Interesting Smart Surfing

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Smart Surfing. For Smart Surfing we have to find keywords in a question and then use those keywords to type into Google because if we type the whole question it would find all of the pages that has how on them. For example if I ask Google what do spiders eat it would find all of the documents that have, what and do, but if you just right that keywords like spiders diet it would give you a perfect answer about spiders eat. Have you learnt about this before?

Ngahau Maori

Kia ora. In Te Ngahere my class has been learning how to pronounce our maori words correctly. We had to pronounce our maori alphabet, greetings and place names in maori. I thought that it was really easy because I am half maori and half pakeha. I also found it hard because some of the words were a bit tricky to pronounce. I need to practise how to pronounce the place names more because I am not that great at it. Can you pronounce maori words correctly?

Coastal Seas

Kia ora. In Te Ngahere at Paihia School we have been learning about the Coastal Seas. We watched a episode called coastal seas which gave us interesting facts about what happens in the coastal seas and how it works. I thought that the video was really interesting because I learnt new facts about the ocean. We learned about Humpback Whales, Grey Reef Sharks, White Tipped Sharks, Bottlenose Dolphins, Sea Otters, Sea Lions, Stingrays and Manta Rays. We then had to create a slide presentation about what we learned and put our fact on each slide. Do you know anything about the ocean?

Hard Math Equations

Kia ora. In Te Ngahere group of students and I have been learning about decimal place value. We had to use decimals. At first I thought that it was hard because I didn’t really understand what the leaders of my groups were talking about. But then it was easier because the leaders of the group wrote something on the white board to make sure that everyone understood what to do. We first had to write down the Tens, Ones, Tenths, Hundredths and Thousandths columns. Then there was a number so we had to write the first number in the tens columns and so on. After that we had to say the number and then we had the ans (answer). Have you ever done maths like this?

Delicious Butter Chicken

Kia ora. At Paihia School the whole class went to Greens for Shivam’s birthday lunch. I thought that was really nice of Shivam to let us go to Greens for his birthday lunch. We went to Greens because his parents owns the restaurant. I thought that the food was great, what we had was butter chicken, rice and naan bread and man it was nice. We also got Coke and Sprite. That day was probably the best birthday lunch i’ve ever been to. At the end of lunch Shivam and his family came in with a shopping cart of easter eggs we then all started to scream out heads off. We wanted to wish him a happy birthday so Jade & Angela presented a card to Shivam with all of our names in it to say thanks and happy birthday. Right after we got our easter eggs we sung three waiata to say thank you to Shivam & his Whanau. Have you been to greens for lunch?