How music around us affect our emotions.

WALT: Music, Emotion and colors.


During this term one of our learning intentions were to focus on which music affects how you feel, We choose up to 6 emotions and had to match our feelings to that song. Look at the presentation above to see how I feel about some of the songs that I may love or not.

Language Features!

WALT -  develop our knowledge on figurative language and understand their use within a text

Over the past two weeks we've been learning about Language Features! How it could be connected to a poem and so much more, We learnt the definitions of words, language features and poems. What's the story behind the poems? It all links up to the words the author uses in the poem. We had three texts to finish of this weeks learning intention. We developed our knowledge on figurative language and understand their use within the three texts we were give.

Well Weathered - Maths

Answer:

• Kaitaia at the moment is the best weather out of Kaitaia and Tekapo, As it shows in the graphs Kaitaia is just above Tekapo in weather

• In Kaitaia and Tekapo the weather is great the sun is out but it’s just way too cold. Even though its sunny it can be cold.

• How much it went from the start to the end, It could show us what temperature it was at the start and how cold it was at the end of the night.

• Yes, As it shows in the graph Kaitaia was the warmest.

• Tekapo seems to be the one that rains less than Kaitaia, Kaitaia weather hasn’t been all sunshine.
• It starts off with a low amount of rain and than it goes heavy rain.
• I wonder how long did it rain for?
• I discussed with my class mate that it may of rained all day since the levels of the rainfall is very high but then we also think that it may of rained in the morning, afternoon than at night.

Money and Decimals - Boom

WALT: use our place value knowledge to add and subtract decimals.

Today during maths we had to add and subtract money and decimals, This helps us re think about using strategies. Using these strategies will help us when doing groceries and getting the right amount of money back from the shop keeper.

Explanation: How our muscles work

WALT: Last week, in reading, we investigated what muscle fatigue was and why our muscles get fatigued. This week you are going to investigate and write about How Our Muscles Work.

We have more than 600 muscles in our body! Even if we´re bigger or smaller, we all have the same amount. Our muscles do everything from pumping blood throughout your body into just lifting your heavy bag. You control some of your muscles, while others Like your heart and brain without you thinking about them at all. We are focusing on these questions, How do our muscles work? How many muscles do we have? and Why are muscles important for our body? This is what I'm going to explain to you readers.

Muscles need a lot of things to work, Such as: Healthy food, Exercise and Stretches. Healthy food is very important for your health and muscles, getting the right protein and vitamins helps your muscles relax and strengthen them more. Our muscles have three main muscles, the cardiac muscle, the skeletal muscle and the smooth muscle. The cardiac muscle known as the heart muscle, this muscle is found of the walls that protects our heart. Cardiac muscle pumps blood from our heart to around our body, the heart can also be called the myocardium. The skeletal muscle, It is a form of striated muscle tissue which is placed under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. Most of the skeletal muscle is attached to bones by bundles of fibers known as tendons. The smooth muscle works by themselves, it is also called voluntary. This muscle is used when you feel like spewing and it forces the food up into your mouth pushing it out.

Your brain and heart is another way of how your muscles work. The brain sends messages to different parts of your body and also receives messages from our muscles, For an example: When you feel pain in your muscles, the muscle sends a message to the brain detecting that you have pain in the particular muscle. The heart is protected by the muscle of Cardiac, The Cardiac muscle is the walls of the heart. It surrounds the heart, the muscle pumps blood to the vessels of the left/body/systemic and right/lungs circulatory systems. The cells that constitute cardiac muscle are called cardiomyocytes or myocardiocytes. The myocardium is the muscle tissue of the heart, and forms a thick middle layer between two layers. The outer epicardium and the inner endocardium.

My body is very important to me and I learnt a lot of things about my body and my muscles. Its helps me think about what's good for my muscles and how my muscles work, I learnt a lot of new words and its definition. I think I explained how our muscles work really well, and hope to do more explanations. I´ve learnt a lot during this task, working on how our muscles work had taught me a lot of things that I didn't know.

Explanation: How our muscles work

WALT: Last week, in reading, we investigated what muscle fatigue was and why our muscles get fatigued. This week you are going to investigate and write about How Our Muscles Work.

We have more than 600 muscles in our body! Even if we´re bigger or smaller, we all have the same amount. Our muscles do everything from pumping blood throughout your body into just lifting your heavy bag. You control some of your muscles, while others Like your heart and brain without you thinking about them at all. We are focusing on these questions, How do our muscles work? How many muscles do we have? and Why are muscles important for our body? This is what I'm going to explain to you readers.

