Cupcake Problem

Today during maths we had three pretty easy problem to complete, after we'd finished it we then needed to create a DLO on it. After that we were allowed to play this game.

How to Tell Analogue Time

Analogue Time

Have you ever wondered how to tell analogue time? The clock is made up of three to four parts. These parts are the short hand, long hand and the face and sometimes a second hand (The hand that moves rapidly around the face of the clock to count the seconds).

The short hand on the clock tells you the hours because it is pointing at a certain number or numeral and the long hand tells you the minutes. For example if the short hand is on 9 and the long hand is on 1 the time will then be 9:05.

Analogue time is very easy to tell if you practice. You just need to know what the hands do. You need to know that the short hand is the hour hand so you know what hour it is and the long hand is the minute hand so you know what it is pointing to.

Another example to tell analogue time is when it is 6am it is the early hours of the morning and if it is 6pm that means it is late hours of the day. These two type are similar but the mean the complete opposite. Some more examples are is when the long hand is on 9 and the short hand is on the the 6 that means it is either quarter to 7 or 6:45. 

Now you know how to tell analogue time. It is very easy to tell and it is a very good skill to have. Now by knowing how to tell analogue time you can now always be on time to family functions work or school. 




A lot of people have become dependent on devices such as netbooks and iPad to tell the time for them. People might view this as a joke but it is true and the reasons classes around New Zealand have analogues clocks is to encourage children to expand their skill set and be able to do something as simple as tell time on an analogue clock. This week we have been revising the structures and language features of an explanation. My explanation will hopefully help people learn how to read analogue clock. 

Why Is Sleeping Healthy?

This term we have been working collaboratively within our READ groups to find information that will expand our knowledge about sleep. For this topic we have been answering the questions we needed to answer to create a presentation which will hopefully showcase the amount of learning and skills we have picked up along the way. Since the beginning week of this topic we have chosen a leader who helped us stay on track and made sure that we were worked collaboratively within our group. While we were trying to improve our knowledge about sleep we all partook so as a guideline we used the reciprocal reading technique. In reciprocal reading we have someone who summarises the text, a questioner, a leader, a person who helps clarify confusing material found in a text, and also a predictor. While doing this activity we were asked to book our own guided sessions as we needed help with the question, does technology effect our sleeping patterns and also we were asked to choose a time where Mrs Anderson will help us learn how to infer. To learn how to infer we looked at the rooms children around the world have to sleep in and answered does everyone get a healthy sleep. Our group answered no as some of them are at risk of getting while others are always on the lookout for danger as they sleep in an open space. To summarise our learning we created a presentation which answers all the questions asked by Mrs Anderson. Today we showed all the reading groups what we have done and we all spoke proudly and we were all proud of our efforts. While learning about sleep we learnt that melatonin was the hormone produced in our bodies to regulate our sleeping patterns. I found this interesting because I didn't know that our bodies produce more than one hormone.

Scale Drawing

Last week was our maths week we've been creating Scale Drawings. I drew Ninja who is my favourite fortnite player. This is my second time making a scale drawing, I think I improved a lot from last year. I drew an anime character that was easy last year so I wanted to do something harder this year. I found it easy to draw the outlining because I was going box by box. I found it hard to draw all the detail because for some of it I didn't line it up properly. 

Lansing Shoal Lighthouse

This week we are focusing on light houses in New Zealand. Our group leader decided to choose Tiritiri Matangi. I think that our group works really well together because we can communicate about things and what we should do to help out with the work. We found an interesting fact about our light house, the light house was made out of cast iron and cast iron is made for making frying pans. We did as much as work as we could to finish this task. There are twenty three light houses in New Zealand and seventy six lights, that's a fact.

Chicago's Sports Teams

Today we were creating a DLO about Chicago sports team. What I found out about one of the teams was they recorded all there victories since 6 years. I worked collaboratively with my group because we did the same amount of work and we all communicated. When one person was finished they would have to help the person that is not finished. We managed to finish this task.  

No Hea Koe?

This is what we learned in Maori. We had to name some landmarks in New Zealand and then we had to name landmarks around the world. But we had to write the Maori name for it. To do this activity we had to find a partner that you have to work collaboratively with to finish this. I found this activity very interesting because some landmarks I didn't even knew existed. 

Kiwican

Today at Kiwican we changed our topic from Goal Setting to Problem solving. In our Kiwican lesson we learning how to solve problems. First we talk what problems we have in class and in our community and then we did a exercise where we have to untangle ourselves. I found it difficult because not all people could jump over each other. After the activity we then got in a circle and talked some more about how we could solve more problems. Then we did another activity where we had to split up in 2 teams then everyone had to get over the electric fence which was a rope. I found this kiwican lesson very helpful because now I know how to solve some problems out of school and in school.

HIIT Training

HIIT training today was great. Firstly we did push ups, I found the very last sets of push ups very hard because my arms started to hurt. Secondly we did star jumps I found the very easy but again when it got to the end it got hard because my legs and arms started to hurt a little bit.

HIIT

Today we had our third HIIT session for term 3. We did the same exercise we did last week. The first exercise we did was high knee sprints then tap step, mountain climbers and star jumps. I found the exercise very challenging because I didn't do any other exercises in the weekend other than my rugby game on Saturday. A big thank you Tiava and Zane for helping demonstrate the 4 exercises and another thank you to  Mrs Anderson for supporting us on the way. 

Cook Island Language Week

Conversation In Cook Island

This week is Cook Island Language Week. So from Wednesday to Friday we stared learning more about it.  When we had finished our presentation about the Cook Islands. We had to pick anyone in our class to have a special conversation in Cook Island. I found these 2 tasks very interesting because before this I never knew that there are many islands that made up the Cook Islands and that the main island of it is Rarotonga and and the tourist attraction is Aituaki. I liked this activity because we got to learn some words that the islands use.