Te Poho O Rawiri Marae Visit

As we setup our beds underneath the kowhaiwhai my heart thumped with excitement. It had been a busy day with lots of fun activities and now it was nearly the end.
Parents started to arrive and everyone lined up outside the wharenui. It was time for the display night. 

First up was the Nui kapa haka.  We sang songs, swung our poi and the boys did the haka. Jump jam was up next. We danced to "Captain Jack." All the ukulele groups performed then all the parents left. Now it was time for what I was most excited for; the sleepover.

The lights switched off and everyone snuggled into bed. Bonnie and I shared a single mattress. It was really small. We talked until midnight than waked up early the next morning to someone snoring. 

The marae trip was a great experience. I learnt lots traditional games and even learned a new song. 

It was a lot of fun!                             

A traditional maori game                                              Ukulele

Nui Kapa Haka

Getting into bed

Electric Village

This terms inquiry topic is retro tech. For this topic we went into town and went to electric village. Half of the class went to the tairawhiti museum and the other half went to the electric village.  I preferred the electric museum and that is what I will be informing you on today.

As soon as we got there we huddled around the electric bikes on show. We talked about electric vehicles and how much they have changed over the years. Did you know that electric vehicles are really old  but nobody used them in the olden days because they were really expensive. After that talk we talked about how electricity gets to your houses so fast and what is used to get it there. Next was free time. We could go on the electric scooter, play with robots controlled by ipads or play with wooden blocks on the road map.

I really enjoyed my visit to the electric village. I learnt lots and I will definitely going back with my family. 

Here are photos of us at the electric village.

Probabilities With Socks

For the last couple of weeks at strand we have been working on Statistics. Also probability, and that's what I will be informing you on today.
We tested this by reaching into a paper bag and pulling out socks. In the bag was 2 purple socks and 2 blue socks. We pulled out 2 socks and saw if they were odd or a pair. We did this theory lots of times to see what our final answer was. We found out it was 50% chance to get a pair and 50% to get odd.
After doing this we added in another purple sock, then we tried to find the percentage. To find out this answer we did a graph. This was my graph:
We found out that 6/25 was the answer to getting an even pair of socks. Also 6/25 was the answer of getting an odd pair of socks. This means there is a 12/25 possibilities of getting a odd or even pair of socks. This is a screencastify of myself explaining this in more detail:

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Culture Club Finale

On Friday the 7th December, Moana Learning Hub shared their presentations about Culture Club.
We could do it in buddies or on your own. We had to pick a country and answer questions about it and write facts and extra information. On the 7th of December we shared them in front of the class and their parents.  We had to dress up in the national costume and bring in the national dish from the country we chose. Here is Miriam and mine presentation about India:

Adding Decimals

This is a video how how to add decimals.
 I found it easy because i knew how to do
 algorithms, but found it tricky when we started
adding larger numbers. My next steps are to
add and subtract much larger numbers up to the thousands. 

Science fair project

This term we have been doing science fair projects. I did my project with Carys and I was What Fingerprint Pattern was most common. This is how we tested our experiment:
1. We went around each class at this school and chose a boy and a girl from that class.
2. Next we dipped their thumb in a ink pad then rolled their thumb on a piece of paper.

Prove It Video Maths - Finding a fraction of a whole