Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Where are You?

On Wednesday our teacher told us about the school we are joining to do Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu – it is where you write comments on other student blogs from schools around the motu. So were checked out where and who the schools are we are blog commenting with.

The schools are Paroa in Greymouth, first, we thought they were in Whakatane then found them in Hokitika, on the West Coast of Te Waipounamu. Glen Innes is our other buddy school, they were easier to find and are in Auckland at first we thought they were a long way from our school (as they were the first school we looked for, after locating our school on the map) until we searched for Paora School.  Edmund Hillary School (our school) is the red marker.

Poetry Month

Kia Ora Koutou

Did you know April was Poetry Month?

We have been learning how to do a range of poems. My favorite type of poem is the diamante. But so far we haven’t made one of those. I have always enjoyed reading shape poems and struggle to make my own shape poems as great as others. But I have now found a site that helps to create shape poems. You type in the words and then you can draw the shape try it out here.

Our teacher shared with us through Hapara Workspace a poem kit. Thank you to those who created it it was a lot of fun to try something different.

How many Triangles?

Today our Maths investigation was around triangles. Using the dot we had to make right-angle triangles. First, we had to make sure we all knew what that meant. Did you know a square and rectangle have 4 right angle corners? – That means the corners are 90°.

I will tell you how many we found after you tell me how many you find. Remember you can’t count a triangle of the size and shape twice. So be careful how you lay out your triangles, you can use this link to help you with your answer. Good Luck

What is Engineering?

We have an opportunity at the local high school to work with Year 9 and 10 students to complete a range of STEAM projects with a focus on Engineering.

As a class, we checked out Careers NZ with a focus on Engineering we then picked 5 career options and had to investigate them further. My questions were:

What does an engineer do?

How much did they make?

What do I need to know? or do to be an engineer?

Where can I study to be an engineer?

This is the beginning of my project.

What would you like to know about engineering?

School Values

Kia Ora

we have been checking out a range of ways to present information. I love word clouds and was curious to find one where students could add ideas in real-time and the cloud is being made. Our focus was sharing what we thought the school values meant to us. I then took a screenshot of each one and here they are.

 

Then we applied this information and made a mosaic here is an example created by Samsalvation:

Math investigation

KiaOra,

Today we tried to find how many different ways to put 16 stones into 4 different piles that are not the same.

You can see when we shared as a class there are least 10 ways, we found together.

It was tricky to see the different ways as we used a system and then thought we were done.

Can you find any other ways this could be solved?

Rebus Puzzles

Kia Ora,
We started doing rebus puzzles in the morning before we started reading. Our teacher said it is to get our brains working in a fun way. Initially, we were all just like, “What does that even mean?”

Now we have been doing it for a few weeks to show you how much better we are I am sharing 9 puzzles to start with remember we hadn’t done them before we were lucky to solve 3 while we waited for the extra Chromebooks to arrive, now we can do at least 9, sometimes more.

What do you think of these, write your answers in the comments.

 

Hatchet Ponder 7

Kia Ora,

The Ponder this week is whether we would rather starve or dehydrate.

I would rather be suffering from dehydration because you can get water and liquid from food. If you don’t eat you can get liver cancer. You will die faster because you are dehydrated. I would rather die faster than slower.

What would you prefer and why?

Favourite Books

Kia Ora, we have had a big focus on Reading and what we like to read. We did a survey and discussed the results. Each week we read silently, in fact, we had time nearly every day. The teacher tries to out loud at least 4 times a week too. That book this term is Hatchet and that is why our ponder is based on a book. – See the post 2 back.

This week we had to pick our current favourite book of all time, take a photo of the book and us, and add it to a class set of slides. Then we have to sell the book to others. Talk about why we think it is the best book EVER! (They are also printed and up on our wall just outside our class so the class next door can see what we recommend as great books.)

Check out our Favourite Books –

What is your favourite book? Why?