Procedural Writing

In Te Maunga we have been doing Procedural writing about: Beeswax wraps, Bird ball and Pikelets.
Before we wrote the procedure we got to experience it first. The one that I mostly enjoyed was  making
Pikelets.I enjoyed  making Pikelets because we all got a turn at doing something. After we made the
pikelets we got to eat them!!

I also had fun making the Beeswax wraps.

First we could chose a color fabric (yellow or blue) I chose blue, then we could draw whatever we wanted
on it.

After that we got our fabric dipped in beeswax.

We made them so that we didn't have to use gladwrap.

After we made something we wrote a procedures about it.

Cross Country

Last week our school did cross country on Thursday 6th September.
We trained for cross country on the school field. We had to see how many laps we could do in ten
minutes.
I improved by 1 lap - I started off at 4 laps, then moved up to 5 laps. We went to the Bledisloe Domain
to run our cross country. There was different courses for the younger kids. We ran by age groups.
I was really nervous. When it was the 9 year old girls we lined up and then the teacher said “on your
mark, get set, GO!”

We started around the field and then we went up the hill. I was in third place.
We ran through one gate and then looped around and then we went back down the hill.
I was in fourth place at the top of the hill. Then I went rocketing down the hill and to the finish line.

In the end I came 6th.

Math Problem solving

In Te Maunga we made flubber for math problem solving,

We used  PVA glue, Borax, Liquid dye and water.

First we had to figure out how many teaspoons where in  ½ cup, one cup and four.

½ cup = 25 tsp

1 cup = 50 tsp

4 cups = 200 tsp

Then we made the flubber, first we put the glue in a Big bowl.

Then we boiled the water and added the Borax

After that we put the water and Borax in to the glue and mixed it.

Then we put food coloring in the mixture and mix more,

We had to put more glue in the mix because it was not working.

We tried to fix it but it did not work.