I can generalise properties of multiplication and division with whole numbers- Algebra

WALT: I can generalise properties of multiplication and division with whole numbers

First task link 
Second task link

My next step is to use this knowledge in my general day to day life.

Write an effective argument for our chosen political party

WALT: Write an effective argument for our chosen political party.

Have you voted yet? Well if you haven’t you should start thinking long and hard about who you are going to vote for because Natinal by fare have the best policies and the best man Bill English. Simply I strongly believe that National is the best party to vote for and so should you and in addition, you will get the most out of your life in New Zealand. For instance, they are going to make National Standards Information more detailed and available online for New Zealanders. Also they are allowing policemen to search cars and houses for firearms without a warrant in some cases, they also want to rebuild the hospital in Dunedin which is amazing isn’t it. So let’s start talking about Nationals first great policy for making national standards information more detailed and available online.

Firstly National have made a policy announcement that they are going to make National Standards Information more detailed and available online for New Zealanders. For example, National are going to spend $45,000,000 on making more National Standards Curriculum Information available online to allow parents to monitor their children to meeting the standards. This a great policy because parents need to be informed about how their child/ren are going at school. Also another reason, this is also a truly amazing policy is that parents don’t want to have to wait until their child/ren get there reports to find out how they're going because in result, there is no time to make them work harder to achieve there standards. Another astonishing policy National has announced is they are going to allow police to search cars and houses for firearms etc without a warrant in some cases.

Secondly National said they are going to allow police to search cars and houses for firearms without a warrant in some cases. For example, this means National are going to give police new powers to search cars and houses without a warrant. National estimates that, together with its other policies on reducing drug dealing, this would cost $42 million dollars over four years. Spending money this way is great because this will result in, a better healthier New Zealand. This is a great benefit to New Zealand because we want to make sure everyone who owns a firearm is using it for the right purpose otherwise, who knows what New Zealand will turn out like. Another reason, this a a good policy is that it we want to reduce the amount of illegal activities with firearms. As well as letting police search cars and houses for firearms without a warrant they have also announced that they want to build a hospital in Dunedin.

Last but not least National made a policy announcement they want to build a hospital in Dunedin. National believes the people of Dunedin and the wider Southern community deserve quality hospital care. But the Dunedin Hospital requires rebuilding because a previous plan to rebuild just the services block would cost too much for too little improvement. They have estimated it will cost $1.2 to $1.4 billion and would consider funding the construction through a public private partnership. For example, this is a wonderful policy because everyone in New Zealand need to be close to a decent hospital. So next is a very poor policy that Labour has announced for this election is about national standards.

Do you know what a absolutely rubbish policy labour are going to apparently do they are going to abolish national standards. This example, this means that national standards (Information about whether or not your child is achieving their standard ( yr ⅞ year 9/10 yr ⅚ ) ) will be gone and not used. Do you really want to be sitting round home wondering if your child is actually achieving anything at school I know I sure wouldn’t

however, National is going to make all national standard information more detailed and available online. in addition, if there is no national standards how do they figure out if your child is ready to aim for higher levels in their learning. Which results in, you not knowing how your child/ren is going at school. So what I am basically trying to say is don’t you want to know how your child/ren are going at school.

So there we go, I have told and explained to you why National is simply the best party to vote for. I strongly believe that National takes in and listens to make New Zealand the best it can be. So I have included, talking about national making national standards information more detailed and available online for new zealanders. Also they are allowing policemen to search cars and houses for firearms without a warrant in some cases, they also are going to rebuild the hospital in Dunedin. In addition, let’s get together and do this new zealand. Party vote National.

My next steps are: To be able to write a well constructed argument without much of a template set out for me.

Treaty of Waitangi

Appropriate Scales, Devices, and Metric Units

W.A.L.T Appropriate Scales, Devices, and Metric Units

Modelling Book.

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Task 4

World War 1

Letter Writing

In Writing we have been learning to: Write a formal letter.

We have followed the writing process and have planned and drafted a formal letter.

