Thinking Challenge

This week for Maths we have been doing a Thinking Challenge. I worked with my Maths Group “Hexagons' ' or Ong, Karlos, Matthew and Azatulah. We were given a thinking challenge math equation to solve, we would do it separately but, we would share our strategy with each other then choose one way of solving the equation. The way we chose to solve the equation was place value.

Kiwi Can Reflection

This week for Kiwi Can we have been talking about Positive communication. We started off with the energiser, it was called "Up and Down" How to play: There are 2 teams, there will be cones that are up and down, one team will have to flip the cone up and the other team flips it down. The winning team would have the most cones up or down. Next we had the talk about Positive Communication, We talked about what it does to someone. Last we did the activity, the activity was called Street Fighter. How to play: 2 groups stand in a line, then the people in the front of the line stand up while the rest of the group sits down until its their turn. There were commands like
1 - One hit with hand
2 - 1 hit with each hand
3 - kick
4- spin
5 - push air with hands.
The winner would be the last person standing, for our class Haylee won, so she gave us a point, our group won.

Tech @ Tamaki College

This week for tech we have been doing some edits on the workbook. Mr. Grundy has told us about small parts in the silhouettes, he has told us that it would break off when its in the metal process. He has also helped us change the silhouettes to make the shape better. I am close to finishing my photos, I have decided to do my mum as my creation for pewter casting because she's special to me. I enjoyed tech this week and I hope to get onto the drawing.

Kupe x Captain Cook Venn Diagram

For this reading task I worked with my reading group (Kiwi Group) to create a venn diagram. This venn diagram was created to compare the navigators Kupe and Captain Cook. To fill in the venn diagram we watched 4 videos based on each navigator and used the information to fill in the spaces.

Tech Reflection

This week for Tech we have been doing pewter casting with Mr. Grundy. Today we looked at continuing with our Workbook that we started last week. I have changed some of my silhouettes as Mr. Grundy made it clear that small parts can break off easily because of how soft the metal would be and because the size of it.  I enjoyed tech thi week and I hope next week we will get onto the creation.

Summer Learning Journey Assembly

Today we had our first Assembly of the year, it was also the Summer Learning journey assembly. This is where people from the Summer Learning journey came to award the people that participated in the Summer holidays. The first place winner would get a Nintendo Switch. The people that placed were Alex, Victoria and Sakina. I came 4th and got a ball as my prize, I honestly pictured something else but I was happy with what I got, other than that I really enjoyed doing all the activities and the comments over the holiday.