Showcase Assembly

On Monday it was the Showcase Assembly. I performed in the Pasifika group. It was really fun. We watched people singing and doing dances. Our deputy principal dressed up as Santa.

Adventure Week

Last week was adventure week. Adventure week was fun, we did lots of fun activities. I will tell you about some of the activities I did. 

Monday
On Monday morning I helped paint the mural for school.
In the afternoon I did Ten Pin Bowling. I got a strike and I won.
I liked Ten Pin Bowling. 

Tuesday
On Tuesday morning I did cooking. I made biscuits. 
I also did Harakeke. I made a bouquet of roses.
In the afternoon I did some digital activities. 
It was called Toxic Code. You can have ago at it.
Click on this link -----> Toxic Code

Wednesday
On Wednesday morning I did some more digital tasks.
After that I did Two games of Werewolves. In the first game I 
was the Diseased. In the second game I was the Hunter.
I did more digital tasks like prodigy. I have a link for prodigy
here -----> Prodigy
Then I had to go to Pasifika.

Thursday
On Thursday the whole class went to Jellie Park. It was fun. 
We spent the whole day there. Then when we went back to school
it was home time.

Friday
On Friday it was Rumbustification Day. The whole school had
fun activities to do all day. I did photo booth and Growl. I had lots of fun.


Have you done any of these activities?

Music playlist.

Maths

For Maths this week I have done tests each day and recorded my data onto my graph. This is what I have done.

The image on top is the scores I got for the tests which are all ten and the line at the end is a spark line I got ten out of ten.


This image is my graph that I made to show my scores. I am confident using 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables to work out math problems.

Dance Research

This Term We have been doing lots of Inquiry projects and stuff for the school year. Me and my friend Mak have been doing research about Three different dances: Flamenco from Spain, Latin Dance from Mexico and Samba from Brazil. Here is the work we did.

Dance

Dance 1- Flamenco From Spain

Flamenco is a famous dance form that originated in Spain. Jaleo (dance) is accompanied by tongue (guitar playing), cante (singing), pitos (finger snapping), and palmas (hand clapping). Flamenco is closely linked to the Romani people in Spain, and its style is distinctly Andalusian. The art form is currently taught in many countries worldwide but is most popular in the US and Japan. In the latter country, Flamenco schools outnumber those in Spain. 

The art form developed over several centuries from Gypsy, Moorish, Andalusian, and other roots. Flamenco music and dance became popular in the early 19th century as café entertainment. ... The baile grande, especially, is believed to retain elements of the dance of India, where the Gypsies originated.

Dance 2- Latin Dance From Mexico

Latin dance originated in the traditional dances of indigenous cultures of Mexico, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Like many cultures around the world, dance was essential in communal ritual life. They were performed during rituals and festivals as a symbolic representation of cultural beliefs.

Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types of ballroom dance and folk dance that (with few exceptions) originated in Latin America. The category of Latin dances in the international dancesport competitions consists of the cha-cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, and also the jive of United States origin.

Dance 3- Samba From Brazil.

Samba is a style of dance and music from Brazil. It developed from a complex mix of influences including West African slaves brought to Bahia, a region in Brazil, by Portuguese traders. The dance and drumming customs of these enslaved people eventually developed into samba. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, the music and dance survived in private celebrations held by slaves and former slaves in Bahia. In the mid-19th century, Brazil abolished slavery and descendants of the slaves moved south to Rio de Janeiro. They settled in the favelas, or poorer neighborhoods on the hills surrounding the city. They continued dancing to percussive music and developed Samba out of a mix of styles, including Brazilian maxixe, a dance similar to tango. In 1914, the first phonograph recording of samba music brought wider recognition, and Samba grew in popularity.

School work

I have been doing lots of literacy this term. I have done my novel study, music playlist, writing and I have also done my report comments. I am also doing inquiry with Mak and Sophie. We are doing a display about recycling plastic so we don't pollute the ocean as much. In maths I am doing ratios. They are quite fun. we are also doing prime numbers.

Maths work

Why 0.8, 8/10, 80/100, 80% and ⅘ all have the same value.

In the picture below I have shaded 80 out 100 of the spaces.

Another way of writing that is 80/100.

In this picture I have divided it into 10 rows or tenths. Now 8 out of 10 or 8/10 are coloured, which is the same as the 80/100.

In this picture I have divided the 100 squares into  groups or fifths.

I have coloured 4 out of 5 columns or  ⅘, which as you can see is

the same size as 80/100.

Now percentage and decimals,

It is the same as the first picture because

I have coloured 8 tenths or 8/10

we know that there is 8 in the tenths row, or 0.8.

Percent means out of 100 so 80/100 = 80%