Crazy Confusing Math

 Last week my math group and I made a DLO about our learning. In the question it said we had a restaurant and there were three tables, the biggest table had three times as much as the small one and the medium one had two times as much as the smallest one. Everyone struggled on that part so to make it easier the teacher said to concentrate on the middle part of the question the middle part said on tuesday night three quarters of the seats were taken and then twelve people arrived unfortunately there were only enough seats for half of them. It made it easier because it was easier to understand and we all knew the answer and how to solve it. We all knew that half of twelve is six and if three quarters were full then there were one quarter free, then half of twelve is six and so six is one quarter. So if there are 6 in each quarter and there are 4 quarters so six times four equals twenty-four. Next we were guessing random numbers to equal up to 24 we guessed a lot of numbers then we guessed 4. Next we went four times two which equal 8 then 4 times 3 which equals twelve then we added them altogether and it all equaled up to 24. I think it was really challenging because it was hard to understand. Have you ever done something like this?

Catapult Engineering For King Richard The 3rd

 On Tuesday afternoon the year sixes got into groups of 3 and 4 then attempted to build a catapult. I was in a group of 4 with Hudson, Jaelyn-Marie and Manaaki. We got the materials that we were going to use, the materials were 30 bamboo sticks, 30 rubber bands, 1 roll of electric tape, string, scissors, two A4 paper, 1 A3 paper, measuring tape and 1 ping pong ball. We had to launch 1 ping pong ball at least 3 metres using the materials that we were given. Then we brainstormed for a bit, after we finished brainstorming we built a sturdy structure made out of bamboo sticks and rubber bands. The thing I found hard was building the launching part of the build. But then we started to talk with each other, then we came up with multiple ideas but we finished just as the time was up so that was a bit dumb but we had fun. I think we did really good at the base and how sturdy it was. I think we need to improve on communicating with each other.

Confusing Instructions

 On the first day back at school we had a reading test so the teacher could see if we were able to read instructions properly. Firstly we got a pencil and then our teacher handed out the sheets of paper that we were going to write on. The first thing on the sheet of paper there were 23 instruction we had to follow, the first instruction was to “read everything carefully before you do anything.” Personally I thought the first instruction meant read the instructions carefully and then do it after you read those instructions. Then I moved onto the second instruction, the second instruction said to “ Put your name in the upper right hand corner of the sheet” so I did that and so on. I carried on until the time was up. When the time was up we got told to sit on the mat when we sat down the teacher talked us through the first few instructions, when she did some of us just noticed what the first instruction was meant to read all of them carefully before you do anything. Then when you got to the last instruction it said to only do question one and two and then draw something at the back of the paper.

At the end I felt so embarrassed when we got told what the last instruction said. I learnt to read things carefully. In the future I think I will try get better at reading things care. Have you ever done a reading test like that?

Maori Pronunciation

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing things around Te Reo Maori. We had to record us repeating and learning the Maori alphabet, Maori place names and Maori vowels. During this session I learnt how to pronounce Maori place names properly and learnt what the Maori words are for the place names. During this I thought I did well at the Maori vowels, and the Maori alphabet. I think I need to practise more on pronouncing my Maori place names more accurately and need to pronounce the vowels correctly.

Best Lunch EVER!!!

 On Tuesday my class went to Greens for Shivam’s birthday Shivam is one of my classmates in Te Ngahere. The reason we went to Greens was because Shivam’s parents own the restaurant. We started walking to Greens around 11:45 it took us around 5 minutes to get there. When we got there we went into the indian cuisine when we walked in we said hello and then got seated. I was sitting on a table with Tawhiwhi, Angela and Jade, after sitting there for a few minutes they gave us a can of Coke or Sprite I got Coke. Then after a few minutes of waiting we finally got our food. We were given Butter Chicken. When my table got our food it was so delicious I felt so happy when I ate it. It took us around 20 minutes or longer to finish when we finished we got surprised at the end with a trolley of easter eggs. They handed them out we got one each there were Pineapple Lumps and Freddo I got a freddo. By thanking Shivam Angela and Jade gave Shivam a birthday card to say thank you, when we gave it to him we put our things down and then performed a few songs for his family to say thank you. Have you had Butter Chicken before?

Smart Surfing

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing something called smart surfing. Smart surfing is when you find the key words in a sentence and use those keywords when you google something. For example, let's say the question is “What does a spider eat?”. The key words in that question would be spider and eat. Let's change the word eat to diet so now it is “spiders diet” why you change it to spiders diet is because when you write spiders eat it won’t make sense but when you say spiders diet it will make more sense. It is better to use keywords in a google search because when you search the whole sentence you will get an inaccurate result while when you type in keywords in a google search you will get a more accurate result. You get a better result because you when you search the key words it will search the web for those words mainly so when you click on one of the links you will get a more accurate result.

Food Web comparison

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs. Food webs are like a food chain but the food webs cross over each other and point to more than one thing unlike a food chain points to one of it predators and one of it predators only. Arrows that point to the animal from another are the energy that are being transferred to the animal that is eating it. For example the Stoat has red arrow pointing towards it from the Kiwi. So the Kiwi is getting eaten by the Stoat and the Stoat gets energy that has been transferred from the Kiwi. First we had to compare at least three differences between the two food webs. The first difference between our food webs are that the first one has one color per arrow pointing to one thing so for example the Stoat only has one color of arrows pointing to it and then for the rat it is the same then so on. On the second food web it only has some that have one color pointing to it but the rest are a bit random but I was close. The second Difference is that some of the arrows are pointing somewhere else or have more but I have a little less arrows and some of mine are pointing to a different direction. The last difference is that the first one is more complex and hard to understand then the second one is less complex and a bit easier to see. Have you ever made a food web?