Rhyming Poems

WALT: Rhyming Poetry

This week we've been doing Rhyming poems. we were give in the task to make up poems about what we do in our Senior Block,We learnt that all poems don't need to rhyme as long as they have rhythm.

Muddy Fields Poetry

MUDDY FIELDS

Playing in the morning

As it feels a little boring

Running around the field

Muddy places all around

With my foot stuck in the ground

Having pins and needles

I see a black poodle

Get a bowl

I want some noodles.

Dancing with the Stars

WALT: connecting - I make sense of new information before , during and after reading by connecting it to myself , texts I know and my world

This week we've been on the roll to learn about "Dancing with the Stars" our task was to create a poster that will help others with what ever their going through, weather its good or bad. and this is what I came up with for people to Conquer their goals and to never give up.

Not Nice Stories - Podcast

For the past few weeks, we have been learning how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book is about. We then had to pick partners to work with, so that they could interview us. Lately My partner samoa has been reading about a book called, Not Nice Stories by John Parker. This book talks about a boy who is smart, he wants to get smarter, so he decides to eat sheep brains. Overall I found this book really interesting to read, and we suggest that you read it for yourself.

This is my first time making a podcast. It was a really good experience to understand, more about what this book is talking about. we really hope you try this out, because it was really fun to read about this book.

Rugby for Rosie - Podcast

For the past few weeks me and my buddy having been working on how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book was about. We then had to pick a partner to work with, so they could interview us for this podcast. I've been reading about a book called "Rugby for Rosie" , this book was written by a New Zealand author named Frances Adlam and illustrated by jenny cooper. This book was about a girl named rosie that wanted to play rugby for school but the only available team was the boys team , and in order for her to qualify she needed to bring along three other girls. But none of the other girls wanted to play, then the coach said she could trial an during the trial she scored a lot more try's then the boys did.  Then after all of this she was happy to say to everyone that she made the team

Laziness

Another day in the life of laziness, I myself had to wake up early in the morning to get ready for school.

As you can see on the top of this paragraph is photos of the morning sunrise and tired animals, and
they pretty much shows was I looked like when I woke up this morning. The first photo is revealing you
how comfy I was lying down nice and warm in bed, the second photo shows the sun rising behind the
big old trees. The third photo manifests how hard it was for me to open my eyes and how lazy I was to
get up, and lastly the last photo presents me getting up out of my warm comfy bed to get ready for
school.

M.M.M - Mean, Median, Mode

Statistics                                                   name: Myztique and Anna

WALT- Identify the mean, median and mode within a collection of data

Activity One

Answer the questions in a different colour

The definition of the mean in a statistical investigation is commonly referred to as the average.
It is the total of all the data divided by the amount of data shown.

For example: if we have this range of data 3,5,7,1,2,3,6,8

3+5+7+1+2+3+6+5  = 32  = 4

             8         8

1. Find the mean in this set of numbers

3+7+8 +4+2+6+5+4+3+9 = 51 ➗ 10 = 5 r 1

                                               

           Find the mean in the set of numbers

4+12+5+6+11+9+5 = 52  ➗ 7 =  7 r 3

2. Find the mean in this tally chart

Pets owned by students	Number of students
Dogs	IIIII IIIII
Cats	IIIII IIIII II
Fish	IIII
Rabbits	II

  10 + 12 + 4 + 2 = 28 ➗ 4 =  7

3. Find the mean in this set of numbers

24+12+16+18 = 70 ➗ 4 = 17 r 2

4. Find the mean in this set of numbers

5+9+12+4+10+7= 47 ➗ 6 = 7 r 5

5. CHALLENGE QUESTION: Find the mean within this data, use the frequency table to help you

1+5+5+2+1+2+5+5+5+5+1+2+1+5+5 = 50 ➗ 15 = 3 r 5

Score	Frequency
1	4
2	3
5	8
Total	15

Activity Two

Answer the questions in a different colour

The definition of the median is the middle number within a set of numbers that have been put in order
from size (biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest)

For example: 2,6,4,1,9 = 1,2,4,6,9 and the middle number is 4.

