Algebra Games

We are going to be learning about algebra over the next few weeks. Algebra is all about seeing patterns in numbers. Here are a couple of games to get you started.

Proof Reading

Allanah bought these pipes that help us proof read. They are the BOMB!!!! They work like phones that you talk to yourself with and you can clearly hear yourself talk but you aren't talking very loudly. You have to talk very quietly or you will hurt your eardrums.
Here is Jordan using one of the pipes. Hope you find mistakes, Jordan!
This is Bella and she looks quiet focused there. Keep the good work up there Bella.

Skype with Melville Intermediate

We continue our learning with Melville Intermediate in Hamilton. Today Caleb and Sefeti learnt their mihi with the help of the Melville students.

This is how the learning looked from their end. One of Melville's deputy principals joined in this time as well.

I am so impressed with the patience and skill of the Melville students. Tena korua, Liam raua ko Cleveland.

Launch the Space Shuttle

With this Space Shuttle game you get to launch the space shuttle and learn you basic facts at the same time.

Green Rocket Heads

A teacher friend of Allanah's is trying to find out some questions about a product they are making. Can you please answer their questions on their blog and say where you are from.


This is our new invention. We call it 'The Green Rocket Head'. We will be making this product for our school fair.

Instructions:
Place your Green Rocket Head in the sun. Water him every day and watch his hair GROW before your very eyes!!! You can give him styley haircuts and his hair will continue to grow!

We would like to ask you some questions:
Do you like them?
What do you like about them?
How much would you pay for one of these?

Please leave your comments here, and thank you for your time!

Space Links

Remember there are lots of really good links on our Space Wiki but here are a few that are worth another mention. Click on the graphics to learn more.

All about our solar system and the way it moves...All about the planets - with lots of facts and numbers.All about the space shuttle- watch a video of it taking off.
All about the famous people who have contributed to space travel.This photo shows all of the space exploration that humans have made. Click on it to see the detail. For a really decent sized view you can download the original.

Quick Kiwi Quiz

I am sure you and your parents will enjoy this Quick Kiwi Quiz. The password is 'kiwifruit'. What was your score??

You could also try the weekly challenge.

Skillbuilder Game Site

This Skillbuilder website has maths and reading games. I am not sure that I like it. What do you think. Is it worth bookmarking and keeping???

What would you launch into space?

NewsTalk ZB article

16/11/2009 17:20:02

Wedding rings are among the things people want to send into space.

New Zealand firm Rocket Lab is launching a rocket into space from Great Mercury Island, off the Coromandel Peninsula on November 30.

CEO Peter Beck says the six metre tall rocket will be carrying a two kilogram payload. There is just a hundred grams of space left, which is being auctioned on Trade Me and eBay for anyone who wants to send personal items into space.

Mr Beck says some couples are already trying to book places for their wedding rings.

"If the mission is successful, cause we do recover the payload, whatever goes to space is obviously very historic and so potentially very valuable."

Mr Beck says they're launching from Great Mercury Island as it is near a military zone.

The key aim of the launch is to flight qualify the rocket, to test the systems ahead of flying commercial payloads into space.

Mr Beck says there is demand from from the scientific community to send up equipment to gather climate change data.

"Because there's a tremendous amount of data collected in the Northern Hemisphere and that's great for all your climate change models. But there's a great big gap in the data for the Southern Hemisphere because there's been no activity down here."

So- what would you launch into space????? At the time of writing there is one bid on TradeMe for $3000. How much would you pay and what would you send? Write your answer in the comments....

How to Play Cricket

You need equipment to play cricket and that is a cricket ball, bat, pads, box, gloves, helmet, stumps, bales, leg pads, shoes, clothing.

Cricket is a game where you have two teams and one fields and the other one bats, you have two batters in first and they hit the ball and try and get as many runs as they can, and the fielders field the ball and try and get the batters out.

I play incredible ball cricket and you don’t have the gear that you would have in real cricket. There are bounders in a game and if you hit the ball and it bounces and goes over the boundary it’s a four and if it goes over without bouncing it's a six .

The ways you can get out are Caught, Bowled, Leg before Wicket, Stumped, Ran Out, Wicket, Handle the Ball, Obstructing the Field, Hit ball twice, Timed out. Cricket is a team sport for two teams of eleven players each. The batting actions are lift bat, step forward, swing bat.

The game equipment that it always has to have are the stumps and bales. The stumps are the sticks and the bales are the things that sit on the bales. There are test games, one day games and twenty twenty games you can play. The test games are usually five days and the one days are played in one day before it gets dark, and the 20 20 is 20 overs for each team.

There are umpires for the games that help with deciding whether the players are out or what they hit and what the bowlers do, and if they can’t decide they take it upstairs for the umpires to decide. There are signals that the umpires use they are OUT they raise one hand above their head, FOUR putting their hand horizontal and waving back and forwards, SIX putting both hands above their head, WIDE both hands out the side and there are many more.

38,000 View Party

On 6 November we had a 38,000 views of our blog party. Allanah and Sylvia brought along all the food and all we had to do was eat it. We like to party and we like it that people follow along with our blog.

Allanah was talking to Mrs A from Hampden Street School and she said that they come to our blog quite a lot to use the reading, spelling and writing digital learning objects.

If you visit our blog from Hampden Street you may like to leave a comment for us and tell us what you would like more of.

Disco Night on PhotoPeach

What fun we had at the scary themed Appleby School Disco!