Johnny Pohe and the great Escape

For reading we were learning about Johnny Pohe and his great escape. Johnny Pohe was a pilot that taught people and fought in wars, one day he got caught and was sent to prison camp in Germany. Him and other people that were caught in the prison made up a play to make three tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry. Dick and Tom were exploded and abandoned and Harry was the last standing one, they waited for a moonless night to escape. Once that came they went for the opening and went into the tunnels, due to a delay only 200 people were supposed to make it out but only seventy six escaped, and three escaped safely. For this task we made the pros and cons of being an escape or staying inside the prison.

 

LCM

For maths our task was to answer the questions about LCM (Lowest Common Multiples). To get a lowest common you need to have two numbers and work out all of the number they can multiply into, and when you find a first match between multiples, then that is the lowest common factor of the both of the tables.

Building our Class Culture

LI: To learn to collaborate and share ideas 

Our task for this activity was to use our collaboration skills and to respect leaders around the world and other’s culture. This task was to strengthen our classes bonds so that the new students don’t feel shy around us. The important part of this task was the friends we made during the task. 

Social Influence

LI: How to identify the difference between positive and negative social influence

For Inquiry this week we have discussed as a class, what is “social Influence” and understand how to identify the difference between positive and negative social influence.

We also dug deeper into “Normative Influence” which means doing things to fit in and “Informational Influence”, is the things we do because we think others know more than us.

Something we found interesting was that social influence can really have a big affect on people.

Rounding

LI: How to round up numbers to the billions place values and three decimal places

For maths our task was to solve rounding equations and learn how rounding works. We explored how rounding works and learnt as a group. Our teacher explained that rounding means changing a number to the nearest ten, hundred, or another place value to make it easier to work with. After learning the rules, we went through some questions together to get a better understanding of rounding.

Prime and Composite Numbers

This week me and Group 1 in maths did prime and composite numbers, we had 23 questions about prime and composite, then when we were done we made a DlO about our work and this is the prompt that we used,

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.

Place Value

LI: How to identify place value up to the billions and three decimal places

For maths group one’s task was to learn how to solve place value problems and how we use place value in different area’s.  Place value is the place of a digit in a number that tells us how much it is worth. The number system is based on groups of ten, which means each place in a number is ten times bigger than the one to its right. Place value also has decimals, which help us show numbers that are smaller than one whole. The decimal point separates the whole number part from the smaller parts. To the right of the decimal point, each place value becomes ten times smaller than the one before it.

Division Algorithm

LI: How to calculate the quotient of whole numbers using algorithm

This week our group learnt how to solve division problems and find out how to get the quotient (answer). We first went through the steps of how to divide and where the dividend and divisor goes and how we put it in the division bracket. After we worked through the questions in pairs and marked our work at the end.

 

Life in the Annex

LI: To write a description of life with the Frank Family in the annex in the 1942

The annex was quiet except for the creaky basic wooden floorboards that couldn’t keep silent. I was cramped inside my silent and secret hideout, while I was hiding my  religion was being persecuted therefore I hid with my family. During the time I always wrote in my diary about how I struggled with a big group of people in one small annex. Every time I was hiding I would be very frightened by sudden footsteps leading to the secret door. Every time that happened me and my family held our breaths and hoped that the person had left. The room had a dusty and rugged smell to it, making it unbearable with several people living in the same cramped place.

We are reading the book ‘Diary of Anne Frank’. Mrs Anderson created a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what life would have been like in the annex, what we felt and why we felt that way.

I enjoyed using the Gem because it helped me use better words and helps me get better ideas. 

 

How we Honour the Tiriti O Waitangi

For Inquiry our task was to learn about the treaty of Waitangi and how we honour it. We learnt about the different people who were involved in the treaty like, James Busby, Hone Heke, Tamati Waka Nene, and William Hobson. Then we created a DLO explaining how we honour the treaty of Waitangi and why we honour it.