Multi-Digit Addition Task 1

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This week for maths we have been doing things differently due to lockdown and also to try something new.  Each group got set tasks to do by the 8th of September. My group Waffle's task was to do page one of basic facts, page five and if you want you can try page six.  Waffle also had to watch a video about multi-digit addition. In the video a guy explained how to do addition with the column up method.

In conclusion this work I was set to do by the 8th of September was too easy for me and I already knew how to use method before. Also I thought I was supposed  to do page 2 so it will be including in this post. My group also has another task to do but I will post when I have completed it because I have some other work to do today. 

Do you know how to do the column method to add numbers?

Here are the pages:

Page one

Page Two

Page five

Page six

Here is my work:

Page one work

Page one work

Page two work

Page five work

Page five work

Page six's work

Reading Plus Progress report

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Today I have used reading plus again for reading. This time I think I have gotten better in some way. I have completed one combo. Next time I want to get my comprehension rate higher because it is 84 percent but I want it to be 90 or higher. I hope you enjoy reading this. I read about animals today because it is quite interesting to me. 

Here is my report for today:

 

Reading Plus progress 📖

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For the past few weeks in Reading with Mr Mitchell we have been using a reading resource called: Reading plus. It helps students improve their reading and if there already good at reading it can make them become even better. You start off by doing a reading test so the website can improve your reading from what level you're at at that moment. Reading plus isn't just about improving reading, it is also helps you with vocabulary and visual skills. I struggle quite a lot with Vocabulary and even though I have used the website to help me once, I have improved. 

In Mr Mitchell's class we had to do a reading plus progress report to see our progress throughout using reading plus. We had to tell our name, what we learn't and our goal for next time. I hope you enjoyed this blog post.

Have you used Reading plus before?

Making Music For Finding Dory ( Counting The Beat)

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For the final week in counting the beat if we have been trying to create our own music. Mr Mitchell firstly  showed the class some examples of music and asked us if we would share it with a friend, the songs were Just Loose it and Hey Jude. Personally I wouldn't really share the songs  to my friends because  the first song "Just loose it" lyrics was to fast and hard to understand and  the other song "Hey Jude" was to calming for me. After we listened to the songs we watched the scene of the truck falling from Finding Dory without any music or sounds.  Then Mr Mitchell asked the class how we felt about it, I said " I felt as if I needed to add music to the scene." Next we watched  the scene with a  song different to the original scene, most of us thought it didn't suit the scene. Finally we watched it with the original sound, we all agreed it  was definitely better than the other versions and suits the scene very well.  

After  we finished watching all the videos, Mr Mitchell  told us we needed to finish all our hurumanu tasks and showed him them blogged to start the task. Then Mr Mitchell begun explaining the task, the task was to find or create a song/beat to the scene of the truck falling from Finding Dory. The websites we could choose from to make the music was either  Sound Nation or SoundTrap and then use Kapwing to overlap the music to the video. I choose to use Sound Nation to create the music. I created a account on the website I made a empty draft then started adding beats and sounds to create the moment of the truck falling. At first I just included random sounds and beats but then I added effects and changed the volume for each beat to the music. I also checked to see if the video and music would go together every time I changed anything about the music.

Once I completed my music I put the video on a empty template then included the audio. I fixed any mistakes that stopped the music from sounding any different then published the video and watched it to see who it would be with the music. My music for the video was the genre of percussion and woodwind. The feeling of my music is excitement and fear I tried putting it together to explain the scene in music and emotions. The hardest part about this task was making the music suit the scene because I had to change it around a lot and I didn't want to use the same beats all the time. The easiest part was overlapping the music to the scene because I just needed to do two steps to do so. 

Have you made your own music before or tried doing anything similar to what I've done? 

Here is my overlapped music to the scene:

Content made on Kapwing

Believer STOMP project (Counting The Beat)

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This week in Counting the beat we have been learning about percussion music and what it is. Percussion music is beats used to make music and hitting objects with any object. We learnt about the different the different types of percussion music such as body percussion which is when you use your body to make sounds and beats. We also got to watch some videos of people doing body percussion to songs. The one that was mostly interesting was this guy making sounds with his armpit here is the video: Ethiopian armpit music .Today we got into groups of three and tried bringing some items from home to make music, I brought a pot, pan chop sticks and a wooden spoon to create music. 

