Escape from Afghanistan

In Reading we have been looking at a nonfiction story about a mother
and her daughter escaping from Afghanistan. They have gone through
rough things to try and get to another country for a better life. As we
know Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places. Take a look to
see what I have found out!!

My Maths Goals

In Maths I want to accomplish a lot of things. 

I want reach the Year 8 strategy level or maybe even higher. The reason being is that I want my strategies to improve and also the people I work with. I want to surround myself with people who will help me reach my goals instead of those who will bring me down. Also I want to improve my maths whizz age. 

Maths Problem Solving

This week we are learning to do multiplication in parts to solve problems.
In other words learning to use the partitioning strategy. This is when we get
the big number and we split them into parts. When then take a part at a time and
multiply it by the number given to us. We do this for all the parts. By the end we
will at least have 3 eqautions and 3 answers as we had 3 parts. We then add all the answers
together and then that is our overall answer!
Enjoy!

Converting Fractions

In Maths we have been taking this excersice to help us with our conversions. 

The conversions is from percentage to fraction then lastly to decimals. We stay on this excersice for 15 minutes a day and then we do our practice work as we have already got the strategy in our heads. At the end it gives us a score and we have to try and beat it the next day!

ENJOY!

Maths Whizz Learning

In Maths Whizz I have been learning about Decimals converting into Fractions. In my test I have to drag a line to which decimal is the exact as the fraction. This will help me improve my learning in Decimals and fractions. They are also in equilateral decimal forms which makes it quite harder. Hopefully I will get a 5 out of 5 which will earn me 30 maths whizz coins!!

Narrative Writing

This week we have been learning about descriptive vocabulary to make our
narratives more interesting. We were given a picture and had to write about it.
We first planned the narrative with the narrative writing structer you will see on
the first slide. Then I wrote the story on each slide. Take a look!!

Who is Gemma Flynn?

This term we are looking at NZ athletes and the story behind
them being in this years Olympics. Marilyn and I have chosen
to do Gemma Flynn. We found out a lot of things we didn't know
about her before and have listed them down in the presentation. Hope you enjoy!!!