Learn about mean, median and mode with Scratch

Kia Ora Bloggers!

We have been learning about mean, median and mode. As a way of showing our learning, we have created a Scratch programme.
Scratch is a coding programme and teaching a lot of computational thinking skills.
To code, we need to learn have inputs, output, sequence, selection, iteration and storage. There is some problem solving and debugging that we need to do too, because there may be errors that stop the code from working properly. I found quite a few ‘bugs’ in mine, but it was great to work it out and really satisfying to make it run. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it and learn something.



Do you know how to code? What programmes do you use?
Let me know if you find any bugs!

Clever Counting!

Hi bloggers,

We are learning Samoan every Wednesday and over the last two weeks we have been learning how to count to ten.  I found this quite easy as it is very similar to counting to 10 in Maori.  Today we used Scratch to code a programme that would show people how to count to ten in Samoan.  Check it out!  Can you count to 10 in any other language?

This is just to say...

Kia ora Bloggers,

We are involved in the Get NZ writing and we are writing poems based on William Carlos William's poem This is just to say.

Have you done anything naughty? Be honest!

See you next time Bloggers.

Perfect Portrait

Kia ora Bloggers!

It's that time of year where teachers make us draw portraits! Arrgghhhh, I am terrible at drawing but maybe because this year it is more abstract it won't be so bad.

It's also about my interests, my culture so that people can learn a bit about me.
Here it is...

As you can see, I have a dog, she is called Mika and is a Springer Spaniel. I have a family, I have 2 children. I like going to the gym and going skiing.
My family is from Russia, Scotland and the UK. I have included the Silver Fern as I live in NZ.

The artist that this portrait style is based upon is Romero Britto, have you heard of him or seen any of his art work? They are really bright and fun.

See you again.

Beautiful Bar Graphs

Kia ora Bloggers!
Welcome back to the new year and my first blog post. I hope you all had a great summer break, personally I am not ready for summer to leave, and the autumn leaves to fall...I love the sun!

So, maths.
It seems simple, but drawing a bar graphs was surprisingly difficult. I had forgotten, or maybe I never knew, how to draw a proper bar graph.

Here is my first attempt.

I know right, not great. I had forgotten so many things, but I did label my axis!

So I now have a checklist;

• Scale starting at 0 and going up equally
• Gaps between the bars, even the y axis
• Labelling my axis
• A detailed title
• The frequency numbers on the lines, not in the squares 
• Use a ruler

I tried again and BOOM! my second attempt is so much better!

What do you think? So . much better, eh! 

Have you started your math programme yet? What are you learning? 

See you next time.

Hola! Conversations in Spanish!!

Morena Bloggers,

We have been learning spanish, it has been AMAZING. We have learned so much, here is a snippet of basic conversations between two characters.

I hope you like it.




Have you learned a language this year?

*Example post* Last Term - New Goals

Kia ora Bloggers,

So here we are, 14 October and the start of the countdown to the end of the year.
I have worked hard already, and this term is no different.

My number knowledge is a big thing I am going to be working on, at home and at school. I am working on Brick 21, 22 and 23. This means I have to work on learning my division rules of 3 and 9s, also factors, primes and multiples.

A link to the work I will be doing to practise these skills are
Divisibility
Factors and multiples

I am going to do my best to work on the a couple of times a week. I go on my computer at least an hour a day, and so I am going to spend 10 minutes before I do anything, working on these skills. I am going to try to, anyway!

Do you have any specific goals this term?

See ya in a few weeks when I review these goals, and hopefully get some number knowledge Brocks signed off :o)