Maths - Capacity

In 1999 we had to go to the pools??? A few weeks ago we had to do a question sheet about Matching Capacities. We had  to match up one number with a picture. Then we came back a few weeks after with our sheet and fixed up anything that we thought was incorrect with a different colour pen. 

Maths W/ Nic

During maths we had to first we has to predict what size each jars mill was. Then we had to measure each jar to see how close or far we were. We measured a bucket and that was 4 cups and 10 litres.   

I have drawn a poster to show you how much each jar was. Enjoy :)

Jackie and the beanstalk

My hart thumps louder then a crazy party, I have just climbed the beanstalk and now I am face to face with a double headed giant. His voice screams louder then anything on planet earth. Right now I am between heaven and hell. Everything stops, all of the preposterous things flow into my mind. He will rip my head off and eat it for dinner. Well he doesn't. He locks me in a cage and starts laughing. I haven't told you my name yet, my name is Jackie, but most people call me Jack. 

One day my auntie told me to sell the house and cart. So I did. Some crazy lunatic comes and gives me some beans. He begs me for the horse, so I give it to him. Before the horse trots off. He tells me something very important. Don't get the beans wet. I just have got them wet. Wow. This monster beanstalk grows straight infornt of my eyes. Oh boy I'm in trouble. 

Me, myself and everybody in poutama.

As most of you know, I'm Aroha, the award winning bright star. Troy and Nics favourite student. Got nice smooth hair, and arms as strong as a gorillar. Actually I'm nothing like that. I'm the weird qwerkie one in the block. I always tend to embassies my self with something stupid I say or do. Today I will be telling you how I became the queen of the world. "Just tricking, yes Andy Griffins is a star. 

My life has been a bumpy road, yes very bumpy. As bumpy as a 7hour drive to Auckland. But I have enjoyed all the fun little things like camp, and the plaza, and butter chicken.

 Jade has been the most horrible person I have ever met. Always mean and nasty. Always saying I'm the one who cracks eggs in her garden. So not true. Just kidding, another one of Andy Griffins books I think. Jade is the most wonderful never wrong, and polite person in the world. Always smiling, and never giving up. Well actually that is a lie as well. The only thing I can say about Jade is she is tall, my BFF and, well Jade. 

Nic, 

He is ummm, well totally, awesome cool funny weird incredible outstanding, awesome hahahaha, lol, awesome cool funny and my teacher. Nic has been my teacher for two years. That's like 365 days twice. 

Ok bye. 

Well I have so much more to talk to you about. Georgia Anna Maia. Butter Chicken. Troy Elly ebony. Well maybe next time. Although I do have 2 minuets left.  Ok maybe Josiah can sing you his leaving song. Nah. Wait, I think mum is calling me. I better go. But remember to check out all my other bits and pieces about writing. See ya later.   

Reading Review

2 Hearts & A Wish

Art With Elly

Reading Sample

During reading we have been doing research about looking at things differently. Taking a closer look. Well Kobe and I have decided to make a kahoot quiz. Its is about leaves and go join in. Enjoy!!! 

This is the link for the quiz : 

http://tinyurl.com/kd4tuxa

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I am most proud of getting this quiz finished in 1 day. We tried to make a board game but it got thrown away, so we started the board game again and we didn't like it. So we decided to the this quiz.

2. What challenged you the most and why? Getting the comment in the time that we had.

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Sicking to one thing only.

Feedback/Feedforward: I like the way we worked as a team to get it finished. Maybe next time we should stick to one idea only.

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Post Criteria

Your post must have a:

1. Title (capital letters for beginning of each word)
2. WALT at the top
3. Image - something visual for the reader (picture link to your video or your embedded movie)
4. Description: see is above
1. Purpose - why we were doing this
2. Process - what we did & how we did it
3. Learning - what I learned
5. Criteria - did I meet the criteria? (copy from above and add targets)
6. Evaluation - how well do I think I did (answer questions above)
7. Feedback/feedforward from buddy/teacher/parent

Please use the below targets to complete the self assessment:

Naughty Story

The thing that worries me the most is getting told off. I take a glimpse at it then realise what I have done. Everything has just exploded inside of me. How will she ever trust me again. She only left for about ten minutes. Why....? My heart beating like I was just in a earthquake.  How am I going to clean this up.   

