Maori Names

This week for Maori we learned about Maori names, a lot of them sound like their English names.

The blue text means its a boys name in Maori. The black text means its a girl in Maori. We had a list of names to work with and we also searched in the Maori Dictionary to find the name in English

L.I To learn Maori names.
I enjoy learning new words in Maori.

Kiwi Sports | Touch Rugby

This week for touch rugby we learned more basic skills.

The first skills we did was planting the ball and initiating the touch.  To plant the ball is when I get touched. Then I place the ball on the ground and move forward. Initiating is when I have to touch the person before they touch me so they know.

Then we did activity where we had to see how much balls we can get. The teams were bibs vs non bibs. The people that has a ball needed to run and the people that doesn't have a ball they have to tag a person that has one. 

After that we did another activity where two attackers verses one defender. I had to get the person thats defending to be committed to me. How to get them committed is when they move their shoulder, so I to pass it to my teammate to get the try.

I really like touch rugby and want to do it again next week.

Touch Rugby

Today we learned some basic skills for touch rugby.

We learned how to  tap the ball, catch and, pass the ball.

Afterwards we played passing drills to get better to committing to the ball and caughting.

I really like touch rugby and want to do it again next week.

Touch | Kiwi sport

This week our kiwi sport was 

First we threw the ball above our heads and catch it. One person dropped the ball when they threw the ball up high and dropped it. Then we had to walk and throw above our heads, and do it again but we had to walk backwards.

Next we threw the ball above our heads, around our necks, around our waists, under our legs and hold it in front of our chests. Then we had to walk and throw the ball above our heads, around our necks, around our waists, under our legs and hold it in front of our chests, and we had to do  it again but we had to walk backwards.

Then we did an activity when we had to get a partner, after that we turn to our left and one 

Inquiry | Experiment

This week for inquiry we did some experimenting. We had to see which material that can absorbent lots of water.

First we had to get a tote tray, 100 millilitre of water, add five drops of blue dye, and get our materials.

The material was stone, sand, cotton, paper towels, nappy brand 1 and 2. Then we had to get the materials and get a glass for the stone or sand and way them up to 5 grams.    

My group and I picked up stones and we placed the rocks inside of the the glass. After we got the tote tray and poured the water in the glass. 

Then we pored out the water and pored it in a measuring glass to see how much water was absorbed and not absorbed.

Lastly we had to type our results in our recording sheet. My group and I's results were 3 millilitre was absorbed and 97 millilitre was not absorbed.

I liked doing this activity and I learned a lot about how materials can absorb water. 

L.I To learn and practice experimental methods 

Formal and Informal language

Formal is times when rules need to be followed and informal is when rules don't need to be followed.

Formal language is: hello, greeting, how are you, want to, do not. Informal language is: sup, G, wanna, don't, let's go. 

Formal situations is: meetings, announcements, assembly, funeral. Informal situations are: park, at home, at a field, playing a game.

L.I To identify formal and informal language.

Te Tinana

This week for Maori we learned about body parts. For example upoko means head. We needed to figure out what each body part means in Maori. 

We had to highlighted the list of body parts, if we know what the Maori word is we highlighted it blue  and highlight it black if we don't know the Maori word. 

I knew six Maori word and the rest I didn't know. I looked up the words that I didn't know and learned it.

The ones I know was stomach, head and mouth. The Maori word are: mahunga or upoko for head, waha for mouth and puku for stomach.

I learned a few words but I need to learn more Maori words.