Math's Problems

Walt: solve measurement, algebra and fraction.

 This task took me a while to finish. At first the equations were really easy but as I got more into the presentation, I started to struggle with the last few topics.

Writing A Quality Blog Comment

Walt: write quality blog comments.

In this task I was assigned to write a quality blog comment. I learnt how to write a quality comment properly and the order of how I write it. I commented on my friends blog from Glen Taylor school, Her name is Brooklyn. I commented on her post about a Powhiri she had.

Geometry

Walt: identify and describe 2D shapes.


 In this task I learnt about different 2D shapes. I named some and I also found the shapes in objects in my classroom. I worked with Revival and Htethtet on making a shapes card game.

Team 5 Speech Competition

Imagine competing to be one of the top 3 talkers in your class. Well last Friday Team 5 had a speech competition. The top 3 students from each class presented their speeches in front of at least 100 students. Speech topics went from being president for a day to cook island legends. I had two speeches in particular that I most enjoyed. All o the speakers also got judged by two teacher Ms Tapuke and Mrs Judd and the results will be told later.

I found that out of all the speeches two stood out to me. The most appealing speech in my opinion was by Amelia she talked with a clear voice, had good detail and she shared a personal story but did it confidently and with pride. Her speech was about her grandma and how she always had a smile on her face no matter what. I think that throughout her speech it started happy then slightly sad but ended happily.

The most entertaining speech to me however was by Mubashshir. He engaged with the audience by making us laugh at times but also having a serious side to his speech. It was about what he'd do if he was President for a day. He talked about building shelters for the homeless, take pollution down as well as dept bills and try making the world a better place. I think his ideas were good and keeping it serious but entertaining was one of his many talents during this process.

Even though all of the speeches were awesome these two stood out for me the most. I enjoyed listening to their speeches but it definitely took alot of guts for them to talk in front of us all. I hope that we get to do this again sometime. Maybe we'll have different people next time.

Mean, median, mode and range

In this task I learnt about mean, median, mode and range.

Plays and poetry

Walt: analyse and adapt spoken words with expression and confidence.



In this task we had to analyse texts and their confidence towards speeches, We learnt about how people have different ways of oral speech and how it travels around to others. Some people haven't adapted to saying speeches and sometimes I can be one of those people. Plays and Poetry are our main focus for week 6.

Week 6 Inquiry Project

Our Project is to make bag hooks for classrooms in the school who are in need of them. During our research we have learnt that only team 4 and 5 are the only groups that need bag hooks. In team 5 we have most of the student bags on the ground instead of on the bag hooks that we have in our space, some student say the we need more bag hooks so that the students bags can fit on one side of each bag hooks.

We met with Mrs Tele’a to confirm our project and we also shared with her the materials needed and the quantity needed to make this possible. We talked about how many hooks could fit on one pole and how many rows we wanted. Soon we decided to have eight on each pole for now and we also wanted a lock plan for the lockers as many are locked with lost combinations.

Water as the source of life

Walt: find the mythological beliefs relating to water in different cultures



In this task I found out about myths from different cultures. I found this task challenging but fun at the same time.

Decimals

Walt: read and write decimals.

In this task I did decimals. I enjoyed it as well.

Fair Test???

Walt: Synthesise information from multiple sources

Our worms experiment

This is our worms experiment!

The water cycle

Walt: create a button animation of the water cycle
Cameo - Water cycle from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

My animation

Walt: create an animation about our learning

Cameo - Ch ch ch changes from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Sentence Types

Walt: use different types of sentences in paragraphs

Thinkboard

The main focus for this think board was addition.

Thinkboard

I did this think board and personally I found it easy.

Thinkboard

This is the think board I did. I think it was mildly hard.

Decimals

Walt: use the correct strategy to solve the following equations

Thinkboard

This thinkboards theme is fractions. This is the thinkboard I have completed.

Addition and Subtraction

Walt: use prior knowledge of addition and subtraction to solve these equations