Kiwi can

Kia Orana The theme for our kiwi can last term was Resilience 

And some greatings and countries we have learnt about was…

  • Hola – Spain
  • Bonjour – France
  • Kia Orana – Cook Islands
  • Buenos Dias – Mexico
  • Malo E Lelei – Tonga
  • Mucho Gusto – Colombia
  • Como Esta – Peru

We have also learnt about what problem solving was and how we sovled our own problems at home and in public, another thing we also learnt was goal setting and what are the goals we have set for ourselves, my goal was to learn more about my culture and live up to be like my parents. And something else we leant about was perserverance and what it meant to us, in my opinion perserverance means pushing though even if you have doubts dont let anyone come and tear down your confidance.

Thats what we learnt last term during each kiwi can session. and heres a question for you how do you use problem solving in your everyday life?

Exponents

Kia ora for our maths we have been learning about Exponents which is also knowen as powers and indices we have been learning about what x is and a few other things that I will list

  • x to the power of two – Squared
  • three to the power of two which = nine ( 3×3 )
  • five to the power of two = twenty five ( 5×5 )

then we drew out a square that ad three going down and three going across, and we did that again but with four but these squares were in 2D

then out teacher gave us a book which we had to work out three or four math problems and write it in our math books but that was all we did for maths

 

Down the drain

Kia ora for this weeks reading we have bean learning about our environment by reading a book called down the drain this book was about how rubbish ends up in the ocean and as you can tell by the title of the book,

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questions

have you ever opened the window of your car / van and rubbish flys out? or have you ever opened the door and a piece of trash flew out? if you have, did you ever go back to pick it up because if you dont then that rubbish ends up in the drains which leads to the ocean and the innocent animals end up eating and choking on it even if it’s somthing small like a bottle cap.

this is mainly the reason people started using paper straws as it takes over 200 years for the plastic staws to break down.

And in the book it shows that people have actually created a trap that some students have set up its called a littatrap this trap keeps the rubbish and water separated so it doesn’t block the water flow as it can flood the streets / roads if it is blocked, these students set the trap around jackson street to see if this littatrap really does work as they were very upset on how much litter was flying around, im not sure if they will set up anymore or whats going on with this projects but here are my slides

 

Little red

We are learning to write a different ending for stories we know and grew up reading

Our teacher is reading little red riding wolf the is a alternative to L.R.R.H which stands for little red riding hood

I dont know much about the L.R.R.H version but I know its about a girl who walks through the woods to bring her grandmother a cake as she had fallen ill and im pretty sure the little girl wanted to surprise the grandma

but the wolf tricks and deceives the girl by acting like her grandmother after he had eaten her but that is all I can remember about the Traditional version.

but for this one its kinda the same as the taditional but they changed it up to be little red riding wolf and the human turned out to be the bad guy.

 

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here is the end of the story that I have written… 

I skipped along ignoring everything around me I loved the red hood my granny made me I continued to pick flowers that I knew my granny would love and I skipped along to her little house, the next day came along and I went back out just for the big bad girl to come back and humiliate me but I did not listen to her unencouraging comments I had almost snapped when she hopped in laughter falling to the ground rolling around as she continued to cackle but I continued to skip along the trail when she stopped me as her eyes were fixed on the basket that had the food I was delivering to my dear old granny to show how much I
appreciate the little red hood she had made me the big bad girl asked to see the basket as water drooled down her mouth I could see her intentions were to eat my grannys food that I have prepared so I skipped along ignoring the girl as she yelled out little red tomato head stop ignoring me! but I just skipped along my merry way to drop off the food,

And in the distance I could see her little cabin but something seemed off. I heard the big bad girl say in a squeaky voice ow..

Am I just imagining things? I ignored it so i walked up to the door assuming it was just my mind playing tricks on me but then I heard a squeaky noise followed by someone saying “just one second” little did I know, the big bad girl was quickly trying to find something to wear but because I was daydreaming I did not hear the thump up stairs I was just thinking to myself wow my granny must be very ill her voice has changed quite alot, then the door opened and I ran in and up the small creaky stairs to find my granny laying down on her unusually large bed, I asked granny have you lost weight? As she looked even more pale than usual in reply she said, yes your granny is very ill I sure have lost quite alot of weight now what have you got in your basket? I replied back, I baked and cooked you some cake and soup, the cake is to thank you for the lovely hood you have made me and the soup is to help you cold, the big bad girl felt awful by now but it was too late the little wolf’s real grandmother slowly walking up the stairs the girl jumped in fear running towards the window about to jump out when the grandmother yelled out, who are you what are you doing in my house and why are you wearing my nightgown the girl cried and pleaded for the grandmother not to hurt her but granny just laughed and asked the girl to sit down and take off the gown, granny took out the cake and cut each of us a piece to eat and we all just enjoyed the rest of the day chatting and eating the cake little wolf had baked,

after that granny asked the girl to not break in or lie about anything and to treat everyone with kindness the girl listened as she was grateful the granny wolf had not done anything to harm her even though she had caused little red riding wolf alot of trouble, and since that day the wolf and girl had become great friends

