Making Connections to problem solving

LI: To explore problem solving

Today we had bad connection to the internet, instead of using the internet we went old school and used paper. We made Tangrams from a piece of A4 paper and a pair of scissors. We didn't read our instructions this time as we had to listen carefully to each step. A Tangram is a square cut into seven pieces which can be arranged to make other shapes.  Did you know it is an ancient Chinese puzzle? The hardest part was to make a square with all the 7 shapes. We had to problem solve to put the shapes together to make the different animals.  We collaborated very well together.

6 sentence story

L.I. Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative

Add verbs, adverbs and adjectives to a text to make it interesting for the reader

Xodus kept many keys, but he couldn't find the one he was looking for. He got angry. He had memorized all his keys and knew exactly which key opened which lock. No friends, no family, he was lonely. Luckily he had his imaginary cat.There was a knock on his door but when he approached, nobody was there.

Today my group wrote 6 sentence stories to help us take risks with our writing. We did this by sharing our ideas and writing sentence that drop hints about what was happening in the picture we chose to write about. We helped each other by suggesting ideas to each other to make our stories more interesting. 

Volly ball

                                                           LI: To use the skills of volleyball in a game situation.

This week for kiwi sport we were learning to spike first we started with doing serve 3x to our partner then we had a lot of games of king of the court it was fun and challenging i. We got into groups  of 4 it was group 1 2 3 and group 4 i was in group 2 and group 4 started of by being king of the court we.

Tech

LI: To make pizza

Today at food tech we followed the recipe to make a beef and bbq  pizza with Mrs Heka. For the meat my group used vegetarian sausage because one of my group  members is vegetarian that mean's he can not it mince/meat.  We diced the onions, The onions were the worst part out of all the veges we cut because it was hurting our eyes. We got 1 label spoon of oil and poured it in the pan. Then we sliced the mushrooms after slicing the mush room we fried the onions then we put the pasta sauce then we put the cheese. after that we put the onons in the pizza bread then we put the sausage on the pizza bread. Then we put it in the oven to cook. When we ate it, it was amazing. 

Venn Diagram

LI: to create a DLO of tool for harvesting.

In this Venn Diagram it shows how people used to celebrate matariki, how people celebrate matariki now and how do now and then do the same thing. I worked with Heavenly and Liletina as a group and we found information about what people do on matariki now days. As we created this I learned some new interesting facts about matariki such as maori people make things out of flax like kites.

Goldfish in a bowl

LI: Is to Complete a simple task to make gold fish and bowl

This DLO shows what we made and how we made it. This game was really enjoying to play because it looked like  the fish was jumping into the water. We created a dlo that shows how we made it so you can make it a home as well.  

Optical illusion

LI: To explain what an optical illusion

Mr Johnston came into our class to show us photos about illusions and talking about camouflage, He was talking about the britsh wearing bright red and the cross in the middle could be a good target. Then he shows us a photo with two arrow and said with one is longer. 

Matariki Stars

L.I: To explain what is Margarita is and why we celebrate it.                                                                                                                                                                                                           This DLO shows what is Matariki and information about matariki. We used our searching skills to find these interesting facts and information.  This DLO will help me and others that don’t know what is matariki and information about matariki.

Matariki Harvesting Birds

L.I: To use our knowledge and find three interesting information and fact about these matariki harvesting harvesting birds. 

                                                

This DLO shows interesting facts and information about 3 matariki harvesting birds. I worked with my group to find these interesting facts and information.  The three matariki harvesting birds we picked a Tui, Huia and Kereru. 

Math game

LI: To practice Defining Math's Vocabulary 

To help us practise the meaning of maths words. Mrs Anderson taught us a game called maths word challenge. I worked with Lily and RJ on this game.  To play the game 2 players found a word from the maths word game,  then had to give a clue to the person trying to  figure out the math word who was sitting with their back to the other players. 

Summarising

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about

This was our second matariki blog post about matariki. We had to summarize about

matariki we had had to pick 20 important words from our knowledge about matariki.

Also we had to pick 6 most important words, then we had to summarize those those words

in sentence.  

Matariki

LI:  To Make a DLO talking about matariki.

This DLO shows what is Matariki and information about matariki. We used our searching skills to find these interesting facts and information.  This DLO will help me and others that don’t know what is matariki and information about matariki.