Can You Follow Directions?

Kia ora today(03/05/21) we are back in class doing a reading test that our teacher Whaea Becks gave us and this test was about following directions. We did this exercise to show ourselves how bad we are at reading things carefully and I think the teachers were trying to teach us to follow directions properly. This test was thought to be easy but it was the opposite because we didn’t do what the first direction told us, instead we went through and read the direction at the same time as we wrote it. The first question was read every question carefully before doing anything but I didn’t really understand that and thought it meant read the question then write what it says right after that. The second question was put your name in the upper right hand-corner of the paper, I thought that was an easy direction but after that I started to write more answers and failed because we were only supposed to do 3 directions out of the 23. The last direction said now that you have finished reading  everything carefully  do only direction 1 and 2 then flip the paper and quietly draw on the back. I thought it was hard trying to read some of the directions properly, but I found it easy writing everything down. 

How well can you follow directions?

 My Perfect Education.

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to pronounce Maori properly on a site called education perfect. Education perfect is a site where you can learn multiple subjects like algebra, history and languages. We had to do language so we could learn how to pronounce the Maori language. We were learning how to say things like place names,te arapu Maori(alphabet in Maori), greetings and things like that. What I thought I did well was being able to listen and see if I was saying the words correctly, but maybe next time I can work on slowing down and taking my time to say words with macrons like Māori.

Have you ever heard of education perfect?

Surfing A Smart Wave.

Yesterday in Te Ngahere  we were doing something called smart surfing, smart surfing is how we learnt to keyword search. Don’t worry I’ll tell you what a keyword search is. A  keyword search is when you search something in Google by using keywords, also you’re not supposed to write words like how, what, do, did, or is . We found that typing keywords alone is better than writing the whole sentence because if you’re writing a question like what does a cat eat it will show up with a lot of links that have the word what multiple times in the text. What I found hard from this piece of work was having to find what were the keywords but beside that everything else wasn’t to hard.

Have you ever heard of keyword searching?

 What’s The Point

In Te Ngahere I have been learning how to use place value to add decimals to 2 places.  The easiest way for me to add 2 decimals together is pulling the number behind the decimal point(which is the tenths column) away from the whole number in both of the numbers then add them together separately. I think this is the easiest way for me to add using decimals any number over 0.9 is a whole number and adding numbers like 0.4 + 0.9 is easy  because I know how to do that, my teacher showed me how to use this strategy. I found it hard trying to do this at first because I just learnt how to do this yesterday (29/03/21) but once I got home my mom showed me an easier way to find the answers for addition decimals.

Do you know how to solve any decimal equations? Here’s a photo of my work---->

A Successful Task

 A Successful Task

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing something in our groups called taskmaster and the task we were doing was called copy the picture. where there is 1 drawer and 2 runners we’ve done this twice since we did this taskmaster activity(taskmaster is a show people are on to do specific tasks). Here are the rules 1. The drawer can not move from their seat, 2. You can switch runners but only 1 person can be running at a time, 3. All team members not drawing must run at least once, 4. Runners can not touch the paper. In my group Angus, me and Charlize. I was the drawer while Charlize and angus were the runners they had to walk outside and try memorize what was on the teachers paper  and come tell me where it was exactly without pointing or touching the paper. What was hard the first time I did this was trying to tell Angus where the picture went because that time I was a runner. What I think worked well was how we collaborated well and also it was really challenging not running inside. But the second time was easier because we got more done than the last time and it also changed a little bit because we had another person in our group that wasn’t here last time just the hard thing about the second time was I got yelled at a lot.

Have you seen the programme taskmaster?

Here is a photo of the picture I drew and the picture my team member drew----->

 My Food Web

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning about food webs. A food web is a diagram that shows you how the predators get their energy. First we had to learn what the arrows mean and we learnt that the way the arrows blunt side is facing is the organism being eaten so that means the organism/predator with the point facing to it is the thing eating the other creature, here’s another way to put it, the energy from the animal which they ate is transferred to the predator of that animal. Also we had to find which birds ate the berries and I found out rats eat everything on the web except the kowhai berries. Here are some reasons why my food web is different to Whaea Becks one example 1 she has the coloured coded arrows, example 2 mine is very messy    example 3 she’s finished unlike me. This was really hard just trying to figure out which animal ate what, but the easy thing was figuring out which way the arrow pointed.

Did this help you in any way? Here’s a photo of my teachers food web and mine--->

The Water Surge

Last friday my family went to Oromahoe because there was a surge in the water that everyone thought was a Tsunami. When the Tsunami sirens went off we just got to school so my Mum let us come home with her. We picked up my Dad, his dog and my grandmother. As we rushed to Oromahoe my Dad stopped at the R&S Auto Service Repair shop just out of Haruru to get my cousin. When we got to Oromahoe we were safe, but we were just as scared thinking about what could have happened that day. So then for the rest of that day we stayed in Oromahoe playing video games, tag and running around for no exact reason. when we went back home we realised that there was no damage to the house or not even a Tsunami.

What would you do if there was a Tsunami near you?