Maths - Fractions, Decimals & Percentages...

Kia Ora Bloggers!

In today's post, I will be talking about what I have been doing for maths recently.

So, for every topic of maths, we get an online workbook where we have to work through all of our questions. We usually get 1 - 2 weeks to complete this work, and when we don't finish it... you have some real explaining to do.

So, I thought I would show you some of that work and show some of my struggles as well.

So, our workbook was converting, Decimals, Percentages and Fractions into each other.

For example:

You have - 43/50, 0.91, 7/8 & 84%.

If I wanted to change them all to percentages I would have to.....

Here is a slide where I explain that.

Here it is:




I hope you learnt something from this and I know that the workbook I did really made me learn a lot and was actually kind of difficult. I think once you get the grasps of this, it can be really fun & easy. You just have to remember how to do it.

Thank you for reading this and again, I hope you learned something.
 I'll see you next time.

Nga Mihi

- Julia

Home Learning - Favourite Move..

Kia Ora Bloggers!

In today's post, it will be another one of my home learning posts.

Unlike every other term, this term, I and a few of my peers made up some of these ideas with the help of our classmates. This means, that it was made by students for students. This means, that although they will be a bit harder to do, they may also be a little bit more fun and a little less..... boring.

For our 'Home Learning' We need to do these things:

- Read for 20 minutes each evening at home

-  4 progressions or 40 minutes on Math-Whizz

- One home learning blog post each week

- Any extra things we need to do

If you would like to check out our 'Home Learning' through our site, here is the link.

This week the activity that I am doing is 'Favourite TV/Movie'.

Favourite Movie//Home Learning

So, I thought of a movie, my movie is Pixels and here is why it is my favourite movie shown below in a biteable.

My Favourite Movie on Biteable.

Thanks for watching & I hope you enjoyed.

See you next time!

Nga Mihi

- Julia

IN THE NOW... Present Tense Writing!

Kia Ora Bloggers!

In today's post, I will be sharing what we have been doing for writing this week.

This term our focus for writing is description. That means that we are working on writing in the present tense. I find this pretty easy to do as I have done it in the past.

If you didn't already know, for each focus, we have a workbook we work through and do activities/write on.

This week and last week, we have been preparing for our E-asttle test that is coming up very quickly, which is scary but we have also been doing things to help us with that.

Something we did was we looked at the rubric that our teachers mark us on and we marked other people's marking.

Today we marked our own pieces of writing with our editing buddy. It was actually kind of fun to do. We marked them on:

Ideas

Structure & Language

Organisation

Sentence Structure

Vocabulary.

Here is my piece of writing and how it got marked:

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The Forest of flowers.

Staring into the horizon, I can see the colours of the morning sun shining upon my face, creating shadows behind me. I can feel a peaceful morning surrounding me.  Breathing in & out, I can see the clouds of my breath, indicating that it is a cold morning. I continue to take steps, in the forest of trees and flowers.

Closing me eyes, I can feel the shallow breath of wind upon my face. Taking a step into the rows of flowers beneath me, I can feel the crunch of the flowers; as I turn around after I step, I see a trail of flowers springing back up after being crunched. Taking more steps, I glance down to my feet, my shoes are turning purple from the flowers. Staring into blank space, there are dozens of green leaved trees staring back at me.

I begin to dance around, I feel like a lamb on a cloud, prancing around, all light and fluffy. I can feel the flowers brushing my ankle, tickling me. Taking in a huge breathe, I can feel tension releasing. I can feel a clarity in the midths of a morning walk. I am a floating hot air balloon, flying free through the air, not caring about anything else but what is happening to me right now.

Creeping up on me, I can feel a massive gust of wind whooshing up onto me, clambering all over me, making sure I cannot go anywhere but down. A feeling of adrenaline attacks my body, flowing throughout my blood system like a hungry monster. I can hear the leaves swaying back and forth. An orchestra is formed by the leaves and flowers.

The flow of wind is a slapping hand to my face, trying to get me to listen. The hand doesn't understand me, it doesn’t listen because all it does is create havoc. The flowers are turned into a tornado of peace and harmfulness, the beauty lighting up the whole forest with a golden sprinkle of freshness.

Slowing down, the wind flow comes to a stop. My hair has become ruffled and I fix it. Stepping down again, I remember the beauty of this place and why it should be protected. Glaring into the sky, I see the sky has changed into day time.

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My marks:

Ideas = R5

Structure and Language = R6

Organisation = R6

Sentence Structure = R5

Vocabulary = R5

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed doing all of these activities and I hope you like my writing.

Thank You for reading this post.

See you next time.

Nga Mihi,

Julia

Home Learning: Poetry & Picture.....

Kia Ora Bloggers,

in this post, it will be my first Home Learning Post of Term 4!

Unlike every other term, this term, myself and a few of my peers made up some of these ideas with the help of our classmates. This means, that it was made by students for students. This means, that although they will be a bit harder to do, they may also be a little bit funner and a little less..... boring.

For our 'Home Learning' We need to do these things:

- Read for 20 minutes each evening at home

-  4 progressions or 40 minutes on Math Whizz

- One home learning blog post each week

- Any extra things we need to do

If you would like to check out our 'Home Learning' through our site, here is the link.

This week the activity that I am doing is 'Write a Poem'.

I have made a slide that has my poem and my picture so I hope you enjoy.
Here it is:

I really enjoyed this activity and the picture was really hard to draw it took me like over the span of a couple days, so maybe 2 and a half hours. Apart from that I enjoyed doing everything else. 

Thank you for reading & I hope you enjoyed.

See you next time. 

Nga Mihi

- Julia

Writing Activity!

Kia Ora bloggers, welcome to Term 4!

In today's post, I will be sharing with you an activity I had to do in class today for writing. Today we were reviewing and making sure we knew what Similes, Metaphors & personifications were.

We have 'editing buddies' who are people who we work with on writing, so we got with them and we had an activity of creating a poster about Similes, Metaphors and Personification.

I did my poster with Parwin, and we worked really hard. here it is:

It was pretty easy to do as we knew how to explain everything etc...

If I were to do it again, I would probably add more colour and be more creative with the way I did some of the sentences.

I hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time!

Nga Mihi

- Julia