Swimming

This week for swimming My teacher was Kelly she was helping us on how to swim on our backs. 

We did this with noddles then without the noddles. We also learnt on how to swim on our front. 

After that we learnt how to swim from our front to our back. 

Then we went to the railings that where at the side of the pool and held o to it and put our feet on the wall then we pushed our feet to float on our back. 

At the end we played a little game called toilet tag. To play the game someone has to be in then the others swim away from the tagger and if you get tag'ed you turn into a toilet and to get free someone has to flush you. 

Sovlving Strategies

This week our group of five did solving Strategies. We did them one by one as a group.

We did written algorithm, addition, subtraction, place value a number line etc.

The different kinds of strategies are -
Splitting Numbers
Number Line

This is an example on how to do the split subtraction. 7= 4 & 3 84- 4 = 80 80-3 = 77
                                                   

Example for counting forward 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84.

Example for place value. 476-300= 176 176-50= 126 126-3= 123 300+50+3 = 353.

The example for subtraction. 23-22=1 0.63.-0.12= 0.51 1-0.51= 0.49.

This is the Addition example. 5+5+5+5+5=25

Example for Skip counting. 5,10,15,20,25,30

Legend of Rahi

This week I did the legend of Rahi. I learnt that Rahi is a brave, strong, kind warrior.

I got into my group and we did a google draw that had fact on the left and opinion on the right.

My group read the story of rahi and we found facts. Then We made our opinions. There where four facts and four opinions. we did one for rahi and one for the putuparri.

Then we did a Character trait by our selves. I wrote the right words where the green words where because they were wrong. I did one or rahi and one for putuparri.

L.I. To compose a contrast Facts and Opinions whiten the story

Punctuation

This week I learned about punctuation marks. I learned how to use punctuation marks correctly and where to put them in sentences.

First we matched the correct punctuation marks to each other. We put the meaning next to the name of the punctuation mark as well as the symbol.

After that we did an activity called punctuation challenge. We created sentences and used all 11 punctuation marks. We did this with as few sentences as we could.

L.I. To identify correct use of different punctuation.

  

Tangrams

Today  I learnt how to make a tangrams. I rearranged the pices to make animail shaps.

 First I made a squre picse of paper because tangrams are made from a big sqaure. 

Then I folded the squre into various shapes and cut them out. 

Lastly, I tierd to make differnt animal shpaes from then tangram pieces. 

Procedurl

This week we learnt about produral writing. Procedural writing is a type of writing That is used when giving instructions for different types of things for example - recipes, construction, etc.

I made intructions on how to make a sandwich. First I write down the ingredents to use. Then I made the in intructions one by one. After that I put in the imeges to match the sentences. Finaly I wrote the ending.

There were other opions like how to play octopuse or how to go to Pt. Egland to PBS.

L.I. To write a set of intructions
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QAR

Verbs are action words, adjectives are describing and nouns are a name of something or someone.

This week i did a QAR about matariki breakfast. I put in questions in the QAR there were 4 right there, think and search, author and you and on my own.

A 'right there question means that the answer is in the book and you can see it.

A think and search question means that the answer is not in the book but you can find it and other places.

Author and you means that you can talk about it with someone and find out the answer.

On my own questions is a questions where you can find the answer by yourself.

L.I. To pose questions, and locate the answer in the text

Adverbs

Adverbs describe action words or describe whats happening and how an action happens,
they also end with "ly" at the end of a word. They also can describe when, where, how and what to extent.

They are also part of speech and there are many examples for each one of them.

Examples for when : The boy will run "today." When describes what time it will happen like something, tomorrow, today, now etc.

Examples for where : A group of kids played "inside". Where describes what place you are like outside, inside, up, down, here etc.

Examples for how : The girl ran "quick". How means the ways that you do it like slowly, quickly, kindly, bravely etc.

Examples for extent :  The boy was "extremely" cold. Extent has an ly at the end of a words like very, lightly, quickly etc. It describes how many, much, etc.