I am a Year 8 student student at Pt. England School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 3 and my teacher is Mrs. Tele'a.
Task Description: This week for our dmic work we have this slide here which is mainly about subtraction. we had the chance to choose which question we wanted to solve. I questions I solved were pretty easy, I did enjoy completing these tasks. feel free to take a look through my maths work or feel free to leave a positive comment :))
As for today I decided to finish off one of the Maths Tasks that we given to complete. Today I've finished the Line Graphs Maths Task, feel free to take a look through these slides ! :)
As now i've completed another Maths Task and this is based on " Pie Graphs ". Pie charts can be used to show percentages of a whole, and represents percentages at a set point in time.
This is another maths tasks I've completed , as this is based on " Bar and Histogram Graphs ".
Another Maths Work i've completed, as this is based on " Picture and Tally Charts " .
This is another task I've completed which is based on Area and Perimeter and Volume of 2d & 3d shapes.
This is one of the maths task I had to complete, this is based on " Two Way Probability. "
WALT: Understand and solve problems with time.
Task Description: Today for Maths we are doing Time, I worked with a Buddy Victoria . We Worked together as a team and finished our task,our Maths is about putting the arrows to the right number to connect it with the time it suits, another task was to place the hours and minutes and to the right answer.
Task Description: This week for Maths we are doing another fractions task. This maths work had improper fractions and also equivalent fractions.
WALT: What are Fractions
Task Description: Today for Maths we are doing Fractions, We are learning Fractions for the whole of Term2, What Are Fractions you may be asking ? ( Fractions represent equal parts of a whole or a collection).
Task Description: For Inquiry we are learning about the Earth, and about the solar system and the planets . For our Lesson #1 we are doing planet earth. We had to fill out the KWL ( Know, Want, and also Learned).
Task Description: Since it's almost the holidays here in New Zealand, Rm5 Literacy class is doing a summer learning journey for our Reading and or Writing. The story I read was about Setting Sail. After I read the story I had to list ten items/things to take out to sea
Story:
People from Pacific nations have always been expert explorers and navigators. In the past, they used the stars, sun and ocean swells to find their way (navigate) around the Pacific Ocean. Master navigator, Nainoa Thompson, has used the ancient Polynesian wayfinding skills to navigate around the world. In 2013, Nainoa led a crew across the Pacific Ocean on two large canoes (Hokule’a and Hikianalia). The crew stopped off in Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2015 on their journey and visited the Manaiakalani Schools in Auckland.
Here is a short video about Polynesian navigation. It describes the different ways ancient Polynesian navigators used the natural world to find their way around vast oceans. Incredible!
I think that it would be difficult to be ‘at sea’ for weeks at a time. I would miss my family but I would also enjoy the adventure. Let’s imagine that you were invited to join Nainoa for three weeks at sea. As part of the journey, you have to pack your own food.
Task Description: Today for reading we had to choose a Myth to do, I chose Rata and the Tree, this Myth was about Rata chopping a tree to make a waka so that his people can be safe. Tawhirimatea and Tangaroa were going to battle each other.... the creatures weren't happy in Rata so the creatures rebuilt the tree.. the creatures then built the waka for rata because he apologies
