Catch Me If You Can- Defense

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 thing I think I have done well YELLOW and one thing I would like to work on PINK.

Body:

WALT: Defensive skills and movements

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 thimk my defences & my blog is cool and I hope it stays that way.

Feedback/Feedforward: you can make the link work and tell people what the pink and yellow.

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Descriptive Sentences

A boy went to the super market. A girl walked to the super market

2 Stars & A Wish

This is my 2 stars & a wish.

Title: 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? Yes. How do you know? Because I got on with it & had breakfast  then got dressed.

2.  What are you most proud of from the marae stay and why? The game with Stephen because it was loads of fun.

3.  What challenged you the most and why? The challenge with ebony because it was really hard.

Title: Position and Orientation

Description: We have been learning about Position and Orientation with Eb. It is a part of our learning about Geometry at maths time.

WALT: give and follow directions using, left, right, up, down, North, South, East and West

Questions:

1. What major landmarks can you see from the Plaza? Bus stop, And city Library.

2. What is the closest landmark North-West from McDonalds? UNITED VIDEO.

3. What direction is the Arena from United Video? South West.

4. After the doctors I turn right down Victoria Ave and turn right at the round about. I travel South-West until the main road. Turn left. Follow road and stop at the 3rd right turn.Travel South-West and stop at the bottom corner of the square. What am I doing?...

a) Going Shopping ☑️        
b) Getting a Sandwich at Subway        
c) Getting a library book        
d) Hiring a DVD


5. Create your own instructions for someone to follow using the language you have learned.

At McDonald's go north west up Princess st. Turn second left onto Main st. Go down Main st. To the side of the square. Where are you?

A) Going on the bus

B) Going shopping

C) Getting a DVD

Feedback/feedfoward: I liked how you took the Picture of the map. Next time you could make the picture a little bit lighter. Kai.

Evaluation: I thought it was very fun because I knew it would be helpful when I am lost in the wild. I think I could give directions to other people. 

My Swimming Goals T1 2015

Description: For the next 5 weeks. We are swimming 3 times a week. We want to set a SMART goal so we are focused when we go swimming.



SMART goal:
My swimming goal is backstroke I have to push my tummy up to kick faster. I am going to be successful by practising keeping my tummy up so that I can kick faster.  I will be successful by the end of term.

Evaluation: It is hard to keep my tummy up doing backstroke next time I can work on keeping my tummy up as long as I can.

Story Telling

Purpose: create a story to share orally

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

This is my story telling video.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/393fcf_FPZU

Success Criteria:

• Between 1 and 2 minutes long

• Using your voice to make sounds effects

• Using your whole body to make actions

• Use your face to tell a story through facial expression

• Knowing the story, knowing the setting

• Get the picture into your listener’s head

• Stay in character - keep your composure.

• Audience participation

• Unique and original (Hook your audience)

  
  

  Evaluation:

  I need to work on making my voice louder & I was really scared becuase I thought no one would like it. I need to work on staying still & then the second time I do it I won't be that scared. 

2 Stars & A Wish

Week three term 1.

Stuck movies

We watched a funny video of two people were stuck on a escalator. Then we had to make our own stuck movie.

Atlanta, Ross and zac's stuck movie

Criteria: (Content)

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

Criteria: (Movie)

• Light - Make sure the sun isn’t creating a hard to see clip. 
• Voice Volume - Needs to be louder than other background volume eg Noise, Kids.
• Frame - What’s in the frame to make your message obvious. 
• 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/feedfoward: I think you did well with the ability to not act but I think you could work on speaking louder. Houston.

Maths Test

Hi my maths test was easy & I had no problem at all. I didn't get to complete it. I had a stage 4 test & the pink highlighted things are my goal to practice the one that are highlighted yellow are the ones I know straight away.

Goal: I will practice my Basic addition facts  twice a day. I want to get my goal finish by next week. I will know I have finished my goal by someone asking me a bunch of questions & I get them all right. Then I can tick the prove it box.

Reading Book Review

Title: The Skateboarder's Club.

By Ilene Richard & Helen Strahinich.


What is it about? The skateboarder's club is about making a big skateboarder's club so they can sgining a request  asking the city to allow a skate park to be built.

What do they do? They skateboard in the city


Exciting moment in the story? Adding a new person in the club.


The main people? Ivan Viola Lia Mum.

Inquiry With Nic

WALT Develop ideas, skills and concepts in drama

1. Focus - become the character, placement, patience. Sometimes.
2. Accept Ideas and build on them. No.
3. Levels - make it interesting for the viewer. No.
4. Space - balanced, using a mixture of all the space, don’t bunch up. Yes
5. Finish on time. Yes.
6. Be Spontaneous. I don't know.
7. Centre stage - main idea is always in this position. I don't know. 
8. Contribute and participate. I don't know.

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of? I am proud of my moves for my tree & my sound. Why? Because I think they are very good.

