Maori Performance

 We watched a performance that was did by a Kapa Haka group. 

The first thing that happened was them doing an entrance ceremoney. They used a conch to let the people notice them coming in. The Kapa Haka group introduced three weapons then they used in a dance.

After that Kapa Haka group finshed doing the haka the our school Kapa Haka group did the haka. After all that we played a game called Matau-Maui. There is more information about Matau-Maui.

I enjoyed the performance and my favourite part was the part when the two groups did the haka.

Touch Rugby

The first thing we did to before playing a game of touch rugby we practise 3 man settles and two man settles. If your attack the main thing is driving foward down the field because it makes the defense offside and tired. Make sure you go drive foward to the same player cause they will get tired easily.

The first skill that we practise was 3 man settles. First you run up get touched, put it on the ground for the dummy half, then dummy half picks up and then passes it to the next player.

The next we practise was 2 man settle and 2 man settles are basically like 3 man settle but only with two players. First you run up get touched, put it on the ground for the dummy half, then lastly pass it back to the sae player who got touched.

After practising those drills we got split into three teams and then player a game of touch rugby. It was really fun playing a game of touch.

I enjoyed playing a game of touch and I need to improve myself. I enjoyed it because I scored and got a intercept.

 

Fractions, Percentages & Decimals

Fractions are equal pieces of a whole. In a fraction there is a denominator and a numerator. The numerator is the amount kept and the denominator is the whole divided. For example: I have 2 / 4, the numerator is 

the number two and the denominator is the number 4.

Here is two numbers, 32 and 24. What is 2 / 3 of 24. The answer is 16. It's 16 because, 24 divide a by 3 is 8 and 8 x 2 equals 16 . What is 3/16 of 32. The answer is 6 . It's 6 because, 32 divide a by 16 is 2 and 2 x 3 equals 6. An improper fraction is 7 /3. 1 / 2 can be 2 / 4 and 2 / 4 can be 4 / 8.

Percentages is a rate, number, or a amount of each hundred. 1 / 4 of 100 percent is 25 percent. 

A decimal number can be defined as a number whose whole number part and the fractional part is separated by a decimal point. The digits following the decimal point shows a value smaller than one. The decimal point is just the dot in the middle of the number.

Fractions, percentages, and decimals are helpful when trying to figure out maths equation.

Emergency Shelter

The inquiry task was to write down the materials that are needed for the storm shelter that is going to be built.                                                       

In total there are 9 materials that could protect against storm shelter. There are three main materials that are important to use for protecting the shelter and which are concrete, chicken wires, and rubber bracelets. We chose concrete because it is not easy to break apart. We chose chicken wires because it can keep the shelter stable. We chose rubber bracelets because it can stop electricity.

The other six materials are: cotton balls, aluminum, popsicle sticks, duck tape, hard plastic, and steel.  All 9 materials are important for defending the shelter and could be useful for something in danger.

We figured out the amount was because we drew the shelter and drew our materials. We kept on filling the whole until it was finished. For example: For concrete, the height is 18cm and the width is 20cm. There are four walls and the floor. So there are five and five places to use the concrete. That’s how we figured out the concrete can be used.

Emergency shelters are really important when it comes to floods and different kinds of storms.

Maori Names

 Today we matched Maori names with English names. For example: Raniera - Daniel and Maaka - Mark. We couldn't use Maori dictionary this time. 

The first activty we did was Maori names. There are some letters that are not in the Maori alphabet. J is H, D is t, D and L is r, and V is W.

The next activity we did was Maori conversations. There was a Maori sentence and we had to translate it into English. For example: Kei te haere au ki te kāinga o Mr Smith i tēnei rā, - I’m going to Mr Smith’s home today,

Nō reira, kia ora koutou katoa. - So, congratulations to you all.

I learnt new names today in Maori and enjoyed these two activites. I enjoyed those two activities because it helped me know different names in maori. 

Kiwisport - Touch

 For touch we recapped two main skills in touch rugby which was two man and three man settle.

The first skill we practised was three man settle. If practising a three man settle first you run up, get touched and then plant the ball on the ground for the dummy half to pick up and then pass to the next person.

The second skill we practised was two man settle. If practising a two man settle first you run up, get touched and then plant the ball for the dummy half to pick up and pass it to the same person who got touch. We kept on practising these skills to get used to it. 

After that we played a game of touch. We got split up into three teams. Two teams will play and then other team would be watching them playing. There were people that didn't know how to play but it's fine, they are still learning how to play.

I enjoyed this session today at touch rugby.

Maths ~ Averages

We had an atheltics result. We had to add all the numbers up for each team. After we added the total points for each team we then added it all together. We could use repeated addition or multiplication. Multiplication is better but I did repeated addition. 

After adding everything up we had to try and find the averages of these numbers: 182, 186, and 174. Two teams got 182 points.

We had to divide the number by 9. We founded the average by simple divsion. For example:

182 divide a by 9 equals 20.2 . We had to round the decimal point. The numbers that make the decimal point go up is 5,6,7,8,9. 

The numbers that make the decimal point go down is 4,3,2,1.