Last HIIT Session

Today was our last HIIT training for this term, we have been doing HIIT for the pas fifteen weeks and have been doing it twice a week.  Our excercises were Tap step, push ups, star jumps, and sit ups. The people from AUT university are coming in tommorow to do somemore tests on us to see if we have improved. Our excercises have been improving every week and the sessions have been going good and every week they change. The AUT university named this program Pau Te Hau which means ''Get Puffed" that is the word we use and say every time during our HIIT sessions. Some of the excrcises are easy and some are hard, the easiest one for me would be tap step because all you have to do is move your legs side to side by tapping your heels together aswell as moving your arms up and down hitting your thighs. Our goal every time we do our HIIT sessions is to "Pau Te Hau" Get Puffed, and every single one of us have succeded in doing that. Our other goal is to get everyone into the red zone and encourage each other and the people how are in the yellow, green, or blue zone to push try harder to get into the red zone.

Exponents

Today for maths we have been learning about exponents. Our task today was to answer eighteen exponent questions and then choose three of them to do a DLO or a google slide on to explain how to do exponents. I chose questions one, twelve, and three because they were all cubed exponents. The question I found hard was question twelve because I am not that good at my eight times table. Today I learnt how to do exponents properly and familiarise myself with them.

Labeling

Today for reading our group Ponui and Pakatoa have been learning how to lable the parts of pages in a non - fiction book. The first two we did was with Miss Kirkpatrick then we did one together as a group. It was really easy to do. Today I learnt that an inset is a small graphic representation such as a map, picture, or a piece of writing set within a page.

Wheel Words

Today for reading our group did wheel words. When we play wheel words we set a timer to ten minutes, and that's all the time we get to find as many words as we can. I found eight out of thirty five 8/35 words, I think thirty five words are a lot of words to find in ten minutes. I managed to find 4/12 four letter words, 3/11 five letter words, 1/6 six letter words.

Rugby Union Competition

Yesterday we went to the Rugby Union Interschool competition, we played five games and only lost one which was against Pt. England, the rest of the games we had one. The school's we played were
Pt. England, Glenn Innes, St Pierres, Pt England Barbarian, and Bailey Road School, the best game we played was against St Pierres because we scored 11 - 2 agianst them. Our first game we played which was against Pt. England was the hardest game we played out of the five different schools we played. At rugby union my goal was to score at least one try and I achieved that goal by putting as much effort in as I can. Yesterday I really enjoyed playing against the other schools and I also enjoyed playing a good, fair, and fun game.

Orchestra

Today students from LS2 went to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Hall to watch a performance by the Auckland Dance Project, St Kents/Ngatapawae, Opera singer, and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra group. The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra group played three pieces of music and one of the pieces were fimiliar because it was called Romeo & Juliet. In these performences there were four different Sections or Instruments that were played which were the Brass, Woodwind, String, and the percussion family. When we were at the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Town Hall, the thing that caught my eye was the lights and also these big gigantic tube instrument things at the back of the hall. My favourite part of this experience was when a opera singer came out and sung an opera song, This was my first time going on this trip but.

VR Research

Today was a specail day for LS2, we were visited by Yvonne and her research team from the Augmented human lab at Auckland University because we got to use VR (Virtual Reality). Yvonne and her research team came to run some tests on us and because it was to use VR (Virtual Reality) for future learning. The tools we used to help us today were VR cardboard and magic window. with these tools we did some pretty fun activities with them.