T4W3 : Word Problems

WALT: Use different strategies to solve a mixture of word problems


Task Description : For week 3 in maths , it is still a continuation of word problems. 

T4W2 : Maths

WALT: Use different strategies to solve a mixture of word problems


Task Description : This week (For Week 2) it has been a continuation of using different strategies for word problems. I had worked with a friend, and together we had used many different stratigies, some didn't work but we eventually got through it. Still in work.

Mixture of problems - Maths

Walt : Use different strategies to solve a mixture of word problems


Task Description : For this weeks maths session. Room 5 has been learning to use different matters of strategies to understand word problems. Right now, I am in session on finishing my work off properly.

What is the purpose of school?

? What is the purpose of school ?

- In some countries, it is rightful to send your kids to school. -

School is a place where all kids come to learn. It helps us kids engage into our learning and learn more about how the world works around us. Things we learn at school can help us in the future or can help us live a healthy life as we grow older.

We all go to school to learn new things, and experience new things as we grow in an environment of education. In school, many subjects wander from maths, to literacy, and even history or home economics. We all learn something new in school. 

The Great Escape: Suicidal Awareness In NZ

WARNING: This text shares high information about a very sensitive topic.


About 2 weeks ago, I had a visit to the panmure community hall to watch a small production called 

' The Great Escape.'

This production had focused on suicidal awareness and I was amazed to hear that every 67 hours a young teen would take there life! Every 67 hours!

It had focused on true stories of teenagers and what they had overcome towards the darkness and also what saved them.

The stories in this play truly brought me to tears. Seeing how these people had suffered, seeing how they had no-one to reach out to. It's really sad knowing that there are more people out here in New Zealand that are suffering from

these kind of things too!



Seeing how they could only think about what they had looked like or what was happening on the outside was shocking!



Our scenes had mostly focused on a recreation of real people and their stories, after some scenes would finish, there would be some short videos sensoring that this is what they had really gone through.




They had talked about self harm, and what there mind would be telling them and this was all because of the anxiety that had overstressed them!

Honestly, this play had a lot of sadness. I really had no idea how to explain what was going on.



Before the end of the play had arrived, I had cried a few more tears as the motto of the whole play was:

" The lord is your light, follow him and your path to success will roll. Your darkness will run, just as long as you believe in him. "

I honestly loved how it ended, and it had also come to the end where some would voulenteer to say a big prayer, signalling that all would possibly carry the lord in their heart.

These true stories had totally uplifted how I could see the world. I could see that it was suffering from many things. Even bigger than suicide.

Hopefully they make another play, focusing on another topic, I really loved this one!

Show Don't Tell - Presentation

WALT: Use imagery to add depth to our writing


Task Description: In this task, I have done a little more indepth of show don't tell. This is another imagery of it.

Information Report #2: Literacy

                                               Information Report Plan

Topic of Information Report: South Korea, a little report for those who don’t know much about it.

Title: South Korea

South Korea is a country found east of the continent Asia.

Language: Korean (Hanguk)

Population: 51.34 Million

Music

South Korea’s music is well known worldwide. This music genre is K-Pop. K-pop is a considered worldwide genre that became big in the 90’s to the 2000’s. Along with K-pop it was well known for it’s love of R&B, Hip-Hop, and also Reggae.

Key facts and information to include:

K-pop had suffered a lot of criticising.

In 2012 Gangnam Style (A song from PSY) had become it’s well known song.

Because K pop became popular worldwide people around the world started learning more about K culture

Food

Topic Sentence: Food is very important in South Korea. From it’s most popular foods like Kimchi (A spicy cabbage dish), Bibimbap (A rice dish with various seasoned vegetables), and also Japchae (A kind of Stir Fry with noodles). It had also been well known for it’s amazing street food markets.

Key facts and information to include:

Hotteok (A sweet Pancake) is their popular street food aside with Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cakes)

Seoul

Topic Sentence: Seoul is the capital of South Korea. This capital is very popular and has had a amazing number of 13.5 million foreign tourists that visit each year!

Key facts and information to include:

It’s well known torist place is Gyeonbokgung. A palace in Seoul.

The N Seoul Tower had been well known for giving a good glance at Seouls greatest views too.

Bibliography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-pop     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul

Information Report: Literacy

New Zealand is a country found on the north, east side of australasia. It’s native languages are, english, sign language, and also maori. It’s population also consists of 4.7 million.

Wildlife

It’s wildlife is amazing! They have a native bird called the kiwi, that now said to be endangered due to many hunters, hunting them for feathers and also food. They also had a extinct bird called the moa, which can be found as a sculpture in the museum of Auckland and many others.

