Touch Rugby | Kiwi Sport

This week, we learnt how to plant the ball during our touch rugby kiwi sport session.

First, we got into groups behind a cone. One person from the teams had the ball, and the another person was following the person with the ball. We planted the ball at four different cones and the person behind us was dummy-half. 

After that, we practised how to touch people in a game. Each team had a certain amount of rugby balls and we needed to tag the people in the opposite team who had a rugby ball. If we got tagged we needed to plant the ball and go for a person who has a ball.

Lastly, we practiced being offence and defence. At first it was one vs one. A person from the defensive team tried to prevent the offensive team from getting a try.

By the end of this session LS1 should know how to plant a ball.

LI: To learn skills in touch rugby.

Maori | Translating and Revising

This week, LS1's lesson with Whaea Odie was based around knowing that some words are based off of their features.

First, we looked at the meanings of roto, waho, runga, raro, mua and muri. Roto means in, waho means out. Runga means above, raro means below. Mua means forward, muri means backward.

Next, we were given a list of words in Te Reo Māori to translate back to english. There were 17 words to translate in total.

After that, we did one more list that included the names of places in Te Reo Māori and words relating to sea or ocean. We translated all of these.

I enjoyed this lesson with Whaea Odie and I especially enjoyed looking at the meanings of roto, waho, runga, raro, mua and muri. One thing I think I could work on is expanding my Māori vocabulary.

 LI: to revise and translate words from Te Reo Māori.

Inquiry | Researching Shelters

This week, LS1 was researching the different types of shelters.

First, we got into groups of four-five. We then started to assign tasks to the people in our group. We read the design brief to see what the problem statement and the design statement is.

After reading the design brief, we made a Google Slide and started to research the shelters. We researched shelters for natural disasters. We wrote about what makes the shelter protective and the materials used to create the shelter.

The purpose of this activity was to identify what materials and shapes are best for different natural disasters.

LI: To research emergency shelters.

Narrative

This week, we made our narratives using our plan.

First, we looked at our plan that we made last week. By looking at our plans, we could figure out and remind ourselves of our ideas that we noted down.

After that, we took our bullet pointed ideas and made it into a narrative. We remembered the use of punctuation, structure, third person and past tense. We also remembered to keep the story an A4 size piece of paper at max.

By the end of this activity, LS1 should know how to write a narrative.

LI: To write a narrative.

Novel Study

For Mr Wong's reading tasks, we did a novel study. A novel study is a process where you read a book and complete comprehention tasks on the chapters we have read so far.

This week, we were continuing our novel study and completed a task with it. 

By the end of each week, LS1 should have come up with a new understanding of the book and learnt how to do a novel study.

LI: To study a novel.

 

Maths in Jobs

For Mr Ogilvie's maths task, we researched about the different areas in maths that are used in certain jobs.

We picked a job that used maths and made a poster answering questions. The questions were: What is the job?, what maths does it use?, How is the maths used?, why is it important to be good at that type of maths in this job? Thinking of the positives and negatives.

Most jobs use maths. The jobs that use maths a lot are: medicine, science, engineering etc. Some jobs don't use maths a lot, they can just use basic addition or multiplication.

By the end of this activity, LS1 should have an understanding of what types of maths is used in different jobs.

LI: To identify the maths used in jobs.

Inquiry | Insulator

This week, we have been conducting experiments as our inquiry focus. We conducted an experiment to find out the insulation of different materials.

First, we sorted ourselves into groups of 3 or 4 and chose what material we were going to test. The different materials are plastic, glass, tin, polystyrene, and paper cups. The first experiment we did was 'Keeping it warm'.

Next, we measured 100ml of warm water from the tap and poured it into our container. We placed the thermometer inside of the cup and started our stopwatch. We recorded the temperature of the water every 2 minutes for 20 minutes.

Then, we moved onto the second experiment called 'Keeping it cool'. We used the same material from the previous experiment. We measured 50ml of water and poured it into our container. Then we recorded the room temperature with the thermometer, and put 3 ice cubes in the container. We recorded the temperature of the water every 2 minutes for 20 minutes.

After that, we discussed what the insulators were for each material and compared the results.

We enjoyed conducting these experiments and using the thermometers to record the temperatures of the water. One thing we could work on is conducting quality experiments.

LI: to learn and practise experimental methods.

LI: to determine the insulative properties of materials.