Our Incredible Te Reo Māori

This term in Te Ngahere we have been  learning how to read in Te Reo Māori. We are learning to use the correct pronunciation of Te Reo Māori by reading a  pukapuka (book) in Te Reo Māori called Ngā Mahi Pārekareka Kei Te Marae (Fun At The Marae ). After we learn how to read it by ourselves without any help we go and read it to the younger tamariki (children). We will also read the english version after the Te Reo Māori version.  We are doing this so we can learn more Te Reo Māori and learn how to speak Te Reo Māori. Do you know any Te Reo Māori words? Here is a LINK and photo of the title to the pukapuka (book).

Our Amazing Matariki Feathers

Last term on the last week of school we decorated Matariki feathers for Matariki. We had four choices and they were all different. When you were finished one you could do another one but I didn’t want to because I had already done the hardest one. We had to write our goals on the back and what we want to achieve.  It was really fun and it would be really fun to do again. I’m not a big fan of art but I still do it and this time I actually enjoyed it. We are making a korowai with the feathers because that’s what Te Ngahere has done for the past three years. What did you do to celebrate Matariki?

Our Amazing Matariki Week

This week at Paihia School it’s Matariki week. We usually spend this time together as a school but we’re just doing it in our own classes and doing different things. The Matariki activity we have already done is to answer some quiz questions. We had to answer them from the story. The next activity we are doing after this is to color in some feathers and we have to write our dreams and our goals for the future on the back. How do you celebrate Matariki?

Our Amazing Pou Pou Art

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing some art called pou pou art. The first thing we did was to do our draft copy. After we had finished the draft we had to copy it onto our good copy, we drew and drew. Then we went over with a black vivid and started to color the pattern and pou pou with pastels. We had to use complementary colors and warm and cold colors. After we did that we did the background with the complementary colors from the actual pou pou. Then we were done. Have you ever thought of drawing a pou pou?

Our Amazing Math Eyes With M&M’s

Last week our class used our math eyes with a picture of M&M’s. We had to look at the picture of M&M’s and use our math eyes and spot all of the things that we wouldn’t of noticed without our math eyes on. One of the things that my group and I spotted was that they were all different sizes and they didn’t all look the same. Another thing was that they were all different colors and even more as well.  Math eyes are when you see when you really want to know how many or what shape they really are and more. I think it was really fun and easy because I did it with friends that helped me. Have you used your math eyes before?

Incredible Percentages, Decimals & Fractions

This week my class has been learning how to convert fractions to percentages and decimals. We did two activities and we learnt how to do it really well. Another one of the challenges was to try to convert decimals to percentages and the other way around. We had to use hundreds and thousands as the base number. The example is ¾ and turn it into a percentage. The first step is to find ¼ of 100 we do that by going 4x_ = 100. I know 4 x 25 is 100 because half of 100 is 50, half of 50 is 25. Next you go 25x3=75  and that’s because we multiply the top number (numerator) by our first answer, so that means the percentage will be 75% and the decimal would be 0.75. I thought this type of fraction was a little bit hard and a little bit easy. I find  turning percentages into decimals the easy part but when you convert fractions to decimals or percentages it’s harder. Have you ever tried to convert fractions to decimals or percentages?

Our Amazing Trick Shot

This week we have been doing a ping pong trick shot. The success criteria for the trick shot is that you have to get in the cup, it must take three seconds, there has to be a piece of cardboard, it also has to have at least one bounce and it had  to be filmed to be checked. I did mine at home a bit early because I didn’t go to school the first day.I did it with my friend group when I got back to school because I had to help them. They did theirs really well and it was really fun to help them. I thought it was really creative and really cool. I used a cardboard box and I cut a hole in the middle of the box and it had to get in and before that it bounced and then landed. The things that worked was the hole in the box and I thought it  was a really good idea. The things that didn’t work was nothing because I think everything went well.

 Have you tried to do this trick shot before?