Houses at Tamaki Primary by Hevani

👥⭐Alamein Day (Thursday)⭐👥

Guten Tag and welcome back to my blog! Just letting you all know this blog will be a short blog so let's start this blog off by introducing Alamein.

Alamein is one of our house groups here at Tamaki Primary School, you may or may not know but, we have 4 house groups at our school:

Tripoli - Blue

 Alamein - Yellow

 Benghazi - Green

 Tobruk - Red

Above are the house groups and their colours. An interesting fact is that each house is named after a street or road around our area which in turn is named after various war campaigns.

Every week we are awarded token for displaying the school values and being true ambassadors for Tamaki. The house group who accumulates the most tokens get to have pizza and sundae's for lunch and a day were the whole school has to wear the winning house colour. 

So because Alamein won last term they got their day were the whole school had to wear Yellow and pizza/sundae's for lunch!

That is all for this blog and thank you!

Manaiakalani Survey by Carra

Today, in Cybersmart Mr Janse sent us a link to access a Manaiakalani survey that we had to complete. In the survey, we had to answer questions about our learning thus far in 2019.One of the questions that I felt challenging was how the " Learn Create Share" has helped my family know more about my learning. This is because at first when I read the question it didn't make sense to me. Then Mrs Collins read it out and then it made sense. I think the rest of the questions were easy.

Here is a screenshot of the Manaiakalani Survey!

The survey included the school you attend, year group, gender and other things to do with LEARN CREATE AND SHARE. As we have to use our netbooks to go onto surveys and our work I think that every school and college should use netbooks because it is more efficient and easier to get on to your work plus most schools and colleges don't use Netbooks.

This survey came just at the right time for me as it got me to reflect on my learning and the processes involved. It also gave me the opportunity to engage with the Wolf Fisher Organisation in a meaningful manner. Hopefully the responses from the Kia Manawanui Syndicate is useful and looking forward to seeing what the data shows. I really like the fact that students are included in your process. I feel proud to be a part of this cohort in the Panmure District!

TPS Student Leaders at NYLD 2019

This week on Wednesday 8th May our student leaders attended the National Young Leaders Day (NYLD) at the Vodafone Event Centre in Manukau with other leaders from different school all over Auckland. This is a one day conference to celebrate and empower young leaders as they participate in leadership activities and become inspired by national guest speakers.

Press play and let our student leaders show you how they were inspired and empowered at NYLD this week.


Our student leaders have also reflected about this event on their blog. Take a look:

Falakika

Hiria

Coralee

Lydia

Stephney

Grace

Fe'ao

Hevani

Improving Blog Comments by Alyssa

Today, in the Kia Manawanui Syndicate, we did a Cybersmarts lesson on how we can improve our blog comments.  The important thing that I learned today was that everybody can improve on their blog commenting skills and that we always need to be asking the following questions. "Is it positive, thoughtful and helpful?" 

More than anything we need to double-check our sentences to make sure that it is grammatically correct and that it makes sense. 

We also had to reread (edit) our comments have share it with a friend before posting it. The google drawing on the right has some key elements of effective blogging criteria. 

Some useful food for thought! WHAT YOU DO TODAY CAN IMPROVE ALL THE OTHER TOMORROWS! Hopefully you find the hints and tips useful and can apply that to you own blogging checklist. I look forward to and appreciate any feedback and feedforward that you may have to offer.

Kia Manawanui Syndicate - Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Collaboration Post

Good Morning Everybody! Today we had a special guest, our Manaiakalani facilitator, Ms Heather Collins. We were so excited to finally get our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogging on the way but had to discuss our group norms first.

Ms Collins reminded us that as Cybersmart bloggers, it is important that our comments are reflective. Other than that it has to be positive, thoughtful and helpful. As a class, we had the opportunity to look at our buddy class's blogs to get a better idea of who they are. We really enjoyed this part as we got to share part of their learning journey thus far.

Next we put our teacher's typing skills to the test as we collaboratively created this blog by sharing our ideas and comments on a google doc. We found the google doc in our Cybersmarts Folder. The instructions were that we had to view and explore the class blogs of Group A and B. Thereafter we shared our comments with Mr Janse and had to wait for the green light before posting our comments.

