Snakes and ladders - Maths

At the moment  Evelyn and I have been working on a maths game to make for the class, This game uses decimals and we are recreating snake and ladders but using maths.  We made another  game for the class to use, Mrs Anderson's maths group used the decimal game to order them smallest to largest.  Our teacher suggested Evelyn and I to make another game for the class. What you have to do in the first game is put together smallest to largest in the decimals that we have given to them.

Read 20

We have been doing read 20 for the past few weeks,  i have been reading the stories and then answering the questions. Since ive been doing this  i have been grading to the next levels. The whole class uses Read theory but we read for 20 minutes and Mrs Anderson's reading group uses the Reading ladder. We practice looking back at a text to find information.

Sketch note

                                               

Over the last few days we have been learning to create sketchnotes. A sketchnote is when we gather information on a topic and record our facts using pictures, symbols and words. The topic that we were doing yesterday was Rio De Janeiro  and the Olympics. One of the things I drew was Christ the Redeemer because he is an important landmark in Rio. It was very fun to do but the main thing was to create our sketchnote to record information in our own words or pictures. I found out that when I looked back at my sketchnote I could tell my partner my learning story.

Cross Country

For the past few weeks LS2 and LS1 have been practicing for Cross country. We train mostly everyday to get better and better for the actual cross country, Mr Ogilvie  tells everyone how many laps we have to do. On this day we had to do five laps.  

Walk a mile in my shoes - Athletes

This photo shows Evelyn and i receiving a medal from the Rio Olympic. The reason we did  was because we were doing it for the sketchnote we needed to get an image showing a person from your country holding a medal.  First we had to find a image of a NZ medal winner on the podium from the Rio Olympics The find an image of yourself after that you have to crop your face out of the photo and put it on the Image you chose.

E-ako Maths

This is my screenshot that shows what I've been learning on e-ako maths. I have been learning to Match pictures of fractions with their symbols and names. I have completed my work and I will be going to do another set of fractions. I learned that we have to split fractions into equal parts, and you can use fractions with anything e.g " Bread "  Cutting bread into equal parts. 

Run Jump Throw

On Wednesday LS2 went to Run,Jump,Throw with Andi. Our topic that we were talking about was Long Jump based on the Olympics. We all had to stand behind the line and then Jump to the next line to see how far we could go,  After doing that we got into our groups and we jumped to the line and there would be a person who would put the cone from where you landed. If you landed the furthest then you would have to stand on the White patch and I was one of those people. 

Current Events - Olympics

The topic that we were working on was about  the sportsmanship between Nikki Hamblin and Abbey D'Agostino. Nikki was tripped up in the 5000m heat in Rio. When she fell Abbey D'Agostino tripped over her. They way they helped each other finish the race showed sportsmanship. I am glad to see sportsmanship happening in the Olympics because it shows what fair play looks like. I think these runners are great role models.   Link to Site

Art challenge

 

Yesterday we did an art challenge while half of the class was at Netball inter-school. This art was on the Olympics, first we had to chose a silhouette based on Olympics. I chose a gymnastic design, after choosing the silhouette we had to design the background meaning getting shapes and drawing it on the background. After finishing we drawed pastel on the shapes and  Mrs anderson put some black ink on the lines. When that was done we glued our  silhouette's on.

Ancient and Modern Olympics - Inquiry

This Week, We completed our inquiry task. Our task was on Ancient and Modern Olympics. This was a fun activity, It was hard to complete by myself because my partner did not know what to do. My partner that i worked with was Aung Naing In the end We finished our DLO and we are now going to move to the next inquiry topic. I did not know that Married women weren't allowed to watch or be at the Olympic games.

Writing - Language Features

Me and my partner had to highlight the Language features just like Verbs,Adverbs and adjectives. 

Mrs Naicker gave us a paper and on that paper there was a story about the hail storm, and we had to figure out which sentences were Language features.

