Tesslation

A tesselation is a peice of art made out of 2d or 3d shapes.

A tesselation is made out shapes in a row to form a peice of art work. 

This tesselation made out of octagons and sqares. 
Example of a tesslation: 

First Waka

Origanily there were no people in New Zealand. The first people to settle  in New Zealand came in a series of waka. 

The first ten waka were named Kurahaupō,Tākitimu, Mataatua, Tainui, Ārai-te-uru, Te Arawa, Aotea, Tokomaru , Horouta and Uruao.

Most of the waka visted and landed at the North Island. Some places they landed at were Kaipara Harbour

Hawaiki and Shag Point.

The ten waka came to New Zealand to discover new lands for people to live. 

LI.Early Exploration 

Visualising

Visualising is drawing an image, map, Mind map, or inforgrapic about text that is difficult to understand. 

To Visualise a difficult sentence, break it up into parts and then draw each part. If there are any words that are unknown they should be looked up in a childeren's dictonary. Childeren's are best suited for young learners.

Visualising is a good way to easly understand difficult texts.

Comment Thread

This week I made a comment thread on Daytons's blogpost. He has made a presentation on Capatain James Cook for Inquiry. Captain James Cook is a British Navagator and exploerer. He was the first person who mapped New Zealand. I learnt something new from Dayton. Capatin James Cook went out to find Austraila. 

Kiwi Can

LI.To listen to what other people are saying to you 

For Kiwi Can our topic was leadership. Leadership is when your are taking responibilty to others. Bad leaders are people who don't take reponsilbity or take ideas that are given to you. A good leader is someone who takes responibility of you and takes ideas that other give to you. To practise listening we played a game called Chinese whispers. Chinese whispers is a game where someone who whispers a word to one person to the other then the end person has to say the right word or sentence.   

Basic Facts Boxes

This week for basic facts boxes I did speed demon up to 10 on times tables. I got all of of the times table equations correct. My time was 5 minutes and 1 seconds. I think I could improve more on my time. My next time goal is going to be under 4 minutes and 50 seconds

SSR | Bad Guys

I read a book about the Bad Guys book for SSR Selfie. This book is one of the most books that I enjoyed and I am now obsessed with reading the whole series. This series is the first series of the bad guys. This series is about Mr wolf making his pals good again. Mr wolf sets them up by saving a kitten from bieng stuck in a tree. When they aclopished there first mission they Hated it. Then they did there last mission. They had to free 2000 dogs from the pound. After completeing that they loved saving people again. At the end they were always bad guys. 

Skimming & Scanning

LI. To find specific facts by scanning 
For reading we were using the skimming and scanning stratgee to find specific information that we needed to answer the questions that Mr Wong asked us. Skimming is when you skip read untill you find specific infprmation that might help you find the information that you are looking for. Scanning is finding the topic questions to also find specific information. 

Kiwi Sport | Rippa Rugby

LI.To learn the rules of Rippa Rugby
We started with a warm up before our game. The warm up was a passing and running warm up. This warm up was to have the confidence for passing and catching the ball.

Then we had a game of rippa rugby. On the first half Team Ice was winning by 3 points and team Ioane was on 0. On the second half team Ioane caught up by 3 points. At the end of the game it was a tie.

After we had our game we were chellenging the two coaches to a game of rippa rugby. We had won by 2 nil.  

Maths | My thinkbaords

For maths I did my thinkbaords. For the think baords I had to make q a number line on how I solved 38 + 50. I then also had to make a story problem. My story problem was : I have 108 dummies then siale came and took 73 of my dummies now how much dummies do I have left? Then we had to solve how I did 38 + 50 = 88. 
I solved this equation by by taking away the 8 and added the 30 and the 50 wich makes 80 then I add on the 8 so that makes 88. Then we practised simple addition. 

Inquiry | Kupe & Cook

LI. Early Exploration 
Kupe and cook are 2 important explorers in New Zealand's history. 

Kupe is inportant to New Zealand's history becuase he was the first one to arrive and find New Zealand in the 1100's. He traveled to New Zealand by tradinonal methods on a traditional ship. The myth for kupe finding New Zealand is that he found New Zealnd by hunting down a giant octpus. He did this voyage to find new land for his people to live on and have a fresh start. His wife named Aoteroa after seeing mountins under the clouds. 

