Samoan White Sunday

As a part of my care award Ellenora and I  have presented a cultural presentation to the class. This presentation counts as a Confidence award. Our presentation was about Samoan White Sunday. White Sunday is important to us because we get to spend time with our  family, Relatives and the Samoan community. Our favourite part of White Sunday is the feast at the end of the day. 

Laika the Dog

Today for reading we created DLO's about Laika the dog. Laika was a dog that was sent to space to orbit the earth. We read the book called "The space race"  It had information about Sputnik 1, 2 and 3. In one part of the story it told me about Sputnik 2, and on sputnik 2 they carried along with them a dog called Laika. Laika was sent to space and given a carefully planned meal to send her to sleep. Some people say that she died soon after take off. 

On the DLO I included the timeline of the event that happens. I included a Glossary of some words, and a labelled diagram. Also included on the DLO was an explanation of Laika.

Tech @ Tamaki College

Today we got a new teacher named Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas helped a lot of us get our work close to complete. at tech we worked on adding our parts of our design on, For me, I am finishing off the insides of my Jeep. Once the insides of the Jeep is complete I can move onto the wheels. After the wheels I finish off by doing the little lights on the front of the Jeep and the back of the Jeep.

New Zealand Sign language week

Last week Friday we learnt about Sign language. We were taught by Fiona. Fiona is apart of a huge Ballet deaf community and helps children that are not confident about their hearing. She taught us how to sign a sentence in sign language. We learnt that its important to use your dominant hand when you do letter sign language and when your telling someone your feelings you use some expression to show your emotion. We also learnt about the hand positions, so that the person that we are signing to will be able to see what we are trying to sign. I had a great time learning about sign language because I can talk to people that are deaf, or practice signing with my friends. I found learning about sign language interesting because I got to learn about why sign language is important.

Kiwi Can

This terms in Kiwi Can our theme is Integrity, and our topic is honesty. Integrity means doing the right thing even when no one is looking. An example of integrity is like someone who owns up to a mistake that they made. The role play activity that we played was about Integrity & Honesty. Our role play was about someone who smashed a window, That person was to own up and show integrity and honesty.. Something interesting about Kiwi can this week was finding out about the meaning of Integrity.

This photo is of my group, This photo shows how someone showed integrity by owning up to a mistake that they had made. When they did something wrong they need to show that what they did was wrong, and that if they show honesty they would get in less trouble. 

Tech @ Tamaki College

Today we had our first session of Tech. For tech we have Mr Grundy again and are doing wood work again. We are working on our designs and Marking out our items. I am up to making the front of my Jeep. I have completed doing the sides of the Jeep. I need to mark out the front part of the car so that I can cut it and place it on the design. We also got to write out the process of our Designs. This was apart of our paper work. Next week I will be finishing off the paper work, the  paper work will be checked by Mr. Grundy and he will give us marks for what we wrote.

Problem Solving

This DLO shows how I used the strategy of  place value partitioning to solve addition questions. During our maths lesson we practised using this strategy  with number and word question. When I was answering the word questions I had to look for the maths so that I knew what numbers to work with. My screncastify shows the strategy I used. The more I used this strategy the easier it got.