Maths W9

 This week for maths we made Maori patterns using: Reflection, Rotation, Translation and Enlargement. If you don't know what these are then I'll explain so Reflection is when you mirror the shape, Rotation is when you rotate the shape, Translation is when you move the shape up or down or side to side and Enlargement is when you make the shape bigger. So anyways here are my examples and finished work.

(Ignore the one on the top left that's just a mistake.)

Can you draw a Maori pattern?

Reading W9

This week for reading we had options for our create task. The one that I did was a Venn Diagram about the Canterbury Museum and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But before I did that I read two texts about them witch gave me some info to work with. I put down 4 similarity's and 4 different's on both of them. So here is my finished work.

Have you ever made a Venn Diagram before and if you have what was it about?

Reading W 7/8

 For reading this and last week we researched the Christchurch earthquake rebuild last week and this week we designed a building for Christchurch. First we needed to read 2 articles about Christchurch and take some notes. Then this week we designed a building for Christchurch and I made a Greenhouse and I was not the only person that thought of making one. Anyways here is my Christchurch Greenhouse.

What place do you think Christchurch needs? Bye.

My Statistical investigation

This week for maths we are doing a statistical investigation by colliding data on something. I did the population of NZ birds in the last five years and it has grown a lot. So after we got our data we put it all on a slide and we made three statements on our data. Anyways here is my statistical investigation slide about the population of NZ birds in the last five years.

Have you ever done a statistical investigation on anything? Bye.

Rescue Mission Onawe Pa

This week for math's we used Coordinates on a map to measure distance. When I came to the workshop we only got half way though the workshop so mostly everyone there probably didn't know what to do. So I went to another math workshop and I managed to finish my work. Here is my work with a description of Coordinates.

Step 1: Locate  Kaipoi Pa, St Francis of Assisi School in Otautahi and Onawe Pa.

Step 2: Find the distances between Pa's

63.8 km

Coordinates are measurements of area. So let's say your given 63,60 so first you will want to measure from the bottom to the right. Then measure from the bottom left to the top left. Then find 63 on the bottom then find 60 on the side then look were the two meet and there you go.

Do you know how to use coordinates?

Reading, Writing and Math's W6 T1 Pa week

This week at our school is Pa week so this week we are going to be learning lots about Pa's. If you don't know what a Pa is a Pa is a Maori village protected by a wall and most of them where built on hills. So this week for reading we needed to make a modern Pa ad if one was for sale. I put a lot of time into my Pa so here it is. Sorry that it's a bit blurry.

For math's and writing they were basically one task so what you will read and see will be both math's and writing. For math's we needed to make a Pa using math's. So me and my buddy Sid (Go check out his blogs) did exactly that and for writing we needed to explain what we have put in out Pa. I had a lot of fun doing these task and I learnt a lot about Pa's and here is our math's/writing task.

Do you know any fascinating facts about Pa's?

Any was that's the end bye!

Why does Australia have a similar flag to us?

 This week for writing we needed to write an explanation text. An explanation text is a text that explains a how or why question. So my question was Why does Australia have a similar flag to us? Surprisingly I manged to finish it in one day. I did a lot of research and some of it was very fascinating. Here is all of my work.

It may not look like a lot but there is only so much I could put in.

Did you know any of these facts and have you ever been to Australia?