Raising Flags With T1!

Flag Raising

Hi everybody, today I am going to talk about what my class has been doing this week.

As you can see by the title we have been raising flags. We had to start from scratch with limited items and limited amounts. All were were given was a small amount of tape, a lot of paper, scissors, string, a metre ruler and we were able to use pencils and pens to draw. 

We had to make a flag pole with a flag that would raise without difficulty, It was not an easy task.

 We had to plan it, construct it. After all that the result for our first attempt was a failure, yet we build of that fact and created a success (kinda).

It was fun to do and I recommend people to try this fun activity. 

Ballast Reflection T2W8 2018

Ballast

Ballast is an interesting puzzle game off Maths Pickle.

Blotch is a puzzle game which you have to pick numbers. These numbers all have to work in a specific way.  

So you see the image up the top there, that is one of the ballast puzzles I have completed. You need 5 numbers. The number 1 and 5 that you see well you times those. The other numbers that are 0, 2 and 3 well those numbers have to add up to the answer of what (for example) 5 x 1 = and that's 5. 0 + 2 + 3 = also 5.     

In these the five numbers were already picked out and only 2/3 of them were supposed to work so obviously the center one and the right side one. 

Blotch Puzzle Reflection T2W7 2018

Blotch Puzzle T2W7 2018

This week we have been learning about Blotch. Blotch is a puzzle designed for problem solving and a lot of incorrect input.

The way to work out these puzzles may seem to question a lot of people but after time it does start to make sense. 

Here is a slide show explaining how to work Blotch........

I hope you check out this fun puzzle game and I hope I explained it well enough.

Thank you for reading my blog post.
Ayesha

Literacy Reflection T4W2 2017

Literacy Reflection

Grandparents day: Last week on Friday was grandparents day so we have been doing some activity's based on that. One of them that I am posting is the grandparents word find. We got to make a word find of our own word choice. When it was made I took a screenshot of it and put it on a google drawing and worked it out. 

Here is my work:

Literacy Reflection T3W7 and T3W6 2017

Lietracy Reflection

Diagram: This week/last week we had to make a diagram about the life cycle of Whitebait. We had to have all the names and parts of the life cycle. 
Here is my work:

40bc-Dragon Dawn

Dragon Dawn

Summary: Danzi is not yet 1000 years old which is quite young for a dragon compared to others. While there are wars going on it is not safe for a dragon to be on it's own without a dragon keeper. Whilst other dragons are hibernating Danzi is roaming around and to fulfill a promise to his previous dragon keeper he has to go to a city...

Author: Carole Wilkinson

Rating: 4/5

Age Recommendation: 9-10

Literacy Reflection T3W6 2017

Literacy Reflection

Connectives: This week one of our focuses was connectives. A connective is a word that can join two parts of a sentence and make it sound better. So for our activity we had to fill in some sentences with connectives and a couple more things. Here is my work:

Literacy Reflection T3W4 2017

Literacy Reflection T3W4

Rugby Commentary: This week the teacher set us a task which was... rugby commentary. For this activity we had to watch a video of Damian McKenzie for 45 seconds without volume so we could pretend to be a person like Damian McKenzie himself. WALT: Write for different audiences. Here is one that I have done:

40bc- Cant Catch Me

Can't Catch Me

After loosing her best friend Hannah
 in an accident Alice is lost until her Great Auntie Fran lets her stay at her place for a while. Soon she meets a shy horse named Jessie and she slowly puts her life back together. But will Alice ever be able to let Hannah go.

Author: Elizabeth Pulford

Rating: 5/5

Age Recommendation: 8 to 10

Literacy Reflection T2W9 2017

Literacy Reflection

Word Work: This week for word work I have done the usual which is the meaning, a sentence and the origin of the word. This week I have also done eight words for my speech on the slide show for my word work as well. Here is my work:

My Speech: This week I have been working on my speech. I am not going to put my work on but I am going to tell you about it. My Speech is going to be about my trip to Australia. I have almost finished my speech but not quite yet.

Reading: This week for Reading we read a book called Mrs Wilding's Potatoes. My group took turns at reading part of the book and then we wrote some main points about the book on a slide that our teacher made. The book is about how to boys wanted to go to school to see a rugby star but they got held up because Mrs Wilding needed help with compost.

Literacy Reflection T2W8 2017

Literacy Reflection

Word Work: This week for Word Work as usual I have done my origins, sentences and meanings of the words. Here is my work

Writing: This week for writing we had to pick a family member and write a descriptive writing piece about them. I had a really hard time picking who I was going to write about. In this work I had to describe what my family member looked like what their personality was like and more. My WALT is use precise and descriptive words to describe the image/ person. Here is my work:

Topic/ Matariki: This week and last week me a buddy (Alyssa) made a slide show about Matariki. We put two stories of Matariki on and we also added some information. I thought that doing this activity was really fun. Here is my work   

Reading: This week for reading me and my group read a book in a school journal called Katie's mum. I buddied up with Katelynn and made a slide with her and put down the main points of the book on the slide. In this slide show there is animation things so if there is a blank page just press the next button or just let it play. Here is my work:

   

Literacy Reflection T2W7 2017

Literacy Reflection

Miss Reissmann Description: This week we did some writing as for last week it was Miss Reissmanns Birthday, which then we wrote some stuff about her which ended up being a whole description. We wrote about what she looked like and things about her and more. Here is my work:

In a small town called Grey mouth, there lives a woman named Helga Reissmann. She has hair that is blonde with golden flecks and streaks of brown and icy sky blue eyes. She wears such nice clothes which make her shine in the dark . She also has these terrifying earrings which I myself do not want to go into detail with.