Language Features

 

This week in writing we learned about Language Features. We had to make a DLO on Language features, Mrs Naicker told us what we had to do. We had to pick a buddy to do the DLO with My partner and I chose to do these words because it was  a verb,Adverb and adjectives.

Run Jump Throw

Today we had Run Jump Throw. We had to Bend our elbows then do cheek to cheek. When andy said On your mark we had to put our left foot infront of the yellow line but if we were running in the Olympic games and if we put our foot infront of the line that meant that you would be disqualified. When andy said Set we ran to the other side doing cheek to cheek. I also used high knees to get to the other side faster.

Ordering numbers

This is another maths game that i have done, i had to order the fractions Highest to lowest. I had to pick the apples from a arrow if it was the wrong number then it would of been rejected but If you got the right answer then the little character ate the apple. I enjoyed this game because it was fun and it was also a maths game. If you would like to play this game or practice ordering your number then i will leave a link at the bottom of my blog post.  

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Ordering numbers - Maths game

This is a screenshot of my results, Half of LS2 did a practice on the Ikan test after doing the test. Mrs Anderson told us what we struggled on and she found maths games for us because we got some questions wrong but then we had to practice those questions on a maths game. For this game I had to order the numbers smallest to biggest it also showed balloons which had the numbers on it and there was a pin i used that pin to pop the balloons and this was my final score.

Current Events - The Big sleepOut

This is my current events that i have finished today. My topic was about the big sleep out 2015. The big sleep out is when people sleep outside to raise money for the homeless. This had a big impact on me. The author wanted us to know that homeless people have no hope and they dont choose to be homeless.

Hoverbike Poster

LS2 have been working on advertisements, in one of the activity we had to partner up with a buddy and make you own advertisement about a hoverbike. The reason we did this was because LS2 watched a short animation about a character riding a hoverbike but the character did not read the instructions so it turned out that the hoverbike chased him and if you would like to watch the rest of the video I will leave the link in the bottom of this blog post.

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Quizziz - Maths game

This is a screenshot of my final result, We were practicing recalling our times tables at speed using quizziz.  Mrs anderson's maths group raced against  each other and this maths game shows you what you need to work on. My final score was 14 and 11th, we had to guess the answer in 10 seconds. This math's site was good to use because I answered some questions wrong and now i know that i  have to work on those questions.

Winter Learning Journey - Certificates

On Friday Rachel came to our school to hand out the certificates for the people that participated in the Winter Learning Journey. The things we had to do were take photos of ourselfs doing our favourite sports and we had to find out facts about certain things. The one activity that i liked was when I had to design your own logo for the 2020 Olympic games, here is the link to that blog post .Thanks to rachel for giving us the certificates also for letting us participate in the winter learning journey. Rachel was proud of our school for blog commenting and Blog posting the most. Nesi, Aj and Daniel were the winners for the prizes. 

Buddy reading

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This Afternoon, We had two classes Room 3 and Room 4 come to our class to buddy read. My buddy and I read a book called a tiny seed, After reading the book I asked my buddy questions about the story he read. Then We went and chose another book to read.

Book Week - Special assembly

    Today we had a special duffy assembly. It was special because this week is book week so we dressed up as characters from various books. There was a women who dressed up as Gangster granny and she talked to us about the gangster granny book.

Advertising

 Today, we have created a DLO on Advertising, We had to write 25 words to explain what advertisement is. We had to go in our group and look at a piece of paper that explained advertising, then a person from our group would go to the paper and go back to the group and tell the writer what to write.

Winter Learning Journey

For the next winter learning journey activity I had to pick one of the 76 New Zealand people going to the Rio De Janerio Olympic games.

