Dear future me,
Right now, I’m writing this because I have to and at this point in my life, I feel happy. Don’t forget how strong you are when you are. Never let anyone make you forget that you are strong and smart. You deserve love, peace, and joy because you are him and you are cool. No matter what, keep being yourself and dont be someone you’re not.
With love, Willy
This week we were focussing on our test results for math. As you can see I have improved this year. As you can see I didn’t go down in term four like the class average. I think this happened because I got help from my mates in class but I did the test all by myself. In term 2 I got 15 in term 3 I got 23 and in term 4 I got 24. I am proud of myself because I have improved this year. Check my results in my graph.
E ako ana matou ki te tuhi toku whakaaro e pa ana nga kupu ‘ake’ me ‘iho’.
This week, we had to write about the keywords we learned in our panui pukapuka. I chose the words, ‘ake’ and ‘iho’. Ake means upwards, iho means downwards.
what I found hard was:
I found translating hard because some of the new to me.
What I found easy:
I found ranking the animals easy because I could tell which was the smallest and which was the biggest.
Here is a little presentation of my Panui.
He aha te mea horo ake by William Rurehe
WALT: Convert decimals to fractions
This week, we have been converting decimals to fractions. We had to remember some things to be successful at this mahi.
Firstly, you have to know the value of the decimals. We have to know and understand ‘ nested place value’. Any given number has many tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.
Secondly, we need to know our factors or what numbers go into a fraction’s numerator and denominator to simplify that fraction. For example, 15/50 can be simplified. The number 5 is a factor of both, so we divide 15 by 5 and 50 by 5. This gives us a fraction of 3/10.
Opinion: This week’s mahi was very hard but I kept working on it and I knew how to solve it and understand it
Please see my video sample of me showing my strategy for how I convert decimals to fractions.
Design by William Rurehe
Kia ora koutou,
This week for math we have been focusing on our attendance. Here is a little slide show of my attendance chart. The reasons why we need to come to school is because if you’re a Yr 8 and your attendance is lower than 80 percent you don’t get to graduate for the year. Also, if you don’t come to school you won’t learn. Lastly, at our school if you don’t come to school you won’t get to go on trips or go to special events like the attendance trip at the end of the term. Miss Simeon is taking all students above 80% to the movies.
Your paragraph text by William Rurehe
Kia ora koutou, This week for math we have been learning division in parts. Here is a little video of me doing a question.
The thing that was hard was trying to figure out which number to split.
The thing that was easy for me was that after all the dividing and working out, it was easy to find the answer.
Design by William Rurehe
WALT: Convert mixed fractions to improper fractions and vice versa.
Success Criteria:
Explain the difference between mixed and improper fractions.
Create a ‘How to’ video to show my procedure.
Reflect on my learning
Kia ora koutou,
This week we have been focused on converting mixed fractions to improper fractions. A mixed fraction has both whole numbers and fractional numbers. For example 3 and 3/4. Improper fractions always have the numerator greater than the denominator. For example, 13/4.
It can be tricky for me to see the size of the fraction. So I would draw the fractions as pictures that i’m interested in. I know that you have to multiply the whole number by the denominator of a fraction, and add the numerator. It wasn’t until I drew the picture that I really understand what was happening in the problems.
When you convert improper fractions to mixed fractions, it helped when I said to myself, ‘How many’…. so to convert 22/7 into a mixed fraction, I thought, ‘how many 7’s go into 22? I know that 7×3=21… so three sevens go into 22 with 1 left over. This becomes my fraction of 1/7.
Here is my video showing how I use this strategy to solve different problems.
How to by William Rurehe
kia ora my name is William and I am a year 8 student in Room 8 at Tautoro school. My teacher is Whaea Gaylene.
I enjoy my school becauce I get to see my friends and learn new things. My favourite subject is panui and math.
My favourite sports are ki-o-rahi and basketball.
One interesting thing about me is that I like hunting and going for rides with my family on my dirt bike.
Kia ora koutou
Every week of the term we have been practicing our kapa haka. In 3 more weeks, we are going to perform in front of our parents. I am really excited to perform in front of my parents. We are doing four waiata, one himene, one haka. The four songs that we are doing are Enei wai this song is written by one of our kaiako and her sister. Our other waiata are Uia, Te tai Eio matua kore and our haka is Puia.
What did you find easy: I found starting the songs off easy.
What did you find difficult: I found singing the high note hard for me.
I enjoyed kapahaka because I got to lead the waiata.
One thing we learnt was disciplining ourselves and controlling our behaviors so we could listen to Whaea Raechel.
This week we learnt how to ask how much something was and answer with the price. It was to help us on our haerenga to the supermarket in Kaikohe. We had to follow the sentence structure E…..tara e ……heneti te utu mo te/nga……
Remembering how to count in M`aori was tricky too. Did you know kotahi rau is one hundred and kotahi mano is one thousand? I didn’t. I can count to ten easily.
Here is my slides of asking and answering how much something cost.
E hia te utu by William Rurehe