Maori

LI - To learn the meaning of Maori and write it down in English.

For Maori this week we had to find out the meaning of some Maori words using translate and Maori dictionary.

In Maori we also played a game that helped us understand what we can write for an answer.

Touch Rugby skills

 Today we learned some basic skills for touch rugby.

First we learned how to tap the ball, score a try, catch, and pass the ball. 

Afterwards we played passing drills to get better at committing to the ball and catching.

I had fun doing this activity because it had cool challenges.

Inquiry - Good and Bad insulator.

Insulators are used to stop heat from moving place to place. Five materials were tested for the ability to insulate: plastic, paper, polystyrene, glass, and metal.

The best insulator for keeping it warm were glass and polystyrene. The worst insulator were plastic, paper, and metal.

The best insulator for keeping it cool were plastic, paper, and polystyrene. The worst insulator were glass, and metal.

The best one for both warm and cold was polystyrene.

LI - To determine the insulation properties of materials 

Inquiry

We learnt about the absorbency of different materials.

In Inquiry we had different materials to find information of what will happen.                                          We filled a measuring container with water up to 100ml and 50ml of the material we were experimenting.

We had a tray so if any of the water that didn't absorbed into the materials so it doesn't make a mess.     Also we had to measure the unabsorbed water.

We had to compare the absorbency of the materials that are stone, cotton, sand and paper towels.            With my group we chose sand.

LI - To determine the absorbency of different materials using experimental methods

Touch

We learnt how to do the positions in touch.

For our first event we learnt catching and throwing on our own then we had a partner to learn catching and passing. To proper catching we had our hand shaped as a double-you. 

Our next event we learnt how to move with the ball but without dropping it. We did different was to throw the ball in the air then catch it.

Next we practiced all of the events we were taught with a game. In the game we had different colored hula hoops to place our rugby balls

LI - To learn the skills related to touch.

Reading|Making Connections

This week we have been learning about making connections. 

Using these three topics witch are text to self, text to text, and text to world. 

We had done this using the gruffalo story to make our connections. 

we had to make connection with a text simpler to the gruffalo also we had compared the gruffalo with our self and last we compared the gruffalo story with the word.

LI - To compare products using reciprocal reading.

 

Rounding | Time

Rounding is a math strategy that uses addition and division strategies.
Rounding means to circle it to the nearest ten, hundred, thousands, and more.

Addition and division are both operations the are used for rounding.
To round, the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set
of numbers like 5,7,1,9,3 and then add them altogether which would make 25.
Then divide them by the amount of numbers there are which makes 5.

Here comes the rounding part comes in so if the numbers are 5-9 they are called
high five and the numbers that are 0-4 they are called four floor.
Look for the last digit. Example: 21.85 now becomes 21.9 because 5 is above.

Rounding can help people to add and to divide to make maths easy or hard depending
on what level you are.

LI investigate units of time.