End of Year blog post

End of Year Reflection: Since it is the End of the Year we have to do a blog Reflection of what we are proud of. I am most proud of my Rippa Rugby, because we trained and trained and then when it was the game our team was really good and i enjoyed playing the rippa games every Friday even though we didn't get up to Wellington. Next year i will be playing Rippa as a Year 6 and new Year 5's will train with us because the Year 6's in 2016 will be Year 7's next year. 

KKN & Typing test Results

KKN & TYPING TEST RESULTS 

Numeracy Reflection T4 W8

This week for Numeracy you could choose what you did out of some activities (They were all related around Christmas) I choose On the first day of christmas my true love sent to me ... 

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me ………..

Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five gold rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree

Christmas Problem Solving

How many nests would is needed for all of the birds? Could each species of bird have a partner? How many pairs of shoes in the song? How many musical instruments in the songs band? If each of the people found a husband/wife in the song, how many weddings would there be? How many drumsticks? (Could be a trick Q) If each milk-maid’s bucket carried 6.5 litres of milk, how much milk was collected? Each piper was on a rota, they had to play for 2 ¼ hours per shift. If the pipers played continuously throughout the 12 days, how long did each piper play?

Discuss your thoughts first with a buddy.

There could be more than one correct answer!

Show workings out either as jottings or images/diagrams.

Now create two more problems to solve.

Answers

1. 23 nest would be needed for 23 birds
2. No because 23 is an odd number
3. There are 50 pairs of shoes
4. 23 Instruments are in the band
5. 36 men and Ladies getting married
6. There is 24 drumsticks
7. Their would be 3 or 2 sets of milk collected from the maid.
8. Their would be 11 hours for the pipers because their is 11 pipers.  

Literacy Reflection T4 W8

Christmas Activities: This week for Christmas activities I did Christmas around the world, where you had to have facts about what each place does for christmas. 

30bc blog post

Title: Ice Planet Adventure
Author: Elisabetta Dami
Genre: Adventure
Summary: Friends of the space mice have disappeared on a strange ice planet, Polarix! Geronimo Stilton and his crew are called tp search for them. When the space mice arrive on Polarix they're surprised at the inhabitants, cute aliens that look like colorful fuzz balls! But are  those creatures as harmless as they look?

30bc Blog post

Title: Mouse Overboard

Author: Elisabetta dami
Genre: Adventure
Summary: Geronimo and his family were invited to Lisbon, Portugal, To retrace the journey of the great explorer Vasco de Gama. He was the first European to reach India by sea and who apparently was an ancestor to the Stiltons! But once we got on board the boat, Geronimo learned that someone was trying to sabotage the voyage Could Geronimo figure out who?

30 bc blog post

Title: My name is Mina and i love the dark
Author: David Almond 
Genre: Adventure
Summary: Mina is a Rebel. She can't be controlled and she won't fit in. People says shes weird and some say's shes crazy. But all she wants to be is free, to be happy, and free to herself. One night, as she sits in the moonlight, she picks up a notebook, and began's to write. And here is her Journal Mina's life.