Inquiry

“A living thing consumes, grows, breathes, adapts to its environment and perishes.”

                                                                                                         Room 8, 2015

Koalas are very interesting to me because they have different habitats and there is a lot to learn about them like “did you know that koalas sleep 20 out of 24 hours a day?” That's my favourite fact as well.

I got most of my info from one website it was quite a good one. My mum and sister helped me so did Lani. It my topic I learned a lot about the koalas life. 

Outdoor Education

I found out a lot of information about yachting. I know how to put 

the sail up, and how to tie the main sheet. I know how to put 

the rudder in.

Writing

WALT write a report.

This my report I wrote on the All Blacks.

The All Blacks awards! 

Richie will meet some new famous 

people at the red carpet

                                                                                    -Reported by Phoebe.B

 

  Richie Mccaw has gone to the red carpet to get a award, the fantastic Richie Mccaw who plays rugby might get an award. 

The judges will have a huge job this year with all the speeches.

Richie will be changed at the All Blacks level by the likes of 

Ben Smith, who finished the Rugby championships with 

eight tries - the most in the torment.

  

Reading term 4 with Mr W

WALT: Take notes while listing to a speaker.

WILF: Short sentences, key words and information.

My next step will be to take accurate notes when a speaker is talking at a normal speed.

Handwriting!

I do my handwriting every Monday or Wednesday , handwriting is on of the things we have to do every week. We need to read it everyday. I think handwriting is easy to do! 

I like that we have to read it everyday.

Since its spring we will do spring poems my class loves a Sunnie day!

Moa

   

   

Values this term

This terms value is Pride we are proud of each other and our selfs. I am mostly proud of leveling up on my maths. :) now I'm stage 6!

I take Pride by helping juniors outside at morning tea and lunch time!

I take pride by doing my work inside!

I take pride by cleaning my room!

Maths

WALT find the average temperature for the 5 day forecast.

To find the average temperature of these five days Ihave to add all of the temperature together.

The total of all temperatures = 65

The next step is to divide the total by the numbers of the days.

 65 divided by 5 = 13

The average temperature is 13 degrees Celcius.

Pangarau/Maths

WALT telling time useing te reo maori.

Because it is moari language week.

He aha te taima? (What is the time?) 

Maths

WALT Take 10% of an item.

Writing work shops

This is from my writing work shop the teacher had to mash up the letters and we had to gess them and do them up again. I did very well in it.

The answers are: 

Adding,Correct,Uniform,Thursday and Gymnastics.

Reading!

This is my reading its in my work shops we are learning to activate prior knowledge and this helps a lot because I might know some of the new words. 

We wrote things we knew about matariki. Then we wrote down our new learning.

Asian food

Room 8 is learning about Asian food. We did a quiz about Asain food to see if we could get it all correct. I did well on the test I got 7/10 it was hard really hard!

Values

This is my responsibility pic collage. This is an acrostic poem. The words show how I show responsibility.

The six hats

WALA De Bono's six hats

Red hat: How do I feel about this write now"

Black hat: What are the minuses? What might go wrong? What are the weeknesses?

White hat: What information do we have? What information do we need?

Blue hat: what do we do next? What have we done so far? What thinking is needed? What is our focus?

Green hat: What is possible? What ideas do we have?

Ukulele

At ukulele I leart the f cord and gminer cord and lots more cords

And also I can switch my cord f and c will I stay strumming.

My next steep is learning more cord and switch to different cords.

Maths!!!

This is my maths we all have profed that you can NOT folled paper more then seven times. So this is what we have done. 

Writing

We are leaning to write a formal letter. 

We wrote to the Hastings District Council and we told them our opinion about the changing the speed limit from Hastings to Clive. 

The speed limit was being changed back to 100kmp from 80kmp. I strongly dicergree with the change because the roads are not safe when there up to 100kmp. 

Swimming

In swimming I have been part of the eels group.

I have been learning to:

• Kick on our front and back

• Use the correct arms for freestyle and back stroke

• Dive

I am most proud of:

• Backstroke

I now need to work on doing:  

• Freestyle

• Using correct arms for freestyle

• Learn when to breathe in at the right time in freestyle

Treaty of Waitangi re search

WALT: summarise our research into our own words and list our sources.

Next step: making sure my research is in my own words ( not copy and paste ).

Mihimihi

My Mihi mihi