Maths Grid References W8

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! This week for maths we were focusing on Grid references, For our first task we were to figure our some questions on a big piece of paper, there were two options, I chose to do the Australian one. After that for our create we were to make our own map, I chose to do my school, Then we will put the grid and the number and letters down the side. After we completed that we needed to make a route for our buddys to make their way around our map, I was sick on the sharing back day so my buddy didn't get to do it, but you can? the instructions are on the side in the pink. Here is the DLO:

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Question: What grid number is the hall located?

Reading Kiwi Kids News W8

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! This week for reading our task was to read 3 articles off kiwi kids news but they had to be 3 different genres. The three articles I chose were: Tornado hits south Auckland, G7 leaders meet in the united kingdom and a straw invented that stops hiccups. Next we had to write what they were about on a google drawing and write some of the fantastic shapes that were in the articles. Here is my google drawing: 

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Question: Have you ever seen or read Kiwi kids news? If so what was your favorite article?

Reading: Matariki Stars W7

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! This week for reading we were focusing on Matariki. We read a news article and were pointing out the text events and features. For our create task we were to either make a 8 point paper star or a digital star on google drawing, Next we would add 8 text events and features on each of the star points. In the middle of the star we would write why we think Matariki should be a public holiday. I chose to do a paper star for my create task, the video was quite complicated but I got there in the end. Here is a photo of it: *I will list the text events below the photo because its hard to see them*

1. Different iwi celebrate at different times

2. Should we swap Matariki holiday for a different one

3. Celebrating it when the stars are not visible

4. What it means to people growing up

5. Encouraging other cultures 

6. Respecting the culture when we celebrate

7. What it means to celebrate

8. Confusion when to celebrate

Why I think Matariki should be a public holiday: I think Matariki should be a holiday because it's the coming of the Maori new year and it gives a chance for people to know more about it.

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Question: How many stars are there in Matariki? Can you name them all?

Maths Knowledge W7

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! This week for Maths we were assigned to do maths knowledge. There were a couple of level 4 goals to choose from. I chose the goal that wasn't greened off which was: know groupings of 10's, 100's & 1000's in 7 digit numbers. I found this goal pretty easy. Here is a photo of my working: 

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Question: What were you learning for maths this week?

Maths Top Team Challenge

Hi Guys and welcome back to my blog! This week for maths we were focusing on: Area, Perimeter, Volume, metric units and Conversion. Every day this week we were focusing on each one. On Friday we were to create a Top Team team building challenge for the Top Team People. Using the maths we were focusing on we had to come up with ideas and include the measurements too. Me and Kate worked as buddy's for the team building challenge. Here is our idea with the explanation and measurements on the sides: 

Our idea was called 4 way tug of war, The game starts of by having a big rope shaped like the picture on the google drawing. 4-6 people are tugging on the ropes out the side of the square. Each person on the end of the rope is trying to touch the cones nearest to them. Whoever touches the cone first wins the game.

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Question: Have your ever played 4 way tug of war? If you have how did you enjoy it?

Character Reading Web!

Hi guys and welcome back to my blog! This week for reading we got to choose a book from the library that either is a Novel, Graphic Novel, Short Story or a Sophisticated picture book with text. I chose to pick a graphic novel it was called: "Sunny Rolls The Dice". We then had to read the whole book and note down all the characters that the main character meets. For our create task we had to make a Character Reading Web using the names of the characters and a short sentence about them. I made a copy of the example that our teacher gave us, Here it is: 

As you can see the main character is in the middle of the screen and all the people she meets in the book is out on the sides with short descriptions of what they do and who they are. 

Blurb of the story: The book is based in 1977 in the U.S. Sunny is trying to make it through middle school and all her best friends want to talk about is boys, fashion, makeup and being cool. Sunny doesn't like most of these things so she starts playing a game called Dungeons of Dragons in her basement with a few boys she met at school. Sunny soon becomes addicted to the game and buys all sorts of mags and figurines for it but her best friend Deb doesn't really like it and slowly starts moves away from Sunny. What do you think will happen with both of the girls friendship?

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Question: Have you ever created or heard of a character reading web? if so what character was yours?