Reading | Visualising

Visualising is drawing an image map, mindmap, or infographic about text that is difficult to understand.

 To visualise a difficult sentence, break it up into parts and then draw each part.

 If there are any word that are unkown they should be looked up in the dictionary. Children dictionaries are best suited for learners. Visualising is a good way to easily understand difficult texts.

 L.I - To learn how to  visualise

Writing| Complex Sentence

For this activity I made a DLO about my complex sentence. How to make a complex sentence is to use to simple sentences and add a AAWWUUBBIS in the middle. If you change it the other way that still sounds correct. To find more informtion to make a complex sentence look at the slideshow.

Inquiry | First Waka | Aotearoa Research

Original, there was no people in New Zealand (Aotearoa) The first person who arrived to New Zealand came in a settled waka. 

The ten names for the waka were: Kurahaupō, Tākitimu, Mataatua, Tainui, Te Arawa, Aotea, Tokomaru, Horouta, Uruao, Ārai-te-uru. These waka's were all traditional to the Maori and Poleynesians.

All of these waka were strong in different areas. For example: Mataatua was identified as one of the greatest traditional boats used to migrate towards New Zealand.

The objective of this activity was to build an understanding of where the first ten wakas journeyed to.

Rippa Rugby

L.I. To learn the basics of Rippa Rugby.

For Rippa Rugby we came back to our same Rippa Rugby teachers. For our drill we had to race eachother. To play we had two teams. Team Green and Team Red. Then the first person had to run the ball to the cone and pass the ball to eachother and they have to pass the ball back. Then you have to run to the cones and criss cross them and run around the flag pole and run to the next person and do the same thing.

Then we got to play Rippa Rugby. We got to put on a belt and put on the tags. When I played Rippa Rugby for my third time and I got a tie. How to play is to rip the tag off the person that has the ball. So don't let someone rip your tag off try and dodge them.  

I love playing Rippa Rugby even if I got tired of running a lot.

Listening

KiwiCan was about listening.

We played 'bop the cone' to practise listening to instructions.

We also played 'Chinese whispers' to practise listening and hearing information.

I thought 'Chineses whispers' was a good way to practise listening skills.

Kupe & Cook

Kupe and Cook are 2 important explorers in New Zealand history.

Kupe
Kupe arrived in NZ in the 1100's. He travelled by traditional meltods on a traditional still boat. Myth has it he followed a giant Octopus. He did this vogage to find new land for his people to live. His wife named New Zealand Aotearoa after seeing mountains under the clouds.

Cook.
Cook arrived in NZ in the 1769's. He discovered New Zealand on the Endeavour, which was a boat.
 He did this vogage to New Zealand in search for the unknowned Southern Island. Captian James Cook was famous of the most of the pacific.

Kupe is important because he was the first documented person NZ. Cook is important because he mapped NZ and opened it up to the world to access.

Compound Sentences

 L.I. To write compound sentence.

Today I made a slide about compound sentence. To make a compound sentence is to use FANBOYS. FANBOYS is for, and , nor, but, or, yet, so. I used to FANBOYS to compelete this. FANBOYS connect two simple sentences to make a compound sentence.