Traditional Samoan Foods - Samoan Language Week

LI: To learn about the Samoan traditions.
This week is Samoan language week and so for it half of LS1 and LS2 were grouped into two LS1 students and two LS2 students (Since the other halves were on a trip), we could choose from doing traditional events, foods, numbers and other things but my group just chose to do traditional food. We put pictures, the recipe and the ingredients in. The other task that I worked with my group of four on was this; a DLO on how to say shapes in Samoan, along with audio recordings if you click on the Samoan words.

Animal Speeds/Life Spans

This last three weeks students have been missing quite a bit of work because we were usually out of school. During catch up time Jeremiah, Ofa and I worked together to create the task above. The task was based on two graphs, The average animal lifespan and the top speed of the animals. While doing this activity we learnt a lot of new things because most statements were true and only a few were false.

Fence Posts Problem

 

Today during math time the task was to finish off any work that needed to be done (And blog it), I worked with Jeremiah to finish the problem. The equation was quite easy to figure out because all we needed to do was count the number of fences (7), the number of fence posts (8) and for every fence times 8 by 1 (Meaning, 8 x 1, 8 x 2 etc for every fence- which made us end up going to 8 x 7). After that we continued writing about how we solved the problem.

Salary Differences

 

For this task I worked with Jeremiah and together we attempted to figure the problem out, at first we were confused by the bonuses that we needed to add on every year and after that we were confused by the adding of the money, the person who made the most money in five years was Fraidoon.

Travelling Methods

Our set rich task was based on how students from primary and secondary students get to school in England.  The options were either: walking, taking the bus, driving, biking, taking the train, or other. The main transport for pupils from primary school is the car. Their are many answers that could be right but we think that parents are being protective and they do not trust the world or their kids. On the other hand secondary students most popular travel is the bus and the reason might be because parents trust their children because they are older and more trustworthy. Overall the most popular travel method is walking because it is more environmentally friendly, is good for physical and mental health, and kids can interact with their friends. After this, everyone was asked to do a survey about how Ms Kirkpatrick's math group gets to school. The most popular travel is car and then followed by walking. Car is probably more dominant because some students come from long distances and it is faster to get to school in a car. For this activity we showed our findings using a pie chart that is sorted by percentages. We then outlined the differences and similarities between the two charts. A percentage is an easy way to see the proportion of a whole. 

- Jeremiah worked on the blurb while I worked on the DLO and answering the paper questions.

Dialogued Text

This week during writing the task was to write out a fake text message strip and then create a text box with all of the writing dialogued in sequence without the fake text message website, creating this was slightly difficult because we weren't allowed to use the names of people in our class and we also needed to punctuate everything properly.

Kiwi Can

Yesterday during Kiwi Can we learnt more about integrity, good choices, bad choices and also played two games. To show integrity you need to do to right thing even when others aren't looking. The first game's name was CLAP! and for it we needed to clap our hands every time the instructors crossed their arms or clapped their hands, lots of people we caught out because the instructors stopped just before crossing their arms. For the other game we needed to be split up into two teams and in those teams we played hand soccer, the rules were: Only one hand at a time (We could swap though), you could only go when your number was called and no goalies.

Tech Reflection

Today during tech since I'd finished my creation the last week I was just finishing off my workbook, as well as changing it to be better detailed so that I could get better marks for my report. At first I needed to change the aspects of the workbook, next I changed the tools/techniques and after that I finished off the part where I wrote what I would do differently if I could. This was the second to last week of tech, so next week if I want to make a box to hold my creation then I'll need to hurry up because it takes 30 minutes to dry the glue.

Kiwi Sport | Rippa Rugby

Today during Kiwi sport (Which is Rippa Rugby) at first group B was split up into two groups and in those groups we played a mock game, one side had bibs and the other didn't. After that we were line up in three line and together we needed to pass the rugby ball up and down as fast as we could. It started raining during the ball passing lesson so we moved into the hall where still in our three groups, we played games of Rugby-Netball and Touch-Rugby. For Rugby-Netball when you were passed the ball you couldn't move, so if you did get the ball you were swarmed. And for Touch-Rugby you could run with the ball and only be stopped by a person in the opposition touched you with both hands at the same time.

Poetry Juxtaposition

This week's task for poetry was to first read a poem and then answer some questions and create some word clines, for the word clines we first needed to choose a word and then find all of the necessary synonyms for it. After that the task was to draw a line on some paper and then write down the synonyms that we'd written down onto the line in order from top to bottom depending on how important we found that one synonym.

In the summer I’m aroused to a snug and friendly breeze, all the pollen in the air always makes me sneeze.

After clambering into my uniform and leaving for school,

I wait for friends by a wall of hedges, relishing the blue and inviting sun.

In the winter I sullenly rise from my bed, chilled to the bone from the despairful air. After painfully getting into my uniform and slowly leaving the door, I sprint to school just to keep myself warm.

Body Systems

This week for inquiry the task was to first read about body systems and the skeletal system before playing a game, for the game you needed to place all of the bones of the skeleton in the right place. In the human body there are 11 systems, they are the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, nervous, endocrine, immune, integumentary, skeletal (which was what the game was about), muscle and reproductive system. There are also around 200-300 bones in your body, some fuse together when you go through puberty or just get older.

