Rounding | Time

Rounding is a math strategy that uses addition and division strategies.
Rounding means to circle it to the nearest ten, hundred, thousands, and more.

Addition and division are both operations the are used for rounding.
To round, the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set
of numbers like 5,7,1,9,3 and then add them altogether which would make 25.
Then divide them by the amount of numbers there are which makes 5.

Here comes the rounding part comes in so if the numbers are 5-9 they are called
high five and the numbers that are 0-4 they are called four floor.
Look for the last digit. Example: 21.85 now becomes 21.9 because 5 is above.

Rounding can help people to add and to divide to make maths easy or hard depending
on what level you are.

LI investigate units of time.

Kiwi Sport: Swimming

Today i practiced water safety skills at the lagoon pools.

The first skill I practiced was kicking. To do this skill well, I need to kick with my legs straight.

Next I practiced streamline. To do this skill well, I need to put my arms straight with them behind my ears. 

After,  I practiced backstroke. To do this skill well, I need my arms straight with both hands holding the board a line with my hip.

Then, I practiced backwards kicking. To do This skill well, I need to push stomach up and keep my legs straight while kicking.

Lastly I practiced how to swim down to the bottom of the pool and through the hoop using any swimming style.

LI - To develop knowledge of water safety. 

Reading - Explain The Idiom

LI - To practice using explain the idioms.

An idiom is a phrase that means different things from what words should usually mean.
For an example "Piece of cake".
"Piece of cake" is used for an end of a sentence saying that something is really easy for people.
We had made three idioms. The three topics for the idioms are, have mixed feelings witch means not sure for how you feel. Then we had done mumbo jumbo witch is something you can say for something that is totally nonsense or doesn't make sense. Last we did hot potato witch means something is hard, difficult and dangerous for people to do.

Tangram

Reveal - Tells reader what we did.

Today we learnt how to make tagrams. I rearranged the pieces to make some animal shapes. First I made a square piece of paper because tangrams are made from a big square. Then I folded the square into various shapes and cut them out. Lastly, I tried to put the square back together using the tangram pieces.
I enjoyed learning how to make a tangram even though it was a bit difficult.

Early New Zealand Exploration.

Kupe and Cook are two important explorers in New Zealand  history.

Cook arrived to New Zealand in the 1769's. Cook wanted to find New Zealand in order to map New Zealand for the world. Cook followed the birds witch lead him to New Zealand.

Kupe found New Zealand in the 1100's. Kupe arrived to New Zealand to start a new life and a new village. Kupe followed an enormous octopus witch helped him find New Zealand.

Kupe is important because he was the first documented person in New Zealand.
Cook is important because he mapped New Zealand and opened it up to the world to access.

Simple sentences

This week for writing we learnt what a simple sentence was.
First we watched a video witch explained what a simple sentence is. Next our group had to reorder mixed up the sentences. Then we had to write five of our own  simple sentences.
I created a mixed up simple sentence slide for others to use. I'm looking foreword to the others using my simple sentence.

Question Marks

LI - To identify and learn the different punctuation's I can use.

This week for writing we did different punctuation's as our learning. For my group we chose to do the question mark as our punctuation. We had to write some good examples and some bad examples about how to use a question mark.