The legend of New Zealand - Summer Learning Journey

Number 1 - New Zealand was once governed as part of the territory of New South Wales and later a part of Australia.


Number 2 - New Zealand is one of the least populated countries with over 4 million populations.


Number 3 - 30% of the country is forrest

North and South - Summer Learning Journey

Greymouth has a mile long history of gold mining and panning. They have been mining gold since the 1800s and are still mining it till this day with more modern devices. Greymouth has a lot of walks including Point Elizabeth, Woods Creek Walkway, and Coal Creek Falls.

Ice, Ice Baby - Summer Learning Journey

Estimation D.L.O.

For maths this week we have been doing Estimation by rounding numbers to the nearest 10th, 100th 1000th etc. For front end rounding you would round it down to what the front number is.

Dragon Eye

W.A.L.T. Follow visual instructions, complete the origami task, and mix colours with thought.

S.C. Complete a dragon's eye according to visual instructions

Exotic Paradise Work

Informational Text Link
Exotic Paradise worksheet

Exotic Paradise Quiz

Math D.L.O.

campfire safety poster

Rocket Mouse

This is a graph of how high the rocket mouse went.

Ruma Tahi Participating & Contribution - SOLO

D.L.O Week 8

Last week for math, I was rounding numbers and multiplying them.

397 x 83 I would round this into 400 x 80 and then I would do 8x4 which is 32 and add the 0's from 400 and the answer is 3200

Math week 7

The theatre is a business

Theatre roles

Front of house - Things that audience do

Musical director - The person that chooses songs and makes the music

Stage manager - The person that controls the lighting and technical things

Producer - The person that manages the whole thing

Make-up Artist - The one that puts make up on performers

Choreographer - A person that controls the sequence of dance steps and moves

Dancer, actor, and singer - People that perform on the stage for the audience

Scenery designer - The person that designs the scene and props of the play

Costume designer - People that make costumes for the people that perform

Lighting designer - The person that makes the lights

Music Skills - Guitar

What I found challenging about playing a guitar was changing from one chord to another. I improved at switching from one chord to another with practice.

Music Skills

What did we learn in music?

For the first two weeks of music we were learning some basic skills on the piano. We were learning how to play a tune in your right hand, and how to position your hand. 

I enjoyed practicing certain songs on the piano and how to understand what the notes mean. I found it challenging trying to press all the keys accurately and at the right time. Overall I really enjoy playing the piano and keyboards. They are really challenging to play accurately which makes them enjoyable to try and learn.

Cyber Smart

What I want to know about blogging?

How does blogging effects your learning?

Today in cyber smart I learnt if you blog at a high frequency your writing and reading will significantly improve. You could get over three times better at writing and reading, if you blog 12 times a month. If you blog at a medium frequency your reading and writing will still significantly improve at writing and reading. If you blog at a low frequency your reading and writing will improve really slowly and will hardly notice any difference.

How does it helps you understand learning?

Blogging can help you understand your learning. When you write it out it can make you think about it what the learning was about and how much learning you actually done. When you read through it, you can see the mistakes you have made, and what you got wrong.

I learnt about the European discovery New Zealand this week in 8TS

Science word cloud

Science

A. Top Of Letter Analysis

1. Sign your name on a sheet of writing paper, and get someone else to try to copy it.
2. Place the tracing paper over both signatures, and make a dot at the top point of each letter – for both signatures
3. Join up the dots for both signatures to get two zigzag lines across the signatures. Are the lines the same?

Something boring

We were doing something today in Cyber Smart.