Kiwi kids quiz

Today I did the kiwi kids quiz and  I got 11/11. I thought I did really well.

This weeks words

In room 12 some children have been using a spelling app called weeks words.In room 12 we use it as a substitute for teacher testing. On the app there are some special activities to help you learn your words. They are listen to your words and tap the correct one, filling in the correct words and a practice test. Then you click on test time and do your actual test. then it comes up with a page that shows if you got them correct. Here is a fotobabble on what I think about this app.

Algebra

For maths we are doing algebra.  Today for algebra we had a problem solving activity involving a shortage of tent pegs.  Here is the problem.  

The youth group are having a camp. they needed to put up tents for each team. Usually it takes eight large pegs to hold up each of their tents. This time they have a problem. They are very short on large tent pegs.

Leader: "Find some ways to put up tents that will save pegs" (Talking to the groups).

We had to work with a classmate to find a least three ways to put up ten tents.  Then we had to find out which of the ways used the least amount of pegs.

Katie and I made a way that only used 39 pegs but then Brooke came and looked at our layout and suggested that we could take some pegs away and join them to others.  Our second layout came to 36 pegs. The white bits of paper is the tents and the green counters are the pegs.  We had the least amount of pegs in the end and some people got up to 60 pegs altogether.  

Picture one is the first design:                                    Picture two is the second design:       

    

100 word Challenge (Week 10)

I woke up early in the morning and lay in bed thinking about the fishing trip I was going on. When I was ready I scampered into the passenger seat next to dad and we drove to the wharf. When we arrived I started carrying the equipment to the end of the wharf. Dad ­­helped me  cast my line  and immediately I got a big bite, My line started shaking and the fish edged me closer to the water then SPLASH I fell into the  sea head first, Dad had to haul me out of the sea. I was drenched!