Amazing+Race

11/04/11 - Conferenced with you regards your 'what makes us kiwi'. Even though this is not what you were meant to do you have done a great job. Keep remembering to use those language resources!

10/11/04. Conferenced with this writing on wednesday, it will be sent off next week Kennedy, well done.

__// Thursday 14th April 2011 //__

I chose green because I conferenced with the teacher and I just had the wrong success criteria.



// REFLECTION: // // I conferenced with Miss Stovold and I just had the wrong success criteria so I changed it. //

//__ Thursday 14th April 2011 __//

LI: To write a short paragraph about why our cloaks are special and why they are special to maori and their culture.

Success Criteria: * There will be why your cloak is special to you. * Your paragraph won't be too long. * It will say why they are used for maori culture and why they are special.

I chose green because it was really fun making the cloaks and writing why it was special to us and each colour represents something to do with NZ! __ ﻿ __

// REFLECTION: // // I learnt that our cloak, each colour represents something and something to do with or in New Zealand!!! //

//__Monday 11th April 2011__//

LI: To write a paragraph about why Kiwis are the best.

Success Criteria: * There will be lots of different reasons why Kiwis are the best. * There will be lots of information to back up your point.

I chose green because it was fun and It was cool to write why we are the best (Kiwis)



// REFLECTION: // // I learnt that to be a higher standard in writing you have to be specific- for example if you are talking about trees it is better to write some kind of trees that you are talking about. //

__ Thursday 7th April 2011 __

LI: To write a paragraph about why Kiwis are the best.

Success Criteria: * There will be lots of different reasons why Kiwis are the best. * There will be lots of information to back up your point.

I chose green because it was fun and It was cool to write why we are the best (Kiwis)

// REFLECTION: // // I learnt how to write a paragraph about why Kiwis are the best and, to tell our audience some things about why we are so cool. //

__Friday 8th April 2011__

LI: To write a thank you letter to a company/shop that helped some of us during the Amazing Race.

Success Criteria: * Why you are saying thank you. * What was good about why they helped you.

// REFLECTION: // // I learnt how to set out a letter after I conferenced with Miss Stovold. //

// __Sunday 3rd April 2011__ //

LI: To write a thank you letter to a company/shop that helped some of us during the Amazing Race.

Success Criteria: * Why you are saying thank you. * What was good about why they helped you.

//REFLECTION:// //I learnt how to make fish and chips at a real fish and chip shop, and to write what i'm thankful for.//

__// Wednesday 6th April 2011 //__

LI: Use my time tabling skills

 SC:


 * Create my own timetable for the amazing race around the BOP.
 * Researching what activities the contestants can do in the Bay of Plenty.
 * Interpret 12hour or 24hour time.

I chose green because is is getting easier for me.



 // REFLECTION:Today I learnt how to work together with my buddy to come up with the places we are going to go. We also used each others computers to do research and use the table on the other person's computer. //

//__ Tuesday 5th April 2011 __//

LI: Use my time tabling skills

SC:


 * Create my own timetable for the amazing race around the BOP.
 * Researching what activities the contestants can do in the Bay of Plenty.
 * Interpret 12hour or 24hour time.

I chose yellow because every now and then I am still getting confused,but after a while we get back on track and kept going.



// REFLECTION: // // Today I learnt that you have to add on how many mins your activity is going to be to get your next answer. //

//__ Monday 4th April 2011 __//





10/04/11 - Don't forget to put the date and LI. We conferenced and this was your good copy that got sent home. Well done.

// __Friday 1st April 2011__ //

LI: To write a thank you letter to a parent who transported us on the Amazing Race.

// REFLECTION: // // I learnt how to write a thank you letter to a parent who transported us around for the Amazing Race saying why we are thankful and what our favourite activities were and weren't. //

// __Monday 4th April 2011__ //

I chose green because it is easy and fun to convert the time to different countries time.


 * Interpret 12hour or 24hour time.



//Reflection:// // To find a variety of websites to show the bus routes to Bayfair from Fraser cove. //

10/04/11 - I will look at this with you next week on your laptop so I can read it better!

//__ Sunday 3rd April 2011 __//

//LI: To ask some questions about 'What makes us Kiwi' and then answer them.//

//Success Criteria://

//* The questions will be good questions that has a good answer.// //* It is about Kiwis don't go asking all of these random questions.//

I chose green because I knew what to do and it was easy and fun to ask and answer the questions.

__ Thursday 31st March 2011 __

LI: Create a letter to appreciate someone that transported us on the Amazing Race.

Success Criteria: * It will say why you are thank you. * It will say what your favorite parts were and what was interesting.

I chose green because I new exactly what I was doing.

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<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Dear Mum

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Thank you for taking me on the Amazing Race. <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I liked it when you gave us clues when we were really stuck. <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">It was funny when we asked that man at Te Puia, what Mother Earth was called in Maori, he told us, and after we had said thank you we saw the answer right behind him, and we started cracking up laughing!!! <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">It was kind of you to run after us when we were going the wrong way in the Karangahake Gorge.

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">An activity I enjoyed was aMAZEme and when we ate our fish n chips, also my favourite day was the Friday. <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">It was difficult when we couldn’t find some of the numbers in the red woods and when we wasted all that time at the mine at Waihi trying to find the answers when they were all at the info centre!! <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Something I learnt was when we work together as a team we get way further and faster!

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">We came <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; margin: 0px;"> 28 th - 1 st day <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; margin: 0px;"> 11 th- 2 nd day <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; margin: 0px;"> 9 th - 3 rd day

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">From your lovely and fantastic daughter,

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkduster; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">KENNEDY!