Recycling Trip

Last Wednesday, We had a trip to Visy, Onehunga. When we first walked in it smelled real bad. You can visit their website just by clicking here. It was a very short trip so I'd say it was a bit boring. But the thing I really liked about it is the glass next to the sidewalk.

Maths time with Bina

Today we were doing maths with Bina and we had to figure out a maths question. The question was Ripeka and Jan were sitting around playing with toothpicks when Ripeka started to make a pattern of squares. How many toothpicks would she need to make a pattern like this that had 9 squares? To be honest I did loads of mistakes. The first pattern had 4 toothpicks.

I got stuck on on the second pattern so Bina put us in partners. Savahn said 4+4 equals 8 so the answer is 8. We went back by our self. I was really confused because I only saw 7 sticks and thought it had to be a Even number.

We got more confused and then we got into 3 partners and made the 1st pattern, Then the second pattern, Then the third pattern, left the 3rd pattern and made the 9th pattern. We had write how we worked it out. I did 9 x 3 which equals 28.

The first answer we got was 36 so we did that answer. We have learnt a lot for this problem.

Maths Games

Today,We were making up some maths games that can help the younger kids learn some Addition,Subtraction and Multiplication and it might help you guys learn some new maths game as well.

Keeping safe online

 This is a google drawing that tells you how to keep self online and that what your not allowed on.  There is a link that shows a Cyber Safety video.

C words for life

Today we wrote some words that start with the letter C and it can help you with your life like school and education.

Art Day

Last week on Wednesday it was art day and everyone done all kinds of art but we were sketching a any kind of picture and painted it. I drew Jake and Finn with there tree house and Beemo was in it. We also framed it with blue card board strips.

We had to fade it and leave a little bit of white. We made stars to celebrate Matariki too. Some people decided to make another one. When we started to paint we had to make another one because if we painted our real one then it will go all over the place. That's why we had to make another one to practice painting.

Room 1 were making kites with straws and some plastic papers and I think it would of been hard.

Room 9 were drawing pacific flowers and some Patterns.

Room 13 were making a city. It really looked amazing and if details were added I would want to make a city.

Art day was really fun and I learnt some new techniques and we had art day because we reached four thousand sun shines and spun the wheel and landed on art day so that's how we had art day.

What We Have Learnt In Maths!

This Term we have been learning about volume and the 3 Dimensions which are The Length,Width and Height. 

 I was with Luciano and Faiupu and we were working out the volume of our Rectangular Prism and we came up with an easy way of working out the volume. We used the 3 Dimensions and Timed with 8x4=32x2=64  and that was our quickest way to finding the answer.

Then we got to something more difficult. Mrs. Moore got some boxes and we had to measure the length width and height. We got the biggest box so we needed a 1 meter ruler to measure. Beana told us that it's better to measure longest side for the length because it make's things easy. We had to times the Dimensions to get the answer. This box was really difficult to measure but we got our answer. We timed it with 10x60=600x29 This was really hard but we estimated it but we were close to the answer but finally we got it the answer was 18,000. We were surprised how much 1 cm cubes could fit in it.

At the start we had a look at the boxes and labeled it with A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H. We had to estimate the smallest to biggest. I did D,B,C,A,G,H,F,E. Everyone was confused with H,F and D,B. They were tricky to guess.

We all worked on a box to figure out the volume and we got the results. If you compare the results to my estimation I got it right!!

Maths was really fun and it helped to figure out the volume of any kind of box.