Book Week in School.

This week was Book Week. There was a play performed in our school hall on Tuesday.

The play was about the Treasure hunt that has been written by Craig Christie.

There were two tribes living on an island. These two tribes blamed each other for stealing each other song.

The Treeland tribe was led by George and the Seaview tribe was led by Jessica. These two characters teamed up to solve the problem about the lost treasure which was their song.

The problem was solved when they were able to put the torn map together and work out how to get to the treasure. They had to read different books to solve the problem.

I really enjoyed this play because both the characters were very smart and talented. They sang very well and were also hilarious.

Thank Sam and Lidia for coming to our school. We hope to see you again next year.

Financial Literacy.

We learned about how to budget and save money. The other topics we learned about were insurance, borrowing and lending, identity theft mortgage, trust and saving money. Our tutors were Emma, Jane, and Matt from Price Waterhouse and Cooper Accountant firm. I enjoyed all the sessions because the activities were very exciting and practical.

Maths. Subtraction

WALT: Solve the subtraction problems using place value partitioning.

1.952-259=

12-9=3

140-50=90

800-200=600

600+90+3=693

This is how I worked it out.

I can not take away 9ones from 2ones so I borrow one ten from 5tens now I got 12 and 12-9=3

Since I borrow a ten from the 5tens now I got 4tens. I can not take away 5tens from 4tens so I borrow one hundred from 9hundred and now I got 140 and 140-50=90

I took away 200 from 800 and I was left with 600 so 600+90+3=693.

My mum's nana's birthday

Yesterday was a beautiful day because I went to North Shore for my mum's nana's birthday. I went with my family including my cousin. My cousin came with $100 dollars for my nana. I was so glad to be there. My mum's nana turned 86 years old.

All of our family was there. There were 80 people there. We decided to went to the Valentines and celebrate her birthday there. She was so happy that day. All of the other people were looking at us when we were praying and singing. After we prayed we went and dish our food. I got pizza and fish and chips. I ate and ate then it was dessert time. I had ice cream, mud cake, jelly, and lollies. I kept on eating all the sudden I wanted to play games so I ate fast and went to my dad and get coins. I went on the Fantasy World Machine and I got 9 lollies. We were all so loud and then one of the workers there came and told us to go to our table and we all ran.

On 9:00pm all of us came out and went back home. I was so happy and all of us were so tired so I fell asleep in the car. My dad carried me to my bed and I continued sleeping.

Cultural activity.

I am feeling very excited about taking part in Cultural activities at school this term.

Today I picked two cultural groups that I want to be in.

My first choice was Fijian and I picked Kiwi Can jam for my second choice.

The Queen's sister's birthday.

We were so excited because it was the queen’s sister’s birthday. It happens in our church the Vaine Mo' onia which are the first Methodist. We first started with a prayer and one of her protectors took us to this big room. It was full of stuff and toys for us. There were bouncy castles and lots of other stuff. For big peoples, they ate and celebrate the queen’s sister’s birthday.

After 2 hours one of her protectors came and took us to the queen’s sister’s birthday. We all pizza, presents, candies and we lined up just to shook her hand. I was so happy that day and I can’t wait for the queen’s sister’s birthday. We all came back home and took a rest because we were all tired.

Math.Subtraction and Addition.

WALT: We have been learning how to solve addition and subtraction problems in various strategies.

Problems.	Strategy.	Answer
1)295+126=	5+6=11 90+20=110 200+100=300 300+110+11=421	=421
2)9760-7531=	I can’t take away 1ones from 0ones so I borrow a 10 from the 6tens. It makes 10 10-1=9 Since I borrow 1 a 10 from 6tens, I am left with 5tens so 50-30=20 700-500=200 9000-7000=2000 2000+200+20+9=2229	=219.
3)1266+1045=	1000+1000=2000 200+0=200 60+40=100 6+5=11 2000+200+100+11=2311	=2311
4)912-283= 4)912-283=	I can not take away 3ones from 2ones so I borrow 1 ten from the 1 tens. It makes 12 12-3=9 Since I borrow 1 ten from 1 ten I have no more ten so I borrow 100 from the hundreds and it makes 100. 100-80=20.I have 8 hundred now  and so 800-200=600 600+20+9=629	=629
5)314+127=	300+100=400 10+20=30 4+7=11 400+30+11=441	=441