Pet Day 😊

In Te Maunga we have been making all kinds of things. On friday the ninth of November we had pet day and flower day. We made vaseline saucers. I made a pattern with red rose petals and pink and white petals.  I made a Novelty container out of a volcanic rock I did not get a prize for that. I came first in the wine biscuit and made three, one had a lolley bat and the other two were aliens. I also made a poster for the A&P show I did not get a prize for that. There were lots of different pets someone even brought some freshwater crayfish. There were dogs, cats, guinea pigs and rabbits. I really enjoyed pet day. 😊

Water safe 😎

In Te Maunga we did water safety with Tracey. We learnt about how to be safe around the water. These are some of the safety rules:

1. Never swim alone  
2. Check the weather
3. Tell someone where you are going and what time you'll be home, and how many people are with you.
4. Bring a surfboard or a boogie board 😎

Rebecca Brothers 😊

In Te Maunga we have been learning about Rebecca Brothers an Olympic Ambassador. We got into peers and made a google drawing. We had to write appropriate  questions about her. Rebecca Brothers won 249 medals all together and 110 were gold were 49 bronze and 90 silver. I learnt that if you try your hardest you can do whatever you want. 😊

Geometry😎

In Te Maunga we created a google drawing about geometry. We learnt different angles like 360, 180 and 90 percent angles. What  I found tricky was trying to figure out how many sides and corners on a 3d shape.😎

Procedure

This term in Te Maunga we have created lots of procedures like baking, making flubber and lots more. We learnt how to set out a procedure like first you write the goal,  then you put what you need, after you put the steps. I enjoyed making the things then writing the procedure. 😎

Flubber

In Te Maunga this term we made flubber. We made flubber for our math problem solving to get the right measurements. Like fifty teaspoons in a cup and 200 teaspoons in four cups. It was tricky trying to add the larger fraction. The Flubber did not work because we added to much water. We need 4 cups of PVA glue, 1 cup of water and about 6 teaspoons of borax. 😎

In Te Maunga we have been learning about Te Reo Maori. We also learnt the Maori for food eg. Banana would be panana. We had to make a slide and insert pictures of food like fruit/ Seafood and vegeatbl.es  Underneath the pictures we had to write the English name then the Te Reo name. I enjoyed learning the Maori words and having Whea Lisa and Mrs Pou to help us. What I found tricky was trying to pronounce the words properly and finding were the  macarons go in the Te Reo words.😎

Math Goals😎

In Te Maunga we created a google drawing. On the google drawing we did our math goals. Our learning intention was W.A.L.T monitor our own learning.We have done our Term 1 and 2 goals this time we did our term 3 goals.If we had finished writing it we marked it red on the hand in sheet then the teacher would mark it orange if we had to fix something up or she would mark it green if we had finished.😎

Term 3 Writing Goals

In Te Maunga  we created our Term 3 writing goals and our learning intention was to self choose our goals. The teacher will have a workshop on one of the subjects and that will help us to  learn . We had to choose goals that we wanted to learn and goals from last term we did not get to evidence in our stories. In the stories we write we have to evidence the goals that we put down to learn.😎

Math problem solving

This term in Te Maunga  we have been collaborating in groups of three to work out problem. Most days after morning tea the experts that need a bit of help in their learning go up with Mrs Pou and she teaches them some things that they can tell us about what they learnt and how the teacher showed them ways to work it out. My group is Dale, Me and our expert is Vaughan. This week we have been doing problems that include stars because this week is Matariki week. We have problems like there are seven stars in the Matariki constellation each star has five points so we would do five times seven then the answer. We also did what if stars had seven points so we did seven times seven and the answer. I think my group works kind of well they ask each other question and letting each other have a try to figure out the answer.

Hiwi the Kiwi

Our class has written a story about Hiwi the Kiwi when he came to visit our school. He told us if we wrote story telling people what we have learnt we might able to win a fishing rod that lights up. The Minstrel also said that might have a chance to win hiwi the kiwi STYLE! posters. It was on 21st of June Paihia School went to the whare to see Hiwi The Kiwi to learn about seafood(kaimoana) and seabirds(manu moana). Hiwi the Kiwi sang songs about the kaimoana to help save them and to give messages about them. He also talked about boat safety like wear your life jacket or sitting down when the boat is moving.

Rocky shore

At the start of week 3 term 2 everybody made a google drawing about the the rocky shore. We had to compare a looked after rocky shore compared to Paihia rocky shore. To save the rocky shore I will make posters telling people to look after our rocky shore and not litter. I will look after different speciese each week.

Math goals

At the begging of the year we At the start of the term 2 we had to make our math goals. I chose some I didn’t achieve last term and some others. I have seven goals all up. I have achieved a goal so far. Our WALT was create our own goals.

Writing goals

At the beginning of term 2 we had  to choose our goals for this term. There were spelling goals that  we had to write. There were also the goals I didn't achieve last term. We also had to use the Vocab toolkit.  The WALT was to choose our own goals.