Maths Buddy

During Week 5 I have been doing Maths Buddy. The task I have been doing is Term 4 week 4. It is basically a set of questions hat the teacher sets for us. I am 1/2 way through the task. I have gt 5 questions wrong but I am learning how to do them. There are questions like 1/3 of 120. I am hoping I pass the tasks.

Reading

Today, we did Reciprocal Reading. Reciprocal Reading is where a group of people come together to read and analyze a piece of writing in a school journal. We did the poem named “Early” written by Rachel Bush.

Here’s the poem:

“The Darkness wears a quiet sound

of fires died down and people who stir

in sleep. Soon they will slip on

their daily selves, button them up.

A rooster knows the time, says

it out loud when the day is less

than a light line above the hills 

A car hitches its shoulders,

decides to keep going.

It's lights make holes in the night.

One ruru calls

its own name.

It's wings are invisible.

They make no sound.”

This poem is about nighttime, and all of the things that happen in the night. The first paragraph details the day turning to night. The second paragraph details a rooster, telling us about how the rooster clucks when the night comes.

Paragraph three tells us about a car, driving in the night. The car turns on its headlights, illuminating the dark road. The last paragraph talks about an owl hooting, and how the owl is nearly silent in the dead of nights.

Dressing up on Halloween

Yesterday T4 were put into groups. One of the activities was dressing up. Did you know that we dress up on Halloween so the evil spirits dont recognise us? For example a mask or disguises is pretty good. The practice if dressing up in costumes and begging door-to-door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle ages. Costumes really took off with the rise of trick or treating. I am the girl in the green wig. I dont even know what I was but I think it was very creative and it was really fun.

Halloween Story

Today is Halloween and T4 spent the first block doing Halloween activities in my group I have; Jake, Riley, Taylor, Junior, Niah, Me and Nova. We had to write a story based on the book: The Hollow Woods.

Rugby World Cup

During the end of Term 3 and the start of Term 4 we have been looking at the rugby world cup. We had to do some tasks about it. We had to make paper sushi display, a Japanese slide, try on kimonos which are Japanese dresses that they wear. I had completed all 3 tasks. I would like to look around more kimonos and try more on. I have made a blog post about Kimonos. Go cheek it out.

Grandparents day

Today Grey Main school had Grandparents day. Grandparents day is when your grandparents come into school and show you what they have been learning. Today Mrs Gully gave us a task to complete. The task was that we had to right down some questions and your grandparents had to answer them. E.g What is a memorable day when you went to school? I had 3 of my Grandparents come into the school and I asked them the questions I also got my hand print and 2 of my granddads hand prints. I enjoyed seeing them and showing them all my work I have done

Figure it out | A fair dip

Today during Maths Group 3 did Figure it out. Hannah George and I did a fair dip. This was hard at the start but then it started to get easy for us 3. There were 5 questions but one of them was too hard for us. We only ended up doing 3 of 5 questions...

The first question was: What do you need to find out first? We said what ingredients do they need and how much do they need.

The second question was: The costs are given for a different proportions of the product for sale. How can you work around this. We didn't do this question because it was too hard for us.

The third question was: Will the class make a profit on the current pricing? Yes because they are only charging $2 for a strawberry because I think a lot of people will buy it because they are cheap and they have chocolate on the bottom.