BUT say if there is more than one middle number…
the median is found by taking the number midway between the middle pair of numbers:

3,6,1,4,9,2 = 1,2,3,4,6,9 → 3 + 4 = 3.5

                                             2

Find the median in these sets of numbers

1. 10,14,17,12,19,11,16

10,11,12,14,16,17,19 - the middle number is 14

2. 34,42,37,31,40  

31, 34,37,40,42 - the middle number is 37

3. 101, 167,138,124,198,149

101, 124, 138,149, 167, 198 - the middle number is 143.5

4. 54, 58,52,57,53,60

53,53,54,57,58,60 - the middle number is 55.5

5. 1001, 1094, 1023, 1065, 1038, 1027, 1042

1001, 1023, 1027, 1038, 1042, 1065, 1094 - the middle number is 1038

6. Find the median within this tally chart

Pets owned by students	Number of students
Dogs	IIIII IIIII
Cats	IIIII II
Fish	IIII
Rabbits	IIIII III
Hamsters	II

2 ,4, 7, 8 , 10 = 7

Activity Three

The mode is the most frequent number in a set of data. The number that occurs most often.

For example: In a set of numbers 3, 7, 8, 4, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9 there is two modes, 3 and 4 because they appear twice in the data set.

Note- There can either be 0, 1 or 2 modes. If there are 3 or more numbers occur the same
number of times, there is no mode.

Find the mode in these sets of numbers

1. 2, 1, 5, 3, 7, 8, 5, 3 ,9 = 3 and 5
2. 1, 5, 3, 2, 9 ,4, 1, 6, 8, 0 = 1
3. 23, 45, 78, 12, 45, 67, 32, 46, 93, 12 = 12 and 45
4. 101, 121, 123, 145, 167, 121, 139, 145, 176 = 121 and 145
5. 394, 273, 219, 294, 183, 291, 273, 288, 271 = 273

Ned's Adventure !

This morning we had special visitors that came to our school to talk to the whole school about something
special. Can you guess who it is ? if you guessed Ned your right, Ned also came with a friend named
Cosmo. They’ve only been in Aotearoa once and only for a week. They are here to talk about how there
adventure went/was in the country Kenya based in Africa.

They’re first topic they talked about was about our superhero powers, and that power was our smile.
when you smile it brings the whole world together, He had multiple reasons why and how our smile can
change the world. One of his quotes that stood out to me was “smiles can break down walls”.
The reason to it is that if you smile it can bring people a happier life.

Then he talked about the matters of people, and how you care for one another. Caring for other people

can change lives, though you may not know them you still care it helps bring love and happiness into our
world and community. The five things he listed that were apart of this topic were , Each person matters a
lot, Caring is cool, different can be good, I can make friends everywhere and Include others.

In every country we all know there are different languages that are said. And in Kenya they have a way of
speaking their own language where us New Zealanders just speak English which most of us understand
,we do also speak other languages but English is what we prefer most, In New Zealand .Whatever culture
you are or whatever language you speak at home, feel free to express it around the world, It’s a way
that people can also communicate to you, and to try new languages.  I like to learn new
things, and I wouldn’t be more happier if I could learn a new language from a country
I’ve never really heard of.

He then talked about the education, and compares the times we wake up and the times the Kenya kids
wake up.  Here in Aotearoa the times our kids wake up is at 7:00 am and over in Kenya the kids over
there wake up at 5:00 am every single day for school. My questions towards that is, is it because they
have to walk a far distance? Or because they start very early?. I only live a few blocks down from school
and I always have to wake up at 6:00 every morning to get ready.