Muscles need a lot of things to work, Such as: Healthy food, Exercise and Stretches. Healthy food is very important for your health and muscles, getting the right protein and vitamins helps your muscles relax and strengthen them more. Our muscles have three main muscles, the cardiac muscle, the skeletal muscle and the smooth muscle. The cardiac muscle known as the heart muscle, this muscle is found of the walls that protects our heart. Cardiac muscle pumps blood from our heart to around our body, the heart can also be called the myocardium. The skeletal muscle, It is a form of striated muscle tissue which is placed under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. Most of the skeletal muscle is attached to bones by bundles of fibers known as tendons. The smooth muscle works by themselves, it is also called voluntary. This muscle is used when you feel like spewing and it forces the food up into your mouth pushing it out.

Your brain and heart is another way of how your muscles work. The brain sends messages to different parts of your body and also receives messages from our muscles, For an example: When you feel pain in your muscles, the muscle sends a message to the brain detecting that you have pain in the particular muscle. The heart is protected by the muscle of Cardiac, The Cardiac muscle is the walls of the heart. It surrounds the heart, the muscle pumps blood to the vessels of the left/body/systemic and right/lungs circulatory systems. The cells that constitute cardiac muscle are called cardiomyocytes or myocardiocytes. The myocardium is the muscle tissue of the heart, and forms a thick middle layer between two layers. The outer epicardium and the inner endocardium.

My body is very important to me and I learnt a lot of things about my body and my muscles. Its helps me think about what's good for my muscles and how my muscles work, I learnt a lot of new words and its definition. I think I explained how our muscles work really well, and hope to do more explanations. I´ve learnt a lot during this task, working on how our muscles work had taught me a lot of things that I didn't know.

Activity 1: Winter Learning Journey

If I was alive 2792 years ago competing in the Olympics, I would represent to be a Runner. In a race people way back in the days would run a Stade, meaning they would have to run from one side of the stadium to the other. People ran two tracks the dialous and the dolichos. The dialous means people ran two lengths of the track, The dolichos means they would ran 20 meters of the track.Why  I did choose running? I chose running because I love to run around from one place to another, another reason is because running is very good for your health and brain, waking your brain up from sleeping or from being very tired. Even though if I had a chance competing in the Ancient Olympics I would still not be able to compete because only men could compete in the Olympics. Women then were allowed to compete in the modern Olympics.

Wk5: Place value partitioning

Walt : I can split numbers into ones and tens to solve subtraction problems

Return of the Moa

This week we have been learning about new vocab of what we already know and what we think it is, also learning about the extinct of the Moa. It is all about bringing the deadliest bird the moa back to life! How crazy is that, if you would like to know about bringing the Moa back feel free to look on this particular presentation!

My Reflection.

Last year in 2015, I achieved many goals. Such as reaching to my Reading age that I wanted, also reaching a higher Maths age then I thought I was going to be. I thought that I could of done better at Writing, but I also thought I just did good to improve my learning. I thought my behavior was really good in class, but I just need to work on working with other people without getting distracted. I couldn't wait to start a whole new year with a lot of achievement and goals that are finished.

This year I would like to improve on with my writing and working with people without getting distracted. I want to work on behaving with others and around others. At the end of this term I want to try and get out my comfort zone, and say the mihi in front of the class without mucking it up. I would like to learn more about Math and Read more books to get more knowledge. My goal this year is to write better stories and not to get distracted but my friends and other classmates.

Problem Solving!!!

WALT: Find a fraction of a number

To solve these problem's I had to find a fraction of a number. I learnt how to read a maths problem and then convert it into a math equation, I did this with my friend Revival, Yvonne and Venetia. Two of us in a group did a card each. We had to Participate and work together to find out what the answer is. At the end of the day our results were good and we all agreed to the answer. Hope you enjoyed My friends and I problem solving.

Problem Solving!!

WALT: Find equivalent fractions
WALT: Find a fraction of a number

I learnt that if you have more than one question that can be solved the same way, you can look back at the other ones to solve it again. That is what I did in the problem solving to solve my answer and to improve on my maths to get better and better. I hope that I can learn more interesting things about maths, and hope to share to you.

Problem Solving!!!

WALT: Find a fraction of a number
WALT: Simplify fractions

Today we learnt all about how to find a fraction in a number. My friends and I thought it was really, some of it was really hard to put it in a sentence. So please leave a comment of what I need to improve on.

San Diego Zoo.

WALT: think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

A recount tells your reader what happened from your point of view.

A good recount is easy to read and tells the reader what it was like to be there.

