Camp Kaitawa 2019

This is a reflection of what we did on camp. I really enjoyed Camp because of all the walks and fun activities. 

Weeding at Hamanatua Stream.

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:

Letter to my future teacher

For writing workshops we have to write a letter to our teacher next year. We don't know who our teacher will be but we will find out the last week of term.
The success criteria we used was this:

• start off with the date

• To my new teacher,

• Hi my name is ........... and I am currently a student at Wainui Beach School. I want to tell you a  little bit about myself.

• subjects you like and why

• subjects you feel you need help with and why

• activities a school you like and why

• anything else you want to share

• I am really looking forward to meeting you 

• from your new student .......!

Here is my letter:

Wednesday 28th November 2018

To my new teacher,

Hi my name is Sophie  and I am currently a student at Wainui Beach School, I have 2 guinea pigs and a dog and I love animals. I want to tell you a little bit about myself.

I like maths, writing, reading, art and PE. I love maths because it's a challenge, writing because you can explore new ideas, and reading because it inspires me with new ideas and I like to read.

The subjects I need help with is spelling. I also want to learn more with maths, geometry.

 The activities at school I like are music, sports, arts, and gymnastics.

I love gymnastics and I am a step 4, and I love animals. I would also love it if you would give me homework. I like working in a small space only with a couple of friends. Next year I can't wait to be a year six and go on camp.

I am really looking forward to meeting you.

From your new student, Sophie.

Ninja Maths

Each week we have to complete 240 maths questions for our basic facts challenge. 60 a day. We have divisions and times table questions, most of them are easy but take a while to complete all 60 questions. In our book we draw out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays grid and then we get out the sheet on our chromebooks and copy just the answers in our books.  We are doing Ninja maths because we want to learn all our times tables because they help with a lot with maths. Here is an example of a ninja maths sheet:

My next steps are percentages, decimals and fractions converting them into each other. There is a game called decention and it helps you converting fractions into decimals and percentages.  

This is our new Basic Facts challenge helps with fractions, percentages and decimals.

This Town Poem

This is the original poem by James K Baxter. We altered it and changed it to have one of our own.



 The success criteria we used to write this poem was:
1. choose a place that we wanted to do the poem on.
2. do a brainstorm on what 5 places that are in the town that you chose. 3. pick 5 nouns related to the place 4. pick 5 strong verbs.
 5. Include; did what girls/boys do.
6. Include at the end, doing nothing important.
 7. At the start say: The ___________ was usual enough; it had:

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.