Building Block - Maths Problem

As part of maths Ofa and I worked collaboratively to figure out an answer for our math problem the week. We created a DLO showing our working and the process we used to solve the problem. The problem for this week was called 'Building Blocks'. It was hard at the start because we had multiples of ways to solve the problem but we didn't know which one was right. So we decided to try out all the strategies and selected the right one. It is important to read the maths problem a lot of times to understand what the problem is talking about. 

Art - Tech

At Art Tech at Tamaki college we were learning about Personal Symbols. Today we started drawing on the paper our own personal symbols and the words to match our Personal Symbols. For my drawings I wrote the words tennis, Sky Tower, rock melon and Japanese flag. The drawings were quite hard because the paper was too small but I managed to finish the task for today. 

Chinese New Year

Since it almost the Chinese New Year, this week LS2 worked in pairs to write an explanation that tells people how Chinese New Year is celebrated, why people celebrate it, and the story behind the zodiac animals. This task was very different from my normal writing tasks. This is because I had to partner up with some from Mrs Anderson's writing group. I chose to go with Sanujan, since we work well together. This task was a bit hard because, I had to explain to Sanujan the definition of some advanced vocabulary, for example, 'auspicious'. It was fun sharing our ideas as we learnt new information together.

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What Is a Chinese New Year?

Did you know that the Chinese New Year is a very special festival or celebration for the people in the Chinese community. The Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and ends with the full moon 15 days later. The next Chinese New Year falls on Friday, February 16th 2018. During that time people lit up Lanterns. This happens at the end of the Chinese New Year on the 15th day at night. Most people decorate their houses using Red Couplets. Sometimes say Kung Hei Fat Choi to each other. The Kung Hei Fat Choi is the Chinese meaning of a Happy New Year. There are many things related to Chinese New Year and we’ll see as we go on.

During the Chinese New Year people decorate their houses using red couplets, and red represents good fortune and happiness. These red couplets contains black or golden letters on a long red paper. gold represents wealth and auspicious. Each red couplets have poetries on them, and there are two red couplets on each side of the door and one on top and two diamond shaped red couplets in the  middle of the door.

There is an animal for every single year. They have Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. This is the year of the Dog. In the race the dog placed 11th There are some variety of dogs. There is a Wood dog, a gold dog, a fire dog, water dog and an earth dog. The earth dogs are honest, brave, loyal and Smart.

Usually in Chinese New Year people eat noodles. The noodles represents live long, however it’s very unlucky if you cut it. Chinese people also eat shrimps, and rolled eggs. The shrimp represents happiness. Finally, the rolled eggs represents rich in money and gold. This is because the rolled egg is shaped as a block of gold.

As we all know that the Chinese New Year is a very special festival or celebration for the people in the Chinese community. The Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and ends with the full moon 15 days later. This happens at the end of the Chinese New Year on the 15th day at night. Most people decorate their houses using Red Couplets. Sometimes say Kung Hei Fat Choi to each other. The Kung Hei Fat Choi is the Chinese meaning of a Happy New Year. This year we it’s the year of the dog.  These are most of the things about the Chinese New Year.

Kiwi Sport Reflection

Yesterday for kiwi sport we were focusing about Softball. We learned how to throw and how to pass the ball and also I learned crocodile and butterfly shape to catch. The catching was sometimes easy but sometimes hard because the ball was big.

Reciprocal Reading

Today for reading our group did Reciprocal Reading and we focused on the book called Constructing Big Air. For the Reciprocal Reading everybody participated as the leader and asked the questions to other people. This photo shows what Reciprocal Reading looks like.

Maths Problem - Electives

As part of our math task we were solving out a math problem given by Miss Kirkpatrick. I was working collaboratively with Ofa and Fraidoon. For this problem we used our multiplication, division and subtraction skills and were lucky to get the right answers. At first we were struggling because we didn't understand it so we read it twice and wrote all the key points from the problem. After trying a few times we figured the answer out. Today I learnt how to use my times table facts to find a fraction of a set.

Art Tech

                        

Today is the first Tech at the Tamaki college. At the Tech I was in Art Tech. We write a Symbols. The teacher is called Mrs Telefoni she explain what we do this term and I manage to finish the one of the task.

Kiwi Can Reflection

Today is the first week for the Kiwi can session in this year. In kiwi can the main focus was Encouragement. The teacher was Miss Lily and Mr Matt. They teach us how to play 10 second tag. The 10 second tag was like net ball tag.

Writing Sentences

                         

For Writing we were learning about Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence and Complex Sentence. For this learning we used animals to explain three types of Sentences and also we use FANBOYS conjunction and AAAWWUBBIS.

2014 Auckland Marathon

This week for Maths we were focusing to the 2014 Auckland Marathon Problem. For this learning I worked with my friend Mataio to solve the problem. This DLO shows how much faster was the winner than average for 2014 Auckland Marathon Full and Half. 

Where is Pyeong Chang

I created this DLO that shows how far away PyeongChang is from Auckland. I now know PyeongChang is in South Korea. South Korea is a country near China, Japan, North Korea, Taiwan, Philippines and Thailand. One fact I found interesting is the New Years Day in South Korea in same with Chinese New Year (16th of February).

Today for reading we were focusing for a snow. For this learning first we read the book called Soft Snow Hard Snox then I write what I have done or see about snow.

Blog Post Analysis

This week we were focusing about how many blog post I published 2016 to 2018.  First I use google sheet to made a bar graph. First year (2016) I manage to complete all of the work and also 2017.

Can you guess what I had done this summer holiday.

Remembering our summer holiday

L.I. - Writing to recount

Writing using language features to engage readers

Complete these sentences about an event over the summer holiday. Don’t tell us what the event was just give us enough information that we can know for ourselves.

I heard the something coming close to me.

I heard the big wave crashing into each other.

I felt the hard wind dashing onto my hands.

I felt the sand stabbing my foot like a pin.

I saw the big object moving gradually on the sea.

I wondered what kinds of animals live1 in the sea

I wondered the what makes the sand stab my foot like a pin.

During at the summer holidays I went lots of places. Today for writing the task was called Remembering our summer holiday. For this learning we white about the one of my summer holiday.

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 - Day 2 - Activity 1

Wharepuni

This is my second Summer Learning Journey  Week 1 - Day 1 - Activity 2.  For this activity I had to find the similarities and differences of a Wharepuni and my house.


Similarities : The similarity between my Wharepuni and my house is the people can live inside safety.

Similarities : The second similarity is both have a windows and door.


Difference : The  difference of Wharepuni and my house is the shape.

Difference : The second difference of Wharepuni and my house is the size and hight.

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 - Day 1 - Activity 2

This is my second Summer Learning Journey  Week 1 - Day 1 - Activity 2. For this activity I write a letter to my friend telling about trip to Aotearoa and what I feel moving to new country with Waka. 

 "Hi Alex. trip to Aotearoa was Amazing because they are bright light of sun. On the Waka I was squash because every one was wearing a life jackets and some food are in. I am bit nerves because the water a splashing me and moving to hall new country. I hope I make it for enjoy in Aotearoa.