Body Parts In English/Maori

This week another task for inquiry was to create a DLO showing the names of body parts in English and Maori, my group members Jericho and Joshua W worked on the English version while I used the Maori dictionary to figure out what body part was called what in Maori. I needed to read through all of the different types for most just to figure out which one I should've used.

Kiwi Can

This week in kiwi can we played two games and learnt more about our theme which is integrity, and our topic was making good choices. At first we played a game where we had to do the exact opposite of what Miss Lily did, the only catch was she was facing us which made if confusing. I managed to win one game but none others. After that we then played another game where we were split into four groups and in those groups we needed to choose one person to be the captain, that person would then need to stand in a circle while the other members of the team tried to throw the ball to the captain. The captain would be changed every round and one by one the winning team (The ones who managed to get the ball to their captain first) would choose one other team to eliminate.

Vocabulary Evaluation

This week for reading the task was to create two DLOs, one of them was for a story that we read called Harry's War which is about a man called Harry who is forcefully enlisted into the army during WW1. After he's enlisted he is then transferred to an army camp in Featherston where he and other soldiers are trained for war, after that they're shipped to England but three weeks after they get there the war ends. The soldiers start to get restless and annoyed since they'd trained for nothing, after a while they staged a riot which lasted days and so when it ended the superior officers ordered them to carve out a chalk kiwi in the hillside.

Homonyms

This week for poetry we were learnt what a homonym is, a homonym is a word that has multiple meanings but both meanings are spelt exactly the same. An example would be pound, a pound is a currency, weight measurement and a different word for beat up. For the DLO we could work in groups so I worked with Ofa and Jeremiah, I drew the pictures while they wrote the words. Before the DLO though, we needed to read a poem and then answer some questions about it.

M.R.S G.R.E.N

This week for inquiry the other task was to create a DLO on the 7 things that you can use to figure out if something is alive, we can remember the things by remembering a name, M.R.S G.R.E.N. The M is for movement, the R is for respiration, the S is for senses, G is for grow, R is for reproduction, E is for excretion and N is for nutrition.

Poem

This week for writing the task was to first read and then somewhat replicate it using 5 different words for a chosen word out of run, big, small and pretty. After that our other tasks were to figure out the joke at the bottom of the original, find five synonyms for nice that aren't in the original poem and to list the literary devices used in the poem.

Original:

Never use the word NICE, our teacher said.

It doesn’t mean a thing!

Try…beautiful, shining, delicious,

shimmering, hopeful, auspicious,

attractive, unusual, nutritious –

the choice is as long as a string!

But please, never use the word NICE,

it just doesn’t mean a thing!

(She’s nice our teacher.)

Our version:

Never use the word RUN, our teacher said.

It doesn't mean a thing

Try… Dart, Dash, Drop, Scuttle, Scatter, Sprint

Tear, Trot, Trample -

The choice is as long as a string!

But please, don’t use the word RUN,

It just doesn’t mean a thing!

Lung Capacity Measurent

To compare the lung capacity of students in LS2 we used one breath to blow up a balloon, then we measured the circumference of the balloon in cm. Then we could graph the results to compare them. The person with the largest oxygen output was Julian because he made his balloon grow to 68 centimetres, and the person with the smallest output was Avalon who only managed to get hers to 48 centimetres.

Maths Age Word Problem

This week for maths the task was to create DLO on an age problem, for it I paired up with Fraidoon and Jeremiah so we worked together to figure the problem out. At one point we were confused because we thought that it was Peter who was 4 years younger than Jack but after a while of searching to find the fault we finally finished the problem.

The Unfinished Drink

This week for poetry the task was to create a DLO on Private La Tour Mollet (Ted) D'Auvergne, the reason that we were creating a DLO on him is because there was a poem written about him. The poem basically says that he bought a beer in a bar but then had to leave for the war, so he asked the bartender to hold it for him so he could drink it when he came back, but he didn't. He died in Crete. The beer then stayed there for years and for every ANZAC day one more poppy was place in its glass container.

Sailing Experience

Yesterday 23 students went to a sailing club for a school trip, I was lucky enough to be one of them. When we first arrived we were told how to stay safe while in the water, after that we were shown how to assemble the rafts so that we could assemble our own to sail in. After that we were given wet suits, life jackets and water proof vests. The process to getting the rafts into the water was to push your raft into the water with your partner and then one of the two of you needs to hold the raft while the other takes the trailer back. When in the water we were told to follow the motor boat around the harbour. After 2-3 hours of different games. capsizing, falling and being pushed into the water it was time to leave.

Maori Legend Storyboard

This week for inquiry the task was to create a storyboard about the Maori creation legend, according to the legends after Tane Mahuta and his brothers prised his parents apart they set out to create everything in the world. After they'd finished they then realised that there were no people to enjoy what they'd created, so Tane Mahuta offered his idea of creating a woman. The other brothers agreed with him so Tane Mahuta sculpted the woman, afterwards one brother told Tane Mahuta to take his breath and give the sculpture life. So that's how the first woman was created. We were allowed to work in groups so I worked with Julian.

Memorial Book

The task for reading this week was to create a google slide and fill it out with a set of activities that were related to a book called Memorial, the book was written by Gary Crew and illustrated by Shaun Tan. As an example, one of the other tasks was to create a glossary and another one was to create a family tree for the narrator. If you'd like to see the rest of the tasks, the link is here.