Respecting cultrual tradition

Since this week is Samoan language week we have watched a YouTube clip that was talking about keeping the tradition of the Samoan Culture alive and the importance of respecting the traditions in the dances.  Zahra and I worked collaboratively to summarize the video. We selected 20 important words and from there picked the 6 most important words. Using those words we summarized the whole YouTube clip. I think summarizing is a very important skill to have because it can help you with different reading tasks because you can find a way to retell the information in your own words. I think I have been improving on this skill and hopefully I will master it. 

Fractions

This is my DLO on a maths problem our group has been working out. Since it is Samoan Language Week we decided to make a equation based on that. I think the working out of this was quite hard because it can be hard converting fractions into numbers. We had to change the denominator as well. 

BEDMAS

In this DLO this showcases my working out for BEDMAS. If you don't know what BEDMAS is it stands for brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. We had to use the grid to workout our problems so we had to start on 8 in question 1 we could move diagonally or across or even down but we weren't allowed to jump numbers. It was basically the same with question 2 but we had to start with 9 and the equation had to equal 43. 

Tech @ Tamaki College

Tech at Tamaki College was great. Today was our new rotation so we changed to graphics. This term we have to design clocks customized by our own. We first had to make a college about ourselves adding in pictures of what we like our favourite food and etc.  We then had to gather different types of clocks such as a digital clock or an alarm clock. I am excited to see how this turns out because this very different. 

Summary

One of our reading focuses was to summarize a book called Eco-rangers Save the Planet. As we red we wrote down some words that are important. So we started off with 20 words then cut it down to 6 most important words.  Now we made a summary with those 6 words. I think this summary was quite good and we used good choice of sentences to fit the words. 

Main Ideas

In reading we watched a you tube clip and listed some important ideas and sorted it out into groups such as "3 vital ideas, 4 very important ideas and important ideas". We did this as one whole group and negotiated on where to put the ideas in.  I think these are all in the correct place and have learnt lots about Recycling and how Auckland can make a difference. 

National Young Leaders Day award

In assembly me and the student leaders got a award from the National young leaders day. This award was about attending this event and got signed off by Te Waka Mcleod, James Beck and our School principal.