Basic Facts 2016

I have been practising my basic facts in class today. The basic facts goes from stage 2 up to stage 8. I tried to do stage 8 but I was struggling luckily my friend Pareata was helping me. I now realised that I still have a lot to learn.  This is my result for  doing this for the second time.  Not too bad but I want to get them all correct.  I will definitely do this again.

Writing T1 2016

We have been doing interesting things this week for writing. We have been doing narrative stories.

We have also learnt that there is more than one type of sentences starters and they are quite interesting and useful. You could start of your sentence with an Action beginning, Dialogue beginning, Sound beginning or a Setting beginning where you tell the readers where the story is taking place. All of these ways are important for Year 8's.

Speed Skills

Today's math, Room 7 learnt all about order of operations. Our whole class played a game called Speed skills to enhance our knowledge. If you wanted to learn more about order of operations you should try playing Speed Skills. It will challenge your sense of speed and will make you strive further. So if you want to improve your grades, I strongly recommend you playing this challenging game.

Maths week 3

For maths this week we have been doing geometry. We were all learning about 3D and 2D shapes. We had to draw lots of different shapes such as cone, cylinder, cube and triangular prism. It looks like this

 We first did a straight line pattern which we had to draw any straight lines across the rectangle. It ended up looking that this but it was fun.

Around the world

This week in Topic we have been researching the Rugby World Cup. We have been learning about  England which  is where it is held. Mrs Barry had us draw out our countries for Pool A and B. So far my countries are Australia,South Africa and England. Everyone in Room 12 has study England because it is the main country we are focusing on. So we will draw out Pool C and D after we have finished Pool A and B.

Maths

This week my group have been working in our math books . Mrs Barry gave us a worksheet to do in maths. On the worksheet we have been learning that problems like 34+ ?  = 51 and 51-34=?  have the same answer. If we needed help we just needed to ask our teacher Mrs Barry. But the main reason is the worksheet was challenging for me but I had asked my buddy Maia for some help. Before we worked on the sheet we needed to understand more about the strategies so we worked together on the interactive whiteboard until we understood, and then we can work independently.

Maths 3 july 2015

For today in maths room 12 have been going over our basic facts tests. But the stage 7 have been on a website that is called www.prototec.co.nz. Also we were working over Stage 7 some of the question were easy because it was multiplication, division, factors, square roots and power of. So next time I would want to try out stage 8.