Adding Fractions DLO

This is my DLO on how to add fractions. Hopefully it is helpful and if you are struggling to understand adding fractions this will help here it is.-

Toolkits Slide

On The 6th of September Some of the YMS year 4-8's went to student led toolkits at Hornby Primary School. I did a presentation with Rhys, Zac and Saxon. Here is the slide we based our project on. Hope you like it.-

Toolkits

Yesterday the 6th of September some of the YMS Year 4 to 8s went to Hornby Primary School for student led toolkits. I really enjoyed this and want to go again. I ran a toolkit with Rhys, Saxon and Zac. I will upload a slide very soon hope you enjoy! Here are some Photos-

My timetable for the week

This is my learning timetable for the weeks of term 3. I really enjoy making my timetable and managing my own learning. have a look and comment on my post and I will try to reply. Here it is-

2017 Children And Adult Book Awards

Today the 7th of August Y.M.S went to the 2017 Children And Adult Book Awards. It was a big ceremony hosted at St Margaret's college auditorium. It was a book awards for young or old and I really enjoyed it. There were many Authors and illustrators; and they were all finalist from the NZ young adults book awards. Ill start with the first lady who was a Drama/English Teacher. Her name was Tania Roxborough, She was a really nice and cool writer and she writes children's books and young adults books. She was definitely my favourite and I loved to listen to her books. Next was David Elliot; he is an award-winning children's illustrator and author. He has written and illustrated seven picture books. He was an amazing writer and was close to overcoming my favourite. Next was Leonie Agnew and she was alright but not close to the best. She Lives in Auckland and really enjoys to write her books in the library. She wrote the book called "Super Finn". If you have ever read that or are reading it I think It is really good in my opinion. If she is trying to write a book but is struggling for ideas she writes lists or waits for the impossible to come to her and this book took her 8 years to write. Next we had a break and something to eat and drink. While we were doing this they brought out the new 3 finalists and they were in my opinion the best 3 they had. First was Simon Pollard and he was all about bugs and spiders. some of them were a bit scary but I think they were cool. He is a young children's writer, spider expert and natural history writer. Simon shared many photos and and stories of his spider and bug encounter's. He told a cockroach and spider story which was smart for the bugs but extremely gross. Simon was alright but not the bet there was. After him was Jenny cooper who was an amazing artist and children's book illustrator. her drawings where great and she had a very interesting way of sorting out her drawings in her books. Jenny talked about what she does for creating her illustrations. She takes the script for the book and reads it and reads it and reads it. She then makes rough drawings of them and this can take 2 or 3 days. Then she does a final drawing and adds the colour. She says "You Will Never Start With The Right Drawing". She was up there with my favourites but this next one was definitely my favourite. His name was Des Hunt and he was amazing and I loved his stories and how he wrote his book about events that took place in his life. He wrote a book called sunken forest which is about him 60 years ago when he went on a camp to lake waikaremoana which used to be land but an earthquake caused a landslide and sunk the forest down into a lake. That made lake waikaremoana. I liked him for these 2 reasons.

1. He told his stories from the old days and things were a lot different back in those days and in my opinion better than today.

2. He told a great story about Eels and how the eels of lake waikaremoana and how they don't stop growing because they cant migrate to other oceans and places.

I liked this day and would probably go again.

Rugby Tournament

Yesterday Yaldhurst and Weedons came together and formed a Rugby team called Yaldons. We were at a Rugby tournament at Rolleston Domain. The fields were about 25 metres long and 15 metres wide. The games were only 10 minutes long with 5 minute halfs. We all arrived at 9:30 and started practising for our first game that we played against Rolleston (A) who won last year and took out the competition and got first place. It was tough but we played well but could not manage to pin them down and they got a 5-0 win. We were gutted but still pushed on and kept practising came up with a game plan and were ready to Verse Burnham in our second game and We played hard and beat them 6-0. We were very happy and had a confident attitude towards our next game against Clearview. They were one of the tougher teams but we got the win 5-0. I am very proud and happy for everyone in our team and the coaches and rest of the players will say that too. I was trying not to get ahead of myself and the team but I thought the rest of the games were going to be easy and we were going to win. Next we played Rolleston B and I am not being mean towards their team but I honestly thought we were playing a Year 5/6 team. But they put up such a good fight and were one of the best teams we played we snatched the win 7-0. next we were happy we were going well but it wasn't over yet, we still had to play Templeton. They were just a team of backs so It was very easy in the forwards but our backs were evenly matched up. In this game we played more of a strategical game and kept the ball in the forwards and beasted it up to the try line and scored through our forwards. We won 7-0. Overall we played marvellously and finished second and may be going to canterbury's for rugby. I am very happy here are our team photos-

Rugby Tournament Training Day

Yesterday Wednesday the 26th of July Me and 5 other year 7 and 8s boys from our school went to weedons school to meet and have a training for the upcoming rugby tournament. I am very happy with our team and I am looking forward to playing and maybe bring back a 1st place gold medal. But the only way to do that is to put in the hard work and play hard. I hope we have the power and determination to win. We are playing the game next Wednesday early in the morning at riccarton park. I cant wait to have some fun and play my favourite sport with my friends again. I cant wait to play.