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.