William Stedman - Paralympics

This week for inquiry we have been researching about the Paralympics. The person I did my research on was William Stedman. He is a track runner and a long jumper. he has achieved many things, which makes him a great role model. You can look him up online or read my DLO on how great of an athlete he is.

E-ako maths - times and divide

For E-Ako maths today I was carrying on with my multiplication and division tasks. In this task a girl called Zoe and her friends wrote down how much every ingredient costs. But they need 4 times the amount. So I had to times each price by 4.

Our class doing Quizizz

Today our whole class were doing Quizizz. We had lots of fun challenging each other in our mixed times tables, addition and takeaways. We were set into partners, so my partner was SaKae. Our greatest score was coming second in the mixed times tables against 45 other year 7 and 8's. But then later we came 6th and 17th. This is a very exciting way to practise our basic facts and to answer them faster. Plus, the more we play, the more we improve.

Narrative Quick Writes

Today my buddies Jorja, SaKae, and I made a six sentence narrative story. We each chose a picture from our reading tumble which we wanted to write our six sentence narrative about. But each sentence had a different purpose. The first sentence had to say who the story was about. The second sentence described where they lived. Then the third then talked about a special talent that person had. later the fourth sentence talked about the problem. The fifth one then talked about why she felt that way. And finally, the last sentence says how they solved the problem. We did this narrative exercise so we can re-vision how narrative stories are written.

Thank you letter

This term I have been making a thank you letter for the teachers in my class. This task was for one of my care award tasks too. I made this letter for these three teachers because they have really been a big part of my learning, and a big part of term 3. One of these teachers are also going to another school in Manurewa to teaching five year old kids, which would be a big change. I appreciate these teachers very much.

Stig Wemyss LIVE at Panmure Library

Last Friday most of our school went to the Panmure Library to watch a show hosted by Stig Wemyss. Stig is a narrator for the Andy Griffiths books. One of the books he read to us was called Fly Guy: and the stupid thing. It was about a guy who was doing the 'Chubby Bubby' Challenge against his brother. But then Lisa (the girl he liked) came up to him because she wanted to check his palm. She believed if his palm matched the palm in her book, they would be true mates. Suddenly, he had to sneeze and marsh mellows flew everywhere. He was terribly embarrassed. Everybody thought he was a great narrator. But that was not all... he even got people up to do really funny acts. Some people were sprayed with water, while others had to speak baby talk, and some actually done the chubby bubby challenge! (Afu was the winner). These people who were brave enough to come up was presented one of Stig's CD's. But the most important part was that he encouraged all of us to read books, and to go on borrow box to borrow audio books for free. Later when we thanked him for his awesome show, we went back to school with lots of giggles.

Quizizz

Yesterday as a class we did quizizz. IN this quiz we did our times tables. I came 5th out of the whole class. We played more games, but I wasn't very successful. 

My Porquoi Story

Today I have finally finished my porqoui story. What is a porqoui story you ask? Well, porqoui means 'why' in French, so basically it's a story that tells why or how something has happened. Still don't know? Think about cultural legends that people tell, like Maui and the Sun. That is a porqoui story because it tells how Maui slowed the sun so that we now have time in the day to do  all our stuff. Anyway, this made up porqoui story I wrote was about how Kailao came to Tonga. A week later my teacher told us to work with a critical friend (my critical friend was Mia). On the sides of my story she made comments of where my mistakes were in my writing. I eventually fixed them, and later read her story. An acronym that helped us was DRAFT (Delete, Rearrange, Add, Fix, and Talk). DRAFT (as shown above) helps us proof read ours and other peoples work. The reason why I chose to write about how Kailao came to life was because two ago it was Tongan language week, so this was a way of acknowledging that week.

Word Study Challenge

 This is my second 'Can-Do' task. The task I chose for today was the Word Study Challenge. I thought of 3 words (without using the internet) and researched about them. As you can see, my three words are adjectives. After I researched these words I told the meaning, attributed a picture, made a sentence, and found synonyms for each word. These words would be very helpful for writing a story or report.

Diet

This is my third DLO for inquiry. My teacher for this topic was Mr. Wong. We talked about how an Olympian doesn't only run, but also eats according to a strict diet. In this DLO we compared the diets between a long distance runner and a weightlifter. We also looked at the six different nutrients. If you would like to find out more, have a look inside this slide.

Inquiry - ancient and modern Olympics

Last week and this week is our last week for inquiry. This slide is about comparing the ancient and modern Olympics and also their similarities. We have lots of attributed images, prior knowledge, Olympic words, and much more. Have a look inside our Olympic changing DLO.