Vocab to help my recount:

Animals San Diego Zoo Tour Impressive Fascinating Environment Experience

Purpose:

What message do I want my reader to have? (highlight)

San Deigo Zoo has lot’s of awesome animals. - Bungy Jumpers A virtual tour of a zoo is such a cool experience. - Hokey Pokeys I learnt a lot about animals from this website. - Paua Shells Virtual tours of a zoo isn’t as fun as a real zoo. - Whitebait fritters

Plan of my paragraph topics

1. Introduction	Orientates and hooks
2. Body Paragraph 1	Teacher gave us instructions- Virtual tour of San Diego website, What was on it, what did you do, List animals on the website and etc.
3. Body Paragraph 2	What was the animal I learnt, what does it do, what does it eat, how does it adapt. #1 animal
4. Body Paragraph 3	What was the animal I learnt, what does it do, what does it eat, how does it adapt. #2 animal
5. Conclusion	What I thought about the san diego zoo

Animals at the zoo are fun. On San Diego Zoo website, we learnt heaps about animals and their species. Have you ever explored on a website, with animals and their experience?

Learning Vocab!!!

WALT: Use the words related to the story to write our own sentences




Task of description:
This task helped me to learn more words about money. It also helps me to learn more about complicated words, In this task we had to find we had to find a good definition of what the word is. I hope you can leave me feedback of what I need to improve on.  

Problem Solving!!!

WALT: Multiply and Divide decimals.


Task of description:
Our task was to understand what decimals are. Also how to use them in division and dividing, I learnt this to get a good idea of what a decimal is and what they are for. One of these answer were really hard to answer, so what I did was to ask our teacher for some help. My friend and I put this into proper math answers so our reader can understand. Please leave a comment or feedback of what I did wrong.

Vocabulary!!!

WALT: use our inferencing skills to find meaning in the text.

Adjective- Friendly

Noun-Families

Verb- Forgive

Adverb- Forever

Description of task:

Today we learnt how to use Adjectives, Nouns, Verbs and adverbs, but there was a change of this we had to put them into order to make sense. We learnt how to use a range of language and use our inferencing skills, we did some heaps or learning today. Our whole class learnt this with a partner for help. This task was an good idea to put on our thinking caps for using top vocabulary for our poems, writing, reading answers and talk to the people we know or giving directions. Please leave a comment and some feedback of what I missed or I need to improve on.

Adventurous adverbs!!

WALT: We are learning about adverbs and how to use them efficiently


Today we learnt how to use adverb to a high standard. I learnt how to put adventurous adverb into the right place, and to use them in correct order. We did this in a few steps and help from our teacher Ms Tito, we learnt many more things before this and really hope you understand what this means. Please leave a comment and some feedback of what I need to improve in.

Trade-Fair!!!

WALT:  Paints a picture in our readers mind

This term our topic is trade and enterprise. We are learning how to trade products and becoming entrepreneurs. Buying and Selling product is really easy at our school, we learn how to trade with our friends and enterprise with the people who we may or may not know. If you are really interested in this learning environment read on to find out more about this.

A trade fair is when you have a group presentation that your group has been working on through the past few weeks, making your product look really good to sell. At a trade fair you look for items that you will be interested in, then soon to ask question about the product. At a trade fair you obviously trade things like products and make an advertisement to pull your buyer into your work. Trade fairs can make you have heaps of cash BUT sometimes your material costs to much to pay.

We had lots and lots of different groups like Home ware, Toys, Kitchen, Jewels and accessory, Custom Stationery and Music. I am in Custom Stationery, every single business teamed up into three or four. I participated with Venetia and Seini, We all had a accomplished ideas. There were so many ideas that people had to chose from and people picked amazing items to build their product. We had heaps of ideas and only choose 1-3 items to make, we made custom maths book covers. My friends and I decorated our maths book cover for some ideas of what we need to improve on and finally finished our product.

The trade-fair for me was pretty cool but some things were a little bit too much. What I loved and ordered was loom bands, food, balloon filled with flour and a beautiful candle. They were all pretty and they were really useful stuff that I will use. When I went back to my group I saw that Seini was doing really good with ordering from children, Seini was really good at selling stuff and hustling people to buy our stuff it was so good for our Custom Stationery group.

I was so excited that we had our trade-fair and still excited for our market day in Week 8. I am excited because I brought some stuff and I can not wait till I use them, I thought that the trade-fair was a good idea because it was cool for the year fives and sixes to get a good idea for our real job courier. Doing my own business with my group was very fun and we made heaps of orders.


Task of Description:
Today we learnt how to paint a picture in our readers mind, I also learnt how to use new vocab in our learning every day. The trade fair was a good example of our learning for our new Walt, it was pretty easy doing my work because it was good opportunity to experience. IT WAS FUN!!!

Maths Teacher Lesson!!!

WALT: Work with decimals and Multiply decimals.

Click here to see how we solved the equation.

This week we had a lesson with our Teacher Mr S, we learnt two strategies today. We learnt how to work with decimals, where if the equation is multiply use division and you can still use the same thing around. Also we do that same thing to to addition and subtraction. The second equation we were learning was multiply decimals, where you can multiply step by step. Watch the video to see some more examples.