Here is a link to our online Modelling book. 
This shows the process that we have followed.

Here is the letter that I have written ( Link the draft of your letter here)

Here is my reflection on the letter writing we have done.

One thing that I found challenging about writing formal letters was figiring out what words to use so that the letter was a formal letter not an informal letter.

My next step is: look for more opportunities to put my letter writing knowledge into practice in the future.

Maths - Convert between metric units, using whole numbers and commonly used decimals

WALT Convert between metric units, using whole numbers and commonly used decimals.

I have found this goal interesting because it is different to the other parts of math you have to actually do physical activities, I really enjoyed this aspect of it. Overall an enjoyable challenge for my maths.

Here are the links to my work
Task 1 (I can calculate speed)
Task 2 (How fast can you run 1km)
Task 3 (Speed of my throw or kick)
Task 4 (How fast can you sprint)

My next step is to use this knowlodge in my generel life.

Maths - Integers and Decimals

In Maths we have been learning to….find the common multiples and factors of numbers.

Here is a link to our online modelling book

We have been solving equations for square roots, factors and multiples of numbers.

1. Readability
2. Accuracy
3. Relevance
4. Quality of language/ information.

This document shows the evidence that I have collected as I have completed the tasks.

My Next Step: Is to use this knowledge further by applying it to problem solving tasks and questions that I will solve in Maths.

I can describe the cultural narrative of the Southwest Zone

Librarian distiction #10

This week at librarian Johanna and I started of by putting away all the books then we went around the library looking to see if there were any books out of place after that Mr Hillary came into the library. He made a comment about the video of a guy with an American accent reading books that Mrs Ward set up for younger students. He said that the librarians should record a video themselves Johanna Mrs Ward and I thought that was a great idea. Mrs Ward said we could have a meeting some day soon regarding Mr Hillary's comment.

The care value I showed was respect because I respected Mr Hillarys comment and acted on on.

The leadership trait I showed was trustworthy because I turned up to my duty like I said I would to Mrs Ward.

Audition distinction #10

This week I voluntered to judge the talent show audition with Maddy we had three people to judge they were all year twos the first person to audition did a dance to "Beat it - Micheal Jackson" all I am going to say was that it was intersting and very long the secound person was doing jokes I have got to admit they were pretty funny he was the best of the lot but there wasn't really much compettion. The last one to perform was another boy doing gymnastics his perform went on for like 15 secounds so he got marked down for that all he did was a rollie pollie, cartwhell and rolled around the floor like a sausuage overall I bthink they all did pretty good considering how young they are.

The care value I showed was respect because I respected they are younger than us and not as capable.

The leadership trait  I showed was active thinker because I thought really hard about the scores we were giving out.

Reading - Evaluate Author's Purpose

In reading we have been learning to evaluate writer's purposes and consider how they have used structure and language to suit these purposes. (e.g.  I can make decisions about why the writer has written a piece of writing and how they have used particular structures and words to meet their purpose.)

Here is a link to our online modelling book

We have been evaluating how well an author has achieved their purpose based on:

1. Specific Language choices made by authors.
2. Specific Structure choices made by authors.

These documents show evidence of my learning during this unit:

• Types of  Author's Purpose
• Explaining how writers use structure and language to meet their purpose.
• Evaluating Author's purpose 1
• Evaluating Author's purpose 2

My Next Step: Is to continue to apply this new knowledge and evaluate texts as I read them, checking to see that the author is meeting their intended purpose.

Band Distinction #9

Today I got to band really late because I was having trouble unlocking the classroom my guitar was in so I only got five minutes of band practice but in the time we did have we had a run threw of the song we are practing ( Believer - Imagine Dragons ) We went threw the different strumming patterns amd when to come in and out. Then at the end we had to rush to pack up because the bell rang.

The care value I showed was: clean up after yourself because at the end when we had to pack up we did it fast and neatly.

The leadership trait I showed was resilience because I kept trying to unlock the door and didn't stop even though it took like ten minutes.

