Fractions

Hi, in problem solving we are learning about proportions and rations. I did it my maths buddy Mackenzie. We solved this question. Keahn invited 35 guests to his birthday party, however only five sevenths of the guests were able to come. How many of the guests were able to attended? Here is our working out.

This is our work.

Water Safety

Hi, today we did water safety at Pioneer pool for school swimming lessons. We were split up into two groups, the first one was boat safety and the other group was learning what to do when you fall out of a boat. I was in the second group. Here are some photos of me and my group swimming.

                   

 Do's                          Don't
Stay together             Freak out
Be calm                   Swim away
Stay warm             Try and find boat

Brazil facts

Hi, today I would like to share some facts with you about Brazil here are some Brazil facts.

Brazil was added to the map of the world during the European explorations in the late 15th century led by Portugal and Spain.

Brazil has the greatest variety of Animals of any country in the world. It is home to 600 mammals species, 1,500 fish species, 1,600 bird species.

The Amazon forest is the largest rain-forest in the world.    

Brazil is the only country in south America that speaks Portuguese.

Production

Hi, in a few weeks there is a school production called the Journey. It is about two aliens called Zoonie and Goonie and they got bored of space and travelled down to Earth. They went to countries all over the world and each class is a different country. We are Brazil Here are some facts about Brazil.

Brazil has the greatest variety of Animals of any country in the world.
It is home to 600 mammals species, 1,500 fish species, 1,600 bird species.

Brazil was named after a tree named brazilwood.

Portuguese is the official language spoken in Brazil.

The Greatest Showman comes to Hoon Hay School

Friday the 3rd of August in the morning room 15 did there assembly. The theme was the greatest showmen the song we did was this is me. What song will you do? Here are some pictures of our Assembly.     

Visual Maths

On Wednesday the 1st of August we did visual maths.We looked at a graph about emojis, then we got to make our own. I was buddys  with Emily-Rose and we did a graph about ice cream flavours. What will you do your graph about? Here is a picture of our graph.

Maths talk at Hoon Hay School

At our school we work with a maths mate and share our thinking with them. We ask questions about our maths and if we aren't sure of something, we explain how we do it. We know that 2 brains are often better than one and we enjoy working collaboratively. 

Today Mackenzie and I worked on solving this problem

Kyla, Mya and Grace went to the movies. Their tickets cost $14.60 each. How much did their tickets cost altogether?

Trip to the Art Gallery and the Museum

Hi, on the 13th of June we went to the Museum and the Art gallery. It was so much fun first we went to the Art gallery we looked at all sorts of different paintings we even got to do our own one. After the Art gallery we went to the Museum first we talked about the sun and the solar system did you know that the sun is a tiny star. Then we went to this space room you could go into the sun and you could run and it will count up your steps and tell you how many steps it would take you to run to the moon.

This is our solarpowered car its name is Mr Pushy

This is my Waka huia that the chef puts his feathers in

Camp

Hi, in Term 2 recently I have been to Woodend Camp. Here are some photos of me. My mum went to camp to my favourite thing was the zip line. 

Orienteering

Team Building

Air rifles

Waiting for the go carts

Koru Art

Koru Art

Here is my koru art based on the work of Raewyn Harris, a New Zealand artist.

You can look at her work by clicking on this link. I like the designs I have used. 

What kind of art do you like? Feel free to leave a comment about what you think.

Poetry

In writing I have used a poem by James K. Baxter as a starting point to write my own holiday poem. I hope you like it.

Abbey’s James K baxter poem

  Kaiteriteri was usual enough;

It had tall wavy green trees, large tents, white noisy seagulls, kids on bikes, and even a bar.

My Mum, Dad Sam and I did what campers do -
Eating, swimming, diving, walking, and laughing

Doing nothing important.

Welcome to my 2018 Blog.

  

This year I am in Te Kanawa's Marae - Room 15 and my teacher’s name is Mrs Peterson. 

I am very excited to share my learning journey with you this year.

I will be posting at least every fortnight so please check my blog regularly.

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Thanks, 
Abbey