QwikQure

Last week my math group did a challenge called QwikQure. This is my slide and how I worked it out

To solve this problem I used times tables. So as it said on the slide Mr Morrison would finish his quicker than Rose. After I did this slide I did a challenge. This was very fun and I enjoyed doing it. 

Ice palace

This week my class have been reading a book called ice palace.
It was written by Robert Swindells and it was written in 1977.
First, we had to write two paragraphs about the main character called Ivan and the land that he lives on. Then we started reading the book. In the book, there is a person called starjik and he has wolves that he brings to the village each night and takes one child away and they are never seen again, Then Ivan's brother gets taken so Ivan goes looking for him. If you have read this book you could comment if you liked it.

Class trip to the landfill centre

On Wednesday my class went on a trip to the eco shop and landfill centre. First, we went into a room and someone taught us different mechanical parts in the landfill centre and how they work. Here are some things I learnt aluminium is not attracted to magnets and Christchurch dump can process 25 ton per hour and it takes Timaru dump 1 day to process 25 ton. After learning all of this we went back in the bus and drove towards another part of the dump. When we were on the bus there were boxes that had names on them like cardboard, plastic and glass and we had to remember at least three of them. After that, we went to the eco shop and we would pretend we had 500$ and we would buy stuff that we would use in an apartment. Then we went back to school.

Speeches

Last week my class wrote speeches. For my topic I did technology is making people lazy. First, we would do our speech in front of the class, then three people from each year group would go into the final to do it in front of the school. I got into the final. After we had done our speeches the judge would give out 1st, 2nd and 3rd certificates. I came 1st which I was happy about because I had worked hard on my speech. When I was doing my speech I didn't care too much about what position I was going to come because I had already done well getting into the final. It was hard to get lots of facts for my speech especially because my speech was about technology making people lazy.

Tiny houses

In my class for math week, we built tiny houses. The math involved with this was area and perimeter. for the area and perimeter, we had to count how many squares tall it was and how many squares wide then we had to times them by each other. This is me and my buddy's tiny house

When building this we there were things that were hard and things that we had to redo but then we managed to finish it and stick down all the furniture. We had to figure out how big some of the furniture was to make sure it wasn't too big so it could all fit in the house. It was good when some parts were hard so me and my buddy (Aliz'e) had to really think about what to do 

Art

For art this week my class had to choose a famous painting each and then draw or paint it. For my drawing I chose Son of man but I spent to long on my practice picture that I didn't get long to do the real one.