We'll, it started when I was 10. Yes, last year. "I'm just going to feed the cat at grandmas, then getting some dip for our movie. Oh,  and DONT EAT THE CHIPS" the door slams shut. The creek of the garage door. Sooo slow. The engine blasts in my ear. I stumble outside to greet her off. Yes she is finally gone.

" Boy am I hungry" I sigh then stare at the... No. Mum said no. I start watching a boring documentary about food. Hurry up mum. How long dose it take to feed a cat. I wonder. Dose she take out one biscuit at a time. We'll maybe she couldn't decide what dip to have. Anyway she is taking a long time.  

I creep into the kitchen like a mouse. We'll actually I stomp, trip then flop into the kitchen like a giant, but I survive that bit. I do the laser beam stunt. Yes I acted like a spy or a robber. I consider my self to be more of a robber in this story. I slide on my knees like a guitarist but get Lino burn. There it is. No, eww no, not fish. Blaaahhh. No not broccoli??? Yes thank you. Melt in mouth, rack of rib chips. Mmmmmm my fav. 

My trouble fingers glide across the bowl. I take one and fell like someones watching me. I through it in my mouth then sprint into my room. What I didn't know was that when I turned around my arm wacked the bowl and smashed on the ground. Who cares about the bowl, THE CHIPS!!!

We'll I can't say I did it on purpose, but it wasn't on accident. Oh so confusing. She left me at home, like a starving child. Oh yeah, ummm I forgot to mention that umm, she kinda left a truck load of apples, carrots and fruit. So in reality i wasn't a starving child, but I have already eaten that. 

The broom of the car re-blasts in myh ear and I get a big fright. I sprint out of the kitchen and into my bedroom. The creek of the door opens super fast. Mum walks into the kitchen and her mouth drops to the ground. 

Maths Portfolio Sample

 Walt: Extend A pattern by finding a rule

Description: For maths this term we have been learning a range of strategies to help us solve algebra problems.

Task:  Make a short movie to prove that you have achieved your maths goal.

Criteria:

• Show, explain, prove your goal and how you did it
• Clear message
• Two questions to show your learning
• Correct answer

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? How I challenged myself with the amount of time i had and set 2 tasks for myself.

2. What challenged you the most and why? Finding out the 10th pattern. Its was challenging most for the subtracting question because I really needed to remember not to skip any numbers.

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Adding more questions.

Feedback/Feedforward: I think you did well at your colours because they all matched each other colour but I think you should work on putting more questions on your posters. your BFF Jade

Mana Motuhake

What is Mana Motuhake? Mana Motuhake is self agency

How do you show Mana Motuhake? You show Mana Motuhake by helping out things around the classroom when you are not asked

Why is it important to show Mana Motuhake? It is important to show Mana Motuhake because then you can help people out, or be able to be the bigger person ( leader ) if someone is getting put down.

I aspire to be a minion because there cute, kind and awesome. Not because there yellow.

The Learning Pit

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Criteria:

Draw the Learning Pit.

List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit.

List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.

Label where good learning happens.

List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.

Evaluation:

MATHS!!! When I was so annoyed with myself because I was proving it so much time and failed...

When I was in the pit I felt annoyed!!!

My buddy Jade saw me going to prove it then getting it wrong. She came to help me. So I practiced and then got it right.

Feedback/Feedforward: well done you did a great job your learning pit is really cool,😀🐯 Ella. 

Our Time To Shine

Sweat slide down the side of my check as I hear the words come in girls. As we slide into the hall all eyes on us. The scorching sun spews into the room. Blazing straight into my eyes. The music starts and I feel puzzled. What happens  we get to the stage and the song is in the middle of its time?

