Writing - Week 3

Writing,

For Writing this week our goal was to use complex sentences that are grammatically correct proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation. For this we had to write a short story that included four interdependent sentences. Here is the task.

Do you know how and interdependent sentence is made?

Maths - Week 3

Maths,

For Maths this week we have been learning to make tree diagrams. For this we had to choose two pieces of data to use, I chose one about chocolate and one about marbles, the questions were, Marbles: A bag contains 3 black balls and 5 white balls. Paul picks a ball at random from the bag and replaces it back in the bag. He mixes the balls in the bag and then picks another ball at random from the bag. Calculate the probability that Paul picks: two black balls a black ball in his second draw

Chocolate: Maria is buying 3 bars of chocolate to share with her friends. There are 3 different bars of chocolate for her to choose from: moro bar, crunchie, picnic. How many different possibilities are there? What is the probability that she gets a moro & a crunchie? After we did this we had to put the data onto a tree diagram and answer the questions. Here are the tasks:

Chocolate

Marbles

Do you know how to make tree diagrams?

Reading - Week 3

Reading,

For Reading this week our goal was to Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. For this we had to pick a text to read, I chose underground soldiers. After we read the text we had to choose the important parts of the story and write what it was and what it made us think about when we read it. Here is the task.

What do you know about WW1?

Writing - Week 2

Writing,

For writing this week we were looking at proofreading and revising your work. For this we learnt an acronym, This was arms and cups. For this I made a scratch project to help you to learn remember and understand what arms and cups is.

Here is the task

Maths Workshop - Week 2

Maths,

For maths this week we were looking at statistical investigation. For this we had to pick out of
Covid-19 or year 7/8 kids data. I chose year 7/8 data and picked the variables of how they go to school and what gender they were. We then had to make a graph out of that data and write two or more statements about our graph.

Here is the task.

Reading - Week 2

Reading,

For reading this week we were looking at cyber safety and finding out how to define what is fake news and real news. For this we had to create an infographic about fake news.

Here is the task

Maths - Week 1 Term 2

Maths,

For math this week we had to pick a strategy to work on, I chose rounding
and compensating. for this we had to create a video of us showing the audience how to do the strategy.

Here is the task

Here is how to do Rounding and Compensating

Do you know how to do Rounding and Compensating?

Writing Task - Week 1 Term 2

Writing,

For Writing this week our goal was to give and respond to feedback.
for this we had to create a poster that showed our top 3 tips fro giving feedback.

Here is the task

What are your top 3 tips for giving feedback?

Reading Task - Week 1 Term 2

Reading,

As you may know NZ is in lock down, this means that we have to do online school. For this week in reading our goal was to make connections between texts and using more sophisticated texts. For this we had to choose two texts to read. After we had done this we had to write two things about each text that we have learnt, already knew and things that we can relate to about the text.

Here is the task

Are you doing online school?