Maths Team Challenge

 
This week for Maths we created two DLOs showing how we solved two team challenges that involved adding decimals. Using the most effective strategy we found the answer. The most effective strategies were written algorithms and place value. In this session we were learning rounding and compensating. The two questions we tried to solve were:
5.75 + 2.0 = 7.75 x 12 = ?
218.99 + 109.85 = ?

LS2 Art Portraits Display

Today Haylee and I created a mural to welcome and introduce new visitors to our class, using a collection of student portraits. We collaborated on this display to come up with a good layout for the wall. After stapling on the portraits, we started to think about the type of title design that would best fit the wall. We went with a firework theme to accent the rest of the art. Haylee and I were really proud of the final product and so was Mrs. Anderson.

Longest Place Name in the world!

This week Mr. Johnston made a visit to our classroom to recap a little bit about explorers & adventures, and introduced us to the longest place name in the world (picture above). He informed us about why places have their names, for example it could be named after somebody important who then got something in return. After the recap Mr. Johnston surprised with a huge sign with the longest place name in the world written on it! He set us a challenge to try and memories the name and try pronouncing it. The name is a hill called "taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one".

Kiwi Can

This week at Kiwi Can we talked about what Leadership is and our personal Role models. Someone that I might look up to is Jacinda Ardern, because she has really good values as the prime minister and she has really built a successful life for herself. Our energizer was bop it, and it was really exciting to see who was going to win.

Charting Our Island | (Past & Present)

This week in Reading, we got into our reading groups to collaboratively complete the activities relating to Captain Cook and Kupe's’ voyage. For one of these tasks, we created a past and present DLO which explained the problems and differences between, the transportation from decades ago to now. We also did reciprocal reading and made a summary. Each person had a job to do, like Vocab Clarifyer, Questioners, Summarize, Predictor and the leader.

Maths Challenge Question

This week in Maths we made a collaborative DLO with some questions that were based on the Auckland Marathon statistics. The information in these statistics described the number of Marathon Participants, an amount of objects, or when the event would be taking place. We tried exploring different strategies and using a variety of math language in our questions. Our group was able to come up with no less than 5 challenge questions.

Kupe & Captain James Cook (Venn Diagram)

LI: to compare the similarities and differences between Kupe and Captain James Cook
In Reading we made a Venn Diagram comparing Captain James Cook and Kupe. We made this Venn Diagram together in our own Reading Groups to show our understand of both explorers. They are two of the explorers who have founded New Zealand or Aotearoa. We were able to write three in each boxes for their differences and three similarities.