Last week's sports and art

                                         Last Week's Sports and art


Last week on Friday we did sports and P.E. In the past weeks we have been designing our own sports.We had many different ideas from Mrs Dillner and Mr Dyer. We were put in some groups. We had to had to think of a game that could involve collaboration. In my group their was Justin L, Shivin, Nehaal, Myself and Natasha. We thought of doing end-ball but in a different way. When we were doing sports we didn't do end-ball but we thought of doing it. We had to plan our sports game. So each group got a piece of paper we wrote down what will be the equipment we would need, the rules and the teams. So as on Friday we went downstairs to the multi space and we got the equipment which was on our sheet. After that in our groups we had a practise of our game. Their were some other places we could go to practise such as the multi space, the courts and outside next to the scooter and bike racks. We played so as we had only 5 people in our group well you might be thinking it must've been a girl VS boy but unfortunately In my team we had me, Natasha and Justin L. Also in the other team their was obviously Shivin and Nehaal.  For art we were doing our post art which is about our posts outside our school and we will be painting them and they will be staying their FOREVER!!!. I know right that's really cool.So we did some drafts of it and then we had to paint it not on the posts just after the drafts well on a piece of paper. Their were 3 categories. 1. It was ''me" which is something you like so for my one it was a kite because I like flying kites in the park. 2. Something that's represents New Zealand such as the kiwi and the koru well I did the kiwi for mine. Lastly 3. Is your culture. For my culture I did a half because I am indian and and I was also born in NZ. So for indian I did a snake and some sweets because their are some snakes in india and lots of sweets in india. So on the first draft we had to draw our pictures and we ALWAYS!!! got the warning of DO NOT MAKE IT TOO SMALL!! because it was obviously going on the posts so we can't make it too small . After our drafts was to colour it in. It took lots of time. After that we were painting it was quite fast painting. Then we had to glue them into our books when they were dry and then after we had to write 3 why's which for me was Why did you choose a kite?, Why did you choose a kiwi? and Why did you choose a koru necklace and sweets including the snakes. That was the whole process I guess. Atleast I finished my drafts, coloring in, painting and my 3 whys. This is the end of my blog post. 

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Science and technology competition

                  Science and Technology competition

Last week on Wednesday there was a science and technology competition. The technology competition was for the year 5&6's and the science competition was for the year 3&4's.Both competitions were at point view primary school. Well I am a year 4 so I went to the science competition. In our team we had Aaron, Kim, myself, Karis, Selestine and those are the people I can remember. Over their we versed some other schools such as mission heights primary school and so many more. It was based on a card game called top trumps. So it still was a science competition the theme of the top trumps was science.There were some homemade cards and a video game and our team won on the video games their were some normal cards. I thought they'll do something about science. We had some rotations to every single one of them. At the Technology competition they had to try and make a bridge out of different kind of materials. Well I wasn't their so I don't know any other thing about that. In the technology competition our school came 5th place which is pretty good. But I am not too sure about the science competition I think we also came 5th. At the end of the science competition their was a boy who counted up all the school's points up and the winning team would get a trophy. Mission height's got the trophy. I'll tell you why they got the trophy well mostly they had told us from the beginning. So they got it for teamwork and the people who are playing fair which is mostly honesty and many more ideas for the trophy. Well the rest of the teams got to pick a top trumps pack and from our tea we got Aaron to choose it for our team and he got the monsters inc.

My iExperience

                                                          My iExperience
Photo showing Makey Makey
Last week it was iExperience which is like we have these sign up sheets and we have to choose which experience we would like to do and some of last weeks were. 

1. Ormibots. Which was making our own robot and they were being tested.

2.  Makey makey. Makey Makey is when you take a thing and you can use it. Such as a banana I have seen people using bananas and they put wires into them and they sometimes use it as a keyboard or game controller.

3. 3d printing. At 3d printing they were making something using Tinkercad and the learning coach who was with them she has a computer and then she 3d print's it from her computer to our 3d printer and it is made out of plastic well that is pretty interesting.

4. Lastly is Myth-busters. Well I was in myth-busters so I could tell you a  little bit more than the other. Well in myth-busters we did several of experiments well some of them were the disco fruit, magic balloon, the ice lifter, and the mega sounder known as the banging fork so how we did this was like we took this ball of string and then we cut it enough to twirl around your finger and hold it next to your ear and then take a fork and then tie the string around the fork. After you need to have a metal surface and then bang the fork on the metal and then you will hear this sound. When I did it it sounded like a starter of a fairy tale.

Shreya' s Writing iExplore Learning Story- September 2015

Learner: Shreya                                                                 Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: Literacy and 4Cs                                      Date:  Term 3

Learning Observed

Shreya has been diligently completing her iExplore on teaching others how to write a story.  She has been researching, refining tips and creating a helpful presentation for others to use to learn and improve their storywriting.  Shreya has learned to give credit to her sources of information, how to make slides viewable to an audience and has practiced her own advice by writing stories herself.  She is going to present her learning to our group in Week 8.  Shreya has responded to feedback from Learning Coach and learners in our conferencing sessions and is open to ideas.

Evidence of learning

iExplore Conference Doc (Slide 10) - See the presentation below

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Shreya has shown she is collaborative when sharing her research and receiving feedback. She has demonstrated her capability in the example stories she has shared.  She has made connections to her prior knowledge and writing experiences.

Next Learning Steps

present to our group write a blog post about your experiences create a quiz using kahoot to check for learning from the focus group put the presentation into your Learning Pathway as a learning artefact and share it with your family