Learning to Compare Naratives using a Venn Diagram

This is My Venn Diagram that compares the stories Jack and the Beanstalk and Trev and the Kauri Tree.  In the middle is the things that happen in both stories.  On the sides is what happened in the individual stories.  Sorry if can't read the words in the middle - I just couldn't fit it in!!  

Learning about the Japanese Cuture

On Thursday last week 70 students from Hoshino Gauken private school came to our school to do things with us.  There were 5 rotations:

A card game, Origami, A ball game, Calligraphy and I can't remember the last one.  I had fun.

Learning to write Explanations

This is my Visual Arts presentation about our classes art project - The Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh.  We chose Van Gogh because he had a very bad life.  Painting helped him to be happy for extended periods.  

Maths Olympiad Certificate

This is my Maths Olympiad Winner certificate. I am very proud of it.  

Fractions of a Whole: E-Ako Slide

This is a slide from a maths site called 

E - Ako.  In this slide,  It was talking about what you can do with whole things.  I like doing E - Ako.  

Fractions of a Number

3/4 of 20 = 15

2/5 of 30 = 12

4/6 of 60 = 40


The answers to all of these questions are fractions of a number.  Lately, we have been doing something called fractions of a number.  From the title, you can kind of tell what it means.  I enjoy doing this a lot.  I like to do this more.

Y5 Maths Olympiad

Maths Olympiad prize... 

Yesterday (August 28 2015) my Maths Olympiad team (Room 25 B)  Won the Maths Olympiad!!  We tied in first place with 75 points with Room 29 A.   But we passed on two questions and they passed on three so we won by 1 pass!!