Maths

                                               

This week my maths group has been doing problem solving. Our topic for problem solving were hot dogs and hot dog buns. We watched a video of a man buying some hot dogs and hot dog buns. He wanted to buy a packet of 8 hot dogs and a packet of 8 hot dog buns to feed 8 people, but the problem was there were only hot dog bun packets of 12 and 16. So the man started tearing the packets of hot dog buns and took 8 buns out of the packet of 12. Later after the video, we started solving the man's problem. Our teacher Ms Naicker gave us the same problem but with different numbers to work on. For example, I have to feed 108 people. I can only use hot dog packs of 4, 3, 8 and 6 and hot dog bun packs of 12, 8, 6, and 16. Eventually I solved the problem. One way I used 9 packs of 12 hot dog buns to make 108 hit dog buns and they brought 10 packs of 4 hot dogs, 10 packs of 6 hot dogs, and 1 pack of 8 hot dogs to make 108 hot dogs. My strategy was approved by my teacher, Ms Naicker.

Word Cline Challenge

Today I made a word Cline for the words Shy, dark, good, hot, and went. A word Cline is a line that has a list of synonyms for one word, like shy. I had to find found five synonyms for each word that I have chosen. What is good about word clines is that as you go up the line, the synonym for that word gets stronger and stronger in meaning. This was also one of my reading 'Can-do's'. You may see another 'Can-do' activity later.

Food for my family

On Saturday I made a food called Ko'pai for my family. This is a task I worked on from my Care Award booklet. I am trying to get my respect badge so I chose an activity from the respect page of my booklet.

Cross Country - FunRun

It was an awesome time running in this cross - country this year. My time at cross country practise and run jump throw have really payed off. Before the race began. After getting changed and having lunch, our teacher called out the roll and told us to line up and walk across the road to the fields. The cross country first started with the year 1 girls all the way to year 8 boys. It was also raining a bit when we cheered for everybody that was running. When the year 7 and 8 girls were called up to run, I had a lot of butterflies in my stomach. I was so close to running in the inter-school run but I came 4th, which is pretty good for me. At least my time at cross-country practise and run, jump, throw have really paid off.

Maths - LI: find the place value in decimals

Today for maths in Ms. Naicker group, we did a follow up sheet about finding place values in decimal numbers. The first five questions was where we read the words that gave us the number and formed it into a number (eg: Four hundred twenty two and three tenths = 422.3). They the other seven questions were the other way round (eg: 34.7 = thirty four and seven tenths).

Who wants to be a millionaire/ hundredaire

Today for maths I played a place value game called "Who wants to be a hundredaire"  This includes finding the number value after the decimal point (eg: In 456.935 which number is in the thousandths column?). This is a good game for those who needs help with their place valuing. 

Hit the button

Today again we played hit the button. But this time we did division facts, mixed! I wasn't too good so I need more practise. Hopefully I can get a better score tomorrow or the next day.

Read Theory

This is my Read 20 score today. Read Theory is a website that helps with your reading. It also helps you how to understand the questions it gives you about the passage you read. When you get the answer wrong, it gives you an explanation of how you got it wrong and how you could improve the next time you get answered a question like that. I really like this because I improve every time (even if I get some wrong). I recommend this site to anybody who needs help understanding not just the story but the questions they ask you. 

The sons of Ma'afu

This week and last week for reading we read a book called The son of Ma'afu. This a Tongan story about two boys who show disrespect to their dad and the people in the village. They then were sent to two places to get water plus to kill two deadly animals lurking around those places. The Chief's son then learnt their lesson and moved all the way to the sky so they could still be near their father as well as keeping away from their village. Later I made a sketch note in my own words  and pictures about the story.

Hit the button - Times tables

Today for maths I played Hit the button again. This time I got 21 out of 22. I think I could have gotten a higher score if I pushed myself to go faster. Hopefully next time I could improve. I recommend this site to anyone who needs help with their times tables. Even if you know all of them up to twelve.

Sketching-note

Questions

 

This week and last week we have been learning about sketch note. Sketch note is taking notes, but instead of doing loads and loads of paragraphs, you also use pictures, CAPITALS and arrows and so much more. Sketch notes don't have to be perfect, they just have to be there on your paper. Being able to draw pictures helps me make better connections to the topic. And your sketch notes don't have to make sense to anyone but yourself. Our topics we have made sketch notes on were about Questions, Athletic skills, and Rio Olympics 2016. I find sketch note very helpful because of these various reasons.

Cross country

This term we have been doing cross country training. Here at the bottom are some photos from two days ago. Our goal is to run around our school 7 times before the real cross country day. When we run our heart gets stronger and we get more fit. We are also trying to pace our self. We shouldn't run so fast at the start or else we will get tired much quicker. Mr. Ogilvie says we are making good progress in our running.