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Weet-bix Triathlon

WALT Evaluate

Success Critria

Complete Triathlon

The big day has arrived. The Weet-bix triathlon. This is my first time doing the Weet-bix Triathlon. It's a nice sunny day for this big avent. OH my number is 32005. Here's what I have to do; 100 METER SWIM,

4 KILOMITERE BIKE

AND A 1.5 KILOMITERE RUN

I better start warming up

This is my friend Thomas and me warming up. We're practicing our swimming. I am so excited. We start at 10:10, WOW look at the time it's 9:45. I better get ready. It's our turn now. Here as I hop in the pool I feel the chill running through the water. ON YOUR MARKS GET SET GO!!! Here we go racing through the water, I'm doing freestyle as I race through the water, I come out of he pool and I'm running to the Transition Area. I dry myself of then I put on my top and then put on my socks and shoes then I put on my Helmet.  Then a way I go to bike, along the Manawatu river track and  back through the esplanade. Now it's time for the run.

OH MY GOSH it's so hard to run after biking and swimming. Here I come about to finish. FINISHED!!!! 

Now it's time to rest.

Reflection:

I was successful at completing the Weet-bix tryathlon I could of biked a bit faster because I wasn't puffed At the end of the ride

Two stars and a wish Week 8

Learner Dispicitions

I think that I am a Self Managing learner because I can manage my time well

Time: Manage my timetable

Be responsible for my learning.

Choices: Sit in a space that will drive my learning

To be able to move to being a Self Directed learner I must always do the right thing and always be ready for my learning.

Time: To always manage my learning and always be on task

Choices: To always be able to sit somewhere and get my work done

This is what I am going to do to move to being a Self Directed learner: I have to do things by my self

Statistics

Statistics

WALT calculate the mean, median, mode and range for a set of data.

TASK Elly and Troy want to find out once and for all: 

which Activity Group has the overall best score, (mean)

which Activity Group has the highest middle number, (median)

what score was the most common, (mode)

which activity group has the highest range. (range)  

In everyday life people collect data to look for trends and make decisions. In order to analyse the information, we need to understand the different ways to lOOK at the data.

Success Criteria you will know you are successful when: 

calculate the mean by adding up all the data (9 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 8 = 30) then divide the total by how many numbers there were (9, 4, 4, 5, 8 = 5 numbers so 30 ÷ 5 = 6).

calculate the median by ordering all numbers from smallest to biggest then selecting the middle number (4, 4, 5, 8, 9 = 5 is the middle number). If there are 6 numbers e.g. 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, then the median is halfway = 5.5.

calculate the mode by identifying which number occurs most often (4, 4, 5, 8, 9 = 4 because there are two of them). You can have more than one mode.

calculate the range by finding the difference between the highest and lowest numbers (9 - 4 = 5).

Data:  12, 29

Mean:  21

Median 4

Mode 

Range 17

Data:  36, 46, 12, 29, 39, 17, 32, 22, 0, 0, 7, 23

Mean 

Median 22 1/2

Range 46

Mode 0

Reflection:

I was good at getting my data

I reckon I could of thought a bit harder about the Mean, median, mode and range

Camp Diary

WALT Set Smart Goals

Moari Colours

Presentation

WALT: Present

Success Criteria

Know your stuff! Be prepared.

Loud/clear voice so audience can hear

Main points, presenter expanding on this

Make eye contact

Every member participates

Understandable

http://youtu.be/tw_Yy4ds9Tg

Reflection:

I was successful at using a loud voice

I reckon our group could of been more prepared

Raising money for camp

Camp Goals

WALT: Set smart goals.

Success Criteria: Make goals that you can achieve

Reflection:

Make a goal I can achieve

Pepeha

WALT: Express ourselves in Māori

Task: To make our Pepeha and match pictures with it

Stem and leaf Gragh

Jaiden's Reflexes 

WALT: gather, display and discuss data

Success Criteria:  

• Gather relevant information
• Display data on a stem and leaf graph
• Make some conclusions about the data

Task:

To present information about reaction times using a ruler.

Data:

23, 27, 28, 30+, 26, 9, 6, 28, 14, 25

Stem and Leaf Graph:

Sorted Stem and Leaf Graph:

Conclusions:

24cm is the range,

28 is the median,

Assessment:

Self Assessment:

• I can gather relevant information
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• I can display data on a stem and leaf graph
  
  
  
  
  

• I can make some conclusions about the data
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Peer Assessment:

• I can gather relevant information
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• I can display data on a stem and leaf graph
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• I can make some conclusions about the data
  

Two stars and a wish week 5

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle doo

WALT: use rhyming words affectivly

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo

Run run on a hot cross bun

Munch munch on a rabbits lunch

Feel a Ferris wheel

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo

Peel peel a drivers wheel

Fry fry an apple pie

Pull an Irish bull

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo

Kick kick a magic trick

Prey prey on New Years Day

Scare scare a billionaire

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo

Talk talk to roasted pork

Feel feel an orange peel

Play play with china clay

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle,

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle,

Chiddlewaddle Diddlewaddle Doo

Measles

Nearly 40 people in Auckland have recently been diagnosed with the infectious measles disease.

Westlake Boys High School on Aucklands North Shore is one of the hardest hit communities with 20 ill students.

Several other Westlake Boys High pupils who have not been immunised against measles have been asked to stay away for the next two weeks.

Measles is a very serious disease that is highly contagious and can spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

The symptoms include fever, a cough, sore eyes and a rash. There is no treatment, and complications can be severe.

