Addle

Today for a Maths can do I have decided to play Addle.

I have played this game before. It is an addition game. To play this game you need to put the numbers where they need to go, the numbers need to add up to the answer of the equation. Once you have finished doing all of them you finish the game. If something is incorrect but you think it is right, the game will tell you how many lines you got wrong and which lines you got wrong. This game helps you learn how to find numbers that add up or make a different number. This game is fun and I enjoy playing it. If you want to learn doing this or practise doing it I recommend playing this game.

Play Addle! - Addle

Free Rice

Today I did a writing can do and I played free rice. I have played this game a lot of times before and basically, if you answer a question correctly you donate 10 grains of rice for those who need it so you can stop world hunger. Last time, I only decided to donate 150 grains of rice and I said I will donate more next time and so this time I donated 300 grains of rice. This game is so much fun and I really enjoy playing this game. If you want to donate to stop world hunger and still learn at the same time, I really do recommend you playing this game and try to donate over 100 grains of rice. If you would like to, comment below if you did play this and tell me how much grains of rice you donated.

Play Free Rice! - Free Rice

Blog Commenting

Today I commented on Sakina's blog. I commented on her Weather News. She did a fantastic job. Since I am in the same reading group as her, I also did this activity but I did national news. I also talked about weather but it had to be weather in New Zealand for me since it is national. I liked how she linked the site from where she got the information to which is the same site I got my information from as well and I also like. I also like the fun colours she used and the images she inserted in her DLO. I wanted to know is she has ever been to somewhere that has had a flood. 
Here you can find Sakina's blog post and my comment below -  Weather News

Decide My Flip Test

Hypothesis: We think the wheel decide isn't random.
Test: Comparing a random coin flip to the possibly random wheel decide.
	Coin Flip				Wheel Decide
	Heads	Tails			Heads	Tails
Running Total	1087	1073		Running Total	1078	1082
Total flips	C&W			Total spins	C&W
2160	98	102		2160	101	99
	J & A	J & A			J & A	J & A
	100	100			94	106
	A & J	A & J			A & J	A & J
	105	105			99	111
	V & S	V & S			V & S	V & S
	100	100			97	103
	N&F	N&F			N&F	N&F
	69	81			75	75
	M&J				M&J
	55	45			57	43
	C&P	C&P			C&P	C&P
	111	89	89		98	102
	T&G	T&G			T&G	T&G
	98	102			106	94
	M&M				M&M
	249	251			249	251
	M&F	M&F			M&F	M&F
	52	48	48		50	50
	V&K	V&K			V&K	V&K
	50	50			52	48

L.I: To create a test to find if something is either random or not.
This week for maths we had to create a test to see if "wheel decide" is actually random or not. Wheel decide is a site that lets you spin it and then it will land on one of the choices you have put. For this, we had to work in pairs so Sakina and I did this test together. In the class room we had plastic coins that were for maths so we used that as well for the test. How the test went is one person would flip the plastic coin 100 times and write how many times it landed on heads or tails on the google sheets whilst the other person spun the wheel decide 100 times and write down how many time it landed on a heads or tails on the google sheet. Then we had to switch so now the person who did the wheel decide, now had to do the coin flipping and the one who was doing the coin flipping is now doing the wheel decide. For the coin flip, we actually got 100 heads and 100 tails for each and for the wheel decide we got 97 heads and 103 tails. After everyone finished doing this, we added up all the data from everyone's tests on a google sheets. We put the results of our coin flips and wheel decide spins and put our and our partners initials above it so we knew whos results they were. After adding it up, the total flips and spins were 2160. All together there were, 1087 heads for the coin flips and 1073 tails for the coin flips. The numbers were pretty close. All together for wheel decide, 1087 heads and 1082 tails. The numbers for that were also close. The conclusion is that wheel decide is random.

Key Board Drills Level 1

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L.I: To learn touch typing.
Today for a writing Daily 6 I decided to do my Key Board Drills. Since I did them all, I wanted to restart and do level 1 again. This task is to get me typing faster and have the ability to copy words, letters and different punctuation faster and use the proper fingers when doing that. For this Daily 6 task I made a copy of a google doc on our LS1 Daily 6 level 1 writing site. It had letters, words and punctuation on the first colum then a blank colum below it so we could copy what the writing had and use the correct fingers. I still find it quite hard so I think I do need more practise.

Government Services

LI: To look at more than one information source when researching.

LI: To record facts in your own words.
This week for inquiry we got into new groups of 6 and pairs then decided which pair would be doing which topic. This time it was Government Services and the options were - Politicians, Councils, Mayors, Libraries, Ministry for Primary Industries and Welfare. My pair was Sakina and we chose to do Mayors and Libraries. We used the the same google slides as the other times we did this activity and we had to find a photo of our topic and attribute the image, find a site that has information about the subject we are doing and link it, find facts, ask questions, write about why and if the teacher fact is true and false, write how do they help our community, and why you would contact those people.

Kiwi Sport

This week Thursday, we had kiwi sport with coach Kevin in the hall. We learnt more about badminton, did some tricks/skills and played some rallys and games. First we played octopus. The starting taggers were Matthew and Raera. If you were tagged by one of them, then you had to stay there and try to tag someone if they pass by you, but you couldn't move. The last two people that hadn't got out were then the new taggers. We played a few rounds of octopus then moved on to the next thing. For this next thing we learnt a new skill. It was the forehand lift. To do the forehand lift you need to hold your racket in forehand grip because it is in the name. You had have your racket foot in front and your shuttle foot behind. You also need to extend your hand out then hit the shuttle when it is thrown to you. We had to practise doing this in pairs so we got into pairs and got rackets for the both of us and one shuttle to share. Each person had to do it 5 times before swapping so the other person could try it. Then we played rallys using the badminton net and this time was only a 1 on 1 so only one person would play and another person on the other side. We got into groups of 8 and went to one of the three courts. We practised doing a forehand serve and sometimes, a forehand lift. If one person got out, the next person would come. After this we sat back down on the hall floor and recapped on what we did before going back to class.