Maths.

Using Equipment To Prove Our Answers

Me and Kyla worked out the following Question using equipment:

1/2 of a swimming lesson was spent on freestyle if the lesson was 30 minutes long how long was spent on freestyle?

and here is the photo:

     

Safe boating!

Swim safe program.

On the last three days of swimming, we did swim safe. we went on the boat, made a huddle, and so on. There are the photos:

In this one we are making a huddle. you can't really see me.

This one is after going under the boat. I am the one on the end, with a yellow life jacket. 

Air powered cars.

Air powered cars!

we made air powered cars and I was in a group with Evie, Kyla, and myself. we made a car with a number plate #HAPPY it didn't really move, like at all, but it was still lodds of fun! here are two photos with our car. you may understand why it didn't move.

Coding visit

 CODING VISIT 

On Thursdays we have some coding experts come over and help us with debugging our codes. On those Thursdays I think that most of our codes get fixed here is a photo:

  In this photo you can see me, Kyla, Mia, and Elsie. I am the one at the top right corner, with the flower top on. I really enjoy these Thursdays and can't wait for the next one!

Swimming!

Swimming

The last week we have been doing swimming lessons. There are three groups, blue , yellow , and green. I am in the yellow group and we do freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and survival backstroke. Here are some photos with me swimming:
(I'm the one wearing purple, next to the ladder) 

     

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!           

We did graphs in room 16 and 15 on Wednesday first of August, here are some photos:

Maths at hoon hay!

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 doing our maths this way. 

Today Quinn and I worked on solving this problem:

Emily-Rose hung out 6 loads of washing for her Mum. Each load contained 16 items of clothing. How many items of clothing did she hang out?

This is how we did it:

Museum + Art gallery trip.

 On the 13 June we went to the museum and art gallery! we learnt about solar energy at the museum, and made solar power cars! (photos below)

  
















At the art gallery, we made waka huia! 

Easter weekend.

In the weekend I went to peel forest Eco lodge and stayed in Huatekerekere cabin. We had burgers for dinner and went  black berry picking.  Afterwards we had a yummy black berry pie!   

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! 

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: 

Anya is a huge blossoming peachcot tree in my back yard that carpets the ground in pink blossoms. 

Poetry

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

The class was usual enough it had posters, people,

paintings, books and even some pillows.

Kyla, Faith and I did what school kids do -

published writing, read books, chatted, copied and ate.

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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Thanks, 

Anya