Tessellations

In Te Ngahere we have been creating tessellations.
First the teacher gave us some mathematical words related to the
math we were doing. We had to find the meaning behind tesselating,
translation, rotation, reflection and symmetry.  A Tessellation is an
arrangement of one or more shapes that are fitted together without
any gaps. After that we made a shape on our computer that could
be tessellated. After we decided to create a tessellation using quadrilaterals.
The shape that I decided to use looked almost the same as  a Nike Tick,
when I had rotated the shape to line up to the rest of the other shapes
so there were no gaps showing. This is the DLO I have created about
Tessellations with Nevaeh.

Ki - o - rahi

Kia ora everyone, last week  on the 30th of October there was Ki-o-rahi tournament at Simpson Park. It was great. We traveled from Paihia School  to Simpson Park in Morewa. I went with Whaea Becks in the school van with 9 other students. I was  a little nervous because we didn’t have many practises. Our first game we lost 21 : 1 I think we lost because we were playing a year 7 and 8 team. I think we did good in our first game. The  second game we played we won 10-1. I was very happy. The third game we lost but I can’t remember the score. Next time we need to spread out evenly around the feld. When we had breaks in between the games we went to go and  watch the year 7 and 8’s. The year 7 and 8’s were amazing. Our team didn’t make it into the semi finals but the year 7 and 8 team did. The year 7 and 8 team lost the semi finals but they tried their best and did great. Have you ever played Ki-o-rahi?