Reading: Book Week | Meerkat Mail

 

This week is book week, to celebrate book week Mrs Anderson has read three of Emily Gravett's books and has asked us to complete three activities based on the books. The books that we have read are: Wolves, Meerkat Mail, and the Big Book of Fears. All three books were written and illustrated by Emily Gravett. The book we were read too, was Meerkat Mail. It's about a Meerkat who is getting sick of living with his family and throughout the week he went and lived with relatives who live a different lifestyle he is used to. At the end of the book he finally understands why he has to live like he does so he returned home. For this task I worked with Fraidon.

Reading: Book Week | Re-Design Cover

This week is book week for Panmure Bridge School. What we are doing for this week are a few challenges based on the books that we have read in our past, and about reading in general. For this challenge, we were to re-create the cover of a book that we read in our childhood. The book that I did was Noah Dreary, and I worked on this activity with Julian, and Fraidon. We had all read and loved this story, so it was an easy choice between which book we did this on. I had a lot of fun doing this activity, and I believe that Fraidon and Julian had just as much fun.

Our Remake:

Original:

Reading: Book Week | Alphabet Key

Around The World And Eighty Days	New Moon
Butterfly	Over Sea, Under Stone
Catching Fire	Peter Pan
Divergent	Queen Of Spades
Ella Enchanted	Romeo And Juliet
Fangirl	Star Trek
Glitch	Twilight
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire	Under The Never Sky
I Am Number Four	Vampire Academy
J.K Rowling	Wonder
Kite Runner	Xanadu
Lion King	Yeti And The Bird
Mockingjay	Zoomer

This week is book week for Panmure Bridge School. What we are doing for this week are a few challenges based on the books that we have read in our past. For this challenge we needed to do an alphabet key on book tittles/Authors. I did this task with the help of Fraidon and Julian. I found this task really easy and I will try to do harder challenges next time.  

Armistice Day: Drawing A Picture

For the last 3 days, we have been focusing on armistice day activities. One of the activities was to re-create an image showing the end of the war. This task was to be done either individually, or with a group. I decided to go with the second option, so I worked with Alex, Fraidon, and Ofa. We had a lot of fun doing this activity, and hope to revisit something like it soon. This was not too challenging of an activity, but really got us challenged.

Armistice Celebration: Collage

Since it's nearly Armistice day we were asked to make a collage with photos that is based on Armistice day celebrating. Armistice was the end of the war, on the 11th day, of the 11th month, of 1918. So it was a happy time for the world, so in this collage, we were to include the happy images of the past. We were to include photos that has people celebrating Armistice day including soldiers and people from around the country. We put photos of people celebrating from New Zealand, Germany, and Australia. Ofa, Fraidon, and I have made a collage also including newspaper talking about how the war is over. We have worked collaboratively together to finish this off.

Maths: Learning How To Solve Exponent Problems

Today for maths, we all learnt about how to solve exponent (Powers) problems. Our challenge for today was to

solve 18 problems based on our topic of exponents. This task had its ups and downs, although we all managed to
find the answers and solutions. Next came creating a DLO that showed how to solve three different problems of
the 18. To create this DLO I worked with Fraidon, and we had a lot of fun working, and creating together. In the
end, we chose to make our DLO out of these problems. 73 (7 to the power of 3), 142 (14 to the power of 2),
and 83 (8 to the power of 3).

                     

Maths: M&M's Presentation

Last week, we were given a small challenge. Our challenge was to collaboratively work with a group to produce a presentation about the chocolate lollies M&M's. We were assorted into groups for this task, so I was put with Mele, Fraidon, Junior, and Jaydon. To start this all off, we had to do some statistical work. First each and every one of us would make a prediction how many M&M's we thought were inside of a 45g packet. Next we would vote on which M&M colour was our favourite. This could be because it looked appealing to the eye, or maybe you have only tasted one colour. Whatever the reason, we all made our votes. Next we would go onto finding our results. As a group, we would open and sort out a packet of M&M's, and place each colour in a vertical line to make a bar graph with only M&M's. Although what would we do with the M&M's later? There is only one way, eat them. Now with our chocolate filled mouths we would begin bringing this all together. Using this data that we had collected, we would all create a pie chart, and a bar graph showing what we found. We would then place the two onto the google presentation. Next we had to go surfing through the internet to make a brief history on M&M's. This would then be prepared onto the presentation in bullet points. If you thought that was it, then you'd be wrong, as now we were asked to find a lists of interesting facts based on M&M's.Many people found many different facts. So many, that we eventually had the same ones. Finally, we ended it all off by comparing our data to what the MARS company (The founders of M&M's) had to say about how many of each colour they put into a packet. What we needed to do was use our findings of data to compare what they say about their packets, to what we got.