DLO on how to understand negative and positive integers

 

 This week we had to make a DLO explaining how to understand something (that we got to choose) based on maths. I did this with Bella. We explained this on a piece of paper. I found this quite challenging to do but it was quite fun because, in the end, I learnt something. My next step for next time will be to be more prepared and know what to do more. I hope you learnt something from our video!

Converting improper fractions to a mixed number

 

One of the things we have to do for maths in lockdown is to complete this slide. This slide is full of questions that ask questions about the fractions. Then with the fractions, we had to convert them into mixed numbers. I found this really hard at first but then once I got a little bit of help it turned out to be really easy and pretty fun. 

ART!!

 

Recently we got made to do this art, which as you can imagine was very messy because we used pastels. We all got to choose a type of sport/hobby that was a silhouette that we would have to trace. Then we had to choose two opposite colours off of the colour wheel, then we got to choose another random colour of our choice if we wished to have another colour for the silhouette. This was very boring and annoying in my opinion because the pastel got all over me and it took too long to do and now we have to do another one for our calendar art which is horrid. Ta Ta

Careers Buzz Quiz

 

This term we are working on careers. For T- Shaped Literacy we have to do heaps of things about careers like writing about careers we think would suit us and the pros and cons about them also. Today I made a mini-review on what we think about the Careers Buzz quiz. I talked about why we think the quiz is inaccurate because of what type of careers came up and how the questions led up to the wrong answers. 

Dixon House Vist

On Tuesday afternoon our class hopped onto the bus with books in our hands feeling super anxious and nervous. For some reason, we got dropped off around 2 minutes away from the actual place we were going. We all jumped off the bus and started walking towards Dixon House. We waited outside as the woman greeted us in. I could feel sweat starting to come in. It was really warm in there, I really thought I was going to break out in sweat in a moment. We went over there for national share a story month, that’s why we read books to them. Everyone started splitting ways and going to all the elderly's. I was stuck standing in the middle of the room not knowing where to go. I was really scared at the time since I didn’t have that many experiences with elderlies. I followed Bella as she started reading a book to one of the old ladies sitting in the lounge, she didn’t talk much. One of the workers told me to read to the one right next to Bella so I started reading. The woman Bella was reading to start looking towards my book and not hers so Bella just started drifting away as she felt pretty offended. But I guess I wasn’t surprised because my book was definitely better. All of the old people were doing different things and they all looked like they had different needs too. One was drinking out of a sippy cup, one was crying, one was sleeping, WHILE I WAS READING! After I had finished reading the book I had no idea what I was going to say because none of them really talked so I just said bye hoping they wouldn’t mind. I looked around the room and ran to Emma, she looked just as hopeless as I did. We both walked around the room to find somewhere else to read. We saw Carter and Caiden reading to these really nice-looking ladies at the table. We walked over and sat down as we listened to Carter read a really tiny and boring book. The ladies looked just as bored but they still made sure that they looked interested. For the rest of the time we were there I felt more confident as I read to more people. They seemed really happy that we were there to read to them which made all of our days. In the end, we all got some baking that the polytech made. All the kids went to one table to chat with each other and tell each other how it was going so far, while I was sitting here not being able to finish my very iced biscuit. Then it was finally time to leave. We all said our goodbyes and grabbed a bar of chocolate on the way out. When we got back to school everyone was really happy and excited. All of us wanted to go back there and read to them again. It was such an amazing experience.

 How it made me feel.

 I was really scared at first and I was sweating from top to bottom. But as the day went on I got way more confident and It started to end up being really fun. 

What I enjoyed the most. 

I really enjoyed it when some of them shared stories and talked about them and their lives. It was a great way to learn about them and to connect with them too. 

What I learned from it.

 One thing that I learned from this trip was not to take food for granted because all of us were really excited about the food. But to be honest, in the end the food wasn’t even good and hanging out with the eldery’s was such a good experience. And next time I would definitely choose hanging out with them instead of the food!

China's New Rocket

 

Today we had current events, which is basically a quiz about all the things that have happened recently that are usually on the news. We usually do this every week and after we have finished the t quiz we have to choose a topic about one of the questions on the quiz and research about it. I chose to research the new Chinese rocket that landed in the Indian ocean. They launched the Chinese rocket on the 29th of April and it landed on the 10th of May. I found this really fun because lots of people thought it was going to land in NZ! Maybe next time I could improve by adding more information and not being in as much of a rush.

Anzac war photo montage

Anzac War Photo Montage

Kia ora, it's almost Anzac which means at school we have to do Anzac literacy and maths. For literacy, we have to choose 3 out of 6 activities to do. The second activity that I chose to do was a war photo montage. We had to put links on each photo that leads to the site it was from. So when you press one of the photos it leads you to the link to the site. I really liked doing this because it was interesting looking at all the photos and what they had to go through in war. Maybe I could've improved it by adding more photos to it.