Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Grass Hopper Tennis


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Grasshopper Tennis Sample

WALT: improve our small ball skills like catching, throwing, and hitting.

Description: We have been participating in a tennis programme with Big John (John Salisbury) from Tennis Manawatu. He has taught us some tennis skills that help with controlling and hitting the ball 
Why? To reflect on how we are going with the tennis skills we have learnt. We will share this during our Student Led Conference.
When? Week 8
Who? The World

Task: complete the rubric with targets to show your reflection. Make a comment to the questions below?

Evaluation:
What are you most proud of and why?
Learning all the different skills and challenges during grass hopper tennis.

What challenged you the most and Why?
Staying away from my friends, I mean we are there to learn to not talk and joke around with my mates.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards?
Slice the cheese. Slice the cheese is when you tilt the racket to the side than pat the ball to the ground. 



Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Integrity Movie

WALT:Show Integrity

Purpose: To show what russellst is like, ( that we are an amazing team and we are al so supportive ) and that we know how to show integrity.

Process: This movie took a long time to make, and sharing wasn't the greatest but we got there in the end.

Comment: We had to manage to get lots of different angles in that and I think we did a great job.
Buddy Comment: good job Aroha. You did a very good job with your group but it think you should use more camera angles.


From Jade

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Writing

Energy, energy is very important in life. There is a lot of energy. Like a lot. Energy comes in three states.


There are three states of matter, solid, liquid and gas. A solid can be a table, a liquid can be water, and gas can be helium. Just say you have a small container fill of marbles, when you shake the container you can not hear anything or see any movement, that is a solid. If you tip some of the marbles out, put the lid on then shake it all around, you will see that it is moving more and you can hear them rattling around. That is liquid. When you tip out a half of what you have left and shake that around, you will hear more noise and see that they jiggle around more. That is a gas.

Atoms, atoms are everything you can see, touch and taste. Atoms are incy wincy things that move. So nothing stands still. Atoms can heat your body, atoms make you sweat. Have you ever heard of molecules, we'll atoms are made out of molecules. Three atoms make one molecule. Atoms are also known as matter and that brings me to my next paragraph.


Potential energy is stored energy. Think of a pen, if you put it on the edge of a table it has the potential to fall off. So potential energy is energy that has the ability to move. 

Kinetic energy is when an object does something like moving. It transfers energy to the same mass. For an example, think of Newtons C radle, there are five balls. The first ball gets lifted then let go. When it's let go and hits the other three balls, it gives the last ball energy to go into the air. So basically kinetic energy is objects that move.

What is heat and temperature you ask, are they the same? We'll heat and temperature are not the same. They only have one thing in common, they both can be hot. Heat can not be cold. It is just a fact. There is no way that heat can be cold. Heat is hot and that's how it will stay. Heat is made by atoms. Just like everything else in the universe. Atoms warm up stuff to make it hot. To make it heat. Temperature can hot and cold.  Temperature is when you get chilly on a cold stormy night, or feeling the hot vibe at the beach. But seriously, temperature is everything hot and cold. Now you can understand that heat and temperature are not the same. 

In conclusion energy is everywhere there are three states of matter. Atoms are always moving. Heat and temperature are not the same. Potential energy is stored energy and kinetic energy is moving energy.
 

Thanks for reading, 

Aroha  








I can...

my comment: I think that my writing is good, Mabey if I had a bit more time I would be more relaxed on having to include hooking words. 


buddy comment:Aroha, You were very on task because you never were talking you were always looking down doing your work. As a result you writing it awesome so well done!!! Georgia O :) 


teacher comment:

state the main point in the first part of a each new paragraph:

*There are three states of matter

* Atoms are every where 

*Potential energy is stored energy 

* Konetic energy if moving energy 

* Heat and Temperature are NOT the same





You have used a main point at the start of each body paragraph. 

Mabey 7/10

include evidence (facts, experiments etc) to support my main point

I could work on that, that could be my goal for writing



Most paragraphs have clear examples.


Most of them do

explain the evidence and how it proves my main point

That could be another goal I could work on



You have persevered to try to explain how/why your example proves your point - this is really tricky, well done.


Practise writing a linking sentence to my next paragraph



Your ideas link in your paragraphs. Have a look at how writers link between paragraphs. You have started to do this.

infuse style: topic-specifc vocab, second/third person, present tense, transition words



Great style. You have used some transition words.




Wednesday, 11 June 2014

The Energy Movie




W.A.L.T: Show our understanding of how energy works.

Purpose: To show that we know what energy is and how to show our audience that we know it.

Process: This will help us know how to present our learning for energy to an audience.

Buddy Comment:  i think that Aroha  did very good


Comment: I think that I did awesome with the camera angles, but maybe work on more juicy information about what Kinetic and Potential energy is.

Sunday, 8 June 2014

Mnemonics


WALT:Create 

Purpose: The purpose for Mnemonics is so if you wanted to learn a word, you would make a sentience  up that will remind you of the word. Mnemonics words you change into sentences.

Process: This will help us learn our spelling words quicker and it's a fun way to do it to. 

Comment: I really think that this is a super fun way to learn your spelling words.

Buddy Comment: I think you have done well on your mnemonic. I think you should add more detail of what a mnemonic. Kobe