It all started when mum was late. Time was passing. My hair can't make it self. Waiting out side I finally see her. I yank her out of the car and we dash into the bathroom. Sue ( Niamh's mum ) gives us our costumes. Our look is Si Fie type thing. We got half a mask and decorated it with sparkles.  Mean while mum is just doing the last bit of hair. We rush into the music room, then scurry out. My face redder then a ripe chili. Shaking like crazy I have enough courage to go out there. We get called, "all the way from the other side of the world, please welcome the dancers." We hadn't made up a name for the group yet. There were two sides.

Butterfly's ( nerve wreaking side ) or the fighters ( the confident no butterfly side. ) who's gonna win. Oh butterfly's are down fighters are up oh no fighters are down. Butterfly's win. The point of this fight is that I was super duper nervous.

We scurry on stage. Our jam plays. We haven't even gotten to our destination ( the stage.) I am so confused.  Jade jiggles her head to troy. Hesitating him. Trying to tell him to stop. Nothing. She jiggles her head again.  He stops the music. Then plays it again. I am flooded in sweat right now. Even though I am hotter then egypt we carried on with the dance, got every move correct and I was like a steam room. 







use a range of challenging verbs: Orange

• use the hot words: boiling, sizzling, searing etc.,: Green

select one or two similes: Green

select one or two metaphors or personification: Green

use onomatopoeia to show sounds: Orange

select words that start with the same sound (alliteration): Red

We had to use (See, Hear, Smell, Feel, Taste, Think, Do, Feel, Say) in parts of our story so for see you had to put so etching that you saw and you had to do that for all of the other words.

BUDDY COMMENT: I think you did well at your detail and your boiling hot words but I think you should improve on your main idea like your dance because your are not really putting that much into your story!!!
Buy Your BFF Jade


Comment: I think I was good at using a range of hot words. Mabey next time I could foucuss on using alliteration

Te Reo Maori Poster

Te Reo Presentation 

                  WALT: communicate a message.

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts.  We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.

Why? We have noticed that our posters are too cluttered ad do not communicate a  message well.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message. 

Composition:  My poster is balanced. 

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly. Yes

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? Getting the hole thing finished in time ( so I can play poutama sport ) and making sure it is neat.  

What challenged you the most and why? Colouring in the title and making sure that I spell the words correctly. 

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Making my poster smaller so I can be very confidant of were everything goes. 

Feedback/Feedforward: i think you did well in your colours that match your background but i think you should work on when you did the title big and all of the things that is about the reo maori small.

Jade :)

Green= Good 

Orange= In the middle 

Red= Bad 

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my  message. 

Composition:  My poster is balanced. 

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.

Goals Term 3

My writing goal is to... Create a mental image across texts by using language features such as similes and metaphors.

I will accomplish my goal by... Keeping this goal in the back of my mind so I will remember to use metaphors and similes. Also my goal is here on my blog and in my book.

My reading goal is to... Identify and evaluate writers purposes in the ways which writers use language and ideas to suit their purpose. 

I will accomplish my goal by... Using it for homework so I get homework and practice all my goals. It will help me a lot during learning time. 

My maths goal is to... Choose the most appropriate strategy for a given problem. 

 I will accomplish my goal by... Working independently so I will focus so I will understand how it will  work.

WALT: Set Smart Goals

Grass Hopper Tennis

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Grasshopper Tennis Sample

WALT: improve our small ball skills like catching, throwing, and hitting.

Description: We have been participating in a tennis programme with Big John (John Salisbury) from Tennis Manawatu. He has taught us some tennis skills that help with controlling and hitting the ball 

Why? To reflect on how we are going with the tennis skills we have learnt. We will share this during our Student Led Conference.

When? Week 8

Who? The World

Task: complete the rubric with targets to show your reflection. Make a comment to the questions below?

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why?

Learning all the different skills and challenges during grass hopper tennis.

