Category: Hanga | Create

Letter to Grandma

LI : To vary our sentence lenghts to create pace and imapct

We used our reading text ” The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” to use our sentence knowledge creatively in the context.

For this task my partners and I used Simple, Compound and Complex sentence to help us add more impact into our writing. For this letter Bruno express how he miss his Grandma that still lives in Berlin, for more help we used FANBOYS and AWHITEBUS.

These are short for:

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So

Although, At, After, When, Whenever, Where, Wherever, While, How, However, If, Than, Though, Even, If, Eventhough, Because, Before, Unlees, Until, Since and So that.

The purpose of this letter was to show how Bruno in Auschwitz compared to Berlin and how he misses his Grandma that lives far away and is concerned on how he might never see her again.

Apology Letter

LI: To understand we make judgements based on stereotyping, assumptions and prejudices

We read the text Bok Choy for Reading. This text showed us the prejudices that existed towards the Chinese immigrants in early NZ. It also showed us that it is important to show empathy for those who are seen to be different from us. Our challenge after reading this was to write a letter to Ah Sum to thank him properly, as you didn’t have the right words when you were shivering in his hut.

 

Summer Learning Journey

LI: To celebrate our success and reflect on our Summer Learning Journey.

On Friday last week , PBS celebrated all the students that participated in the SLJ. Over the summer holidays students have been working on creating DLO’s the topic on 2025 – 2026 SLJ is Critters and Creatures. Each day we learnt about different creatures and post them on our blog showing all the facts we know about them. I am really happy that I participated this year and learnt all the different things about animals I knew and didn’t. One thing I found really interesting was that there were different types of creatures that I never heard in my life and I am really grateful to have the oppurtunity to learn it now.

Significant Figures

LI : How to identify and round to significant figures.

For this weeks Maths , Group 1 created a DLO showing how to solve significant figures and to have a better understanding towards the learning. When needed if you need to solve a number and show all the figures in that numbers whether if it has 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 or 5 significant figures its really easy to solve and will better if know more about it.

Example:

886652 :

1 s.f = 900000

2 s.f = 890000

3 s.f = 887000

Highest Common Multiple

For this weeks Maths , group 1 is learning how to identify highest common factors. Highest common factors is basically the largest whole numbers that divides into two or more numbers without any remainders. Remember , factors are numbers that we can multiply together to get a number. For example : 6 x 8 = 48.

 

Sewing Tech at Tamaki College

This week for sewing tech, we are focusing on making tote bags. We went on our chromebooks to search designs and patterns and see what ones we like. We looked at 5 to 6 photos of the designs we saw potential in and put them on a google doc explaining what it is and why we like it. For me my main focus was mostly on cultural and flowers. After we finished putting the photos on the doc we were able to draw out the one we liked the most on our paper. And then we wrote next to it what colors the patterns would be. I made my tote bag inspired by a cultural 4 pedal flower.

Place Values

LI: How to name place and total values up to millions and two decimal places

Place value, is the value of every digit in a number depending on its position.

Decimals are parts of a number which always stays on the right side of the decimal points (.).

If this is difficult a easier way is relating whole number and decimals to money (Dollars and Cents) because dollars are whole numbers and cents are like decimal numbers because they aren’t a whole number.

Johnny Pohe and The Great Escape

LI : To make an informed opinion

Our task was to create a DLO that shows both perspectives of this event. Our group considered whether or not the risks that Johnny Pohe took were probably not the right choice because he knew he will have bad consequences and know that it will end bad.

 

 

Building Our class culture

LI: To collaborate to create a piece of art.

For this collaboration work , we worked in groups and had each part of our leader to draw. We drew it based off the picture we got. Our leader Sir Edmund Hillary was a was a famous explorer and mountain climber. He is well known to be the first person to climb up Mount Everest he has inspired me a lot.

Prime and Composite

LI : How to identify Prime and Composite numbers.

This week for Maths we learnt how to identify Prime and Composite numbers. A prime number is a whole number which is only divisible by itself and one. A prime number only has 2 factors and if an number does have more than two, it is a composite number. For example : 5 is an prime number because 1×5 = 5 and there are no other factors. The first and only even prime number is “2”. other factors except 1 and 5.