What is Maths Whizz

On the 25th of February at Paihia School in Te Ngahere we went on a website called Maths Whizz. Math Whizz is a tool for helping your maths education. It's good for both helping you overcome your  weaker topics while also building on your strengths. When we got on we were handed a piece of paper with our username and password. When we got on the website we had to type in our username and password to login then we had to answer math questions and after we answered all the questions we got to make an avatar then we had to do panui. What I thought was hard were the measurement questions because I don’t understand how much is a centimeter or millimeter. What I thought was easy was the questions 1253 x 10 because I just had to times the number by tens which was easy. What I think I could do better next time is maybe get better at maths so I can get more points.

Mind-blowing facts about cybersmart

Last week on Monday in Te Ngahere the people that did not go swimming did cybersmart. We had to go to the digital dig slide on the Te Ngahere website and make a copy. After that we had to go to slide 2 which had a image of a chromebook keyboard and take a screenshot of the shortcut to screenshot and put it on the next slide. Then we had to take a screenshot of our desktop. On the next slide It asked us what was the shortcut to find the find bar which was ctrl f. After that we had to watch a video which told us the keyboard shortcuts. When we finished watching the video we went to the next slide where we had to answer all the keyboard shortcuts. I'm not going to do the rest because I wont have space to write. What I thought was frustrating was where we had to answer all the keyboard shortcut because I had try and find it out on Google. What I thought was easy was where we had to put in our face in a frame because we just needed to take a picture of us and put in a frame. What I think I can do better next time is that I could of drawn better on sumo paint when we had to make what we were looking forward to this year.

Turbo Touch

On Thursday January the 30th at Paihia School Te Ngahere went outside and played a new game called Turbo Touch. Turbo Touch is a game where you get into a group of 3,4,5 or 6 and you and your team pass the ball to each other sideways, backwards and forwards just no kicking. If you drop the ball you handover the ball to the other team. To score a touchdown two passes must be made to a open the active zone. What I thought was hard was trying to score because the ball keeps dropping. What I thought was easy was passing to each other because we were good at passing. What I could do better next time is to come up with more strategies so we get more points.

Tuhituhi (Writing)

For Writing in Te Ngahere last week we were learning to write about what is special about the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. What we had to do was write three or more reasons why we think it is special but we had to put the reasons into paragraphs and into our own words. We also had to make sure that the writing had passive voice,cause and effect words, present tense and more. What I thought was frustrating was trying to put the reasons into my own words because we weren’t allowed to copy and paste. What I thought was easy was finding the reasons because we can find the reasons on the website but we still  to put in our own words. What I think I could maybe do better next time is to make sure that I use more cause and effect words. What I learnt was the different kind of words there is like cause and effect and present tense.

Movie animations

For the past couple of weeks our class have been doing animations for our movies. Our animation had be what our movie would be because we ran out of time. When we were finished we had to  screencastify it. What I thought was frustrating about making the animations was trying to finish it because we did not have enough time for it apart from home and self managing time. What I thought was easy was making the video because we only had to say the beginning and the characters and not what the characters are saying. What I think we could do better is to not frustrate my groups member when we are recording the video because we were mucking around. I learnt not to muck around or else you won’t finish your work.

Writing

For Writing in Te Ngahere we are writing about what is special about our school Pump track. We had to use passive voice, a rhetorical question, present tense, cause and effect words and more. We also had write three reasons why but all those three reasons would have a paragraph. What I thought was really hard and frustrating was turning these three reasons into a paragraph. What I thought was easy was writing why those three reasons are why the pump track is so special. What I learnt was that if you make a mistake you can always go back and look at it and fix it.

STEAM Challenge

In Te Ngahere, in the afternoon for our first day of school we did a STEAM challenge. Steam stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Our STEAM challenge was to build the tallest freestanding tower out of two pieces of newspaper and a 30cm tape in 20 minutes and when the timer was up we would see which tower was the tallest. What I thought was frustrating  was building our tower because we weren't helping each other that much. What I thought was very easy and worked well was our communication because we were coming up with new ideas as we were making our tower. What I think my group could do better is helping each other because our group was just talking. What I learnt was to never give up and always help each other.