The Rules

WALT - generate questions SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can: - make questions using Who, What, Where, When, Why and How.

This week we are finishing off work from the past few week as it is the second to last week of school, so this week we are going to finish it off properly. 

Test practice, Wk3

Walt: find an appropriate strategy to solve each word problem.
This week we are working on a practice test for us to get ready for our real test coming soon. We are working

Wk3 Pow and Boom work

Walt: find an appropriate strategy to solve each word problem.

This week we are learning to find an appropriate strategy to solve each word problem. This presentation will show you the questions and answers shown above.

Orchestra instruments

Week 2 Focus Question: Your task for this week: Answer the following with a partner using free images and research.

This week we are working on a presentation that shows different orchestra instrument being played, you can also watch some of the videos, there is also a little piece of writing about the videos, whats about the video. Hope you enjoy our Orchestra instrumental presentation. 

Understanding negative numbers

WALT understand negative numbers.

This week our topic focus is understanding negative numbers,adding the negative and positive numbers together.
We are also finishing off work because it is nearly the end of the term. Enjoy and read threw.

Compensation from tidy numbers

WALT add and subtract using compensation from tidy numbers

This week we are learning how to sole big decimal numbers and problems and making the number to the nearest ten this also involves adding, and subtracting.

Tenths and hundredths

WALT: add tenths and hundredths, use geometric language.

Room 4's math class has been learning about decimals, fractions, Mixed fractions, tenths and hundredths, also this is the last week, we have to Finnish off any maths task that has not been completed and try Finnish it by the end of the week.

Skip Ball

This week our literacy and home class had a discussion about how would we put our materials into a fitness obstacle, our materials that we used was: one ball, one skipping rope and two hula hoops.

Also I group is called skip ball. 

what we did was make a some ideas then put them together and we came up with this. The first person to get to the skipping rope shoots the ball first, if they get the ball through the hoop, there team mate tries it out if that person missed the hoop that team is eliminated and the opponents group wins.

Our rules for our game is: Don't cheat, Don't hate, Don't get smart to the opposite team and be supportive.   

      

Speech's

Last week Friday the 25th of august we had a few kids from the pavilion to come watch some of our year seven and eight students deliver there speech. There were 15 students that had written there speech's about the past, money or safety, all of the student's were confident and gave eye contact to their audience.

Two of our senior girls had made their speech's make one of our teachers cry because it was a loving speech and also a person had past away as well through out their speech, I thought that Amelia and Danielle's speech was powerful and had made people feel sad but it was a very nice and clear speech. I think that both of them were pretty high marks. 




  

Speech 2: Education

Kia Ora,

This week my speech is about Education and how it helps students in school. As us kids at Pt England school, we’re lucky to be using our own individual netbooks to help us learn.

Imagine if education didn’t exist. None of us children will learn how to read, write and also the most important thing in education is opening opportunities for the future.

Why is education important for children around the world? Because children in the future need to have good lives and have jobs to be able to pay the bill.

Education is not all about having a good life in the future, it is about having knowledge and success.

This is my speech and I hope you have also learned a few things of why education is important, So now you can have a think about your life in the future.

Winter learning day 1

Well, the time has now come! School’s out for the holidays and your tour of New Zealand is about to begin. I hope that you are ready and excited! Curious Kiwi certainly is – he can’t wait to start the Great Kiwi Road Trip! Before you all hit the road, let’s take a minute to review some key facts about New Zealand.

Activity 1:  Go to the Tourism New Zealand website and click on the ‘Facts - New Zealand People’ tab. Read about the people of New Zealand and then choose three interesting facts to post on your blog. The facts must be written in your own words. Do not simply copy and paste the facts from the website.

http://www.kiwidaydreaming.com/p/new-zealand-maps.html

Activity 2: Your tour of New Zealand is going to start right here in Auckland. Watch the Tourist video for Auckland to learn about the awesome things that you can see and do in the city. Once you’ve finished, choose your favourite five activities from the video and list them on your blog.  

Bonus Activity: Now it’s time to start your tour! Curious Kiwi decides to start by taking you on a short tour through downtown Auckland. You stop at the Sky Tower, the tallest building in all of New Zealand. When you look up, you see a huge New Zealand flag on the top of the tower. This flag was created back in 1902. That makes the New Zealand flag 115 years old!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand#/media/File:Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg

Last year, the Prime Minister of New Zealand suggested that we should replace the flag with a new, updated design. He invited everyone in New Zealand to come up with their own flag design and submit it.

For this activity, it is your turn to design a new flag. Use any drawing programme that you wish. I would recommend the Flag Designer website. It allows you to create a flag in three easy steps. When you are done, take a screenshot of your flag and post it on your blog. Here is an example:

Source: http://flag-designer.appspot.com

To earn full points you must describe the flag, in words, below the picture. Please tell us what is on the flag and what inspired your design.   

