Athletics day

This week we did Athletics, we did Shot put, discus, high jump, long jump, sprints and some people did long distant if they wanted to, but i didn't. I came 2nd in Discus, 4th in sprints and 4th in shot put. That means I have qualified for Grey district. It was fun.

ICT Kids Conference Digital Badge

For the past 2 days I have been at the ICT Kids Conference at Shantytown. We have been learning about VR, coding, robotics and heaps more. I have earnt my ICT Kids Conference Digital Badge. 

Novel study

This week for novel study we read chapter 14. Here are the questions.

Maths DLO

This week for maths we had to create a DLO showing our understanding of place value. Here is my slide.

Term 3 week 6 Maths Workbook

This week for maths we have been looking at place value, face value and expanded form here is a slide showing my work.
  

Chapter 13 Questions

These is the chapter 13 questions.

Maths week 5 term 3

This term for maths we have been put into maths groups and work with Mrs England. We are learning Adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers. I found this quite tricky but I am learning. Also our Maths teacher showed us a song to help us remember. Here it is.

Enquiry Questions

For topic we have been looking at some enquiry questions about WWII. I have chosen these questions because I was interested in them.

What do the Jewish celebrate that is different from us?

Why did Hitler think that blonde hair blue eyes were the perfect race, and yet he had Dark hair?

What were Hitler's family like?

Did his family encourage what he was doing?

Was he always cruel and mean?

Maths work book

This week for maths we had to complete a workbook and fill in the missing numbers here is a slide showing my work.

Eva Braun (The boy in the striped pyjamas)

This week for novel study we had to create a presentation about Eva Braun. Here is my work.

Basketball Digital Badge

This basketball season I represented Grey Main in the Yr 7/8 Competition. I have earnt my basketball digital badge made by Ruby B.

Hockey Digital Badge

This term I represented Grey Main School in Hockey. We got first equal and I have earnt my hockey digital badge.

Maths for week 4 term 3

This week for maths we have been looking at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to work out the questions on the slide.

Fake Facebook page

The past few weeks for topic we have been working on a fake facebook page for a character in our novel. I really enjoyed doing this activity because it was a challenge to choose friends from another book that we thought would be good friends with Bruno. I have chosen Bruno for this task. Here is my work.

Geometry

This week for maths we have been learning geometry. We have been working on 3D shapes and the nets of them here is the slide on geometry and below that there is an extension activity that we had to do after we had finished the first slide.



Extension activity.

The boy in the pyjamas/chapter 7 questions.

Here are my answers for chapter 7. We have met 1 new character Pavel.

Answer the following questions:


Describe the one person Bruno knew to be mad. Herr Roller: Because he has arguments with himself and sometimes punches himself in order to win the argument.


What does Bruno do to entertain himself? Builds a tire swing from a tree.


What is Bruno’s opinion of Lieutenant Kotler? Cruel and mean and when you go near him you get cold and want to put a jumper on.


How does Gretel act around Lieutenant Kotler? She flirts and laughs with him even know he is not that funny.


How does Lieutenant Kotler treat Bruno? Like a little kid.


How does Lieutenant Kotler treat Pavel? Like he is filthy poo.


How does Bruno feel when Lieutenant Kotler treats Pavel like this? Embarrassed and sad because he is a part of this.


How does Bruno injure himself? By falling face first off the tire swing that he made because he was going too high.


Describe Bruno’s injury. Not too bad but still a nasty cut.


Who looks after him and what do they do? Pavel looks after him and cleaned him up after his fall.


What do we learn about Pavel’s past? That he was practising as a doctor but didn’t get to be a doctor because he got taken to a prison camp.


Why does Pavel’s behaviour change when Bruno’s mother arrives? Because she is the commandant's wife and he is not suppose to talk to anyone.


How does she treat Pavel? She doesn’t treat him nicely but not meanly either.


Why won’t she tell Bruno’s father what happened? Because father might not like a Jewish man touching his son and Pavel might get killed.


Does Bruno understand the situation here at Out-With? Explain. No he doesn’t know what's going on





Look up the following words in the dictionary, write their definitions and explain what they mean: inequality, racism, prejudice.


Racism: Discrimination to different cultures and beliefs.


Inequality: The condition of being unequal; lack of equality

Prejudice: an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.

The boy in the striped pyjamas.

Geometry

This week for maths we are working on geometry. Also Miss Hines set us the task of creating a DLO


This is my DLO.

The Boy in the striped Pyjamas

Self respect

This week for Whanau time we talked self respect and what it looks like, we were then told to make a presentation on it to show our knowledge.

The boy in the striped Pyjamas.

This week we had to complete these comprehension Questions.
We also had to complete the extension activities.

Extenion Activies.

The Boy in the striped Pyjamas.

The next five weeks we are doing our novel study on the boy in the striped pyjamas. We are learing what it was like for the Jewish and actually how unfair it was, we have set up an activity involving Jewish and German. We picked a tag out of a hat with our eyes closed and on that tag we either got a Jewish star or the German flag, the people with who got the Jewish star have to...

• sit on the floor.
• pack up the class while the German children get free time.
• Be wet day monitors.
• No music.
• No free time.
• No treats 
• Get badly treated by ALL Teachers. 

