Sharing my Knowledge on Equal Additions

  In Te Ngahere we have been learning about equal additions.  We had to learn and evidence it by making a screencastify.  In equal additions you have to add the same amount of numbers to each side to make it easier and keep it balanced.  First you write the equation, next you add some numbers to one side before doing the same to the other. (Hint: it might help if you round it to a tidy number.)  Lastly you subtract your new numbers from each other.  I learnt what equal additions was because I have never been taught it before.  I found it hard at first because I didn’t know how to do it properly but slowly it became really easy.  Next I need to learn a variety of strategies to help me solve hard problems.  Here is my screencastify.  Do you know what Equal Additions is?

The Terrifying Taskmaster

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about team building and collaboration.  We had to get a piece of paper and copy a drawing, except we couldn’t look at the drawing.  One person in your group (‘the walker’) had to walk outside, look at the drawing and then come and tell the drawer of the group what they saw.  I learnt that it was a lot harder to tell people what we saw because we could not touch the piece of paper.

We had two attempts.  On the first attempt I was the drawer.  I found it easy because I already had all the colours I needed.  The thing I found hard was what my group member was trying to explain, because it didn’t have enough detail.  What I found challenging was that we were timed and it put me under more pressure.

The second attempt I was one of the walkers.  We got a lot more done the second time because we already knew what to do, so it made it a lot easier for us.  The hard bit the second time was the drawer didn’t understand what we were saying.  The second time was also challenging as well because we were not seeing the pictures correctly, and we were saying things wrong.

The differences between mine and my teachers drawings are: some of the things were missing, some of them were the wrong colour and some of them were crossed out so we took up more space than it was meant to.

Do you like Taskmaster? 1st attempt

Teacher 2nd attempt

Outstanding Facts That Will Help You Learn About Measurement

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about measurement. We had to work through worksheets before making a google drawing about measuring.  We could use centimeters but we had to  convert the answers into millimeters .  We had to convert between millimeters and centimeters.  As well as centimeters converted into meters.  

I learnt what approximately means.  I also learnt the best way to estimate is by going off what you already know such as when your trying to measure the width of paper and your pencil was the same length.  If you knew how long your pencil was you would know how wide your paper is (unless it snapped or got sharpened)

The hardest part was reading the instructions carefully and understanding them.  The easiest part was trying to estimate.

Do you like to measure things?

How to Create a Food Web

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs.  A food web is a diagram of lots of animals with arrows to show what eats what.  We had to make a food web in Te Ngahere by putting the little food in the middle (invertebrates) and then we had to put some of the native birds and trees around it.  Next we put the predators around the outside.  Then we had to put arrows in.  The arrows show how the energy is transferred from one organism to another.  Lastly we had to compare our food webs to our teachers.  My differences were some of my arrows are not in the right place or missing because I missed some information or the information was not true.  For example I didn’t research the predators eating other predators.  I learned that some animals eat a lot more than others.  What I found easy was putting the creatures in the right place and researching what they eat.  The hard bit was putting the energy transfer the right way.   Have you made a food web before?

What Do You Think About Tsunamis?

 In the Bay of Islands we had to evacuate our school because of a
tsunami warning.  The whole school had to gather up and walk up Totara Heights Way.  When we got to the top, lots of cars came up the hill and panicked faces of parents appeared looking for their children. We slowly went up the hill as more and more children got picked up.  I felt quite scared but excited because I’d never experienced a tsunami before.  I was scared because I was worried about my family at home.  I learnt what it was like to stay up a hill for five hours;I eventually got very bored. One of our teachers tried to entertain us with some quizzes. The most exciting part was when the sausage company Fritz’s Wieners came up with lots of sausages and shared their them with us.  The people in the neighbourhood were kind to us too.  Another exciting thing was when some teachers went down and got our bags for us, a wooo went up as they passed us with our bags.  Did you evacuate for the tsunami? 

Interesting Facts I Bet You Never Knew About Ecosystems

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about ecosystems.  We had to read through a text before filling out what we learnt and what we now understand.  

I learnt that ecosystems can be any size and that ecosystems are made up of producers, consumers and decomposers.  I also learnt that ecosystems all have an energy source that is the sun.  I found it quite hard because I had never done this type of reading before. What do you know about ecosystems?