Early NZ Explorers

Kupe and Cook are two important explorers in New Zealand's history

Kupe arrived in NZ in the 1100's. He travelled by traditional methods on a traditional sailboat. He followed a giant Octopus. He did this voyage to find new land for this people to live. His wife named NZ Aotearoa after seeing mountains under the clouds.

Captain Cook found Aotearoa on the 6th of October 1769 . Captain Cook was sent by the royal navy. to map New Zealand.He travelled by his ship named Bark Endeavour. He got to the distance by following the birds.

Kupe is important because he was the first documented person in NZ. Cook is important because he mapped NZ and opened it up to the world to access.

Compound Sentences

L.I - To write a meaningful and interesting COMPOUND sentences


For writing we had to learning how to write 2 simple sentences by creating  google slide. A compound sentence is two simple simple sentences stuck together with a comma and a conjunction. My work is shown below.

Rippa Rugby

Yesterday was our second session of rippa rugby. Year 4,5,6 went across the road to marist but we went closer to the club because other schools were playing softball.

First we playing the activity catching and passing the ball to others. 

After this activity we had played a game in a square where you have to try and ripe the peoples tags and if you rip both of the tag then they are out or if they or some else ripes you twice then that makes you out. We playing 2 games of this game.

Finally we playing a real game of rippa. The teams were green and red. The winning team was both of us. The points were 1-1. The green team would of won but of player went out with the ball.  

L.I - To learn basics of rippa rugby

Maths | Thinkboard

L.I - To learn how to solve problem using math sources

This week for Maths I completed my think board. This think board is a maths resource which has diagrams to drawing,equations to solve and we also have to show how we solved 75 + 4, lastly we had to write a problem. The topic was counting on.

Keywords

Keywords are words that help to research specific information about a chosen topic. They can also give appropriate information to young learners. 

Keywords can be used to find information that is understandable and readable by children.

Keywords are for narrowing down the information gained by an internet search.

Keywords are useful tools that should be used in every search.

L.I - To identify keywords to search for information about Marco Polo.  

Explorers & Adventurers

Explorers & Adventurers are people who travel and discover new things.

Explorers are people who travel to find new things and record them for the country such as Sir Edmund Hillary,Captain James Cook,David Livingstone & Sir Peter Blake.

Adventurers are people who travel to take or show something for themselves such as Amelia Earhart,Jane Goodall,Zheng He & Maona.

Explorers & Adventurers need to have or show many different attitudes and attribute such as confident because It's important to be confident so you can understand what's wrong and what's right and risk taker because it is good to be a risk taker because you can stand up to a bully or try new things like climbing Mount Everest.

Both explorers and adventurers  travel to new places and need similar qualities  although their goals are different.

LI:To learn about explorers and adventurers

Illegal & Legal Images

A legal image is something that can be used with permission by the law.

 Image creators give legal permission to use their images by adding shared license.

It's important to use legal images to help creators, and so users don't get into trouble. 

One way of finding legal images is making sure that image users are taking is free or is isn't copyrighted.

L.I - To identify Illegal and legal images.