Kapa Haka performance

Today we had a  performance on our school stage. 

When the performance group  came through the door they played a putara for their entrance ceremony. The performance group did different maori dances which used ti rakau, poi, taiaha.

Next they explained how to use them and what they were for. 

They also performed a haka for the school, then the kapa haka boys also performed a haka for the people and the parents who came. 

At the end we played a game called Maui and matou. Maui means left and matou means right. To play this game you have to have a stick and when someone says Maui you let go of your stick and go to the other one near you and it is the same for matou.

Touch Rugby

We carried on with three man settles and two man settles and played touch rugby from the previous week. 

First we practiced two and three man settles to get ready for a game of touch.  Couch Mark told us to aim for one person when we drive the ball town the field.

Next we played a game of touch. The game was for learning how to play and how to use a two and three man settle.  

I did well at two man settles and three man settles, and I had an amazing time playing touch rugby. 

Fractions, decimals, percentages

 Fractions are equal parts of a whole, percentages are is a number or ratio that uses a fraction of 100, and decimals is a number that is less than one.

Fractions are equal parts of a whole. It uses the numerator and the denominator. The numerator explains how many parts it has. The denominator shows how many equal parts it was divided into. 

Percentages is a number of a fractions of 100 of a whole. it can be written with decimals and fractions. To write a percentage as a decimal divide by 100.

A decimal is a number that can be defined as a number of a whole. Digits following the decimal point shows a value smaller than one. 

Shelter Materials

Different types of shelters can keep people safe by using the correct materials depending on what disaster they are being protected from. 

When building a shelter, measuring the amount of materials being used is important so it keeps it balanced. 

An example of materials used for a tsunami shelter are concrete, chicken wire, metal ties, aluminum, popsicle sticks, steel door, and hard clear plastic. 

Using chicken wire is good for putting in the concrete so it can connect it to the other sides. 

Hard clear plastic can be used for the windows because it doesn’t break easily like glass and because it's transparent which allows people to see what's happening on the outside.

Popsicle sticks are good for supporting the force of the impact. This material can also be used to anchor the shelter into the ground so it doesn’t tip over. The properties of wood are the shape that has been made. 

Not every material can support every natural disaster. Different types of shelters can keep people safe by using the correct materials depending on what disaster they are being protected from. 

When building a shelter, measuring the amount of materials being used is important so it keeps it balanced. 

An example of materials used for a tsunami shelter are concrete, chicken wire, metal ties, aluminum, popsicle sticks, steel door, and hard clear plastic. 

Using chicken wire is good for putting in the concrete so it can connect it to the other sides. 

Hard clear plastic can be used for the windows because it doesn’t break easily like glass and because it's transparent which allows people to see what's happening on the outside.

Popsicle sticks are good for supporting the force of the impact. This material can also be used to anchor the shelter into the ground so it doesn’t tip over. The properties of wood are the shape that has been made. 

Not every material can support every natural disaster. 

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Touch Rugby | Kiwi Sport

This week for kiwi sport we played touch, doing the 2 man settle and the 3 man settle. 

We had 2 groups which one team was a defender and the second team were attackers, first we did the 2 man settle then the 3 man settle. 

To do the 2 man settle you plant the ball then go over the ball so that their partner can pick it up and pass it to the person that planted the ball. 

To do a 3 man settle there is 3 people and someone plants the ball and the other person picks it up and passes it to the third person. 

Statistics | Maths

This week for maths my partner and I did averages scores from athletics day. 

We used data and added it up with google sheets, we used addition/multiplication for example, 5+5+3+6+8=27 to do it faster and easier you could do (2x5) + (3x3) + (2x4) = 27, this is easier and quicker because instead of using many numbers it would be slower and harder to add them up. 

Then we did the averages, to get the averages you add the numbers together and then divide and get the total for example, 2,3,3,5,7, and 10 is 30 divided by 6, is 5. 

Multiplication is easy to add up data and addition can sometimes be hard.   

Reading Tasks | Reading

 This week for reading I did table mat, making connections, synthesis using a book called "White Water Action" 

First I did the table mat I did the prior knowledge and then found 3 key words and then explained what 1 of the key words meant, then I found 4 facts from the book. After that I did key questions and lastly I wrote in the questions I would ask.

Secondly I did my making connections, there are 3 different types of text they are, text to self, text to text, text to world. Text to self is something in the book that has happend to yourself, text to text is something that happend in the book that relates to another book, and text to world is something in the book that happens in the world. 

Lastly I did synthesis, for synthesis you talk about prior knowledge, new information, and new understanding. we have copied and pasted my prior knowledge from the table mat and for the new information we have to also copy and paste our facts, for the new understandings we make our own and write in why I understand it.