One day koka Leah brought in koka Brodie we introduced our selves and koka Brodie put on a how to draw a monarch butterfly we started our drafts and koka Leah laid out thick paper and told us to lightly use a pencil.

I started the base which was  drawing an oval then one big curved line and another one underneath there was also a tiny line underneath the second big line, then you had to join the wings with a big curved line then it would look like: (.

You would have to do the same thing on the other side, then we would have draw three big ovals two long ovals and three tiny ovals, the next day koka Leah brought us to the mat and told us to colour the whole thing in black but leave the ovals, then colour the ovals in with yellow, orange and red.

This took us like three or four days then we started making backgrounds with the colours yellow, green and blue we would use a roller and roll over it and the colours would mix together.

 On the same day some of us started doing white dots which we had to do, but it took me the next day to do the white dots. 

I think it was very fun to draw, color in and paint, then the final touch was to glue it on.

computational thinking

  Room one's focus is computational thinking. We learnt computational thinking is coding.

At tonui we learnt how to code, we had a sheet and had to code a lego person, past monsters and we needed to pick up gems on the way. 

We had beebots one afternoon we teamed up into three and one team was in a group of four, we had to code the beebots to planet's and back it took a bit of tries to get it right, we write the codes down everytime we tried.

If we got it right we would send it to another planet there were ufos, earth and mars.

I enjoyed it because it was fun to code and some bee bots ran into each other and in a was funny.

Pairty magic

This term in Room 1 we have had koka Celia, she has been working with our reading groups. Koka Celia has been teaching us about computational thinking. 

My favourite activity has been parity magic. I liked pairty magic the most because it was kind of like a guessing game. I got to be buddies with India and she always had to have more tires to try and guess mine. 

Pairty magic is a guessing game where you need a buddy to swap the cards well your not looking. there is a pattern on a table with a pink on one side of a piece of paper and on the other side it was white. You would turn around and your buddy would make a difference to the pattern and you would have to guess the difference. It mostly took India a few tries to guess my change but I instantly knew the difference when she swapped them. 

Then koka Celia told us that in each row there was suppose to be only 5 pinks and 3 whites, that made it really easy.  

Skipping

                        skipping

Every single day after the morning roll Room 1 finds a skipping rope and their buddy. My buddy is Dune. The reason you need a buddy is because they count you’re skips and help you keep track of how many times you can skip in a certain time limit. We use a white board to keep our count. We each have 15, 30 and 45 seconds to do all our skips then we graph it in our math book. 

We skip daily to get exercise and help us with our cross country training. I prefer running, sometimes we do this as well. 

My buddy and I use a yellow handle skipping rope. This is a longer skipping rope. However,  since there's only a few yellow handle’s we have to get green even though Dune and I are yellow handler. Its easier with a yellow handle because it's bigger than a green handle. This changes my score depending on what handle we get. 

 

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