Amazing Fractions Fun

 Last week in Te Ngahere we did a pizza problem. We were learning how to use a range of strategies to solve problems using fractions. We had to figure out how many seats were in the restaurant. Our fraction was ¾ so first we drew our restaurant and split it into 4 because we knew that the bottom number of a fraction is how many you split it into. Next we coloured in 3 because three quarters of the seats were taken then we were left with ¼ which equaled 6 so we did 6+6+6+6=24, and our answer was 24 so there were 24 seats in the whole restaurant. 

Are you good at fractions? 

Fun EPro8 Challenge

This week in Te Ngahere we did an Epro8 challenge. Epro8 is lots of hard and challenging maths to help you communicate with new people. One of the challenges we did this week was castle siege. We had to get into groups of three or four that didn’t include your social friends. My group was Cahaly, Amber, Mikaria and I. We had to build a catapult that shoots out a ping pong ball that can fly at least 3 meters before touching the ground. We got 30 rubber bands, 30 bamboo sticks, 1 ping pong ball, 1 electrical tape, 1 roll of string, 2 a4 pieces of paper, 1 a3 piece of paper and 1 pair of scissors. We learnt about two types of energy. Kinetic and potential. Kinetic energy is where the energy gets let out and moves and potential energy is where stays stored somewhere. What we found challenging was trying to get catapult to stay up by itself. My group did well at all asking questions, In the future  I am  going to work on discussing with my group and to make a plan before doing anything.   I think my group was really good at communicating because we all got a little turn.

Have you made a catapult before?

Easy and Hard Task Master

 In Te Ngahere we were learning how to follow directions. We got a sheet of paper with a whole lot of directions on it that we had to follow. We were doing this to see if we can follow directions. The first question was read everything carefully before doing anything. I read question 1 and thought it meant to read the sentence carefully before you draw or write anything, but it actually meant read all twenty three questions before doing anything. I got up to question twenty and then the teacher stopped us to come on to the floor to go through a few questions together. We read question 1 and 23 with the teacher and we read sentence 23 it said now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentence one and two! Then draw quietly on the back of this paper while you wait for everyone else to finish. It was funny because everyone said I AM THE LEADER IN FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. I felt good when I got the piece of paper and felt good, but when I read sentence 23 I was like I can’t read things carefully. We were all like wow we don’t know how to read it carefully. In the future I am going to make sure I read things carefully.

Do you always read things CAREFULLY?

The Most Interesting Thing I Have Ever learnt

A few weeks ago we started a DLO for Te Reo Moari. We were learning to pronounce Te Reo Moari words properly. We used Education Perfect, it is a website where you can learn different languages but we learnt about Te Reo Moari. We had to do the Moari alphabet, place names and greetings with a screencastify. I learnt how to pronounce things properly. I think I did pretty good at place names but in the future I am going to pronounce bigger and more difficult words. 

Are you good at Moari? 

Fantastic Fun Smart Surfing

 This week we have been learning about smart surfing. We had to search it up on the internet. We had to learn about keywords to help us search for things easier on Google.

I learnt that if you type up: what do short tailed bats eat it takes all the information that includes what and gives that information to me so you have  to break it down into keywords like short tailed bats diet because diet is a keyword like habitat. This was quite easy just I got stuck on the last slide. I got stuck because I didn’t quite understand. 

Do you know any keywords that relate? 

Brillant Coastal Seas Film

In Te Ngahere we have been doing work around coastal seas. We watched a coastal seas film on netflix. It was called Our Planet. It was phenomenal. We had to get at least 10  facts to put on our DLO’s. Here are some interesting facts: Today there are 20 million more sharks then there was a decade ago, In coastal seas jellyfish are taking over waters that were once dominated by fish. The Bottlenose dolphins make a mud circle around their prey. The dolphins  jump up to eat the flying fish that jump into their mouths. There were some facts in there I have never heard of before. I think it was pretty hard to remember what they said in the film but when I had my facts it was easy to put them on to a DLO. 

Have you ever watched Our Planet? 

 

Walk To Delicious Greens

 On Tuesday we went for a walk to Greens for Shivam’s birthday on Saturday but we celebrated it on Tuesday. We went to the Greens because his parents owned the restaurant so we got the food for free. The best bit was the food, we got a tray each with butter chicken, rice and naan bread and it tasted so good. We also got to choose either Coke or Sprite so I picked Coke. I felt so special and lucky that we got to go to the most delicious Indian restaurant in town. We acknowledged Shivam by giving him a card. To say thank you we sung a few waiata. We were so loud people across the road could here us. At the end they gave us all a big easter eggs to say thanks for coming and happy easter.

Do you like butter chicken?