Librarian Distinction #9

This week at librarian Johanna and I put away the books in a flash because there wasn't many, then we went onto the desk to get and return peoples books thats my favourite part of doing librarian duty. When the line died down I went over to the computers to check out what books I still have to read for the forty book challenge so I can finish the challange by the end of the week.


The care value I showed was: Active thinking because I was active to go and make sure I knew what books I had left to read.

The leadership trait I showed was active thinker because I was active to go and make sure I knew what books I had left to read.

Choir distinction #8

This week at choir we started of by singing a warm up song then we did a few warm up exercises.  after that we practiced doing rounds which is basically you get a very simple song such as twinkle twinkle little star and one group will start singing it then soon the other group will start while the other group is still doing there own part. Something I did well was I shared my music book with someone because they forgot theres.

The leadership trait I showed was: Trustworthy because when if I forgot my book I would relay and trust someone else will let me look at theres.

The care value I showed was: Communnity because I helped other people out when it was needed.

Librarian distiction #8

This week at librarian Johanna and I put away the books in a flash because there wasn't many, then we went onto the desk to get and return peoples books thats my favourite part of doing librarian duty. When the line died down I went over to the computers to check out what books I still have to read for the forty book challenge I saw I still needed to read historical fiction so I asked Dabok if she had any suggestions because she has already read two books form that genre she suggested a book to me so I got it out.

The care value I showed was: Active thinking because when I didnt know what book to read for historical fiction I asked someone who was more than happy to help.

The leadership trait I showed was active thinker because when I didn't know what historical fiction book to choose I asked Dabok for some help.

Know the equivalent decimal and percentage forms for everyday fractions.

In Maths we have been learning:

• To convert between fractions, decimals , percentages and vice versa.

Here is a link to our online modelling book.

Here are the IXL screenshots that show evidence of my learning.  

The most challenging part about this unit of learning was remembering what the steps of finding your answer was.

My next learning step in Maths is to apply  this knowledge to help me solve a range of increasingly more complicated maths problem.

5/6 Winter sport distinction #7

This week on Friday I went to the year 5/6 winter sport hockey to help ref I am going to admit I was kinda nervous I reefed the B team because it was my first time when we got there I took the team for a warm up I took them for my hockey on a Saturday warm up none of them could keep up something I found hard when reefing was that sometimes I couldn't see who hit the ball out then some people would get angry at me

The care valueI showed was respect because I respected that some people might disagree with what I call.

The leadership trait I showed was motivational because when our team or the other team was hitting into the goal I motivated them to get in the goal even though it might not of been our team.

Librarian distinction #7

This week I went to the library on Wednesday. I started of putting way the books with Johanna then I went to the desk to check out peoples books for a while. Then it  got busy I was helping people use the laptops and a few younger students find book for there age group. I was showing I was goal focused because I was looking at the at the 40 book challenge photos and people were asking me where to find different genres of books they wouldn't usually read.

The care value I showed was: Be a positive role model because when I was looking at the 40 book challenge people asked me questions and where getting more encouraged to do it.

The leadership trait I showed was motivational Because I motivated people to read different genres and go out of there comfort zone.

I can apply the strategy to problem solving questions

I can apply the strategy to problem solving questions

Complete these three questions below

Answer:0.25

Explanation:

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Explanation:

I figured she could save money by walking to school and not having a hot chocolate because it would be free then I considered there might be a couple rainy days.

Answer:

Walk to school three days a week and not by a hot chocolate

Bus to school two days a week

Kelly will save $16.50 a week

Please note: a magic square is like this

6 1 5
3 4 5
3 7 2

Here every row and column equals the same - in the case above they all equal 12..

Explanation:

I simplified them all so the denominator was 6 for all of them then I had to determine the number in the middle I added all the numbers together which was 24/6 and three times 8/6 must be the middle number then I made all the columns add to 24/6 then I simplified them all to the table below.

Answer:

4/3 3/2 7/6

7/6 4/3 3/2

3/2 7/6 4/3