The Shrink-athon

The Shrink-athon

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On a beautiful Monday morning Chris walked angry down the stairs to
LS1 and looked at Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie. Then Chris took Shrinking
Ray behind him and shrinked Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie. 

Then Chris laughed at them and ran away and didn't know that Naki
saw the whole thing. So Naki ran after Chris, and Chris saw Naki and
tried to lose Naki. Then the shrink ray dropped on the ground and Chris
and Naki had a showdown and the both of them tried to steal off each
other the shrink ray to grow back Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie or not? 

Then Chris got the shrink ray back and tried to shrink Naki but Naki
dogged the bullet and shrunk someone. Then Naki took the gun off
Chris and Naki fast as to Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie and grew them back
to normal and Naki said” did I forget something” and forgot about the
person he shrunk. 

Then Chris made guns and shot a bullet at Naki but he dodged the
bullet and kicked Chris and knocked him out and took him to the
principal and got in trouble.

L.I. To write a quick story about something.

Today I made a quick write in my Reading group and made a story
about Chris Shrinking Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie.

Rippa Rugby with Andrew & Justice

LI: To learn the basics of rippa rugby.

This week for kiwi sport we were learning how to throw and catch a rugby ball. In rippa rugby we were looking at getting better at ripping rippas, throwing a rugby ball and catching a rugby ball. Our coach was Andrew & Justice.

Rippa rugby is a sport were we put two tags on our waists and the other team has to try and rip the rippas from the opponents. If you do that then the person who got tagged has to pass the rugby ball to another person from their team. If your team gets tagged 5 times or the chosen number then it is a hand over and you have to give the ball to the other team.

First we were getting warmed up. The warm-up activity was that we got showed the directions to; North, South, West & East. Whenever one of our coaches said a direction we had to get to that side in five seconds. E.g: "South", we had to get to the south as fast as we can.

After that warm-up we played Rats & Rabbits. Rats & Rabbits is a game were we pick a partner and we have to line up facing our partners and if Justice or Andrew shouts out an animal (e.g; "Rabbits!") the chosen animal had to run the opposite way they were facing and the other animal had to try and rip their partners rippa off.

Next we were practising throwing and catching. We lined up behind four cones and the first group had the ball. The person in the front of the groups had to run and pass the ball backwards to the first person in the group on the right. We had to catch by joining our hands to look like a 'W'.

After that we played a real game of rippa rugby. There was a green team and a red team, I was in the red team. We had to tap and pass. Our team got two tries in the beginning. On the last try it was unspecified if it was a try or rip. The other team also got two tries.

I enjoyed this weeks session on Rippa Rugby. I personally think that I could improve on throwing and catching.

Quick Write

LI: To write a narrative on a chosen implication.


Quick Write is a can-do that helps us write narratives better. We can only write one page or less meaning we cannot go over one page. The implication was that: Chris from LS2 created a shrink ray to shrink Mr Ogilvie and Mr Wong as payback for calling him short in LS1. 

We looked at the structure of a narrative which is; T.O.P.E.S (Title, Orientation, Problem, Events & Solution). We also looked at what is expected in each section of the structure. In the orientation we needed to have the: Who, When, Where & Hook. In the problem we needed: An unfortunate event. In the events we needed: Three thing that lead to the solution. In the solution we needed: the problem getting resolved and a new normal.

William Shakespeare | Reading

LI: To learn about something new.

Today for this activity, we were finding out facts about a chosen topic. We were split into groups of 2-3 and had to choose a topic to find facts about. The Baby Yodaz chose William Shakespeare, his category is within the 'Important Historical People'.

William Shakespeare is an interesting English poet, he has a total of 38 plays, 2 poet narratives and 154 sonnets. Check out the Baby Yodaz DLO (girls faction) to find out some more information about poet William Shakespeare here:

3D Shapes

LI: To create an illusion of making 3D shapes in a room.

This week Mr Ogilvie's maths groups were discussing the area of 3D shapes. On a google drawing we made an illusion of 3D shapes inside a room or box. The flooring had to be straight otherwise it would look weird. The shapes we put weren't allowed to overlap so we put them on a vertical axis. Some of the shapes had to line up with each tile (floor).

Descriptive Language

LI: To describe using interesting language features.

This week Mr Wongs writing groups were looking at 'Descriptive Writing'. The intention of this activity is to practising using descriptive language. The comments section is used to describe any of the gathered photos. There is a list of language features to help create descriptions. We were looking at who's describing was the best out of each photo. The objective of the "Descriptive Writing" activity is to help improve descriptive language.

Maritime Museum | Explorers & Adventures | Class Trip

LI: To study the history of New Zealand maritime explorers.

This week on the 12th of February LS1 went to the Maritime Museum to study the history of explorers of Aotearoa. When we arrived to the museum we met our instructors, Lee and Peter.

One group went to explore the museum and my group stayed in the classroom with Lee to get taught about maritime history. Lee taught us about many famous sailors like: Captain Cook, Sir Peter Blake, Abel Tasman, Kupe & Kuramārōtini.

After an hour the two groups switched. We then explored the museum with our smaller group. After another hour of exploring we got ready to leave the museum.

The trip was very fun and enjoyable. I learnt many new things about the history of maritime explorers.