A thing with Helga Reissmann is that she always wears high heels which is a bit typical (no meaning to be rude). She has three children named Jasmine, Telisha & Cole, Jasmine is 26 years old, Telisha is 24 and Cole is 21.

Helga Reissmann Is very tall and quite medium skinny which means she is quite skinny. Her two favorite colours are black and brown and if i’m being precise chocolate brown. Helga Reissman also has a dog which is called Millie (i’m not sure if that’s the right way to spell it).

Overall Helga Riessman Is an awesome person and teacher which makes her AMAZING.

The End

Journal Leave Summary: A week or more ago me and my literacy group read a book called leave. We chose this book and now we are writing a summary of the book. For the summary we had to write the main ideas and bits about the book. Here is my work:

Literacy Reflection T2W6 2017

Literacy Reflection

Word Work: This week for the first part of word work I did the usual which is the meaning, sentences and origins of the word. For the fun activity I did a word riddle, I got two buddies and I wrote a riddle. They got three guesses to guess the word .I thought doing this activity was really fun. Here is my work:

Description: This week It was was Miss Reissmans birthday. For Miss Reissmans birthday we did an activity, for the activity we answered some questions on a google doc about Miss Reissman. An example of one of the questions is what colour hair does this person have and more like that. I thought doing this activity was quite fun. Here is my work:

Numeracy Reflection T2W3 2017

Numeracy Reflection
WALT: Use a variety of strategies (compensation/ partitioning/ adjusting)

Maths Check ups: This week there has been a lot of MATHS. Not quite DLO (digital learning object) work but a bit like tests except not on paper these were called maths check ups. For the maths check ups there was, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction, Plus two more for division. These were all easy at the start but then got harder and harder Which made it more challenging. In my opinion the test wasn't the worst, it was a little bit hard but other wise than that it was ok. Here are some pictures of my work.

Top Team Bonus Reflection T1W10 2017

Top Team

Intro

This week the whole school did Top Team Games. Your school might have done this and if you have you would know. Top Team is groups of people that go to different schools and set up fun activities for the kids to do. For an example there was a water game which we had to fill up a bucket of water and balance it on this stick thing and we had to try to get to the other end.

My Favorite part

My favorite activity for top team would have to be this game that was like a tunnel thing it was very hard to control but it was very fun. While we were doing this activity we kept falling over and it was quite funny. Here is a picture of some people doing it.

My Least favorite part
Despite that all of the activities were good there is always one that you would probably like the least. So my least favorite activity was the activity where we were in this sack with at least four other people, and for me it felt very crowded. I didn't hate this activity it just wasn't my favorite.

Numeracy Reflection T1W10 2017

Numeracy Reflection

Numeracy Reflection

Maths Buddy: This week on maths buddy I have finished contracted multiplication which is quite simple it's like 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication. Here is what you do for it.

Screen Cast: I made a screen cast this week but I put it on a different post. It is about how to do 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. Here is a link to the post.

Speed Typing Test Reflection T1W5 2017

Speed Typing Test

I did better than my last speed typing test 

Here are my results

Literacy Reflection T1W5 2017

Word Work: This week for word work I haven't completed a activity but I have explained The meaning of my words and the origin of my words.

Here is my link.

Writing: This week for writing I have done some writing notes about the New Zealand Falcon.

Here is my link .

Literacy Goals: This week the M1 and M2 have done literacy goals. We had to write down our goals then we had to explain how we are going to achieve it. 

Here is my work.

Term 1 Week 4 Electronics

Electronics

This week at school on Wednesday my class (M2) had a visitor that did electronics with us. The thing we used for this electronic activity was a circuit board.

 He taught us lots of things like how we put the l-e-d lights in and the resister to make the l-e-d lights glow. My team even got a rainbow light on our circuit board. 

One of the other activities we did was we tested how strong we are. We had to get the circuit board and put these cords into it. Then we had to have an l-e-d light on the circuit board with the resistor. Then we put nails on the clip bit of the cord, then we had to squeeze the nails and count how how many times the l-e-d light flashed. The longer flashes meant ten and the short ones meant one.   

The man/visitors name was Andrew. We did this activity in the Mamaku Hub. 

The reason why we did this is because it gave us an introduction to electronics and robotics.

We had a lot of fun doing this and hopefully we will get to do this again.

Do you like electronics?

Typing Test and Kiwi Kids News Quiz Reflection T1W2 2017

Typing Test

This week for typing test I did better than last time. Last time I did the typing I got a score of 29 wpm speed.

Kiwi Kids News

This week for kiwi kids news I got 100%.