My Family

 We have been learning to introduce our family in Te Reo. (Maori.)

I am proud of myself because in recording I'm shy but now I'm not!

Weet-Bix Tryathlon

Hi it's Sophie here, I didn't go to school on Thursday, 24th March because I went to the Weet-Bix tryathlon . It was held around the Esplanade in Palmy. I started to do training before I broke my arm (But that's another story and I don't have a broken arm any more.) I practiced running, cycling and even had extra swimming lessons.
 It was a very wet day. Me and my mum cycled to the event. My dad joined us before my race  started. After we signed in, we looked around, played some games where I won prices, had breakfast at the Weet-Bix tent. Later we found the Russell St school tent where I met Florence, Cam, Tui, Kate, Emily and Blake. I was  in the green team. First we went swimming (50m.) then cycling (4km.) and running last (1.5km.) I did well with cycling and running I didn't need to stop. My parents are very proud of me. I'm proud of myself too. I was glad I finished. 2200 kids were doing the Weet-Bix triathlon ages 7-15. I think I was AWESOME!!!!!!!! I was a little puffed out. I did my best. I'm happy for my medal too.

My Learning Goals

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Today we looked through our reports from last year. We identified a next step (goal) for reading, writing and maths. Here are my goals:

Maths: My next learning step is to be able to read and add decimals.

To achieve this goal I will: Practise adding money (dollars & cents)

Reading: My next step is to improve her comprehension and understanding of the text.

To achieve this goal I will: Talk about what I read.

Writing: My next step is to add a variety of language features into her writing.

To achieve this goal I will: Include similes, metaphors, direct speech, etc. for effect.

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We also looked at our STAR results.

• Word recognition I got 10 out of 10.
• Sentence comprehension I got 9 out of 10.
• Paragraph comprehension I got 13 out of 15.
• Vocabulary I got 3 out of 10.

I am going to focus on: Vocabulary & Paragraph Comprehension

To improve in this area I will: Use the links on our class blog.

Active Listening

We are learning about different types of listening. There are 3 main types of listening that we learnt about. Busy Listening - When the person listening is busy doing something. They are too busy to concentrate on what is being said. Me Too Listening - When the person listening has a story that they feel is more important than the person talking so they interrupt and share their story instead of listening. Active Listening - When the person listening looks at the person talking, concentrates, gives non-verbal feedback (e.g. nodding) and asks questions about the story. To learn about the different types of listening, we watched this video:

 

 As a class we created our own video to help us understand the different types.
After practising each type of listening, we realised…

• Busy listening makes us feel like you’re not listening to us. We found it really hard to keep talking. 
• Me too listening makes us feel frustrated and sad that you think your story is more important. 
• Active listening makes us feel valued. We know you are listening because you are looking, nodding, asking questions. 

 As a class we are all trying to get better at being active listeners.

Music

In music with Jenny we are learning to play in a band. We are all learning different instruments and we are working on our rhythm. Check out our videos:

My Reflection: 

Swimming Goal

 You can see on the video what my goal is. If the video is to short I will write my goal. My goal is to keep my chin on my chest. This video is all about Sophie's swimming goal. Do you think I'm a little bit good at swimming? I think I am good. But only a little bit. Well that is what I think.
GOAL REFLECTION

I need to work on my goal because 4-3 weeks later I had a broken arm. But don't be sad I don't have a  broken arm anymore. so I will try to make my chin stuck on my chest. (I don't mean stuck like stuck in mud or something.) I wander what your swimming goal is. (If you are in room six.)

Swimming Sports (Lido)

Tuesday: I didn't go swimming because I had a broken arm. (I do not have a broken arm now.) It wasn't that fun watching other people swimming but I did eat yummy food when I was watching people swim. I was feeling a little left out. no-one would make me happy. would you want to be alone, left out & stuff? you can see that I don't like it. (If you want to know.)

After we went swimming we went to the Esplnade. I played in the shade because I didn't have a hat at the Esplnade. Rebecca, Riya and Sahina played with me. I don't remember what we played in the shade. I did have fun playing with my friends. I want to play there again with my friends. It was awesome with my friends without my friends I would be alone. Made on Thursday

HEXAGONS MATHS PRACTICE (WITH BRENDA.)

MONDAY: With Brenda we learnt how to split numbers in times tabels.We learnt a new way to do maths (Times tabels.) We had animals in a number lie 9 6 & more. so they had a doted line to help us split the animals. we made a video & we hope you like it.We did work on it hard. You will know how we really did it. MADE ON MONDAY (WITH NO HELP.) Sophie U.

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