Anne Frank - Home Learning

This term our home learning is based on a character or person . This week the person we got to learn about is Anne Frank which you have probably  heard. Anne frank is a Jewish girl, back then if you were Jewish you would get killed. This young girl had a diary which has over 25 million copies in different languages she would record what it was like to be hiding. This girl is one of many heroes. For this task I worked with 

Author's Purpose

In reading I got to make a reading can do. This can do was about , to understand the reason the author wrote the text and the skill was reasoning. So we had to read an current article that we had to find from a website I used kiwi kids news. We then had to pick what the author was trying to do was the author trying to Persuade, Inform or to entertain.  I wrote Inform because one of my reasons was that " I think the author was trying to inform us because the author of this article said "Kiwi NBA star Steven Adams is back in New Zealand for three basketball camps in Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington." This states that they are telling us where he is going to meaning what part of New Zealand he is staying. 

Picture Prompt

Yesterday we made a DLO based on sentence starters. I made 3 stories about a picture prompt. So our first sentence had to start with once upon a time and you had to introduce that character.  Next you had to talk about where the character lived. The third sentence is supposed to be about his or her's power or special ability. Fourth sentence had to be about the problem fifth had to be about her feelings and emotions that is happening. The next sentence is supposed to be about how she or he's solution to the problem. The trick to make it a bit long was to add comma's and complex sentences.  I really enjoyed this activity this really helped me with my story starters. 

Maths Challenges

In our Maths time our whole class  got to challenge our-self in Quizizz's . The questions were based on timetables, decimals and ETC. I thought this was fun because I got to challenge other people in the class that I normally don't challenge.  Our main focus was to challenge each other as a class and to challenge our teachers.My teacher came first which was a big surprise.  I came 5th because I got 1 incorrect. Next time I want to get none of them wrong so I can come first but congratulations to the Mrs Anderson that placed 1st and the rest of the people that placed. 

Maths Challenges

In our Maths time our whole class  got to challenge our-self in Quizizz's . The questions were based on timetables, decimals and ETC. I thought this was fun because I got to challenge other people in the class that I normally don't challenge.  Our main focus was to challenge each other as a class and to challenge our teachers.My teacher came first which was a big surprise.  I came 5th because I got 1 incorrect. Next time I want to get none of them wrong so I can come first but congratulations to the Mrs Anderson that placed 1st and the rest of the people that placed. 

Cross Country

Today we had our cross country fun run , the three runners that place 1st,2nd and 3rd will make it in the
cross country inter school next week Wednesday. I thought today was really fun we ran 4 laps around half of the Dunkirk field. Since it was raining and wanted it to be fast we did year 7 and 8 together but places each other separate.  I am really proud of the people that placed , I am also proud of myself because I came first in my year group and 2nd with the year 8's. 

Decimals

Our learning intention was find place value in decimals . In our maths we have been learning how to translate decimal numbers in to words so we can get a clear idea of decimal place value. So for example say it was 67.8 I would say it is sixty seven and 8 tenths. We also had a mixture of doing it the other way round for an example sixty two and nine tenths so now we would write it into number form so this would be 62.9. I predict that I got most of it correct but some maybe incorrect because I wasn't quite sure of the equation.  I thought this was really hard because one of my weak strengths in maths is decimals but I think I have improved since the start of the year. 

Cross Country Training

For the past 3 weeks we have been training for the Cross-Country Inter-school and trials.  By doing this we have been gaining Endurance , as in improving stamina rate. This will help us to keep going without stopping.  This week we had to run 4 laps but the people that wanted to trial had to run 5 laps, I ran 5 laps because I wanted to gain more Endurance. Luckily I didn't stop the whole way. I enjoy doing this I can't wait to do 6 laps next week.