Our Timetable Change

In our Kotuku team, our teachers have decided to change our timetable to make things less stressful and to make learning more fun for us. Along with our timetable we will be learning about themes, so next weeks theme is going to be Ocean/Sea. We will be learning about that in our different subjects by doing, science project and reading/writing about it. Most people were pleased to see our timetable change, as was I, I can't wait to get into our new system of learning at school!

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Our themes for the rest of the year

T3 W9- Ocean/Sea

T3 W10- 80's (as well as a dress up day)

T4 W1- Hero's vs Villans

T4 W3- Food (maybe a shared lunch)

T4 W4- Myths and Legends

T4 W5- Music

T4 W6- Extinct Animals

T4 W7- Cartoon/Anime/Animation

T4 W8- Ecosystems

T4 W9- Marvel

This is our new timetable

Circumference and Diameter

W.A.L.T-  investigate the pattern between a circular object's circumference and its diameter.
For the past week, room 9A math have been learning about Pi, Circumference and Diameter. We had to get a piece of string and measure a circular object and then get a metre ruler and measure it, the circumference is the area/outside of the circle and the diameter is the width, we then had to divide the measurements together. However the answers all had to be the same, therefor that's how Pi comes into the equation, the first couple numbers of Pi are 3.14159 and every circle no matter how big has to start with those numbers, well at least numbers close to Pi.
I really enjoyed doing this activity and I hope to do something like this again, though I found it hard to get the exact measurements of the circles and messed up with some of the measurements.

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Fibonacci Sequence

W.A.L.T-  Recognize Fibonacci numbers in nature.

Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 ect. You get those numbers by starting with 0 & 1 add those two together and you get 1, 1+1= 2, 2+1= 2, 3+2= 5 and so on that's how the pattern works. This will create patterns in fruits, veges and plants. When growing off the branch, Fibonacci can be viewed in their stems and veins. The more they grow out the higher the sequence is. Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician an was considered to be 'the most talented Western mathematician in the middle ages' the name Fibonacci was made up in 1838 and short for filius Fibonacci.

Reflection: I found it hard to find the pattern in the numbers at first but I soon got it in the end. I also really enjoyed doing this.

Sources: Fibonacci & Fibonacci numbers

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