2. What did you find challenging? The thing that challenged me the most was the sounds for the meteor. Why? Because I keep on getting muddle up with my meteor sounds.

3.  My next ‘Get It’ goal is? To focus more. Why? Because I am a little silly in my group.

Maths Sample

WALT: Extand a repeating picture pattern & use number strategies to think ahead.

Description: For maths this term we have been learning a range of strategies to help us solve algebra problems. 

Task:  Make a short movie to prove that you have achieved your maths goal.

Criteria:

Show, explain, prove your goal and how you did it

Clear message

Two questions to show your learning

Correct answer

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? I am proud of my post because I think it is very good I think I desrive a pat on the back.

What challenged you the most and why? Making the photo because it was a bit hard to come up with the question for my photo.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Continue a number pattern & find the rule for finding the next number.

Feedback/Feedforward: 

I like how you state how you felt about your maths sample.

I would like you to explain why you felt those reasons.

My Important Thing

W.A.L.T: Write simple sentences.

Description: I read the important book & my writing class are making our own important book with our important things.

Writing: The important thing about a i-pad is you can take it anywhere. You can download lots of games. Have fun with it. Play with friends. Work with it. But the important thing about a i-pad is you can take it anywhere.


Evaluation:

What are you most proud of  & why ? I am proud of my writing because I think it is very great.

What challenged you the most & why ? The thing that challenged me the most was the ideas for my writing because if I didn't think really hard I could of not come up with my ideas.

What can you approve on next time ? Make a bigger story.


Feedback/Feedforward: Nice writing Ross a lot of explaining but you could get your first draft and your picture but exsiped from that this is really good. From Fraser.

Role On The Wall

http://youtu.be/GXOTdw9IElk

Epic Food Fight

WALT:  respond.

Description:  This term we have been responding to a range of articles/stories and we realised that the way we were responding was difficult for anyone else to understand.  We have been practising writing our responses in full sentences so that anyone who reads them understands us.

Task:  Read the article “La Tomatina” and answer the questions below.

1.  What festival is held in Spain every August? The festival in Spain is called the La Tomatina.

2.  What do people do during the festival? The people during the festival squeeze a tomato & throw it at someone.

3.  How many tomatoes are used in the most epic food fight ever? 100 tons of tomatoes are used in the most epic food fight.

4.  When and why did the festival start? The festival started at 1944. Why did the festival start  because one of the city’s councilmen was attack with tomatoes. 

5.  Would you like to visit Bunol, Spain on the last Wednesday of August next year? I would not want to vist Bunol, Spain on the last Wednesday of August.  Why or why not? Why because I hate getting messy & I hate tomatoes.

Criteria:

I can answer questions using full sentences (I steal part of the question to put in my answer.)

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? I'am proud of my answers because I think they are verey verey good.

What challenged you the most and why? The thing that challenged me the most was putting part of the question into the answers.

Feedback/Feedforward: I think you have done a great job of answering the questions Ross and stealing part of the question for your answer. Well done for going back and fixing up spelling and capital letters. Charlotte.

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Criteria:
Draw the Learning Pit.
List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit. Hard challenged flustered.
List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.
Label where good learning happens. In the pit.
List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.


Evaluation:
Reflect on a time when you have been in the pit.
How did you feel when you were in the pit? Worreyed because I was scared from not finishing my learning pit post.
What did you do to work out of the pit? I kept my head all the time when I was doing my post.

Feedback/Feedforward: great use of colour to help with the readers understanding.

Always check to see if you have covered all the criteria points. Sue.

Māori poster

WALT: communicate a message.

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts.  We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.

Why? We have noticed that our posters are too cluttered and do not communicate a  message well.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message. 

Composition:  My poster is balanced. 

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? I am proud of the way I put the colour of my text boxes because I think I did a good job of the colour so think I need a pat on the back.

What challenged you the most and why? The thing that challenged me the most was the size of the text boxes because I really want to let people see the background.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Learn more māori words at home so I can learn more words.

Feedback/Feedforward: I like the way the maori is so bold. But you could make the little words bigger.

Kobe.

Reading

Grass hopper tennis sample

WALT: improve our small ball skills like catching, throwing, and hitting.

Description: We have been participating in a tennis programme with Big John (John Salisbury) from Tennis Manawatu. He has taught us some tennis skills that help with controlling and hitting the ball. To reflect on how we are going with the tennis skills we have learnt. We will share this during our Student Led Conference. Week 8. The World.

Task: complete the rubric with targets to show your reflection. Make a comment to the questions below?

Evaluation:

1.     What are you most proud of and why? I'm proud of my hitting because I am using all of my stringth to hit the high in the sky & when it comes down the other team will miss the ball so I can win.

2.     What challenged you the most and Why? The slice the cheese one because I keep on missing the ball.

3.      Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? To practice at home so I can be better at slice the cheese.