Month: May 2024

Kia Ora and welcome to my reading blog post for this week. The reading we have been focusing on for the last three weeks are habitats and the goals were Make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions, using more sophisticated texts, think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and thinking, use ground rules to have a group discussion and use capital letters in titles. These were the goals that we were basing on for to check them off.

When we first started doing habitats for reading I only really knew what habitats were nearby Christchurch and I didn’t know exactly what they did for our planet but after a few reading sessions I got a better understanding of them. On the very first week we had to fill out a Monday must do which included a slide show which would ask us what we know about habitats and what questions you had about habitats.

Each week for week 3 4 and 5 we would have a weekly work wall to do in the work wall It would ask us to click on a link what was called kiwi kids News and we would have to search something either Habitats, national, world or sport and fill in a doc which would want us to fill in stuff what we learnt and on each article there would be questions you would answer too. Then this ran into the next week but we just had to do a quiz on kahoot and a Quizlet that our teacher made and for the last week of habitats we were just looking at the rena cargo ship.

The Rena cargo ship was a ship that was going somewhere and banged Into the coast of Tauranga over 20,000 sea birds got covered in oil which made most of them die because they had gotten covered in oil. This happened on the 7 of October 2011 and the oil ended at the beach and filled the whole beach with oil. There was an army who came to clean up the beach and get rid of the oil spilling.

After all these weeks I had gotten a way bigger understanding of what habitats are and what they do for the planet here are all of my creates that I have completed over the past few weeks I hope you enjoy looking at them and fun fact: Freshwater and lakes count as habitats, what have you learnt from this blog and from my creates?

 

Kia Ora and welcome to my blog post for this week. Today in week 5 term 2 we have been looking at Natural events, our Pbl goal is how do both human-induced and natural events impact New Zealand’s environment, and how can intentional design foster sustainability and innovation to address these challenges? At the start of this goal I found it very hard to understand a few of the words like induced and intentional but after we as a hub talked about the goal it had made a lot more sense. We have been looking at this since last week and It will go to the end of the term.

What we firstly did was that we had to fill out a padlet which we had to think about what do we already know about foodwebs I thought it was a web that talks about food and also has food on it. I then learnt that a food web it sea animals that are split into different categories which are either decomposer, Producer and consumer the differences between these are a decomposer are animals that break down then a producer are animals that produce there foods and lastly a consumer is something that eats other animals.

We then filled out a chart which had different sea animals and you had to decide what area it sits in which would either be those options I did this with Sovarne, Bronte and Lauren. Then we did this yesterday and we had to fill out a tropic pyramid that is a graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem we had to fill it out and it had different images that you would have to copy and put it onto the next slide.

Here are both of my tasks down below. What do you know about tropic pyramid?

Kia Ora and welcome to my math blog for this week. Today in week 4 term 1 we have been looking at fractions .The goals that we were looking at are combine and recombine different units of fractions to make one whole, Identify and make equivalent fractions, Recognise and use improper fractions to represent more than one whole, Record fractions on a number-line / Find and associate fractions with a unique point on a number line.

Recognise there are an infinite number of fractions between any two whole numbers or any two fractions on a number line, Divide a whole number into equal parts/into fractions, Compare and order fractions, Change fractions to equivalent fractions, Solve problems involving adding or subtracting fractions, Multiply a mixed number by a whole number, Multiply a fraction by a whole number / multiply a fraction by a fraction and lastly Divide a mixed number by a fraction / divide a fraction by a fraction.

In one of our workshops that we had on Monday it was talking about multiplying fractions, the fractions question we were looking at was 3/4 x 1/2 I worked with Sanne and for the very start of something new I struggled at it until our math teacher showed us how to make the fraction questions easier to multiply. So what the teacher firstly did was she drawed out a square to look like a chocolate bar and split it into a half downwards and then the next thing she did was split it into quarters side ways.

The reason why she split it both ways because other fraction that you have you have to make sure there include in the chocolate bar so if we look at the 1/2 you would have to make sure you have that included either way you could choose sideways or downwards and because you had added in the 1/2 you need to make sure you include the 3/4 as well. There is a little cheat code that can help you a lot if you are struggling quite bad at multiplying fractions, what you would do with the fractions in multiply the numerators and denominators separately by 1×3 = 4 as these are the numerators and now you would multiply the denominators 2×4 = 8 and this can work for any fractions.

After this session in our next independent time my teacher got me to make a poster about how you can multiply fractions for beginners here it is down below with a link included if you want to open it up. Is there anything I could work on and does this make sense?

 

Kia Ora and welcome to my math blog for this week. Today in week 3 term 1 we have been looking at fractions .The goal for today was to “Identify and make equivalent fractions and Compare and order fractions”.

The questions that we were looking at were based on chocolate bars, we had options between doing mild medium and spicy which means mild being the least hard medium being a little bit of a challenge and spicy being the hardest I choose to do medium which the questions were asking us to find the common denominator for each of the fractions. The fraction for the questions were 4/5, 2/6 , 7/10 ,2/3 and lastly 3/4. As one of our teachers is doing something with people she told us to get into a group of 3 to answer the fractions by making them common denominator which I choose to do this with Zoe.

What we had to do was to make a video by either using google drawing or slides and me and Zoe choose to do a Google drawing with all the information to finding common denominators for each of the fractions which we choose to use screen cast for the recording. Here is our video down below.

What have you learnt from this?