Badminton - Kiwi Sport

Today we had badminton with our coach/instructor Kevin. We played continuous tag. Everybody is in and if you get tagged you have to sit down but if the person who tagged you got tagged by someone else then you could stand back up again. If you and another person tagged each other at the same time you had to play rock, paper, scissors. Then we had a rally. A rally in badminton terms is when two people hit a shuttle back and forth to each other. Zahra and I were partners practising our back-hand and fore-hand skills. I had a lot of fun today at badminton and having rally's using the different techniques.

10th annual Manaiakalani Film Festival

Yesterday was the 10th annual Manaiakalani film festival. We went to Sylvia Park Hoyts cinemas. This was a great experience. It was cool watching other schools movies that they have created in there classrooms.  Our bus was late so we missed our seats and almost all of the movies so we booked in for the next show as guest. We ended going into the Xtreme screen when the movies were close to the end. Since we were guests during the next session we didn't get the seats we wanted. My personal favourite movie was from Tamaki school where there are three girls and they sing through out the movie. Afterwards when we got back to school we did blog comments. 

Adaptation - Servals

Today we have been looking at the adaptation of an animal. We all chose a animal that started  with  the first letter of or our name. I chose a serval.  A serval is a cat species that that can be found in South Africa and many other places. I have put information that I already know and found different information and facts in websites. But like every animal the serval has predators. These predators include leopards, dogs, Hyenas and human kind. I had many options when choosing what animal I wanted to do but, something about this particular cat. I have learnt new facts and interesting information about this small animal. Like they eat frogs which sounds pretty disgusting but I guess dinner is served?

Fireworks Saftey

Friday afternoon Ls1 joined us for inquiry. Sakina, Victoria, Zahra and I were in a group. We created this slideshow to showcase our learning. We were learning about fireworks safety. We all did one slide each about what to do to stay safe while doing fireworks. This was really easy to complete because we had a brief talk with our teacher before we started. Hopefully everyone was safe while lighting fireworks yesterday.

Explanation - How Children Learn At School

How Children Learn At School

Children earn to understand how we experiment while doing new tasks through positive ways of learning new skills. We learn by listening, watching and practising. Did you know that everyone learns by exploring in numerous ways?

For example children actively investigate the world around them. One way kids learn is by agreeing and disagreeing with each other. They do this so they can experience new ways to learn together. Kids also think and reflect by talking to one another.

Children learn by playing and copying each other. Kids find interest in adults and what they are capable of doing. Children go through a natural process where they learn by hand on experiences.

We learn by asking questions and talking amongst one another. Us as children find ways to learn by researching understandable answers. A child learns from imagination in activities given.

We explore in many ways by following the role models in our schools. We all have different ways towards how we explore this crazy world of ours but this all starts at a small place called school.

A few days ago Sky and I wrote an explanation about how children learn at school. An explanation has four parts to it. The title, the intro, Poipio ( paragraphs of interesting points in order) and the conclusion. We worked together in a collaborative way. Together we were able to finish our piece of writing. First we had to write our explanation. Next we had to check our punctuation and use D.R.A.F.T and delete and add words. Lastly we had to swap our work with another pair and we had to do feedback and feedforward, which means we had to give positive information back and give them something to work on next time. We have used the feedforward that the other pairs gave us. Our feedforward was to check if our sentences mad sense and make sure we put our capital letters in the right places.

Screencastify - Maths Paving Stones

  On Friday I learnt how to use an app called screencastify. This particular a.pp is used by children in the manaiakalani school cluster. Screencastify lets you create 50 videos about your learning. In my class we have made scripts on what we are going to be explaining and showing how we have found the answers. This is a great way for students to express there learning in a different way. I have used screencastify before in the past but had forgot how to make one. I really recommend you have a script because it will be really to remember what you have to say. Also have all your tabs open so you can flick through your screencastify quick and easy experience. Here are all the steps on what we did to complete our own screencastify. First we decided what we were going to screencast, then we made a script and recorded our first screencast. With a few more tries we were professionals.  

Inter-schools Rippa Rugby

Today was the Rippa Rugby and Rugby inter-schools. This event was held at Dunkirk reserve across the road. We only had four games because two schools pulled out of the competition. I was a sub in the first game but I didn't mind. I had fun cheering on the people from both teams while I was watching from the side line. Our first competition was against Pt England. It was a tough challenge but unfortunately we lost 1-9 We had a 25 minute break before our next game against Glen Ines we unfortunately lost that game as well. Determined to win our third game we practice things that we are doing wrong while we are playing. We practised spreading out, passing into open space and calling out the names of our team mates. As we get ready to play against Tamaki school we have a little pep talk about what we had just learned. We had a great time playing but we lost that game as well. I cannot remember the score to that game but I know it as a close one. Our last and final game was against Glen brae school. This game was really close but we lost this game. We might have lost every game but we all had fun. In Rippa you just have to rip the tags on the side of the person body.