Multiplication & Division

LI. To practise reciting all your times table. Today for the daily six I decided to do multiplication and division. I did all the seven times table, and the division. I am pretty confident that I can recite all the seven times table untill the 5th one but I still need practise to recite all of them. Learning the times table is important for most people because it can make more impact in your life when you get a job.

Keyboarding

Today I went on a website called ' A typing test ' to practise the home row keys and to get good at it. The time I had was one minute, my typing speed was 12 words per minute, my errors was 9, and lastly my accuracy was 25% giving me one star. I think I need to practise at typing super fast. I also think I could've done better, but until next time I will see the results.

Bow & Arrow | History

LI. To learn about defensive technology. This week for inquiry we had to create a slide presentation about technology that we chose. The technology we chose was the bows and arrows becuase we think it is a good source of defence and becuase it can shoot a far distance. We have present our technology that we chose to all of Mr. Wongs inquiry groups.

No personal devices in school

LI. To write a persuasive argument. This week for writing we had to make a screencastify to record our opinion about banned devices in school. I think schools should ban devices so that kids can lose interest apon social media. Devices have a light behind the screen preventing the person in front of the screen to sleep. We had to state our opinion at the first paragraph, then give our three reasons in one paragraph each. We then had to make a slide presentation with pictures matching the topic of the paragraph. After all this we had to make a screencastify about the topic.

A piece of Paradise

LI. To identify the purpose of narratives. This week for reading we had to make a slide presentation about the lessons or messages. We had to chose stories and base your learning on the story. The story I chose was ' A piece of Paradise '. The reason I chose this story was because it looked fairly interesting and it is interesting. The lesson this story is trying to teach is that you shouldn't fight over who is the best, who made the best thing and ect.

Stations | Activities

LI. To investigate the relationship between the perimeter and area of rectangles. This week for maths we had to create a slide presentation of the stations that had activities at them. We had to get into groups of four. In my group there was: Victoria, Alice, and Florence. Mr. Ogilvie had set up five stations each and we all did one exept for Victoria who did two because we were groups of four. At the first station we had to investigate the relationship between the area and perimeter. At station two we had to measure centimeters and then cut the centimeters we marked to make a house. At the third station we had to answer square root equations on a task sheet. At the fourth station we needed to cut a square out of Squared paper and try to see what the area and Perimeter of the Square is in Centimeters. Then you had to cut the square once to make a rectangle with the perimeter of 20 centimeters. And finally at the last station we looked at 2 x 2 and 3 x 3 squares and their differences. Then we were to compare the perimeters of a 3 x 3 to a 4 x 4 square and then compare the different squares with the area of the next biggest square. We looked at differences squares and then looked at their differences from the next biggest squares.

Inerschools rugby

Today we went to the Auckland university to have interschools with other schools in the tamaki cluster. Our first game was against Bailey Road school. We tried our best to win our first round but we drawed against them. We still did really good. At the end of the rounds we came first place.

Our last round we versed Sylvia Park School. We really tried with all our effort and fortunately won against them. We were happy and gave the Sylvia Park School hurrays and congratulated them.

We then went to watch the boys barbarians team. They tried very greatly and unfortunately lost all there games. We were still happy because they tried with all there effort too.

The year 7&8 boys worked really hard and only lost one game and the other two they won managing them to come 2nd place.

At the end of the day we all tried and had our best game for 2018. I think everyone who joined has participated greatly. I am greatly thankful to our rippa rugby team.