This week is Tokelau Language Week! We got into partners and we were also challenged to try finding 10 interesting facts about Tokelau by using our smart researches. 2 interesting facts about Tokelau that me and my partner found is ‘Tokelau is known as being the wealthiest of the Polynesian countries‘ and ‘In Tokelau, it has about 2536 people in the village.‘
I found this activity fun because I enjoyed researching facts about Tokelau.
We were requested a task to complete, which is to create a DLO about why Sleep is important. We were also given questions to answer by doing smart researches, reading articles and watching the videos. Some of the questions we answered were ‘Why is sleep important/healthy?‘ ‘Do we all have chances to have a healthy sleep?‘ ‘What are the effects of oversleeping?‘ ‘What are the effects of having too much sleep?‘.
I found this activity helpful because I was learning why is sleep important/healthy and also practicing my smart searching skills to answer the questions.
For Tech, we learnt what complementary and analogous colours were, we also learnt how to use watercolor. Complementary colours are two certain colours that lie directly across from each other on the colour wheel, they are opposite hues, containing one warm colour and one cool colour. For example, Red and Green, Orange and Blue, Purple and Yellow. Analogous colours are a group of colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel, it could be two, three or more colours that are next to each other. To practice our complementary and analogous colours, we were given a drawing of a flower and a fish. We used to watercolour to paint it.
I found this activity enjoyable because I really enjoyed learning about the Colour Theory.
LI: To explore the structures and features of a persuasive speech.
We had to write a persuasive speech about a certain topic. A persuasive speech is a type of speech where the goal is to convince the audiences to accept the speaker’s point of view. The topic I wanted to write/talk about was the “Importance of Cultural Art” or “Why art is important to every culture?“. After writing our speeches, we got into groups and began reading our speeches to each other, whoever has the highest votes were the students that were going to read in front of the class. (I was one of the finalists!)
This activity was helpful because it builds more powerful words into my vocabulary.
To celebrate 30 years of Duffy Books in Home programme, we were given a library Duffy box to design to stock our Duffy books. We started by searching up zentangle or cultural patterns for inspirations to draw on our boxes. For my box, I decided to draw some traditional Tongan patterns on my box. I had to sketch out my pattern on it first therefore I could erase out the mistakes I did, after that I used black vivid to draw over the sketch.
I found this activity enjoyable because I really enjoyed using my creativity and my artistic skills.
Alan Duff is known as the founder of Duffy Books in Homes and was developed to help childrens who has no books at home at schools throughout New Zealand. In 1992, Alan Duff visited a school in Hastings where he found out that majority of the children at school at the time, came from bookless homes. Without any books of their own, these children didn’t have a lot of interest. Alan wanted to do something about this. He knew it was important for all kids to have the opportunity to love books. Since then more than 14 million looks have been given to kids like us who knows reading is a big part of our learning. As we know reading helps with lots of stuff, for example, expanding your vocabulary, gain knowledge, even increases your imagination and creativity, and a lot more!
To celebrate Duffy’s birthday, the whole Panmure Bridge School designed their own duffy boxes and made a party hats. The painting crew known as, Keira, Siniva, Dalilah, Armani and Bethany, created and painted a human sized Duffy. Some students were helping to decorate the hall, and it looked outstanding! We also had guests visiting our school and talking about their journey of reading and informing why reading was important. At the end of assembly, we sang happy birthday to Duffy, they cutted the cake and lots of confetti had exploded out!
This celebration was enjoyable because I really enjoyed using my creativity and my artistic skills to design my Duffy box, party hat, including the human sized Duffy.
LI: to calculate the product of whole numbers using algorithms.
LI: carry numbers to the next column if needed.
As we already know, Algorithms are a really easy and helpful method used in Maths to add, subtract, multiply and divide when you’re solving big numbers. It’s really important to align them in their place values, this means that each digit could be positioned correctly making it easier for you to solve maths problems. Always remember to start with the smallest units first, this helps you make sure your answer is correct.
Here’s an example of how I use Multiplication Algorithm:Our equation is, we start by multiplying the with the digit. We have ‘7 x 5’ which equals ‘35’. Carry the ‘3’ to the next column. Next, we have ‘4 x 5’ equals ‘20’ then add the ‘3’ (the number we just carried) which is ‘23’. You carry the ‘2’ to the next column. ‘5 x 2’ is 10, plus 2 equals ‘12’. Now move onto the tens digit, also make a new row and just repeat the same process. Remember to add a zero as the placeholder (If there was a hundreds digit then you add two placeholders and go on when there’s more digits). After you got your answer, you add the two rows all together with the result of ‘8645’.
I found this activity helpful because this is an easier way for me to solve multiplication problems.
LI: write a vertical algorithm.
LI: to calculate the sum of the whole numbers using algorithm.
LI: carry numbers to the next column if needed.
As we already know, Algorithms are a really easy and helpful method used in Maths to add, subtract, multiply and divide when your solving big numbers. It’s really important to align them in their place values, this means that each digit could be positioned correctly making it easier for you to solve maths problems. Always remember to start with the smallest units first, this helps you make sure your answer is correct.
Addition Algorithm is one of the easiest ways to solve problems. Here’s an example on how I use Addition Algorithm: Our equation is ‘67 + 54’. To solve this addition problem, we start by adding in the ones column. We have ‘7 + 4’ which equals ‘11’. We take the ‘1’ from the ‘11’ and carry it over to the next column. Next, we move onto the tens column. We have ‘1’ (the number we carried over) plus ‘6 + 5’, add these together, we have 1 + 6 + 5 which equals 12. Now you have your answer, 121!
I found this activity helpful because algorithms are a really helpful method to use in maths.
LI: To make connections (self, text, world)
LI: To identify the main ideas – negotiation game
LI: To make inferences about the events in the text using the clues provided by the author.
LI: To practise skimming and scanning by looking for key words in the text when answering questions
In this text, it was about how there was a women named Rosie Ruiz who faked her victory on the Boston Marathon. We worked collaborately as a group and answered the questions by using the evidence in the text. We also learnt that working individually could be a struggle because you have no one around you to help you.
Something I found interesting about this text is that Rosie Ruiz intended to jump into the middle of the pack of runners, she seems to realized that she has miscalculated because she was one mile away from the other competitors.
I found this activity quite interesting and helpful because this could help me improve my inferring skills and my reading strategies.
LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games
LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor
Our challenge was to work in our groups to carry out a mini collaborative inquiry into the ancient olympic games. We used our smart searching skills to help us answer the questions. Our group worked really well, we collaborated as a team, we communicated so we could exchanging each other helpful ideas and advices, including everyone so that no one felt excluded, we ensured that each member had a specific task to complete so there was no passengers. Something I found interesting was that unfortunetaly, we already know that women’s were not allowed to participate in the Ancient Greek Olympics, as I continue to learn more about this, I found out that they also had a women only competition called the Heraean Games!
I found this activity interesting because I learnt the history about the Ancient Greek Olympics.