Cook is also important to New Zealand becuase he was the first person to map New Zealand so he could open up New Zealand and give access to other country's for them to start a new life in New Zealand. He and his voayger from Tahiti travled to by a HMS Endeavour. The HMS Endeavour was weponaised and larger than other tradtional ships. Unfortuentaly he died in Hawaii by getting stabbed. 

Writing | Compund Sentces

A compound sentence is 2 simple sentences combined togther.

For an expample: The skipbin was overfilled with rubbish, But the rubbish truck hasn't picked up the skip bin yet.

The first idea was the skipbin was overfilled with rubbish. The second idea was the rubbish truck hasn't picked up the bin yet. 

The 2 simple sentences are joined togther with a fan boy.

Comment Thread

This week I started a comment thread with david about explorers and adventuers. My question to david is did you spcelifly reasearch about anyone you didn't know? He then asked if I knew Ibn battuta.I am now going to reasearch about Ibn battuta.

Basic facts boxes

For basic facts boxes I did up to 9 on multiplaction. I got all questions right and never got stuck on a question. I think this is my best time for multiplcation. My time was 4 min and 54 seconds. 

Rippa Rugby

LI.To Learn the basics of Rippa Rugby. 
For Rippa Rugby Ls1, Room 5 and Room 4 went to dunkirk rugby feild to learn the basics of rugby. Our coaches for today were Andrew and Justice. 

First we did some passing and cathing to get warmed up so when we have a game of rippa rugby we can pass the ball proplely and catch the ball in a W shape. 

Then we played a game called rip tag to get our blood pumping. We had to rip to tags off to get soemone out if you get ripped once you are still in the game on the first round I came second. 

Then we had a game of rippa rugby. It was the girls vs boys but the 2 coaches were in the girls team 

SSR Selfie | Albert Einstein

For SSR selfie I read a book about Albert Einstein life from when he was a kid untill he passed away in 1955. Albert Einstein is a mathematician and a physicist. He got a diploma for his college. He then became a German citzien.

Simple Sentences

LI:To write meaniful and intresting Simple sentence.

A simple sentence is one idea. An idea is one action performed by one actor.

A simple sentence can be made by following steps that consider the actor, action, and description.

Simple sentence has one idea but doesn't need to be short. 

My simple sentence was:

The frog was leaping from one leaf to the other to catch it's prey. 

Exporers and Adventures

Explorers and adventures are people who travel the world and discover new things. 

Explorers are people who travel to find new things and record them for the comunity. Such as Kupe, Christopher Columbus and Zheng He. Christopher colbumuswas a italian exploerer and colinizer who completed 4 voyages across the atlantic ocean. 

Adventures are people who travel to take part in something for themselves. Such as Sir David Attenbourgh and Bear Grylls. I think that they are advenurers becuase Sir David Attenbourgh is a braodcaster and adventures though jungles and rain forests and bear grylls is a instuctor that teaches you how to survive. 


Explorers and adventurers need to have or show many diffrent attitudes and attirubutes. Such as being a risk taker, Co - opreative and being creative. 

The reason why you need these skills and many more is becuase if you don't take risks you won't be able to concure your fear and being creative gives us opportunities to try out new ideas, and new ways of thinking and problem-solving and being Co - opreative is really important because if you do everything by yourself you won't get it done fast in of.  


Both Explorers and adventurers travel to new places and need similar qualites altough there goals are diffrent.

Keywords

Keywords are words that help to reasearch speific information anout a chosen topic. They can also give apporitae information to younger learners.

Keywords are used for narrowing down the information gained by an internet search.

Keywords can be used to find information that is understandable and readable by children.

Keywords are useful tools that should be used in every search.

My Think Baords

LI.To Practise basic addition

For maths we practisced basic addition with Mr wong. We did basic addition like 41 + 3 and 68 + 3 just to remeber the basic addition. Then we did think boards we had to figure out the answer on other basic addtion.