Place Value (Take away)

This week for maths Joshua and I recorded our place value (take away) Strategies to solve an equation easily. To answer our question we used place value as our strategy and using screencastify to record our thinking. Using this strategy makes your place value equations easier 

Panmure Bridge Whakatauki

Today Harlem and I worked together about the Whakatauki. Whakatauki reminds our school how our school values. Whakatauki is Manaaki Whenua Manaaki Tangata and Haere Whakamua which means Care for the land, Care for the people , Go forward. I really enjoyed doing this work with Harlem.

Tech Reflection - Art

Today for the group 8B drew something about our favorite hobbies. What I drew was a picture is things that I have been, what I like doing during my free time, things that I like to eat and what I wish to go to. What I drew has pattern that had something to do with my culture. The things that I drew is a mountain , Basketball rim, Filipino flag, tree, spaghetti, pattern. I really enjoyed drawing with Ms Telefoni. 

Softball Reflection

Today for kiwi sport we did Softball with Allison and practice catching the ball. We need to find a partner and my partner was Affonso. After we had to throw the ball and catching it. There are different challenges and they are Catching the ball with a bird shaped hand, if you catch the ball without touching the ground you have to move back. I learnt how to throw a ball properly in softball.

Kiwi Can

Today for kiwi can we had different kiwi can teachers and they are Mrs Matt, Miss Lily and Mr Latu and talked about Encouragement after that we ball tag it is about passing the ball to you team mates and you can't walk with the ball or run with the ball. Encouraging means cheering others, being positive, Playing ball tag is really fun because all of us are tells the truth when we are out.

Skiing On Sewage

Today for reading, our group read about skiing on sewage. It's about recycling sewage water to make snow because of climate change and helping our environment. People from Los Angeles recycled water sewage to water golf courses in 1929. Some people didn't agree about using the sewage water for making snow.

How is Chinese New Year Celebrated?

How is Chinese New Year Celebrated?
As you may or may not know Chinese New Year is one of the most celebrated celebrations in the world. The New Year lasts for 15 days and on the final day they have a Lantern festival. Did you know that one sixth of the world celebrate the Chinese New Year? Despite the fact that Chinese New Year is full of joy and happiness, there was a scary background to it!

A long time ago there was a monster named Nian. Who would come to villages and scare everyone.  But soon the people found out a way get rid of the monster once and for all with the help of a wise man. They found out the monster was scared of the colour red, loud noises and fire. After they got rid of the monster they turned it into a celebration that we know today to continue to keep the bad spirits away. Are you aware that each new year is represented by a different animal after the new moon rises?

The animals that represent the years are the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey and the rooster. This year is the year of the dog, and its element is earth. People born this year are likely to be loyal and honest.

Families around the world gather together from all around the world and eat delicious foods such as noodles, shrimp, egg rolls and etc. Each of these foods represents something. Noodles represent a long living life (if you don’t cut them), shrimp represents happiness and egg rolls represent wealth for the upcoming year. After fifteen days they have a lantern festival and parade to keep the bad spirits away. This all links back to the colour red, the fire and the loud noises that scared Nian away all those years ago.

Chinese New Year is a special celebration of tradition that is full of love and happiness.

Today Fraidoon and I wrote an explanation about the Chinese New Year. To help our explanation we use TIIC it means Title, introduction, information, conclusion and we used simple, compound, complex, AAAWWBBIS to make our explanation better and making sure it make sense.  I learnt that in China some food represents something like shrimp represents happiness

Maths Strategies (Addition)

Today for maths Joshua and I made a screencastify to show you our strategy for solving an equation. To answer our question we used place value as our strategy and using screencastify to record our thinking. Using this strategy will make your maths easy.

Sentences Type

This week we were learning about how sentences can make our writing change. I learnt about simple sentence, compound sentence, Complex sentence and also learnt the language structure and they are aaawwbbis and fanboys.Compound sentences are joined together with a fanboys. Complex sentences have an aaawwwubbis conjunction. I liked learning about this because I can learn new writing structure. 

Symbols

Today for Tech I was in part of an art group and we made a google presentation about our favorite hobbies and family symbols. Family symbol means what they are. Hobbies mean things you like doing in your spare time.

Kiwi Can

Today for kiwi can we had different kiwi can teachers and they are Mrs Matt and Miss Lily talked about Encouragement after that we did a act which is about encouraging people then we played a game called ball tag and it's about passing the ball to you team mates and tagging the other group. Encouraging means cheering others, being positive, Praise, building team esteem and building team spirit. I really had fun doing all of these activities with Mrs Matt and Miss Lily.

Where Is PyeongChang?

I created this DLO that shows how far away PyeongChang is from Auckland. I now know PyeongChang is in South Korea. South Korea is a country near the Philippines, which is where I come from. One fact I found really interesting is that Baseball and Football are popular sports in South Korea.

Making Connection

This week for reading our reading group has been learning about the winter Olympics. We talked about how snow works and we did Text to text, text to world and text to self.

Blog Post Analysis

This week for maths we analyzed the amount of blog post I posted ever since 2016. We used google sheet to create a graph to show how much blog post I have posted. In 2016 I only posted 97 blog posts because I have not been focused, and I did not know how blogs worked that time.
2017 started and ended of really well because I managed to post 107 blog posts. This is a great improvement. I've was able to post 109 blog post because I was able to focus and I knew how blogs work. This year my goal is to get more than 107 and also post more than 300 blog posts.

Can You Figure Out My Holiday

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I heard kids shouting while playing in the water. I felt the breeze when I sat back and relaxed. I felt exited to go for a swim. I saw the waves against the rocks. I saw the birds flying past me. I wondered if I could swim faster. I wondered if I could return.