Life Education Reflection

Throughout this week we have been going on the life education bus, which is were you learn all about the body and thing like that. Some of the things we learnt on the bus was about the brain, nutrition and how the other parts of the body work.

Something that I really enjoyed about going into the life education bus was that it was a good time to go out of class and have a little fun break but another reason why I really enjoyed going to the life education bus was that we learnt a lot of new things like did you know if you pulled out all the nerves in an adult body and laid it all out it would be 70 km long that like from auckland nearly to hamilton.

Another thing I enjoyed was that I hadn't been on the education bus in a long time and it brought back so many memories like from when I was in the junior class especially seeing harold the giraffe. Something I didn't enjoy was that it was a lot of sitting down and talking but overall I still really liked it.

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Writing Relfection

This week we haven't been doing a lot of writing except reflections and and free writing from when it was hailing a few days ago. The most writing we have done have all been on reflections about other topics like inquiry, maths and other work and topics.

Something I enjoyed about this week's writing is that it was really easy because we were just reflecting on what we did in and on other topics, the thing I enjoyed most about this week's writing is that we did a free fast writing about the hailing that happened a few days ago or on Tuesday. 

Something I didn't enjoy about this week's writing is that we didn't do a lot of writing like we the most we did was again the story about it hailing on Tuesday, as I know maths and other topics are important but writing is just as important and I do feel like we do need to do a bit more writing because we haven't done as much this time.

My next steps for writing is to probably write in my own time a bit more since we aren't doing as much writing this term, and I do feel like if we don't write then we will probably start to see some of our vocabulary start to fail. Another next step is to read more books and things like that.

What's your favourite thing to write about?

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Maths Reflection

Throughout the week we have been working on a Maths assignment where we have to pick one of the Maths topics (Decimals, Division, Fractions) the one I first started off with was decimals, the question I chose was there was 15.4m of rope and she cut them into 2.7m,2.8m, 1.9m and 1.8m.

If you minus 15.4 and 2.7 it epauls 12.7 and 12.7 - 2.8 equals 9.9 and 9.9 - 1.9 = 8.0/8 and 8.0 - 1.8 equals 6.2, after we found out the answers for your question then we used screencastify to explain how we got our answer and why we think its that answer.

Something I enjoyed about doing this week's maths is that it was a little easy it did take a while to figure out the answers but it was really fun because it did give my brain a little challenge but overall I really enjoyed it. Something I didn't enjoy was that when I was doing my screencastify people was interrupting my talking even when I was outside and people were stomping and talking and I had to keep restarting.

My next steps for maths is to try and do harder questions because these were really good questions but they weren't hard and they did challenge my brain but not enough, another thing i'm going to do for my next steps is practice maths more at home just so it becomes a bit easier.

Can you figure out these questions?

The Hailstones

WALT-describe the hailing from outside using figurative language.

I hear a CrAck CrAck coming from the window, I see nearly everyone's heads turn towards the window mine turns as well all we see is a small hail storm form, small little opaque balls of ice hitting the roof it was so loud it sounded like someone was stomping around on the roof. We all watched and listened to the CrAck and sTomP of the hail hitting the roof.

The hail got louder and Louder and LOUDER and even LOUDER CRACK AND STOMP! But from it being LOUD it went Quieter and quieter and we all thought it was over BUT then it started to rain and hail over and over again BUT this time there was a BIG RUMBLE! From that a small thunderstorm had started with the rain and hail storm.

The storm is very off and on, it starts hailing and raining and then it slowly gets quieter and quieter then it STOPS and after it stops its starts up again maybe even with a bit of thunder this time. It stops maybe for good this time?

Why I wasn't here on Athletics and What I heard about Athletics

Why I wasn't here on Athletics day -

I didn't go on Athletics day because I was getting sick and we had family meeting and practice for Christmas, the first thing we did was go to a family meeting out South (South Auckland) to talk about practice for a dance (Cook Island). In the meeting the adults mainly talked while the kids sat there waiting for it to finish, I personally thought that it was boring because the things they said weren't interesting to me.

After all the talking was done the girls and boys got split so they didn't get distracted and because the girls and boys both have separate dances, the boys went off to go practice drumming and their dance and the girls went to go practice theirs. Me and my sisters went with the girls but we didn't dance because I don't know we just got told to come watch so me and my sisters sat down and watched them practice.

After a while of watching the girls dance some of our aunties told us to come help with the food so me and my sisters went and prepared food before the dances were finished, some of the food that we cooked were banana poke which is coconut cream and banana, mianese which is a pink potato salad with egg and more. I liked cooking and doing the food because it was fun to make huge plants and bowls of food. When the dancers and drummers were done they came out to eat before going to practice again, I enjoyed this part because I enjoyed eating all the good food there and after we all ate everyone went back to practicing. After a while I got bored and went for a walk around the halls and went and watched the boys dance but then I got bored again and went to go eat before walking around again, when I was walking around I got lost because its a big place but luckily my sister found me and we went back to go eat some more then we went back to the girls practicing.

When it was over it was around 9pm and the practice originally started at 10am so about 12 hours of practicing, the thing I enjoyed the most watching everyone dance and eating.

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What I heard about Athletics day -

I heard a lot of things about Athletics day some of the things I heard was that it was really fun, some of my friends came first and that Benghazi won for this year and when I heard that I was so happy because that is my house and of course im gonna be happy because now we have bragging rights.

The thing I think I would have enjoyed the most was running with my friends and seeing everyone run but also watching my team win as well because who doesn't wanna win Athletics.

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Technological World Inquiry presentation

WALT - discover the changes in the technological world.

Throughout the weeks we have been doing an Inquiry presentation about the technological world, in this presentation we got some questions given to us from the teachers but me and my group added some extra questions just to give it some detail. 

The topic/technology we chose to write about was phones and how they have changed our lives and our they have changed throughout the years, something I learnt about doing this presentation was that phones were originally made in 1876. 

Something I enjoyed about doing this task is that I actually got to learn about how phones have changed so things like when there were no phones families went out and kids went outside to play and have fun, when phones came people still preferred to play outside and sometimes talk on the phone but NOW kids are always on their phones, they barely get out in the sun. 

Something I didn't enjoy or found challenging was finding out weather the inventor was scottish or french but I did a lot of searching and found my answer.   

How do you think phones have changed?

Do you know any technology that has changed? 

Maths Reflection

WALT - add, subtract and finish decimal problems.

In the middle block we have been working on maths, this terms maths is mainly focused around decimals and how to solve them. This morning maths we were finishing off the worksheet we had been given from our teachers, these worksheets have a lot of decimal questions ranging from adding and subtracting to word problems etc.

Here is a few questions I had done.

1 - 5 one + 4 tenths = 4 ones + 14 tenths.

4 ones + 14 tenths is the same as 5 ones and 4 tenths because 10 tenths are the same as one whole or 1, so 4 ones + 14 tenths = 5 ones and 4 tenths.

 3.6 

- 2.4 =

1.2

So the reason the answer is 1.2 is because starting from the right side .6 - .4 = .2 and moving over to the whole numbers and go 3 - 2 = 1 then add 1 + .2 = 1.2 giving us our answer.

Something I enjoyed about today's maths is that I got to do it with my friends and we were all focused and we all wanted to succeed in our maths today. One of the things I found challenging about today's maths was that I found one of the questions a bit hard and it was the first question I gave you guys, I didn't understand it until it got properly explained.

What is 4.5 - 12.3?

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