Visual Maths with Room 16

Kia ora, on the 1st of August,Room 15 and 16 did some visual graphs of anything we wanted. Me and my maths buddy Eadie did a graph on desserts. Yum! What would you do a graph about? Here is a picture of our graph.                                           

Maths Talk at Hoon Hay School

At our school we work with a maths mate and share our thinking with them. We ask questions about our maths and if we aren't sure of something, we explain how we do it. We know that 2 brains are often better than one and we enjoy working collaboratively. 

Today Abbey and I worked on solving this problem. We used a number line to solve this. " Kyla, Mya and Grace went to the movies. Their tickets cost $14.60 each. How much did their tickets cost altogether?"

How would you solve this?

Our trip to the Art gallery and the Museum

Kia ora, on the 13th of June we went to the Museum and the art gallery. At the art gallery we made a waka huia out of water colours and card. A waka huia is a special box that the chief would keep his huia feathers and the box would hang from the rafters. At the Museum we learnt all about solar energy. We made solar powered cars! Although they didn’t work because it was grey rainy day. I loved the museum and the art gallery, I really want to go again. Here are some photos, hope you enjoy them!   

We got to touch a Green stone!

Anthony was our tour guide, he was teaching us about solar energy!

Here I am, designing my waka huia.

This was our team car, Mr. Pushee!

Camp

Hi, recently I have been to Woodend Camp. I loved it! There were Zip-lines, Go-Karts and loads more. Here are some photos from my lovely time at Woodend Camp. Have you ever been to Woodend Camp? Hope you like the photos!

Here I am, with my activity group waiting for my turn on the Zip-line!

Here is the whole of Team Koru, about to leave!

Koru Art

Here is my koru art based on the work of Raewyn Harris, a New Zealand artist.

You can look at her work by clicking on this link. I like the all the korus I have used. 

What kind of art do you like? Feel free to leave a comment about what you think.

    

Poetry

In writing, I have used a poem by James K. Baxter as a starting point to write my own holiday poem. I hope you like it.

Mackenzie’s James K Baxter Inspired Poetry

My cousin’s backyard was usual enough;

It had orange Nerf guns, blue and orange bullets, trees swaying in the breeze, green prickly bushes, and even a frisky cat.

My cousins, brother and I did what kids do -
Dodging bullets, shooting my brother, hiding in the prickly bushes, finding bullets in the swaying trees, and adding more bullets to our stash at our secret base near the bushes

Doing nothing important.

Welcome to my 2018 blog

Welcome to my 2018 Blog.   This year I am in Te Kanawa's Marae - Room 15 and my teacher’s name is Mrs Peterson.  I am very excited to share my learning journey with you this year. I will be posting at least every fortnight so please check my blog regularly. Feel free to enter your email into the “Follow by Email” gadget on the right hand side and you will get an email every time there is a new post on my blog. Please feel free to leave a comment on my posts to help me with my learning. Thanks,  Mackenzie