The people in my group are Venice, Hollie, Amanda and me we firstly wanted to pick the song Havana but then we changed it to believer cause we liked the beat better.  I used a pot and chopsticks, Venice used a counting frame and a wooden spoon, Hollie and Amanda used a long stick thingy ( I don't know what it's called) and their feet to make beats. Have you ever made a beat before? 

Here is our beat:

Setting writing goals

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Today in hurumanu 1 we have been thinking about our writing goals. Here are my three goals that I think I need to improve on and need to be really good at. I looked through the writing rubric to see which three goals I wanted to achieve. Here are my three goals: Becoming better at using vocabulary I want to be able to make my writing better and more descriptive, organisation, keep a flow throughout all my sentences and paragraphs, have bigger brighter ideas to add to my writing that make sense and make my writing better. Those are my three goals I hope to achieve by the end of next term or the year. Have you set your writing goals yet?? 

Images of my three goals I choose from the writing rubric slide:

Counting the beat ( ukulele & recorder)

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This week in counting the beat we have been learning about ukulele's and the recorder/flute we first had to answer some questions, such as " what to do you know about ukulele?" After that we watched some you tube videos of people playing the ukulele and making music with ukulele. We learnt about the different sizes and shapes with different colours and features. 3 glossary terms are sound hole, headlock and bridge. For the  recorder there is the mouth piece, block and tane hole. Some students got to play a song with ukulele they choose to play the lion sleeps tonight. Today we learnt about the recorder we got to listen to some tunes and play some tunes. The first few tunes we learnt we did pretty good on but the last ones not so much. Playing the recorder for me was a little bit easy at first but then the tunes got a bit confusing. We also got to see the different sizes  there were big, small and medium sizes, but we played the small ones. 

     Here is the slides we did our work off:     

My Hero

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Throughout three weeks in my hurumanu class we have been learning about heroes and how anyone can be a hero if they try hard. For the first week we got a piece of paper that had some tasks to do. We had to think of some superpowers our hero can do, what they look like, and a name for the hero. I choose to call my hero weather woman she can change the weather, teleport, and becoming anything. The week after that we learn't about traits, traits are what makes someone a hero. A week later we started writing about someone who we look up to as a hero. The first task we did was find four heroes we look up to and write it down on a sticky note and then write about the four heroes we found. After that we had to make a google doc and start writing  about our hero we also got to research about our person. My person was Mr Beast I think he is my hero because he helps people with food and money and posts YouTube videos about it. It took me about a week to finish my writing but I made sure everything made sense. My favourite part about doing this activity was learning about different heroes and what they do. Who is your hero??

Guitars (Counting the beat)

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Yesterday in my  hurumanu class we learn't about all the different types of guitars and how they work. First we answered some question to do with guitars such as... what do you know about guitars? Then Mr Mitchell showed us some types of guitars and how they work and look. Every guitar was very unique and had there own way of working. We learn't about the parts of guitars and what they do to work the guitar some parts are : frets, rosette, and neck. Some guitars even had more strings than others. After that we listened to some music that had guitars playing in it. Then we got to see Mr Mitchell play some of his guitars he had. Next we got to play some of the guitars I played the travel, electric, and air guitar. My favourite guitar I played was the Air guitar because it was very fun but it was out of tune. Have you ever played a guitar? 

Here is the slide we did our work off: 

Counting the beat

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This term with my hurumanu class we have been learning about music and counting the beat. The first lesson we talked about types of music, where it can be found, and how music can be made. We got into groups of four  and wrote the answer to the questions on a piece of paper we got from Mr Mitchell. The next lesson we did was listening to different types of music. Something I want to learn about music is how to play an instrument because I don't know how to play any. What I learn't from these lesson is that you can make music with almost everything. 

Definition: 

Sounds, notes and beats that are put together to express ideas or emotions.

Types: 

Rock and roll, rap, country, hip hop, jazz, blues, lyrical, metal, heavy metal, classical, calm, pop, karaoke, electric, singing, soft.

Where can we find/hear/experience music?

• Spotify

• Public toilets

• Radio

• Social media

• Movies

• TV programmes

• Concerts

• CDs

• Speakers

• Youtube

What type of music do you like to make or listen to? 

• Dance music

• Sad music

• Hip hop

• Rap

What do you want to learn about/do in “Counting the Beat”?

• How to make different types of music

• How to play an instrument

• Learning about a range of instruments

• Different types of music