World War 1

for the last 2 weeks we have been learning about world war 1. We had a couple of minutes to come with some questions on what we wanted to know about world war 1. After writing our questions down we would create a DLO about what we learnt about our question

Armistice commemorations

 Today a representative from the New Zealand defence force and this was because we were celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the armistice agreement from World War 1. miss Kirkpatrick read to us the Flanders field poem and we also read oath and then we look at the flag because we were putting it down and the back up and that is for the soldier to tell them that there work has been done and that they  did a good job 

Armistice Day

this week we have been learning about world war 1 and armistice day. This DLO shows a collage of people who were involved in the war celebrating the end of the war, the war had ended on the 11th hour, on the 11th day and on the 11th month. It was very interesting learning about world war 1, I learned a lot during this activity and I hope to learn about this again.

formal and informal language

formal

I thought I’d write/ I am writing to complain about the state of the yard/condition of the playground. Over the last two weeks, I have noticed loads of rubbish/a great deal of litter.

informal

Dear James,
How are you?/I trust this letter finds you well. I’ve been dead busy/extremely busy since your last letter. We have to work really hard at school to get ready/in preparation for our PAT tests.

These examples show informal and formal language. For this activity we had read each text then we would change the colour of the answer that fits best each sentence of formal or informal. This activity teaches you how you use them and where you use them, so if you were to write an email to your boss or a colleague you would use formal language but if were to be your texting your friends you would normally use informal language.  

spaghetti bridges

This week for inquiry we have been learning about bridges. For this activity we were given a bag of spaghetti and rubber bands and we would use these items to build a bridge. The meaning for this activity is study how bridges work and what different jobs they have. Our bridge carried the most weight, It actually only carried 5 bricks but eventually we got to the bridge to hold all 8 bricks and we really surprised on how muck weight it carried, it was a lot fun doing this activity and hopefully we get do some like this again   

Duffy assembly

Today we had a really special Duffy assembly. We had Michel Mulipola come in and talk about how it is important to keep reading and what he does for a living. He talked about that how we wanted to be a illustrator. He makes comics for the WWE and he makes school journals, he also a professional wrestler know as liger and he also made story's based on samon heroes. He went to a video game competition in LA he made to the semi but he lost and came 12th, it was interesting when he was telling us about his job and who knew being illustrator could be really cool. 

Wheel Words

This week for our group has been doing wheel word. When we do this activity some one in our group will time ten minutes then and during time we have to find as many words as we can. I manged to find 20 out of 21 words, as you do this activity gets harder. It's a fun way of learning new words and meanings.

Exponents

For maths today we have been learning about exponents. When doing this strategy if you see for example 4 squared you multiple the exponent by how ever the exponent you multiple by that number. So 42  you multiple it by the exponent twice then you 4x4 then you just work the answer from there 4x4=16 

Reading

Today for reading we joined another group. For this activity we were learning about index and labelling, what we had to do was that we would have arrows that point to different parts of the book. We worked collaboratively with each other to work out were each arrow goes and you can learn a few things while doing this activity. 

Sensory verbs

We were given a sheet of missing colons then we would fill in the missing colons. After you have finished we would make a DLO illustrating one of the sensory verbs explaining why we placed our colons were they are. I placed my colon were it is because it shows the start of the list. 

WHEEL WORD

Today my reading has been doing wheel word. Every week we do this activity so we can keep getting better and increasing knowledge. Every time I do this activity I'm always learning new words and meanings and it's a fun way of learning. 

Rugby cluster

On Wednesday we rugby union from year 5 to 8. The year 7/8 rugby team first game was against pt England, it was a tough game but we lost 1-5. After we lost we were under defeated for the rest of the day, we beat Glen inns, barbing pt England, st pries and bailey road.

Sense verbs

Today for writing I have been learning about sensory verbs. We went on a website called English language centres. This website helps with your writing skill and how you play is the be a short sentence then there will be four answers then you would choose the answer that fits best and once you have finish then you check your answers and if some that are incorrect you can go back and do them again.

wheel word

Today for reading I have been doing wheel word. This website teaches you words and meanings and I have learned a lot of new words and meanings since I started this activity. wheel word can help you with your knowledge and it's a fun way of learning new words and meaning.

Division recap

This is the maths we did today

Analogue time

          Analogue time

Analogue time is a lot different to digital time. Analogue time is easy to learn but it does take time to understand how analogue time works but once you how it works it's only going to get easier.

It’s important that we learn analogue because sometimes at some other places they might only have analogue clocks. The differences between digital and analogue is that analogue time represents hands that go round the clock from hours 1-12 each hand does the same thing but a different way the short hand tells the hours, the long hand tells the minutes and the long red hand tells the seconds and some clocks are in Roman numerals.

We all know that analogue is not as good as digital because radio stations and broadcasting are changing from analogue to digital transmission so they can squeeze in more because digital can fit in more information per second than analogue. Most of the population has move on to digital because it is higher quality than analogue.  

Ready Theory stats

Theses stats show my progress that I have made during this year. read theory is website that teaches you to read a text and find the answer, this website helps with your reading skill and your knowledge. read theory can help with comprehensions and it increases your brain power and read theory is also a online website for all school grades

Wheel words

This week we have gone back to our original week because of maths week. So far to day my reading has been doing wheel word is a website that gives you a challenge to see how many words you can get. Our group would have ten minutes to get has many words has we, I learned a lot of new words during this activity and its fun of learning new words and meanings.

Scale drawings

Lat week it was maths week. For maths week we did scale drawings and what we would do is, we would find a image then we would print it, after we have printed it we would draw a grid around it. After we have finished our grid we would draw our image on to a 1:2 enlargement. It was a lot of fun doing this activity and the best part about this was drawing out the enlargement because it was challenging and the hardest part about was the Nike tick because of the curved part about it was hard to get right and I think i have improved from last year and maybe I might be able to next time during tech drawing.

Professor Stephen Hawking