Pasifika Art

For our Art rotation we made Pasifika art they are inspired by Pasifika art. Maybe you could try make your own Pasifika art 

Maths Tasks Term 2 Week 5

This week for maths we did geometry (Maths with shapes) My favourite thing we did was the different views you can see that on slide 3 and 4. 

Learning pit drawing

 Today we have been learning about the learning pit and making a google drawing of one. The learning pit is basically a pit that's based on learning, you can get out by learning new things.

Hiwi The Kiwi

You may want to go fishing soon, right? Well I will be telling you about safety on water, how to look after our seabirds, catching fish and fun facts about fishing.

Fishing for the future is about looking after our sea. We need to fish for the future so in the future people can enjoy fishing like we do. 

It is easy to keep safe on the water once you know how to. Firstly, you need to always wear a life jacket when on a boat, kayak or canoe so if it gets into trouble you will just start to bob up and down in the water. It is very important to teach students how to swim, so that when they go on a boat and it happens to tip over they can swim to safety.

No one wants to catch a seabird, right? Always bring a bucket of water on your boat if you’re going fishing to throw at the seabirds to scare them away, because seabirds like the smell of bait, If they happen to swop down into the water and eat the bait without knowing it has a hook inside they will die sadly. Make sure not to drop plastic in the water because birds think it is food and if they eat it they won’t be able to eat anything else. Share the message SOS save our seabirds.

When you going fishing don’t forget these things. Bring a ruler to measure the fish to make sure they are not too big or too small, for example snapper must be 30cms, you let go of small fish because they are babies and if you take them you are stopping them growing so they can’t reproduce and have babies, and you don’t take big ones because they might have eggs in their tummy, if you take the big fish you could be taking lots of babies too! You need to measure them from the middle of the tail to the nose. Also bring some ice on the boat so they can stay cold, make sure to remember if they are saltwater fish put them in salt ice so they don’t go off. When you catch a fish pick it up with a wet towel so you don’t rub of it’s scales. 

You might be thinking how and why do we keep our seas clean. Make sure not to throw rubbish in the water or any where for that matter. Also please don’t feed seabirds because they could fly over the water and drop the food you gave them into the water causing it to pollute the water so the fish die. You do all these things to make sure that the fish don’t die.

Do you want to know some more fun facts about fish and fishing? Although jellyfish and crayfish have the word ‘fish’ in their name, they aren’t actually fish. Kaimoana is the Maori word for seafood. Did you know there are more than 3000 types of fish.

I hope you do all these things when you go fishing to keep the seabirds and fish safe.

Maths term 2 week 3

Over this week we have been making paper triangles, to build into towers. It is also part of our topic balance. I worked with my friend Emily here is a link to her blog  I think you should check her's out.

How to feel calm writing

How To Feel Calm

Are you ever mad or overwhelmed? Well I can help with that. Listen up as I tell you how

to feel calm.

First, how to know when you are overwhelmed. When everything is a bit much for you.

You feel like you’re about to break down and start yelling at people for no reason.

Also you need time to think and calm down.

Next, you go to kit kat. You might be wondering what you should do in kit kat,

you probably need to think about what’s wrong and why you are feeling

overwhelmed. Take deep breaths to calm you down.  Look outside at the

birds flying and hopping around, maybe look at the trees

(it is really nice in autumn)

You could think about a happy place, for example, bright and colourful scenery.

Full of candy and animals, you could even put unicorns and dragons in it

because you make it up. Also it might have a lot of nature if that’s your

thing like big beautiful trees to climb and play on.

You also may be thinking, how do I know when I feel calm. A sign of being

calm is smiling and feeling happy. That you start to focus on the positive

and not negative. It could also be when you don’t want to scream and

shout at other people.

I hope you learnt how to calm yourself down and to realise when you

are feeling overwhelmed.

Maths Tasks Term 2 week 2

 
This week maths was quite fun, I loved learning all the new strategies. I hope you like reading about my maths.

Balloon Experiment

Today in class we did an experiment with balloons, we had to try blow the balloon up into the air to make it float.

What went well? That the straw was easy to use
Were you able to balance the balloon in the air? Kind of it did go up in the air for about 2-5 seconds, in my mind it is more a success

Mother's Day Bookmark

Hi all, since it is nearly Mother's day in class we made our Mum's bookmarks.

I made it green and yellow because those are her favourite colours.