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

In this image it has 8

Buddy Writing!

On Tuesday for writing we went to our buddy class and shared our writing! And if we were finished we could write a story with our buddy. Me and my buddy wrote a story about going on a boat to Antarctica and being the only kid on the boat! I really enjoyed doing this activity and I hope to do it again! Be sure to leave feedback and check out the rest of my blog!

Sources- https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/?tgif=d

Here is my writing!

MY BIG TRIP TO ANTARCTICA

On Tuesday, I went on a big ship that was called The Humongous Ship that took me to Antarctica! The ship was 20 stories high and it had a whole deck that had two bunnies in it, and it had a big lollipop forest in it! It also had a pool table that was 200m long. It took us 4 weeks to get to Antarctica,. I felt excited and shy on the boat, I was the only kid on board. I saw lots of penguins and seals even big icebergs! As soon as I got off the boat I ran into the snow and made a heated igloo, I also made 20 snowmen because I was bored. I felt hot because I so many layers of jerseys and jackets. It was really windy!

My Mosaic Art

W.A.L.T- We are learning to do make a mosaic digital art for our calendar art.

I really enjoyed making doing this and I'm currently doing another one because I really like it. I chose to do one of my favorite animals a Giraffe. We did it on google drawings, got a picture off the internet then used poly line to make little shapes to trace over the picture and then delete the picture afterwards. I hope you like it and feel free to comment or check out the rest of my blog.

School Cluster Logo

W.A.L.T- create a logo to represent our school cluster using google drawing or a logo design site.

I really enjoyed making this logo and use my creative juices. I found it hard though to come up with the colors of the background because each color has a meaning, but that's in my explanation on why I did the logo. I hope you like it!

I did this because I feel it represents us moving or following the path of learning together because our cluster means 'the path to discover'. The koru is us growing up and following the journey of learning and knowledge. The stars represent Matariki, a new year and a fresh start for the way we learn now. The colours in the background, blue and purple, mean: confidence and knowledge.

(I drew the koru myself - I wanted it to fade in along with the background but I couldn't make it do this)

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-Cybella

Teacher Recipe

W.A.L.T- We are learning to write instructions.

Last week we had to write a teacher recipe explaining how to make a teacher or an ideal teacher you'd want as yours. We had to include, instructions, title (what your making/goal) and the method. I really enjoyed using my imagination on this and I hope to do something like this again. 

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Enjoy!

(Made by Google Docs)

My Ideal Teacher

Ingredients/equipment:

• A sprinkle of powdered  kindness 
• A cup of understanding and trust 
• A bulb of the knowledge plant 
• 2 cups of human blood
• 5 strands of human hair (Any colour)
• All human organs (dead or alive)
• Cauldron (Any size)
• Human shaped mold
• Dirt from the school grounds (as much as you want, the more dirt the more loyal the teacher is to that school)

Method:

1. Fill the pot with the blood and organs and boil it until it’s boiling and thick.
2. Put the strands of hair in the pot while stirring for 5 minutes.  (It should start glowing)
3. After stirring the pot let it sit while you crush the bulb of the knowledge plant. After crushing it put it into the pot. (The mixture will turn green)
4. Mix until it starts to feel like clay then make a well in the center (A hole in the center of the mixture) and put in the powdered kindness and a cup of understanding and trust.
5. After doing that it will turn to liquid and then turn to stone, so quickly poor it into the human shaped mold and leave overnight.
6. When its been at least 24 hrs burry the mold/mixture into the ground. (Note it has to be at least 4m or it wont work) 
7. Leave it in the ground for 3 days and on the third day your teacher will appear.  Quickly sprinkle the dirt from the school grounds over the teacher so it knows it belongs to that school.