Inquiry Term 3 - New Skill (Double-Dutch)

Hey there, Bloggers! For the past 4 weeks, Team 5 at P.E.S has been given a task to get into groups using the people in their classes, and find a new skill that they haven't learnt. I had 10 other people in my group. Their names were, Angels, Tata, Mata, Tehillah, Armanielle, Fetuao, Maree, Angel, Calais, Maryanne and myself, Atareita. Altogether, none of us had experienced the skill we were learning before. The skill that we chose was, "Double Dutch." We particularly chose to learn this skill because no one in our group had learnt it, and we found it challenging which was exactly what we wanted. So, that was the skill that we were meant to be learning for the past 4 weeks, and finally today was the day where everyone had to show off the new skill that they chose and learnt.

My Perspective:

Our groups performance was round about average. I controlled the ropes majority of the time, but yet I still tried my hardest to jump in between as well. That was the thing I found hardest. Jumping in between and timing it. I think that next time, I could try to practice more than I did in the past weeks. I could've tried harder and maybe then I would've made it longer jumping in between the ropes. To perfect our skill we tried to ask others if they had experienced it before but that didn't work so we moved on to using YouTube videos and tutorials which helped us majorly.

Positives of learning our new skill:

The positive side was learning something new and at least giving it a try. I was proud that everyone in our group had a go even when they didn't want to and even though they knew they couldn't do it. We found double dutch really fun which was a positive side of our new skill.

Negatives of learning our new skill:

I couldn't really point out anything negative about double dutch, because everyone had a go and we all had fun. No one found it boring, so I couldn't find anything negative about this new skill.

Perseverance:

I persevered when we performed and throughout the past 4 weeks by controlling the ropes when no one else wanted to and kept swinging them even though my arms were getting tired. I also tried my best to jump in between on time and I did my best to encourage everyone else in my group as well.

Move Ya' Body Workbook - #2

For the past 4 weeks we had to find a new skill that we had never done before.
My group decided to do, "Double Dutch." This was quite hard at first and still is.
But we tried our best and this is our workbook that we had for this skill.

KPMG Trip - MTV Cribz

A few weeks ago, we were given the privilege to visit the KPMG company. Our task was to pick a topic and create a movie about it. My group (Charles, David, Amelia, Paikea, Angels and Myself!) decided to do a MTV. So, this is what we created during our visit at KPMG (Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler)

Polynesian Navigators

Last term, in extension, we were given a task to pick a group and research about it. My group
decided to research about, "Polynesian Navigators." Here is what we found.

Units of Measurements

WALT: Convert between different metric lengths.

Perfect Perimeter

Why The Ocean Is Blue

Far back in the midst of time, when the world was very young, our waters were white. The surface was completely covered in pure, white water with unknown creatures lurking beneath it. No blue was to be found anywhere in the oceans or seas. This was around a century or so ago before the massive change happened.

Before this massive change, the ocean was filled with boredom. No one enjoyed swimming, no one liked fishing and no one even wanted to go out on the water, because of it’s boring plain colour.

The New Zealand Government had been discussing for a quite a long time, trying to find a way to make the world happier again. To make the ocean more exciting. Our Government agreed with everyone when they said that the ocean was just too simple. It needed colour. It needed enthusiasm. It needed, HELP. Everyone whined day by day, because they believed that our waters were a main landscape that brought out the joy and happiness in their lives. This was such a huge problem because with a boring landscape that travelled across the whole world for everyone to see, came the lack of interest included with the lack of fun.  

For, a couple days later, they had finally come to decision. The decision to take the earth by storm. A ma by the name of, “Julius Vogel,” found a way to make the ocean more creative as well as improve the happiness state in the world. This particular man designed signs to hang on poles around the place inviting the entire city to come and observe his decision to change the waters. His idea was so crazy that when people saw the sign which said, “You are invited to join me and the government at Pt England Beach/Reserve where we will finally put an end to your misery by changing the ocean! We will be down there next week, so come along!” they just ignored it and said, “Ha! How do you expect to do that? There's no way!”

It was a week later, it came to the day where Julius Vogel was finally going to make this huge change. He arrived down at the beach with all of his supplies hoping for everyone to already be there. But sadly, no one had showed up. He waited and waited and a few hours went by and he just sad on the rocks waiting for someone to show up. But no one did. So, he made up his mind. He asked himself, “Would people come if they saw the affect  my change happening across the ocean?” Then he went ahead. He carried his box of supplies from up on the reserve, opened all of his bottle and dumped the liquid into the ocean. A few minutes went by and a bunch of people came out of nowhere cheering and jumping for joy screaming, “Our oceans! Our oceans, there blue! YAY!!” Then after an hour or so, the entire city was cheering for Julius because of what he had done.

By the end of the day, all of our waters were blue and the creatures that had been lurking beneath have now come out from hiding and are swimming freely.   *Our task was to create our very own pourquoi tale. A Pourquoi tale is a fictitious story about something living. Example - How Tiger Got His Stripes, How Giraffe Got Its Long Neck.

Line Dancing