Swimming

LI: To learn how to swim safety in water. 

For 3 weeks the Y8 & Y7 groups went to the YMCA pools in Panmure to learn how to swim safely in the water. We were split into 2 groups that depends on how confident we are and how unconfident we were in water. To get into the pool safely we put both hands on one side and entered slowly without splashing. We also learnt that if you are stuck out at sea you can use your life jacket to float if your arms are to tired. Another way you can float and keep warm is to curl up into a ball.     

Ancient Olympics

 LI: To skim and scan to find facts about the Ancient Olympics and make notes in my own words.

This week our focus in reading was about the ancient olympics.The ancient olympics started in greek and was inspired to create our mordern olympics nowdays. Using the site prezi we were able to make an intersting presentation about the ancient olympics. We needed to inculed facts, who participated ect. After we completed this presentation we were asked to present our learning to the class. We did this in our inqiury groups.

Here is the link to our presentation.

Hauora

 LI: To understand what hauora is and what it means to athletes past and present

This week for inquiry our focus was about hauora.Hauora is the Maori belief of your physical and mental health and wellbeing. Hauora is like a house, in order for the house to stand you will need all four walls. They are tapa whanau - family, tapa Hingeroa - emotions and mind, tapa wairoa - religious/belief and tapa Tinana - your physical wellbeing. In this DLO we had to talk about what Hauora would look like if you were an athlete competing in the oly

Hauora olympics

 Hauora olympics

Athletes know how to win without showing off to the other Athletes. They also know how to lose without having a bad thought on losing to the other Athletes, they can just be happy with what they have and know what they did is good enough. And don't be angry, you just need to be proud of what you have done for your family, your country and yourself.

By Carter and Akuhata.

Coding with Pythons.

 LI: To see and understand the connection between the written code, the block code and the flow chart.  

This is the comparison between the Python coding, the blocks and the flowchart for making the Microbit act like a dice.

Link to DLO

Mindfulness Reflection #1

 LI: To understand the meaning behind the pause breathe smile program.

This week we had our first session of the Pause Breathe Smile program. Our learning was based on having a calm mindset. We were introduced to this program by first defining what the word mindfulness is. Then we defined it and shared our different definitions with others.

After talking about mindfulness we were introduced to the red zone and the green zone. They are two different zones. The red zone is when you feel stressed,anxious,distracted and others. The green zone is when you feel calm, relaxed, peaceful, curious, clear, balanced, content and engaged.

We were balancing our mind set by forgiving bad things that happened in the past and calming our mind down and focusing on the present. To do this we sat in a circle and listened to the bell while breathing in and out, this helped us relax and focus on positive things.

I enjoyed this session because we learnt about having a positive mindset and about being mindful of others. During this session I learnt how to Pause, Breathe and Smile and calm my mind.    

Adding Maths decimals

 LI: To understand how to add decimals

For this DLO , Afa Liletina and I worked collabortivtley , shared our opinions , to understand the stagatey we are working on, For our groups we were understanding the stragtey we learnt for the past few days. 

I really enjoyed learning this activty as I learnt how to use decimals also knowing how to use it. We also worked collabortivtly to understand where we start from and how we can get the answer. We first watched videos to understand what we first needed to do , to try and get the correct answer to the right question.