These messages can help everyone. It was good to know the difference between the students here in

Aotearoa and the students in Kenya. It was also good to know the five importance of how to be kind to
other people. and they were, difference can be good, caring is cool, I can make friends anywhere, each
person matters a lot and include others. My favourite one out of all of the five is, Difference can be good,
The reason why is because being different is a good way to learn different things, like for e.g if your
Islander and you wanna learn how to speak another language like what Kenya speak, you can always
give it a go. No matter how much you fail you still get up and try your best until you get it.

Multiplying whole numbers by decimals

This week we've been learning how to multiply  decimals. One thing I have learnt from this presentation is that I find it way easier to multiply decimals now and that this activity has helped me increase my knowledge of decimals.

STRIKE!!

More time to teach:

Enough is enough! We need more time with our teachers, without students distracting and
interrupting us. We need more teachers at several schools, because one teacher cannot
handle thirty other kids alone.  Us students cannot learn with other kids disrupted, our time
with our teacher trying to teach us. My teacher Mrs Tele’a, can never teach us without having
to stop and talk to the kids that have been sent to her.  For either not listening or being disrespectful.
Rather than writing reports about each student she sees on the mat, she should be able to focus
more on learning with us.

Resourcing additional needs:

Different teachers in Aotearoa have the same issues of providing there kids with the learning
they need. My opinion to this topic, is that we should have more teachers to help our students
that are in need, Need extra help to catch up with the rest of the class. So that way students in need
don’t find it difficult to learn.

Better pay:

From my point of view I think that the teachers that have been working as a teacher over more
than ten years, should get better payment than the teachers that have arrived recently. Why?
that's because its not fair to the people that have been doing this job for so long, it’s not fair
that just the recent arrives get paid a bit more than the hard long working teachers have. Aotearoa
schools are probably one of the most schools that don’t have enough teachers to help.

Conclusion:

I agree to say that all teachers need at least two teachers in each class, and get paid twice as much as they usually get. I feel like these days teachers aren’t getting paid enough for what they
are doing for us.

Intro: statistics

For this weeks activity we got introduced to statistics but a few of us already knew what statistics was all about. I was working with a buddy who is Anna and we figured out a lot of complicated equations of different kinds of graphs. 

Fun Holiday

Have you been doing the same thing over and over again in the holidays, and getting sick and tired of it ? well here are four ideas I have for you to make your holiday fun. I’m sure you are very tired of doing the same thing over and over again, and i’m sure that thing you do it ‘Nothing’. But if you wanna have some fun I suggest you keep reading and at least admire one of these idea i have for you and give it a go.

Idea 1: Making your chores fun and funner than they already are.

E.g Instead of you cleaning the dishes and cleaning the floors you should clean yourself and your siblings, and no I don’t mean go have a shower and actually clean yourself ,, I mean like go have a water fight and use the soap well your at it, and say to your parents “were done with our shower”. But make sure you also wet your parents so they can join in with the fun.

Now that we're done with the chores and there over with, here’s second idea: is to play fortnite everyday with your friends, but make sure you do in and outs so that the game is fair at the same times its being fun. Then on fortnite make sure you also do those ‘COOL’ as dance moves so you can join in with it.

Also you can play some physical games outside with your neighbours and play softball or something, and if you ever play softball to make it fun you should make the person that hits the ball slide to the bases like slip in slide, and have the bases as big floaties and put funky stuff in it for them to sit in. I promise you it will be ‘Very Fun’. but make sure you don’t make any mud piles or your gonna get a slap to your head.

Here’s my last and final idea. Whenever your parents are home and your alone your always hungry right ? if your one of those familiar people I suggest you make a lot of pancakes until your plate is full and heavy,Also put bananas and syrup all over you pancakes , trust me it will be delicious. But when you finish eating you got to make sure you do the dishes so you don’t get in trouble.

There we go, there are some good ideas to try in your next school holidays. Remember to get the important things done first - like your chores before entering the fun zone, you could cook a big breakfast in the morning so you could skip lunch to continue playing fortnite or any other activities ( before MUM & DAD come home). Use your time wisely to get a better chance at getting things done your way. Happy holiday !!