Last week for maths we were learning about percentages. And we got to make a poster about a sale and calculate what the price was before the sale and after. I chose to make a poster about cakes and sales. Here is my poster. Would you buy it?

This week we have been learning about percents. I made Canva poster For my Circus show It Is 45 Percent of do you Know the Answer from 150? Its $67.5. It wasn’t my favourite Math lesson  I like different ones  better but it was still okay. Have you Learnt percents yet?

Kia Ora,

Upstairs in RM 10, us tamariki have been learning about algebraic questions. Learning that when you are solving big math equations fast, simplifying a word down can save so much time! For example, you have one more step to complete your equation. You worked out every step and now you have to figure out this last bit… 54000071 x 3! WOW you think to yourself, I don’t have enough space to write that all out. Instead, Im going to give that number a letter(a). So the simplified equation now becomes, a x 3. It still works out to have the same answer, just saves space.

Our Teacher gave us a task to explain how to work out x + 9 = 21 on camera. For this activity, I used an app called  Screen cast to record my problem solving. I like working out algebra because its similar to riddles. An easy Way I like to work it out is writing out the question, for example, x + 7 = 42. To figure out what x equals, you need to start from right to left when working out. So it would look more like this 42 = 7 + x, now we need to change the = & + to = & -.

42 – 7 = 35, so your answer would be 35. To have a look at this visually, here’s my video. I hope You have learned something new.

In math we had to use polypad to work out. this is second time using polypad  and it was fun to use and goofy around with it. How I worked out this was the first thing I did was work out that x was 12 and then I made 21 20 and 1 and then it was solved. Down below is the polypad work. first thing to do is 21 – 9 = 12 so that means that x is 12 and then make x 12  so you can see it ez to work and then make 21 20 and 1.

The 9 and the 12 and + and 20 and 1 are -.

have you used polypad before?

These past weeks in Maths we have been learning about algebra and how to solve an algebraic equation.

We had to make a video about how to solve one so here is mine

https://www.canva.com/design/DAHUANF6mMc/6cDqg-Cr-e2ix7K_K6KtQg/edit

I hope you understood it and now you know how to work one out.

Let me know if you’ve solved any recently in the comments.

This week we room 9 have been looking at percentages. Percentages is basically a fraction out of one hundred so like 10% of one hundred is ten.There are many ways on how to find out how how much a percent is worth.  I enjoyed doing fractions because I got to make this poster and it was fun to make. I made a poster and I took 45% off of the original price. Would you buy this watch? why or why not?

Today for math I made a flyer about a Nee don Sol de janero. Our task was to chose a expensive item and then take a percentage away to show our learning on percentages.I really enjoyed this activity because it let me create things and helps me when I go shopping.

What have you been learning in math ?

Today I made an advertisement about nike shoes. We had to get an object and then give it a price, then put a percent off on the Item and then work out how much it would be.

Here is my work…

If it was 40% of instead of 30% off how much money would it be.

In room 9 for the past few day we have been doing some work on speeches.I made a speech about how Aquariums and Zoos are  cruel to animals.We made our poem on Docs and then Mr Gray  printed it out.After he printed it out we stuck it to coloured card and we read it out to our class.

If you made a speech, what would you do it about ?

Hello everyone that did not fall of that cliff!

Do you really wanna know what happened this week? Oh, I am so silly! Oh course you do! We have been learning about making money. We did some slides based on it.

Here they are:

Watch out for the muffin man tonight…

Hopefuly I see you next time.

Hey, Beautiful fans! Guess what! I ´ m making money! Okay, no I ´ m not. (Sad trembling music playing.) Well, we have been reading a BOOK called making money! Money may seem just like a lifesaver paper with confusing stuff on it but money is a LOT more complicated than we think like, if you put your money in front of sunshine, it reveals special holograms and special pictures! Ooh! Here is my slideshow. Do you like money? (Just joking, of course you do!)

This term we have been reading a book called wonder. It is a good book. Then we got to watch the movie about it. It was very cool. Then we had to write a review about it. Here is my review:

Have you ever cried in a movie?

We were working on making money

look below for my slide.

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For the last week we have been making speeches and then do it in front of the class. Here is my speech.

do you like my speech?

For the last week I have made a speech about how dogs are better than cats, it is an argument. I chose this because I think that some people think that cats are better than dogs and I want to prove people wrong.

Here is my work….

Have you made a speech, and what was it about?

Today my friend Riley and I made a comic on a google drawing about caveman syndrome. Caveman syndrome is when you panic like on your first day of school and kids are whispering about you and you panic, this is called caveman syndrome.

Here is our work….

Have you ever noticed you having caveman syndrome and how did it happen?

12th September, 2026.

In kapa Iwa we have been learning to write speeches. I wrote a speech about wellbeing and information about it. Our speech had to be no longer than 2 minutes but I just went over by 10 seconds! So technically I made it. Some of my friends did theirs about mental health, social media and more cool things. My speech took a lot of time but my mum helped me with part of the speech. When we were done writing our speeches our teacher Matua Nick printed out our speeches and we got to put our speech on cards. Here is my speech about wellbeing.

On Friday we watched a movie called Wonder we had popcorn but after we had to do a movie review. We had to rate music,acting,and passing etc. I won’t give you any spoilers but it’s pretty good. Have you watched Wonder? Here is my work

Hello,

On Friday, August 14th, Jonah the inflatable humpback whale came to NBC. Each class spent about 45 minutes in the hall learning about humpback whales, their outer body parts, and how those parts help them. Then after listening to the instructor, we all finally got to go inside Jonah and see his internal body parts.

But since we couldn’t all fit inside of Jonah at the same time, we were split into two different groups. One group went inside to learn about the internal body parts, while the other group did a humpback whale word search and coloured in a picture.

ABOUT JONAH

Jonah was much bigger than I expected. Not only was he as tall as the hall he was as wide as the hall too. Taking up most of the space. If you didn’t know, Jonah is a 12 metre-long, life-sized inflatable humpback whale used by project jonah to teach children and communities about marine conservation across New Zealand. Lastly did you know in New Zealand there are only 3 life-sized inflatable humpback whales to be created and Jonah is one of them.

It was really cool, at first when I heard we were allowed to go inside I thought everyone was joking but when I went in myself I was shocked and realised how lucky I was. But I did imagine that there would be more pictures of the whales internal body parts. As in labels pointing towards what’s what and explaining what they help and do for the whale and more dark realistic colours on the inside than there was. Otherwise I had both a great time and experience.

Have you ever been inside a life-sized inflatable animal?

Bonjour,

For the past few weeks the intermediates and some of the year 6s from downstairs have been working on creating a kindness video, spreading awareness that kindness goes along way like a chain of kindness. Inspired by the Kindness Boomerang – One Day video.

Here is the video if you would like to watch it, and believe me when I tell you this! It is so worth the watch.

Once we took some notes and planned out how our video should act out we recorded ourselves until everything went as planned and felt right. During this activity, there were 6 main things that had to be included in order to present the correct video and  judge ourselves at the end.

We had to have music that actually fit in with our act, credits to the actors, helpers, just basically anyone who took action, a title, a bible verse based on kindness, our school values, and lastly how we showed kindness. The people I worked with were Lilia, Leisha, Kiara, and Despina I think we did such a good job and all had great ideas, other than that I really did enjoy this activity it was nice and simple.

What did you think about the video we took as inspiration?

And lastly, after watching our video what was your favourite act of kindness?

This is our Kindness video, enjoy! But please do remember to be kind whenever possible. As it is always possible.