We also had time to do a sort of scavenger hunt as we searched for the location of our buddy classes. Our buddy classes are in Christchurch and Greymouth. The last instruction was that we needed to do a reflective blog on what we had done today.

We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and can't for our next connection.

Exploring Algebraic Equations by Lydia Bloomfield

📘➕Algebra - Learning Something New in MATHS!➕📘

IALT: Solve an Algebraic Equations.

Malo E Lelei and welcome back to my blog! Today in Room 9 for Maths, I learned how to solve an Algebraic equation.

I asked Mr Janse to give me ANY equation and I thought he was going ask, "34 x 14" or "128 x 6" But instead he said, "2x + 14 = 80" and my job was to find the value of the 'x'. On my first attempt to solve this equation, I divided 80÷14 and Mr Janse said that's not quite correct yet. I was really confused so Mr Janse made it a bit easier and said, "Okay, the value of the 'x' is 33. Find out how and why?" This made it a lot easier and I looked at the equation and said the x is 33 because 33 x 2 = 66 and 66 + 14 = 80!" I was really happy that I had found the answer and Mr Janse then taught me how to formulate it. 

This is how you would write the answer to the equation:

There is supposed to be a dot/space between the 2 and 'x'. 

This looks like:

2.x

The dot means to multiply so basically you're multiplying                                         the 2 by the 'x'.

2.x + 14 = 80

What we're first trying to do is get rid of the 14 so to get rid of the 14 we have to subtract 14 away from 14 which equals 0. 

(14-14=0)

Then we have to do the same with the 80. For example:

2x = 80 - 14

When Mr Jay explained how to solve this he always wrote '2x =' before he would continue. This looks like:

2x = 66

Which also means 80-14=66

Next you have to divide 66÷2 which is the number before the x. This should look like:

2x = 66÷2

And then the answer will be the value of the 'x'.

x = 33

Wait! We're not done yet. The 33 will the become the substitute of the 'x' and this will make the equation:

2.33 + 14 = 80

Because:

2x33=66

66+14=80

I am really glad I learned how to solve Algebraic Equations and I am very happy that I was able to show Ako and teach Hevani and Grace how to solve these questions! One thing I need to work on is explaining WHY I have to always write 2x=, and WHAT does it do to the equation, but this just shows how much more I have to learn! 

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I can't wait to learn more about Algebra! I hope you have learned something!

QOB: 

Have you ever learned about Algebra? 

What is your favourite subject in school?

Thank you for reading this blog! Bye :)

Multiplying by Round and Compensating by Grace

✏️🔃!Maths - Rounding and Compencating!🔃✏️

WALT: Multiply using tidy numbers, rounding and compencating.

Bonjour and greetings to you all! Welcome to my blog!

Throughout this term for Maths I have learnt how to use rounding and compensating. This strategy was new to me so I was looking forward to learn more about it. We started by multiplying one digit number to a 2 digit number. With rounding you have to remember that when you are rounding up you compensate by subtracting the number and you do the same when you are rounding it down you compensate by adding. That is why it is important that you know your basic facts really well because once you know them it would help you even more in your maths.





Here is an example:

3 x 78= 234
  ( 80 x 3 - 3 x 2)
( 240 - 6)
=  234

So what I have done here is that I have rounded  78 to its nearest 10 which is 80 and to get to 80 I added 2. Then I multiplied 80 by 3 which equals 240. I know this because 8 x 3 = 24 , 24 x 10 = 240. The next step is that you multiplied 3 by 2. The reason why I did this is that whenever you compensating a number by adding and subtract and you are multiplying, you then multiply that number. After that you subtract the total that you got 240 and 6. Which equals 234. Like what I have said before when you are round up you then have to subtract.

I have enjoyed learning this method and knowing how easy it is to use it. Now I can use this to solve complicated questions/equations rather than using algorithm all the time. 
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Question of the Blog: Do you know how to round and compencate? Have you used this method before?