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For maths we had to draw are name in angels, after we had done that we had to least find one reflex angle,  one straight angle, one obtuse angle, one right angle, and one acute angle. After we had done could decorate it if you wanted but I did not. Anyways hope you like my blog post and come back later, have a nice day bye.

WE CAN'T FEED THE POOR BUT WE CAN FUND A WAR

For inquiry, we had to choose one photo that we like the most or one that catches us more, I chose this one. We had to write at least three paragraphs of what we think it means, and what you think they are doing, I also put in a fact in just because I can. Most of the art are graffiti or just art on walls, concrete or anywhere you can imagine, just mabey not the bathroom. I hope you come back soon on my blog and have a great day. 

Question time: What do you think this photo means to you?

Z for Zoe

Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have started to learn about angles.  

We learned about 3 different angles today - acute (less than 90°), right angle (90°), and obtuse (larger than 90° but smaller than 180°).  We also learned how to use a protractor to measure angles.  We know that we need to measure an angle from a vertice (a corner where two straight lines meet).

For our create a task, we had to measure three different angles on the first letter of our name - can you figure out if they are acute, right angle, or obtuse?

The lonely man

Kia ora bloggers, This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell. When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences. We want to show them - not tell them. For example, Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realized he had just missed the bus. But instead, I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away. Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realized that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now” You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated. Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man. We used Adobe Spark to do this. Have a look at my video and see if you can make some inferences about what I have written. Do you think the elderly man is happy?

My birthday grid reference

Hi Bloggers,

For numeracy this week, we have been learning about grid references and we have been working on 4 and 6 digit grid references.

We learned that we read across the bottom of the grid first (Easterlings) and then up the side second (Northings).  

Our task today was to look at an aerial map of our school, write down the 6 digit grid references for the letters that our teacher had put on it, and then go in hunt of those points.  At each point, there were 1 or 2 letters.  Once we had them all, we had to come back into the hub and unscramble the letters to figure out what it spelled.  The secret sentence was ‘Happy Birthday Zoe’ because it was my birthday today on the 28 of May.

I really enjoyed the task.  Have you ever had to use grid references before in real life?  What was it for?

See you next time, 

My bee bot

For Numeracy this week we have been looking at compass directions.  We have worked on reading maps using the 8 main directions - North, South, East, West, North-East, South-East, North-West and South-West and then we moved onto using Beebots and our knowledge of compass directions to get a Beebot through the grid to various locations.

We had to program the Beebot with our own algorithm, using forward's, backward's, turn right, turn left and N, S, E, W.  It was important that we regularly tested our algorithm to check we didn’t need to debug (find a problem and fix it).

Question time: have you ever written an algorithm for something?  Have you ever had to use a compass for something?

The cruel twits

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something. 

An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and
add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference.  For example,
  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that

this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair
nets and this is required in all food factories.


The text that we read a snippet out of ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.
Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr. and Mrs. Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr. and Mrs. Twit. 

 Question time: have you read the Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!