WIT Review

Hook: Jump straight into the action

I slipped. And fell. My stomach lurched as my harness caught me in my gut. "Owwwww" I moaned. I swung back to the climbing wall and grabbed on. Climb. Slip. "Owwww." Yep, you guessed it. My harness caught me in my gut, once again. 

What I learnt this week: Scale Maps

A scale map is a map with a scale. A scale is something that you can use to compare distances. Here is a scale.

This scale is telling me 5 cm on the map is 1 kilometre in real life.

Concussions

A concussion is a major brain injury. Read Daniel and I's Thinglink to find out about the treatment, what it is, and how to return to physical activity.

Cyber Bullying

This week I have been learning about cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is where somebody says mean things online, or posts embarrassing pictures or videos without permission from the person, and it keeps happening again and again. I have learnt about these definitions.

Target: The person being bullied.

Bully: The person bullying.

Upstander: The person that stands up for the Target.

Bystander: The person who does nothing while the bullying is happening.

Len Lye

The trip to Len Lye was amazingly fantastic. The entrance ceiling is 50 feet high. How do they fit the lights it?

My favourite piece of art was the Universe. It was a big stainless steel loop with a ball hanging from the roof above it. When the electromagnets inside the bench it was on turned on it swayed from side to side and looked like was coming off the bench, but it just stayed on and made a cool noise like an infinite emptiness echo.

Len Lye created amazing 3D sculptures to crazy music, weird films to great drawings. My sister thinks it was boring, but I think he was the greatest artist ever.

St Patrick and the Snakes

St Patrick and the Snakes 

St Patrick was an incredible Irish man, famous for driving snakes out of Ireland. My Doodle is based on his bravery and kindness to the people of Ireland. 

Remainders

This week I have been learning about remainder with division. Remainders are what are left from a question. Eg- 19 / 2 = 19 - 1 = 18 / 2 = 9r1

Game Reveiw - Jak X

MATARIKI animation

MATARIKI

NYLD 2015

What did you think of NYLD 2015. Give your opinion and reasons why you hold these opinions (at least 4 sentences). It wasn’t that nice at the start of the day because we had to get to school at 5:00 and the bus ride was 3 and a half hours to get there, not including the toilet stops. It also was really annoying how some school got an AMAZING picture from a speaker because of how long they travelled, but they were closer to NYLD then us. It was a great experience for all the  year 6s because we got to listen to all the AMAZING speakers. All the speakers had their own story, which was better than all the stories the same.

Who was your favourite speaker and why? (Describe in at least 4 sentences). My favourite speaker was Chris Jupp. He thought only of himself when he joined the 2011 40 Hour Famine because he wouldn’t have to go to school. But then he looked at a video about kids in Mongolia and how they starved, so he did it for the kids and was made the leader of the 40 Hour Famine at his college. He was a man who gave up stuff for other people.

What have you learnt about being a leader? (At least 4 sentences). Don't give up because you'll never achieve anything if you give up. Leadership is not about you being the leader, but the people around you. There is no I in team. If you say you're the best, you're not the best because you BRAG.

How could you use this learning here at school? (At least 4 sentences) I could use this to help people out around the school. I could stop people doing the wrong thing. I could use it at road patrol. And I will.

Action points - something I am going to work on (a goal) from NYLD:using integrity more often

My favourite quotes were (remember to say who said them):we can change the world.

Math COPE

This week I have been doing well with my math because I can now convert improper fractions to mixed number and vice versa because of Khan Academy. I should of been open minded to textbook work because that way I would of been able to understand my other learning goals in math. I had an honest chat with Mr A about not doing textbook work and I must do it from now on because otherwise I won't be able to achieve my learning goal properly.

Here is an example of my learning goal. 1 1/4 = 5/4 because 1x4=4+1=5 so that makes 5/4

IKAN Goals

- write and explain an improper fraction 

- find the least common multiple of a number up to ten

- identify the highest common factor

Rates of Change

Pretend you are walking to the store and you want 6 apples. 6 apples cost 3 dollars. But when you get to the store you only have 2 dollars. We can solve this using rates of change.

I know that two out of three is 2/3. I also know that 2/3 of 6 is 4/6. 

So that means I can buy 4 apples instead of 6 apples. 

I hope you found this helpful. (^_^)

A COPE attitude

I used a COPE attitude this week when me and my friend Ethan were doing a literacy task. We came across 3 unknown words that confused us both so we searched it up online. That shows CURIOSITY. 

WIT Reflection

How did your group work together? (Did you cooperate, share the work, stay on task, persist when things got hard? Were you open-minded to each others’ ideas? How did you show empathy?)

