The 100 Word Challenge

Reflection
We are learning to choose words carefully.
So we could only use 100 words and write a story at the same time which is very hard because some words can't be added because it might exceed the 100 words limit.

The Maori Genderoles

Reflection
We are learning how to write a explanation writing and we are writing about the Maori gender roles because we were reading a book called whale rider by NZ person called Witi Ihimaera this was hard because I didn't know much about the Maori culture.

Next time I need to use more better words instead of just using one interesting word which is quandary.

My Reading Challenge

Diary Post 2

Term 1 Week 7

Now almost 2/3 weeks into term 1 and there has been lots going on, music, art, buddy class, handwriting and lots more!

For buddy class we have a year 3 and we have been doing gardening also we have been looking for plants to grow in the garden for us to eat and to sell to raise school funds to buy more equipment for the school and to go on more school trips.

For PE (physical education) we have been having some awesome people come to our school from Youthtown to teach us games and to teach us some skills like teamwork for games like capture the flag and they have taught us lots of new games like capture the ball.  Capture the ball is basically each team gets some balls than once we start we throw the ball to try to hit somebody but we can't run with the ball and if we hit them they go into our base/prison than somebody from there team has to rescue them or else if there whole team gets captured its game over for there team.

Handwriting is a pain in the head because you are supposed to write neatly to get better and I have three marks in total to say that I have achieved those goals and the one I ticked (only 1) was not marked by the teacher and the ones around it was marked so now I am working on sloping yay...

Art isn't as bad as handwriting though its hard and requires lots of concentration its really hard.  For art we are making a self portrait made of symbols light and dark by making symbols close and wide away.

I am looking forward to the next time we do youthtown because its really fun and its a break from work YAY also we are playing capture the ball again which is really fun and I enjoyed it a lot.

Identifying BIAS

Reflection
This was hard because I didn't know what BIAS was until we had a discussion and Mrs Graham sent us a presentation about BIAS.
The thing we were looking for is when Koro Apirana was being BIAS against Kahu.
I choose this part (Green highlighted part) because it looks like Koro Apirana really didn't like Kahu.
It was easy to find this part for BIAS because Koro was being mean to Kahu so I could tell he didn't like Kahu.

Class Peer Mediator

Reflection

This is the Peer Mediator video we made about social skills as a Peer Mediator, we did this so even though we were not Peer Mediators we could still help people who were disagreeing at playtime when there isn't Peer Mediators.

Diary Post 1

On the first few weeks we had lot's of fun stuff like Youthtown which is at group of people who come and teach us skills like teamwork, working with others and cooperation etc, we played capture the flag which is teamwork so we work with each others to get the other teams ball to your side to gain 1 point, the people who came to our school as Mega-tron-(Dominic) and B-rad(Brad)

We also had lot's of other things like counselors who are the vice-leaders of the school and also there are head boy and head girl who are the leaders plus there are house captains because we have 4 teams Rimu, Rata, Kauri and Matai, each time we do something good than we get house points which we add to a chart.  After a while the house captains announce the winners depending on which house has the most points and they are not the real big houses the are basically just names on shields so all that basically means is which house has the most well behaved children they will gain more point.

For math we had a really complicated problem with 23 problems, it was Cryptarithms , there are letters which equal more letters and you had to change them into a number with the same numbers used on the letters and each question had a different number represented with letters so if A was 2 B can't be the same so it could be all the way from 0-9 except 2 because it was already chosen so B could be 6  than the next question will be A=5 and B=1 and C =7, there are three letters in total and the more you get correct the harder it gets until it gets to the end or until it gets to a stop for a bit than go because it's so hard.

The next thing we did was reading, we read a bit of the Whale Rider who was wrote by a New Zealander called Witi Ihimaera, Whale Rider is a maori legend about Kahutia Te Rangi and the story has multiple versions such as Kahutia Te Rangi  and his tribe built a canoe than sailed until the land was out of sight than a mean brother called Rua Tapu uncovered a hole in the canoe that he made the day before, and everyone drowned except Kahutia Te Rangi and Rua Tapu.

Rm 25 favorite movies

Reflection: 
This was hard because I didn't know how to make he graph.
This was easy because I had done something similar to this last year.
Next time I should try to make a graph myself without any help.