Tree house

 We have been learning how to use mood and atmosphere. Here is a picture of our tree house that my group made ad the adjectives to describe the mood.

 Can you guess the atmosphere?

Our Maths.

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We have been learning about how to use Compatible Numbers. Compatible Numbers are any two numbers which add together to make a Tidy Number 

(a  number which ends in zero).  We had to choose two Compatible Numbers and another number. Then we had to think of a word problem which used our numbers and give the problem to a buddy to solve. Mrs Ogle, our maths facilitator, said this is called 'posing problems'.

My word problem.

Cordeila has 76 sheep, Galaxy has 4 cows and Trident has 11 foxes.

How many animals do they have altogether?            

76+4+11=91

76+4=80

80+11=91

Team Moana Ski Trip 2020

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last week Team Moana went to Mt. Ruapehu for the ski trip.  It took a long time to get there but luckily we had some movies to watch and some songs to sing.  Then a few hours later we arrived at Piper's Lodge . On the second day we went skiing at Whakapapa ski field.  First we had free time skiing then a little bit later we had ski lessons. After that we had more free time skiing.  
Here is a picture of me at Whakapapa ski field.

Feet measurement

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For maths we've been measuring feet.  I measured Hayley ,Max and Busters feet. First we  estimated the size of the feet and then estimated the feet with wool. Then we estimated the wool. Once we eastimated the wool, I finally got to measure the wool with a 1 metre ruler. You can see how much centimetres their feet are. 

Tectonic plates

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last Friday we did an experiment  with wafers and homemade tomato sauce.   The tomato sauce was magma and the wafers were the crust of the Earth. Mrs B punched a hole in the wafer and we slowly pressed the wafer down. We also moved the wafers side to side, apart from each other and we moved them towards each other copying the ways that the actual plates move. Here are some photos of our experiment.

NZ little bittern

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Last term we did a bird inquiry of extinct birds for science I was doing the New Zealand Little Bittern with my group. In the 1890's the New Zealand Little Bittern went extinct.

The easy thing to do was get pictures of the Little bittern

The hard thing to do was  find facts of the Little bittern

The learning behind the task was.. Researching about extinct  birds.

The Peco Incident Book Cover

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After lock down when we started school we read a book called The Peco Incident. The Peco Incident is about two boys that are trying to save the extinctions of bird species. The story is about a virus called the Bird Flu that goes around a town called Otago peninsula.

here is my book cover of The Peco Incident

Matariki art

hello, this is Sydney-Rose

on Monday we did Matariki art  to represent our family like a big koru would represent your dad or a small koru would symbolise a pet or yourself. there was a bunch of things we could sketch like a dolphin or a turtle with Maori designs on them. I drew a dolphin. I enjoyed sketching it was hard to do shading. 

chicken divas

hello, Sydney-Rose here

for a couple of weeks now we've been doing chicken diva art. We sketched a chicken and coloured it in with pastels, after that we decorated it and added beads,feathers,glitter etc. I enjoyed doing the decorations on our chicken as it was hard colouring in because of the little white spots.

Matariki star

Hello, Sydney-Rose here

a day or two ago we did a 3D matariki star out of paper it had lots of dotted lines and numbers on it first we had to colour it in  then cut it and glue the flaps down to create a 3D effect. i enjoyed  colouring the star in it was hard gluing the flaps.

here is a picture of the matariki star template

    

multiplication wheel

Hello, this is Sydney-Rose

Today we did a multiplication wheel we had to buddy up. My buddy was Ricci-Lee and we had to do  our 2,5,4,6,3,10,8,9 and 7 times tables it was fun, and hard. I needed to work on my: 4 time tables, 2 x tables, 3 x tables ,6 x tables, 4 x tables, 8 x tables, 9 x tables and 7 x tables.

Here is a photo of my multiplication wheel.

: Me and my DNA.

This term for science we are learning all about how the human body works and how special we all are. We are also trying to learn how to think and act more like a scientist. So, Miss Fletcher asked us to look at our faces in the mirror and write down notes about what we look like. The information had to be precise and clear so that when someone read it, it would help them find the person it described quickly. It was a bit like being a detective. You had to look and notice things carefully.

Miss Fletcher said that what we look like depends on our mother and father. Making a new human is a bit like making a cake.  You get some ingredients from your mum and some from your dad. The ingredients are called DNA. Everybody’s cake is different to everyone else’s. 

Miss Fletcher said the person with the most efficient description was Andrew J as he wrote: My hair is 1cm long all over. He is the only student in Team Moana with a haircut like that so he was able to be identified very easily. You can read my description below. 16 people said they could identify me by my description.

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This term we have been reading about whitebait fritters  the author is Kingi Mckinnon the task that i did was in a group of three create an animation about the story we are reading, make connections to the Zones of Regulation. I enjoyed making the characters. What I found hard was picking the right colours for the clothes the learning behind the task was the Zones Of Regulation.

DAY 1: DRIVING DIGITAL INNOVATION WEEK 3

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another blog post here my activity was

task 3 DAY 2: TAKING ACTION week 2

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another SLJ blog post my task was

In a time before i was born there was a thing called segregation. Where African Americans were separated from other people.One day on the school bus the bus driver told Rosa to move. After thinking about what the bus driver said she refused to move ad later got arrested for her actions.  But this did  not only happen in bus's it happened everywhere including shops,housing and on the streets.

DAY 1: TAKING THE LEAD WEEK 2

hi fellow bloggers i am loving SLJ my activity is

                                                                                                                                                                                 1. drawing

2.doing summer learning journey

3.playing hide and seek with teddies

DAY 5: AGAINST THE ODDS WEEK 1

hello fellow bloggers, another SLJ task here my activity was

 You have now made it to the end of Week 1! Congratulations! here is your chance to choose your own sportsperson or explorer who you think has changed the world. It could be someone you know, or here are some suggestions in case you get stuck: