Ancient & Modern Olympics

This is my Venn diagrame that I did with my partners Angela and Savelina. I learnt what is different and the same about the Ancient Olympics and the Modern Olympics. I found that the Similarity's of these both subjects. This was easy & I had fun Learning about the two subjects.

Run, Jump, Throw

Today for our kiwi sport (Run, Jump, Throw) we were learning on knowing our skills for high jump. I learnt that when your doing high jump you have to have slitely bent legs, scissors legs + scissors arms and also when your doing high jump you have to sprint so that when you jump over the bar it dosen't fall. The thing we were focusing on today getting our skills right. We had to form a line against the wall, we had to line up boy girl then Mrs A would split us up into 2 teams. Both of our teams had to do the scissor kick to get over the bar but before we did that we practiced by standing beside a line pretending it was the bar, then we had to do left left, right right. What I mean by left left right right is that when your jumping over the bar while doing the scissor action at the same time, you have to make sure if you jump with you left leg, that means you have to use your left hand to do the scissor action, and if you jump with your right leg you have to use your right hand to do the scissor action. The side I got use to was my right, only because I jump higher on my right, but on that day I jumped from using my left, the only reason being was because my goal on that day was to improve on jumping high and using the scissor action properly to get my legs up high. Another thing I learnt on that day was that when you jump over the bar, your toes have to be pointing up in the sky so that when you jump, you can jump higher from how you normally jump. I have to say that day was pretty challenging but it was actually fun and interesting learning new things about high jump.

E-Ako Maths

Here are my screenshots that I took while I was doing my E-Ako Maths. These show that I was trying to learn my fractions well enough to answer a question just like that. I have improved on my maths, but my goal for maths are to know it fast enough just to answer it before 3 seconds. I have learnt lots in maths, especially my fractions. For fractions I have learnt that two thirds of 15, you could divide 15 by 3, then multiply five by two. I really enjoy doing maths because maths for me is fun !

Warrior Visit

Today we had a few visitors from the warriors that came to visit our school. We had Ryan Hoffman the captin of the Warriors, we had John Palavi, Alice and Georgia that one who organised the event. The thing they did was handing out some spot prizes and also the other thing we did was that we played Trivia (quizzes). What you do in trivia is what was on the screen, you will see the wheel spin then after a few seconds it would stop and come up with a category linking to what they do, But before we started spinning the wheel we had to come up with our own chant, we were split into 2 teams one was Ryan Hoffman's team and one was John Palavi team. For the chant Ryan's one was HOFFY & John's one was JP. Georgia spun the wheel and the first thing it came up with was Hydration. What we had to do was to shout out our chant the loudest and if she picks one of our teams then we can answer the question we have to answer about hydration. The next category was sleep, we did the same rotation as the other one which was to shout the loudest and to see who gets picked. The lucky last one was belonging, they talked about where we belong. John Palavi said he belonged to a family, Ryan Hoffman said he belonged to the warriors. The students said they belong to school and many more. To finish off the session with them we had to say our chant the loudest for 30 seconds and of unfortunately HOFFY's team lost and JP's team won. After they were done for the session we took some photo's at the end and some people even got to get a hand shake with them. We all had a awesome time actually getting the oppotunity meeting a few members from the warriors team.

Current Events: Olympic Spriit

This is my current I did based on the 500 meter run. For current events this week, we have seen two athlete's help each other up after getting tripped over. Unfortunately one of them have crushed their ligaments in her knee. The two athlete's were Abbey D'agostino and Nikki Hamblin. They have showed great sportsmenship between each other and they have both done alot of teamwork. They have also showed us how to be a great role model. This was a excellent example showing how a great role model helps one another. The thing that the author wanted us to learn from watching these Olympic athlete, is that we need to help each other by making us learn to have a fair play and to work as a team.

Netball Tournement

Yesterday,  4 teams (two teams from year 7 & 8 and 2 teams from Year 5/6) participated in the Inter school Netball Competition. All we did is  that we learned to have team spirit and we all worked together to create chemistry. Our first game was against Point England and unluckily we lost 1 - 5. Our second game was against Glen Taylor, unfortunately we lost. Our third game was against Glen brae and unfortunately we lost again. Our final game was against Panmure Bridge 2 which was the other year 7&8 team... Lucky we have finally won. We all tried our best and we all had fun.

Provocation (Before & After)

Here is my DLO based on "Should host countries have to spend so much money on building Olympic venues". We have been learning to consider both sides of a provocation so that we can make an informed opinion. My opinion is no because it is a waste of time and money and once they build it they only use it for a short amount of time. Why build something your only going to use for a short period of time. Why spend so much money on the stadium when you have more important things to look after such as, Schools, jobs or even company's. People should think about what they are going to do with there money so that it could be used wisely. 

Kiwi Sport (Run, Jump, Throw)

Today the year 7 and 8's had Kiwi Sport with Andy. We were learning to get our skills right on the difference between sprints and a distance run. The difference between the sprints and a distance run, is that when your getting ready in position for sprints, you use blocks. All you need to say for when your in sprints is, On your mark, GO (Thats when the gun goes BOOM). The difference for a distance run, is that you need to step 1m away from the line, then when the caller says On your mark, you have to bring one of your leg forward like your squishing a bug and wait till the caller calls out "Set" then thats when you lift your heal up at the back and also getting your hand in position. The thing you have to do when your in a distance race is that you have to put your opposite arm to your leg in position. 

Language Features Writing - By Mere and Jessie

Today we were learning to find the language features using the article.We had to highlight words/sentences based on weather it was a Verb,Adverb,Noun,Adjective or a Simile.For our task we had to do was to find all of the Language Features  but when we were finished we had to make a DLO about what we did today.

Hauora Follow Up

Here is my Hauora follow up. I was with Mrs Anderson and we were learning about the 4 walls of Hauora. The 4 walls are Taha Tinana, Taha Wairua, Taha Hinengaro and Taha Whanau. 

Hoverbike - Reading

This is my photo based on adverting a futuristic Hover Bike. My partner Silivia and I were working collaboratively on making a simple ad based about a Hover Bike using persuasive language and many other types of features. This was really easy task to do and I guess this this activity was very fun.

Times Tables Quizzez

Today's session was based on practicing recalling our times tables at speed using quizzes. The goal was to race against everyone in the classroom, and to beat the time. These screenshots are showing that I need to focus on improving on 5 times tables fast enough to beat the 10 second clock.