A Guide To Learning All About Prime Numbers

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning all about prime numbers and factors. When we tried out factors and prime numbers we were given an activity that involves both factors and prime numbers. With the activity we were given there was a shoelace factory that had one hundred machines. These machines are what they use to stretch out the shoe laces, each lace comes ten cm long and once it goes through a machine it’s multiplied by that number(eg: once a lace goes through the number 5 machine it becomes 50 cm). One day in the factory they were given an urgent order for a pair of shoes that required the laces to go through the number 6 machine but the machine was broken so they instead used the 2 and 3 machine to make six. After this day the boss of the company realised they did not need the number 6 machine. Our task was to figure out which other machines were unnecessary in the company. Here is my DLO I created to show how I worked this problem out. I personally found this easy but one difficult part of it was actually trying to find the prime numbers because we had to check that they had no other factors. Have you ever tried factors or prime numbers for maths before?

Te Reo Maori From My Experience

Last week here in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to read/pronounce Te Reo Maori. With this task we were given we had to create a DLO(digital learning object) based on activities you can do on a sports field.  First we had to write  a script that had to include five correct sentences in Te Reo Maori. When we finished our script and it was marked finished we then made our DLO using our success criteria. Our success criteria was that we had to have our five sentences included, we had to have pictures related to the activities you wrote about and you must have a screencastify with you pronouncing all of your sentences. Personally I found this really easy and fun. I’ve always  liked learning about different cultures  but I find Improving my knowledge on my own culture can be even more fun.

Have you ever made  a DLO in Te Reo Maori?

DLO 

Mosaic Art

The last few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been trying digital art. The specific digital art we tried was to try create a mosaic which is an image that is put together by lots of little pieces or shapes an do that on a google drawing. To do this we first selected an image of an animal or someone you consider a role model then paste that to your google doc. Next you can either use the polyline tool or the shapes tool or both and once you decide which one you would like to  use you then color those shapes in the exact same color as the picture you choose and you continue doing  that until your whole picture is filled in. A quick tip, if you want detail on your mosaic it pays to zoom in on your picture. When we finished our mosaic we then deleted the picture we started with and added a background color  to make our mosaic stand out.  When I  did this art I found it quite difficult at  first because I couldn’t figure out how to do a specific part of the picture I choose but after that the task was really easy and fun. Here’s Mine

Have you ever tried any type of Mosaic art?

Universal Ball

Universal Ball

The last few weeks in  Te Ngahere for P.E our class have been playing a new game called Universal Ball. For this game the location we had to play was the basketball court which was kinda difficult for certain games. The way to play Universal ball is quite simple, you first split the class into two teams, then the teacher calls out a number and that’s the amount of people in your team that have to run around the hoop to the centre of the court. The teacher then throws a ball in the centre of the court and tells you which game to start  playing based on the ball( Eg: Basketball, Netball ETC…) and you play that game until someone on either team scores a point. When someone does score the people playing now  go back and the teacher calls  another number and the next people than get to play. This game is actually really simple once you get the hang of it and sometimes we even got confused about which game we were playing.

Te Reo Maori

The last week and a half in Te Ngahere we have been  learning 
to  read  in Te reo Maori. We started off really easy, we got a
book called “Nga Mahi Parekareka Kei Te Marae” which
translates to “Fun At The Marae”. First we practised reading
and pronouncing the words in Maori with the english
translation there too. Then we got pages from our book copied
onto pieces of paper and we had to cut out the pictures and
try match them to the Kupu (word). Than we started creating
fun games like memory.  When we played just like normally
but we had to be able to pronounce the word before we got
the point. I personally think pronouncing and understanding
kupu comes really easy to me. Have you ever played memory
in Te reo Maori?

Also here is the book “Nga Mahi Parekareka Kei Te Marae”

Matariki Feathers

For the last week of term two in Te Ngahere we got to colour
feathers in honor of Matariki.  Our class designs feathers every
year for Matariki but each year  we always have something
different like last year we wrote our goals on the back of our
feathers. This year we got to choose between three designs I
chose the second design. The colors I choose for my first feather
were random so it started off looking like a rainbow, this feather
didn’t take much time so I decided to do another. For my second
feather my colors included blue and gold I colored this feather to
resemble the Hogwarts house Ravenclaw. I had a lot of fun doing
this because I enjoyed picking the colors I used to design them.
Have you ever designed a feather in honor of Matariki?
Here is mine.

All about Rugby League

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we had the privilege to be taught League
rugby by a coach called Henry Wiki and one of his helpers, his
name was Jason. First our class was split in half while half went
out while the other half stayed in class. Once we got to the field
we started with stretches. Stretching before playing a game is
important because there is smaller chance of you pulling a
muscle. When we finished stretching we then practised our passes by
splitting into groups of three and continued to pass the ball
among each other. We then got to play an actual game of league
rugby. I enjoyed this because I learnt a lot about rugby I didn’t
know before. Something that I did not get was that Henry didn’t
explain the rules and how to play so it could have been really
confusing for people who have never played league before.

Have you ever played league before ?