For this cybersmart challenge we had to identify the parts of a quality blog post. We needed to screenshot one of our blogs and label which part is the digital learning object (DLO), unique & interesting title, category & tags, and information about my learning.
For cybersmart this morning, this challenge was about checking up on our knowledge about being cybersmart. First we needed to complete a word search that included words that related to being cybersmart online. Next we had to match the definitions and we needed to read the definitions and select the right word or phrase.
On Tuesday 21st November students that were great helpers around the school were rewarded to go to Rainbows End. Some teachers went as well and had fun on lots of rides. My favourite rides were Invader, Power Surge and Stratosphere because of how extreme and exciting it was to flip around on the rides. After going on many rides, some people felt motion sick and stayed with the teachers. Although, everyone had an enjoyable time especially the years 8’s going to Rainbows End.
For maths today I worked on a website called Prototec. This helps with improving my skills with multiplications, divisions, fractions, percentages and square roots. It has certain stages you could click to work on from 2 to 8. I worked on stage 7 and learnt how to convert fractions into percentages and decimals.
On November the 10th, we had our school athletics day. Everyone participated in the activities and had fun while showing FIRE & ACE. Team Koru (our smaller students) had their own rotations such as spoon race, obstacle course and many more. The older kids (Team Tui & Team Kea) had 6 rotations which were long jump, shot put, discus, rob the nest, relays and high jump. My favourite highlight of the day is how my friends and I went to the same rotations together and all had a try because there were no boys around. Overall athletics day was a fun day for GTS.
Team Tui completed these slides so that they could be reminded to be cybersmart on their chromebook and commit to the Kawa Of Care form.
Today for Maths, my maths group & I learnt about adding & subtracting fractions with related denominators. The first step is we needed to figure out the multiples of the 2 denominators, also knwon as LCD (Least Common Denominator). Next we had to modify a fraction so that both denominators are the same. Once the denominators are the same, you can now add & subtract them but the denominators stay the same.
On the 27th of October, GTS students went to the hall to watch a performance presented by Island Breeze. They’re a group based on Hawaii but the members apart of Island Breeze come from different countries around the world. They performed different types of dances such as Hawaii, Cook Island & Samoan. My fav part of the performance is where 5 members sang what they wanted their job to be in the future. The message in the song is that they all wanted to have different jobs which made them unique and different from each other.
Today for Maths, we focused on learning how to understand infinite & finite numbers. Whole numbers are numbers that start from 0 and count on like 0, 1, 2, 3 and so on. Counting/natural numbers are similar to whole numbers but they start counting with 1. Integers are a whole number (not a fractional number) that can be positive, negative or zero. A rational number is any number that can be written as a fraction where both the numerator & the denominator are integers and the denominator is not equal to zero. Lastly is the irrational numbers, the meaning of irrational is not having a ratio.
Today, Team Tui did Probability Games and had 3 rotations which were playing cards, greedy pig and bottle flipping. My favourite rotations were bottle flipping and greedy pig because those were the rotations that had rewards (lollies). Greedy pig was an activity where you had to roll a dice and add it up to 50. If we rolled the dice and got 1 then we had to restart and reset to 0. My second fav activity was bottle flipping. We needed to count how many times we failed to land the bottle and count how many times we landed it. We used a tally chart to calculate our data but the most thing everyone was interested to do is to film ourselves flipping the bottle. If we land the bottle on camera then we will be rewarded 2 lollies.