Narrtive

Narratives are fictional stories as known as made up. 

The structure of a narrative is TOPES. Title, Orientation, Problem, and Solution. Orientation answers the questions when, who, what and why. Problem shows the main thing thats wrong in the story. The events shows the steps of solving the problem. The solution shows the final steps of solving the problem and their new normal life.

Third person is used in writting a narrative. Third person are words not saying 'I' or 'we'. Third person is sort of a different perspective of saying something to a friend or someone. 

Past tense are usually used in narratives. Past tense are words such as: walked, nodded. Some of the past tense words are a bit different like: taught, tried and carried.  

Understanding how to write a narrative can build up your writing skills to a next level or step of being a author.

Kiwi Sport

This week for touch we leaned a new skill.

The new skill that we were taught was about planting the ball. To plant the ball we had to put the ball between our legs and step over it so the other person can get the ball.

After we did that, we played a game. There were two teams, some people got a ball and some people didn't. The people that didn't have a ball had to touch people in order to get a ball and the people were touched couldn't tag the person that taged them.

Lastly, we practised passing the ball, scoring a try and catching the ball. There was a attacking team, and there was a defence team. When we got the ball we had to score a try with it and the defensive person had to touch us but before we scored a try.

I like learning new things and having fun.

LI: To practise the basic skills in Touch rugby.

Maori

This week, we translated words from Te Reo Maori to English. 

First, we learnt the meaning of 'roto, waho, runga, raro, mua and muri'. Roto means in, waho means out, runga means up, raro means down, mua means forward and muri means backward.

We completed a kupu revision. We translated some words that were about size, bodies of water and food. 

After that, we translated some different Maori words like places, bodies of water and food. We looked at learning the geographic features that are in Maori.

I enjoyed this activity and translating the words were hard.

LI: To revise and translate words from Te Reo Maori.

The math behind Rugby

Maths is used in almost every job. The jobs that use maths a lot are: medicine, science, engineering and more. Some jobs don't use maths a lot, they can just use basic addition or multiplication.

In Rugby you can use statistics, counting and measurement.

For statistics you can just do the collecting data part of it, you can collect data like how fast your opponents are and how slow they are and you can see the most areas that people don't go to. For counting you can see how much points your team has and when the timer is going to end. For measuring you can measure how far you need to run and how long you need to pass.

It is important to be good at statistics because if you go to an area with a really fast person and you don’t know, they might take the ball off you and score with it. It is important to be good at counting because if a black out happens and you forget what the score is, both of the teams might have to do that all again and get exhausted. It is important to be good at measuring because if you don’t know how long you need to throw you might throw the ball to an opponent.

LI: To identify the maths used in jobs.

Math comment thread

A comment thread is conversation that consists of a greeting, good feedback and a question. Open questions can expand the length of the conversation and give the readers more to think about when answering.

This conversation was on a math blog post made by Marawan.

By comment threading, people can practise using open questions in a conversation. It also gives people an understanding of the activity and the person that did the task.

LI: To create a comment thread using the correct mathematical terminology.

Maori

This week for Te Reo Maori we did a task called Kupu.

In the task we learnt different words. For example Kaumatua means boring and Waka means vehicle.

We had to look in the maori dictionary for the English version of Maori words.

This helps us learn more Maori words.

L.I to learn new words in Maori.

Keeping it cold and warm

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

The best Insulator materials for keeping things warm was polystyrene, plastic, metal and paper and the ones that were bad were glass.

The best Insulator materials for keeping things cool was metal and paper and the ones that were bad were plastic, polystyrene.

The best Insulator materials for both were metal and paper.

L.I to learn and practice experimental methods.

Touch rugby

Today we learned some basic skills for touch rugby.

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

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

I enjoyed learning these skills because it helped me get better at touch rugby

Collecting Data

There are different ways to collect data. The first thing you need to before collecting data is to first ask a question like what is the likelihood of rolling a 6.

Next roll the dice as many times you want, and see how many times the dice rolled on a number. A tally chart can be used to keep count.

Then find the 2 numbers that the dice landed on the most and those numbers are the most likely numbers to land on next time.

Lastly make a graph that shows the amount of times the dice rolled on each number.

Collecting data helps people understand how the frequency and how to interpret data.

L.I. to collect data.

Touch

Today I learned how to pass and catch with the ball in touch.

When we went to the court we were taught about catching the ball, so each of us got a ball from the bin and with the ball Mr Ogilvie told us to throw the ball above our heads 10 times.

Next Mr Ogilvie told us to walk while throwing the ball above our heads. Then Mr Ogilvie told us to get a partner because we were, practising passing the ball so I picked David to be my partner.

Lastly we played a game that had both of the skills we were taught. The goal of the game was to try to put a ball inside of hula hoops. When a whistle blows the person with the ball cant move so our partner has to run to the hoop and put it in.

I enjoyed practising touch and I cant wait to do it again.

Inquiry exparament

This week we did an experiment about absorbing water. When I got into a group one of my

partners first got an empty tray and my other partner got their chrome book to record the

experiment. After my partner got an empty tray they poured water into a beaker up to 100

millimeters and put 5 drops of food coloring into the water. After my partner was done pouring

water up to 100 millimeters I got 50 grams of cotton.

 

When we were all done getting our materials we were ready to do the experiment. When we were

doing the experiment we first had to fold the cotton and then we had to be very careful of pouring

the water on to the cotton and also we also had to give the cotton a little time to absorb.

When the cotton was finished absorbing we poured the left over water into the beaker we used, then we measured the left over water from the beaker and our results were 4ml not absorbed 96ml absorbed.

The experment we did was fun but it was also messy I hope to do this another time because I had so much fun doing it.

L.I to learn and practise experimental methods

Formal and Informal

Informal and Formal talk about something inappropriate or appropriate for a situation.

Formal is when something needs to be followed with respect like if a prime minister comes to talk or when a important meeting takes place.

Informal is when something doesn't need to be followed with respect like if you playing at the park with your friends or when your playing a game of handball.

Informal and formal talk about the opposite of each other.

LI - To identify formal and informal language.

Te Tinana

This week for maori we learned about body parts. 

The maori activity was called te tinana. We learned how to say different types of body parts in moari for example: head means upoko and stomach means puku. In the task we also highlighted the ones we know blue and the ones we searched black. 

The activity was fun and hard for me because there were lots of words I didn't know.

L.I to learn different body parts in maori.