Our Identity / Waitangi

Last Week on Thursday and Friday the year 6’s ent to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. On Thursday we didn't do much learning cause it was our first day there so instead of work we had a tutu (tutu means play) with their activities. My favourite was the VR (VR is short for Virtual Reality) the VR is a device that you use to go into different worlds and use different things also we had to design. A hoe on tinkercad also tinkercad is a game that you use shapes to make things or scribble we had fun making hoe but before we did all of that (sorry I didn't tell you)we went to the museum to understand how the Treaty was signed and how maori tangata learned how to speak Te reo Maori but the paper was not really it was a copy of the real signed Treaty we had fun on thursday but sadly we had to come back we had fun at the treaty grounds playing on the devices. going to the treaty grounds was the best day I had( Ko te haere ki te whenua tiriti ko te ra pai rawa atu i ahau).

Maths DLO

In Te Ngahere we been learning Doubling and Halving. We had to explain about the strategy we had to solve the math problems. For example: 22x4=? this might look hard but it’s quite easy when you use this strategy so you have to divide/Half the higher number and the double the lower number to make 11x8=88 so the go back to your first problem and then write the answer to the your problem will be solved 22x4=88. One time I wrote something on my DLO and then my teacher saw something then told me you can’t always half the higher number sometimes you have to double the higher number the example and half the smaller number. Doubling and Halving is really fun now I would like to learn trebling and thirding one time so I know what to do when we come to this Strategy.

Waitangi

On Monday the 18th, Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika came to our school, so we could learn that everyone is important also learnt to make the trees on Tinkercad because our class name is Te Ngahere (The bush). Next Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika made a waka (for people that we made). So we all could fit everybody on the waka. We had to work as a team to pull the waka. Once we paddled to shore as a ropu we helped each other carry the waka onto land. My trees were made from paint 3d. We also made some animals to go into Te Ngahere, as we made a video with all of the things that we created. We added more things to our video. Such as Birds and Insects, Whaea Kerry will add our new ideas to the video and then they will come back to school to show us the whole movie that our whole class created.

Geometry

In Te Maunga we have been about Geometry. We have been learning about lots of different shapes that we haven’t learnt about like we the angle and all the edges some of the 2d shapes where easy and the 3d shapes but I didn't realize the a circle had 1 side I thought a circle had no sides then I realized it had one side. Geometry was really fun wish we could do Geometry next year also what I found easy was trying to find out how many angles, edges,corners and faces

Pet Day

Last week in Te Maunga it was pet day. We made vaseline saucer’s and we also made cookies. Then we went outside to go see the pets. First we saw the dogs,cats, hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits. It was really hot outside but after seeing all the animals we had a sausage sizzle, with some juicy’s and some cakes. The juicy’s were, so refreshing and cold. Pet day was fun and YUM!!!.

Procedural Writng

In Te Maunga we have been doing Procedural Writing text we are also trying to make our own writing even better we made a procedure about Flubber, Pikelets, Games and also Beeswax Wraps. It was fun seeing the our fabric go into the beeswax because before we started to put our wraps into the beeswax we had to draw something about keeping the world clean.

Flubber

In Te Maunga we made Flubber. We used Borax, PVA glue,Warm Water,Food coloring. The Equipment was measuring cup,measuring spoons,Big Spoon.Not sure what the rest was, also when we made the flubber it didn't work because we put too much water into the flubber so that is why the flubber didn't work.