Function Machine

Walt: Solve problems in division, multiplication and subtraction.

This game is very interesting. I wouldn't really call it a game though. Its like a teacher that can help you with some things you need with. I find this really useful because if I need help with hard mathematical problems I can come onto this site.

WARNING!

How did this dragon get here?

No one really knows. What if it just flew right through the building and stopped for a nap? Well we’ll find out.

News reporter Ashley says she was in town reporting for the NZ fashion week. But then something caught her attention. No one would ever believe her. It was a dragon. It was flying around the town. She stated that, as it was flying up high into the blue sky, something flew into his huge hazel eye. He lost control and came shooting down like a meteorite. His enormous red body came flying down and crashed into an abandon building like a rocket. Luckily no one was hurt.

As soon as the dragon crashed through the building, she saw a young boy aged around 8-9 years old walking towards the dragon. As he was walking he was crying. The dragon stood up with smoke pouring out of his nose. As he stood up slim was dripping out of his wide mouth.

Police and swat crews arrived at the scene to find the reporter with the boy backing away from the dragon. The swat crew spread around the dragon and one of the swat crew members stabbed the dragon with a needle ( it had a special kind of sleeping drug ). The dragon felt the needle go through his rock solid body and tried to attack but yawned so loud that the building shock.

The reporter was safe, as well a the young boy. The boy’s parents got the news and came quickly with tears coming down their cheek. The dragon was caged and sent to the Milford Dragon Academy.

12 Days Of Mixed Emotions

The past twelve weeks have been amazingly exhausting. The year 8's have been to food tech for the past 12 weeks. We have had our ups and downs with our teacher. I did enjoy going, but some people spoil it for the good ones.

The two Favorite dishes that I made were fried rice and sweet and sour beef. The reason I chose fried rice and sweet and sour beef out of all dishes is because it was full of taste and colour. It was absolutely mouth watering when Chloe and I completed the dish. The taste was like happiness falling into our mouth. The smell was out of this world, and the combination of the colours was indescribable.

I hated doing the dishes and cleaning everything, but the people who surrounded me made cleaning entertaining. Most of the teams would eat then clean, but Chloe and I would always clean before we sat down to enjoy our meal. We did this so we didn’t have to worry about the dirty dishes.

Yes, we did have our ups and downs with our food tech teacher. We were also mistakenly blamed for things we didn’t do. It was kind of hard to understand her talk because she’s Tongan, but some people took it the wrong way. Its hard to remember the last time we all just focused on our work. But I clearly remember when Ms. V came in to help us with our brownies.

We do need to work on our noise level and respect the teacher more, but other than that I enjoyed being in food tech.   

Celia (Rm 12)     

Gem Division Game

Walt: Find how many sets.

This weeks maintenance is a gem division game. It just basically helps you revise your multiplication facts. I found it a bit easy. There were levels that said easy, medium and hard, but its all the same. Next time I would like something more challenging, so maybe if I don’t really know it I can learn something new. It didn't tell me my score but, for sure I know I got 100% because I got it all right.

Reflection - Basic facts

My basic facts test 2 stage 6 score was 586.

I did well in sorting the numbers out from big to small, writing words into numbers and multiplication and division. I need to work on my place value and using symbols < > =.

I need to do more homework on my place value and using symbols. My siblings and friends must help me improve more on areas I need help. I can ask the teacher to give me more work on place value. For me to get to the next stage I need to work my hardest on the main areas I need help on to get 100%.

Team Work

Team working together.

Chopper Challenge Operation

Walt: Revise multiplication and division facts.

This game was to refresh our minds on learning our times tables. I found this quite easy.

My strategy for this game is quick recall of my multiplication tables. I was slow therefore my score was low. I need to practise and get much faster. I would like to get close to Keanau’s score of 4356.