Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

 Kia ora! In honour of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Maori Language Week everyone from my class has made a DLO (Digital Learning Object) teaching our viewers new phrases and words. At the end of my slide, I have attached a waiata which explains to cherish Te Reo. 

Kua mahia e koe tetahi mea hei whakanui i te wiki o te reo māori?

Structure of Hurumanu 5 This Rotation

 Hi! For hurumanu, we've been apart of PE & Maths (hurumanu 5) for over a term now. My class works with 2 other classes, Co and Wh. 

Throughout the past 12 weeks, we've worked on multiple different things. One of the main thing's we have focused on is our pulse and heart rate. At the beginning of the 12 weeks, we did the beep test. After that, we did fitness circuits, running laps of the basketball court to see what our heart rate would be at the end. We also looked into our resting heart rate and our heart rate while we were doing activities. We did start the hurumanu off with doing a singular beep test but we have been practising by doing team beep tests but as our hurumanu is finally coming to an end we'll be doing another singular beep test today see how much we've improved.

On the other hand, we also worked on our math. Since our PE hurumanu also ties in with math we were learning about looking at the area of something. Whether it's the netball court or the basketball court. We got big measuring tapes, looked at the width and the length to see what the area is. 

For volume, we also looked at the width and length, but,  what is volume? Volume is a book forming part of a work or series, the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, loudness/quietness, and measurement of liquid. Volume is the amount of space an object takes up. We were given different places to measure so we could conclude the area and volume.

Our fitness circuits would be filled with all sorts of activities that we had to do for 1 minute. Burpees, shuttles, squats, sit-ups, box jumps, skipping, mountain climbers, push-ups, plus more, it was all there. We would have pieces of paper to write down our result. And every time I completed it I saw an improvement in my results.

Reflection

Personally, I really like hurumanu 5 this term. I got to try stuff I hadn't done before, such as the fitness circuit. One of my favourite things to do was the team beep test where there would be at least 4 in a team and they'd each take turns running. 

Have you ever done the beep test before?

Solar Ovens

 Hola! In Science last Thursday we made solar ovens! In groups of 3-4, we got pieces of cardboard, foil, skewers, and tape.

We could shape it however we wanted to. My group covered our whole structure in the foil. Once done, the teacher gave us a biscuit and two marshmallows each to put inside. We went outside and waited. The result took a while to come so we got magnifying glasses to speed up the process. 

We used the reflection coming through the magnifying glass to burn the marshmallows.

Have you ever made a solar oven?

Tongan Language Week

 Hi! In honor of Tongan Language Week, I have made a DLO teaching you some common words and phrases that you can use. I hope you learn something new from my google slide! Have you ever visited Tonga? If not, do you want to?

World War |

Hi! Recently we have been learning about World War I and how it impacted others. We learnt about how it affected women, kids, teachers and the soldiers themself.

Here's a DLO which consists of both, videos & photos which also explains the great depression.

What do you know about World War I?