The Number System:

This term, my iExplore is about the Number System. I'm working with Aleena for this one.

We are about finished. All we have to do is inbed our information to our slide or presentation and then we are ready to present. We are still making up our mind if we want to present to the whole class or just our learning coaches. We just don't know yet. 

Before our iExplore was even thought up of, Aleena and I wanted to do, 'How was the number zero invented', then Ash (one of our friends) suggested that we should do the whole number system. I thought that it was a great idea and we have stuck with that idea until now. 

We chose this iExplore because we wanted to learn te history of numbers and how they were discovered. I found it pretty interesting because no one had ever thought up of this idea yet. I wanted to learn more about numbers cause, well, we use numbers everyday and some of us don't really know how our base 10 number system was created.

Did you know that we use a base 10 number system in normal life and then we use a base 60 number system for time. Cool right!

I think this wasn't Aleena and I's best iExplore, but we still had interest in it. We could have thought up of a fun science experiment. That would've been cool.

Here is a interesting fact about numbers:

The number 0 wasn't in our number system before. It was then thought up of Hindu mathematicians. So, zero wasn't in our number system back in the olden days. 

My next iExplore would be with Mervlyn. We are doing a science themed iExplore. We are researching about this cornstarch and water mixture. I think its gonna be cool. We are planning to give some people a experience with this strange mixture and grab their opinions about it. I think Mervlyn and I are gonna make it successful. Hopefully everyone likes it!!!

I hope you enjoyed this blog about my iExplore. This was pretty interesting to talk about. What do you all wonder?

The Beep Test!!!

Today we did a Beep Test. This test is to test our fitness and how much we could run scuttles during a preiod if time.

We used the courts and I must said, the courts was giant so it did take some time to run there and back to where we started.

We ALL did it and I wish we didn't because I fell behind at the back of the line so it was kind of tricky. I wish we did it in our hapu groups. Lucky we didn't do it one by one because it would take a long time and we would probably be judged by others on how we did.

I now want to run more and do the Beep Test again and see if I've improved. I must said it wasn't the most funest thing we've done but it was fun cheering on our friends. 

I felt tried when I finished. I didn't get too far but I think I did ok. If we weren't able to make it to the start line until the next beep went on, we would have to call it a quit and we are out. 

My friend Aleena did the best! She is a good runner so that might explain why she enjoyed it so much. She wasn't the one out of our group that dreaded it. She was excited for it. I was speech less and I wondered how she did it. 

Now I've set my goal to do more scuttles when we do the beep test again or the cross country which is coming up.

It was amazing to see my class mates and my friends do amazinf job at it. I was able to set myself a goal on how much I could run next time by just seeing what my friends and class mates have done. 

I was only able to run up to a Level 3 number 6. I could see some ways I could improve. 

Zavier was the only one left after everyone was done. He did a amazing job and I can't believe he ran that much. Have did he do that?! Anyway, Well Done Zavier!!!

My Next Steps:

1. Encourage myself and tell myself I could do it

2. Believe in myself

3. Know that I wouldn't be the greatest runner but I tried my best

4. Set goals for myself so that I could improve set by set in my running

Here Are Some Ways You Could Improve On Your Running:

1. Practice makes prefect

2. Train at home and around your neighbor hood

3. Ask two friends to watch you race and ask them for some things they could improve 

4. Ask friends to help you out

So thats todays reflection. I hope you enjoyed! 

Narrative Assessment

Book Competition Narrative Assessment!

 

Collaborative Community Day!

WHAT:
Today was the best day of school I may have ever had! Today was Collaborative Community Day! There was food, fun things we got to do in our PB4L groups. I ALSO got to go to a book competition, but this blog isn't about the competition, its about our Community day.

SO WHAT:

We made this day possible because, we could Collaborative with each other. it gives us a chance to!

I got to Collaborative with some people I haven't worked with so far. It gave me time and I could get to know the little ones and spend some time with them.

WHAT NOW:

My next steps are:

1. Collaborative with more different people

2. Help others out and teach them how they could work together as a team

What's going to happen next Term or Year?

Book Competiton!

WHAT:
Today, I went to a book competiton. Even though our school didn't win, it was still fun! Guess what! It was our first time there and they made a very #oresome intro for us. I felt really welcomed!

SO WHAT:

We went there so:

1. We could go and see what they helded and maybe we could do it again?

2. We could get into books more

3. We could test our knowledge to see how much we remember from the book

It really tested me and even though I got a lot of my the answers wrong, it made me think more and it got me to give myself my own next steps.

WHAT NOW:

My next steps:

1. Maybe, we could have been a tiny bit more prepared and ready.

2. We could have tested each other and helped each other out more instead going our own ways for reading

3. We could have gotten more copies of the books so a lot of us could have been reading the same book instead of us having to ask each other for the book

Could we do this again?

I had so much fun. Thank you to Mr Dyer for making this possible! :)

Swimming!

For the past weeks, we have been going to swimming classes. Next week Monday will be our last session. 

I have really enjoyed the classes that have been going on. I think our instructors are really prepared every session so they know what they're doing and they always support their students to amek sure they get the hang of the actions. 

I have learned many actions like free style, arm circles, kicks and many more. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next week. 

I think they have done a great job and should really get a certificate themselves for being great swimming instructors. They always have things they need to work on with us and they are prepared to teach. They don't need to look at anything to tell them what to do.

One of my favourite sessions is the life jacket session. It was so much fun and we ALL got to go into the deep pool. I have been in the deep pool before but that was when I did my swimming classes in my last school I went to. 

Swimming is awesome and I'm lucky I got to be able to do swimming this Term!!!!!