Key Facts and Information:

The spotted kiwi became extinct in 1930
Moa became extinct in 1300 AD

Food

New Zealand is proudfully engaged in food. The people have a lot of love for their seafood, like mussels, kina, and fish. They also have a well known dish called boil up, which consists of cabbage, meat, kumara, pumpkin, and all sorts. All these multi-cultural dishes are loved.

Key Facts and Information:

Alot of boil up dishes have a variety of different tastes and looks.
Seafood boil up is also a consistent dish of New Zealand people.
History

It’s history story is fascinating! The story of Te Tiriti O Waitangi (Formally known as The Treaty Of Waitangi) is the country’s popular story sharing the fact of a peace signing of the europeans and the maori. The treaty was said to be signed in 1840, both having a english version and a maori version.
Key Facts and Information:
 1845 - 1872 the Maori fought the world war.

Conclusion
Overall, New Zealand is a great place. From it’s wonderful people, Food, and heaps others.

Show Don't Tell - Literacy Work

Show Don’t Tell

It was terrifying. The loud gunshots blew my mind as many bodies suffered to the ground, crimson red blood gushing from their wounds.

I myself was impaired. There were alot of gun wounds around my hips. This wasn’t what I signed up for at all. A loud crash echoes through my suffering ears, another person shot.

Guilt raided through my body, I felt sorry for these people. I remember a soldier telling me last night about his kid who sent him about more than 100 letters saying he missed him. My eyes dissolve into tears, I weeped but the only thing heard were gunshots, they muted my disfigured cries for help.

That’s when my cries had been done for. My ears rang. My breath hitched. Was this the end? My body lay there lifeless. The only last thing I had saw was a poppy. It was very appealing. As I took my last breath, I mumbled “ Lest we forget. “


Task Description: In this writing task, we had been learning to show not tell. Show not tell is another way of saying having more detail. We had to put more detail into a message, letter, or something involved with the war. Here is my story.

What is a information report?

Today, we had learnt what is so important about information reports. We had to use our information and put them onto cards.

The cards represent information we know about information reports. Then after we structured them together, putting relatable contents together.

A information report is a article that shares infomation about a certain topic or story (Particularly from the news. )

Sometimes a information report is boring. This informs for you to find something your interested in. ( Eg. Animals, Pop-Stars, News Updates )

Peach Scents ; Romance Genre (On-going)

Intro; Leaving Paradise

“ You’re leaving me? “ Taehyung cries in pain as his love stands there iritatted.

“ Just go! We can’t do this anymore Tae! We keep hurting each other! “ Faith roars in anger as Tae just stands there, unable to hold his tears back.

“ But it was our anniversary… “ Tae mumbles as Faith leaves.

They never spoke to each other since then. Both lovers numbers blocked. Both text messages deleted. Never again to be spoken to.

Chapter 1: Painful Strawberry Scent

Years had past, Taehyung had moved back to his hometown Daegu and had sworn he’d never find love again. He walks past the closed shops, the sunlight shining on his milky skin. “ What a lovely morn- “ Tae gets pushed over, knees getting scraped on the curb. A petite lady hovers over him, head tilted. The lady slowly kneels down, “ Taehyung? “ Tae opens his eyes, pain still stinging in his knees. His breath hitches as he slowly gasps 

“ F-Faith? Why are you here? “ He gets up, dusting himself off. Another figure stands next to Faith, “ Hey! Who are you? Stop talking to my girlfriend creep! “ the figure brushes past Taehyung, dragging Faith with him. ‘ She still smells like Strawberry’s… ‘




Had this been what he was waiting for? He needed to move on. It had been far to long since he last smiled. What was the lord punishing him for?




To be continued….

Examination Day: Ihimaera Reading

WALT: identify and evaluate the author’s purpose for writing


Task Description: In today's task, we had been reading a story called Examination Day. The story focuses on a right to be equal. We had also done definitions on a word named Egalitarianism.

It Used To Be Green Once : Ihimaera Reading

WALT: identify the effects of language features


Task Description: For todays task I have read a story called It used to be green once. This story focuses on a family who is very poor, when until their father had won the lottery. It was a really great story.

Immersion Assembly: The start of Term 2 !

 Today is the first day of Term 2 !  This morning, the school had come together to have our Immersion Assembly where all teams (Team One, Team Two, Team Three, Team Four, Team Five) present items or a movie to explain what their team will be learning about.        

Team one started off our assembly with a movie. Their movie explained to us that we should learn more about bees and care for them more so they dont go extinct and they also taught us about directions like North, East, South, and West. 

Team Two had done a movie too! Their movie explained to us about directions like Up, Down, Left, and Right.  In there movie they had also explained that while using those directions, they were doing a easter egg hunt!

Team Three was next and they had done a movie about pick a path. There pick a path movie included at least three to four choices of, a forest, the beach, and the shops. 

Team Four came up and there movie was about navigation. It was a pretty funny movie because they had done a experience at pak n save! Mrs Sio was so funny too!!

