Term 4 Week 1, Maths: Two Way Probability Tables

 

For the first week of Term 4 at Pt England School we have been learning about Two Way Probability Tables, Two Way Probability Tables are used to sort different things in a Two Way Table to be able to find the Probability of something happening that is in the table.  

Maths: Confidence in Co-Ordinates

 

This week for our second of two tasks for this week we have been carrying on with learning about Co-Ordinates and using them on a real life map this time instead of a fictional map like on the previous task

Maths: Reading Co-Ordinates

 

This week for maths we have been learning about reading co-ordinates and how to solve problems with co-ordinates and vectors by navigating across a map and using co-ordinates to get to the final point of the problem and solve all of the problems

Maths: Geometry Challenge

 

This week for maths in lockdown level 4 we have been learning about geometry, we were learning how to translate shapes, using Rotational Symmetry, finding points of symmetry and learning about degrees

Maths: Introduction to Algebra

 

This week for maths we were learning about algebra. for our first maths task of the week we were doing a kind of introduction to algebra by learning how to understand algebra and use it 

Maths: Line Graphs and Understanding Them

 

For this week, Room 1 and I have been learning about Line Graphs and how they work. For this task we have been learning how to understand graphs and making graphs, first we were investigating different graphs to find out what they mean and the differences between certain things in a line graph. 

Emma Twigg: Inference/Evaluation

 

This week for our Reading task my group has been learning about Emma Twigg, a New Zealand Single Sculls World Champion. We have been learning about her personal life and her journey to becoming an Olympic World Champion in Single Sculls  

Olympics: Should the Olympics have taken place?

The Olympic games are a monumental event for all countries. Many athletes from around the world compete and represent their countries with their humbleness and sportsmanship in this world wide event. Whilst this would’ve been to do in previous years, the circumstances that we suffer from such as Covid 19 as well as being in a current quarantine. While vaccines have been administered to the public different vaccines have different capabilities and its effectiveness is varied throughout the different countries. Many athletes within the Olympics have been tested positive for Covid. Since July the first more than 75 people who were associated with the Olympics have been tested positive for Covid and that was before the Olympics even started. Coco Gauff, an american tennis player, although fully vaccinated, was tested positive for Covid 19 despite this fact. Also with contestants being so close to each other in certain sports events this can escalate the Covid spread even more. The Olympics although vaccinating contestants didn’t account for the transport taken such as if an athlete took a taxi to get to the Olympics or if they were on a bus. Those people on those taxis or buses could’ve spread the virus and no one would’ve known until it was too late. Some Olympic athletes choose to not be vaccinated anyway which leads them even more vulnerable than those who were vaccinated. This also allows for athletes of other countries to spread Covid-19 to other athletes of other countries that will take it back to their home country and spread it there. 

 

Ancient Olympics:Room 1

This week for my rooms first module we were learning about the Ancient Olympics and the differences between the Ancient Olympics and the Modern Olympics, In the Ancient Olympics there were much less sports, most of the years there were only sprints with and without armour, the Ancient Olympics also created and introduced the Discus and the sport, in the Modern Olympics they re-added most of the sports from the Ancient Olympics while also adding many more, in the Ancient Olympics, the Olympics were 3 days, but extended to 5 days in 5th century B.C but in the Modern Olympics they were extended to 2 weeks

 

Dame Valerie Adams

Dame Valerie Adams is a two time Olympic, three time Commonwealth Games Champion, She won a Gold Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom after the champion who got the gold medal Nadzeya Astapchuk was disqualified for doping after she failed the drug test, then continued to win a silver medal in 2016 and a Bronze Medal in the 2020(2021) Tokyo Olympics.

Kalani: Kei te pehea koe

 

Today for our first rotations of the term we were learning about feelings and how to ask how they are feeling .

Time: Time Problems

 

This week for our second Maths assignment we were once again looking at time. This time once everyone had a rough understanding of calculating time we did this assignment where the problems were a bit tougher but were still easy for me, we were finding time zones and doing more word problems with a clock

Kalani Measurement: Introduction to Time.

 

Our first maths activity this week was based on the measurement of time and an introduction to time. As I already knew much about time I flew through this task very fast and it was surprisingly easy as there were only basic problems 

Speech: Healthy Lunches Matter.

 Yesterday we were presenting our speeches and finishing them off, I was a bit nervous about presenting my speech but I managed to do my speech and this was what it turned out like.

Kia Ora my name is Kalani and this is my speech about Healthy Lunches.

As much as you want to bring & eat foods at school like, Macca’s, KFC, Chocolaté, Bakery food, and other sweet and tasty things, they aren’t actually great when it comes to the nutritional value of those fatty and sugary foods, but there are other foods that are healthy and full of nutrition that you should pack your lunch with more often.

There are foods like Fiber Bars, Muesli Bars, Fruit/Vegetables and a Healthy Sandwich but try to make your own sandwich as store bought sandwiches are not always as healthy as your own. You can also fill your lunchbox with snacks like, Lesnak, Snack-Sized Chip Packets, 2-3 Small Biscuits, and any other suitable snacks that are low in fat & sugar but still minimize intake of these snacks as they don’t have the best nutrition but aren’t as bad as the ones mentioned at the top

Try to avoid foods that are high in fat and sugar and eat more of the foods that are mentioned above at school as you are put at risk of diseases like diabetes, and blood clotting.

That was my speech about Healthy Lunches

Kalani: Area and Perimeter of a House

 

For maths this week we have been working out the Area and Perimeter of certain items and this time we were working out the Area and Perimeter of a House, To work out the perimeter you add all the numbers that make up the outside of the object and to work out the area you multiply the length by the width on a 2d Shape

Cybersmart Challenge 6: Tidy Drive

 This week we were going back to Cybersmart Challenge 6: Tidy Drive to tidy our drive and put our documents, slides and drawings into our folders and folders from last year and before to clean our drive

Maths Week 7 Fractions

 

This week for maths we have been learning about fractions, multiplying, simplifiying, and finding fractions between fractions

Term 3 Week 7 Extn Create Task Part 1

This week for extension we have been starting our create task and my group just chose ours today. Our group task was to look into nearby planets & future inventions that could help us get to that planet and establish ourselves a settlement. We chose to start at establishing ourselves a settlement by creating a mars base, our teacher Miss West let us use Minecraft Education Edition to create a 3d digital model for our create task, I have almost completed one model of a mars base.

 

The Jacket Part One

 

For this and last week we have been reading a chapter book called the jacket which is a book with the main characters being a guy named Phil and a guy named Daniel in a bit of an argument between a jacket with Daniel's jacket looking similar to Phil's brothers jacket 

FiaFia Event Review

 Yesterday on Thursday 3rd of June at 5:30 we had our school wide FiaFia, I was in the Senior Kapa Haka Group and was the first group on stage. My favourite group was either The Tongan Boys/Girls or The Samoan Group because the Tongan Boys were really fast like they were striking fear in your eyes and they were really loud and the Tongan Girls and the Samoan Group because they were nice and slow allowing you to understand the moves they were doing. My favorite part was doing the Haka, as shy I was and afraid of performing in front of large audiences I really enjoyed performing it. Something I learned was how it felt to perform in front a large audience of over 2000 people. If I had another chance to do FiaFia I would go into the Samoan Group as i've never done a siva samoa before and I would want to try and do it once.