Novel Study | Reading

The Girrafe The Pelly And Me is a book writen by Roald Dahl. 

A Rolls Royce pulled up at the window cleaning headquaters and offered a window cleaning job at the Duke of Hampshires house. When The Giraffe, The Pelly, The Monkey and Billy arrive at the Duke's house the Duke treats them badly and is rude when they start to clean the first top two floors. 

This book is intresting and funny to for kids to read.  

 LI. To study a novel

Touch Rugby | KiwiSport

This week in touch we learnt some more basic skills like planting the ball. 

First, we got into pairs of 2. We had to line up against the cone and plant the ball at 4 diffrent places.  

After that, we practised touching people in a game. For the game, there was a non-bib group and a bib group. 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 had 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.

I enjoyed this week's session, but found it easy because I have played touch before.

LI: To learn skills in touch rugby.

The Math Behind Lawn Mowing | Maths

Lawn mowing is a job that uses maths. Lawn mowing uses counting and measurement.  

Lawn mowing uses measurement for measuring the body height of the lawn mower. If you don't measure the height of the lawn mower and the grass is long it could damage the lawn mower and hurt you. 

Lawn mowing also uses counting for counting how much times you prime the lawn mower. If you don't count how much times you prime the lawn mower and over prime the lawn mower it can flood the engine. 

Lawn mowing people need these maths skills to help them when mowing lawns. 

The Giraffe The Pelly And Me | Reading

LI.To study a novel. 

The giraffe the pelly and me is a book writen by Roald Dahl. 

Billy finds abandoned grubber shop left alone and dreams of fixng it and making it into a grubber shop all over again. The next day it was brought by a group of anonymous people and billy's dreams were ruined. When he meets the people in the house he becomes friends with them and joins there window cleaning bussines.

Insulation | Inquiry

Insulation is a material that protects heat from escpaing.  5 insulation materials that LS1 tested were : Paper, glass, plastic, polystyrene and tin. 

Good insulation is when the material protects the heat from escaping. Bad insulation is when the material is unsecure and the heat escapes.  

The best insulator for keeping something hot is paper. The worst insulator for keeping something hot is glass.

The best insulator for keeping something cold is polystyrene. The worst insulator for keeping something cold is tin. 

The best insulator for keeping things hot and cold is polystryene.

LI: to determine the insulative properties of materials.

Kiwi Sport | Touch Rugby

For our kiwi sport session we learnt some basic skills for touch rugby.

First we learnt how to tap the ball, catching the ball and how to pass the ball. We then learnt how to pass the ball while a defender is marking you.  There were 2 runners and 1 defender. The winger had to pass the ball to the other team mate to score a try. 

I enjoyed learning new skills and it is helpful to me when I play in touch interschool.  

Kupu | Maori

For our Maori session we did a task called Kupu. For the Kupu task we trasnslated maori words into english.  

First we translated the words in maori we already knew. We used maori dictonary to translate the words in maori to english we didn't know.   

I enjoyed todays maori and session and I also new some new words in maori. 

Touch Rugby | Kiwi sport

This week our kiwi sport was touch rugby. We were building up our confidence to pass and catch a rugby ball.

First we practiced getting confident with the ball by throwing and catching it in the air and not dropping it. We also practiced moving backwards and forwards while throwing and catching the ball.

Next, we chose a partner and passed the ball to each other. We used the letter "W" to catch the ball. We couldn't pass the ball foward, so the partner who was catching the ball had to be slightly behind the person with the ball.

Then, we played an activity to practice our skills. There were coloured hoops on the ground, and when the teacher called out a colour, we needed to put the ball into a hoop of that colour. The person with the ball had to put the ball down for their partner to pick up, and their partner could only pass the ball but they were not allowed to move with it.

I enjoyed this session of touch rugby and learning the basic skills. 

Converting Measurements | Maths

Converting meaurements is to multiply or to divide height, length and width of something. There are four main measurements mm, m, cm and km. 

When a number is multiplied by 10 the decimal point moves once to the right.

For example: If I mulitply 50.0 by 10 the decimal point moves to the right that makes it a bigger number. Making it 500.

When a number is divided by 100 the decimal point moves twice to the left.

For example: If I divide 500.0 by 100 the decimal point moves twice to the left that makes it a smaller number. Making it 5.00.

When multiplying by ten you can't "add" a O onto the end of the number, but you can shift the place value. The zero's indicate how many times you shift the place value. For example 10 moves once as it has 1 zero, where as 10000 would move 4 times as it has 4 zeros.

Place value house can help covert measurements. 

Informal and Formal Language | Writing

Formality tells people when to use formal or informal language. 

Formal langage and situations are when times when rules and politeness need to be followed.

For example: "Greetings" is a propper way for saying hello to someone.

Informal language situations are when times when rules and politeness don’t have to be followed.

For example: "Bro sup gee" is an informal way for saying hello.

Formal and informal language can be helpful to people when they go to use the correct word in a formal or informal situiation.

LI: to identify formal and informal language.

Here are some examples of informal and formal language:

Experiment | Inquiry

For inquiry we were doing experiments.  

We did this experiment to see how much water sand, nappies, stones, paper towels, and cotton would absorb. We also did this expermeint to understand what a precisce experement is. The experiment my group was doing was seeing how much water nappies could absorb. 

First we had to gather our materials to start the experement.The materials we gathered was a tote tray, nappies and water. Next we measured 100mls of water into a beaker. 

Then we poured 100mls of water over a nappie to see how water the nappie would absorb.  Once we poured the water over the nappie we lifted the nappie up to see if it absorbed all of the water. 

The results were the nappie absorbed all of the water. 

I enjoyed doing this task and would like to do it again using a diffrent material.

LI: to learn and practise experimental methods.

Te Tinana | Maori

For maori we learnt about body parts. 

First we highlighted the the body parts that we knew in te reo maori and left the body parts that we didn't know blank. 

Next we matched the body parts that knew with the english body parts. The body parts we didn't know we searched up on maori dictonary and matched them. 

Here is a list of the maori and english body parts: