Student Led Conferences

On Thursday was Student Led Conferences where students had to show their digital learning to their parents. First my sister and I were to introduce our teachers and our parents to each other. Then we were to show our guardian/parents (which was my dad) around the room and explain to them what we did, what we learnt, and what we enjoyed. I really enjoyed showing my ngatu designs to my dad because they were designs that represents my culture. My dad was really impressed because he had a similar drawing to the one he draws at home. Soon we were to go on our devices and show them our learning for writing, reading maths, inquiry and including our blogs. We read our scripts that we worked on for the previous weeks and showed them what goes on in our classrooms and in learning time. My dad and I got the chance to speak to Mr Dun (who is the deputy principal for Tamaki College) about Tamaki College and also the Manaikalani scholarship that is given to two lucky students at the end of the year. At the end, our parents got the opportunity to talk to our teachers and about our behavior and our progress towards our learning areas. 

Tech Reflection - Food Tech

Original Muffins                                                     Muffins with whip cream

Today was our second session for food tech with Mrs Tuipolotu. We baked chocolate chips muffin and we were estatic because we loved eating muffins from bakeries. Jeremiah and I have worked together to make this. We had individual jobs which had to be done in a certain time. I was putting in all our recipe in our big bowl while Jeremiah was turning on the oven and getting our muffin line up ready. At the end Jeremiah and I had 6 pieces of muffin each. The recipe for our muffins is:




1. A Big Silver bowl

2. 1,1/2 cup of Sugar and Flour and 1 bowl of chocolate chip

3. 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of cocoa

4. 1/3 cup of oil, 1 egg

5. 1/2 cup of milk

6. mix well and scoop

7. Bake 180 degrees for 15 minutes

8. Clean up

Explanation - How Does Wi-Fi Work?

This week Ms Kirkpatrick writing group are revisiting on writing explanations. For this weeks explanation we were to write a 5 paragraph explanation on 'How Does Wifi Work?' For those who dont know Wifi is a light which does not produce heat and is invisible to the human eye. Information from a Wifi network is sent through light, and electromagnetic radiation. Although humans can not see the light, the wifi discharges just like how nuclear explosion discharges Gamma rays which of course has a very high frequency. This is only the beginning of the journey so to learn more about wifi here is the link to my explanation.

Classroom Age - Fractions

 

 This week one of our set tasks challenged our fraction knowledge. The question was 'in the classroom, ⅔ of the children are ten years old. ½ of the remaining third are nine years old. Four children are 11 years old. How many children are there in the classroom altogether?' For this particular question Jeremiah and I had to firstly figure out the amount of students in the whole class. The answer to that part of the question is 24. If their were four eleven year old's and that is 1/2 of 1/3, that means that their are also four nine year old's. Lastly we subtracted eight from 24 then the rest of the children are ten years old. At the end we figured out that their were, four eleven year old children, four nine year old children, and 16 ten year old children

Newspaper Article - Cinema Attendance

This week Ms Kirkpatrick maths group examined a continuous data that showed the cinema attendance by age group and year. First we were to answer a questions based on the data. Jeremiah and I worked collaboratively together to answer it. Some of the questions were: In which year was attendance highest for the 25-34 age group? What happened in 1992 and 1994 to the attendance for 15-24 year old? How else could the data be displayed? It was really interesting to see that in 1999 15-24 year old attendance to cinemas increased comparing it to 1984 where it was really low. At the end Jeremiah and I were to make a newspaper article based on the data. We were make our own Newspaper headline and we decided to call our article New Blockbusters. Captivating or monotonous?

Human Body Quiz

Today for Inquiry Ms Kirkpatrick Inquiry group played a simple game based on the human body. There were questions that I've heard of before such as how many bones do humans have?, what is the smallest bone called, where in the body does most of digestion take place? I got a score of 10 out of 10 in 23 seconds. I was happy with my results because I did it before 50 seconds which some students in my class got. In this quiz I have learnt that the longest bone in our body is the Thighbone (femur) and that our skin is the heaviest organ in our body. 

Inquiry | Reflex Experiment

 

For inquiry this term we have been learning about the different body systems and Ms Kirkpatrick set up a experiment for us that helped us find evidence to support our learning of how our body systems help us in everyday life. The experiment was called 'The ruler drop test'. For this experiment we were to get in partners. Nickaela and I worked together and we did amazing job. Our first experiment was the visual test which meant our partner had to drop the ruler without saying anything to us. This meant the ruler could drop any minute or probably second. Our second test was the hearing test. For this test our partner had to close their eyes and the other partner had to say go and drop the ruler. Our last experiment was the touch experiment. For this test our partner had to close their eyes and instead of saying go our partner had to touch us and drop the ruler. This was the hardest test of all because sometimes our partners didn't touch us hard enough to feel it. At the end of the experiment we were to get into groups of four and make a bar graph that showed our results in each of the test. I learnt that girls have faster reactions than boys.