The Great Marble Challenge

Last week in Te Ngahere we did a Marble Run Challenge. We had to build ramps with any random objects around the class with our groups. As well as building the ramp we learnt new things like variables and friction. Variables are very important throughout testing because any change that we made was a variable and something that needed to be consistently done. Also we learnt about friction. We learnt that rolling the marble on a table is a different surface than rolling it on the ground, because the mat has more friction so the ball can come to a complete stop but the table will let the ball roll until it falls off. Before test day we had to write a list of instructions to give to another group to build your ramp. The instructions had to be simple but easy to understand so they can build the ramp quickly and easily. In the end Missy and Anyah won the challenge and was given a big chocolate. I hope we do more experiments in the future relating to science and collaborating with others.

Authors vist

At Paihia  School we had the  amazing opportunity  to meet an amazing lady named Jennifer Somerville. We were learning about the importance of writing and understanding what it means. She said that “ I had to go through my writing just like you”. She is the author of these  stories The day dad blew up the cowshed, The new old truck, The eel hunt ,old truck and Uncle Allen stink leg. The facts that she had learnt before she came to talk with us was so interesting. She said that she had the different parts of the story everywhere,  but she had to put them in order and the inspired me to do better pieces of writing. In the story Eel hunt she said that her brother got stranded in a dead cow and that it happened in real life. All her stories are based on real moments of time. What I enjoyed is she added detailed words in her book so that the people would get hooked into the story. What I think that I could do better is ask more interesting questions and pay attention in to the writing more. This was good for our class to learn about. Thank you  Jennifer Somervell for offering to explain her journey to us and for taking time to teach us the importance of writing.

Friday was a very sad day because Shirley, our librarian was leaving. The day before, we made feathers and wrote a note on the back of them. Miss Pou glued them onto a piece of cardboard and made a feather type wall. On Friday we all sat down in the whare waiting for the command. We all stood up and sang a waiata and sat back down. Miss Simmons firstly said her speech trying not to cry.  Some of the other teachers said there speeches and gave Shirley some gifts, some adults even said something to shirley. There were to girls who came up and had there own speech. When the day was over we all ran to Shirley and gave her a hug and a squeeze. She said she will come back to visit and keep the library in shape. I can’t wait until she visits again.

Math DLO

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to double and half hard multiplication problems e.g 18 x 7. Do not do doubling and halving on basic facts you should know them. After we had completed a practice sheet we had to plan and create a math DLO. For this DLO we had to explain it clear so everyone could understand the DLO. Some of my DLO had arrays because they helped us work out the problem if we couldn’t quite figure the equation out and it also made it clear to understand, but some of it was writing and I had to fix it up a few times until I made it better and I still am. We also had to create another DLO that was trebling and thirding. The point of doubling and halving, trebling and thirding was it made the hard equation easy. Something I enjoyed about this whole strategy was when we had to fill out the practice activity. I think I need to improve making the DLO’s, and speed up making my DLO’s. I think I did the practice sheets well and planning of my DLO.

Rararanga Matahiko

Kia ora, recently the year sixes had the amazing opportunity to participate in the Rararanga Matahiko program sponsored by the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. This is a program that helps young kids like you learn about the history of New Zealand and also be able to use different technology.On the first day we split in half, half went for a hikoi and explored the treaty grounds and te ngahere. The rest stayed and had a tutu with heaps of cool stuff like Virtual reality, Green screen, Stop motion, Paint 3D, SculptGL, Tinkercad & coding with robots. On the second day we started to create our movie. We all had to make a tree and hoe using Tinkercad. Then we used Paint 3D to create a person that represents us and some animals for te Ngahere. Next we used SculptGl to make a pou to represent our whanau. on our last day our teachers started to put all our learning together in a Virtual Reality world, they made te Ngahere & te Moana with the different tools in the app tilt brush. They added all of the trees, people, animals, plants, pou, hoe and waka in to the world for our movie.

Doubling and Halving

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about doubling and halving. The reason why we learnt this strategies is to simplify a big multiplication problems. I think what I did well was understanding how to use the strategies to solve a big multiplication problems. Lately we’ve been working on our math DLO, to explain why we using this strategies, how we work it out, and explain what this strategies is all about. I always enjoyed learning new strategy, but i was struggling to create the math DLO. I hope i can do better at finishing or creating DLO in the future.

maths DLO

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about using doubling and halving. By using doubling and halving it simplifies big multiplication problems for example 14x5 if you halve 14 and get 7 then double 5 and get 10 so 7x10 = 70.

This week we had to make a maths DLO to explain and to show why we use this strategy and how it works.  

I think i did well showing of how it works I enjoyed making the DLO because every time you forget or don’t remember how to use the strategy you can look back at the DLO you made and remember how to use it. I could do better with having less words in my DLO