2017 Term 1 Author Study

Author: Stacy Gregg 

Stacy Gregg Usually writes Non Fiction books which are real like the princess and the foal, The Diamond horse, The Island of horses and The girl who rode the wind. She mainly writes about horses here is a link to all her books LINK 

Facts 

1. Born 23 July 1968 

2. 48 years old 

3. The girl who rode the wind and The island of horses made it into the bestselling list. 

4. When Stacy was younger she wanted to be a horse rider and a writer. 

5. Stacy's last horse ash was a superstar show jumper. 

Reflection Term 1 Week 2 2017

This week in maths we were looking at charts and we had to make one with a partner so I choose Katelin and we made a chart about, What is Mamaku's favourite sport. The highest was Other we thought that it was going to be Rugby the lowest was Ripper. We did a bar chart and it was fun. On Thursday we had meet the teacher well our parents went and meet the teacher we got to swim in the pool my friends were there and we went on the hydro slide a we went in the deep pool and I had lots of fun. I did lots of dives of the side then I did 3 belly flops and one where you jump onto your back and i did some pencil dives and touched the bottom and came back up. Cleo my older sister and her friends went and got chips form the dairy down the road and we sat down and ate some. We also did a peters spelling test i think i did good! 

Week 1 2017 Reflection

Kia Ora and Welcome back to 2017 hope you all had a nice holiday and Christmas. 

Today I had to work with Lavinia ask her about what she was most excited about for the new year, Lavinia answered back as she was most excited about getting a new Chromebook next week and working in M1 

This week we had to do a drawing of a Mamaku leaf the outline was already printed so we had to colour it in. And with a pencil we wrote everything we loved I Mainly did the sports i play and my dog. Lavinia's was green and had her animals in it. 

Typing test: Lavinia went first and I helped her with the keys and what key to push. Our speed was 31 wpm and 20 wpm. Our Accuracy was 87 % and 77%  

Here are the Results of the typing test. 

 

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.