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Thursday 27 June 2019

Fractions, Decimals, Percentages!

Walt: Solve Problems with fractions, decimals, percentages.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on fractions, decimals, and percentages. This week I have enjoyed this because I learned different ways to answer questions.  

Create Task - Kiribati!

Walt: Condense and paraphrase key ideas in a text.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on a low-lying island. Kiribati. We had to create a " Create Task. " based on this one island explaining why climate change is a huge concern towards the island. This create task I said the reasons why Climate change is a huge concern, these days population is high and its important to care about our world.

Climate Change: Our Biggest Challenge!

Walt: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic. 

Task Description:
This week tasks we have been focusing on climate change and our biggest challenge. Climate change is one of our worlds biggest challenge to face. This task consist of questions based off this weeks book, complete a disagree and disagree, and many more. I enjoyed this weeks tasks because I enjoy learning about our Climate and hopefully in the future/now I can teach others climate. 

Extreme Weather!

Walt: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on extreme weather. Our task was to create a poster based on a couple extreme weather and we must explain what each extreme weather is and how they damage the world. The four weather I choose is Thunderstorms, Tsunami, Cyclone, and Winter Storms. 

Wednesday 19 June 2019

Biography - Greta Thunberg!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on using graphic organisers. This is to help us in the future to write each one of our paragraphs make sense. Graphic organisers are helpful so we understand what to write in each paragraph. The first graphic organiser we had to create was about Greta Thunberg, and the second graphic organiser we had to create about was a famous person or someone we admire. This task I found fun and easy as I knew that this would be helpful for future time. 

Graphic Organiser - Jungkook!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing. 

Task Description: 
This week we are focusing on using graphic organiser to organiser our writing. Once we created a graphic organiser about Greta Thuberg we were able to create a graphic organiser about a famous person we admire or someone we admire. This graphic organiser is all about Jungkook!

Waiting For The Tide To Turn!

Walt: condense and paraphrase key ideas in a text.

Task Description: 
This weeks tasks we have been focusing on a island. Kiribati. This island is known for its low-lying nation. This week our tasks was to complete a hand full of questions and many more!

Adding And Subtracting Fractions And Decimals!

Walt: Add and subtract fractions and decimals.
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Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on adding and subtracting fractions and decimals. Our task was to answer all of our questions about both fractions and decimals and either answer them by adding or subtracting. Most fractions and decimal questions were quite easy and simple!

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Graphic Organiser - Greta Thunberg!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing.

Task Description: 
This week we are focusing on using a graphic organiser to plan our writing. We learned that if you use a graphic organiser you are able to write your paragraph correctly, by taking the information from the graphic and using it in our paragraphs to make it make sense. Our graphic organiser was based around Great Thunberg, whose a hard working young girl who is fighting for climate change.

Monday 17 June 2019

Asia - South Korea!

Walt: To Create/find facts about Asia-South Korea. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on Asia and finding a country and finding facts about that country. The country I choose to focus on was South Korea. In this presentation I found out South Korea's language, South Korea's currency, South Korea's population, and South Korea's music. I enjoyed this task because I got to create fun slides that I enjoyed decorating. 

Friday 14 June 2019

Scratch - World Journey!

Scratch - World Journey!


Task Description:
Today i'm sharing with you all my inquiry for term 2. This inquiry task consist of background I drew on hyper studio, which is were I get to select a image of the country, continent, and world map to complete my backgrounds. We had to create these background too show a world journey. 

After we had finish our backgrounds we had to code an animation to show to our classmates. To code we used Scratch to code them together, the coding part was simple as I already knew how to code from 2018. 

After coding we screencastify our scratch project to share with others. Our main focus for this was to understand how coding works!

Link to Scratch Project:  

Thursday 13 June 2019

Technology Wood - The Story Behind My Creation!

Technology Wood - The Story Behind My Creation!


My Story:

I have chosen to make a box for myself. I think this is the best choice because I have family and I have secret items which I want to hide from them.

It will be sued for hiding items like money from my family so no one will take them. How this box will be working is when ever I earn money I will go to my box and put money in the box, and this will be stored on top of my desk,. 

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Maths Lesson!

The Difference Between Level 3 And 4!

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Level 3 Difference:

Level 3 is for year 5 and 6. This stage is for others who aren't able to give a good explanation about their work. For example level 3's figure their problems out without a good explanation, which isn't showing what your work was.

Level 4 Difference:

As for a level 4, this is for year 7 and 8's. People who are in level 4 are able in showing others a good explanation about how they solved their problem they were given, as well as knowing their timetables well. Knowing your timetables well is important as doing timetables it's easy to solve your problem you were given.

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What we did?

Today we have been working on solving a level 3 question. This question consist of us working as a team and giving a detailed explanation to our classmates. The question we were given was based on a three kids getting a bunch of lollies! And our task was to solve how much lollies they will have in total by the end of the week! 

By the second day of solving this problem we were able to understand and solve it!

Our problem we had to figure out!



Friday 7 June 2019

Informational Writing!

Walt: Vary The Start And Length Of Sentences We Write.

Task Description:
We are focusing on starting our sentences with different words and having different lengths of sentences we write. This is important for the future as we know how not to keep a story boring or even to short/long stories. I enjoyed our writing task because I got to know different ways on writing a story.

Frozen Food!

Walt: Condense and paraphrase key ideas in a text.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on Scott Base, a base in Antarctica. Our task was read and understand our book, our book informed us on facts about Scott Base and how they eat/prepare their food for the people who live there. In our task this week was to understand our text , create a create task which is an information web , create an book review , and many more. This task was very fun!

Wednesday 5 June 2019

Frozen Food - Book Review

Walt: Condense and paraphrase key ideas in a text. 

Title: Frozen Food

Author: Philippa Werry

Genre: Fiction

What happened? Key facts.
In this story the author explained to her readers on how people in Scott Base live and what they do to live. The key facts were mostly about how they eat and what they do to prepare the food for their people.

Did you enjoy this text?
I really enjoyed this text because I got to learn on how people in Scott Base live, as well as what they do to eat and cooked/prepare their food.

Key message/what did I learn?
The key message that I learned from our text was that it isn’t easy living in antarctica, and the way they live is not similar at all to how people live her in New Zealand.

Who would I recommend this book too?
I would recommend this book to my friend Tha Zin whose age 11 and is a girl. The reason why I would recommend this book to Tha Zin is because she enjoys learning new facts about other countries beside New Zealand, and I find that she would enjoy learning about new facts about Scott Base.
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Task Description:
This task here is a book review, this book review consist of information about our book this week. Our task was to share with others what we read this week and hook them to read the book them-self. To complete our task we had to answer multiple questions, the main questions that we had to answer was what were the key facts? And key message/ what we learnt. Lately I have been enjoying our book reviews because I get to share with others our book as well as getting to learn new books and write about them. Enjoy!