Activity 1

Fact 1 - There are approximately 69% of European descent in New Zealand, approximately 14.6% people who are indigenous Maori in New Zealand, 9.2% of Asian and 6.9% non Maori Pacific islanders.

Fact 2 - 15% families in New Zealand own their own boat.

Fact 3 - In New Zealand, Rugby football are the most popular onlooker sport.

Activity 2

My 1st favourite activity was going to Rainbows End

2nd was the skytower in the city

3rd was going to the Auckland where children discovers different kinds of animals

4th was the museum in the Auckland Domain  Park

My last one was the beach in Mission Bay where is known as an inner city

Bonus Activity:

This is my finished bonus activity,Backround (green, red & yellow)Green repersents the trees and pants that souround us most where, Red repersents the people who fought for us at war, yellow repersents the sun that rises above for there to be light and the moon that shines at night for the vouages to cross the sea.

Speech

Fidget spinners have been affecting us kids from concentrating on work that is meant to be done. Fidget spinners have been banned from classrooms and schools around the world. Fidget spinners are just meant for older people to concentrate instead of older people pushing their finger down on the pen constantly or rubbing their finger tips together. Also  that’s why students here have been getting lower grades.

Students have also been bringing them to school for others to play in their classrooms and also showing their classmates about how cool their fidget spinner is. That is why some students have been getting alday growlings from teachers and this sometimes makes students go wild.

Some kids don’t even pay attention to their work, they also don’t pay attention to their teacher that is why teachers get so frustrated and want the student to get out of the class.

This is my writing for week 6. Our learning intention is to capture our audience's attention.

Idea City 2

WALT - Synthesis ideas from different texts

This week we are reading about idea city. My learning intention is to synthesis ideas from different texts. 

Decimal fractions

Place value practice with tenths

We are learning to use tenths

Example: Fill in your worksheet as shown

Example: 345.6

100	10	1
3	4	5	6

Expanded number: 300 + 40 + 5 + 6/10

Exercise 1

What to do

1. Fill in your worksheet
2. Then expand your number

1) 34.5   3 4 5 (2) 8.7  8 7 (3) 2.1   2 1

4) 18.9  1 8 9 (5) 23.8  2 3 8 (6) 1.6 1 6

7) 0.5   5 (8) 0.2   2 (9) 3.9 3 9

10) 15.2  1 5 2 (11) 15  1 5 (12) 674 6 7 4

13) 1023  1 0 2 3 (14) 1045.6 1 0 4 5 6 (15) 300.1  3 0 0 1

16) 89.4   8 9 4 (17) 0.9  9 (18) 0.3 3

19) 104.3  1 0 4 3 (20) 100.5  1 0 0 5

Question	1000	100	10	1		Expanded number
1.			30	4	⅕	34.5
2				8	1/7	8.7
3				2	1/1	2.1
4			10	8	1/9	18.9
5			20	3	⅛	23.8
6				1	1/6	1.6
7				0	1/5	0.5
8				0	½	0.2
9				3	1/9	3.9
10			10	5	½	15.2
11			10	5		15
12		600	70	4		674
13	1000		70	3		1073
14	1000		40	5	1/6	1045.6
15		300			1/1	300.1
16			80	9	¼	89.4
17					1/9	9
18				0	1/3	0.3
19		100		4	1/3	104.3
20		100			1/5	100.5

Exercise 2

What to do:

Write the expanded numbers as a decimal fraction

Question	100	10	1	1/10	Decimal fraction
A	4		3		403
B		8	9		89
C	2	3	4	6	234.6
D	3		6		306
E
F		7		1	71
G	6				6
H			3	8	0.38
I	8	2	4	5	824.5
J	3		1		301
K	2	3	5	9	235.9

Exercise 3

Underline the tenths in each question

1)  34.6 (2) 78 (3) 345.9

4)  1234.6 (5) 67.9 (6) 0.012

7)  59.345 (8) 12345.8 (9) 456.67

10)  12.89 (11) 0.897 (12) 21.21

Exercise 4

Highlight the digit in the tens place

1) 24 741 (2) 18 932 (3) 78.043

4) 567.15 (5) 4556. 407

Exercise 5

Add one tenth () to each of these numbers

1)  0.7 (2) 0.3 (3) 12.0

4) 24.4 (5) 12.6 (6) 168.4

7)  2145.2 (8) 0.9 (9) 23.9

Exercise 6

Take one tenth () from each of these numbers

1) 39.6 1/5 (2) 32.1/0 (3) 123.7 1/6

4) 0.1 1/88 (5) 45 1/5 (6) 56.1/0

7) 286. 1/1 (8) 39.1/0 (9) 8.1/1

10) 478.30 1/29