Report Writing About Cross Country.

Cross country is running. Every year Saint Pius X Catholic School have a running day, The junior syndicate run on school grounds, and the senior run out of school grounds, they run around the block. Every year the school gathers in the courts, and everyone sits in their age lines and get ready to run. First the junior’s run and when the two blocks band together then they start running and everyone that is sitting in the courts or out cheer them on.

When the juniors finish running, the senior’s leave, first the older people start off so that when everyone leaves they follow, 13, 12, 11, 10 year olds run, the boy’s start off, then the girls run, they line up at the starting line as soon as the block banged together, all the girls and boys ran.

They ran down the hill, past Melling Street, continued up a hill. They came past many dogs, vehicles and even people watching from their houses. Everyone ran, walk, jog and even stop just to wait up for friends. The track was actually up or down hill.

At each turn there was always a teacher waiting for everyone to run, if they saw someone walking then the teacher would tell them “Come on you're nearly there” and so they run. When everyone make it to the end they run as fast as they could and run straight into the courts and see Mrs Williams and they come either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. Then they receive a certificate.             

Multiplication

I am learning to use Multiplication strategies in level 3.

1.    When Jasmine makes lemonade she uses 6 lemons for every litre of water. How many lemons does she need for

i)     2 litres of water?   12 -  6x2=12 - 6 doubled = 12

ii)    3 litres of water?   18 - 6x3=18 - 6 tripled is 18

iii)   10 litres of water?  60 - 6x10=60

2.   Devinda is doing some baking. When he uses his mum's recipe he can make 8 muffins. When he doubles the recipe he gets 16 muffins. How many lots of the recipe does he need to make

i)     24 muffins?     24x8=? - 10x8=80 - 10x8=80 - 80+80= 160. 8x4= 32 +160= 192

ii)    32 muffins?     32x8=? - 10x8=80 - 80 tripled is 220. 8x2=16+220= 236

iii)   56 muffins?      8x56=? - 8x10=80 - doubled 5 times = 80 doubled is 160. 160 doubled is 320 + 80 = 400. 8x6= 48 400+48=448

 

Fractions

I am able to work out Fraction problems in level 3.

A farmer is selling some of his animals.

1.  The farmer sells ¼ of his 72 cows.  Show how to work out how many cows he Sell.

1/4 of 72.

72 divided by 4= 18

18 x 1 = 18

4 x 18 = ?

2 x 18 = ?

2 x 10 = 20

2 x 8 = 16

20 +16 = 36

36 doubled = 72

4 x 18 = ?

2 x 18 = ?

2 x 10 = 20

2 x 8 = 16

20 +16 = 36

1/2 of 36 is 18

36 doubled = 72 = 144

2. He sells ⅓ of his 45 pigs.  Show how to work out how many pigs he sells.

1/3 of 45

45 divided by 3 = 15
15 x 1 = 15

3.   He sells ⅙ of his 84 sheep.  Show how to work out how many sheep he sells.

1/6 of 84

84 divided by 6 = 14
14 x 1 = 14

Addition and Subtraction

I am able to work out addition and subtraction strategies in level 3.

1.  Maraea is saving to buy a cat.  In 3 weeks she has saved $9, $56 and $72.

Show how to work out how much she has saved altogether.

$72+$56+$9=?

$72+$8=$80.

$56+$1=57.

$80+$50=$130+7=137

2.  Tom saves his money each month to buy a dog.  In 4 months he has saved $36, $78, $203, and $123.  Show how to work out how much he has saved altogether.

$203+ $123+ $78+36=? -

$200+$120=$320

$80+$40=$120

$120+$320=440

3.   Te Ao is saving to buy a horse.  So far she has saved $17, $160, $72, and $148.  Show how to work out how much she has saved altogether.

$160+$148+$72+$17=? -

70+20=90-5=85.

150+160= 310+85=395

4.  Petelo has $ 147 as a present.  He spent $78 at the shop.  How much has he got left?

147-78=?

150-80=70-5=65

Religious Education

R.E - GOD

Today in Religious Education we were talking about God. The class and I were given a question about “What is something that makes us different from animals?”, we all tried to answer but we got the wrong ideas of what she wanted us to answer. That showed us that we weren’t listening and understanding her question. I thought about her question, first I listened to everyone elses ideas about ‘how we are different compared to animals’  and they were things that were the same to human parts. Next I shared my idea with Maxine which was ‘I thought that the question had nothing to do with the outer-body but it had something to do with the inner-body, then Maxine shared her thought that it had something to do with the ‘SOUL’ and she was right. God gave humans ‘souls’ but not animals, that’s why humans are different from animals, so when humans die their souls are lifted up into heaven.

Technology at Selwyn College

Today, the year 7&8 students from Saint Pius X Catholic School went to Selwyn College for Technology, the year 8 are doing Hard Materials and year 7 are doing Food Tech. Today in food tech the year 7’s made scones. We got split into five groups and we made different scones in different ovens and different equipment. Everyone made scones in different shapes and sizes. But all the same, they all turned out delicious. I love going to technology at Selwyn College.

My swimming experiment

Today was my first time in the swimming pool. As I walked backwards down the stairs I  entered the swimming pool, the warm water just hit me. Mrs Tui gave everyone a number, I was number 4. Our first activity was to streamline from one end to the other.  Then after that we had to do freestyle. Freestyle is very easy to me. The reason why we were doing freestyle and streamline was because Mrs Tui was checking if we could swim. We played a game and everyone had to make a starfish in the water facing down. It was awesome. Mrs Tui told each number at a time and they swam. Then it was time for us to get out, I felt so comfortable that I didn’t want to get out, but we still got free time, during free time I started challenging Leone, doing handstands.