Maths Task Week 3 - Term 1

Maths Task,

For our maths task this Week our goal was to Use a variety of 
strategies to calculate the area of rectangles, parallelograms and triangles. These strategies are called formulas. The formula for rectangles is Area = length x width ( A = lw ) The parallelogram formula is Area = base x height ( A = bh ) and the triangle formula is 1/2 bh ( 1/2 base x height. ) For this we all created six different questions, 2 parallelograms 2 triangles and 2 rectangles. Here is the task.

Formulas
Awnsers

Do you know how to find the area of a shape?

Writing Create task Week 3 - Term 1

Writing Task,

This goal is one of the first ones for the year. Our goal for writing this week is Create content that is concise and relevant to the curriculum task. For this task we had to make instructions for a game for the fair this coming march ( I'll have more on that. ) For these instructions I did bean bag toss. here is my task.

Bean Bag Toss Instructions,

Step 1: Setup 5 bins one behind the other the first bin being 5 points then 10 then 20 the 45 and then 100.

Step 2: Mark out the line that they need to stand at to throw the bags depending on age, a meter for ages 3 to 6 and ages 7 to 12 2 meters. 

Step 3: When playing the kids need to be able to throw

The bean bags into the bins and the challenge will be to add up the points

That they got from getting the bean bag in the bins.

Have you ever mad a game for a fair?

Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi,

We started of this Term by learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on February the 6th 1840, about 5 years later the New Zealand wars began. while the wars were taking place the British Government took plots of land from the Maori because of rebelling against the Government. In 1872 the wars ended but the Maoris were still suffering because of the land that was taken from them. Nowadays there is a Group called the Tribunal group and they support the Maoris by letting them claim their land that was taken away for them in the 1800's. I think that if the Treaty was modified then we would be able to be at peace again and live together normally.

What are your ideas about the Treaty?

Kaupeka 2020

2020

Hi Guys welcome back to my Blog for 2020. Hope you have had an amazing holiday. Today I'll be talking to you about some fun things that we will be doing in the Kaupeka hub this year for 2020. This year I am looking forward to the leadership groups for the Year 8's that we get to choose these groups are the... Environment group, the Media team, the Arts team, the Googlers team and the Pals
( Physical Activity Leaders. ) I am not quite sure about what group I want to go too but my goals for this year is,

- Make my to a high standard,
- Help other people and step up more,
- Be able to leave a good reputation at this School.

In the Holidays I went with my Family to Queenstown on a roadtrip it was fun.

What did you do in the Holidays?

Poem

Poems,

For our Writing this week we had to make a poem. We could either choose to make a Limrick, Huiku or a Cinquain, I chose to do a Limerick. For this we learnt about syllables and how for a Haiku you have to have 5 syllables in the first line the 7 in the second line and then again 5 syllabes.

Here is my Limerick

Have you every wrote a poem before?

Pool day.

Waltham Pool,

On the 19th of November we went to the Waltham Pool. Every time at the end of the year we go to Waltham Pool and we have a swim for about 2 hours to celebrate the end of the year. This years pool day was fun but it was also quite cloudy and wasn't the best weather but yet we still had to put on sunscreen. Each year got a 30 minute time on the hydroslides but I did not go on them. There were big inflatable toys that we could play on and everybody was on them so it made it hard to get onto. 

What do you like to do in the pool.

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week.

This week we have been learning about the summer learning journey. this is a activity that you do in the holidays that helps you stay learning and keeps your brain keep going. For the teaser week that gives us an idea about what it is. For this we had to create a profile on Lorde a NZ singer and song writer.

click here to find out about the summer learning journey