Three Days in Huia

24/11/20

Last week, the year 5's and 6's from my class went to camp at Aroha Island. Me and Eric went into the class above for three days instead, while they were gone. For the first day, we just had to get into groups with Huia and visit the Pak'n'Save online shopping site to get an idea about how many of each product we will need for our camp and the price. We continued with that for the second day too, but on Friday we had Mr Metzger as our teacher and we did some math tasks, then we had to get into buddies to make a 3D or 2D food web showing which sea creatures eat what, and we need to include different types of eaters, like grazers and other things. 

I enjoyed making the 3D food web because it was funny to put the printed dolphins on the cardboard box because they looked really weird, sort of crazy.

Maitai Bay Brochure

 04/11/20

I.A.L.T create a brochure and upload it to my blog

Last week our class created a poster on Google Drawings about Maitai Bay. In our poster we had to include what it is, where it is, what types of fish live there, and information about the rāhui. We could have worked in buddies or alone. I was with Sofia. When we were done our brochure, we printed them out and folded them along the lines into three sections to create a brochure shape.

Below is my (and Sofia's) Maitai Bay poster:

While making this poster I learn that you can launch your boat here.

I found formatting and shifting the writing and pictures to the right size and position quite challenging.

I could have improved this brochure by adding more detail and facts.

Have you been to Maitai Bay before? Have you ever seen a goatfish before?

KiwiCan Term 4 Week 2 Reflection

 21/10/20

I.A.L.T upload a post showing what we learnt in KiwiCan.

This morning we had our second Kiwi Can lesson. Our focus for this term is respect, and the catchphrase is 'we respect our school, we will do it because we're cool.' The games we played today are: Snap, Crackle, Pop and So Makalo. To play Snap, Crackle, Pop, we had to get into groups of three, get into a circle, and choose a game name each, Snap, Crackle, or Pop. Jodesy will call out a word, and whoever chose that word has to run around the circle and back. For example, if I was 'Snap' in the game, (which I was,) then if Jodesy calls out 'Snap!' I run around the outside of the circle and back to my groups spot, and while I'm running the other two have to hold up their legs for me to go under to run into the centre of the circle to grab the jandle that Jodesy put there.

Here is a picture of us playing So Makalo:

Today I enjoyed playing both the games because they were both fun. 

I showed respect by not being a sore looser or calling anyone else rude names.

I think I could have improved by keeping my hands up longer when playing So Makalo.

Have you played So Makalo before?

Waitangi Treaty Grounds - Reflection

18/09/20

 W.A.L.T reflect on our class trip.

On Tuesday the 14th, our class went on a trip to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. We got there after approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes by bus. When we made it to the grounds, we went on a tour to see the canoes (there were five of them) and all the patterns carved onto them. There was a very big tree stump there too. We also went to a museum and saw some paintings of the treaty signing and talked about that for a bit. When we got back to the learning room, we got into groups and were giving a bunch of jumbled numbers from 1 to 50. The idea was to work as a team and think of strategies to order the numbers correctly before the other teams. Later on, we used surface tablets to create a quick project on Scratch showing a quiz to test people's Te Reo Maori. 

Below are a few pictures of our trip to Waitangi Treaty Grounds:

   

While on this trip, I enjoyed creating the projects on Scratch because it was fun to animate the characters.

I found the patterns interesting because they tell a story.

Have you been to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds?

Have you created something on Scratch before?

Sudoku Math Task

14/09/20

Sudoku Math Task

Today our math task was to complete two sheets about number sudoku's. Mr Metzger cut the little sudoku grids and gave them to us one by one. First we did the 4 x 4 grid, and then we got the sheet with the 6 x 6 grid. We had to fill the numbers, based on the grid, into the empty spaces. The numbers in the sudoku's have to contain all numbers in a row, column or mini box, but if two of the same number are in the same row, column or mini box, the it's incorrect.

Below are a few screenshots of my Sudoku task:

   

I really enjoyed this task because like playing Sudoku.
I think I did well with ordering the numbers into the right place.  One thing I could improve on was gluing the task into my book tidier.

Do you like completing Sudoku's?