What challenged you the most and Why?

Staying away from my friends, I mean we are there to learn to not talk and joke around with my mates.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards?

Slice the cheese. Slice the cheese is when you tilt the racket to the side than pat the ball to the ground. 

Integrity Movie

WALT:Show Integrity

Purpose: To show what russellst is like, ( that we are an amazing team and we are al so supportive ) and that we know how to show integrity.

Process: This movie took a long time to make, and sharing wasn't the greatest but we got there in the end.

Comment: We had to manage to get lots of different angles in that and I think we did a great job.

Buddy Comment: good job Aroha. You did a very good job with your group but it think you should use more camera angles.

From Jade

Writing

Energy, energy is very important in life. There is a lot of energy. Like a lot. Energy comes in three states.

There are three states of matter, solid, liquid and gas. A solid can be a table, a liquid can be water, and gas can be helium. Just say you have a small container fill of marbles, when you shake the container you can not hear anything or see any movement, that is a solid. If you tip some of the marbles out, put the lid on then shake it all around, you will see that it is moving more and you can hear them rattling around. That is liquid. When you tip out a half of what you have left and shake that around, you will hear more noise and see that they jiggle around more. That is a gas.

Atoms, atoms are everything you can see, touch and taste. Atoms are incy wincy things that move. So nothing stands still. Atoms can heat your body, atoms make you sweat. Have you ever heard of molecules, we'll atoms are made out of molecules. Three atoms make one molecule. Atoms are also known as matter and that brings me to my next paragraph.

Potential energy is stored energy. Think of a pen, if you put it on the edge of a table it has the potential to fall off. So potential energy is energy that has the ability to move. 

Kinetic energy is when an object does something like moving. It transfers energy to the same mass. For an example, think of Newtons C radle, there are five balls. The first ball gets lifted then let go. When it's let go and hits the other three balls, it gives the last ball energy to go into the air. So basically kinetic energy is objects that move.

What is heat and temperature you ask, are they the same? We'll heat and temperature are not the same. They only have one thing in common, they both can be hot. Heat can not be cold. It is just a fact. There is no way that heat can be cold. Heat is hot and that's how it will stay. Heat is made by atoms. Just like everything else in the universe. Atoms warm up stuff to make it hot. To make it heat. Temperature can hot and cold.  Temperature is when you get chilly on a cold stormy night, or feeling the hot vibe at the beach. But seriously, temperature is everything hot and cold. Now you can understand that heat and temperature are not the same. 

In conclusion energy is everywhere there are three states of matter. Atoms are always moving. Heat and temperature are not the same. Potential energy is stored energy and kinetic energy is moving energy.

 

Thanks for reading, 

Aroha  

I can...

my comment: I think that my writing is good, Mabey if I had a bit more time I would be more relaxed on having to include hooking words. 

buddy comment:Aroha, You were very on task because you never were talking you were always looking down doing your work. As a result you writing it awesome so well done!!! Georgia O :) 

teacher comment:

state the main point in the first part of a each new paragraph:

*There are three states of matter

* Atoms are every where 

*Potential energy is stored energy 

* Konetic energy if moving energy 

* Heat and Temperature are NOT the same

You have used a main point at the start of each body paragraph. 

Mabey 7/10

include evidence (facts, experiments etc) to support my main point

I could work on that, that could be my goal for writing

Most paragraphs have clear examples.

Most of them do

explain the evidence and how it proves my main point

That could be another goal I could work on

You have persevered to try to explain how/why your example proves your point - this is really tricky, well done.

Practise writing a linking sentence to my next paragraph

Your ideas link in your paragraphs. Have a look at how writers link between paragraphs. You have started to do this.

infuse style: topic-specifc vocab, second/third person, present tense, transition words

Great style. You have used some transition words.

The Energy Movie

W.A.L.T: Show our understanding of how energy works.

Purpose: To show that we know what energy is and how to show our audience that we know it.

Process: This will help us know how to present our learning for energy to an audience.

