Place Value Partitioning

You break the numbers into parts.  Ones, tens, hundreds and thousands, then add the same parts together.  Then put it all together.

I meant you put the zero on the end as a place holder, not add zero.

Compatible Numbers

Compatible numbers are numbers that go together to make adding easier.

Josh and Rayek

War. Who wants to remember it?

I think we need to remember because we want to remember all the soldiers that died.  We show respect to them.  Denim


We don't want them to have fought for nothing.  Marley


It's good to remember them because they did it for us.  Bailey


It's good that we went over because we wouldn't be here if they didn't go over.  Wills


I think it's good to remember the soldiers.  Amelia


I think it's good to remember to show the ones who survived we won't forget that they tried their best.  Holly.


We want to remember it so it doesn't happen again.  Macgregor


I think we should remember everyone, not just the soldiers.  The first aid people, the doctors and nurses.  Olivia


I want to remember the war because they fought so we could live like we do today.  To live safely.  Ocean


ANZAC Day is good time to remember all the soldiers who battled.  Tristan


I want to remember the soldiers especially Simpson who didn't fight but saved soldiers with his donkey.  I think he was quite brave.  Anna


I want to remember the soldiers who died in all the wars.  Jake


We need to remember to the soldiers otherwise we might not be sitting here.  Ben


I will remember the donkey with Simpson who saved lots of people.  Marley


We need to remember the courage and bravery they showed to fight.  Luis


By remembering the soldiers we are thanking them for what they have given to our country.  Josh


We need to remember them because they are friends and family.  Macgregor.

The Last Post

In Room 7 we have been learning about World Wars 1 & 2 .   We learnt about the Last Post.


During the American Civil War, between North and South America over slavery, a Northern soldier heard the cries of a soldier wounded out on the battle field.  He didn't know if the wounded soldier was from his side or the other side.  He crawled out onto the battle field on this stomach during the pitch black night with soldiers from the South firing at him.  He dragged the soldier back to his trench.  Before he reached safety, the soldier was dead.  He lit a lantern and he saw the face of his own son.  His son was studying music in the South when the war started.   Without telling his dad, he joined the Southern Army, the Confederates.  The father asked for a band to play during the funeral.  All they gave him was one musician, who played the bugle.  The Last Post was a tune his son had written, which he found in one of his son's pockets.  


In the war it was used to signal the soldiers to return at night time.

Now we play the Last Post on ANZAC Day to remember soldiers and others who died in wars protecting our country.

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I think this is really sad because a dad and son are fighting against each other and didn't even know.  Shiloh.


I feel this is sad because all the soldiers died.  William


I feel sad because we lost a lot of people at war.  Rayek


I think it's nice that we remember them.  Macgregor


I think it's amazing that his son created the Last Post.  Tristan


I think it's quite sad because the families would be really sad about losing their soldiers.  Amelia


I think it's sad because young children fought in the war.  Marley.


I think it was sad because lots of people didn't survive the war.  Wills


I think its sad because thousands of NZers went to war and died.  Josh

ANZAC Day!!!

World War 1 started in 1914.   These were the countries in the war...

Italy, German, Austria and Hungary and The Ottoman Empire VS Russia, France, Britain, the ANZACs and Serbia. The war ended on November 11, 1918.

We think WW1 started because a Serbian terrorist killed Archduke Franz-Ferdinand from Austria.  The Serbian people were also not happy with the land they got from the Balkan Wars.

April 25th is ANZAC Day.  It is the day the ANZACs landed in Gallipoli to fight the Ottomans, Turkish people.  We remember all the people who died during the war and to show we are grateful.

                                                    by: Lily, Olivia,Angel and the rest of Room 7.

World War 1

We are learning about World War 1.

We know  WW1 started on June 28, 1914 and finished  in 1918 on November 11, Armistice Day.

Holly and Shiloh

Kapa Haka

Make your own slide show at Animoto.

Here are some lovely photographs of our stunning Kapa Haka Group.

Room 7 Term 1

This term school has been awesome because we have an awesome teacher that gives as amazing tasks and is very kind. We have positive class mates that are very persistent. We really hope that it will be the same in term 2. [Ocean] [Bailey]

Term 1

We had a dance crew come and teach us Hip Hop moves. It was so much fun. We were being active learners. We love Hip Hop in Akomanga 7. Look at us here...

Term 1 has been awesome. On this Thursday we are having a shared lunch and games (Jonty)

Blogger time.

This term Room 7 has written about 50 things on our blog! (Macgregor and Rayek)

OUR COOL MOSAICS

Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.

Mosaics

We have been smashing tiles and it was fun! (Jacob)

Topic Time.

This term our topic is 'Respect'. We have been doing lot's of work for it. (Tuscan and Macgregor)

Fun day

Today was fun we did so much cool stuff like mosaics and we got to do our portfolio too.

Yay,... the second to last day of school!

Finally it is nearly the time that we can sleep in again without getting up to go to school. No homework for two weeks too, so I'm really going enjoy my sleep for once YAY!! (Sean and Jake)

TERM 1 PASSES !

At the start of the term 1 I was quite shy. We learned a mihi like this,...

Ko Colin toku koro. Ko Linda toku kuia.

Ko Barry toku koro. Ko Joisey toku kuia.

Ko Wayne toku matua. Ko Dinah toku whaea.

Ko Tarah toku teina. Ko Ezra toku tungane. Ko Psalm toku teina. Ko Shiloh toku ingoa.

Next year we will be very good at Maori...

(Shiloh)

Our teacher

Our teacher is teaching us Maori. It is really fun.

Glad to be me

For the start of the term we did our 'Glad to be me' posters. We had to write a rhyming story about ourselves and why we're happy to be me.

Kapa Haka

Here is our Kapa Haka group performing at Waimea College last week. The best bit was seeing the confidence and real sense of achievement as the children left the stage. Ka mau te wehi tamariki ma.

Basketball club

One of the Giants came in to teach us some basketball tips. he taught us the "beef shot". I practise every day. I am quit good at it at the moment. (Tristan)

How Mapua school is so cool...

Mapua school is so cool because it has nice people in it . The teachers are cool and it has very nice classrooms.(Josh & Tristan)

Kapa Haka Fun Day at Waimea College

I was at kapa haka. I was so nervous. It was our go but it was really fun. After our performance I wanted to do it again.

Hip Hop People

The hip hop people came to our school and taught us a dance. We practiced step by step, then tried it with music./span>

We got better and better then half of us sat down then the other half danced then we swapped.
Then we had to go back to class. Now that was cool!

(Shiloh)

Basketball

When I was playing basketball outside I was mainly getting the ball inside the hoop. It was really fun. (Marley)

Place Value

Place Value is all about the value of a digit in a number. In 651, the digit 5 has a Place Value of 50.

We learnt about Place Value by looking at the houses in Mathsville...

Mr and Mrs Trendsetter, Mr and Mrs Thousands, Mr and Mrs Millions,...

Here is a picture of them.