Book week

Bonjour, bloggers!

This week it is book week! we have been celebrating a love of reading.

At Hornby Primary School we have had a number of different competitions and challenges. for example we had a “reading in unusual places” competition, we had to take a photo of ourselves reading in an unusual place. For example, upside down. Each class has also had a visit to our Matatiki Hornby Centre Library, this friday, we had to dress up as a book character. But, by far the most popular costume was Harry Potter. We have also had a Door display competition, our class, room 9&10, created the winning piece. We created a 101 dalmatians decoration for our door, but, we made a mistake. We made 112 dalmatians!

I hope you have enjoyed my work.

See you later!

The Amazing Characteristics of Comics

Bula, fellow bloggers! As a topic for our reading, we’ve been learning about comics. Comics are normally fictional graphic short-stories focused often on a wide range of characters. We’ve been learning about these because my whole group reads them.

We were given the task of creating a comic of our own imagination, or a book that we had read.

Below is my creation to show you all.

(The work left is currently unfinished.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have loved learning about these because of their intricate and precise design of comics and graphics.

Can you leave the name of a comic you love, or is special to you please? I would love to read it, thank you! 

Thank you to My wonderful teacher Whaea Abby, and to Hornby primary school for their support.

That is it, thanks for reading.

Independent & Dependent Clauses

Bula, fellow bloggers!

Over the last week we have been learning about subordinating conjunctions, dependent & independent clauses.

Independent clauses

Independent clauses are clauses that can stand alone and make sense. For example: I had to catch a different bus, is a independent clause because it can stand alone and makes sense.

Some more examples are: the screw won’t fit, the pie isn’t finished, you had a concussion, and are all independent clauses.

Dependent clauses

Dependent clauses are clauses that well, can’t stand alone and don’t make sense. But they can make sense, they need two things to do it, 1. a subordinating conjunction, and 2. an independent clause. An example of an dependent clause is “because I was late.” This phrase can’t stand alone and make sense and is therefore a dependent clause.

Some more examples are: because you have the wrong drill bit, after you bumped your head, because not enough people ate some, are dependent clauses.

Complex sentences

Complex sentences have both a dependent clause, and an independent clause. (To help understand the examples, dependent clauses will be in italic, where as independent clauses will not) For example: The screw won’t fit, because you have the wrong drill bit. Is a complex sentence.

 


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Division Is Long

Kia ora, fellow bloggers.

Division is a topic we’ve been working on in mathematics, It’s often confusing, but it’s fun to figure out. We use long division to do division problems with larger numbers, but multiplication tables can be used as well. One of our teachers, Whaea Therase, told us what to do, we had two word problems, and we had to use long division to solve them. my math group, Florence, Cleo, Elies, and Kurt, got to work immediately.

Solving

I was confused at the problem, 1113÷9 equals what? Well, I figured, 9 goes in to 11 once with a remainder of 2, so then the equation is 11213÷9, this made me think, why are we changing the equation? this is because of the remainder, the closest multiplicity of 9 to 21 was 18 so the remainder is 3 because the difference between 18 and 21 is 3 and 9×2 is 18 the equation is now 9÷112133. the closest multiplicity of 9 to 33 is 27 so then our answer is 123 remainder 6, because 6 is the difference between 27 and 33. 

Thanks for reading, Bye.

paper origami angel-fish (#11)

We have been learning about the summer learning journey.

Our task was to make an origami angel fish.

I feel as though this is some of my better work.

 

Origami is derived from two Japanese words, Ori (folded) and Kami (paper)

Origami has many names including orikata, origata, orisue, orimono, tatamigami, and others.

There are  approximately of 10-12 basic folds / maneuvers that are essential to build origami: Rabbit Ear Fold, Reverse Fold (Inside & Outside), Squash Fold, Swivel Fold, Pleat Fold, Crimp Fold, Petal Fold, Sink Fold (Open, Closed, and Spread).

Haiku (#10)

We have been learning about Haiku.

Our task was to create a haiku of our own.

I feel that this work is something to work on.

Here are two haiku I have made

 

Earth

 

We live on the earth.

Earth is filled with lots of life.

Earth is very old.

 

Fire

 

Fire is very hot.

Fire is always dangerous.

Fire can kill people.

 

Sports Day (#9)

We have been learning about different types of sports.

Our task was to go with our group across the road to Kyle park to do some sports run by Sporting Canterbury.

I think this was a great experience for all of me.

Here are a few  photo of some of the sports I was doing.

Groove Pizza (#7)

We have been learning about the summer learning journey.

Our task was to do a task from last years summer learning journey.

I feel extremely happy about sharing this sound track.

Here is are some sound track made on the program: Groove Pizza