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Order Of Operation ( Maths )

Kia ora we have been learning about

Order of operations and Bedmass which stands for

  • B rackets
  • E xperiments
  • D ivison
  • M ultiplcation
  • A ddition
  • S ubtraction

It dosen’t matter if you multiply or divide first after the brackets 

Lg.  ( 16 ÷ 2×4 = 32 )  or  ( 8 x 4 = 32 )

And this is some for addition and subtraction 

54 + 6 – 4 = 56

54 – 4 = 50 + 6 = 56

54 + 16 = 60 -4  = 56

 

 

writing

kia ora

this morning we had to rewrite the end of the story ( three little pigs ) but in our own words from the wolfs point of view

……I knocked on the door of the house next door and from my view I could see that this brother was clearly smarter then his first two brothers as he had built his house out of brick, and when I knocked on his door their was no answer so I yelled out mr pig are you there? But still I was left with no answer by then I had felt a sneeze coming and I huffed and I puffed and let out a great big sneeze but the house still stood strong my cold had gotten worse as I had been standing outside for a while now, but I knocked again hoping I could atleast get half a cup of sugar for my grandmas birthday cake, then I heard the pig say GO AWAY! you are not welcome here I yelled back that I just needed a cup of sugar but the pig just kept yelling back

GO AWAY!! then I left all helpless, because all I wanted was to bake my grand mother a cake for her birthday 🙁 but I still baked the cake anyways hoping for the best and it came out beautiful and delicious I was happy with the results but when I had gone to give the cake to my grandma I heard someone scream HELP! it was the little pig so I placed the basket with the cake on the floor then rushed over to help I yelled open the door but their was no answer so I climbed up to the roof and jumped in through the chimney but little did I know that this was all part of the pigs plan he had set up a trap for me to jump in and burn myself and I did not notice at the time so I burnt the tip of my tail before I jumped back up and out of the fireplace, I left with burn marks and the pig laughing so I went home and didn’t go back outside till now 

Reading

Kia Ora

for this weeks reading we had to read a book called Fallen Leaves 

We had to answer questions like

  • what we noticed
  • Terms / words that are new to us
  • I wonder
  • And terms I recongise

this book was very interesting as its not like the other books I have read and I have also learnt a lot of new words for example Koroareke, Stockade and meny other new words.

also their is a link to the book if you click on the gray box behind the image of the book.

And I also hope that you have also found this book interesting

 

Chemical Engineering

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Kia ora

yesterday we decided to do a little experimenting with ice and salt, and the things we needed —–>

  • String
  • Ice
  • Salt

And the goal was to have the string stick to the ice, we first put the ice on a piece of plastic then put our sting on and little by little began to add our salt, some were able to achieve their goal while the rest of us ended up with just melted ice.

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And the second experiment we did was make ice cream using the infomation we had gathered from the ice and salt experiment,

and the items we needed —->

  • Ice
  • Salt
  • Milk
  • Cream
  • Sugar
  • Flavour
  • Two plastic bags – ( one small / one big )

First we took out our large plastic bag and filled it up with four cups of ice and a little bit of salt, then we got our smaller plastic and added on cup of Cream then we added half a cup of Milk and stirred then added our flavour and sugar then put it in our larger bag and started shaking for about 10 – 15 mintue or till our mixtue turned into ice cream and after shaking we went back inside and enjoyed our ice crem

2K24 T3 GOALS

Kia ora

Todays work was filling out a slide show which was about our goals for this term the main goals we were told to focus on were

  • Reading 
  • Writing
  • Maths 

For Reading I wrote….

In reading I would like to reach that level where I read books that are more mature for my age and I would also like to read a few stages higher than my actual stage.
I will achieve this by reading more often in school and at home and I can also achieve this by discussing my reading with my teacher and asking her to give me a few tips to improve my reading.

For Writing I wrote…..

In writing I would like to reach that stage where I barely make any spelling mistakes and learn how to use punctuation when I write, and I would also like to learn new words and include them in my writing whenever I get the chance to.
I will achieve this by writing more frequently and having my family or friends re-read what I have written to make sure it has reach that potential / goal I have set for myself.

and lastly for Maths I wrote……

In math I would like to reach the stage where I can solve any math question I get told within a few seconds.
I will achieve this by having my friends read out math questions to me in a random order to test my skills and have them mark how meny of those questions I have answered correctly.

here are the slides —–>

If you have any questions leave a comment.