Duffy Visit

On Tuesday it was Duffy Assembly. This person is a person that makes comic books.his name was Micheal Muliopu. he is also illustrates.

 The first thing he talked about was his drawings. He didn't go to art school because it was too expensive and because they don't really do comic drawings. So what he did was think of what he would draw and draw it. My favorite art work that he showed us was spider man. It was all kinds of spider-mans. My favorite one was ham-Spider-man who was a pig.

What he can also do is illustrate. Some books that he made was about WWE. One was was made with Samoa Joe. After doing that WWE invited him back to make another book. He said that he enjoyed it because he got to draw John Cena. he has also illustrated a book called Samoan Heroes. He also made a book about Tongan and Cook Island  Heroes.

A fact about him is that he is a wrestler. he said that he met one of his Idols. We got to see him in his mask that he uses to wrestle in. He was on e of the last people to be in .

I enjoyed meeting him Because I met someone that has made comics.

          

Time Vocabulary

L.I is to learn time Vocabulary.
Today I have made a slide talking about time vocabulary. In this slide we had to tell what we use this for in math and what it is. The words that I found out about was Digital time, Analogue Time, minute, Second and hours. I also done examples for them.

I enjoyed doing this because I got to learn more stuff about time vocabulary.

Writing

LI: to identify the structure and language features of a procedural text.
This week in Writing we had to make three posters about making them. This connects to making procedures because it tells you. The first poster is about Getting from Panmure bridge to The auckland airport. The Next one is about a noodle bridge. The last on was about making Plain Scones. We also We had to put them in order from Title to Methods and Images. My favourite one to make was Plain Scones. I really enjoyed doing this because this task was really easy and because I learnt something about plain scones. The thing that was really hard for me was that I had to make three posters

Kiwi Sport | Swimming

Today In Kiwi Sport we have been learning how to swim safely in water. I have enjoyed doing this terms Kiwi Sport because e get to learn new skills is water. Our teacher for this weeks Kiwi Sport was Helen.

The First thing we did was answer Questions. Helen Asked us questions and we had to answer them. The First question was What do you do when you are stuck in a rip? when you are stuck in a rip first you put your hand straight in the air and call for help. What part of the pool do you swim in? you swim between the flags. What is it called when you get really cold? Hypothermia.

After answering questions we got on to sculling. When we skull we put our hands straight together and dive into the water and paddle with your legs. We had to scull to the other platform and swim back to the platform we started on. We done that three times.

When we finished doing that we had to feet first with your hands sculling. You use this strategy when you are in a river . You use this in a river because your legs can help you bump off the rocks. We done that two times going to the other platform and to the platform we started on.

After that we had to dive and get these rubber duckies in the water. It was two at a time. For me it was Me and Lukah. It was really fun to dive.

After we finished doing that we started to do treeding. You can use treading when you are in deep water. We got a noodle and but it at the back of us. We ha to treed for three minutes. We thought that it was hard but when we tried it, It was not that bad. After that we had to treed without the noodle for one minute. We done surprisingly good.

Defensive structure

This week on Tuesday we had a special guest come in. his name was called Mr Chang. Mr Chang Is a person that works for Defense force. He came to our class to talk about Bombs, Explosives and guns. We could have also called him Issac because he felt old when He got called Mr Chang. 
First what we talked about was defensive mechanism. We talked about it being camouflaged. Camouflage means something that blends in. 

Next what we talked about was bombs. The first bomb we saw was a dumb-bomb. A dumb-bomb is a bomb that has no control and just drops so that is why they call it dumb-bomb. After talking about that we talked about Smart-bombs. Yes the smart-bomb is controlled. The difference is of the shape. The smart-bomb is longer. We also watched a video talking about bombs and explosives. We also had to see the shape of it.

After that we got to be in groups of five. The activity we had to do is make something safe for the toy helicopter so it doesn't get blown away.  The equipment that we used was straws, paper, tape and scissors. at first we didn't know how to do this and then we thought ov'e an Idea. Lucky our one survived. We were so happy that it survived.

I have enjoyed doing this because I got to learn more and got to do an activity using straws and paper.

Making a road

Today in Inquiry we have been learning about roads. Today I actually made a road. This road took a lot of work Me, Angelica, Alayah and Florence were working on the road really hard.

The equipment that we used was cardboard, Tape, straws and toothpick.

First we got split into to groups of four. The people in my group was Florence, Angelica and Alayah. We had to choose someone to go and work on the foundation. The person we choose was alayah. After that we had to get a tray. There was mini lambos to test it out. We only had forty minutes to do it so it was intense. We also had to use all of the cardboard.

First to make this we used the tape to connect all of the cardboard together. we got one of the mini cars to test it out. It was successful. After that It kept on going out so We but speed bumps. We got another mini car to test it. some of it was successful but some wasn't. After that we went and added barrier with the straw. we needed a lot of tape to do this.

When the time was over we had to carry the road out outside. When we were taking it outside it started to fall apart but when we got to the grass. We also saw a lot of other peoples roads. They looked really good. We could not touch the foundation or it would be messed up. The foundation was sand.

When it was our turn everyone thought that a car wouldn't make it. But until the first car made it proved everyone wrong. We only got one car to the other side but Our work was really good.

I enjoyed this because I got to work with people that I haven't worked with and I got to build my own road and I could decide what I want to do with it.

Kiwi Sport

L.I is to be safe in water.
This term for Kiwi sport we have been learning how to swim. Swimming is really important because If you are in danger in water you can use the things that the swimming teachers have taught us. We swim at the YMCA pools.

In swimming our teaching wa Geoffrey. First he took the role. He didn't know how to pronounce it so we just said our names. The first thing that Geoffrey taught us was swimming with the board. To swim with the board we had to but or fingers on the tip of the board and paddle to the other side. While you are doing that you also have to but your face underwater because it will make you go faster. We tried it one more time.

The next thing that we did is arm stroking on the board. To arm stroke you need to but your fingers to one side and but your thumb on the other side. Them arm stroked. Arm stroke is when you but one arm backwards around and do it with the other hand. when we did Arm strokes we still had to keep our head down so that we could go faster. We tried it two times to the other platform.

After that we went to the deeper side. On the deeper side we had to do Treading. You use treading if you are going to drown. To tread you have to but your legs in circles and your hands palm in and out. we had to do in thirty seconds without touching the ground.

Another way of doing it is by floating on your back. To float on you back you have to lift yourself of water. We also had to do that in thirty seconds. We took turns one by one.

Later after we finished that we went to the little kids pool. We all had to hold hands and be in a circle. we had to be careful of the walls our we could of hit our heads so there was swimming teachers to supervise.
This week I have learned in Kiwi Sport is how to arm stroke on a board and to tread  for thirty seconds. The hardest one for me I think is the thirty seconds of treading because my legs started to get tired when I was treading.