Thursday, 28 August 2014

The Learning Pit

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Criteria:
Draw the Learning Pit.
List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit.
List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.
Label where good learning happens.
List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.


Evaluation:
MATHS!!! When I was so annoyed with myself because I was proving it so much time and failed...
When I was in the pit I felt annoyed!!!
My buddy Jade saw me going to prove it then getting it wrong. She came to help me. So I practiced and then got it right.

Feedback/Feedforward: well done you did a great job your learning pit is really cool,😀🐯 Ella. 







Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Our Time To Shine

Sweat slide down the side of my check as I hear the words come in girls. As we slide into the hall all eyes on us. The scorching sun spews into the room. Blazing straight into my eyes. The music starts and I feel puzzled. What happens  we get to the stage and the song is in the middle of its time?

It all started when mum was late. Time was passing. My hair can't make it self. Waiting out side I finally see her. I yank her out of the car and we dash into the bathroom. Sue ( Niamh's mum ) gives us our costumes. Our look is Si Fie type thing. We got half a mask and decorated it with sparkles.  Mean while mum is just doing the last bit of hair. We rush into the music room, then scurry out. My face redder then a ripe chili. Shaking like crazy I have enough courage to go out there. We get called, "all the way from the other side of the world, please welcome the dancers." We hadn't made up a name for the group yet. There were two sides.

Butterfly's ( nerve wreaking side ) or the fighters ( the confident no butterfly side. ) who's gonna win. Oh butterfly's are down fighters are up oh no fighters are down. Butterfly's win. The point of this fight is that I was super duper nervous.

We scurry on stage. Our jam plays. We haven't even gotten to our destination ( the stage.) I am so confused.  Jade jiggles her head to troy. Hesitating him. Trying to tell him to stop. Nothing. She jiggles her head again.  He stops the music. Then plays it again. I am flooded in sweat right now. Even though I am hotter then egypt we carried on with the dance, got every move correct and I was like a steam room. 







use a range of challenging verbs: Orange
  • use the hot words: boiling, sizzling, searing etc.,: Green


select one or two similes: Green

select one or two metaphors or personification: Green

use onomatopoeia to show sounds: Orange

select words that start with the same sound (alliteration): Red

We had to use (See, Hear, Smell, Feel, Taste, Think, Do, Feel, Say) in parts of our story so for see you had to put so etching that you saw and you had to do that for all of the other words.

BUDDY COMMENT: I think you did well at your detail and your boiling hot words but I think you should improve on your main idea like your dance because your are not really putting that much into your story!!!
Buy Your BFF Jade


Comment: I think I was good at using a range of hot words. Mabey next time I could foucuss on using alliteration

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Te Reo Maori Poster

Te Reo Presentation 

                  WALT: communicate a message.

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts.  We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.
Why? We have noticed that our posters are too cluttered ad do not communicate a  message well.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Criteria:
Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message. 

Composition:  My poster is balanced. 

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly. Yes

Evaluation:
What are you most proud of and why? Getting the hole thing finished in time ( so I can play poutama sport ) and making sure it is neat.  

What challenged you the most and why? Colouring in the title and making sure that I spell the words correctly. 

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Making my poster smaller so I can be very confidant of were everything goes. 

Feedback/Feedforward: i think you did well in your colours that match your background but i think you should work on when you did the title big and all of the things that is about the reo maori small.
Jade :)



Green= Good 
Orange= In the middle 
Red= Bad 

Criteria:
Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my  message. 

Composition:  My poster is balanced. 

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.





Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Goals Term 3

My writing goal is to... Create a mental image across texts by using language features such as similes and metaphors.



I will accomplish my goal by... Keeping this goal in the back of my mind so I will remember to use metaphors and similes. Also my goal is here on my blog and in my book.


My reading goal is to... Identify and evaluate writers purposes in the ways which writers use language and ideas to suit their purpose. 

I will accomplish my goal by... Using it for homework so I get homework and practice all my goals. It will help me a lot during learning time. 

My maths goal is to... Choose the most appropriate strategy for a given problem. 

 I will accomplish my goal by... Working independently so I will focus so I will understand how it will  work.

WALT: Set Smart Goals

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.