Name: Valerie Adams

Sport: Shot Put

Interesting Fact 1: She was born in Rotorua

Interesting Fact 2: She is a four-time World champion

Interesting Fact 3: She has won world titles titles at the youth - Junior & Senior

Winter Learning Journey

For this Winter Learning journey task I had to write a poem. I had to write a poem about how I would feel if I was a news reporter and Got paid to attend the Olympic Games and  report on the Golf/Rugby competitions

Standing and waiting for the game to begin. Im getting quite nervous.
Im in shock as I see hitting, kicking all over the place.
Is this right?, am I at the correct game?.
All of a sudden i hear an applause Well I guess I am at the correct game.

Winter Learning Journey

Here is a photo of me doing on the Olympic sport which is Athletics running. I  have chosen this sport because running challenges me and I like to run it was just like the 4 orienteering we had that evolved running. I enjoy running and I like to take risks with running.

Winter Learning Journey

For this Activity  I had to Design my own logo for the 2020 Olympic Games - In Tokyo, Japan.  The Site that I used was design mantic, I chose this Design because it looks like it has something to do with sport and the Big circle thing is one of the Olympic rings. If you would like to Design your own design then I will leave the link to the site down below.

Link to site

Winter Learning Journey

For this Activity I had to find out Three interesting Landmarks in  New Zealand.

One: Rangitoto Island

Two: Lake Taupo

Three: Paeroa ( They Made L&P )

Day 2 - Winter Learning Journey

For this winter learning journey activity  I  have watched a video about the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Olympics mascots. Their names and Tom and Vinicius. After watching the video I researched about them and found some very interesting facts.

No Girls Allowed - Winter Learning Journey

Women were allowed to participate in sporting events in Sparta. women weren't allowed active participation in the Olympics. I don't think it is fair on the women that weren't aloud in the Olympics because they might of trained hard and then they just weren't aloud to be in the Olympics. In fact women were often forbidden from even watching the games.

Milo of Croton - Winter Learning Journey

      

•  Milo was a six-time Olympic victor. He won the boys' wrestling (probably in 540 BC), and thereafter five    men's wrestling titles between 536 and 520 BCE. He also won seven crowns at the Pythian      Games at Delphi (one as a boy

• Milo of Croton was a 6th-century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton, who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece.

  In This activity I had to find facts about Milo of Croton I found some interesting facts in the Wikipedia site. It was  quite hard finding these facts and I found out that he was a 6th century BC wrestler.

Day 1 - Sports In the Ancient Olympic - Winter Learning Journey

The sport that I will pick out of the running, wrestling, boxing, pankration, horse riding and pentahlon, is going to be pentahlon iv'e chosen this sport because I will be able to challenge myself and take risks. It's possible that i can get injured from pentahlon but that is why i have chosen this sport. As you can see in the photo it is an ancient stadium.                                                                                      

Orienteering

Today We had another orienteering lesson,This time we had two different courses. On my first one I did the first course and once I finished that course I went back to Leon and got my 2nd course. After all the running I finished both of the courses and I was done. Everyone was finished and Was happy with what they did.

Blog Commenting

This Afternoon I decided to comment on Tiava, Ofa and Koloa's Blogs. All three of the blog post's i commented on were about maths. I enjoyed looking at these blog post's.  If you would like to leave a comment on their blog's then I will leave a link at the bottom of this post.

Tiava, Ofa and Koloa

Interschool - Orienteering

Today we had orienteering, We went to Pt England Reserve and we traveled in cars. It took time because Zahn, Manu, Mia and I were the last group to go. When we got there we quickly ran to the place where we were supposed to go, The orienteering team got into their lines which was Year 5, 6, 7 and 8 but there was girls and boys lines. All of a sudden Tamaki primary comes around the corner and that was the school that we versed. I was in the 5th line and we got up to run and then we ran and I finished in 11th place. 

