About the Gas Giant ( Jupiter ) and the Solar System

Today we read an article to try and understand words that related to our topic of the solar system and the orbit that the planets take. The article that we read was about Jupiter, Facts about Jupiter its Orbit. The part that I found easy about this task was Making a diagram to show all of the planets orbits around the sun and in our solar system. The part that I found hard was answering and finding a definition for the words that some of the questions were asking us to find a definition for. I found this pretty hard because we were supposed to read a whole text about jupiter but I just skimmed and skimmed through the text to get a rough idea about what the text was about. I think that next time I should read through the whole text because maybe that could help me more with answering the questions and having a better definition for each of the words. I found this task really good because it helped me to understand a bit more about Jupiter that I Didn't know before reading the text like Jupiter has sixty three or more moons just for oneplanet.

Kiwisport T1W9

For this weeks kiwisport one half of our class was playing Tennis and the other half was learning how to play volleyball with our teacher Ms Komor.  For Tennis we were having rallys one on one with our partners and our peers I thought that it was very fun playing Tennis with our friends trying to beat them and having fun with them . I really liked Tennis this week because everytime that I looked around when I wasn't playing I could see everyone having fun and laughing with their peers and that they were having a good time having rallys on different parts of the courts. I also really liked having kiwisport because of our instructor Peter. I really liked having Peter at our school because he was a fun , energetic guy who liked to have fun playing Tennis with the kids and teaching them new skills for Tennis.

I think that I did most things well just working on not hitting the ball so hard that the person on the other side of the court couldn't hit it or get it.  Because I found that whenever they hit the ball to me hard I ether could not hit it because it was to high or they just hit it to fast for me to hit and I would do the same thing back. And communicating with the other people around me because I would ask for the ball and they wouldn't hear me because they are to busy talking. There are a lot of things that I think I could work on in Tennis but these are the two main things that I think I should try and work on the most because I know that these will help me the most especially on a small court not a proper big court that you see on TV . 

Vollyball

For the first week of learning how to play volleyball I think that I did pretty could with the stances that we had learnt and how we learnt how to hit the ball. With the stances that we did I think that I did pretty well because I got really good feedback from my friends like you need to bend your knees lower and you need to have your hands out as if you were getting ready to catch the ball. And after that I was fine no one else told me that I needed to work on anything else. With my hitting I think that I did pretty good because when it was my turn to serve I was one of the only people that were able to hit the ball close or over the net.

Figurative language. WALA: Write the definitions for for Alliteration and Hyperbole understand the meaning of them.

Today we were doing maths and we were learning about figurative language but this wasn't the first time that we learnt about figurative language we have done it two other times throughout the week. We learnt that in figurative language there is more than one thing that falls under the collem figurative language like similes ( comparing two unlike things ) , Metaphors ( when you compare to dissimilar things ) , Personification ( giving non - human things human qualities ) , Onomatopoeia ( something that impersonates sound through word form ) .  These were the things that we have learnt in the past two to three days I think that the next time that we are doing writing I will try and add some of these things into my story. Because I want to try and give my stories my meaning and more detail and so that more and more people will want to read it. 

Tai Chi Lessons 2 and 3

We have had a great last two session of Tai Chi inthe last two weeks. We have had new students come in and start learning the things that we are. And we have learned a new form in Tai Chi called the ' Crane form ' . With this form came a story from our instructor Mr Gordon he told us that when he was in his late twenties and was starting to learn this form he had his nose broken by an eighty year old lady who was his instructor's mother. She had broken his nose with a single move and told him to go and wash all the blood of because his nose was bleeding and it was getting all over him. So once he had gone and washed all of the blood of his face he had gone back out and his instructor had noticed that his nose was broken and tried to put it back into place. And that was the story that he had told us about the first time he learnt the crane form after he had told us this story he had told us some of the forms that we had to do that were apart of the crane form.  After that we did all the forms a couple of times over before we got to go and play a game and get into our sharing circle  for our sharing circle we had to say our name and one good and one bad thing that had happened to us in the last week. And for our game we had to learn how to listen not with our ears but with our bodies that was our task at first we did not get it but then once we started to get into it and we all got what he meant. He meant to move with the motions of your partner like listening to the way that they moved and try to mimic their moves and after that you had a bit of a competition you had to try and push your opponent
 enough just to make them move their feet. Here is the link to my work .

Kiwisport Reflection

Today we started out the week and the morning with Kiwisport this session we did things a little different instead of having tennis outside on the courts we had it in our school hall. We had Tennis inside because the games that we were doing didn't require much space and our instructor Peter thought that if we were inside we wouldn't have the urge to hit as hard as we would if we were inside.  And well some of us were doing Tennis the other half was outside playing cricket it sounded like they were having a lot of fun but I will tell you about Tennis first. So for Tennis to start things out we had a mini game just like having a rally then we were taught how to smash. When you are smashing it is when someone throws the ball up and you aim and try to gently smack it back to your partner but if you were in a real game you would want to hit it as hard as you can.

When it was our turn to go and play cricket we found that it was really hard to hit the ball because it would not bounce on the ground because the grass was to long. So we decided to move the cricket set to the court were it would be able to bounce because of the concrete it took us awhile to get there because people were walking slow and taking their time. But when we did get their w got straight back into the game and started up batting again  and bowling. We did this for awhile before anyone got out me and my friend wallymei ( here's the link to his blog check it out ) got five people out each we were having a lot of fun.

I think that maybe next time I need to work on actually trying to bat because I was just letting it go pass so that they had a chance to get me out but that plan did not work so in the end I ended up hitting the wicket just to get out. I think that most of what did well though because my catching really improved and was starting to get out of my shell and work with my team and the people that I dont work with that much.

Maths Reflection - P.A.T Maths Walt: take a test on maths

Today In class the first thing that we did to start of the day was a maths test and in this blog post are the things that I found easy in my test and the things that I didn't find easy.

In the maths test I don’t think that I found much of the questions easy they were all challenging. I did find two of the questions easy and they were to do with multiplication.

When I did find one hard questions and it  was to do with time. For the time question you had to answer witch bus time would be faster to get from a university ( Pretend ) to Balavanca ( I’m not sure how to spell it ). There were a lot of different times that you could choose from but I choose from the university to Balavanca? Was 7:55 - 8:05.

For maths I want to learn about fractions and about time. I want to learn about fractions because I don’t really understand them. And I want to learn how to tell the time because it can help you in your everyday life and because I don’t understand the analog time.

Cricket Reflection

Today we didn't do our Tai chi because or instruct or Mr gordon got caught in the traffic on the highway. So instead we filled out a little form to tell people how the program is going for us and to tell them a little bit about us and about our behaviour and if we can keep ourselves safe. After that we were given two choices on what we could do we could either stay inside and finish of work or we could go outside and have a game of cricket. Most of the boys wanted to play cricket and some wanted to stay inside and finish of work but more wanted to go outside and play cricket so we went out side and down stairs to field and had a couple games. Not everyone got a turn pitching or batting but we all fun. Out of all the people that had a turn pitching I had a turn and got three different people out by hitting the wicket with the cricket ball. And then we came back up and started to finish of our reflection's. Today and to do one for when we went to the pools yesterday I still haven't done the one about the pools but I will do that one next. But we had a lot of fun this morning playing cricket with our friends