This week we have been reading a text called “Life in Aotearoa” written by Matt Boucher. The text tells us lots of information about the evolution of life in Aotearoa – namely the different species that have come, gone, aswell as those that have stayed. In our response to text slides, we have been practicing our reading comprehension skills. We’ve also tried to identify and understand key vocabulary related to biology and ecology. We have also been answering questions that require critical thinking and understanding of the text.
Leonardo of Pisa / Fibonacci
This week we have started working in our different maths groups. I am in group Fibonacci which is named after the famous mathematician Fibonacci. Upon reasearching this man,I have learnt that he is one of the top mathematical expositor.
Understanding Place Value
This week we revised what we know about place value. We have also started learning about how a number can be represented in many different ways. Our task was to make a DLO explaining all the differnet forms of a number there is easpecily using place value.
My Pepeha
This week I made my pepeha. We focused on the visual side of it.
I first made my Panguru Papata mountian by tracing it using a google image.
Next I made my lake Waihou a rua this time a free drew it.
Then in the top right box I put my 2 nationalities Dutch and maori.
Finaly I put what is most important to me Family.
Sneaker art
This week for one of our art projects we learnt to express ourselfs trough drawings.
My first task was to write what your name was, what your favourite thing is and what date you were born.
My next task was to colour it in as you can see it is not the greatest but it is a 2013 nike Jordan so its good.
Here is my kick.
My Bookmarks + class site scavenger hunt
Taday My class and I completed this task to get our chromebook ready and also our minds ready for where everything in our class site is like where the reading site is.
My first task was to answer the question ” which kid has the most appropriate bookmarks. Number 3 has the most appropiate bookmarks because he has good links so he can do his work fast and quick
My next task was to delete all of your origanal bokmarks and add the new ones like epic books and my – drive.
After that I took a screen shot of my bookmarks and put that on my sids I also had to give a quick explination to why I choose one of thoose book marks.
Fianly I did a class site scavenger hunt where I had to find different things on our new class site.
My Nature Character
This week I completed another summer learning journey task. Today I had to take photos of things in my garden and remove the background of them.
First I traced a bird picture. I used the polyline tool to make the bird.
Then I picked the leaf that I would want to use. Then I took a photo of it and removed the background.
After that I took some pettels from the hydrangea flower and used that as the feathers and removed the background of course.
Soon After I put all the pettels and leaves together to make a colllage that made it look like birds feathers.
Fianly I added a background to make this:
Paper Planes
Today I completed another Summer Learning Journey task. Today I learnt how to make a paper plane and what makes a paper plane fly. A paper plane flies when there is enough force pulling it forwards, its like when you throw a stone it goes far because the force at that you threw it and because it is heavy it would go further.
My task today was to measure and see how paper planes would react to different mods added to them for example if you put slits on the edges of the wings if it would make it fly further or if you put more weight at the back it would do flips. I made two paper planes one with no mods and the other with mods like slit wings, weight focused at the back and with a flat tip. My paper plane with no mods went further but it didn’t go very high and my paper plane with mods went higher but not that far. That is why I have come to the conclusion that if you have more weight at the back it will not go very far but it will go very high and if you have a straight tip and weight at the front your paper plane will go higher. Also if you use enough force then your plane will go far and high.
Here is a video of me testing my planes.
Rock pool (Anemone is not the enemy)
Today my task was to listen to a story about an anemone, he tried to make freinds with a school of fish that swam into the anemone’s rock pool but the fish were mean to him. So when the water started to go out the fish were forced to swim closer to the anemone if you dont know anemone has this chemical reaction that makes it when ever anyone touchs one you get stung. So when the water went completely out tide the fish were forced to get stung by them. Once the water came back the fish’s left, once the mean fish a clown fish came in the rock pool but he was nice and when the water went out the clown fish swam into the anemone but did not get stinged the clown fish did not want to leave because the bigger fish could not swim into the anemone.
My next task was to rock pool using meaterials in my garden and outside. I gave my rock pool a treasure chest, because
there was not alot of stones in my garden I had to use other items sutch as pocker chips and other things I found
