My Reading Tic Tac Toe

What I learned:

There are more than 100 cities joining in The International Pillow Fight Day! People are not allowed to hit anyone without a pillow but they are with one.

Vocab:

Enthusiastically:  in an enthusiastic manner, excitedly, zealously

Participant:  one who takes part, participator, partaker

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NYLD 2016

Reading Tic Tac Toe

Weekly Goal Reflection

I organise myself to be ready to learn. I know when I need to take a break from my learning.

What I did:

• Drink more water: Have my drink bottle with me throughout the day, don't let myself get thirsty.
• Follow my Mi Plan a directed so I don't go off my plan as I usually do.
• Have regular brain breaks throughout the day to not get an overload of learning stuck in my brain.
• Get more sleep get ready for bed at 8:30 and read a book, lights out at 9:00

I think that I have half achieved this goal because I have been having regular brain breaks, drinking water, and going to bed at a reasonable time. I think that I could have done better to achieve this goal by having more brain breaks because I found that my brain got a bit overloaded when I stayed in the same space with the same people and the same work for more than half an hour.

Current Events

Captain Cooks Endeavour Found

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/captain-cooks-endeavour-found/

American archaeologists may have found the remains of the ship on which Captain James Cook first charted New Zealand in 1770. Researchers believe they may have come across the wreck of HMS Endeavour off the coast of Rhode Island. The ship was last seen in 1778. The ship was then being used as a transport vessel during the American Revolution. It also had a new name Lord Sandwich. It was a three-masted sailing ship. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) says the Endeavour was one of 13 ships sunk in Newport Harbour in 1778. An archaeologist will now carry out further investigations on the vessel’s structure and its related artefacts.

My Opinion:

I think this is so cool that they have found the endeavour of Captain Cooks Ship! And they have dug up some research about it. I also loved the part about its new name Lord Sandwich. 

Vocab:

Artefacts: an object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest.

Charted: make a map of (an area).

Endeavour: try hard to do or achieve something.

Goal For My Learning

This Week Our Goal Is: I organise myself to be ready to learn. I know when I need to take a break from my learning. 

What I could do to help me learn better:

• Drink more water: Have my drink bottle with me throughout the day, don't let myself get thirsty.
• Follow my Mi Plan a directed so I don't go off my plan as I usually do.
• Have regular brain breaks throughout the day to not get an overload of learning stuck in my brain.
• Get more sleep get ready for bed at 8:30 and read a book, lights out at 9:00

Weekly Goal Relfection

The Right Learning For The Right Learning Space

This week out weekly goal was The Right Learning For The Right Learning Space. I think that I did pretty well on this but a few occasions I didn't. I think that I could have done better to achieve this goal. I went into the right space at the start of the day, which was for what learning I was doing, and in the recommended space but then I went into another space and started talking and didn't do much of my work that was timetabled in. For example, today I went into the Lounge to do my AWS/IE and got down to business but I talked a couple of time which was probably disturbing for the people around me. I also need to be careful of my noise level around others because if the teacher and her group can hear me two rooms down, I need to move away from the people that I am with and do my work.

Current Events

Handless Seven Year Old Wins Handwriting Contest

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/handless-7-year-old-girl-wins-handwriting-contest/

 A seven-year-old student born without hands has won a US national handwriting contest.

Anaya Ellick is from Chesapeake, Virginia. When she writes she stands to get the proper angle and she holds a pencil between her arms. She beat 50 other competitors to get the special-needs category prize at the National Handwriting Contest. The category she was in rewards students with an intellectual, physical, or developmental disability. Someone said that her writing sample was comparable to someone who had hands.

My opinion:

I think that this is awesome! She has no hand and she won that must be an amazing achievement for her and I wonder how much she had to practice writing while standing up.

This is what her winning entry looked like:

Learner Agency

Something I do well…

Actively including others. 

How does this positively affect others?

Everybody has fun together and we all build positive relationships and possibly work with people we don't usually play or work with.

Something I need to focus on to be an agentic learner...

Having a growth mindset when I am stuck or having trouble, and also asking for help because I don't usually do that I try and work it out by myself.

Agentic Learner Goal:

Have a growth mindset throughout all work areas and ask for help when it is needed.

TK College Jazz Band Performance

Today Ngatea Primary School was lucky enough to have a special performance held for us. There were many different instruments in the band, for example, there were flutes, trombones, trumpets, clarinets and Saxaphones. There was also a lady called Fleur who conducted the playing. They played lots of different songs for us they played some Michael Jackson, The Banana song, Frozen, The Incredibles theme song and many different songs that I don't know the name of. I really enjoyed listening and watching them play their instruments. I recognised lots of the songs they played and some people got chosen to go up and conduct and others went up and played either the trombone or trumpet. It was awesome to see them play and I hope they come again soon.

Current Events

A Lamb Born Without Its Wool Coat

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/bald-lamb-given-coat/

A lamb born without its own wool coat is being kept warm in a borrowed fluffy fleece. The lamb has been nicknamed Skippy because they think that he looks like a kangaroo. He was born on a farm in Wiltshire, in South West England. Skippy was abandoned by his mother. A jacket has been tailor-made for the lamb with clumps of fleece placed around him. Ms. Fisher, who is looking after Skippy, said that they made a little jacket for him to wear out of an old jumper to keep him warm at night.

My Opinion:

I think that this is just the cutest thing ever, giving a sheep that was born without a coat a nice furry coat! And it is also awesome because they actually found it and took it into care and made it a coat.

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