My end of Term 2 basic facts and multiplication levels.

Kia ora.
Here are the results of my basic facts and multiplication tests which we did in Week 9 Term 2. Last term I was working at Stage 5 Level 2 in basic facts but this term I sat the Stage 6 Level 3 test. My score was 29/30 and I got all my addition and subtraction facts to 20 correct. I need to work on Groupings that add to 1000, and multiplication and division facts.

In multiplication, I am working at Stage 6 Level 3 and I need to learn my 6x, 7x, 8x and 9x table.
So, my teacher is pleased with my progress since Term 1 but I need to keep revising my facts so I don't forget them.
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Kia ora. This is the result of the test we did at the end of our time unit. As you can see, I did mega badly.  I only got four questions wrong  but I got some of the most important questions wrong . Two of them I got the minuet hand and the hour hand mixed up but the other one did not show a picture so I had to guess. So I'll definitely try  harder next time. My teacher does not agree that I have done badly as she says I got only 32% in the pretest so I have practically doubled my score.

Describing a Monkey

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We have been learning how to write descriptions of things to improve our writing so one day we did this for a reading activity. You had to think carefully before you decided which group of ideas the sentence would go in.
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Reading: 27th June, 2016

To organise descriptive sentences into groups of similar ideas.

Introduction

Who or what are you describing?   Monkeys

                             

Looks like
Moves like
Lives like

Colour code these sentences to show which paragraph they would fit in.

Monkeys have to search for their food every day in the forest.

Most monkeys have very clever hands but they do not have fingernails.

Monkeys live in family groups and feed their babies milk.

Monkeys can climb trees easily, swing from branch to branch and leap from tree to tree.

They run along branches and sometimes walk or run along the ground.

Many monkeys have soft furry bodies and long tails.

Most monkeys are omnivores, although they prefer seeds and fruit to meat.

Most monkeys tails are very long.

Most monkeys look a bit like a skinny, hairy human with a tail.

Monkeys live in the forest where the trees provide food and shelter.

My half photo

Learning how to tell 'quarter past' and 'quarter to' time.

 Kia ora.
Here are my results. I am pretty good at telling the time on an anologue clock. Next we have to read 'to' and 'past' times to the nearest minute.
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maths

Kia ora. Here is the result of a rounding activity I did in Maths Buddy. It was about rounding off  to the nearest hundred. I think I did really well and I worked fast but my teacher does say that going fast is not always a good thing.
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Argument

Understanding how to structure and write an argument.

The first paragraph of an argument is called the THESIS.

A THESIS is something that you believe.

In a piece of argument writing, a THESIS is made up of two parts.

Part 1 is your sentence about what you believe.

This is called a POSITION STATEMENT.

In this exercise you need to match an argument title with its POSITION STATEMENT.. Use the ‘Fill tool’ to colour code the matching POSITION STATEMENTS.

The Most Delicious Drug.	I believe that no one should be able to have more than two children.
Cats Are Better Pets Than Dogs.	I believe that dairy farmers are not doing enough to prevent pollution of waterways on their land.
All Prime Ministers of New Zealand Should Be Female.	I believe that homework should be banned.
Homework Should Be Banned.	I believe that chocolate is a drug.
Two Child Families.	I believe that future Prime Ministers of NZ should all be female.
Dairy Farmers Pollute Waterways.	I believe that cats make better pets than dogs.