

Commenting

This week I did commenting on lukah's work  he did a blog post on his math's his blog post was on prototec. He did three prototec one on stage 4 one on stage 5 and one on stage 6. I also did those times tables.

Prototec

L.I learning my time tables.

Today I was learning my timetables so that we could get good at it because for my maths group we are learning about timetables. We are having are test on timetables so why I was learning my timetables so that I when we have the test I can just say the answer fast and that I do not need help doing our time tables also so I don't have to think about what the answer is.

Link to prototec

Co Co crunch

LI: to learn what advertisements are added in media.
This week for cyber-smart we talked about media and what types of medium are there. We also made a cereal poster. We had to play this game called co-co crunch, click this link if you want to make your own co-co crunch poster so you can have a little fun.

In the poster we had to add in advertisements, like cool animals, themes, catchy phrase's, entertainment and something that people can join. After this we also had to make a fake co-co crunch website with an image of our poster.

Sky tower recount mock test

L.I is to write a 40 minute recount about our sky tower trip

This week for our writing must do we had to write a 40 minute recount about the sky tower trip in test conditions. I wrote my story in 4 paragraphs. First we had to open up a google doc. Then I had to make a recount about the sky tower trip we had, telling about the different types of things we did at the sky tower.

WW1

L.I: To learn about the causes, conflict, and resolution to World War 1. This week for inquiry we were learning about the world war l. First we had to get into a a group of two my partner was Matthew. we had to link the right timelines to the right story from world war one. For the vocabulary list we were listed some words from world war one, we then had to add the definition and we had to add an image that link with the word.

Statistics

L.I: Is to learn about more about what we have already learnt.
This week for maths we filled out a google form that had choices of what we wanted to remember, each person chose and we had to ask a set question about the topic so we can learn more about what we already learnt before.

Conflict and resolution

LI: to analyse a stories conflict and resolution
This week for Reading we read a story and had to fin out the Conflict and Resolution. Conflict is a fight/disagreement/argument between people or a group. A resolution is entirely fixing the problem or not, or changing the conflict to something else. We read a book called Sparks and it was full of Conflicts and we had to analyse to see if they were conflicts, and had to find the resolution. This story is similar to sponge bob square pants because Mr crabs wants something and Plankton wants to do have the krabby patty formula.

Maori

I: to learn more about Maori
This week for Maori the first thing we did was read a story about the beginning of earths creation. It was about the earth mother and the sky father being together with no light, but the sons of earth and the sky wanted to be free so the sons separated them. Then there was a stream of light flowing everywhere. Later the sons became gods. Tu became god of man and war, Tangaroa became god of the sea, Tawhirimatea god of wind and storm, Haumia became god of cultivated food and the wild, and lastly Rongo became god of peace and agriculture. After that we watched a video explaining the story of the beginning in Sand Art.
Maori creation sand art video

Kiwi Can

This week was the first week of the term and our first lesson on Kiwi Can. Mrs Lily wasn't there because she is having a baby boy in December. We had a new leader and her name was Mrs Paige. Then we also have a new theme and topic. The theme is Respect and the topic is For our school.

The energizer for kiwi can is No Rules Or Rules. So the game was tag but with no rules. So everyone could tag each other. It was really exhausting and boring because you wouldn't get out. The next round was with rules the first taggers were Mr Matt and Mrs Paige. It was a lot more fun and fair.

After the energizer we talked about Values our school values is CARE confidence, Attitude, respect and excellence and innovation. Values means the standards and behaviour in the life you are living. My value is taking responsibility. I picked responsibility because I need to be responsible for my own doings.

When we finished doing that we got into our activity. This activity was really fun it is called role play in this game there are two new students and the other students have shared lunch but the two new students didn't bring any lunch I was one of the new students and the person was Akuhata. Our group name was The Hollow heads.

In our group was Giovanni, Akuhata, Sione T, Acien and Jordan.

Kiwi Can

L.I: learn about all skills we have done and use those things we have learn't.

This week for kiwi can it was fun week. For fun week we got to choose 2 games to play. We did a vote on games we wanted to play. The 2 games that were chosen were Octopus and invisible rugby. We got to play octopus first. To play octopus you need to have 2 taggers. Also you need a bunch of people to be in a line at the end of a court. Then the taggers have to say (RUN IF YOU ARE WEARING SHOES) Something like that. Who ever has shoes etc they have to run. Once we did that we got on the feild to play invisible rugby. To play invisible rugby you need to split up into a group of 2 or as many as you want. Someone was going to have to call out a number and what ever number that has been called the amount of people have to run. Then someone will have the ball. Who ever has the ball they have to run to their goal. If someone from the other team tags the person with the ball then they have the ball. The only thing is that you can't tag the same person back.

Swimming

LI: To learn how to swim. 
This week for swimming we had to go our instructor. First we got into the pool. Then we swam to the other side using the boards. We did this two times. After we swam using the boards, we did the same thing. This time when we swam on our fronts and we had to breathe, we had to turn around on our backs and swim. We did this this a couple times.

Once we did that we did the same thing again, but we couldn't use our boards. Once we did that we had to catch toys. The toys had to sink first, then we could go down and catch it. We did that two times.  After that we did a horse race. For the horse race we had to get into partners. my partner was Jordan.

After that we got a pool noodle for the both of us. One of us had to curve the pool noodle and had to put our arms over it. The other person had to hold the end of the pool noodle with our hands. The person in the front had to run and the person at the back had to kick their legs to try and win. We came last but we didn't care because it was just a game.

Keyboarding

LI: To not look at the key board wile typing.

For daily six this week i decided to do key boarding. First we had to type in all the words that they have put up without looking at the keyboard.  When we finished one we would have to press the space button and write the next word. Before this you have to read the instructions to play. If you typed in the wrong letter it would turn red and you would have to push that letter again then go to the next letter.