This week for maths my friend Sam and I played two times dice, its a game we made up together. LPG 9

Writing

This week for writing we wrote our own version of what happened to Mr B's finger. The real story of what happened to Mr B's finger is his finger was chewed on by a Tiger at NewWorld. My version of Mr B's  finger is it got bent back and bit by a dog. Here is a picture of mine.

WONDER‼️

Friday 25th of August was the day Pod 5 finished reading the book WONDER which was about a deformed boy named August who was homeschooled until his parents sent him to a school named Beecher Prep. He meets a kid named Jack Will who is really kind and helps Auggie out. I thought it was a really nice book because it means that no matter how you look or act you'll always be you no matter what and by that I think it means a lot. At the end of the book Mr Tushman gives a huge speech and says that if everybody could be a little kinder than needed it would make the world a better place and I think that was very nice. Here is a picture of the front cover of the book.

MATHS‼️

This week for maths pod five have been looking at goals and working on them. My goal is Solve multiplication problems using a range of strategies (number 16.) This is the picture of what I did to practice doing it. I used three dice, one normal dice, one ten sided dice and one plus, takeaway, multiplication and division dice. Then I rolled the dice and wrote down the equation. I didn't work them out until I had wrote them all down.

CRAZY DAY!!!

August 11th was Crazy Day for Hurupaki so we could raise money for Kids Can. There were some crazy outfits at Hurupaki including Mia's crazy balloon hair and Bonnie's solar system body. I think everybody can agree that CRAZY FRIDAY was a blast. Here is a picture of Addison VE and my costumes. Hope you like them.😉

Maths

For maths this week we have been practicing LPG goals that we need to work on. My LPG goal was number 15 on the year 6 sheet: solve subtraction problems using a range of strategies. I'd roll one twenty sided dice and one 10 sided dice, I would also have a plus and take away dice to do them. Then I would take away 1 of the numbers from the other and show how I worked it out in different ways.

Maths

This week for maths my LPG was number 10: identity fractions. Around half of the class that need a fresh up with fractions work with Mr Buckland and the people who are good with fractions work with Miss Hacket. Here is a photo of my work.

Reading this week

This week for reading I did a story sequence about a story called Game Over. My LPG I was trying to work on was number 5: I can evaluate and integrate ideas and information across a few texts. Here is a picture of my reading response.

Writing this week

This week for writing we have been learning how to write a persuasive pice of writing. Here is the writing I have done this week.

Maths this week

This week for maths I have been doing maths like 64 x 12 = ?
Here is how you work it out.

64 x 12 = ?
60    10.         60 x 10 = 600
                      60 x 2 = 120
                      4 x 10 = 40
4       2.           4 x 2 = 8

And that is my maths this week.

Procedural writing

 Reacently Pod 5 have been leaning how to write a step by step ( also known as a procedural writing) pice of writing witch has been really fun. Here is a photo of my writing.

Highest Teeth

Recently Mr B has taught pod 5 a new maths game. It's called Highest Teeth. (Mr B didn't have a name for it so he asked me to make up a name for it so I asked my friend Addison to help me.) To draw it you need to draw in your maths book (I recommend to use a ruler and draw along the lines of your book) 4 squares along the top and 4 along the side, then you basically do an upside down staircase. Then someone will role a dice and whatever number it lands on you put in 1 of your boxes. Here is what it looks like.

  

In the end we called it HIGHEST TEETH

My Learning

This week my LPG that I chose is number 1 " I can select and use a variety of plans such as mindmaps and flowcharts to organise and generate ideas." This week we used a burger chart, it is a chart that is shaped as a burger. We used it so we can sort our writing out into paragraphs.

'Frog, Whistle, Mine' Writing.

Mr B has just finished reading ' Frog, Whistle, Mine' to Pod 5 and said that we were going to do a writing project that involves frog whistle mine, what we had to do was write what our favourite part of the book was and publish it on a frog shaped pice of publishing paper. Here is a pitcher of my one so far.