'Wakarere' means plane in Te Reo Maori!

Learning intention: We are learning the topic words for flight in Te Reo Maori.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record eight of the vocabulary that are related to flight in Te Reo Maori using Blabberize.

Topic vocabulary for flight in Te Reo Maori

Flight (to fly, to sail)	Rere
hypothesis	whakapae
investigation	ketuketutanga
fuselage	takere
Wings of a plane	Parirau o te wakarere
Lift	ara
thrust	puru
Drag	toanga
weight	toimaha
aerodynamics	Koutata
Tail of a plane	Hiku o te wakarere
Fin of a plane	Urutira o te wakarere
forces	ihi
symmetrical	hangarite
glider	Waka tauihi
plane	wakarere

Sanding wood is hard!

On Thursday 11th of November, Room 7 had a great time taking the pieces out for our glider and sanding it to make it smooth!

First we scored our pieces of the wood. It was very hard because the craft knife kept going out of the sharpie marker line. Scoring the back wings of the wood was very hard because the 1.5 millimetre wood was very fragile and it was very hard to keep the cutting line straight. After I completed scoring my pieces of wood, I put the blade through the lines so the piece that I had split would fall out. It took me a very long time because I was being very careful so that my pieces of wood would not split. 10 minutes later, I heard a crack and my piece of wood started splitted along the side.

Next, I  to Salome and asked her for what to do next. That was when I noticed my classmates were smoothing out their pieces of balsa wood. So I asked Salome and she gave me sandpaper too. Salome gave a sheet of sandpaper to use for sanding my pieces. It was rough and black, but rubbery on the other side. I quickly took the sandpaper and started sanding the pieces. It was a bit hard because the wood was very rough around the edges and the and the sandpaper kept slipping off the fuselage's side. However I had to wait for Tristan because I needed the craft knife to cut a part of the fuselage that wasn't split yet.

After I smoothed out all the pieces out all the pieces the pieces of wood, I swiftly smoothed the fin, but it snapped in two like a cracker so I had to start again. When I finished carefully smoothing out the fin, it was time to pack up because it was the beginning of morning tea. Soon we had to say goodbye to Salome and we had to clean up as fast as the wind, then went out to play outside.

Getting our pieces ready for glueing was awesome! I wish we had more time so we could have started piecing them together. My favourite part of the day was sanding and getting our pieces ready for piecing together.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use appropriate adjectives to describe the art lesson that we had on Thursday.

Let's sing the Waiata 'He Honore!'

Learning Intention: We are learning Te Reo Maori.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record the waiata 'He Honore' using Blabberize.

The tigress routine can be used as self-defence!

Learning Intention: We are learning Kung Fu.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record the Tigress duo routine using Wevideo.

Personifications are used to describe many non-living things!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding in the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that personifications are used to give non- human objects human traits.

These moves are agile as a tiger!

 Learning intention: We are developing our fitness levels through Physical Education.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps of the Tigress routine that I have learnt from our second Kung Fu lesson.

Oh no, that man is going to shoot the bird with a musket!

Learning Intention: We are learning to identify the main ideas in a story.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I illustrate the main ideas of the story 'Horeta and the waka'.

You can use colons to introduce a list of different things that you may need!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding in the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that colons are used to show or introduce a list of items, rules or steps.

You can convert percentages to decimals by using fractions!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our number knowledge.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain the steps of how to convert percentages to decimals.

If someone's trying to hurt me, I can use these moves as self defence!

Learning intention: We are developing our fitness levels through Physical Education.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps of the Kung Fu panda routine that I have learnt from our first Kung Fu lesson.