Show Me

In Jackson's Studio (Rm18) we used the iPad learning app Show Me. Show Me is where you turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard so you can record tutorials. We used Show Me to record a strategy for solving a subtraction problem. The strategy that Jonty and I chose was place value and eaqual adjustments.

I hope you learn something from our video.

Friendship recipe

This week Jackson's Studio (Rm 18) have been writing about how to bake a friend.

This is my friendship recipe I did this week.

How to bake the perfect friend

Follow these steps to make perfect a friend.

Ingredients

10 tablespoons of caring.
11 tablespoons of sharing.
1 kg of respect.
900 grams of sportiness.
5 tablespoons of positiveness.
7 tablespoons of trust.
8 tablespoons of smiles.

200 grams of energy.

Materials

An oven.
A rolling pin.
A baking tray
A big bowl.
A wooden spoon.
A table spoon.
A electrical mixer.

A baking paper

A measuring cup.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees.
2. Put the 10 tablespoons of caring, 11 tablespoons of sharing and 1kg of respect in a bowl.
3. Pour the 900 grams of sportiness and 5 tablespoon of positiveness in.
4. Beat with electric mixer until pale and creamy.
5. Stir in 7 tablespoon of trust.
6. Add the 8 tablespoons of smiles.
7. Beat until all the ingredients are well combined.
8. Sprinkle the 200 grams of energy over the mixture.
9. Get 2 pieces of baking paper and place one on the baking tray and the other one on the table.
10. Carefully move the mixture and put it on the baking paper on the table.
11. Roll the mixture for about 20 seconds then carefully put the mixture on the baking paper on the tray (ready for the oven).
12. Place the baking tray in the top draw of the oven.
13. Wait for 30 minutes then your friend will happily jump out.

I hope you are enjoy playing with your new friend.

Spelling Sentences

This year Jackson's Studio (Rm 18) has been writing some complex sentences that have our spelling words in them. We also need to write the meaning down. This is part of our Home Learning that our teacher gives us. 

Here are my sentences that I wrote this week.

Spelling Words	Dictionary Definition	Complex Sentence
Spelling Word Example: departed	Leave, especially in order to start a new journey.	I departed for America so that I could be reunited with my family.
Spelling Word One: Raged	To talk in a extremely angry way.	Miss Scott  was talking in a raged voice because everyone was being naughty.
Spelling Word Two: Teetered	To move in an unsteady way.	The colossal tower teetered although it was perfectly stabled on a flat ground.
Spelling Word Three: Amphibious	Able to live in land and water.	Apple trees aren’t amphibious since they only grow in land.
Spelling Word Four: Frantic	feeling or showing a lot of fear and worry.	They were greatly frantic after they found out that a child got lost.
Spelling Word Five: Sloshing	To walk over liquid in a forceful and nosy way.	Bob was sloshing over the mud with his new rain boot because he was a naughty boy.

I hope you enjoyed my sentences. 

Animal report

In our class we did an Information Report on an animal we like. I chose a python. I hope you get some good facts from my information report.

Here is an animal report that I did.

Did you know python's scientific name is a pythonidae? Pythons are the one of the biggest snakes in the world. They are carnivores because they eat rabbits, antelopes or monkeys. Pythons are found as reptiles because pythons are in the snake species. You can usually know the gender of a python because the females are larger.

The pythons are found in Asia or Africa. A python’s habitat can be in savannahs because pythons like to stay in hot places. They also live in rainforests because there are lots of creatures there that pythons can hunt. A slew (lots) of pythons are found near rivers or ponds because if a predator comes pythons can swim away.

Pythons are cold blooded snakes and have no venom. Their colourful shell helps them to blend into trees. Pythons can weigh up to 137kg. Their sharp teeth help them to kill their food. Python have hard and slippery shells because they need to escape and guard themselves from predators. Normal pythons usually grow over 30 feet long because they are a big snake species.

Pythons are a reptile that swallows their food. They squeeze their animal until it’s dead. Then they wrap around it to protect it from other creatures. The amazing thing is that they only eat 4-5 times a year. Pythons prey on rodents, antelopes, monkeys, caimans, deers and rabbits.

Pythons lay up to 100 eggs and minimum is 20. If pythons don't breed they lay up to 6 eggs. Python lay eggs between March and November. If pythons breed, then 3-4 months later they lay an egg. Baby pythons leave their mother when they are 65 to 85 days old. The mum takes care of baby.

Pythons are also predators but some other predators can prey on them. Usually big cat families, eagles, hawks or bears prey on them. Pythons don’t attack humans unless they are stressed or provoked. Humans also kill pythons to use their skin.

I don’t think killing pythons for money is a good idea because pythons get stressed when a human takes their family members so they might attack you. The other reason for not killing pythons is if a python lays an egg and you kill the mum there will be no one to look after the baby.

Bibliography

www.softschools.com/facts/animals

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

http://animaldiversity.org/

 
I hope you learnt some thing about pythons.

Māori colours

This week Jackson's Studio (Rm18) learnt some colours in Māori.

Here are the colours in Māori:

Whero = Red       
Karaka = orange        
Kōwhai = yellow
Kākāriki = green
Kikorangi = blue
Tawa = purple
Māwhero = pink
Pango = black
Mā = white
Parauri = brown

This is how you ask and answer some questions about colours.

He aha te tae o tēnā? He aha te tae o tenēi?
(What is that?) (What colour is this?)

He __________tēnā He ____te tae o tēnā
(It is __________). (It is __________).

This is a Māori colour song that can help us quickly learn the Māori colours.