This morning we started off different to normal. We wrote our goals for our environment projects on the computer then we continued with our environment projects. I am doing mine about Thomson's bush.  We are planning on planting some more plants there that attract native birds. After that it was morning tea. Later we did a Wilson game called Bulls-eye. Then we did our high interest stations. I carried on with Fibonacci numbers.  I learnt that a cow has to be 2 years old to have a baby and a rabbit has a month being pregnant and a month to have a pair of babies. And we learnt that a female honeybee has two parents and a male only has one. That is because the male has to fertilise the egg for it to be a female.

Kiaora Jackson,

Working with you during our Fibonacci workshop today was really interesting.  You are great when it comes to working with large numbers! I was impressed with your accuracy, and motivation to keep working through the sequence.  You did well at following through the honey bee's family tree, and making connections with the Fibonacci sequence from this.  I am looking forward to challenging you again next week with more examples of where this sequence can be found in nature!

Alana

Term 3 week 6

Today we started of with Leaderboard Chess. I challenged Agustin and he bet me. We continued with our high interest stations. I did fibonacci  numbers. Here is an example 0'1'1'2'3'5'.  Each time you add the two numbers before.  So, 0 + 1 = 1.  1 + 1 = 2 and 2 + 1 = 3.  Can you work out what the next number would be? We learnt that a honey bee male only has a mother and a female bee has a mother and a father.  If the egg doesn't get fertilised by the male, it turns into a male, but if the egg does get fertilised by the male, it turns into a female.

Week 4

This morning we did a form about our own goals we need to achieve this term. At 9.40am we had a game of chess - I faced Katie It was close and Katie only just won! Right after morning tea we did high interest stations. I was in biology/dinoscopes with Darryn then we did our environment projects. I was on B.M.X track mission then I changed to helping with Thomson's bush. We've just finished lunch and next I am going to do debating. Darryn had told us this morning Mount Tongariro blew up during the night.