Awesome Interesting Math

Kia ora bloggers. In Te Ngahere we have been doing math our math was called starry eyed. We were learning to follow instructions to make a shape using a radius. When we were drawing the shapes we figured out that if the instructions told you to skip 3 or skip 5 it made the same  shape because 5 and 3 add up to 8. Then in the instructions it told us to use a six point circle and skip 8 and if you keep going back and forth it just makes a straight line because 8 is half of 16. I really enjoyed this math because I did not know that if you use an 10 point circle and you skip 4 it creates a star. What I found hard was following the instructions perfectly to make the right shape. Here is my DLO that I made.

Amazing illusion art

Kia ora bloggers. In Te Ngahere the year 6’s have been making art that looks illusional. The first piece of illusional art we did looked like you were going to get sucked into a spinning spiral. This art was really fun to make. First we had to get an A3 piece of paper and draw  6 straight intersecting lines that went to the edge. Then in every second triangle you had to draw up curves and on all the other triangles you do down curves. Then you had to go over all the lines carefully in vivid. After you have done that you pick two different colors. With one color you colored in  every second line in up curves and a different color on every second line of the down curves. Then you shade in every other line of the up curves with the same color so it looked like the shadow, then you had to do the same with the down curves two. Have you ever done any illusional art? Here is my photo.

Tessellation

Kia ora bloggers. In Te Ngahere we have been making tessellations, a tessellation is when you use one four sided shape it could be a regular or irregular shape, then you duplicate the shape and translate it so that it joins up without any gaps or without any part of the shape overlapping. Did you know that tessellations are both maths and art? A tessellation is math because you use translation, rotation, reflection and symmetry. A tessellation is art because it makes a picture and you can make tessellations that make shapes look like animals. What I found challenging about this was getting the shapes to fit perfectly without any gaps or without overlapping.

Energize

Kia ora bloggers. In Te Ngahere on Monday Whaea Gina came in to talk to us about healthy eating. Did you know there are four food groups? The food groups are Dairy and dairy products, Meat  and meat alternatives, Grain food and Vegetables and fruit. Grain food is good for you because it is a great way to start your day and it is really good for your brain and it gets you up and going. Vegetables and fruit are good for you because they give you vitamins and minerals, but the natural sugar in the fruit is still not good for you it is better than normal sugar but too much is still bad. Meat and meat Alternatives, Do you know what a meat alternative is? A meat alternative is  a food that vegetarians can eat but it still gives you the same goodness as meat, meat is good for you because it give us protein and helps us grow. Dairy is good for you because it gives you calcium and calcium is good for your bones. What I will do with this new learning is try to make sure I have a least one thing from a food group in my lunch box.

Tuia 250 Flotilla

Kia ora bloggers. On Friday the 8th of November we walked down to Waitangi to celebrate the 250 years since the first meeting between Maori and British. When we got there we watched the haka it was full of energy and really awesome to watch. After the Haka our class walked down to the beach to look at the replicas of the traditional waka. The waka were so amazing and the carvings looked really good to. After we had looked at the waka we walked back to school. 

Duffy Show

Kia ora bloggers. Last week on Friday we had a Duffy show. The peoples names  in the show were called Duffy (Dylan) Sam (Unya) Aunty Grace (Emma - Rose). The show was about a boy who went to his aunt's house and tried to get his cousin to read instead of gaming all day. I really enjoyed the show because it was really funny. My favorite part was when the puzzler came in and mixed up the letters then you had to figure out what the letter.