Team Five was finally last and they hadn't done a movie, they had done a play! The play introduced different continents that included Europe, Asia, North America and Africa!

Ending : Overall i'm really excited for what new adventures await for term 2! I'm sure it'll be fun!

                            

                                                          

Narrative Explanation: Literacy

WALT: Understand what makes a narrative.

Today in literacy we had been learning to understand what makes a narrative. Our reading groups had been split up to write down ideas on a small pentagon giving information of what we think a narrative is.

We are learning to follow the structure of a narrative. Todays literacy session teaches heaps about how to write a story.

Learning about identity - Making Masks: Writing

What people think of me when they first meet me!

Some people have different perspectives of others. Like me. Some people think i’m more open minded and think im more of a creative person. But if a person really knew me they would know..  

I’m really weird! Like honestly i’m really weird. I could be running heaps of fields by all the energy I have. It’s crazy! Identity defines alot of things. Identity defines who you are, and it also defines your emotions! Emotions are key things that define who you are the most.

Something Alive - Reading

WALT: ask questions about a text to support our understanding of it



Task Description: In week 3, We had been learning to ask heaps of questions that help us more to understand the meaning of a text.

Rise Up! - Reading

WALT: identify key words and phrases to summarise a text



Task Description: In week 8, we read storys to understand about identity. We had to use alot of key words we found in the story, and then use those words to make a summary. 

The Trial - Reading

WALT: read fluently and with expression to support my understanding of a text



Task Description: Last week, we had been learning to understand a message behind a story. 

Happy New Year! - Reading

WALT: make predictions about a text



Task Description: In week 2, we had been learning about making predictions about a text. 

Time word problems - Maths

WALT: Use known strategies to work out time lapse word problems

Test Practice - Maths

WALT: do our best at the test by practising word problems



Task Description: In week four, we had been learning to get our minds ready for the maths test we did. In maths tests, there are alot of things we may all not know so our teacher had made us problems, using measurement, multiplication and some others. 

Problem Solving - Maths

WALT: Solve problems (where part or the whole is unknown) using multiplication and division strategies.



Task Description: In week two, we had been learning to solve different problems using different strategies like, multiplication and division. 

Whole of a set - Maths

WALT: Use Multiplication and division facts to find the whole of a set


Task Description: In week three, we learnt about fractions. Fractions include a numerator which tells us the equal part of a whole, and a denominator which tells us the total number of parts that make up one whole. 

Baby Pink - Writing Poems

WALT: Use strong vocabulary and rhythm.

We have been learning how to write poems. My poem is about the colour baby pink. It's a calm, relaxing colour so I thought it would be nice to write about, rhythm is one thing all poems have to have. It was really fun doing this.

Statistics Mix - Maths 2019

WALT: Read and interpret information from different graphs.



Task Description: This week we were learning about statistics. In statistics, we have been focusing on many graphs, and diagrams. Its pretty hard to understand but with a bit of more practise i'll get better.

Polyfest: Fourty-fourth year!

WALT: write effective introductions to our essays

Do know what polyfest is? Polyfest is a cultural big event here in New Zealand. It contains alot of food stalls, heaps of performances, and alot of freebies! Alot of schools get invited too, where they go to a schoolsday event. There are alot of activities that include prizes too. This event has been happening for fourty-four years. Crazy right?!

When heaps of schools come together, we all cooperate in a schoolsday event. This schoolsday event includes alot of fun activities! Like skipping rope races, finding the islands, we do dance challenges, and we also do fun other challenges that help us win prizes!

Secondly, the best thing is all the yummy food! During polyfest, you know you cant miss all those food stands waiting for us. They are many things like dumplings, soft drinks, smoothies, ice cream, all you can eat! Mostly you can't miss the seafood stands!

Thridly, the stages. Those are the best things to be there for. Alot of colleges perform cultural dances, and they do alot of comps. There were stages for, samoan groups, maori groups, cook island groups, tokelau groups, and alot more.

Overall, you should really go sometime. Its real fun! You'll have heaps of fun eating, meeting new people, and having alot of fun watching some performances. It's totally worth it!

Hushed & Harrison Bergeron - Literacy Work

WALT: Summarise the main events of a text.

Task Description: We have been talking about, and reading about dystopian storys. Dystopia means a kind of dark idea of the future. There were two storys we read, named Hushed by Paul Mason, and we also read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. Both storys share the same aura and both were very interesting.

Mixture of problems - Maths

Task Description: In week 5, we had been learning to solve problems on our own using different strategies. 

What makes a good learner?

WALT: Define what makes an active learner.

Task Description: We have been discussing what it means to be a good learner. Using WordArt, I have created a poster providing many idea's of some words I think describes being a good learner. This pencil here represents school.