What I Learnt From The Wonder Project

Kia ora bloggers, Last week on Wednesday Gustavo and Troy came to Paihia School. Gustavo and Troy are both scientists. They explained a bit about themselves. After Gustavo explained a bit about himself Whaea Shanna sent us off to work on a slide show. We had to choose two career roles and explain what they do, I chose a biologist and a mathematician. Did you know a biologist researches living organisms? I chose mathematician as one of my career roles because I love math. If you want to learn more about these 2 subjects here is my slideshow. What would you choose for your 2 career roles? I hope you liked my blog post.
Ka Kite.

Netball Accomplished

Kia ora, On Saturday the 24th of July Paihia Blues had a netball game. I am in their team and we played against Kerikeri High School Rimu. We practise every Thursday and we get better and better every time we practise. I was goalkeeper and defence. I was told I am an awesome defence player hence why I am either defence or goalkeeper. I love being in the circle. What I think I need to work on is to pay attention at all times. On the court I get distracted by watching other netball teams play. This was our first real game and we won 16/09. I love netball, it is one of my passions. It is my second year playing netball and I really enjoy it. I hope I get more opportunities to play netball. Do you play netball or do you play any sport? If you play a sport let me know what sport you play in the comment section below. I hope you enjoyed this blog post.
Ka kite

Tidy Numbers

Kia ora, mihi nui kia koe. In Te Ngahere we have been doing math, for math we have been re-learning tidy numbers. We had different equations we had to figure out. I struggled a little bit doing this activity because of the holidays but I started to remember how to round numbers. What I learnt is if you learn how to round numbers it could help at the store whenever buying groceries. Whaea Chrissy taught us an easy strategy to use and it helped me and my group to figure out the equations. This also helped me with my multiplication as they are multiplication questions. Something I could do better next time is stay focused more because we talk off topic and not about work sometimes. Have you rounded numbers or are you learning how to round numbers? Here is a DLO I put together for examples. I hope you enjoyed.
Ka kite.

Te Ngahere Version Of Tik Tok

Kia ora koutou, Mihi nui kia koe. In this blog post I am going to be talking about our assembly and what we did for it. Read on and you’ll find out what we did and watch the video because you will be amazed if you watch the video. Last week for our assembly we did tik toks. We did 2 tik toks and we made them into a huge routine. I had heaps of fun and appreciate the 2 girls who taught us the tik tok dances and also the teachers who approved on letting us do them. I am sure heaps of people had fun as I did and I am positive heaps of people enjoyed watching us do them. I wish we got another opportunity to do something as fun. I learnt a new tik tok dance and it was fun learning it. We changed bits of the dance to make it more suitable for the children at our school. Something I could do better next time is to keep on beat. Here is the video. Hope you enjoyed.

Ka kite

My Most Amazing Creativity To Share about my Drawbridge Challenge

Kia ora e hoa, we have been making a drawbridge for a drawbridge challenge. We had to create a circuit for a ping pong ball or marble to travel. I learnt what a drawbridge is. A drawbridge is a bridge that is hinged at one end so that it may lift to prevent people to cross it and to let vessels pass under it. This is a very fun activity but it involves a hot glue gun so I don’t recommend it for young kids, it might blow up in their/your hand. I have experienced seeing it. So far my group and I have made the base and almost two full sides. Next time I could stop making everything perfect and try to get it done. I hope you learnt something new and I hope you liked this blog post.
Kia kite.

Pou Pou Art

In Te Ngahere we have been doing art. For art we have been doing Pou Pou/Pou. Pou are carving that are normally found in a marae, they represent IwI/tribes or in other words they are a sign that marks territorial boundaries or places of significance that are carved by maori. They are made out of wood but we drew them on paper and colored them in with pastel. My theme was rainbow and I accomplished it. I used more warm colors then cold colors but when I am completely finished it would sort of be even between the mix. I learnt what pou meant and actually were because I had no idea what they were. My teacher Whaea Barbara also learnt something new. She learnt woman/girls don’t poke their tongues out. Here is a photo of my pou but it’s not completely done and it is very messy.
Hope you learnt something.
Kia kite ano.

Fractions

Today in Te Ngahere I was doing fractions. I was doing sort of a quiz. We were turning fractions into decimals. There were 4 options to choose from and we had to choose the right one and there were 10 questions to answer. I had trouble at the start but then I got used to it and started getting the hang of working out the questions. The method I used was making the denominator a multiple of 10. Then you take your numerator and multiple it by the answer. For example if you have 8/25 you would multiple 25 (denominator) by 10 which would be 4. Then you multiple 4 by 8 (numerator) which = 0.32. And that is how you turn fractions into decimals. Here is a link to my slideshow if you don’t understand.

Kia kite ano.