Spectacular Snowmanotron!

This term my writing group has been looking at the snowmanotron. The snowmanotron is a contraption that can create snowmen.  We watched a video about it and then we drew a diagram of the snowmanotron. After we drew it we labeled all the parts and then planned all the steps it does to make a snowman.

We are writing an explanation of how it works, so far we have wrote an introduction each. I hope you enjoy it and comment your feedback on how I can improve on it.

Refugee!

Huia reading: Refugee

In my reading group (early level 4) our activity is to read a book and answer some questions. The book is called Refugee. Each week our teacher (Koka Ngaire) lets us read another part of the story. So far it has been very interesting. I hope you enjoy seeing what i've done so far. I'll make sure that I post updates.

It's about three different characters, Joseph, Mahmoud and Isabel. Mahmoud is a boy who lives in Syria. His home used to be safe but now, nowhere is safe with all the war going on. Joseph is a Jewish boy. The Nazi's do not treat Jewish well, so Joseph and his family have been forced to flee Germany. Isabel lives in Cuba. Isabel and her family are escaping the country and planning to head for America. Her family must escape before the soldiers arrest her dad. They are all different but there's one thing they have in common... They are Refugees. 

These are the questions we have to answer

This is what I've written down as the answers

Terrific Term 2!

This Term has been an amazing experience. We did so many fun and exciting things. Firstly we had the gym festival. Our school (Wainui) did very well. I was in the rhythmical team, we did a great job and our team placed seconded overall. We've also been doing a activity called discovery every Friday. Discovery is filled with many different things to do. I enjoy it lot's cause you can explore many different things. This Friday we are not doing discovery because we had the Term 2 assembly. 

Our term inquiry topic is Retro tech. Retro tech is all about how things worked when they first came out and how much they have evolved. We went on a trip to the Tawhiti museum and learnt many new things. Two or three students from each class got a certificate. The jump jam team also came up and performed a routine for us.

In this term mostly every 2 weeks on Friday we go down to the Hamanutua stream to weed and mulch it. When we go down there, we moved discovery down to the second block so we didn't have to miss out. Overall we fitted in many activities and had a terrific Term 2!

Walt Disney!

In our class book (Fish in a Tree) Mr Daniels mentions a list of famous people that were told they were dumb or had dyslexia. We had to pick someone from the list to write about. There was lots of people to choose from, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Henry Winkler, Walt Disney, John Lennon, ect. I chose Walt Disney. We then printed them out and hung them up in our classroom. I hope you enjoy mine.

Super six sentence story!

Six Sentence Story

Hi, In my L3 writing group with Koka Terri we have been learning about six sentence stories. We had a choice of making one with character chooser or you could make up your own Character. I chose to make up my own character. After you had made up a few you would choose the best one. This story is about a talented young girl who is a singer

Probability of odd socks and even socks

In moana learning hub on Tuesdays and Thursdays we have strand maths.We have been learning about statistics and probability. This week and last week we were testing the probability of getting odd or even socks. We tested this by reaching into a bag and seeing if we pulled out a pair of socks or odd socks. On the first test there was 2 blue socks and 2 purple socks on. The results for that were 50% each. On the the next test there were 3 blue socks and 2 purple socks. The results on that test were 50% for a pair and 50% for an odd! 

I found out that there were 12/25 chances and that there was six pairs and six odds

This is a video of me explaining the probability of odd socks or a pair of sock

Exiting electric village!

Electric Village

This term our inquiry is retro tech. We went to Electric village to  learn more about it. There was tons of cool things to find out there and I learned lots. That day was also dress up day so we looked quite funny when we headed of to town. Our class had a great time there and found out loads of stuff we didn't know before. I hope you enjoy reading about it!