Fun Run

On Friday it was the school FUN RUN.  We travelled to United Kawawkawa on a train once we arrived we got told the rules for the day and then the races begun it started from the five year old's and made it's way up. During the duration of the time we waited some people  helped around the courses.

Finally it was our turn it was not at all nervous as allot of decided on not to try. The horn went of and then we jogged around the corner and started walking. There was a group of people who tried for a placing but a bigger group who didn't try. We ran the course until we got to the mud we had a huge mud fight and got as dirty as possible we were tackling each other into the mud and then afterwards we had a swim. But then we had to leave and finish of the race we ran to the road then we jumped on the back of a track and finally ran around the field an completed the race.

Urupukuapuka

Kia ora tatou, on Friday our class and room 2 went to Urupukapuka island to learn lots of facts.
The point of heading over was to help bring back the song of  birds, their homes and a safe healthy environment for them to stay in. It was a one day trip. We built traps and planted native trees because we needed to make more traps to catch pest and plant trees for future bird habitats. In eager to wanting to help the Ipipiri islands it is a hard process but possible to accomplish with more help and people to support. The translocation of the birds help repopulate the birds so there is more. There are 80%  endemic birds in New Zealand.

Awa history

We have been learning about our awa about the importance of it the history and the impact of our awa this week i have done a KWL.

Report writing

In writing we have been learning the genre report. There are 4 main things you need to use  title, subheadings, opening statement and general statement and you can also use a diagram if it's necessary. The easy part was finding lots of facts to group into categories. The hard part was doing the closing statement because we couldn't use facts that was already written in the body of the text.

Here is one of my paragraphs about inanga

Life cycle       

The Inanga is one of five galaxiid species whose young's are mainly known
as Whitebait.
Out of all five of the species only Inanga life cycle is percisive to people.
Adult females lay their Eggs at estuaries on a spring tide.
Then the Eggs turn to Larvae and the Larvae goes to sea.
The next cycle is when the Larvae turns to Whitebait.
Whitebait then make there way back to the estuary till eventually
the Whitebait turns to Inanga and Inanga are found in freshwater.

Roman Numerals

In math we have been learning roman numerals , It was hard at first to understand but since I'd already learnt I caught onto it quickly. The easy part was realizing that If you put a smaller numeral before a large numeral then your subtracting.The hard part was trying to make others understand on how the procedures work of the roman numerals.

Matariki

For the last two day the whole school has been doing Matariki activity's, because it's Matariki and we do these every year year. The hard part was to make our co-operate with everyone  The easy part was to cooperate with my team to play Tapuae and Ki-o-rahi. I wouldn't do it again because I like to try different things. The point why we only play those games at Matariki time is because they represent peace and harmony and it also is a taonga tuku iho and a game from our tupuna.

                                 

Problem solving

For problem solving this week we were doing is te iti rawa and te nui rawa. We had numbers 1-6 we had to choose 4 and try make the biggest number and the smallest number. The highest number my group made was 360 and the lowest I made was -10.