Basic Fact Boxes

Today I decided to try the basic fact boxes challenge. I did the speed demon challenge up to 100. The time I got was three minutes and twelve seconds. I thought that the questions weren't that hard but I did have some trouble. I think that I can do better next time.

LI: To rapidly remember basic math facts.

Recount | Daily Routine

For writing, we wrote a recount about our daily routine. We picked a day to write about. I chose last week on Friday. The purpose of this activity was to find out what was important to us so that we could understand what political party we would vote for.

First, I planned out my recount. I noted down the things I do, before school, at school, after school and after dinner, which are the main parts of my day. Once, that was finished, I picked four of the things that I do in those sections.

After that, I wrote my recount. Some of the things I picked to write about before school were: personal hygiene and changing into my uniform.

When, I finished writing down my events, I wrote my ending. My ending had a personal reflection. I wrote about what I want to do the next day and what I want to change about my day.

I enjoyed this activity, and I found it easy to write about last week on Friday. I think that I could write in more detail and make my recount more interesting.

LI: To write a daily routine recount.

Governing Topics | Election

Governing topics are the policies that parties wish to provide to the country and people. The important topics to me are 'Education' and 'Health'. 

The education topic is about how the government should spend money on schools.

Health is about keeping people healthy and providing more money and preventing getting sick to help during the current outbreak.

If I voted and chose the governing topics, I would chose health and education. I would choose education because education is very important to me as I am a student and currently learning new things. I would also choose health because I want to be healthy during these times.

LI: To choose important governing topics by summarising all topics.

Class Blogpost | Inquiry

I wrote a class blogpost for the inquiry task. It can be found here.

Safety Plan | Fire

This week, we assessed the risk, hazard and consequences that could happen while lighting a fire and making s'mores over the fire, then doing it in person. We made a safety plan for making a fire and for making s'mores. 

First, we discussed the hazard and risks for the first safety plan. Then, we wrote down the hazard and risks. A hazard while making a fire, is the fire itself. However, the cosequences could be getting burnt by the fire.

After writing down the hazards and risks, we talked about what the cosequences could be, how we could prevent it, who is responsible for it and the emergency plan.

Next, we made another safety plan for making s'mores with the fire. We repeated the process but made different hazards. After making the safety plans, we went onto making the fire and making our s'mores.

Mr Ogilvie lit the fire and started to demonstrate how to make the marshmallows. After the demonstration, we made the s'mores.

I found this activity quite hard because I couldn't cook the marshmallows without burning them.

LI: To assess risk with a safety plan.

Time | Statistical Investigation | Rounding, Division & Addition |

Rounding is a maths strategy that simplifies a number to the nearest, one, ten, hundred and ect. Addition is a maths stategy that connects a number to another number. Division is the process of sharing/separating a number equally. Doing a physical activity and using that activity to make a statistical investigation is a good way to use a lot of strategies at once. For example: bouncing a ball fifty times, five times is what a person can do.

To round a number like: 24.83, people usually look at the last decimal which is '3'. If the number is 0-4, people should round down. If the number is 5-9, people round up. The last decimal point is 3, so round down. When rounding down, the second number does not change. The number changes to 24.8. If the number was 24.27, round up. The second number would change to 24.5.

When adding a decimal number, people round the number to make it more easier. Adding decimal numbers is like adding whole numbers. If the equation was: 17.46 + 19.39. Add the 0.06 and the 0.09 together. 0.06 + 0.09 = 0.15, because the 10 shifts to the tenths column. Then add the 0.4 and the 0.3. 0.4 + 0.3 = 0.7. After that, add the 0.15 and the 0.7. 0.15 + 0.7 = 0.85.

Dividing a decimal number is the process of sharing the number equally, between things. For example: if the equation was, 95.55 ÷ 5. First divide 95. 95 ÷ 5 = 19, because 19 x 5 = 95. Then divide 0.55. 0.55 ÷ 5 = 0.11, because 0.11 x 5 = 0.55.

These maths strategy can help people get quick at answering equations and also help with future events.

LI: To investigate units of time. 

Kiwi Sport | Cricket

Yesterday, the girls from LS1 had a cricket session with coach Nick and Sam from Auckland University Cricket Club. We were learning the basic cricket skills.

First, we got a tennis ball and tried to clap as many times as we could and then catch the ball. The highest I reached was eight claps. We attempted the same thing but with one leg only. The most claps I got was four. We did as many star jumps as we could while the ball was in the air. I only got one star jump.

Next, we got into partners and passed the ball to our partners without dropping the ball. My partner and I got 65 passes. Then we passed the ball to our partners with one hand only. We got 47 passes with one hand.

The last challenge was to hit the ball off the 'T' as hard as we could and get as many runs as we could. There was a feilding team and a batting team. The team I was in won with 24 points.

I found this session very tiring. I also think that when we threw the ball into the air and tried to get as many star jumps as we could was very challenging.

LI: To learn new and basic cricket skills.