In Te Ngahere we have been doing something called E.P, this stands for Education Perfect. On Education Perfect we have been learning how to speak Maori. We had to make a DLO and screencastify ourselves saying the Maori words, we were learning to say the alphabet, greetings and place names in Maori. This site has really helped me pronounce the Maori words correct and properly.
You should use Education Perfect to help you with lots of stuff.
In Te Ngahere we have been doing a thing in our class called smart surfing. Smart surfing is a thing about how you type your searches into Google. It really helps because it will give you a more accurate information than typing in the whole question, for example “what is the world's largest spider” you have to pick the key words like world, largest and spider then you just need to type in your keywords and then you have a more accurate information. It really does help and you can know things better. I wanted to type in a question like what are long tailed bats threats so all I typed in was long tailed bat threats and it came up with a much better answer. I learnt lots of different stuff by doing smart surfing and it made me more successful.
Now try this out yourself.
In Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. We had to do 10 questions and we could pick any strategy to solve this problem. There was addition and subtraction problems what I learnt was that it is really hard to solve subtraction problems by using place value partitioning . I solved all the problems using algorithm and it was really cool. Then when we had finished we got a partner and we had to mark each others work. I really enjoyed doing this because it was helping we relearn what I already knew. It is the best strategy to use for me because it is the easiest one I know. In this I also learnt how to use different strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.
Yesterday in our class we went to a place called Greens in Paihia. We went to Greens because it was someone's birthday and his name is Shivam. His parents owned the restaurant called Greens and they offered us to go there for lunch. After we sat down about 3 minutes later we got cans of Coke and Sprite. Then soon we got trays of butter chicken, rice and naan bread. I was very excited. I took my first bite of the food and it was FABULOUS I started stuffing my face and the naan bread was also as good as the butter chicken. I then took a sip of my drink I was full after an amazing dish. But then it just kept getting better, Shivams parents then came out with a big trolley filled with easter eggs. After that we gave Shivam a birthday card and we started singing happy birthday. Then after eating we said thank you by singing some waiata for his parents and then we left.
Have you ever been to Greens before?
In Te Ngahere we have been doing a thing in our class called taskmaster. The activity we did contained a runner and we also had a drawer. The runner had to tell the drawer what to draw and the runner had to makes sure that the drawer was doing it right. The challenging part for the drawer was that they could not see the picture so we had to go outside and see the picture ourselves. We did this activity twice. The first time I was in a group of 2 as the runner. The second time I was in a group of 3 as the runner again. The first time was hard because it was just so hard to tell them what to draw and where to draw it. I was getting very frustrated because they were drawing it wrong. The hardest thing was that we couldn’t touch the paper and we had to do the drawings in specific colours. The round was over and we had only drawn 6 things out of 12 so we still had 6 to go. The second round I was in a different group of 3 so only one of us could run at a time. We had the same picture as last time and we had to do it again. The second time was a bit better than the last time. We got 10 out of 12 and we just had 2 more to go. Then after the second round we compared both the pictures to the teachers. The were a lot different.
In Te Ngahere we have been learning about measurement. We had a sheet of paper and we had to measure the objects on the paper. We were also in groups of three so we had to work together as a team.
I learnt that 30cm is equivalent to 300mm and that 1m is 1000mm.
What I found hard was measuring in the right place like and using the tape measure.
Have you measured with a tape measure before?
Here is my DLO
