Maths Week 2020!

Hi bloggers, what a lovely day it is today. I am looking forward to the weekend, as I am going skiing at Mt Hutt and practicing my ice skating as I have a competition coming up. What sports do you do? I also do tumble cheerleading and swimming. As you may know this week it maths week! For maths week have split into our house colours and done four rotations and done something different in each one. 

The first one I did was with Mr. Shaw we played a game where we split in half and half of the group sat on a chair (they were in a circle) the other group had to try and verse the other team and get the maths question before the other group. One person at a time moved round the circle and had three lives ( if you get a question wrong you get one live taken away) you had to try and move to each person and beat them to the question. 

The second maths game I played was bingo with Mrs. Davies, we had six rows of numbers and we had to find them quickly. We had to answer the basic facts questions and get a line and then a full house (if there is time)!

The third game I played was with Mrs. Osborn and we where maths gambling, here is how you play! The dice will be rolled, and everytime it is rolled you write down the number rolled. After each roll you get the chance to either bank, or gamble your points.  If you decide to bank, you sit down and total up all the points written down, but you can not add any more points until the next round. If you decide to gamble, you stay up for another roll and write the next number down.  However, if the number 6 is rolled, you lose all your points that have not been banked. There can be multiple rounds, each round you start from 0 again. The winner is the person who has the most points, once all of the participants of the game have either banked their points and sat down or lost all their points from gambling and losing.

The fourth and final game I played was with Mr. Gillstrom. We used a website and chose number cards and them had to make the number that was written on the whiteboard. We had one minute for each one and had to write them down on paper.

We have also done a scavenger hunt with our kiwi buddies! It spelled out 'maths is cool.' Throughout the day we have been watching some of the famous singers maths week video and had to work out the problem and answer. Here are the videos we have done today. One of the videos was One Direction!

Have a great rest of your Friday! Happy blogging! :)

Samoan Visual Classroom!

Talofa bloggers, since the start of the year we have been learning Samoan. This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from. If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on. In my classroom you will learn about: Samoa as a country, link to a traditional dance video, basic greetings, the alphabet, how to count 1-10 , Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples, an animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan. I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most. Fa!

Samoan Animation! - Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom!

Hi bloggers, what a busy week it has been so far. This weeks learning task for Samoan is to create a Samoan animation of basic Samoan greetings. I created mine on google slides and animated it, I decided to use some of the characters from Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom. I also added to english term to each sentence, so that you will be able to know what the greeting it. This is our last week of Samoan and we are about to start to work on coding. Have you learned Samoan before? What do you know about the Samoan language?

3-2-1- Blast Off! Rocket Animation!

Hi bloggers, I am looking forward to what this week brings and am excited to start today's numeracy, literacy and inquiry tasks. What did you get up to yesterday at school? What was your favourite thing the you did or and achieved? This term as you may or may not know we are working on building rockets, not real ones, ones make out of a 1.5 litre plastic bottle. The good thing about using a plastic bottle it that we can reuse it over and over again. So far we are up to the point where we have been testing the pressure and water on some test ones as a group. To see what pressure and water amount work the most and launch the farthest. This week so far I have make an animation showing a rocket launching into space and showing how thrust, drag and weight work in order to launch a rocket and for the rocket to land again. Please have a look at my animation as I spent a long time yesterday working on it and feel free to leave a comment. Have you make a rocket out of a 1.5 litre plastic bottle before? Have a great week! :)

Maori Memory Match Game And Video!

Hi bloggers, It is a lovely day today. Last week for maori we started making a maori card game. We had to create a poster with the instructions of how to play our game and add our qr code to it to be able to view the instructional video. I used qr code generator to create my qr code. We also created our own memory match cards on google slides. My game is memory match and has the english meaning of something and the maori version e.g english: Hello maori: Kia Ora. I have also added clipart images of each thing so that it is easy to identify. Have you used qr code generator before? Have you ever created a maori game before? What words do you know in maori? Happy Friday! :)

Numeracy - BEDMAS!

 Hi bloggers, it is such a nice day today, and it is our book week dress up day. I am dressed up cookie monster and I have got cookies tied onto my top. This week for numeracy we have been looking at BEDMAS and we have been doing lots of challenging problems. BEDMAS stands for brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and finally subtraction. BEDMAS helps remember an order of operations. I have added some pictures of some of the maths we have been doing. Have you used bedmas to help you solve a problem? 

