Where Children Sleep

This week we have been separated into READ groups. In my group was Jeremiah, Freeman, Nyjah, Ofa and Affonso. Our task was to find out why sleep is so important for humans. One of the questions we were aiming as a group was Do all humans have the same chance of having a healthy sleeping? First we we focused only on our group and asked if we have the same chance of sleeping. We all said yes, but that hadn't mean that everyone has the same chance of sleeping because we explored other kids around the world you don't have a healthy sleep like us. A kid in Brazil sleeps on couches outside and a kid from Cambodia sleep on tyres and picks rubbish early in the morning. By learning why sleep is so important for us we also came through a work called inferring. Inferring means when you read between the lines and find hints in the text to answer a questions or guessing that something is true. Sleeping is important for your mental health because it restores our bodies and helps our brains to make strong memories and process about any information. People who don't have enough sleep or have sleeping problem can get to trouble as it can lead to disease such as heart & kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke. 

HIIT Training

Today we had HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). Tiava and I were leading all the exercises, which were Tap step, Star jumps and High Knee Sprints. We did 3 sets of all the exercises. The first set we did 1 and 2 didn't get that tired but during the last set where we had to go all out I got very tired at the end. A big thank you to Mrs Anderson who keep us all in time and motivated during the exercises.  

Matariki

Matariki is a one of the most special Maori celebrations in the whole of the world. Matarki is a Maori New Year. It is about a mother and its six daughters. The word Matariki means the yes of god.  These are names of the seven sisters, Matariki, Tupu A Nuku, Tupu A Rangi, Waiti, Waita, Waipuna Rangi and Ururangi e. I work collaboratively to do this task with Jericho, Mojtaba and Oscar. I found this task every exciting because today we are celebrating Matariki.

M&M's Presentation

Last week our focus was on M&M's. Our teachers put us into groups of 4 to 6 then we had to work collaboratively to complete this task. I found this task very interesting because I never really pay attention to the history about M&M's. The hardest thing I found about this task was finding the percentage of how much M&M's were in a 45g packet. The easiest thing to me was making the pie chart and the bar graph because it gave me the percentages and what colour had the most in the packet. In our packet we found that most of our packet contained more yellow than any other colour. Another interesting thing I found was that the red M&M's were removed for a decade due to cancer reasons.