Kapa Haka

Description: In Kapa Haka we have been practicing songs I play the guitar so I have to play the songs. Here are some questions that explain what is challenging, what I will do to manage to help this challenge, what I enjoy, what I am most proud of and a personal goal for me.

Big Idea:

At kapahaka I enjoy... Playing the guitar and watching the kapa haka perform

I am most proud of… I am most proud of myself for trying to play but am improving

I find….challenging because… Starting a song because I find it hard to strum the rhythm

I am managing this challenge by…. I will practice perfect to make it perfect

A personal goal for me is… Is to be able to start a song by the end of the year

Our school wide focus this term has been around showing excellence. I show this at kapa haka by... trying my hardest to keep my rhythm and my chords the same as Nic.

Evaluation: I need to work on starting a song and strumming the right rhythm I think I am improving on playing the right chords throughout the songs.

FeedBack/FeedForward: Next time you could look at what you had you have in your description. You answered your questions very detailed and I really like the photo you have put on. Great Job. Rosalind:)

Writing

Description: In writing we have chosen a writing goal to work on my goal is to use connectives usefully and not use them to much. Connectives are when you connect two sentences together. We have written a story from a picture and written a story to describe the picture and tell them what our imaginations are thinking of before and after the picture here is my story.

                                                  My Planning for my Story

                                                                                            

   Evaluation: I think I need to work on using connectives more often and using them when I can something I have done well was using speech marks in the right places. I also think I am improving on showing the reader the characters feelings not telling them. 


 FeedBack/Forward: Wow Grace! You are a amazing writer. I wish  I was as good has you. I recon you will be a famous author just like Lauren Child . My favorite sentence was when Zone said ' Hel-lo' Keep up the good work!
Sophie W

Maths

Description: In maths this term we have been learning about three types of strategies reversibility, rounding & compensating, equal addition and place value partitioning. We have also been having workshops for maths I am in Troy A.

Big Idea: I have mainly been working on place value & partitioning. Here is how you do it,

234 + 138 = 372
    
8 + 4 = 12
30 + 30 = 60
100 + 200 = 300

300 + 60 = 360 + 12 = 372


Evaluation: Next time I need to work on Place Value & Partitioning to make sure
I get the right answer every time. What strategy I have done well at is Reversibility.

FeedBack/FeedForward: i think you have worked out all of the problems well. but maybe next time you could show more working out on problems 3 and your second way of working out problem 4.

Inquiry Presantation

Description: In science we have been learning about how to be a good scientist.
my inquiry was about sea otters. We had to find information about our main question we were focused on. We were mainly focused on their biological adaptations and behavioral adaptations.

Purpose: To think like a scientist


Criteria: 

• Talking like a scientist
• Thinking like a scientist
• Making predictions
• Doing experiments

Presentation:




FeedBack and FeedForward: I think you did a good job at adding a lot of detail also adding some sound. Next time you could make the answer to your question more clearer. -Zara

Tortoise And The Hare

Description: For our reading portfolio post I decided that I shall choose for my tic tac-toe The Tortoise And The Hare. My goal is Comprehension we read the story and then we had to answer some questions about the story.

Criteria:

• To use text to text connections
• Make connections to the world etc. text to world
• Make connections with your self and the character
• To Visualize

Questions for “The Hare and the Tortoise” 

Big Idea: To make text to text, text to self and text to world connections.

Evaluation:

In my workshops I have been learning to make connections with the text. 

(Text to text, Text to world and Text to self.) I know I am getting better because I can make connections to the world, text and to myself. I can improve on making text to text connection i think I succeeded making text to world and text to self connections.

FeedBack/FeedForward:

Great job Grace. I love your honest evaluation on what you could work on. I agree that you might need to work on making text to text connections. You have answered the questions really clearly though. Great work, :P Aye

Catch Me If You Can- Defense

WALT: Defensive skills and movements

Description:

Every week we learn about skills and movement that will help us play sports. This term’s focus has been around defense. We made a video showing some of the goals we have been practicing. I have highlighted the things I think I have done well YELLOW and one thing I would like to work on PINK.

Success Criteria:

Body Movement

• Weight on balls of feet
• Feet shoulder width apart
• Knees flexed
• Concentration and eyes on ball, head and eyes up
• Push hard off outside foot and go forwards to attack pass
• Quick small feet, stay on balls of feet
• Arms within confines of body
• Take feet to ball
• Land with a SBP

Intercepting

• Body angled to see player and ball
• Anticipate pass and player movement

Restrictive Marking

• Meet player as they start towards the ball/where they want to go
• stay close to the attacking player
• Head and eyes up, arms close to body to avoid obstruction/contact
• Angle body so attacking player is ‘pushed’ away from where he/she wants to go
• 0.9m from ball carrier

Evaluation: I think that I need to work on Push hard off outside foot and go forwards to attack pass.
One thing I think I did really well was pivoting out to the ball and away. I think I also need to work on landing in a stable position.