We showed empathy by helping other groups and helping each other when we got stuck.

We tried all of eachother’s ideas, but not all of them worked.

When things got hard, we tried and tried again until it finally worked out.

We only went off task on 2 days, and in the end we started being sensible.

What were you pleased about in following the Te Ara Tika pathway to learn about first aid? (Think about each of the steps - what steps did you do well or made progress with?)

I was proud that none of my questions were step 1 (a comment or irrelevant question)or step 2 (a question that has no keywords/phrases.)

What skills in the Te Ara Tika pathway do you think you need to improve on and why?

We need to work on finding answers to our questions quicker.

Now think about your google site. What are you really pleased about or had success with?

We are pleased about the C.P.R page, because we put in all of the types/versions of C.P.R. (Baby, Child, and Adult C.P.R)

What do you think needs to be improved on your google site?

We didn’t make the home page informative enough for anyone to understand what is going to happen in our google site without going onto another page.

Do you think your first aid google site does a good job of “effectively communicating” first aid skills? Why or why not? (Would you be happy with people using it to “Save a Mate”?

Yes because it tells you how to perform all of the types of C.P.R properly, and how to tell if someone has anaphylaxis and how to treat anaphylaxis.

What is one thing (skills, learning attitude) that each of you needs to improve on in our next W.I.T.? (Record each of your names with the thing to be improved)

I need to stop laughing and messing up in videos, and i need to talk louder in videos.(Ari)

I need to answer my questions faster, and to stop saying random stuff. (Kyle)

My learning goal

My Profile

Hello I am Kyle. I like cricket and the game Terraria. 

My Favourite Movies: The Hobbit, Marvel Films. 

My favourite books: spirit animals, Pokémon. 

My favourite music: Green Day, Marvel theme song. 

Interests: Animals, Computers 

I live in New Plymouth, NZ.

Inferences

An inference is when you predict what is happening, what will happen, or what has happened. E.G: Sams gran loves to knit jumpers. Sam doesn't like them though. Especially the latest with a giant turtle on it. How can he "accidentally" get rid of it. I can inference that Sam doesn't like the turtle on it. I put the clues together to get that inference 

Trench WW1

I can hear the rat a tat tat of machine guns and looked up to see bullets whistling above my head. I can see shells blowing apart cliffs. The rocks from them rolled down and flattened dozens of men. I felt bugs and insects nibbling away at my foot. I wondered if my parents were all right. Tears were shedding from my eyes as I thought about how only one of my ten mates were still alive. The blood in the trench is higher than my toes.The creepiness spread across my body like a blanket on a child on a cold winter night.

Pole in the water

I did this pole in water with ripples and a reflection 

Term 1 Review

This term my favourite activity would have to be WIT because I can learn first aid away from St Johns Youth. Me and Ari have made our Google site. We have learned about CPR, Abrasions, Anaphylaxis, and things like sticks stuck in you.






I have made progress with adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals. Hard stuff. Not as hard as that though.---->
Here is one for you.

3.674+ 6.938

Gloss Assessment - Maths

Online recording software >>

basic facts home learning

In class we did a basic facts test. My maths boat has a railgun and 3 pistols.

My Basic Facts learning goal:

• learn my advanced multiplication

Camp

Hello again. I am going to camp on tuesday morning. I am SUPER EXCITED (^o^) and a little nervous ('~'). 

I am in a activity group with my friend Kaino. We have not found out what cabin group I am in. I hope I'm with one of my friends. There are a lot of activities for the kids and I hope the teachers are doing activities as well. We can bring baking = COOKIES!!!!

 We can also bring music players. Best camp EVER!!!! I am kayaking first on the first half day of camp. Here is our camp website = http://teweravalleylodge.co.nz/?p=28 

W.I.T

Hi, it's me again (^_^). This week (and last week) I have been doing my first aid W.I.T (or inquiry) and at the end of the W.I.T we have to make a website about what to do when someone is hurt, injured, unconcius or dying. I have learned how to properly perform C.P.R, treat abrasions, anaphylaxis and skin flaps and also what to do if someone has something stuck in them.

my learning

hi I'm kyle and I like llamas and K.F.C. i like maths writing and BYOD. my strength is writing because it develops creativity. i need to work on my maths. I think i still need t work on my handwriting. i probably need help on staying on task. i am very curious, just ask my mum. my friends tell me i am very good at drawing. i love to learn about how to learn well.

hello

Hi, I am Kyle Smith and this is my first blog post of 2015. My classroom is room 10 and my teacher is Mr Anderson. This is my last year at primary school. I am doing BYOD.