Auckland Islands!

In my EL4 math group we have been doing an activity about the Auckland islands. If you don't know where that is, the Auckland Islands are 290 miles of the South island of New Zealand. There were 10 activities we had to complete. Some were hard and some were easy. (Most of them were hard). The task was for year 8s, year 9s, year 10s and year 11s. I did this task with my friend Sophie who is also in my maths group. Together we completed it and got the questions right.

On each task, there was also a Challenge. Some tasks/challenges involved drawing, creating, reading, researching,writing and much more. Luckily on every slide there was a clue. One clue was a math clue and the other clue was a road clue. The maths clues had an equation but the road clue had some research. On most of the tasks we used math clues. I learnt lot's about the Auckland island and its animals. I also learnt that exponents are the small number that goes above the big number. Overall I really enjoyed this task and I would recommend it for you if you wanted a challenge.

If you would like to have a look at my project have a look at the slides below

Cross Country!

Today on the 20th of August Our whole school participated in the actual Cross country. I'm a year six, so that meant I had to do two big laps of the course. It was very tiring but i'm glad that I did it. We ran on the sand dunes so there was lots of hills. The year six girls went first. I'm glad we went first because it was a good temperature, but towards the end of all the races it started to get chilly and windy.

The top six people in each year group go to interschools. I came 8th so that means I was two places away from going to interschools. I'm really proud of myself for placing in the top ten. We also had to wear our house colours. I'm in red house so I wore a bright orange t-shirt because I couldn't find a red one. This was also my last Cross country at Wainui Beach School. 

Here is a photo of me running

Escape from Kraznir!

Escape from Kraznir

For the past few weeks, my level 3 writing group has been doing an adventure based piece of writing. It is called Escape From Kraznir. Someone called Miss Ransom created a slide presentation all about the obstacles our characters would run into. The slides have options that we can choose to write our chapter about. So far I am up to writing chapter four. 

This writing has been very interesting and fun because I've learnt lots of different ways to construct  sentences. The sentences that I learnt were made up of a main clause, a subordinate clause and a dependent clause. I also enjoyed this because it's fun to share my writing with people.

Here is my first paragraph of Chapter one

If you would like to read more, click on the link below

Escape From Kraznir

Science Fair!

This term we have Science fair. If you don't know what that is it is a project that you can do by yourself or with a buddy. You have to find a project then complete it by using the scientific method. I did mine with a buddy (Sophie). We used the scientific method and finished ours in time for this term. Hopefully we make regionals.  If you would like to find out more you can have a look at the slides below.