Galloping Greyhounds

Our focus in maths was " Galloping Greyhounds ". Mia and I have worked together to complete this maths problem. We used lots of fractions in the payment the greyhounds have received. We solved many questions.  

It Pays To Win!

 

 Our focus in maths was " It Pays To win". Mia and I have worked together to complete this problem and this problem used lots of rounding in the payment of Siones rugby career. We had to solve multiple problems and we had to find the new payment of the next season and compare it with the season before.

Kahoot

In our maths challenge we learnt a new strategy; to see if a number can be divisible by 3. Mia and I have made a kahoot.it based on this strategy. Once we have finished the kahoot.it, we then had to make sure another group played our kahoot.it. We the played their kahoot.it that they made.

Women Suffragette

Since women's voting rights were a big problem in the early 1840's, our reading topic this term is "votes for women". Mia, Nazella, Javeylor, Mishaan, Jorja and I have been working collaborativly to make this 25 word summary about women's suffragette. Watching a youtube video we choose 6 important words and put them in our summary about women's right to vote/women's suffragettes. 

Why Is It So Important To Keep Oral Storytelling Alive?

Maori storytelling is important today because it can pass onto generations. They will know the value of their culture while keeping the Maori language alive.  

Mia and I have worked collaboratively to make this 25 word summary about, why it's so important to keep oral storytelling alive? We listened to 3 different explanations in Te Reo in subtitles. We had learning conversations to why it is so important. Using 6 most important words to make this summary, we thought it was so important to pass the oral storytelling onto the next generation so they will know the value of the culture/language alive.

Myths and Legends

Our focus this term is myths and legends. Mia and I have worked collaboratively to make this comic strip about, How Maui Slowed The Sun, using Storyboard That. Picking a scene we were practicing using dialogue to show rather than telling what is happening in the scenes of, How Maui Slowed The Sun. We found it difficult to, make a short scene, because we didn't know how to fit all pieces of the scene in 3 different parts.

People Power

Our main focus today in maths was percentages. We used a formula for finding % using a calculator. Mia and I worked collaboratively to complete this DLO about people power. 

Cyber Smart - Email Etiquette

This week for cyber smart. We were working on email etiquette. This was my email to Mia and I asked her what she enjoyed most this week at school. I had to address the person, stick to the point, use correct spelling and punctuation, use correct grammar and, sign off with my name. 

Explaining Movie

This week for reading, Fifita, Mia, Nazella and I made an explaining movie about landfills in New Zealand. This movie explained how long rubbish takes to biodegrade. This was very interesting because I learnt many new facts. We should be careful of what we throw in landfills because we will end up with large unwanted polluted landfills in New Zealand. I really enjoyed making this movie about landfills. 

Summary

Since this week is Samoan language week, we watched a YouTube clip that had a speech about keeping the traditional Samoan Culture alive and the respectful ways of the dances. Mia and I worked collaboratively to summaries the video and selected 20 important words and from there we picked 6 very important words. Using those 6 words we created a summary based on the YouTube clip. I think summarizing is a very important skill to have because it can help you with many different reading tasks like for an example, my previous reading task was based on a reading book that my group had to read and we also summarized the main idea.  

Informed Opinion

In reading today Mia, Nazella, Fifita and I gave our own opinions about sport promotions. I agreed because sports brings joy to people. I also have added pictures of the 1981 South African vs New Zealand Springbok tour.  

Doubling and Halving

This week in maths we were revising our doubling and halving. Our learning intention is to use known and try new strategies to answer maths questions. For this activity we had to halve numbers until it reaches a decimal point. Mia and I worked collaboratively to complete this DLO. 

Te Oro Showcase

Today I went down to Te Oro to present my Te Taiao o Tamaki presentation. Mia, Sanujan, Jeremiah and I all got live streamed. We were all very nervous but we used a clear voice and talked about our learning. 

25 Word Paragraph About Advertising

This week for writing our topic for this term is advertising. We were put into groups. In my group there was Mia, Mahdia, Zahn and I. Then we were asked to choose I person to to listen to what the other people say and write the sentences out. After we had to make a 25 word paragraph of what advertising meant.  

Orienteering

Today we did orienteering. I choose to work in a 3. I collaborated with Mia and Nazella for orienteering. I found this, really easy because the letters were everywhere and I was able to read the map propley. The thing I didn't enjoy was running in the mud. 

Orienteering

Today for orienteering the year 7 and 8's had orientation sessions. Last week for orienteering we learnt about the symbols and did a quick game or session. Today the year 7's had to go around the school finding the controls. We were given a clip card and a map. We went around 4 sets of controls and cliped our card.  For this session I buddied up with Mia. This was really fun but our feet got really muddy. 

Structure and Language Feature Of A Information Report

 

This week for writing Mia and I had to create a DLO of what we learned about structures and language features. We wrote down what all of the structures and language features meant. We also showed some examples of them so other people can start practicing.

Anne Frank - Home Learning

This week for home learning we had to search about Anne Frank. The questions we had to answer were Who am I?, Why am I well known?, What education did I have?, How am I remembered today? and a inspirational quote. For home learning I worked collaboratively with Mia and completed this home learning together. 

Mathletics

This week for maths we got to do something fun. We did mathletics and every time we answered a question or received a question we had to run up the court. I worked collaboratively with my class mate Mia.We had to answer 22 questions and we were really tired. Our first question that we had to answer was What comes one before and after 7531? When we completed answering all of our questions we got to see who came first, second and third. Evelyn and Juanita came first, Mia and I came second and Jessie and Cecillia came third.

Science photo story

 This week for science we had to write a photo story of last week's experiments. I worked collaborativly with my friend Mia. We had to use pictures to show the rules.