Category: Hanga | Create

This term we are learning about science and get to do our own experiments. Aukaha and I choose to do flying teabag. The first time it didn’t work due to the windy air and also because Whaea Jasmine lit it from the bottom instead of the top. To make it work we had to gather in a slightly less windier place and gathered in a circle, this time we lit it from the top. It then finally worked. My hypothesis was it would explode.

Here is a link to our slide.

I enjoyed doing this experiment and encourage you to try it.

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Today some of the years 6,7 and 8s had to learn about science. Two scientist came from the university of Canterbury and taught us about atoms. I learnt that electrons is the bit on the outside of the atom. The little ball in the middle is called the nucleus, the nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons.

We even got to make our own ones, here are some pictures.

Here are some pictures of the man pouring dried ice on the floor. The man has been fortunate enough to go to Antartica over 20 times! He body temperature in Antarctica was the same as a seals bum. He was even lucky enough to meet David Attenborough and Edmond Hillary.

 

I enjoyed learning about this and hope to learn more.

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During the past couple of weeks we have been learning about how to use past tense in maori sentences. Today we had to complete this list of 20 past tense sentences and whakamāoriatia them.

 

Here is the list:

1. The boys stood- I tu ngā tama.
2. The little girls have eaten – I kai ngā kotiro iti. 
3. Your father laughed – Kei te katakata tou papa. 
4. The small dogs have gone – I haere ngā kuri iti.
5. The smelly pig went – Kua haere te poaka haunga.
6. My beautiful girl laughed – kua katakata toku kotiro ataahua.
7. His cold horse ran – kua oma tana hoiho makarere.
8. The green trees have stood – Kua tu ngā rakau kakariki.
9. A long horse has eaten – I kai te hoiho roa.
10. The sad ancestors worked – Kua mahi te tupuna pouri.
11. My high mountain stood – I tu te maunga teitei.
12. The smelly pigs have called – Kua karanga te poaka haunga.
13. The skinny girls walked – I hikoi te kotiro hiroki.
14. Your yellow birds have flown – Kua rere tou manu kowhai.
15. The fat boys have eaten – Kua kai te tama nui.
16. A short woman laughed – Kua katakata te wahine poto. 
17. The good boy wrote – I tuhituhi te tama pai.
18. The fish have swam – Kua kaukau te ika.
19. The stupid dogs cried – I tangi te kuri heahea.
20. My baby has eaten – kua kai te pepe.

 

I really enjoyed learning about this subject and it has taught me a lot.

 

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In the past couple of weeks we have been learning how to retell Maori myths using google slides. This week we retold the story of Mako.

Here is a slide show I have made during the last week

 

What have you been learning about in your akomanga?

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In the past couple of weeks we have been learning about different graphs. We made a slideshow to show our learning. The graphs we learnt about were tally charts, histograms, bar graphs, pie charts, stem and leaf graphs, line graphs and pictograms.

Here is a link to my slideshow.

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Today we have been learning how to use a technique called B.E.D.M.A.S . B.E.D.M.A.S stands for:

Brackets

Exponents

Division

Multiplication

Addition

Subtraction

We used this technique to answer some math questions. Here are pictures of my math work:

This helped me to understand how to work out harder eqausions like these.

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As part of pangarau I have been learning how to calculate the volume of a cube/cuboid. I now know  how to calculate the formula, the formula is length x width x height.

Here is a picture of my work:

I found the multiplication tricky so I broke the bigger numbers down and found the answer.