Our Whakatauki

Today Alex, Lyric and I made a whakatauki D.L.O based on our school whakatauki. It all means care for the land care for the people go forwards. They were going for care for the land around you care for the people around you and go forwards to success. That whakatauki belongs to Panmure bridge and always will. It also relates to our school values they go to conference, attitude etc.    

Olympic Values

LI: To collect information in order to make a comparison.

For inquiry this week the task was to research our school and the Olympic key values, to do that we first read through a text about the Olympics. After we'd done that we started on the DLO, once the Olympic part was done we then did a little bit of research on our school (Because we didn't know some things). I learnt about how the Olympic motto is also in a different language, how their creed is about trying their best (No matter what the outcome is) and also how their three values are excellence, friendship and respect.

Softball Reflection

Yesterday LS2 group B went to softball, at softball the first thing that we did was get into partners, once we were in partners one of us had to go on one side of the grass while the other went behind a cone a bit further away. In those partners we practiced throwing the ball to each other, we tried different challenges like rolling the ball on the ground to each other, throwing it up high and clapping as much as we could until we caught it and some other things too. We also did a warm up which was 20 star jumps and a run to a tree and back.

Electives

28 students choose elective B.

24 students went to elective A.

An intermediate school has ten classes with 24 students in each.

Instead of regular classes, it is offering 6 ‘electives’ for a week when 20% of the students will be away for an inter-school sports exchange.

0.125 of the students who will remain at school, have chosen to take elective A.

One sixth of the students chose elective B.

The rest of the students all chose the four electives, C, D, E and F in an exactly even split.

How many students can the teachers taking C expect in their elective?

48 students aren’t at school for inter-school sports.

35 students are in C.

35 students are in E.

35 students are in D.

35 students are in F.

20% of 240 = 48

240 - 48 = 192

192 - 24 = 168

⅙ of 168 = 28

140 left

140 ÷ 4 = 35.

Today I was finding out the answer to the problem above and I had worked with my friend Alex he helped me work out the things that you see above.

Kiwi Can

yesterday we had kiwi can and for kiwi can we had two one new teacher and one old teacher the first game we played was a circle game. You had to stand in a circle and you are numbered one to four but you have to get the middle before anyone else but your not allowed to run you have to speed walk around the circle and make it in to the middle before anyone and the last person in the middle is out and has to sit down and then the last ones standing wins its kind of like muscle chair. Then we paled ball tag by the sound of it you are probably like that sounds simple but the are other rules added to the game your not allowed to run with the ball it is three people from one team vs a entire team. then we played G.K.Q. The last thing that happened was that the teachers gave use a score of 21 and the look out for Respect, Participation, Positive attitude, Team work and integrity.  

Chinese New Year Explanation

This week's writing task was to create an explanation for the Chinese New Year, I worked with Zane. We could write about one of three things, how the Chinese New Year came to be, what people do to celebrate it or how the zodiac animals came to be. Zane and I decided to do one paragraph on each topic instead of just three on one, for the explanation we used T.I.I.C (Title, Introduction, Information and Conclusion).

Kung hei fat choi! (Happy Chinese New Year), this year symbolizes the year of the dog. The Chinese New Year
is well known today but, how did it start off?

In the beginning it is said that Chinese New Year wasn’t celebrated, the reason being because of a monster
named Nian who terrorised Chinese people on the first moon of every year. The monster did that for a long time
until a wise old man told the people about Nian’s three fears; Fire, the colour red and loud noises. The next time
that the Chinese New Year came they were prepared, and so as soon as Nian arrived the people were covered
in red coloured clothes, lit fireworks, made loud noises from hitting their drums. Nian then ran away and to
celebrate, every year people wear red clothes, light fireworks and make loud noises by hitting drums.

One day the Jade Emperor decided to make animals take part in a race, the race was to decide what twelve
animals would be on the Chinese New Year zodiac. The animal that came first was the Rat, followed by an Ox
and a Tiger. After them came a Rabbit, a Dragon, a Snake, A Horse, a Goat, a Monkey, a Rooster, a Dog and
a Pig.

People also celebrate CNY by giving Hong Bao to unmarried adults and children, inside of the Hong Bao there
is supposed to be money. They also eat food like egg rolls, noodles and shrimp. The foods represent (in order)
wealth, healthiness and happiness.

This is what has happened or is happening to create the Chinese New Year that we know today.

Reciprocal Reading

Today we were doing reciprocal reading and we had to ask questions, summarise, predict what will happen in the story and clarify. We all had a turn to being leader and we were reading a book called "Constructing Big Air". The book is about big air jumps and man made snow they plan out a ramp on a blue print and start scaffolding then the put on the snow and have two people do the jump with snowboards.      

Mascot Venn diagram

Today we have been learning about the Winter Olympics. For this task we would found mascots that were in the Winter Olympics. Then we compared the 2018 mascot (Soohorang) to the Winter Olympics mascot we picked. We decided to choose Bely Mishka. Each mascot has there own meaning. We then compared them using a Venn diagram.

Winter Olympics Venn diagram

Every Olympics are the same. They all have opening ceremonies and they all get awarded with medals. They always do it every four years. This year the Winter Olympics is in south Korea. Above is a DLO that shows the differences and similarities between the modern and 1900's Winter Olympics. 

Guess what I did in the summer holidays

Remembering our summer holiday

L.I. - Writing to recount

Writing using language features to engage readers

Complete these sentences about an event over the summer holiday.
Don’t tell us what the event was just give us enough information that we can know for ourselves.

I heard the birds chirps were like angels singing a beautiful lullaby.

I heard the waves crashing on to the ground “BOOM”

I saw the waves, they were bigger than mountains, and the wave’s impact was stronger than
one of the hulks punches.

Although I felt the waves pushing me further and further back to shore, I tried my best and
got back out to the waves.

I felt the waves flip me like a coin in the air.

I wondered if the waves would get bigger.

I wondered if the babies squirming would stop.

Today we were writing about our summer holidays do you know what I did in the holidays I did something I think everyone did I went to the just joking you have to think for yourself I like what I did in the holidays I spent time with the family I really liked the waves and the park that was there.