Incredible Maths

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning a new way to help us with our maths. We got into groups of four and we were given sixteen cards and we had to share out the cards evenly amongst ourselves. Before we got into groups we had to follow these rules. No talking, no hand signals and no taking anyone else’s cards. On the cards that we had were numbers, dots, tiles, words and shapes. What we were learning was to put them in to groups. For an example if you have a triangle, a piece of paper with three dots, the number three and a piece of paper with three tiles shaded in you will have a match and you are done. I really enjoyed doing this maths because it is a lot of fun but the thing I didn’t enjoy was that it was really hard because we couldn’t talk to each other or communicate. Have you learnt any new maths this term?

Mind blowing facts about swim safety

Yesterday we were very lucky to have Tracey from Swim Safe come and talk to us. She said that when you are on a boat you always put your safety first, check the weather, tell people where you are going and when you will be back, wear a life jacket and remember to put flares on the boat. Also when you are going for a swim you never swim alone and bring a adult that will watch you. Then she also taught us the key things about safety on how to use flares in an emergency situation, for example the parachute flare shoots up into the air and opens up into a parachute and then when it comes down it goes really slow and stays up in the air longer than a gun flare. I really enjoyed Swim Safe and I hope we get to see her next year. Have you had Swim Safe yet?

Newspaper Challenge

Hello Bloggers, welcome back to my blog I hope you had a good holiday and I hope you like all of my new blog posts. In Te Ngahere we have done a STEAM Challenge and we had to make a tower. We used 2 pieces of newspaper and 30 cm of tape and we had to made the biggest tower we could with what we had. I learnt that if the bottom of the tower is not too big or not too small just bigger than the long bit that sticks (kind of like a pole) off the bottom then it should stand up nice and straight. I think what we could have done better was the bottom have our tower could of had one more leg to keep it standing up, I also think that we did really well on our top of the tower. We also added a little string of newspaper that sticks out and keeps the legs together so that our tower could stand up. I really enjoyed doing this and I hope we get to do this again. Have you ever done something like this before?

Kapa Haka

Today the kapa haka roopu went to the Kaikohe Culture festival. We went there to perform kapa haka and to represent our school. We learnt that we need to smile because it doesn't look very nice if you don’t smile, but also that you need to pukana to make it look effective. I really enjoyed today because we all had fun and tried our best, it was really cool but nerve breaking when we went on that stage. The thing I didn’t like was we could of done a bit better, but we tried our hardest. Today was a lot of fun performing and when we came off the stage we were shivering. My favourite group today was Mangamuka because they used there pukana and smiles at the right time, and they did really good actions like when it came to an action song they were not lazy with their elbows and they had them hight. We all learnt a lot and had a lot of fun and we all hope that we get to do it again. If you want to watch our video it is on our website.

Kapa Haka

This term we have been learning a new bracket for Kapa Haka. We have been practicing for the Kaikohe Cultural Festival, we’ve been practicing very hard every morning tea and lunchtime. We have learnt a new but old song called “Ka mate” which is also a Haka. When we do “Ko Matou” for our exit, the one thing I find difficult is when I have to get the timing right and spin around, then crouch down and then run into position to end our performance off. I really enjoy doing Kapa Haka because it's lots of fun, I get to hang out with my friends and learn new Waiata Haka and more. In Kapa Haka there is nothing that I don’t like. I can’t wait until we go to the Kaikohe Cultural Festival.

Cross Country

This week the kids that came first, second & third at cross country have been practising for the inter school cross country. I am very lucky because i'm one of those people, because I came second at our school cross country. My friend Angela came first and my other friend Katlin came third. We have been seeing how many laps we can do in 20 minutes. I could do only 5 laps and so could my friend Angela. We always have fun when we run and we always try do our best and beat each other and come up with new running competitions as we run. The bit I enjoy is having fun with my friend when I run and also getting faster and faster as I run.

maths

Maths: In maths I have been learning about doubling, halving & Multiplication problems, we had two numbers and we had to half the big number and the double the little number. (Example) if we had 5x14 we would have to half the number that chose is the best number to plus and half. I picked the 14 because I think it was the best number her is my example. Which is the 14 so I 7 then we plus the 5 witch is then 10 and then after that we times the 7 and the 10 together which is 70 so then we have our answer. We learnt that you really do need to learn your times tables because when it comes to something like this like this they really come in handy.