My Super Power

In the last couple of weeks Shoshy has been coming in and working with us around thinking about who we are, what we like and what we might like to do in the future. The first time she came she had a bowl of m&ms we got to get 2 and tell her something about us and something we like. The second time she came in we said something were good at. Then we went over super powers and what super powers are. Once we had thought of one of our super power we had to make a drawing like I did where we said what we were good at and then thought of all of the skills we needed and were learning when doing that activity. I did fishing because the day before we did this I went fishing all day. The fish in the background is a trout.

Rugby World Cup Tabloid Sports

This week on Monday after lunch the whole school gathered on the court for the Rugby World Cup  tabloid sports. We were all in mixed age group teams to represent one of the countries in the Rugby World Cup. Once we all got into our groups we went on to doing all of these activities for an example we played touch. We played lots of other games too but my favourite was touch even though my legs were real sore.  The winning team got a trophy.

Earthquake / Tsunami Drill

This week on Thursday our school did an earthquake drill. We all went under tables and then we had to evacuate.  To evacuate we walked safely out of the school grounds to the nearest hill for a tsunami drill. This was only a 10 minute drill and it was very pushy as we have a lot of students at our school.We practised this because we live on the West Coast which is on the alpine fault which is prone to earthquakes. We need to know what to do in case of an emergency.

Do you have a plan?

Highlights for term 3

My highlights for this term were:
Going in the garden instead of PrEP. This was my highlight because I don't really like making stuff for PrEP and I like gardening so this was a good mix for me.
My second highlight was math: This term I have got better at my basic facts. At the start of the term I was getting about 40 in five minutes and now at the end of the term I'm scoring about 80 in five minutes.  

My next term goal is to improve my spelling by taking my time when I write words and checking it looks right.

School Garden

 

During the last two weeks for PrEP after morning tea, me and Cruz have been going to the garden. We have worked hard and are pleased with the progress we have made. Here is three photos showing some of our work. We started to weed the gardens, then we dug them over, then we raked them and now they are ready to plant stuff in. We have planted some potatoes already.  Next will be peas, lettuces, courgettes and carrots.

Tessellations

This week in math we got a choice of what we wanted to do.  We were finishing off our geometry unit with it a mathematical art week. I chose to do tessellation.
First we had to investigate our chosen topic and create a DLO about it.  Here is mine:



Then we got to create our art. I made a tile using google drawings and printed it out.  Then I glued it onto card and cut it out to make my stencil. Finally I very carefully traced it to make my tessellation and coloured it with pastel.  Here is my finished art.

             

I really enjoyed this week's maths as it was something different and we got to choose our own topic.

Transformation Puzzle

This week in numeracy we have been working on transformation.  This is where you reflect the shape over the X  or Y axis or rotate the shape or translate the shape by sliding it up, down, left or right. We had to make a puzzle about this for other people to solve.  Comment below if you know how I have transformed my triangle. I liked learning about transformation as it was more hands on.