Category: Hanga | Create

Today we had an Olympic trampolinist called Maddie Davidson, she went to the Tokyo Olympics last year. She talked about her experience in competitions and the three values that NZ Olympians have, They were excellence, respect and friendship. She also talked about what the Olympic Village was like, she said that the beds were made of cardboard so that they were all recyclable. Here are some photos of what happened,

Today my literacy group had to write five sentences about water, they had to include a noun, an adjective and a verb. After that, we had to write a story out of one of them. Here are my sentences,

Rapids are very turbulent sections of rivers in which the water rushes forward very fast.

The lake was very shallow at its border.

The impressive dam diverts water away from the city.

A school of mighty fish swim around a huge boulder.

The icy waterway roars as it flows through the mountains.

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A school of mighty fish swim around a huge boulder. They must travel through every river, creek and ocean in search of the ultimate home. They already know exactly what their ideal habitat is, all that would live there are just more fish and LOTS of algae so that they are the apex predator and they would build their own city for them to live in. So far the school has traveled through two hundred and ninety three creeks, one hundred and twenty seven rivers and 2 oceans and they are still not any closer to finding their new home. One day while swimming they saw a huge river shark, it was much bigger than them so they swam as far down as they could to avoid the shark, but while they were at the bottom of the river they saw a small tunnel in the riverbed, an underground river. The fish swam into the tunnel and came out into a huge lake. It had no fish in it, just lots of coral and algae. This was their perfect habitat.

Today for maths we did work about credit. We worked in groups of three, four or five, I worked with Angus, Jed, Josaiah, Lachie. Here is a link to the work we did.

We had to answer questions about credit score and then share them in front of the class.

This year we have been doing a thing called mahi-ā-tahi. Mahi-ā-tahi has lots of different tasks that we can complete to get points, by the end of the week we need to have five points and if we do then we get a bit of free time.

While doing mahi-ā-tahi I have enjoyed doing puzzles such as Wordle, Flagle, Murdle and Globle, I have also enjoyed writing stories, the stories we have to write have to be at least 200 words and we can use writing prompts or think of our own story.

Something I would add is some tasks to do with coding like creating animations and games on Scratch.

Two weeks ago,we could write a 200+ word story but we had to use a writing prompt, there was a list of prompts that were pictures of things we could write about. I chose one with dinosaurs invading a car park, here is a link to it: Dr Evil-Genius’ Evil Ingenious Plan

Today we had to write something with certain punctuation, I had to use commas. Here is the writing I have made:

DMIC Math Problems

DMIC math problems are short math stories that you must work together in a group to complete. Everybody needs to focus, take turns with the pen and listen to the person with the pen. Once you and your group have completed the problem, you need to wait until all the other groups have finished and then you can share how you solved the problem.

This week for road safety we have been doing cycle safety. We have created an animation about riding defensively, you can watch it below: