LI: to form an informed opinion
A provocation is a topic which brings our strong emotion within somebody. This provocation was about olympic venues and should countries that host the olympics spend billions on these facilities just for them to not be used again. In this task we formed an informed opinion on whether we thought it was a good idea or bad idea to build these venues.
L.I: To compare the past and present rules.
For this reading activity we were tasked to compare the olympics rules from the past and the present using a venn Diagram.
There was a big difference between the past olympic rules and the present. The rules that stayed the same was no shoving, no holding, no cutting of other racers.
L.I to find the most efficient stratigy
For this olympic challenge we counted the medals of the top 10 countries to create a medal tally. The medal count was from two dates 1986-2012 and the 2016 olympics. Once we count up all the medals from the top 10 countries we put ranked them from 1 to 10. The strategy that we used was addition. The country with the most medals was the USA with 2673 olympic medals.
L.I to identify main ideas
This week for reading we read a text called Poros of Malia. This text was about a man named Poros who competed in the sprints in the ancient olympics. Poros had won this event in the olympics prior so he had to win or they would have been made fun of. After we finished the text we answered a list of questions, by answering these question we got a better understanding of the story because it helped us remember the details and the main idea f the text.
L.I to understand how flowcharts to relate to coding blocks\
To understand how to get the microbit to talk toanother microbit using radio signals
L.I to use the most efficinet stratigies to find the answers
Since the olympics is currently happening, our maths group have 8 olympic challenges for us to complete. This challenge was about Michael Phelps and the events he competed in. Our questions were: On average, every swim stroke Michael Phelps take gets him 2 metres down the pool. Michael comped in 8 different events in the beijing olympics in 2008. In total how many metres did Michael swim for his gold medals?
FInally, how many strokes did Michael have to take in total for all o his events if Michael can propel himself 2 metres with each stroke. The strategies we used addition and division, first we added up all the metres Michael swans and then divided it by two because he advanced 2 metres down the pool.
L.I to recall yout timestables quickly
This week we played super fingers which is a multiplication game that requires you to recall your times table. FIrst there was a draw where we picked partners to go up against. Whover won advanced to the quarterfunals, semi finals and then the final. The final was between Chris and Afatia which Afatia won. I realy enjoyed this because it is a fun way to remember and recall your times tables.
L.I to try and ge thte mbot to draw a star shape for Matariki
L.I to strengthen our connections to Matariki
For Matariki we made a brochure for the celebration. A brochure is a informative paper document that can fold, it gives you information bout a place, person, celebration, etc... In our brochure we created different parts with different topics explaining the harvest, traditions, and many more. In this activity we also showed the origin of Matariki and how it was named.
L.I to strengthen ur connection to Matariki
Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition. To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities. For this task we learnt about facts about the matariki stars.
L.I to learn how to code the microbit in python
The first onr shows the python for flashing hearts. It flashes between the small herart icon and the large heart icon. THe main thing to ntice between the pythin coding and the blocks is the the forever loop is at the top nd bottom on the centent of both.
