3-digit Addition Strategies and rounding and compensating

WALT solve addition equations using a place value strategy.

When I first started place value was easy but the hard bit was rounding and compensating . I found out that  rounding and compensating is easy if you use your  head and it is just using tidy numbers. 

First Draft - Mahuika Show

 We are writing about our experience at the Mahuika Show. 

Once upon a time there were two girls called Sissy and Kahu. Kahu was trying to find Sissy because Sissy was hiding she was hiding because she didn't want to do any jobs. Nana had called Sissy and Kahu to come and help her with her jobs. But Kahu was complaining because Sissy never does her jobs. Nana left to do her jobs she left Sissy and Kahu alone Nana told Kahu to keep an eye on Sissy. Kahu had found a magic kete and had a look inside Sissy wanted to touch it but than the kete growled and Kahu dropped it Kahu tried to pick it up Sissy had grabbed the magic sticks from the kete and she accidentally made a fire Nana ran to help and stopped the fire but than she froze.Than WHAM Potiki the last remaining of Mahuika 's sons jumped out of the kete. 

 He explained that if they don't hurry and find Mahuikas mum than their Nana will turn to a piece of coal.Potiki takes Sissy and Kahu to the underworld to find Potiki's mum Mahuika before Nana turns to a piece of  coal. On the way Pukeko the angry giant bird kidnaps Potiki so Mahuika would stop the curse that she put on him. His beak is the only thing  that ever hurt his beak always was burning red hot like flames. The girls go searching for Potiki so they can save potiki and Nan. 

On the way they find a Manutukutuku, Sissy uses it to find where pukeko lives and than she finds out that she should have used it to go to the place where pukeko was right than. On the path Sissy went, she found piwakawaka. Sissy helped him and then goes on Sissy and Kahu meet once again.They meet Te Ra, Te Ra called Kahu bossy and calls Sissy Maui girl. Te Ra has two friends that serve him. Te Ra gives Sissy a riddle and he zips kahu 's mouth. Sissy has three guesses she has to get it right otherwise they won't be able to save Potiki or Nan. By surprise  she got the other guesses wrong she said are you a horse but Te Ra said NO, ooh ooh said Sissy are you a road NO said Te Ra she had one more guess and she did get it right Te Ra looked actually kind of sad but Sissy crossed it anyway. Pukeko at the same time was trying to make Potiki call his mother Mahuika. Pukeko said he had two gifts for Mahuika in exchange to lift his curse. When they went back to Nan and they were very relieved that she wasn't turned to a piece of coal.

Final Draft - Descriptive Writing - My Mum

WALT to write a description of our mum using precise words to create an image in our readers minds.

I am going to introduce you to someone special…

My Mum’s name is Erina she is kind , supportive and a loyal role model. 

She wears red and purplish glasses, she has night sky brown hair , freckles like me , brown glittering eyes and she always wears black pants and a tidy bun on top of her head when she goes to work. Whenever she is going to a party she always wears her pretty dresses.

This is what she does and does not do ...

She likes doing exercise , drinking smoothies , doing jobs and cooking dinner. My mum loves plants she has them all over the house because she is a crazy plant lady. She loves to watch New Amsterdam on Netflix. My Mum works at blessings for life so she looks after kids all day and night.

What we like to do together, why my mum is the best mum ever

I like it when we have ice cream together even milo's too. I love it when we have biscuits do baking, and fold the clothes. I love it when she makes stuff for us like our silver money boxes. My mum is always there for us that is why she is the BEST MUM EVER.

Ngāti Kurī Proud by Tim Tipene

WALT explore the various stories about why the iwi is named Ngāti Kurī . 

I learnt the five tribes of muriwhenua they are Ngati Kuri, Te Aupouri, Ngati Kahu, Ngaita koto and Te Rarawa. 

 A pa is the maori word for village

Tutted means it is making a noise in disagreement 

Sacrifice means giving up something for somebody else

 Ngati Kuri is the most northern iwi

 Mana means pride and respect

ANZAC Day

 On ANZAC Day we celebrate to honour the soldiers that fought for us in the war. Some celebrate by having a dawn parade . We call it a dawn parade because that is when the soldiers landed on Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915. We wear poppies and some people might wear their whanaus medals that they won when they were fighting. Poppies are special because they were the first flowers to grow on Gallipoli after the war. We go to memorials and sing , say prayers, say the ode and listen to the last post. At the memorials we lay wreaths on the stones and everybody lays their poppies on them. Veterans are old soldiers that fought in the war and survived. Veterans wear their medals proudly. They celebrate by marching at dawn parades. Some people might cry becuase of all the soldiers that died for us. There might even be whanau who died.

                                          Lest We Forget 

                                                     

Statistics

We are learning to (WALT) ask a question for data collection, create a survey to carry out a simple investigation, make a tally chart and create a bar graph. 

We learnt to understand and create tally charts we know to make 4 marks then cross the lines ( horizontal or diagonal ) to make the 5th mark. We have to ask a question to find out information ( data ) we show the data on a graph. We have been creating bar graphs.

America's Cup A-Z and Dear Future Me

We have been learning about the America's Cup Yacht Race.

WALT set goals for our future self.

Peter Burling was the youngest helmsman NZ has ever had. He set a goal when he was 11 to race in the America's Cup when he grew up. I am setting myself a goal for 'My Future Self'.