Buddy Comment:  i think that Aroha  did very good


Comment: I think that I did awesome with the camera angles, but maybe work on more juicy information about what Kinetic and Potential energy is.

Mnemonics

WALT:Create 

Purpose: The purpose for Mnemonics is so if you wanted to learn a word, you would make a sentience  up that will remind you of the word. Mnemonics words you change into sentences.

Process: This will help us learn our spelling words quicker and it's a fun way to do it to. 

Comment: I really think that this is a super fun way to learn your spelling words.

Buddy Comment: I think you have done well on your mnemonic. I think you should add more detail of what a mnemonic. Kobe

Maths Workshop 4

WALT: Multiplying using place value.

Purpose:  Our focus is to use different multiplication strategies to figure out three digit multiplication questions faster.  

Process:  At the moment we are focusing on the place value strategy.  To start with, our maths group worked together to learn the strategy.  Then we had a go by ourselves trying to use the strategy for each problem.  We shared our answers back with the group to discuss what the answers were.  

Since this way of solving maths has not only helped the people who are watching the video, it has added a new strategy to my learning.  

Buddy Assesment: I think next time you could decorate a little more but apart from that it's fine & I now know how to do place Value. Georgia 

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=laKP1wu

  

Temperature

Throughout the week we have been do activitys with our writers notebook, and with this activity we have to make something about hot and cold (Temperature ) have a look

Tables Challenge Graph

4 Pics 1 Word

If you know what this 4 Pics 1 Word is then leave a comment below and I will reply to you if you are right or wrong. :P Aroha

Spelling Test

  This term we did a spelling test. We hade to complete 300 words in two days. All my hi lighted words are the ones that I didn't quite get right. Here have a look at the photos

During this spelling test I got  24/100 and I am very happy.

My Learning Partner

Poutama's Voice Levels

This is poutamas voice level. Take a look.

Group J Presentation

http://youtu.be/PRPBf4GM-zs

Self Directed Learner Dispostion

Maths With Elly

Maths, Mean, Median, Mode & Range

E Portfolio Tasks

Kotahitanga Movie

WALT: Show Kotahitanga 

 

Jade.C and I have made a short movie about Kotahitanga. We had a plan and it was " that every time we do a slide of what/whats not Kotahitanga and ever time we did or didnt show Kotahitanga we tried to make it different. 

Camp

Broken Calculator

This calculator is stupid. It made the user only use two numbers, - and x. So it was VERY frustrating to use.

Self-Directed Dispositions

Letter To Camp parents

Swimming Evaluation

Weet Bix Triathlon

What Are You proud Of:   Not Giving Up In The Race, I Really Tried To Not Stop  in Anything, And I Even Caught Up To Georgia In The Bike Ride. :P 

What Challenged You: We'll, My Nerves Were A Big Pain In The Back Because I Really Felt Sick. Another Thing That Was Challenging Was Dealing With The Sun. It Was So Not Helping, Specially during the run. 

What Did You Enjoy: I Enjoyed Having My Best Friend There To Support Me In The Last Bit Of the Race And During The race 

What Did You Learn: I Learnt That The Weet Bix Try Is Not A Competitive Race, It Is For fun, And Getting Told That On The Day, It Raised Up My Conference  

What Are You Going To Do  To Improve The Weet Bix Try Next Time: To Not Stop, No Matter If It Is Double The Triathlon run, I'll Try Not To Stop

Statistics

My Next Steps. They are to use my brain and pay attention to the group so I know what to do

Ab Seiling Presentation

http://youtu.be/PRPBf4GM-zs
WALT Research

Published Camp Recount

Camp Goal Reflection

Buddy Comment: Ruby  -  show how who what and when and what you heard.

Camp Goal Reflection

Buddy Comment: Ruby, I really liked your work you put into it, Mabey next time you can check your spelling befor you post.

Camp Buddy Assment

Buddy comment : Ruby   You have shown how success criteria has shown you how to do the things