Reading Learning Story

In reading we read a book called buttons it is about the people who got executed in Germany, some were even kid's. Moriah school collected 1.5 million button's for the children that died in Germany. The button's Moriah school have collected are stored inside jars and boxes. They were trying to collect the buttons to remember the 1.5 million children that died. People from all around the world sent them to New Zealand from the Netherland's, France, Poland, Germany, Norway, the United States and Indonesia.

when we were reading we were trying to:

• find out who is the kaitiaki
•  look for key words 
•  identify what some of the words meant for an example (holocaust and concentration camp's)
• what they did to collect button's and how they did it. 

When we did our discussing and reading in a group and someone doesn't understand what I am discussing about I can:

• explain to them in a different way
• I can show them what I mean using information from the story
•  I can skim and scan through text to find information quickly
• I can pronounce some hard word's

I learnt that to complete their task they would have to:

• Make a plan about what they are going to do
• call a good friend of theirs to spread the word
• tell other countries if they would like to send some button's for the children that died
• make posters and stick them up were other people will see it 

I can use this information to help me achieve my community action inquiry.

In Reading I  need to improve on: 

Finding similar ideas in more than one journal story to find out more information about a topic. 

                     

How i solve a fraction problem by RICO

This is the problem that I solved. it was about Nash and Sia making fifteen lava lava. I knew that each lava uses 2/3 of a metre of material.

2/3 is 1 metre of material so we need to multiply 2/3 of a metre of material by 15 lava lava's=30/3 then I went 30 divided by 3=10
so it's ten whole metre's

First I did 2/3 then I doubled that which would equal 4/3 of a metre.This makes 2 lava lavas. Second it was hard to figure this out because it has 2/3 of a metre which would have some left overs out of the metre .Thirdly I doubled it by 2 so I can get closer to fifteen there would be one whole and one half and four lava lava. Then I doubled it by 10 and there was 12 lava lava I doubled it by 2 again so i can get closer to my answer which i got it . I worked out that 2/3 +2/3= 4/3 2/3+2/3=4/3=8/3 altogether I knew it was 8/3 because when you put two fraction's together you don't double the denominator only the numerator.

2/3+2/3=4/3 2/3+2/3 =4/3=8/3 I worked out that altogether it would be 1 whole and 6/3 of a metre so i know this because you can't have sixteen as the numerator so it's one whole and six thirds. They need a extra metre of fabric cause the one whole takes up
the whole metre.So then there is five thirds of fabric left the answer is one whole and six thirds that is the answer the left over is two thirds of the metre left.

this problem was a little bit hard but i still manged to complete it.I got the 2/3 from the problem.
the metre was very useful to use in my head.I used a imaginary metre ruler in my head.The answer for the left overs are 2/3 so they can make one more lava lava.    

my next steps are to improve in my math's

noho marae recount

When Ngati Aroha went  to the marae We did our rotations. what my group did is we were making the menu we were cuting papers out and sticking them onto cardboard to make them look fabulous we had to cut the cardboard out and make a triangle a and sticking them on both sides we had to make heaps and deliver them to the kitchen so they can present them.



After we went to play at the park we had loads of fun and wasted all of our energy.we had lost to much of our energy we went back to the marae exhausted and sweaty. we had to calm down and play sitting down games then after that we had dinner we had chicken and roasted veggies but unfortunately desert wasn't ready so we had to buddy up with one of the juniors and read with them me and my buddy read in the wharenui until we got called to come have desert. Then we had desert we had apple crumble and  ice cream sandwiches.


After dessert the 6 7 and 8's had played charades we had fun my group did things that wasn't from this decade Like prince.we did some funny signs we nearly won but the other team scored so quickly that it WAS A TIE  we got and extra turn and won .
Then after we all went to bed and said our pepe ha we all had to have a good night sleep i didn't have nice sleep for a bit because tapue was snoring and i only got to bed til he woke up .



We all woke up at the same time and kate walked in and turned the lights on we were all getting angry but we got up and gatherd our stuff and had breakfast we ate french toast cornflakes and toast with porridge.Then we wen't back to school