The Auckland Health Service has estimated that around 750 people are at immediate risk of catching the highly contagious disease.

Dr. Julia Peters said the Health Service had been working with the North Shore school for just over a week when the first case of measles was found there.

"This is definitely more than what we'd normally see. We're working hard to contain the measles within the Auckland region."

Dr. Peters said many people who had come down with the disease had recently been overseas and, in particular, in the Philippines.

The public health service has sent information to parents and students at Westlake Boys High and asked that those students who are not sure whether they have been immunised against measles to stay away.

"What we're trying to do is isolate those students as well as those who have measles, because students who are not immunised can get sick," she said.

Another seven cases of measles in Auckland are being investigated - three of them from the same school.

What to watch for Symptoms

* High fever.

* Runny nose, cough, red eyes.

* Small white spots inside mouth.

* Red, blotchy rash on face and neck and later over entire body.

WALT: Analysing an article

Task: Answer questions based on a Newspaper Article.

Success Criteria:

• Show critical thinking in your answers.
• Answer questions in full sentences.
• Use correct spelling and punctuation.

1) How do people contract measles?

If you go near someone with measeles and you don't have the ingection you will catch it.

2) Why do you think so many students at Westlake High School have contracted measles?

I think people from the phillipenes came to Auckland and visited Westlake High School with measles.

3) What is the Auckland Health Services main role in this measles outbreak?

The Aucland Health Service want to keep the measles in Auckland.

4) In the article Dr. Peters said “many people who had come down with the disease had recently been overseas and, in particular, in the Philippines.” Why do you think this is?

The diesese might of started in the Philippines.

5) In your opinion what would be the best way to avoid getting measles?

You could stay away from people that have the diesese.

Use the following criteria to assess yourself and your peer

• Show critical thinking in your answers.
• Answer questions in full sentences.
• Use correct spelling and punctuation.

Self Assessment:

        I recon I was orange because I didn't quite always do a full sentence.

Effort

Peer Assessment: I think you did well and you put a lot of effort.

     

W.A.L.T Read and respond

WALT Read and respond

We had to write a comment on Poutama-Rama blog (link below the comment) I chose to read and respond about how Rebecca set out the library. She made section of books here are some examples: Homour, Family, Fantasy.

Here is my comment below: 

http://poutama-rama.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-max=2014-02-21T02:00:00-08:00&max-results=7

W.A.L.T: Learn

- Believe in ourselves,

- take risks in our learning,

- manage self,

- Display leadership/initiative,

- show integrity,

- strive for excellence,

- be responsible for our learning,

- set challenge learning goals,

- learn from our mistakes,

- show determination at all times,

- work in unity,

- know ourselves as a learner,

- think happy thoughts (positively is the key),

- respect others' rights to learn, to feel safe and be respected,

- practise being a responsible digital citizen,

Reflective Questions to answer.

1. How do you feel about these agreements? Good

2. What parts of it do you particulary like and disklike? Why? Believeing in ourselves because it would make me more determined to get something done.

3. Which agreements will you find easy to follow? Why? Striving for excellence because I like trying my hardest in everything I do.

4. Which agreements will you find difficult to follow? Why? Taking risks in my learning because I hate taking risks, play a different sport to what sport I love.

Milania 5, takes the long way home

Milania Lang is only 5 years old, but she didn't let 6.8km of busy roads get in the way of an epic solo scooter journey.

Milania's intrepid outing began when mum Kamilla took her and two friends, plus Kamilla's 19-year-old niece Danielle, to watch a movie at the Auckland waterfront on a recent busy Sunday.

"We'd been at the Lantern Festival and I'd heard there was a kid's movie on at the Wynyard Quarter. So I decided to take the children to see it."

With the three children and Danielle, Kamilla went to an information centre on the waterfront to ask about the film.

"They were only about a metre behind me. I thought Milania was just an arm's reach away." But setting out for Princes Wharf, Kamilla realised Milania was missing.

"I asked the others if they knew where she was; but they didn't. So we started frantically looking." But Milania was nowhere to be seen.

Security staff reviewed CCTV footage, which revealed Milania had looked away at the moment the others went into the centre and it showed her looking around, confused, and scootering off in the opposite direction. 

Kamilla called the rest of Milania's family and they came immediately to join the search. After about an hour, the police were called.

One of the officers asked if there was any chance of Milania having gone home. Kamilla thought it unlikely but went with an officer to their home almost 7km away.

"I left the other children with my friend, and drove home in the car. The officer said it was time for us to alert the media and get a helicopter out. That really hit me hard."

They arrived at the family home, but Milania was nowhere to be seen. As they were driving back, a policewoman saw a small child four doors from the home, sitting on a footpath.

"She asked me 'is that her'," said Kamilla. And it was and she was very tired and quiet, but calm. The first thing she said to me was 'you lost me Mum'!

Milania explained she'd lost sight of the group and thought they must have headed home. "So she decided to scooter home to find us. She had to cross some of Auckland's busiest streets all by herself."

Milania's journey is all the more remarkable as she has been to the Wynyard Quarter only two or three times this summer.

Asked if she was scared or sad during her epic journey, Milania responded: "I cried, but just a little."

Comprehension Questions

WALT: Analysing an article

Record your responses to the following questions on your blog. (Think about a suitable title) 

1) Do you think Milania did the right thing? Sort of. What could she have done instead? Keeped up with her mum.

2) What are some potential dangers that Milania faced? Crossing roads, Going home, Busy, Not talking to strangers

3) Define Frantically and what is another word for it that you could use. Looking fast