Sharing my Learning of Place Value Decimals

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning place value decimals. We started by learning the place value columns for decimals (eg 10ths and 100ths) Next we had to write a success criteria that we had to follow to answer 6 questions. We were also learning to ask quality questions too. One of the questions we didn't use the most was how did you get this answer? Because usually people tell you how they got their answer and we had to ask relatable  questions like why did you say that? and where did you get that number from? We did this to make sure we understood about what we were learning. What I found hard was understanding what column numbers are on the left and on the other side of the decimals. What I found easy was understanding the columns for the whole number.

Is putting decimal numbers into columns hard for you?

 Yesterday the 4th of May the year sevens and eights went to Morewa, technology. We had to travel on bus from Paihia School to Morewa School. Once we got there we had to separate in year groups because the year sevens had to go to the cooking class with Whaea Dot and the years eights went to woodwork with Mr E.

Because I am a year seven I went to cooking class with Whaea Dot. We were making Pizza.

(How we made it) We first started by grabbing a big bowl so we can put 2 tsp of sugar and 2 tsp of yeast. Next we put half a cup of warm water into the bowl. Then we had to let it set in the warming draw for 10 to 15 minutes. While we were waiting we had to put ½  cup flour into a utility plate also a big table spoon of milk powder and  ¼  tsp of salt. Next  we finished by putting all the ingredients into the utility plate. We had to grab the bowl out of the warming draw and put  all of those ingredients from the utility plate into the bowl that had the yeast in it then we  mixed  them together. Then we  rolled it into a circle. Also we had to cut up all of our ingredients witch was onion, bacon, cheese, Tomato Paste, Garlic salt and Garlic Once we were finished cutting up all of our ingredients we had to put it onto the pizza and put it in the oven. We had to put it in the oven for 20 minutes till it is cooked. The thing that was hard for me is when I had to cut up the onions because it was making me cry. The thing I think I can get better at next time is learn how to use the oven properly. Once it was out of the oven Mahana and I decided to give eachother a piece and they were both delicious.

Friday, May 7, 2021

The Most Fabolous Direction Following.

 On the 3rd of may, Te Ngahere  got given a paper that had instructions on it. We had to see how well we follow directions and instructions. The main thing about this was so we can get better at reading our success criteria.

When i read the 23rd question I realized that i didn’t read all of the directions properly because the directions said “ only do directions one and two “. I didn’t read through the instructions because I started answering them straight away.

Reading the instructions carefully was difficult for me and answering the instructions was easy for me.

Have you ever had a test, and had to follow the instructions?

Magnificent Te Reo Evidencing.

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning to pronounce the alphabet, greetings and place names correctly in Maori. We went onto a site that was called Education Perfect. Once we went on the site I had to screencastify, myself saying the alphabet, greetings and place names in Maori. For each screencastify we did, we had to embed it on a google slide. I learnt how to pronounce the alphabet and greeting correctly in te reo Maori but what I think I can do better in the future is learn how to pronounce place names in te reo better.

Have you ever used the site Education Perfect? 

Most Excellent Smart Surfing

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Smart surfing.  We had got given

a slide that had questions on it. We had to take the keywords out of each of

our questions, So it comes up with more information.  like if we had typed

up on Google what do spiders eat,  it will come up with only a little bit of

information and that isn't relevant to your question. 

If we take the key words which will be spiders and eat. We can change eat

to diet and type up spiders diet. If you write up just the specific part it will come up

with way more information about what you typed up. Google is like spiders

the spiders look through all of google's index and finds the words you typed up.

What I found hard was when I first started trying to make the question more

specific. When I got the hang it it was easier for me to Find the key words i

in the questions.

Have you ever used keywords in something you have typed up on google?

Sharing My Knowledge of Coastal Seas

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Coastal Seas. We started off by

watching a full episode of Coastal Seas The video was about 49 minutes long.

While we were watching the video we had to write some facts down. 

After we wrote all our facts we had to make a DLO. Here are some facts

that I learnt:

Did you know that 90 percent of fish live in coastal waters?

Did you know that some sharks perore to go hunting  in the dark because

they see better at night?

Also did you know that White tip sharks can fit into

thin coral places to get the fishes that like to hide from them?

Did you know that Stingrays hide in the sea grass when

searching for their prey.

Have you ever watched Our Planet before?

 

Insanely Powerful Learning About Maths Stratigy

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Maths Strategies.

3 days ago we were finding the best strategy for us. I think

the best maths strategy for me is algorithm because it  is easy

to use with adding and subtraction. 

It also gives me the right answer. What was hard was using

algorithm with subtraction because it is hard when we have to

borrow numbers and add it back to the next number. What Ii

found easy was placing the numbers together.

Have you ever had to find the best strategy for you?