FeedBack and FeedForward: I think you did really well at having your knees bent so you can get that ball. Next time you could work on your SBP ( Stable body postion) because you are stepping when you have got the ball. Georgia

Tranformation

Description:  

We have been learning about transformation.  We have specifically learnt that...

• translation is when an object slides in any direction;
• rotation is when an object is turned around a central point;
• reflection is when an object is flipped and has a line of symmetry.

Our challenge was to design a car badge that contained at least one of these aspects of transformation.   

Image:

Big Idea:

FeedBack/FeedFoward: I think you did well on your badge because I gave you the idea :) and it really explains your personality.. You like cats ( and animals too ) but I have to say that the cats mouth curves

are uneven. If you had a bit more time you could of done a bit more NEAT colouring. Otherwise it's amazing! 

Olivia B :)

Evaluation:

The thing I would do next time is to make sure their are no mosquito bites ( that means colour so there are non coloured bits) and to make the g shaped eyes exactly the same. The thing I think I did well was representing my self and the letter of my name.

Te Ahu a Turanga Noho Marae

Description:  In week 7, we had an overnight stay at the local Marae in Woodville.  We were immersed in Maori culture and participated in a range of activities.  We set two goals to focus on during our stay.

Big Idea:  

1.  Did you achieve your goals?  How do you know? I did achieve my goal by being quiet when I woke up and I did wake up at 6:59 I know I achieved my goal because Nic got everyones attention and said we were aloud to get up. 

2.  What are you most proud of from the marae stay and why? I am most proud of myself for learning how to walk on the stilts because at school I kept falling off them.

3.  What challenged you the most and why? The thing that challenged me most was story telling. Why that challenged me because I thought that no one would like my story.

Something I will do next time is getting up and not worrying about no one liking my story. 

Story Telling

Description: Oral storytelling is a Maori tradition. We have been planning our own story to tell on the Marae in Week 7.

Purpose: create a story to share orally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wDerpqgow

Evalution: I think one thing I have done well is planning. For next time I think I need to work on my confidence. another thing for next time I need to work on is crowd participation.   

FeedBack/Feedforward: I think that you did a grand job telling you story. The message behind the story was very clear to me. Next time you could work on having some facial expressions.

Georgia.T :) 

Stuck Video

Description: We think that we can relate the message in this movie to our learning...Its like being stuck in our learning, we need to ask for help and we need to look for ways to solve the problem ourselves. We thought it would be fun to make our own movie to get this message across. We had 2 groups of criteria for our movie...

Criteria: (Content)

1. Video - 30 seconds long, time is limited.
2. Scenario - Show someone being stuck and not using the ability to act.
3. Clear Message - Short sharp clip. Can the watcher get the point of your video?
4. Unique - Coming up with something funny that gets a laugh from others.
5. Time Passing - Do you need to show time passing in your clip to emphasise your message.

Criteria: (Movie)

1. Light - Make sure the sun isn’t creating a hard to see clip.
2. Voice Volume - Needs to be louder than other background volume eg Noise, Kids.
3. Frame - What’s in the frame to make your message obvious.
4. Steady Hands - Make sure the camera is still.

Individual Clips - Don’t do one continuous shot of 30 seconds. Make a range of short clips and join together.



FeedBack/FeedForward:
I love your video! I really like the way you used time lapse to show katie waiting! I  also liked the way you use voice over so that I could hear your voices! Next time I think you could maybe zoom in a bit closer so that I could see your faces clearly! Good Job! Hannah 

Swimming Goal

Description:

This term we have started swimming again. We made our video to show our skills in the pool. We looked back at our video and observed what we could get better at. Then we made a goal.

http://youtu.be/82S0rwRkdO4

My Goal:

 I have looked back at my videos and seen what I need to improve on I think that I need to
make my arms bigger when I do breastroke by stretching them out more, I want to complete this goal before swimming sports starts.

13/03/15

http://youtu.be/y3_5N5z6X24

Evaluation 4 weeks later:

I have improved on my swimming by going faster. I have looked
back at my video and can clearly see that I am going faster
in my swimming. I did complete my Goal in the time I set myself I am very
happy.

Knowledge Maths Test

Description: Some of us have done 2 tests, Stage 4 and Stage 5 I did both tests. The next day we went with a buddy and highlighted the things we proved that we could do with an yellow highlighter, then we highlighted the titles of the maths sections that we had to work on, we highlighted those pink.

Purpose: To work out your maths goal.

My Goal: Is to complete the pattern. I would like to finish this goal before the end of the month, I will try and do this by practicing a lot and asking other people to quick fire questions at me. I will know when I have completed the goal, when I can get the answers in 3 seconds.

Stage 4:

 Stage 5: