Maths

My maths buddy and I solved the following question:
2. 1/2 of a swimming lesson was spent on freestyle. If the lesson was 30 minutes long, how many minutes were spent on freestyle?
 we got the answer: 15
Here is a photo using equipment.

 mk

   

Writing sample

Lost in the story 📖

Once upon a time there was a posh little girl called Sophie. She had brown hair that
was alway tied up in a neat bun. To be honest she wasn’t like other posh kids. She
didn’t brag like most do or she didn’t ask for everything she wanted instead she
was opposite to both of those things.  Reading books was one of her favorite hobbies.
Her other hobby was storytelling she loved to tell stories to her pet puppy Katie and at
that moment that’s what she was doing before… “Sophie” call her Dad

“What?”Sophie cried.

“Can you do something for me” he call back.

“Yes. What do you need me to do” Sophie grumbled. She knew what her Dad was
going to say.

“Can you put all your books away please” he said

“ yes Dad” said as she and Katie  walked up the stairs to her bedroom. As she got
the door frame of her room she saw a  book that she had never seen before. It was
called lost into the story.

Sophie decided  that she was going to  put all of her books away as fast as she could
and then read lost into the story. So she put all of her books away as fast as she could
and grabbed the book lost into the story. She and Katie  jump on Sophie’s bed and
Sophie opened the book skipping the contents page (she didn’t really care about the
contents)but she should’ve  read the contents because there was a warning sign saying

.

As Sophie read aloud to Katie down stairs were her parents they were thinking of
sending her to a boarding school they wanted to send her to a boarding school because
she makes lots of mess around the house and her parents always clean it up. “ I love
her but she makes a mess and it’s annoying when we have to clean it up. ” said Mum.
“ I agree with you and I think we should send her to boarding school. Then she
wouldn’t make so much of a mess in the house” said Dad. Up stairs  Sophie had
stopped reading to Katie. She had hear her parents talking about her and sending
her to boarding school. Sophie started to get upset because of what she heard her
parents say. She loved her parents so much and she didn’t mean to make a mess she
just read a lot of books. Without realizing it she dropped all of her books on the
ground and then went to find another one somewhere in the house. She started reading
allowed to Katie to keep her mind of the subject. As she read she started to get a
tingling feeling , but she carried  on reading to Katie but all of a sudden she felt
like she was being dragged into the book Sophie yell as hard as she could and Katie
bark as hard as she could but their parents were outside reading.

12 minutes later.

“ where am I” Sophie asked. “ You are in F.T stands for fun time.” Said a voice.
Sophie looked up and saw 4 pairs of eyes looking at her.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.” Cried Sophie. Sophie sat up and saw that the
4 pairs of eyes were actually 4 girls. “Sorry that we frightened you.” Said a girl with
pale green skin and dark green hair she was wearing and pale blue dress and shoes .
“ My name is Marona” said Marona “ my name is Melinalyn” said Melinalyn.
Melinalyn had pale purple skin, dark purple hair and was wearing a pale pink dress
and shoes. “ Hi my name is Loraralla” said Loraralla.

Loraralla had pale blue skin with dark blue hair. She was wearing an  pale green dress
and shoes. “Hi i’m Dove” said Dove had peach skin , white hair and a white dress and
shoes. “ Sorry that I got so freaked out when you looked at me.”  Sophie said “It ‘s ok.”
said Loraralla. A day passed by in F.T ,Sophie was staying at Doves house for the
night. “Can I ask you a question Dove .” asked Sophie. “ Yer shore you can ask me
and the girls anything you want “ she said back. “I ‘d been thinking that since me
parents are going to send me to a boarding school and I don’t want to go maybe I
could say here.” said Sophie. Dove wasn’t surprised they and the three other  girls
had played together all day and had gotten to know each other more. “ To me I think
that is a great idea” said Dove. When Sophie had gone to bed Dove called her friends
and told them all about the chat they all agreed with it. The next day all four girls told
Sophie that she should stay and Sophie agreed to as well. Sophie love living in F.T and
with her friends in a house that they got with all Sophie money hat she still had in her
pockets. They all lived happily ever after.

