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?