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Friday 23rd November Learning comes in different ways not just reading, writing + maths. This week I have been learning about: This week we have been practicing our play Little Red Hoddie. We have Faith, Rose, Lucy, Emily, Norrissalee, Jaymee, Cameron, Tanirau, Rania and Callum. This play is for the end of year prize giving. The play is going well but Callum was being silly though. This week we were playing softball and I’m really enjoying it **but** I just can’t hit the ball hard enough. I’m getting better at it and this week we were in split teams as well. This week I have been co-operation in our group time I let others have their opinion about something. I also helped Connor do his work as well. This week I have been self-managing by being good. But now we have a new reading box so we can be independent. //Friday 16th November// //**Over the last two weeeks I have been learning:**// //In topic we have been doing our animal kingdom, animal is the New Zealand Green Frog. The actives that we have been doing are a KWL chart, inquiry chart and a powerpoint slideshow planning chart.// //In maths I have been learning to read a plot of co-ordinates on a grid to tell us the postion of something. I have also been learning to review exponents and exponential numbers and I have been learning to express large numbers in terms of exponents.// //In reading I have been learning to find imprtant information and form my own opinion about the news article. This one was about: 30 motorists in Dunedin and Oamaru had engine problems filling their vehicles with water comtaminated petrol.// //Last Friday it was athletics at Pukekohe rugby stadium. We left school at quater to nine and got there at five to nine because the first race started ten past nine and I was in the first round.// //I only did the 200m and the 100m, I lost in both of them. But never mind that I had long jump, discis and shotput to worry about. In longjump I jumped 3.45m I did. In discis I through 16m I did. But in shotput I through 2.32m I did.// //Friday 2nd November// //**Over the last week I been learning:**// //In reading I have been learning to find important information and to form my own opinion about a news article. I have been doing this for Monday and Tuesday because was away Wednesday// //and Thursday. One was about "**Hamilton airport looks for new Aussie option**". Another one was about "**Launch on fire in Aucklands Hauraki Gulf**".// //In writing I have been learning to idenify simple, compound and complex sentences **so** I get good at it. I was learning how to create a compound sentence from two simple sentences.// //In maths I have been learning to add and subtract decimals with tens, ones, tenths, hundredths and thousandths.// //Friday 26th October// //**Over the last two weeks I have been learning:**// //In writing I have been learning about simple sentences. A simple sentence is a sentence which has a subject and a verb. Eg: I went to the beach. I have been learning about compound sentences. A compound sentence is two sentences put together with a conjunction in the middle. There are seven conjunctions they are **F**or **A**nd **N**or **B**ut **O**r **Y**et **S**o. Eg: I like bananas but I don’t like apples. I have been learning about complex sentences. Eg: I went to the beach. Simple sentence. Yesterday I went to the beach with my friends because it was sunny. Complex sentence.// //In maths I have been learning to describe in words the rules for a repeating pattern. Eg: ooo+2ooooo+2ooooooo+2ooooooooo+2ooooooooooo. The rule plus two.// //In reading I have been learning about thinking hats red, white, black and yellow. The red hat is feelings so the black hat is bad and the yellow hat is positive so the white hat is facts and data.// //In topic this term is Animal Kingdom. For topic my animal is the NZ fantail.//

//Friday 21st September// //In maths I am learning to convert fractions into decimals and add fractions & turn them into decimals. This is important to me because so I can get better at it. I know when I can do this because I will have more done.// //In writing I am learning to write a story with Idioms, Personifications, Metaphors and Similes. This is important because so I can get better at it.// //In reading I have been doing two thinking hats one was the black hat and the other hat was the red hat. Tis is important because so I know later what the hats mean.// //In topic we are still doing our Guitar Hero stuff but I'M NOT DONE.// //Friday 14th September// //Maths: In maths we are learning to do revision on all fraction work. Math work is going well because I got six out of eighteen so that’s pretty good. I know that I’m going well because I’m not getting distracted as much anymore.// //Reading: My story is about planet boring with a two headed boy that wants to go to planet earth. It’s hard to write about who’s who in the story because everyone has two heads. And also it’s hard to describe them because I’ve just started it.// //Writing: This week we have been writing about personifications. I’m learning this because so we can be good at it later in life. I will use this in writing to make it more exciting.// //Jump rope: On Thursday 13th September we had skipping for an hour. Everyone had so much fun much some people said that they did over 1000 skips and I did 731 skips.//

//Friday 7th September// //Over the last week we have been doing our plays with Mr T and Mrs Beere.// //With writing we are learning to write a play on a nursery ryme and make it into a play.// //With reading we have to read a story and highlight the words find the dictionary meanings and write a sentence for each word.// //With maths we are learning to enlarge simple shapes using a specitic scale factor.// //Friday 31st August// //Over the last week we have been basically doing book work all week and been adding and subtracting with fractions with Mr T and Mrs Beere.// //With writing we are learning to do and work out similes and metaphors. A simile is a sentence where you compare two things that are similar using like or as. A metaphors are like similes but do not use like or as. They compare things by saying one is the other.// //With maths this week the W.A.L.T. was; to enlarge simple shapes using a specific scale factor.//

//This weekend we are doing lots, I’m going to wash the car for mum for her and she will be very happy.//

//Friday 24th August// //Over the last week we have had four teachers their names were: Mr T, Mr Burton, Mrs Senior and Mrs beere. The whole week we the same but when Mrs Beere was here we did her stuff. On Friday we just finshed everything else.//

