Swimming/T2W3

Today I practice my water safety skills at the lagoon pool.

The first skill I practiced was kicking while using a kick board in the water.

Then I practiced a streamline with both of our arms together behind our ears.

Lastly I did a backstroke while kicking my feet and with my chest and chin up.

I got better at backstroke, but I need to improve my kicking.

LI.To  develop knowledge of water safety.

Figurative & Literal Language.

           This week for writing we learned about Figurative & Literal Language.

What figurative & literal language?

Figurative language is a sentence with a hidden message like the house is red.

Literal is a sentence has  no hidden messages like I've got your back. .

We were Leaning about Simile,Metaphor,Hyperbole,Personification,Understatement,

Simile is a sentence comparing something using like or as.

Metaphor is comparing two things without using like or as.

Hyperbole is when you exaggerate an emotion or event.

Understatement is when expression with less strength than expected.

Personification is giving humans trait and qualities.

Rahi and the Patupaiarehe

This week we are learning about summarizing

What is a summarizing? 

Summarizing is where you talk about the main points/main idea of the text

I learnt how to summarize a text by doing story web by talking about the main ideas of the story.

In the events I used my visualizing piece of paper from 2 weeks ago to help me remember each event that happened in the book.

I used my character inference to use adjectives and evidence to help summarize different parts. Using good adjectives unlocks meaningful information, and I can summarize quicker.

Swimming/Tearm 3 session 1

Today year six had their first session for swimming.They learned lots of thing for their first swimming lesson.Their first swimming lesson was how to do a swimming pool entry.Doing the pool entry you have to sit on you bottom and put your hands where it is a plat form next to you then you twist your body to see if the pool is deep or not deep.

They learned many thing like:

• Safe pool entry
• Freestyle
• Streamline
• Float board
• Side stroke
• Dolphin dive

Freestyle is when you put your hands at the back of your head and move back and forward.

Streamline is when you put to wide arms behind your ears like a mermaid.

Float board is something that helps as swim.

Dolphin dive is when you swim like a mermaid.

Tangrams

Today  I learned how to make a tangrams.I rearranged the pieces to make animal shapes.
First I made a square piece of paper because tangrams are made with a big square.Then I folded  the square into a various shapes and cut them out. Lastly, I tried to make different animal shapes from the tangram pieces.

I challenge my self to make a tangram in to a square.

Reading / Me and my dog.

This week we are learning about Right there question,Think and search, Author and you, And on my own question.

We are learning and putting  sentences in order to see if it goes in the right place.we put sentences in to  Right there question,Think and search, Author and you, And on my own question.


Right there question is when you find the answer in the book.

Think and search is in different place to find the answer.

Author and you is not in the book but can use your prier knowledge to get the answer.

on my own question is using your own words to get the answer.

Kiwi sport / vollyball

This week for vollyball we learnd about how to dig.

First put your left foot in the frount and your right foot at the back.

Next put your hands  together and put your thums together.

And only use your dig when the ball is going  down.