Te Reo Maori|Te Huarere

Today was our 3rd session for Maori for term 4. For today's session we made a DLO writing down the weather in Maori. We wrote what the weather was on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So on Sunday it was cloudy, on Monday it was raining, on Tuesday it was also raining, but on Wednesday it was nice sunny day. To make our DLO more appealing we were to put pictures of what the sentences meant. So if it was raining we were to put a picture of a raining day in Auckland (Tamaki Makaurau). 

Reading Theory|Level 11

Today at home I went on read theory and I finally achieved my goal by reaching leveling 11. As I was on level 10 I tried my best getting all their answers. I read all questions and got all of it right. I can't wait to red Primacy and Recency. In my perspectives I think I'm not get pass this level, but at least I've tried my best getting to a higher level. 

The Highwayman|Simile & Metaphor

This week for reading Mrs Anderson's group have been focusing on the poem, the Highwayman. The Highwayman was set in the 18th century (1700's) and was written Alfred Noyes. For today's task we were to make a DLO explaining what a similie and a metaphor is. We were also to put examples of simile and metaphors from the poem. An example of a similie from the Highwayman poem is: Down like a dog on the highwayman. I know this is a similie because it has the word like. A similie is a statement comparing someone or an object with another which includes the words 'as' or 'like'.  

The Feathered Hunter|5 - 7 - 10

Today for Writing Ms Kirkpatrick have set a task for us. This task was to choose our own picture from pobble 365 and write a narrative to go with the picture. I picked the Feathered Hunter which is a picture of an owl trying to catch it's prey. This story was actually about an owl getting hunted but then I tried making a twist by doing the opposite. I have written a story about an owl who tried catching it's prey (eagle). The eagle doesn't know he was getting chased, but then he noticed so he tried hiding. But at the end he was eaten by the ravenous owl. If you would like to read my whole story click here.

Week 2 Technology - Graphics

Today was our second session of graphics for term 4. We didn't have Mr Pineda in so we had Mr McKenzie-Brown who is an English teacher in Tamaki College. Today since Mr Pineda wasn't here we were to finish off coloring and drawing our charity boxes. My charity box is based on helping the homeless so I have phrases such as Donate, Help the homeless,  and Please donate $1. I've also added a home/shelter which symbolizes that homeless people need shelter. I've nearly finished coloring and going to put together my charity box.

Kiwisport - Boxing

Today was our first session of Kiwisport. For Kiwisport this term we have Boxing. Our coach was Pax. Before doing any kind of activity or exercise we were to learn her 3 Commandment/rules. Those commandments were respect, discipline, and be safe. We have to respect others around us and also respect the equipment, we have to be discipline meaning being responsible for our own actions and also being humble at all times, and the last commandments is to be safe in the environment around us. Another rule that was stated is that if one person mucks around the whole group gets the punishment . After talking about the rules and commandments we started off with a warm up. For this warm up we were to partner up with a buddy and then either partner 1 or 2 (we were to pick who was number 1 and 2) was to try and touch their partners knees. It was hard for me because Julian (my partner) was a very competitive person, but at the end I won. The rules were, if you were tagged on the knee you were to a bur-pee. We then changed it to tagging the shoulder. This was pretty easy since we didn't need to bend down. Soon, Pax taught us the stunt in boxing which she called the rock. Basically all you had to do is put one leg forward and one leg back. Then you were to go down like you were doing the haka. This will help you balance properly. We then learnt a move called Jab-Cross. We were to jab with our left hand and cross with our left hand. I learnt that when you cross you have to twist your right leg so you don't go falling when cross punching. I enjoyed today's session and can't wait for next weeks session. Thank you to Pax for coaching us and Mrs Anderson for joining and supervising us.

Maths Problem - Radius & Diameter

Today we played the Radius and Diameter game on Khad Academy and we were to make a DLO with three of the problems and explain how we solved the three questions. For one of the questions it says: If the radius is 7.5 what is the diameter. This was pretty easy because all you had to do was times 7.5 by 2. The answer was 15. There were 2 others that we explained in our DLO. If you don't know what the radius and the diameter is well the radius is half the circle and the diameter is times the radius. I have worked together with Carl and Miki to create this DLO.