Moment In time writing

Wagging school!!!!

As Cakey and Kitkat were walking to school they realised that they had a maths test that day and they really did not want to do it, so they decided to waggg and just go to the park and play soccer.

When they were at the park they were happily playing like Cristiano Ronaldo trying to impress the crowd of fans.  Out of nowhere was miss boo the head teacher people described her as the dragon of words  “Oh no,where do we run to” cried Cakey “ Run” said Kitkat so Kitkat ran and Cakey just hide in the slide that was a hot stove.  But what Cakey did not realised was that Miss Boo had the class because they did so well in the test that she took them down to park to have a play all the kids went straight for the slide, his sweaty parms just got worst and the biggest thing going thow this head was to run or do i just own up he decided to just own so he walked guilty he walked up to Miss boo and owed up. Miss Boo was like “ And why did you wagg” yelled Miss Boo “ I had a sore tummy so i thought that i would came down to the park and get some fresh air” “ Ok then” said Miss Boo “would you like to go home” “no I will be ok” said Cakey in realefe that he did not get in trouble.  But he decided that he would not say anything about Kitkat but Kitkat was guilty like a kid that has stolen candy from a candy shop.

I completed course 1 on coding

This term I have been learning how to code and today i completed course 1.

Tessellation

Tessellation

A tessellation is a regular pattern made up of flat shapes repeated and joined together without any gaps or overlaps. These shapes do not all need to be the same, but the pattern should repeat. Another word for tessellation is tiling.

Regular polygon An regular shape is a shape that has equal sides and angles	Irregular polygon An irregular polygon is a shape that does not have -all the sides or angles equal
Salzman, L., (1990).  Cool Tessellations.  Creative activities that make math and science fun for kids!  P6-7)

Glossary
Angles:	A space that is measured in degrees.
vertice:	Vertice is when two straight lines came together.
sides:	Sides are the straight lines on shapes .
Regular polygon:	Is a shape that has equal sides angles.
Irregular Polygon:	Is a shape that does not have equal sides and angles.

References:
What is tessellation	http://www.funmaths.com/fun_math_projects/what_is_a_tessellation.htm
pictures	http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tessellation.html

Matariki reflection

Matariki is a time for reflection.  Yesterday  with Whaea Toni we took the time to reflect on our year and set a new goal here is the goal I  set:

We made a matariki star we used our algebraic  thinking. we had a pattern to follow 1, 2, and down  1, and up we repeated this pattern until we got the star.

                           

Matariki Celebration

Manu Tukutuku

Every year the māori people celebrate the māori new year, which is called Matariki.  During Matariki people gather together and do things like kapa haka, feasts, nakule bones and make manu.

For our school Matariki celebration we made manu (kites). To make these we used toetoe and raupō but before we cut the toetoe we said a karakia.  We said a karakia because of the tikanga, tikanga means why we do what we do and to respect the plants.  Then our teacher Miss Hills cuts off toetoe for us because there was some cutty grass  and our teacher on the weekend collected the raupō but I can guarantee she said a karakia  before she cut it.  

To make our kites we needed to work as a team.   My bubby was Philip we had some ups and downs with doing this because sometimes we did not always agree with each other.  The thing I think I did well was the weaving on the kite to hold in the raupō strips The thing I was not so good at was explaining to Philip how to weave the sides because in my head I only knew how to do it myself.  In the end Miss Hills showed him how to do it and our manu turned out really good.Thank you reading my piece of writing I hope you learnt something about Matariki.

Matariki...

This week me and my group have been learning about matariki.  here is a picture I drew to share my understanding.