Life Ed - Year 7's

This afternoon. The Year 7's had their first lesson at life ed. At the start of the session, Nicole asked if we know what our heart looks like. Most people showed her a shape of a love heart. Nicole told us that when your heart is beating fast when you meet someone you like e.g What if shawn johnson came inside the room? Your heart would be beating fast and if you connect the two hearts together / yours and shawn johnson's then it would make a love heart. The nervous(Nerves/Reactions), Circulatory(Blood) and the Muscular(which stands for muscles) . Those were the things that nicole told us. She also told us the 5 sense's ( Sight, Hear, Smell, Taste and feel).

Year 7 Orienteering

This afternoon the Year 7's had Orienteering. We had to find the letters in order, you have to make sure that you are facing the map the right way Which we had to point the map North to see if we were correct. After doing our first course we moved on to the next one.  Once we finished we Ran back to irine she is one of the orienteering coaches.

Current Events DLO

This Morning LS2 had to do a current event, I choose to do this event because this event was placed in NZ/Wellington. In this article I found out that it was an Accident but the person who left the gun in the toilet was a police officer. The Police would not say weather the gun  had been found by a parliamentary staffer. If you would like to visit this site then here is the link at the bottom of this post.

Link to Site

Blog Comments

Today I have blog commented on 3 people from Glen Brae school Those 3 people did an awesome job on their work that I commented on.  It was interesting to see what they have been learning If you would like to Visist these blogs then I will leave a link at the bottom of this post.

Luisa,Sam and Jayden

Majestic Lion

                                       

Today we have finished our documentary that we watched the other day, After watching it we had a choice and I chose to do a logo for the Majestic Lion pictures. It was a very good documentary It tells us don't always believe what you see.

E-ako Maths

Today we had to chose weather to do Transum or E-ako maths and I have decided to do E-ako maths. I am doing place value which it shows in the picture I had to figure out what where the blue cube and what were the blue sticks. I knew that the cubes where Ones and the sticks where tens. If you would like to visit E-ako maths and Transum then i will leave a link at the bottom of this post.

Transum & E-ako Maths

Information Report

What killed the dinosaurs?

Are dinosaurs real? People are claiming that dinosaurs are real and some other people are saying they're not real. Some people try to figure out whether dinosaurs are real or not. Do you think dinosaurs are real?

The Ice age would of killed many of the planet's living species. Do you think Dinosaurs still exist?. The earth cools into periods which some people call it Ice age. There is no real evidence of an Ice age at this time.

We are all aware that the dinosaurs got hit by the meteor, but what if we're wrong?. 10 km wide meteorite had smashed in Mexico. Did you know that the hypothesised ice age would of killed all living species into extinction, including dinosaurs.

Researchers have discovered that waves of eruptions had released huge clouds of sulfur dioxide into the air, Bringing showers of acid rain occurred between 67.5 and 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs extinction was caused by a single meteor. Geological evidence shows that a giant meteorite about six miles wide.

Dinosaurs were real until they died, some people do not know what caused it, dinosaurs are extinct because of the meteor that hit them, there is clear evidence to what caused their death.

We have been doing our writing task, which we had to do our paragraphs to make it into a information report. I have learned alot about this topic, My partner and I found out What killed the dinosaurs and we found out that the dinosaurs got hit by a Meteor.

What killed the Dinosaurs?

What killed the dinosaurs?

Yes?	No?
There was a  bright light when the dinosaurs died. Some people think it was caused from Ice Age New insights about the asteroid thought to have killed off the dinosaurs suggest it may have     just been the final blow.	Dinosaurs have been real before we born The research, detailed in the February 8 issue of the journal Science, The Ice age would of killed many of the planet's living species.

Yes?

Sources

Sources 1  

Sources 2

No?

Sources 1

Sources 2

Today we have done research about What killed the Dinosaurs, We had to find out different answers from Google search. Do you think Dinosaurs are real?, We found out that dinosaurs died from a Meteor.

Blog Commenting

 Today I have commented on students blogs They are from Tamaki primary. I Really enjoyed looking at there blogs, I think that other people should visit there blogs. If you would like to have a look at what they have been learning then I will leave a link at the bottom of this blog post.

 Irys Calais October