The Yellow

Danger lurks where a volcano sits and yellow smoke fills the sky,lava comes bursting out like a waterfall upside down.It carries on bursting until it tumbles down, as if it was a water slide.We start running as if we are on a cross country course. Some of that yellow smoke shall disappear to make way for the lava and turn the night sky red. Lavary rocks fall in the water like meteors from space, as we hurry to our boats.We watch as the dark mountain makes more and more lava come out. Everybody knows that if you’re close to a volcano nothing will ever be the same.

By Sarah and Isobel

Tell me a Picture

Matai went to Te Papa today for a tour of the Nga Toi gallery on level 5. We explored the works there by using a programme called 'Tell me a picture'. Students studied imagery, symbolism and put themselves in the artwork to fully experience the art.

Symbolism

Use of colour

 Putting yourself in the picture

Graphing using Google Spreadsheet

Today we were going on our single sign-on account.

First we had to make a spreadsheet about where we will be putting our packaging from our food.

Plastic	Tin	Waste	Compost	Take Home
17	1	36	25	26

and Where does our clothes come from?.

China	NZ	Portugal	Thailand	Mexico	Indonesia	Bangladesh	Other	Honduras	Vietnam	Canada
16	1	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	1	1

It was great fun and we learned how to make graphs using Google spreadsheet.

By Cameron Wu and Sean Wipatene.

Using decimals in Matai Maths

This week we have been focusing on decimals. We have been ordering, adding and subtracting decimals.

Decimats help us to build fractions visually so we can see what they will look like.

Didn't they do well

The birds have been painted and glued onto the backgrounds. We are so happy with the finished product and I am sure you will agree that they look fantastic. Matai have shown that they can blend paints and use a range of brush techniques to add bold bright colours and texture to their work. These will look great on your fridge door : -)

Eliza's Word Story for Maths

Eliza has been busy writing word problems in her maths group. As you can see they can get quite elaborate. Can you work out the answer to this one?

Keith reserved 32 netbooks for maths. Jordan and Teddy took 16 for the seniors. 12 netbooks crashed. Matthew came and gave Keith 19 netbooksfor the class to use. 4 netbooks broke down. Keith is so angry he gives all the netbooks to the seniors. They give 8 back.
How many did the class miss out on?

Isobel's Poem

Dawn ash

Fire will burn

and cinder will come

but dawn will bring peace

at the rising sun.