Last week on our contracts we did tricky vocab cross-words.Our teacher did this as a task because to make our vocab improve and better.It was quiet hard but when you put your mind into it it's really not that hard.What i have learnt from this is,"always changeling yourself!"
Last week we made butter and bread.Our class made butter and bread because of science and NZ history.We used a plastic bag and mixed and mixed it was quiet difficult but we made through our challenges.We put the bread in for 25 minutes it was delicious! then we made butter yum!.I really enjoyed this learning experience.
On Wednesday,last week we went to Te Ahu for a trip! we visited the museum.There we saw a lot of awesome history! The lady who looks after the museum gave us a piece of paper,and we had to find things on the piece of paper.Like we had to find a kiwi egg it was a pretty large egg.In our team we had to think of a team name! Our name was Te Ahu rocks! we didn't really know what our name would be...after a while we got to feel kauri gum! it felt smooth and to me it smelt like honey.Then we all sat down and the lady asked us some questions! the museum had awesome articles it was REALLY interesting! It was a fun day!!
In our class we have been doing travel brochures about far north.We had to add places to go,things to do,sight seeing,places to dine in.Also some far north history.The main purpose of doing travel brochures is to persuade people to come to far north! we folded A4 paper into three pieces,and then you can start your brochures.
Have you been to Far North?
In our class we have been doing some dragon maths! our teacher is doing dragon maths because it is really challenging and the dragon math is mental maths. which means its fast math. Last week was our first dragon maths.Our teacher said that if we don't know the question understanding it.We put it on the board,and there was a lot on the board.So we went through it,it made a lot more sense and some were so long and REALLY tricky! but we persevered though tricky problems.We used different strategies like plus,multiplication,times tables,subtract.There were really tricky questions like i said earlier and i will be showing you some.Tell me down in the comments if you can guess these!
1.4/10=0.4,8/10,12/10=1.2,16/10=
That was the trickiest question.
What is dragon math?
dragon math is a mental math that helps you think fast and help you use different strategies.I really enjoy doing dragon math usually it says time yourself but we are new to dragon maths so we didn't time ourselves.The main purpose is that we use our brain actively around math.
This is dragon math :)
Question: what kind of Math do you guys do?
W.A.L.T Write an reflection about our past terms.
In our past terms,we have done a ton of learning.What my favourite learning and activity's were the ANZAC write letters home.What i really loved about that learning was how we really had to deep think about it.Another one of my favourite was,the NZ history.I was always wanted to know about history.In our class we did make a timeline.In term 1 we did some art with maths!.We used shapes,patterns,and much more! We displayed them in our class wall.We read a book about the one and only ivan.based on a true story.We did worksheets,activity's and much more! i can not wait till term 3 :)
Today in our class we had a special visitor whaea Ali,and she was teaching us more about Matariki.We were talking about the benefits of this balm we were making.Our main ingredient was coconut oil,we used a whole ton of coconut oil.It melted REAL quick. Whaea Ali told us a story of Matariki,she told us about matariki with 9 stars.She told us that there was different story's about matariki some people believe that there are 7 stars some believe 9.We also are making progress in this song she is teaching us.When we were learning about the song she put up a video clip that these girls sing the song.They were singing it really fast but we did hear it pretty clearly.We smelled these awesome sents,well only a few and some smelled like medicine.They had really strong smell to them.The sents we smelled was lavender,and there was this other one.We had a ton of fun and we learnt a lot more about matariki.
