Basic Facts Boxes - Addition

Today for maths everyone played the Basic Facts Boxes that was kindly made by Mr Wong. Some people found this game challenging and some didn't! I was one of them (the people who didn't find it challenging). I found having to add 2 digit numbers quite easy once I  had my practice. Can you answer this question? 75 + 37 = ___
Write down in the comments what you think the answer is!

My E-mail to Mrs Wells - A science teacher at Tamaki College

Yesterday, I e - mailed an expert in science who name is Mrs Wells. I asked her a few questions about the immune system. Her and her class are still finding out about the system. She is probably the first scientist I've ever had a conversation with! Above show the screenshots I've taken while e - mailing her yesterday and today.

Colloquialism and Slang - Definitions and examples

Today for reading our group (Waiheke) were focused on reading a book called 'The Fall'... The book talked about a young boy called Zac. His personality is very similar to mine. He is an impatient, risk taking, competitive, no brainier and doesn't think before he acts. After that we created a DLO telling and giving examples so that the reader isn't stuck on trying their best to understand what it means/defines. I worked with Nyjah, Fui, Joshua W and Joseph.

Tech Reflection - Tamaki College Cooking

Today for cooking we baked chocolate chip cupcakes. I worked by myself. The ingredients we used to bake this was self rising flour, chocolate chips, sugar, 1 large egg, coco powder and milk. The measurement for flour was 1 1/2 a cup, then 1/2 a cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon of coco powder and 1/2 a cup of milk. We all waited maybe for 5 minutes for the cupcakes to be ready and rise. Our teacher is Mrs Tu'ipulotu... i put whipped cream on top of mine.

CARE Awards - Our Head Girl

Today I have accomplished the activity I have chosen to do for my CARE Award booklet. In this activity I have written about our head girl Tiava. She's shown respect, excellence, a good attitude and innovation. 

Adjectives, Adverbs and nouns

This week  for writing Joel and I created a character description using adjectives and nouns. We all worked together to highlight nouns, adjectives and adverbs (action words). My favorite adjective word is 'suspicious'. I learnt that a 'noun' is a name of something, somewhere and someone. An 'adverb' is an action word or doing word. Finally an adjective is a describing word. The adjective describes the noun.

An Example:
E.g 1: The girl ran to her mother - One with the noun only.
E.g 2: The girl ran quickly to her mother - This example has an adjective and a noun
E.g 3: The girl ran quickly looking suspicious to her mother - This example includes an adjective and noun...

5 times tables strategy

Today in math our focus was to use the five times tables to solve times table problems! I didn't know we could use this strategy to solve these times table puzzles out! I have found out that I can use this strategy for multiplication, addition, subtraction and many more! this strategy can be used for any maths puzzle. 

Blog Commenting

These are the blog comments I have made to a boy called Kurt who attends Paparoaroa Ranges School and has fabulous work. Miki, Alex and I have commented on Kurt's blog to give him feedback and feed forward to help him with his vocab and small details.

Our Skeletal System

Today for inquiry our task was to get into a group of four or five... my group was Angela, Hajera, Chavda and Joel (including me)... In our groups we collaborated and worked hard to create two human figurines out of play doh to compare or make a comparison of having no tooth picks or bones and having bones. The first looked very flat and weak, the second looked very bulky and strong. Our groups tried to make the boneless figurine stand but couldn't... We then tried out the other figurine and it stood still. 

Why Animals And Humans Need Bones: 

Why? because we would end up in big blob... we wouldn't even be able or have the ability to move freely! this is  why us humans and animals really need bones... here is a more scientific word (I'd think that nurses and doctors use this word too!) and it is... the 

skeletal system... There is also a short photo animation of my group putting and making the figurine stand... and the bulky one sit on the white board...

My Groups Blogs:

Angela, Chavda, Hajera and Joel (including me)...

- Viva

Tamaki College - Tech Reflection

Today while we were at tech my group created a google document (doc) to answer the questions about the Waka Huia... This is a traditional treasuring and family legends box. We made a comparison of the traditional and contemporary waka huia... The differences of these were that the traditional had more carvings/detail,  huia feathers and pendant... The other (contemporary) had less detail, was modern looking/simple and paint only... When we finished part one we then moved on to part two which was to sketch a waka huia on a piece of white A4 paper... 

Tongan And English Body Names...

Today I have been working and trying to translate English words of body parts into Tongan names for our body part  

What Is A Metaphor?

Today our task was to create a DLO explaining what a metaphor. I also used examples (E.g) to help you understand what I am talking about. What is a metaphor? is the main question. I have 2 definitions of what a metaphor is so you could and can understand.

Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi Can our theme was integrity and our topic was doing the right thing when no one is looking. The games we'd played was doing the opposite of what our teachers or leaders of kiwi can were doing. We had great fun learning about how to make good choices or doing the right thing when no one is looking...

The Bulford Kiwi

This is the Bulford kiwi. This kiwi is made up of white chalk and was made or created by a number of soldiers. A soldier called Harry was one of the soldiers who made the Buford kiwi. This kiwi was made in 1919 in England, above the military town of Buford on Salisbury. 

Evaluating

 

Today our task for reading was to create a DLO about a book called Harry's War. This book is about a man called Harry who during the war is back a the farm looking after the animals. A man comes to the farm and tells him that he is expected at war. He takes a long journey to the Feather - son War Camp to train so he could have the ability to survive in the war. They travel to England using a sailing boat. When the troop or soldiers get there the war is over because the other troop or soldiers that they were fighting didn't make it there. So that men't that they'd won but didn't do anything to win. Fruistraighted the soldiers were the captain of the troop kept them busy by getting them to build the Bulford kiwi. This kiwi can be found in England, on Beacon Hill, above the military town of Buford on Salisbury. 

Memorial - Lothian, Australian Book

Yesterday in reading, we were focusing on a book called 'Memorial' illustrated by Gary Crew and written by Shawn Tan... I chose the family tree because it shows who the characters are and how they'er related. The person I worked with collaboratively was Joel. The characters in this book are Great Granddad, Great Grand Mother, Grand Dad, Grand Mother, Mum, Dad and the Son - Narrator... We found the information in the book by reading the book and listing the main points of the book.

What I My Personal Passion?

Today I have completed a CARE award in Excellence and Innovation (innovative). I talked about what my personal passion is. There are three things I am very good at. 

Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi can our theme was 'Having A Positive Attitude' and our catch phrase was If you argue, sort it out, don't shout and work it out. The main focus of today's lessons were following the rules. The teachers were Mr Latu, Mr Matt and Miss Lily. We all got into a circle and were called into numbers (I was number 2). So if Mr Matt/Mr Latu called out number 2 (my number) I would speed/power walk around the circle and walk through my hole (the place I stood/sat at) and jumped into the hoop, if there was a person that jumped into another persons hoop they'd be out or if they'd be the last person into a hoop they'd also be out. And the other games we were playing was ball tag.

Summer Learning Journey - Cirtifacates

Today at assembly I received a certificate for taking part in the summer learning journey by posting the weekly activities on my blog and commenting on other peoples blogs. There were 50 people/children that received their certificates. Some people won prizes.