INDIVIDUAL PURSUITS DAY 4

Hello fellow bloggers,
another summer learning journey blog post my task was Imagine that you were asked to create a travel poster for a country of your choice. On the poster, include lots of great tips about what to see and do in the country. here is my presentation. 

Superpowers task 1 day 3 week 1 2019

Hello fellow bloggers,
another SLJ blog post  here is my task that I chose.

here is my google draw.

Up in the air

Hello fellow bloggers,
i am doing activity 2 One Small Step for Man here is my poem.

Exploring the world

Hello fellow bloggers,
i'm just starting SLJ .I am doing activity 1. Here are my list of ten foods i would pack for my three week sailing journey across the Pacific waters.

Similes

Hello fellow bloggers,
I am doing the Summer Learning Journey and it's teaser week. I'm doing an activity using similes. Here are my three similes:  I took the photo of Leona with my Chromebook. I got the other great pictures from Pixabay.

Team Moana Hangi

Last Friday, we made a hangi . It had stuffing, pork, chicken, potato, kumara and cabbage .Matua Ken , a dad called Andrew and Pam helped to make the hangi. Here are some pictures of the hangi.

Hangi prep

Hello fellow bloggers
 team Moana is going to make a hangi!! so yesterday me and Piata made a animation about how to prep a hangi. Here are instruction to how to make a hangi.

1.Find an appropriate clear piece of land to dig the hole.

2. Clear the loose shrubs,leaves,grass,branches and other  loose materials from the area.

3. Water the area aroud your hole to stop your fire from spreading

4. Measure the appropriate area to dig. Use the cooking baskets as an outline. Give a little
extra space from the edge of the basket- 30 cm.

5. Get a spade and start  digging. Your hole needs to be deep enough to allow for the depth of the baskets plus the wood,rocks and iron o which they will sit.

6. Gather the wood,rocks and iron and prepare the hole - use native woods like puriri and totora for heat and manuka for flavour.

Margaret Peters spelling test

Kia ora everyone

Today, we sat the Margaret Peters Spelling Test. I scored 40 which gives me a spelling age of 12.3

At the beginning of the year, I scored 39 and had a spelling age of 11.6

So, I improved my spelling age.

I think I got this result because I have improved my spelling

Science fair

Hello fellow bloggers,
We have had an exciting week, we finished our science fair yesterday.  It was very cool. My science experiment was "Which lolly will dissolve first?" We had three bags of lollies Fruit burst, Macintosh and Minties.  Our group was Annelise ,Brooke, Kora and Sydney-Rose.  We made our board and created our science fair presentation! Here is a link to see my presentation and here is a photo.

Sydney-Roses DLO Forces and Motion

Today I am going to share with you a DLO I made about Forces and motion. We had to read a text and then pluck out the important ideas and set them out clearly on a new DLO.

The learning behind this was:

Learn more about forces

Be able to identify important ideas

What was hard: It’s hard to find the main ideas

What was easy: Finding pictures to suit the words

Inquiry Term 2 2019

Kia ora,   for the last couple of weeks we have been working on our inquiry. My question was: What is gravity? Here you can see my inquiry Planet Earth and Beyond. One thing I enjoyed was getting the pictures. One thing that was hard was getting it done fast.Two facts I learnt were the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass is called gravity.The force that pulls things down towards Earth is also called gravity.

Autumn Leaves

Kia Ora
This week, we have been outside with Mrs Fletcher learning about autumn leaves and we did some writing. Some people did poems,songs or acrostic poems. We got some leaves while we were at the back and put them in a bowl to see how they felt or looked.

Earthquakes

We have been learning about earthquakes. I have been away from school so I worked with some buddies and the teacher to get a Google Drawing and a PMI finished.

Can icecream wafers and caramel syrup help us understand plate tectonics?

Kia ora,

We are learning how tectonic plates can behave when they are near each other and how powerful they are. Here is  a picture of us experimenting with ice cream wafers. Here you see how one huge slab of rock (tectonic plate) can slide underneath another one. This was great experiment because we got to eat everything at the end.

         

Structure of the Earth

Structure of the Earth Facts

We are learning about the structure of the Earth.

I learnt that the Earth is made up of 4 layers. They are:

Facts about each layer:

Crust - the crust is the first layer of the earth and is the thinnest - 8-40kms thick.

Mantle - the mantle is made up of rock and tis he thickest layer. It is soft and squishy and very hot.

Outer Core -the outer core is up to 4000-6000'C and liquid rock

Inner Core - inner core is pressured by the other layers so it turns into a solid ball even though it is really hot too.

Our group - Ellie and Sydney-Rose

First we created a 3D image of the earth using …..

We then cut the shape in half to show the different layers. After waiting for it to dry, we identified each layer by painting them in different colours.

Below are some pictures of our work.

Mixed ability Maths

This term we have been working together in our mixed ability maths groups.

How I feel about:it it was really hard to work out the problems.

What I have enjoyed: that she taught us lots of new strategies for maths.

What I found difficult: The bikes and trikes maths problem was hard because it was hard to work out how many bikes there were. 

What I can do to change my negative thinking how do you do it: just keep working and try communicate more with my group.

Maths Understanding

Hello everyone,

For the last few days, we have be solving maths problems. We had to use  place value partitioning and equal adjustments. We had to make a google draw and show our working out. The hardest bit was making a tidy number. The favourite part looking at the end result. The learning behind this task was to understand how to use equal adjustments and place value partitioning.
Here is my slide show about the problems:

The Living World

Hello,

This is my living world slideshow.

We did a multiple intelligences test to see what kind of learner we were.

My top three ways of learning intelligences are;
Musical
Naturalist
Kinasthetic

For the next 5 or 6 weeks we will be choosing  our own activities to learn about  the living world.