//Friday 17 August// //Over the last week with Mr T and Mrs Beere I have been learning more harder fractions and I'm learning more and more every day.// //With writing we are still doing our character description writing. With reading we read a story and copy the highlighted words intoyour book and find the dictionary meanings and sentence into your book. With topic we are doing our tour schedule we need to have the countrys, capital cities, ticket price, dates and times of concerts, song list and modes of transport.//

//Friday 10th August// //Over the last week with Mr T I have learnt how to play guitar hero on the x-box. this week with Mrs Beere I have been learning to do translations, rotations and reflections with shapes.// //With writing, we had to choose a picture and write about it.// //With reading, we had to sketch a character from a story and write facts and desription of the character.// //With maths, I'm still learning about fractions, but I'm still learning more.// //I would like to do next is beable to do very hard fraction equations.//

//Friday 3rd August// //Over the last three weeks I have learnt about maths, reading and writing. With maths I have learnt to do fractions with the same and different denominators. With reading I am learning to read an a4 page story and copy down the 12 highlight words into our books then get dictionary meaning for them and write a sentence for each of the words. With writing, we made up a pirate or a thief that steals or does something bad. This is the description of my thief:// //** Dear people of the land, **// //** I’m sorry to say that Billy Bob is on the loose once again. **// //** He is tall and skinny, his age is about 19 years old, he’s got a bald ,shinny head, and he looks like a guy going to a wedding. He has big fat,green eyes. He is a loving hearted man but when people wind him up he goes mad. **// //** He is very dangerous and will steal trucks and buses willy nilly. He will only steal at night, SO BEWARE. **// //With writing we had to write about the R @ W awards I wrote;// // __ R@w Awards __ //

// On Wednesday 1st August that night at Pukekohe High School it was __ R@w awards __that means that ten schools competed agenized each other school vs school class vs class even friend vs friend. For the __ R@W awards __ these schools used ICT products which help them learn how to use the products and programs on the ICT products. The categories at the __ R@W awards __were paint, PowerPoint, triptych, digital poster, Claymation, comic, Google sketch up/ podium, video ad and Google sketch up/stadium. // // We had that __ R@W awards __because so the children could show their work and so people can see what their child is capable of. // // The results for Mercer school was Syrus came second in paint, Laurisa came third in PowerPoint, Marama came __ first __ in PowerPoint, Faith, Emily and Rania came third in Claymation, Emily and Faith came second in comic, Rania came third in comic, too, Tanirau came second in Google sketch up/ stadium, Rose came __ first __in Claymation, Lucy and Tanirau came second in video ad and Rose came second in video ad. Callum and I made it into the finals for our Claymation and I got into the finals for my Google sketch up. // // Then at the end a lady came out and said __ Congratulations __to the people that got a place and __ thank you __to all the people that came tonight. //

//On Thursday 26th July a man called Tony came to talk to us all about vegetables and to grow them and how they grow. He talked to us about roots and all different kinds of vegetables and other kinds of fruit, he brought along his McCain pickup truck and he reeved it was a V8 and very noisy too.//

//Friday 1st June// //1. This /week I have leant to do an explaination with writing. With maths W,A,L,T,[We are learning to]: calculate the volume of a solid shape by using the formula lenghtxwidghxheight[lxwxh].// //2. My R@W stuff is going quite well Rosie and I are doing a comic strip and we're nearly finished it's about good tranaport to the olyempics. I've finished my google sketch up and clay mation ahh long story short we can't it until we have finished everything else with our R@W.// //3. THis long weekend my dad and I are going to finish our wooden truck.//

//Friday 25th May//

//This week school at I have learnt in maths easier ways to work hard equations like 137x14 or 999x99. I learnt two ways of working these equations, one is expanded form and I learnt another way it is algorithm. If it was expanded form it would look like this example; 900x6=5400 90x6=540 9x6=54. Then you + they together, then it would look like this: 5400+540=5940+54=5994. If it was algorithm it would look like this example: 545// //999// //X 6// //5994//

//With our R@W awards it’s not going very well because today is our last day for finishing off scenes and props for our Claymation and we haven’t even finished those things yet. I hope we get it done in time. We’re going to do this stuff at morning tea and lunch time so yes I hope we get done. This is very very challenging.//

//Friday 18 May// //I am learning to use algorithyms to work out 2 and 3 digit number times tables. Also we used expanded form as well.// //I am learning this because, so I can solve times tables better. I will know when have learnt it because I will be abill to answer equations.//

//Friday 30 March 2012// //I am learning to build Roman Modals made out of fome and cardboard. I am building a Roman Shopping Centre made out of cardboard. I Think our Rome city will be the best out of the year 5s and below & the year 6s and up. It maybe be close.// //**Shopping in Ancient Rome is just unbelievable people are coming from thin air. The products in Ancient Rome are everything from carpets to doors to toilets to baths. Millions of products are sold every day in Rome. When the royals want something their slaves will go and get it for them. Poultry sales don’t chop the birds’ heads off because so their customers have more bird. The pharmacists at their shops make their own medicines for their customers, instead of importing the medicines from other countries. **//

//Duffy assembly: Jackie Knight a athor came to Mercer School to tell us about her// //Friday 2 March 2012//

//I am learning to know more about Ancient Rome// //I am learning to know more about out topic because// //Friday 17 February 2012//

//I am learning to know more maths equations.// //I am learning to know more maths equations because I want to be smart.// //I want to learn more about our topic Ancient Rome.// //I have enjoyed swimming this week.// //Our family are going to the a & p show on Sunday and I can test my fixed remote control car.// //I 'm looking forward to next week because I can do some more swimming.//