Changing Improper Fractions to Mixed fractions !

Kia ora Blogger, I hope you all are safe and covid-free. 

Today, I wasn't able to join the online call due to difficulties but I managed to complete every online school tasks. One of the tasks I learnt today is how to change improper fractions to Mixed fractions !

Let me quickly teach you how to do it, I found my own way that helped me by knowing my times table instead of using paper and drawing the amount of circles, squares and more. 

To be honest, I have a better understanding than I had last time.

so lets start with the first question: 7/3 

3x2 = 6 ( It is the closes to 7)  now as you can see there is 1 left in 6 to make 7. Now its 2 1/3. 

I apologise if my explanation is not good but they're are many ways to work out mixed fractions :)

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Chop Suey - Technology

Today my group & I made chop suey but a healthier version, to be honest I think the healthier version tasted much better! I really liked the food and enjoyed making it with my partner. Cooking teaches me different techniques, skills & teaches me to try new food and to alter my ingredients. It also teaches me the importance of cooking, cooking is not only fun but we must be careful for hazards and many more. We have one more week of cooking then we rotate, cooking has been very fun and has given me many amazing opportunities. 

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Earth Science Form

 This semester my year level & I have moved onto a new subject, our last subject was pacific & native plants our new topic for this semester is Earth Science. I find earth science interesting as we learn the layers of the earth, the movement of the earth (Tectonic plates) in which I find most interesting  and the disasters that occur such as lava, volcanoes & more.

New Zealand Olympics

 

Tokyo Olympics 2020 has been very interesting and very successful. 

Because of COVID-19, the organisers were very cautious . They used with cardbox beds, isolated rooms and separate eating areas. They use cardboard boxes as beds so they can re-use it for good purposes.

It's pretty amazing on how they postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics to 2021 as this is the first time they postponed Olympics it also comes to my shock that Laura Hubbards was the first to be able to compete transgender in the Olympics. Due to covid and many reasons to keep the Olympics successful they couldn't have spectators as it only allowed participants, referees and coaches.

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Cooking - Technology

 Kia Ora Bloggers, 

Today my class and I went to tech as usual, went to our groups and completed the tasks that needed to be completed. We made vegetable curry with lentils, green beans, spinach, chicken breast, carrot, onion,  garlic and curry paste. 

Instructions :

Dice your onions, thinly cut the carrots, cut the stalk off the spinach and cut thinly after that thinly cut the chicken breast into bite sizes.

Prepare your pan to 1/2 degree, add 1 1/2 oil then add your onions into the pan.

Once the onions are nice and brown, add your chicken breast onto the pan as well as the garlic then let it fry.

After its fried or close, count in the lentils, green beans, spinach and carrots stir for 10-12 minutes then allow it to set.

Next, add in the curry paste and mix once you've mixed it let it settle for 15-20 minutes check on your food just in case it gets over cooked then take it off the pan onto a plate and enjoy :) !

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(Example) - Vegetable curry :)

Matariki Art

My class and I had to create a matariki art to present to our school about. Matariki is 'New Year' in Maori and is indeed very important to the Maori culture. Matariki has 9 stars, Waipuna-a-rangi, Ururangi, Matariki, Tupu-a-rangi, Tupu-a-nuku, Waiti, Waita, Pohutukawa and Hiwa-ite-rangi. As a 'newbeeie' to Matariki, I'm very interested in knowing the 9 stars and their meaning.  

Our teacher made 4 activities we had to choose from, the whare made with ice block sticks with stars surrounding it, the star which you draw and write meaningful words around it, Acronym about matariki and art painting silhouette. As you know I chose art because of its wonderful sunset and surrounding.  

Back to my art, I'm not that creative but I loved the sunset and the silhouette that I wanted to try it so bad and so I gave it a go. It was very fun and turned out better than I imagined, there were some tricky parts like making the colour blend, trying to rub off our mistakes without making a whole and spreading the white paint everywhere. To be honest it was especially hard because we used dye instead of paint, the only colour we used paint for was white because our teacher said it'll look much better and easier. 

The art I created with a few of my classmates was very outstanding and better than I expected. I can't wait to present this to the rest of my classmates as well as students around the school. I hope you also like my work and decide to leave a kind and thoughtful blog comment! Thank you :)

Visit to Te Oro

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Today my class & room 10 went to Te Oro to learn about matariki and Maori art. We each had 3 groups for 3 activities called Harakeke, kowhaiwhai,Tuhituhi. I was in kowhaiwhai with Matua Logan and whetu, they were very kind and thoughtful.

They also encouraged us to be creative and to leave all your negative thoughts outside and to also think outside the box. Obviously before that all happened we took our shoes off and lined up as we enter Te Oro. Once we entered Te Oro we were surprised with an amazing introduction by the teachers and their whanau. After all that Matua Logan asked us simple questions about Matariki and questions such as 'what's the god of the oceans name?' (Tangaroa) as we answered the questions correctly Matua Logan gave those who answered the questions a lollie which was surprising because no one expected anything. 

As we move on with our groups, some year 8s from last year already went through this but luckily we went into a group we haven't done last year and so I went into kowhaiwhai. It was very fun and interesting as we had a white plain paper, folded into 4 squares already served to us. In those four boxes, in box 1 we had to draw a koru, in box 2 we drew a hammerhead shark also known as Mangopare, In box 3 we had to connect the Mangopare on box 2 with box 3 but drawing it on opposite sides & last but not least we drew waharua kopito. (If you are new to these Maori patterns feel free to use google) After all that Matua Logan and Whetu gladly gave us good amount of wood that was painted white before given to us, they also put painting pallets with the colour blue, purple, gold, black and green.

Using those patterns we drew earlier, we painted with the colours that make us who we are, but of course we had to plan our work with a pencil on our piece of wood and then colour it over using paint. I would say this adventure was pretty amusing I had lots of fun with my friends as well as learning new things.

 

   

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