Literacy - Children's Books! - With Mr. Loan

Hi bloggers, It is so sunny and warn outside, don't forget to stay hydrated. This week for our literacy learning task we have been learning about children's books with Mr. Loan. We have been learning about what is in a children's book that makes it a children's book. The conventions of a children's book, description, the audience, morals and more. We have also been diving deeper/pulling apart these stories to really get as much as we can out of them. To help us with this we have been listing to people read famous children's books and researching famous authors and there most popular stories. Some of which include Margret Mahy and The Great White Man-Eating Shark, Lynley Dodd Slinky Malinki. Dr. Seuss Green Eggs And Ham. We also looked at children's shows and what the introduction includes. Also at the moment we are writing our own children's book and I will blog once I have finished it, keep a close eye out. It also happens to be book week this week which is perfect timing. Did you know that Lynley Dodd is a kiwi author. Who is your favourite children's book author? 

Literacy - Children's Poem!

Hi bloggers, welcome back. I have been posting so much about literacy today, I have one more for today. Last week for literacy we created a poem for little kids (5-6 year olds). I decided to do mine with lots of animals as little kids love animals and so do I. I also tried to add in the rhyme, that a poem should have. I love writing poems and my favourite part is the rhyme that they have. As you can see I have also added some pictures to give a clear picture of what to put into your imagination. What is your favourite animal I have here? Mine is probably the Elephant. My favourite animal is actually a dog though. What is yours?

Literacy - Folktale & Urban Legend!

Hi bloggers, what a nice day it is! Two weeks ago we had to choose two of the three tasks set by our numeracy teacher. The first one that I did was the folk tale, mine is called light swamp. Have a read if you please. Lastly I researched about an urban legend, I chose to do riverdale road. What urban legends have you heard about. Have you heard about the urban legend of riverdale road before? What is your favorite urban legend? Have a good rest of you day! Happy Tuesday! :)

Literacy - Film Noir!

Hi bloggers, How is your day going? What do you have you got planned for your school day? Last term for literacy we had a focus on genres and I have forgotten to post the last of it. The last genre we went over was film noir. We worked on expanding our ideas on the conventions of film noir. Film noir is similar to horror and it is originally where horror originated. There however are many differences between the two of them. What differences do you notice? Have you done research on film noir before? Do you know what film noir is and it's conventions?

Parachute For Rocket Challenge!

Hi bloggers, how is your day going? This weeks learning task for our Rocket Challenge inquiry is to be able to construct and build our own parachute. Our Initial design process was a range of fabrics conjoined together to make a curved shape. We then added masking tape to help hold everything together and finally string that attached the two hex nuts. Our second design process Involved us using bubble rap, masking tape to hold the string and finally the hex nuts. By using the String and Inter twining it together created a curved shape. With all of the materials we used with our design, we didn't want to add to many materials or else it would go straight down which had a lighter Material will cause it to go slower. Our challenge today, Is the parachute with the slowest time wins. Our parachute, however, didn't go as planned as we only started with a small-time frame, as we had other things on. Our parachute started with a nice flow then went straight to the ground, like a rock. Our time is 1.4 seconds. Once we had finished creating our parachute we created a slide that had our begging, middle and end evaluation plan and outcome. Have you constructed your own parachute before? If so what did it look like, what materials did you use?

The Begging Of My Week, What Will It Bring?

 Hi bloggers, It is such a nice day today and the sun is shinning into my classroom. I am very excited for this week as it is book week. Book week is where we do lots of thing based around books and book characters including fun activities and a book character dress up day on Thursday. Make sure to keep an eye out for some book week content on my blog. For literacy at the moment we are creating our own children's book. These will be completed over the next week or two. Numeracy at the moment is full of fun things as we are doing a basic facts test each morning before we begin our lesson and have been leaning lots of fun things at the moment but with it giving us a challenge as well. As you may or may not know we are building rockets at the moment and have been going over the safety procedure and planning how we are going to do it witch is very exciting so I will be blogging the finished results by the end of the term. Have a great week! :)

Space Scavenger Hunt!

Hi bloggers, I hope you are having a good week so far. this term for inquiry we are doing the rocket challenge as part of this we have been doing lots of space activities. So far I have been really enjoying it and the activities that we have to do. I have completed the space scavenger hunt. I had to use my phone to scan the QR code and find the answer. The first one I completed was the how astronauts do things in space. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.