Choosing a new flag

Using google drawing my group and I made this DLO about choosing a new flag.   morning my class did 4,3,2,1 the way this works is we got 4 minutes to read the information about all of the five chosen flags, then we had three minutes to find a partner and talk about the flags we like, and give them a reason why, when we did  that the we had two minutes to talk with a different partner about the one flag we like and 1 minute to get into a group of four explain to each other why we liked that one flag and give me a reason.
Out of the 5 flags the one I like best is the silver fern (black,white and blue)
the reason why is because I can see my culture shown in the flag and because I think the flag will good shown around the world and it is easy to be recognise as a NZ flag because of the fern.

Transum

Today I practised my time tables by playing a game on transum called table master out of the questions they asked me I got one wrong. Transum is a good maths learning site where you can go and play maths games to help you get better at maths. Today I practised my eleven times table

Maths questions

What questions that you have asked or heard someone else ask have helped you in maths?

Don’t be scared to come up and ask for extra help?

Don’t be afraid to ask questions?

Can you explain your thinking ?

Do you know what that is.

Do you get what I mean?

What strategy should I use?

Can you say it in a easier way so I can understand?

Can you help me?

Do you want be to explain in more detail?

Does this make sense to you?

Do you need help?

What strategy should I use?

Are there any maths game to help me?

Is there a website we can practice on?

Is there a different way to solve this?

Does this strategy work for me ?

Is this strategy work with bigger numbers?

Do you understand now?

Can you show me an example.

What is the best strategy to use to find the answer to this question?

Does this strategy work for me.

Can you break the strategy down for me?

How did you use your strategy?

Do you know how to solve this

As a class room 5 worked together and asked questions evolving around maths. We did this so we can get more practice talking about how we solve things in maths.

Working with a critical friend

Today room 6 and room 5 worked together collaboratively on our writing we had to get into pairs, someone from room 5 and someone from room 6. We worked on one partners writing test from term 4 and help them fixed there mistakes that the critical friend could see. We also looked at a rubric that tells us what we have to do to to the next level. The rubric help me by telling me what I could do to get higher marks and also realized my mistakes. My critical friend  help me by showing me my mistakes and giving me feedback.

Lever digram

With my group we created this diagram about levers. The purpose why we made this diagram is so we understand what simple machines are and also how they work.

Simple machine - Screw:

 This is my group reading activity  to do this ,I worked with June, Afu, and Juanita  we have created using google slides,the purpose of making this is so we understand what simple machines are and how they were used in the past. MY favorite fact was the screws were being using in the past for flower pressing and getting the extract from olive oil and juice from grapes.

Dare Make a wise choice

This term the Yr 8 and Yr 7 classes have been going to a program called Dare. The Dare program is to help us make a wise choice as some of us are going to go college next year, we learn about what happens if you make the wrong decision when comes to smoking or drinking . Juanita Afu and I have created this DLO about making a wise choice  when it comes to smoking we also have put in a link to our role play that we have made on Go animate .