This Activity will teach us how unfair it was. 

To see more of the activities around our novel study go onto my blog.

Maths for this week

This week for maths we had to complete a week 9 Work Book, I found this quite fun because it wasn't too hard and it wasn't too easy.
Here is my work.

Kids Lit Digital Badge

I have earnt my Kids Lit Digital Badge!

Desciptive writing

This week for writing we had to create a spooky ghost story, I really liked doing this activity because I thoughtit was really fun to decribe somthing scary

Writing:

The blood is racing through my head as I flee from my nightmare.
I feel my heart pounding in my chest it’s almost like it’s in my head.
The ghostly sounds are chorasing. The booming thunder crashes
around me.

The smokey abandon smell smothers me with intense fear .
I sprint down the cold, damp hallway. Voices are screaming through
my head chanting for me, or is it at me I can’t tell. I want to give up
but I can’t….. it’s for my best friend. I hear dripping, I’m petrified, I
sprint harder into the distants. I tell myself that it will be fine but as I
get closer I see it’s not………………………

Growing Healthy Bodies.

This term for our topic we have been working on growing healthy bodies, today we had a special vist from ex nurse (Anne), She was really helpful and told us all about how much sugar is in some drinks. I was really suprised about how much sugar is in coke. Down below are some examples of how many grams and how many t-spoons.

Growing healthy bodies.

Do we know what's in the bottles.

• drinks (lot’s of sugar)
• Coke= rotten teeth, fat, you have to run a marathon to burn off all the sugar and acid.
• Acid+sugar= rotten Teeth.

1. Lift+ (59 grams of sugar)= 14.7 tsp
2. V8 Veggie juice (27 grams of sugar)=6.7 tsp
3. Pump flavour water (17 grams)=4.25 tsp
4. V pure (29.2 grams of sugar)=7.2 tsp
5. V energy drink (53 grams of sugar)=13.25 tsp
6. Sprite (25 grams of sugar) =6.2 tsp
7. Coke (64 grams) 16 tsp

Anne made us arrange all the drinks into an order that we thought was most healthy to least healthy. This was at the start.

This was at the end.

Beeswax with Kane.

This week we had one of our students in our class (Kane) showed and told us a little bit about bees and beeswax. He also brought in some beeswax and melted it. I thought it was really cool and interesting This is what I learnt.

Beeswax

It is beeswax not honey.

This is a clean honeycomb frame.

Cheese cloth used to squeeze the honeycomb so honey comes out.

The process: He is putting the beeswax into a pot then he is going to
wait till the beeswax melts and gets clean. He has got some hot water.
 when the beeswax melts it makes it more clean.

It’s like chocolate because if you don’t put water with it it burns, like chocolate.
The honey proces: they get pollen and nectar to make the honey and put it into the
hexagons, then another bee (worker bee) eat it then they vomit it up and that continues
until the cap it and take it away. Honey is vomit.

Week 2 Maths Work book

This week for maths we had to complete a maths work book. Our goal was to find a percentage of an amount. I found this activity quite hard, but I got there in the end.

Descriptive Writing.

This week for writing we had to describe an image that Miss Hines gave us. I really liked this activity and I would like to do it again.

  Descriptive Writing                 

I can see the sun rays finding gaps between the trees then bursting out and blinding me.
I can see the empty soccer field waiting for the afternoon game. I can see the glistening
frost lighting up from the sun, it has turned pink.

I can hear the early morning birds chirping there wake up songs. I can hear muffled
engines far away.

I can feel the still loneliness burning inside me. I can feel my cheeks burning with the
coldness, it hurts.

I can feel my warm breath in my jacket, it’s very warm.

I can smell dead damp winter leaves on the ground. I can smell the distant coffee in
the nearest town.

I am trying to taste but my burning numb tongue won't let me.

I could do with a hot Coffee.

Workbook Probability

Workbook: This week for numeracy, my group had to complete the workbook. I completed it I thought it was quite easy, and I liked doing it. 

Family feista cupcap

This year for the family for we had to make cup cakes and then they would judge them I didn't get any prize but a few of my friends did 

Nonsense poem

this week we had to create a nonsense poem and here is mine.

Don’t do

Don’t do

Don’t  do that.

Don't eat your dog                           Don’t run after a bear

Don’t scare the cat                           Don’t cut his ear

Don’t rip the book                            Don’t steal a meal

Don’t stick your hand in on a hook    Don’t  break the reel

Don’t kiss a snake                           Don’t do

Don’t eat a rake                              Don’t do

                                                           Don’t do that.

Don’t eat a blossom

Don’t marry a possum

Don’t lick your shoe

Don’t touch your poo

Don’t pick your nose

Don’t swallow a hose

Don’t slap your sister

Don’t lick her blister

Kensuke's Kingdom.

We are reading kensuke's kingdom as a class. we had to answer these questions in pairs my buddy was Ruby. I really liked this activity because we got to work in a pair and it tested how well we were listening.

Acrostic poems

This week we have been learning to write an acrostic poem. A acrostic poem is a poem that you write the letters down ways. Here is my work