Over the last couple of weeks.

Over the last couple of weeks room 20 has been learning a lot of new stuff.
One of the things we have been learning is Maths, place value partitioning.  PVP is a maths strategy.  example 346 + 234 =
You would split the last number into there houses so 200 30 4
And then you would go 346+200= 546
546+30 = 576
576+4=580


We have also been doing a challenge and it is a reading challenge .  The challenge is to read 20 books  in the 4 terms that we are at school. I have already read 6 books over the last 7 weeks. I am gonna try my best to read 20

Another thing that we have been learning is explanation writing .  There is 7 steps to explanation writing and it is plan, draft, revising and sharing, see teacher and type it up , edit and the last one is publish and reflect.


We  also  have a buddy class .  We see them every Friday and sometimes we help them with there uploading and then other times we prepare our vegetable garden but sometimes we play sports with them.


We have been doing youth town.  youth town  is something that we do every Tuesday. The youth-town people come and play sports with us my favorite game is capture the flag .  So these 2 teams and each team has a square on there side with a ball in it and the other team has to try get the ball with out that team tagging you.

Some people from room 20 have been doing service to the school and Im one of them. we have been going to different classes and helping with uploading to there blog. We have helped room 14 , 17, 28 and 29

Explanation Writing

My Reflection :
I have been learning how to write an explanation writing because we have been learning all about the whale rider and The Maori gender roles .  It was fun learning all about the Maori culture. I felt excited to write and explanation because I haven't done it much. At the start I found it tricky but then we read Anahita's explanation so then I new what to do and what the steps were to writing and explanation .  I can't wait to do another explanation writing.

Bias Chapter 8 of the Whale Rider Story

I choose these parts because It shows Koro Apirana being bias to Kahu. Koro Apirana is getting grumpy. . This is chapter 8 of the whale rider story. We had to go through and find the sentences about Koro Apirana being bias to Kahu. And this is what I found. I have highlighted these ones because It shows Koro Apirana being bias to Kahu. He is being bias because he didn't want Kahu to be a girl and Koro Apirana is getting angry because she is not a boy.  And in his family the oldest child is always going to be the chief . Also in Koro Apirana's family all the leaders have been a boy and they have no girl leaders .  So that is why Koro Apirana doesnt like Kahu being a girl
 Bias is  Focusing on one side of the story.  It could be forms of racism, sexism or other cultural beliefs.  It can involve people forming stereotypes.

My Reflection :
  I enjoyed doing this activate because I have never done it before but we have talked a lot about bias so I did know what bias meant .  Next time I need to work on finding more bias parts because I only found 3 .  

Reading Challenge

My Reflection:
Room 20 has been doing a reading challenge .  I have read 6 books already . Billion air boy , Thea Stilton, Timmy failure , demon dentist , tattoo mum and weirdo 2 . I find it a bit tricky to find books that fit the category's.   I am gonna try really hard to read all 20 books .

Peer Mediator Video

My Reflection:
Room 20 has been learning social skills this is of me being a peer mediator . I had to solve the problem of when Charlotte and Calvin were arguing .

Analyzing The Trends

                                                               Analyzing The Trends

Room 20 has been learning how to make graphs . 1 persons favorite animal is a panda, fish = 1,
tamarin=1 ,tiger=1, elephant=1, cat=1, bird=1,  dog=3 , leopard=2 and lion=

My Reflection :
Room 20 has been making graphs .  I did learn how to do this last year but I forgot. I love making graphs I think thats because I love maths.

Term 1 weeks

Over the last 4 weeks at school Room 20 has been learning a lot of new learning things . We have been learning how to make music with our body that means making music using our hands, feet, and  mouths.
We have also been having the youth town people come to our school to play sports with us . They come and play different  games with us every Tuesday. My favorite game is capture the flag you have to be good at running, dodging and working as a team.

 Room 20 has been listening to a story called the whale rider, and then we went and made a venn diagram about the story for those people who don't know what a venn diagram is about its when you draw two circles and then in one circle you would say what that character is about and then in the other circle you do the same thing but witha different character. You have to draw the circles over lapping because in the middle of it you have to write what is common to them both. I like this story because it is about New Zealanders. My favorite character is kahu te rangai .

One other thing that we have been learning is reading big numbers. My teacher said that you can read any big numbers and you actually can, even though they are big you can still read them . Example 2,455,346,36 this is 2 million 455 thousand 346 hundred and 36.