Origami Frog

Today I have been learning how to make an origami frog. Heres

 a wevideo.

Basic Facts

This is our daily practise to improve our basic facts. This is my score for today. If you reach 100% you then set a higher test. My next test is stage 7. I will reach 100% If my score is 85% then i will have tp try again.

Personal Recount

Personal Recount

A Personal Recount can retell personal experience or record details of an event at which the writer was present. When writing a recount it is important to get things in the order in which they happened (chronological order ).

Here is an example of a recount. Notice the words used to link the ideas of the time when things happened.

My Fantail Friend.

We have a lot of native trees around our place and lots of birds. I was sick in bed for a long time last winter and got to know some of the birds well.

Everyday a fantail used to perch on a frame under the eaves outside my window and chatter to me. I know it was not my imagination that this chepping would get more and more insistent until I spoke to him. One day he brought another fantail to meet me. They both took my mind of how i was feeling unwell and I laughed at their cheeky antics.

In the fourth term I went back to school and did not see so much of the fantails although I would sometimes sit on the back step after school and they flittered around the ponga trees beside me. Mum “said they went back at school”. We went away for most for the summer and came back a week before school started. I didn't see fantails the first day back.    

The next day, the same thing happened. I rang a friend of ours who belongs to the Forest and Bird Society and asked what I could do for the fantail. She said it might have lost it’s mate and if it hadn't settled in another couple days, to ring the SPCA. They have the contact number for Bird Rescue.

Introducing Memory

Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Memory and I am cook Island and Maori. And I am a senior at Glen Innes school. I love to play with my friends, spend time with my family and also sports. My friends are Mya, Angel,Jolie,Suinipa,Jazire,Sita,Alicia and Vedel.

Data calculations: Finding the Median (Middle score)

Data Calculations: Finding the Median ( Middle Score)

The median is the middle score or number. To find the median, scores must be placed in order from the smallest to biggest. Start counting one off each end, until you have one score in left in the middle.

For example: The results from the class test are listed below.

6 ,8 ,10 ,10 ,9 ,7 ,5

What is the median or ‘middle‘ score? 6,8,10,10,9,7,5,

In this example, scores are put into order would be…

5,6,7,8,9,10,10

Then, start counting one off each end, keep going until you have one score left in the middle.

5,6,7,8,9,10,10,

What number is in the middle of this list? The middle number is the median.

Answer:  The number 8 is the median.

Task 1:

Find the median (middle score) for each list scores below.

Remember scores must be in order.

1.  4,8,9     Median 8

2. 4,6,6,7,9  Median 6
3. 4,9,12,13,16,19,21  Median 13

4. 1,3,4,6,8,9,9  Median 6

5. 6,8,9,15,17,18,19,21  Median 13

6. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,9,11  Median 6

7. 6,9,4  Median 4

8. 7,6,1,3,8 Median 6

9. 5,2,4,7,9,4.5 Median 5

In the questions above, there is an odd number of scores and one number is left in the middle. When you have an even number of scores, there will be two scores left in the middle.

For example: 3,6,8,9

What numbers are in the middle? 6 and 8

Halfway between 6 and 8? 7

The median is 7

Another example: 4,7,8,10,11,12

What numbers are in the middle? 8 and 10

Halfway between 8 and 10? 9

The median is 9

Action Verbs

An Action Verb is often following by a noun or pronoun that is the direct object. It receives action denoted by verb.

1. Yvonne carried the groceries to the car

2. Michael photographed many animals yesterday at the zoo

3. I opened my present before the day of my birthday

4. Lisa saw a turtle beside a rock in the pond

5. I found the book on a shelf in my closet.

6. I found a Iphone by the fountain in the park.

7. Jerry brought a drink the day before he left for his trip.

8.Terese made a portrait in the art class.

9. Ann played the guitar at our school talent show.

10. Peter took his books out of his locker before class.

Write Three Sentences, With a action verb and the direct object.

In our class some of the people will not stop talking! And some of them do not do their work in the classroom. Instead they play games and then they get in trouble from our teacher.

Aliteration

Many poets use aliteration, words of the same beginning sound, to stress an important part of the poem. Sometimes the same sound appear next to each other in the same line.

An example of alliterative verse.

Pepping Possum

I saw a Possum peeping past

petunias pastel pink.

On Thursday at three - thirty, or

Thereabouts, I think

What would he want? I wondered, as I

Waited while he wriggled

He grasped at grass, grinned goodbye,

Glided off, and giggled.

Summer

Pour on lotion,

Rub it in

Perfect for

My summer skin,

On my bike or in my pool,

A sip of water

Keeps me cool

Shades are on,

Flip-flops on to

In the summer

theres so much to do!!!