He Kakano

In He Kākano this term we have been learning how to give basic directions in Māori. Here is our work in the slideshow below. 

Equivalent Fractions

Koia Kei A Koe

   

NZ Sign Language

This week we have been learning how to say our names and some things we like doing in Sign Language. This is me and Dakota's video.

Click here for a link to our video

Pyramids and Prisms

Book Review Refugee

Refugee
Written by Alan Gratz.

Do you want to read an action packed book about three different wars? If you do Refugee is the book you want to read.

Refugee is set in three different countries, Germany, Cuba and Syria. The first two stories are set in the past and the last story is set in the present time.

Josef Landau is one of the three main characters in Refugee. His story is set Germany  1930. He lives with his mother, father and his little sister Ruth. Josef and his family are trying to the escape the Nazi’s because they are Jewish. They board a ship to go to the other side of the world.

Isabel is another one of the main characters. Her story is set in Cuba, 1994. She lives with her mother, father, grandfather and a sibling on the way. Her family escape Cuba with her neighbours on a homemade raft.  Except nothing is smooth sailing.

Mahmoud is another main character. His story is set in Syria 2015. He lives with his mother, father, baby sister Hana and little brother Waleed. His family escapes Syria by driving a car across the border to Europe.

Josef, Isabel and Mahmoud all go on death defying journeys to find freedom. They  face all sorts of dangers from many different things but they never lose hope.

Refugee reminds me of Number the Stars because they are both about war. Refugee by Alan Gratz and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry both have things to do with Nazi’s as well.

I think Refugee is a great story and I really enjoyed reading it. I would recommend this book for kids 11+, because it has some violence in it. I liked reading Refugee because it is full of adventure and courage.

Naming Prisms and Pyramids

• can  work out and use formula to measure perimeter, area, and volume.
• can separate a two-dimensional shape into familiar shapes to calculate area.
• understand and show that the volume of a prism is calculated by measuring the area of the base and by multiplying that area by the prism’s height.
• Can calculate circumference from the measurement of diameter or radius, and understand that the relationship between circumference and diameter (or radius) is a constant ratio.
• understand and use the metric relationship of: 1 g = 1 ml= 1 cm³.