Emergency shelters

 Emergency shelters help and protect people from disasters and accidents like: tornado, volcano eruptions, strong storms or winds, and bushfires or house fires.

Strong wind shelters can be used in a strong wild storm. One of the shelters were titanium. Titanium is strong use because it can hold strong wind and cannot be broken.

Tsunami shelters can be used in a flood. One of the shelters are steel frame. Steel frame is good use because  steel-frame structures are recommended for vertical evacuation structures.

Shelters are used to protect people from disasters. Some shelters are very good use because they can be strong.

Persuasive speech

This week for writing I planned my speech about why graffiti should be stopped.

First I had to come up with a greeting. Next I had to write how I will introduce my audience. Then I had to come up with a rhetorical question. 

Afterwards I had to write my opinion and a statement that states with my point. Next I had to list some facts to support my opinion. Then I had to write a solution to my problem. 

Lastly I had to write what happens if people don't agree with my opinion.

L.I: To create a persuasive speech. 

Here is my speech plan below:

Touch Rugby | Kiwi Sport

Today for touch rugby we learnt two new skills. 

The first skill was to plant the ball. We had to put the ball between our legs and step over it so the other person can get the ball.

Then we did an activity called bibs verses non-bibs. Five people from each team gets one ball. Then everyone with the ball has to run away from the people with no ball. If you get tagged you have roll the ball.

The last skill was attacking verses defending. There were 2 attackers and 1 defender. The attackers have the ball and the defender has to try and block them from scoring.

The first person with the ball has to run up to the defender and pass the ball.

Making Connections

Text to self is talking about something that you have done. For example: in the book ants on the march ants have different jobs to do. I do jobs at home and get paid money.

Text to text is talking about something that links with another book. For example: in ants of the march ants are strong, creative and fast. In the book rahi and the patupaiarehe rahi was fast and strong and even creative.

Text to world is something that links with something that has happened around the world. For example: ants live and work in huge groups called colonies. Builders work in huge groups to contruct buildings.

LI. To make connections.

 

Comment Thread

Today for comment thread. I commented on Kahu's touch rugby blog post. The objective of this challenge is to make a thread by commenting to each other.

LI: To create a comment thread.

Basic facts boxes

Today I completed basic facts boxes up to 10. The objective of this challenge is to answer the questions quickly. My time was 3 minutes and 28 seconds. I only got one question wrong. This is more faster than Mr Wong's time 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

LI. To rapidly recall basic facts.

SSR Selfie

Today for ssr selfie I read a book called dog man ( The Tale of two kitties) The objective of this challenge is to summarize and retell the text.

The book was about flippy making alot of buildings come to life. And petey made a clone but was a child of him.

To summarize and retell the text.

Touch rugby

Today we learnt some basic skills for touch rugby.

First we learnt how to tap the ball, score a try, chuck the ball up in the air, and passing the ball.

Afterwards we played a passing drill to get better at catching and commiting to the ball.

I enjoyed this activity and had fun learning new skills in touch rugby.

Insulators

Insulators are used to stop heat from moving place to place. Five materials were tested for the ability to insulate: glass, plastic, metal, paper, and polystrene.

The best insulator for keeping things warm was polystrene because the average cooling rate was 8. The worst insulator for keeping things warm were: plastic, tin, and paper.

The best insulator for keeping things cool were: paper and polystrene because the average cooling rate was 2. The worst insulator for keeping things cool was glass.

The best insulator for both warm and cool was polystrene because both average cooling rates were the lowest.

Maori

 For Maori we had to find the meanings of what the Maori words mean. 

For this activity we had to use the Maori dictionary and translate what the Maori words mean. For example: Tama - boy.

Then we had to listen to a song and find 9 meanings of those words mean in the song.

I enjoyed this activity and learning new words in Maori.

Argument topics

For writing we had to brainstorm ideas and make a persuasive speech.

Brainstorming means to think about ideas. Sasuke and I wrote down some reasons why we want the statue taken down. One of our reasons was: because it looks silly .

Next we had to write 9 arguments for three topics which were: school, home, and community. One of my arugments were: The community should stop spray painting on the walls.

One of my reasons were: because it might give you brain damage. Next we had to choose two topics and write reasons why we think we want to keep it or stop it.

LI. To brainstorm possible topics.

Reading

For reading we used the same strategy from last week called skimming and scanning.

We used it on a book called ( Ants on the march )

First I had to find prior knowledge about ants. For example: Army ants can work in huge groups called colonies. Next I had to find six keywords and define two of those words and find an image.

Afterwards I had to find four facts about ants. For example: Soldier ants use their massive jaws as weapons to protect their colonies. Next I had to write to the author two key questions about ants.

LI. To skim and scan.

Division story problems

How to solve a division by following these steps:

1. You have to write how many objects you have.

2. Next you have to write who you are sharing it with.

3. Next you have to write how many you and that person have.

4. Lastly you have to write the algorithm. For example: 14 ÷ 2 = 7.

LI. To divide objects evenly.

Persuading

 The definition of Convincing and persuading is telling someone to do or think something.

For this activity we had to try and convince our partners to agree or disagree with us. First we had to convince our partners in person. Then we tried convincing them by creating a poster.

The topic was about kids that are under 12 are not allowed to ride their bikes or scooters in public places. I agreed because I think it's not safe for children.

Because they could get kidnapped, might go on to the road, or might go to far and get lost.

Skimming and scanning

For reading we learnt about skimming and scanning.

Skimming is to look through and reading the scentences and getting ideas from the book. Scanning is looking through the book to find keywords.

We used this stratgey on a book called ( Meet the Kakapo ) 

First we had to find 4 facts about the Kakapo. For example: Kakapo's are extremely rare. Next we had to write our prior knowledge which means we had to describe the kakapo. 

Next we had to find 6 keywords. Then we had to pick 2 keywords and find the definition of what that word means. Afterwards we had to 2 images to describe the word that we defined.

 After we had to write 2 key questions to the author.

LI. To skim and scan.

 

Inquiry | Experiment

This week for inquiry we experimented certain materials. We used paper towel as our certain material. First we had to use a beaker to measure water to 100mls. Next we had to measure our material to 50gm.

Then we had to do five drops of food colouring into the 100mls of water. Next we put the paper towel into a tote tray and poured the water onto the paper towel.

After that we checked how much water was absorbed from the material and how much was leftover. Then we wrote our results onto the recording sheet.

I enjoyed this experiment because I learnt how to conduct an experiment. Also paper towel is an absorbent material.

LI. To learn and practise expermental materials.

Division

Division is sharing an amount of things to other people. For example: there were 18 counters that was shared among 9 people. Each person got 2 counters each.

The slide below shows three division examples.

Maori

Today for Maori we learned body parts in Maori.

The activity is to highlight the words we know in Maori and we have to leave the ones that we don't know blank. The second activity I did was to match the Maori phrase with the correct picture. ( For example: head- Mahunga , shoulder- Pakihiwi ) 

I enjoyed Te Reo Maori because I learned new words and about the weather.