Week 9

Today at 9.15am we played chess for 30 minutes.  I played Kyle and he won.  Then we did our environment projects.  My group finished our Keynote about Thomson's Bush.  I did a page on the predators you need to look out for.  After morning tea, we watched a clip about air pollution.  We learnt that Iran has quite a few cities that have a lot of air pollution.  Ulaan Bataar in Mongolia  is the second most polluted city in the world.  The cleanest city in the world is Wellington!  We were surprised that we have the cleanest city in the world!  We looked it up on the computer, and it said that China had the most CO2 pollution, but they were not included in the clip we watched about the 10 most polluted cities in the world.  We played a Wilson game after lunch called Piccadilly Circus.  You stood in a circle and we had to pass a ball around the circle by running to another person and giving it to them.  You couldn't give it to the person right beside you, or else you would have to start again.  Once you got the ball, and gave it to another person, you sat down.  We tried playing it with 1 ball - our time was 1.08min.  We played it with 2 balls - our time was 1.35min.  Then we played it with 4 balls and our time was 2.02min.  We tried a second round with 4 balls, but we all got muddled!  Now that I'm finished my blog, I can go onto passion time.  I am going to do some painting.

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.

Today at Enrich

This morning we got into groups of 4, we made our own mural on a piece of paper we used felts, scissors and kiwi icons. After that we had to do a technology challenge in 20 minutes. The materials were tin foil, coloured sticks, skewers, straws, cup, cardboard and a shuttlecock.  We were trying to make a shuttlecock launcher.  We are going to test these at the end of the day to see which group can launch their one the furthest!

First day of term 3

This morning we started off with a Wilson game - the hoop game.  After that we got to choose an activity out of maths - tessellations, science - chemistry, or art - painting.  I chose maths - tessellations.  A tessellation is where there are no gaps and no overlaps and you have the same picture repeating.  I did mine with birds.  It worked!