Fractions with Mr Fisi'iahi

 LI: To learn how to group and split in fractions

This week is our last session with Mr Fisi’iahi for this term as it was last week. For this week my group and I worked on fractions and played a game called Play tower of hanoi. We also used Multi Link cubes to help us understand fractions and to help us solve the questions. I really enjoyed playing with my partner solving fraction questions. We also played a game called Dicy numbers which got us into parnters. This game was really fun and competitive as we had to see who was the first one to win.

Explanation | Making wise choices

 LI: To structure and write an explanation

Why is it important to make wise choices?

Have you ever thought about taking drugs or drinking alcohol or has someone ever forced you or wanted

you to do it?  Some of the major reasons people take drugs is to try to fit in or to feel cool or they go through

peer pressure and end up using drugs, Peer pressure, being pressured by a friend or peer to do something that

you know that is unwise and can have a bad impact on you.

People who take drugs such as Crack, Weed, or  Cocaine use it to feel happy or as a stress reliever to help

forget about something bad that they have experienced but sadly the effects of these drugs do not last very

long so as a result people become addicted and are focused on getting more to feed there hunger in other

words drugs become there number one priority. When people get addicted they will do anything to feed

there hunger. They are tempted to steal money if they run out of it or they will work for people and in return

they get what they want but the consequences are not ideal.

Making a wrong decision doesn't necessarily mean that you are a bad person but is about who you should

start focus on becoming. Taking drugs can also affect your mindset/ way you think can lead to depression

or start to feel anxiety but if younger pupils start to take drugs the side effects could be more harmful the

addiction could be enhanced or feel stronger but younger pupils can also say no and can try avoid these

unwise choices knowing the bad impacts that they can have on there mental and physical health. 

This week for writing we wrote explanations about making wise choices about taking drugs and alcohol and the side effects and consequences of these actions I chose this topic becuase I can use the information gathered from our DARE program. I have learnt the drugs can be a dangerous substance that can be very addictive that can harm our physical and mental body that can effect others that are around us.

Inquiry

 LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice 

To decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision.

App

  LI: To create a bilingual app of Maori and English. 

This week is Maori Language Week. In LS2 we were given different challenges to accomplish relating to Te reo maori. This is one of 3 challenges. For this activity Juel, Sulia, Heavenly and I created a interactive DLO, also known as a digital app. In this DLO we included different questions relating to Maori. This DLO was made to help others learn some words, numbers, places, and object names in Maori. There are different buttons on the DLO that are there in order to click and move around the DLO more easily.

Whakatauki

 LI:  To define a whakatauki in your own words. 

Sulia, Juel, Heavenly and I have completed our 2nd activity. For this activity we created a DLO explaining what we thought the whakatauki meant in our words. The whakatauki we chose was 'Long on words, short on actions'. In my opinion I thought this meaning that people keep saying things but doesn't actually accomplish or complete it. A whakatauki is a significant saying or proverb. 

History

  LI: To identify the history of Maori Language Week.

This week me and my group have completed another Te Wiki o te reo maori challenge. For this challenge Juel, Sulia, Heavenly and I created a google slide deck explaining the importance and history of Maori language Week. In 1975, Maori Language week was marked an official language week in Aotearoa ( New Zealand ). Although there was a language week, the people from the Maori community protested to have Maori language taught in schools to keep the culture going. This was acknowledged in the 1980s. In 1985 Maori Language was one of the official languages of NZ. 

DARE to make a choice

 LI: To create a DLO about making wise choices

This week was our last day doing the DARE program. We had 3 different tasks. The first one was to sort out all the different drugs good and bad into 3 different columns of illegal drugs, legal drugs and drugs that we are unsure of, then sort them out from most harmful and harmful drugs. The second task was to learn about the 3 classes of drugs including class A being the highest and B and then C the penalties that come with being caught with the drugs, the last task was to create our own penalties with 6 different scenarios that we were given. 

The most interesting thing that I learnt  was that chocolate was a Drug.

The most interesting thing that I learnt was that drugs can be found in everyday things like chocolate and milo ect.