For Reading we read ‘Painting the Town’ by by Renata Hopkins. This text was about how Christchurch has painted murals all over the city to bring back happiness to the city after the 2011 earthquake destroyed 80% of the CBD. My mural shows where I am from and what I identfiy as.
I used a Gemini Gem to help us add detail to a narrative. Our Gem asked us questions that made us think of different ways we could add detail and description to our narrative. When I finished I used the Storybook feature in Gemini to create an illustrated version. This was a bit harder to do because I had to keep adjusting the prompts to get as close to my original narrative as I could.
We read the text Bok Choy for Reading. This text showed us the prejudices that existed towards the Chinese immigrants in early NZ. It also showed us that it is important to show empathy for those who are seen to be different from us. Our challenge after reading this was to write a letter to Ah Sum to thank him properly, as you didn’t have the right words when you were shivering in his hut.
Something I found interesting about the events in this text was that back in those days they did not have what we have now, and their house were made of small rocks and put together to make a little hut for them to live in.
We explored Nano Banana, the image creator on Gemini. Our challenge was to use an already created image and our prompts to see how close we could get to the original image.I learnt that we have to make more use of the words that we use and be more specific with our prompts adn to try not to use the same words multipy times.
Original image Our Image
LI: To celebrate our success
Last week PBS had their Summer Learning Journey celebration assembly. Mrs Grant came and presented our certificates and prizes. My certificate is for participation. The SLJ was a fun activity to do because it helped us keep our learning going in the holidays. My favouite activty wsa build a bird house because it was a task that we could do by finding things around the house and using them to make a bird house.
This week in maths, my group and I learned about prime and composite numbers. We practiced how to tell if a number is prime, which only has two factors, or composite, which has more than two. We looked at examples like 43, which is prime because it can only be divided by 1 and itself, and 60, which is composite because it can be divided by many numbers like 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30. Doing this helped me understand how numbers are made and see patterns in their factors. I also feel more confident now in recognising whether numbers are prime or composite, which will help me in future maths problems.
Group 2 of LS2 have been learning and some revising on “Lowest Common Multiples” (LCM).
LCM consists of multiplication where you find the number in common between 2 numbers multiplication order. For an example you could use 4 and 7 up to 5 to find the LCM. You times both up to 5 and if there is the same number diagonal from eachother. (4, 8, 12, 16, 20.) and (7, 14, 21, 28, 35) in this case, there is no common multiple up to five. But if you know your four times tables if you add 2 on you can make it to 28, which the 7 times table has making it the answer.
Group 2 in LS2 have been revising on round numbers up to the billions.
Rounding is a useful skill to estimate. In this blog, we will be teaching you how to round. You need to know place values were you can find our example in our earlier blogs. To round you need a base number, I’ll pick a random one. (482.119) if rounding and you see a question asking to round to the nearest tenth you need to realise that the “th” means that it is in the decimal, not the whole number. in this number rounding to the nearest tenth would be the 1 after the 9 in the decimal place. due to the number being higher than 4, we round up. which is rounding to the nearest tenth. which would be 20 in this case. This would change the number to 482.120. I hope that this blog has taught you how to round.
For maths group two’s task was to learn how to solve place value problems and how we use place value in different area’s. Place value is the place of a digit in a number that tells us how much it is worth. For example if there was an equation that said what is 100 more than 4,628,297 the
answer would be 4,628,397.
Our task was to rememebr all of the charecters adn how they were reaching to different people when they come to them, if we did not remember how they reachted to that person we could go back to the story and read the story to find the answer and put it into our own words so we haev a better understanding if we write every thing in our own words. One thing that I loved about this task was that we could all go and and find the reachtion of all of the chareters in the story.