Parts of speech

Many parts of speech exist in the English language. Adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, nouns, and verbs are some to name a few. If you don’t know what some of them are, an adverb describes a verb or an adjective, like for example, slowly walking. A conjunction is a word that connects parts of sentences. ‘And’ is a conjunction. Prepositions tell what time, location, direction an object is. ‘The cat is beside the girl.’ A noun is the name of an object, place, date, or person. A verb is an action word that describes what something is doing.

Probability math- Greedy pig

Greedy pig is a game of chance. You keep rolling a die to add to the number 50. If you roll one, your score or sum will revert back to zero. You will be a ‘greedy pig’ if that happens. If the other numbers are rolled, they will only be added towards your score. you keep rolling a die to add to the number 50. This is one of the games I played today, and I successfully reached the score of 50.

IXL-Stem and leaf graph

A stem and leaf plot is a different type of graph. The stem part symbolises the tens place while the leaf is the ones place. We will look at the row that says ‘2 0 5’. This does not mean it is showing the number 205, it is showing 20 and 25.  The stem part with the 2 on it is like a preset for a tens place so numbers from 0-9 can be placed as a ones digit. To read a stem and leaf plot you read the number on the stem and one number on the leaf. Two five. ‘Two five” is basically twenty-five.

Suffixes and prefixes

A prefix is an addition that comes with a word. The prefix comes before the word, because pre- means before. For example, a prefix is the word pre-. Pre-school, pre-diabetes, preliminary. The prefix/suffix must have a root word to stick to. If you do a word like con, the word con means a fraud. But the root word is n, and n is only a letter. Words like co-pilot will be better. A suffix is a word that comes with the end of a root word. An example of a suffix is -ful. Wonderful, Teaspoonful, and grateful all have the suffix -ful.

IXL Grid- Almost Full!!

This is the IXL award grid. It consists of 72 squares (8×9). As you can see it is almost full. The awards with the question marks are the only ones I can discover, which are mastering (skill amount) skills and answering question numbers in the thousands, E.g 4000 questions. When an award says ‘complete any row’ or ‘complete any column’, it means you need to complete an award row/column on the grid.

Fun Fri-yay Tasks

After the Matariki Festival event we were given some fun tasks to do rather than resume the normal learning. These slides are Friday exclusive. There are eight tasks in total and I did need some help on it. After Friday is the weekends and this is a good way to end off the week days (except sports. )

Matariki Festival Reflection

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On Thursday, Selina, CC, and I hosted a station about making star spheres. I have blogged about star spheres before.  many other people from the senior syndicate (Team Tui). Many people made their own stations that have different activities and things that you can buy.

Our activity was not promoted due to the poster being a false advertisement and claiming ‘free prizes to be won’ when we did not have the time to set up prizes other than cat pictures. The star sphere activity was simple, not too fancy or flashy. That meant not much people came to our station.

Most of my energy was wasted from the performance because everyone sat there for at least an hour. I then decided to visit other people’s stands and give them cat pictures. I bought some blondies (food) and some loom bands.

Next time I did this I would try to focus on LCS only and try to use my time at home. The star ball idea was a very good idea, but it wasn’t well executed as I thought it would be.