Show Me Maths

This week we used our maths to make a Show Me video. I made this video with my maths mate Sammy. The question that we had to work out was 49 x 3 we used 2 strategies, place value and rounding and compensating. 

Watch the video below to see how we worked it out.

Friendship Recipe

This week in Room 18, our class have been writing about a friendship recipe. We had to write a recipe about what ingredients we would put in and how to make it. This is how I would like my friend to be. I hope you enjoy.

How To Bake The Perfect Friend

Follow these simple instructions to bake the perfect friend.

Ingredients

1. 1 cup of kindness
2. 2 cups of goofiness
3. 1 Tbsp of laziness (powder not liquid)
4. 1 ¾ cups of trust
5. Tbsp of blue or green (you choose) food colouring
6. 1 Tsp of sportiness
7. 1 cup of energy  

Material

1. Wooden spoon
2. Baking tray
3. 1 large bowl
4. Baking paper
5. An oven
6. Rolling pin
7. A GIANT person cookie cutter

1. Preheat the oven to exactly 170°C (150°C if fan forced).
2. Prepare your baking tray by putting the baking paper over it.
3. Stir in your kindness and goofiness into a bowl.
4. Stir your trust into the same bowl and stir until creamy and pale.
5. Grab your sportiness and energy and put them into the same bowl, stir until pale.
6. Put your tsp of blue (or green) into the bowl until it is the colour you put in.
7. Mix well with the wooden spoon.
8. Get 2 pieces of baking paper and lay them on a flat surface.
9. Put the dough onto the baking paper and sprinkle the laziness over the dough and rolling pin so it doesn’t stick.
10. Roll the dough until it is one or two centimetres thick.
11. Put the cookie cutter onto the dough and push on the cuter.
12. Get rid of all the excess dough outside of the cookie cutter.
13. Lift gently onto the baking tray.
14. Lift your baking tray and put it in the oven.
15. Wait 15 minutes or until skin colour.
16. Wait a couple of minutes for your friend to cool down when cooled it should pop off the tray.
17. Have fun with your new best friend.

Sentences

Every week in Room 18 we have to write down 5 spelling sentences. We not only have to write down the sentences but we also have to get the meaning from the dictionary. 

Here are my sentences for this week:

Spelling Words	Dictionary Definition	Complex Sentence
Spelling Word Example: departed	Leave, especially in order to start a new journey.	I departed for America so that I could be reunited with my family.
Spelling Word One: Receded	to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point;withdraw.	When I was sitting on the beach I noticed that the waves receded back to sea because the tide was going out.
Spelling Word Two: Exasperation	an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.	My mum looked at me with exasperation when I told her that once again I left my bag at school.
Spelling Word Three: Drenched	to wet thoroughly; soak.	I tramped up the rough hill while it was pouring down with rain so when I got back to the lodge I was DRENCHED.
Spelling Word Four: Dormant	lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid:	The speaker suddenly woke the dormant crowd by singing then he started to speak again and they all went back to being dormant.
Spelling Word Five: Emerged	to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity:	One night every year, one ghost EMERGES from the grave to haunt a little boy named Billy.

  

Animal Report

For the last week we have been learning and writing about an animal. My animal I chose was a Flying Snake. First we had to gather all the information and put it on a document in our own words and then we wrote the report. 

                                    

Here is my report:

Did you know their are 5 types of Flying snakes? There are the Paradise Tree snake, Moluccan snake, Indian snake, Golden Tree snake and the Twin Barred Tree snake. The Flying snake’s scientific name is Chrysopelea and also the snake is a reptile. They can grow up to 1.2 meters but some of them can only grow around 61 centimetres but the smaller the better because the smallest are the best gliders. The Flying snake belongs to the family Colubridae because they are mildly venomous to their prey but are perfectly fine to humans.

The Flying snake is found in lots of places but mostly in the jungles of south and southeast Asia. They live in jungles so they can climb and glide off trees to be protected from predators. All the different types of Flying snakes live in different places. Here is where some of them live, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, parts of the Philippines, Singapore and southern Thailand.

The Flying snake has a long thin slender body. Most have slimy yellow scales on their back which are framed with black edges. Some have a stripe of red going down their back or have a bunch of red on the top of their head. They can camouflage into the ground so they can get away from predators easily.

The Flying snake is a carnivore this means they only eat meat. They have small fangs that poison the animal. Their poison is venomous to humans. They only eat rodents, lizards, frogs, birds and bats. They also don’t have the right kind of teeth to chew animals so it eats them whole.

The female Flying snake lays 6 - 12 eggs in May or June but the eggs hatch in June. The hatchings are 15 - 20cm long and their colours are the same as an adult but just brighter.

Have you ever wondered if Flying snakes really fly? They don’t really fly, they glide from tree to tree. They flatten their body up to two times their width from their head to the bottom of their tail. Once they have flattened the body it goes into an U shape to make it like a parachute so they can glide down to safety. Some Flying snakes can glide up to 100 meters without touching the ground but sometimes that doesn’t work out and they crash land, on land.

Flying snakes have a lot of predators but their main predator is King Cobra. To escape from him they use acrobatics or gliding. Also their colours sometimes scare predators away. Some snakes roll over or play dead when confronted by their predators.

I don’t think many people have heard of the animal Flying snake that’s why I wanted to do it for an animal report. I thought before I started this report it was just a boring little snake that had a cool name but then I learnt that it glides and it doesn't like the King Cobra and lots more. I hope one day I could learn more about Flying Snakes so I could teach other people more about it.

Bibliography

National Geographic

Creationwiki

Mom.Me

Animals, Animals and more Animals

Second opinion doctor

Wondergressive

Māori Colours

In Room 18 we have been learning the colours and how to ask what is this colour or what colour is that.Today I will share my learning with you by sharing how to say it in 
Māori.

He aha te tae o tēnā?

What colour is that?

He ______ tēnā. 

It is ______. 

He aha te tae o tēnei? 

What colour is this? 

He ______ te tae o tēna. 

It is _______ (That colour is _____).

Colours in Māori

Mā - White

Kikorangi - Blue 

Kākārki - Green 

Whero - Red 

Mangu -  Black

Parauri - Brown

Karaka - Orange

Kowhai - Yellow