(even Sophie’s parents). The End  

Water safety

On Wednesday  my group did the boat safety for swimming. here are the people in my group: Anya, Charlotte, Annebelle, Zoe G, Zoe H, Aria, Luke, Henry, Heath, Ethan, Kenny and Blake. Heath did a pencil jump into the water first and climbed up into the boat then Kenny then Blake then Henry then Charlotte then Anya then me then Ethan then Zoe G then Annebelle then Luke then Aria then Zoe H after we were all on we fell off backwards in to the water  then we went under the boat. After that we did a huddle. then it was finished. here are some photos of our swimming.

Swimming

On the 12.11.18 we started swimming at Pioneer pool. We all got split up into three groups. Group 1 : was called Blue group, Group 2 yellow group and Group 3 green group. I am in group three. Then we started backstroke, freestyle and breaststroke. On Thursday my group went in to the lane pool. The water was really cold when we hoped in. We started doing backstroke, freestyle and breaststroke again. This week we are only doing backstroke, freestyle nd breasstrtoke on Monday and Tuseday and then on the rest of the days we aren't alowed to bring our goggles. On Friday we are bringing our PJ's. Here are some photos of us swimming. After we swim we go to the play ground while we wait for Room 18 because we walk there and back with them.


                                                           

Interchange

Today we are making balloon powered cars. We all were in groups. The people in my group were Anya and Evie. To make the balloon powered car we needed to find some cool materials. We found a milk bottle and some cardboard. We thought about what we could do with them and then we decided that we could make a car out of it. We got some straws , cliko and skewers. Here are two pictures of us working.

                                                                                 

The Journey

Room 16 performed in Hoon Hay's production, The Journey. As a class we performed an item that reflected the Australian culture.
Here we are on our last night of performance! 


                                                            

Visual Maths

During week 2, Room 15 and 16 learnt about graphs. With our math mate, we created our own graph. Poppy , Zoe g , Peter and I created our graph about treats . 

We were able to look and compare our graph to our peers. It was interesting to do maths without using numbers - instead, it was all visual! 

Museum & Art Gallery trip

On the 13th June our class went to the museum & the art gallery! It was great fun. At the Museum we made cars out of little pieces. At the Art Gallery we made a waka huia. 

Maths Talk at Hoon Hay School

At our school we work with a maths mate and share our thinking with them. We ask questions about our maths and if we aren't sure of something, we explain how we do it. We know that 2 brains are often better than one and we enjoy working collaboratively. 

Today Mya and I worked on solving this problem: 

1. Kyla, Mya and Grace went to the movies. Their tickets cost $14.60 each. How much did their tickets cost altogether?

Our answer was $33.80

maths time

At maths Faith and I worked out an addition problem. Together we used place value to solve the question. What strategy would you use?

Get NZ Writing

I have been exploring metaphors and descriptive writing through the ‘Get NZ writing’. Here is one of my metaphors that I have created: 

Kyla is a big fluffy black and white panda munching on yummy bamboo.

Koru art

 For the last couple of weeks I have been creating my own koru art based on the work of Raewyn Harris. She is a New Zealand artist and you can look at her work on this link. 

I have enjoyed creating this masterpiece, and I hope you enjoy it too! 

Poetry

In writing I have used a poem by James K. Baxter as a starting point to write my own holiday poem. I hope you like it.

Kyla’s James K baxter poem

Camping  was usual enough;

It had a tent, a camp fire, some chairs,  and even a bag of

marshmallows .

Zoe, Anya  and I did what kids do -

Had toasted marshmallows, climbed trees, went on a adventure,

watched stars, and even slept in a tent

Doing nothing important.

Welcome

Welcome to my 2018 Blog.  

This year I am in Cooper’s Whare - Room 16 and my teacher’s name is Mrs Holt. 

I am very excited to share my learning journey with you this year.

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Kyla