Khan academy

• Khan has built a maths website for all levels down to basic addition to advanced math problems. 
• When Khan first stated Khan Academy his office was on the top of a tea shop.
• Khan makes videos so kids have a better ejection. 
• Khan has a great seance of hummer, he puts his hummer in his videos.
• He is 35 years old and has a really big business.
• He talks into a microphone to make is voice clear to hear.
• Khan started in 2004 when his cosine was struggling to learn math so he was teaching her digitally
• then some other people started to use it and gave him comments on it like my child has a problem this is the only way he can learn.              

How to say family members & numbers in mandarin.

Here is ho how to write your family members in mandarin.

Pinyin	traditional	English
Baba	爸爸	Father
Mama	妈妈	Mother
Ge ge	哥哥	Older Brother
Mei mei	妹妹	Younger sister
Jie jie	姐姐	Older Sister
Di di	弟弟	Younger Brother
Ye ye	爷爷	Granddad
Nai nai	奶奶	Grandma

Read this news article.

Answer the 5 Recall Questions at the bottom of the page.

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? 

Stian Ytterdahl.

2. What was the key event from the news article?

Stian Ytterdahl had put a tattoo on his arm. 

3. Where did this event take place?

Norway.

4. When did this event take place?

5. Why did this event happen?

Stian Ytterdahl's friends peer pressured him into making him get a tattoo. 

Answer the 6 Thinking Question at the bottom of the page.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

  

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

Stian Ytterdahl's friends peer pressured him into getting McDonald’s recipe tattoo on his arm.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

Norway. 

• The country of Norway is officially known as the Kingdom of Norway.Norway is famous for its majestic fjords and mountainous terrain. 
• Two of the country's fjord's Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord are on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
• he capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo.
• Norway has a population of 5.08 million people as of July 2013.
• Other major cities of Norway include Bergen, Stavanger/Sandnes and Trondheim.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

1st April, in the future he will be telling himself he was stupid.  

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

He got deard into doing it. 

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

reminder: a thing that causes someone to remember something.
permanent: lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely.
receipt: the action of receiving something or the fact of its being received.

Billy McBone by Allan Ahlberg

Tip 1: look at your audience
Tip 2: Talk slowly
Tip 3: Speak loud
Tip 4: Speak Clearly

Chinese tones

Watch this video about Chinese Tones

Answer these questions

What is pinyin? Pinyin is the standard system for translating Chinese. 

Chinese is a tonal language. What does this mean?

How many tones are there?

5

Describe how your voice changes for each tone

Tone 1 is a high flat sound.

Tone 2 is when you rise the sound.

Tone 3 is when your voice goose up & down.

Tone 4 is when you voice goose down. (angry)

Finish this sentence: Chinese characters don’t show how words should sound.

What does ba (tone 1) mean? 8

What does ba (tone 4) mean? dad

Play this tones game (guess the tones)

My Poem (Week 9 Homework)

                        My Poem, 

Term 1 week 8

POETRY

Analyse this poem for the following features and write a sentence about each feature.Click Here

Rhyme: Imotive. (Lots of emotion & Feeling)

Rhythm: I think the rhythm is more like a slow moving rhythm.    

Tone or Mood: I think the tone of this poem is calm and colected. The mood is hungery of waiting for a snack.   

Personification: Coultral

Enjambment: All the sentences are about the same langth. 3/4 sinables in each line.

Meaning of the title: The meaning of the title is river, stream, creek, canal, gully, gorge, groove, furrow.  

Author: find 3 facts about the author:

• He’s a poet and performer working in schools throughout New Zealand, and around the world.
• He’s a wholehearted ambassador for poetry.
• He went to State University of New York College at Geneseo.

Now write a similar poem (must have a Maori title) and present it on a slide. Also, make a Sound Cloud recording of you reading the poem.

Waka

A Maori tribe.

riding the seas

finding new creatures

beneath their feet

crossing the ocean

with their brown waka  

they cross a border

naming this country

Aotearoa.

FILM MAKING Make a 1-2 minute video demonstration of a simple meal or convenient snack you often prepare at home. Watch Kyle's video for inspiration. If you are looking for music for your movie which is copyright free, try this site. But remember to attribute correctly by adding the name of the track you used and the URL link to the track either in the description or at the end of your movie.

Here it is have a look. 

There, they’re and their.

There, they’re and their. Research and find out when you should use these 3 homonyms.

When should you use there ? You should use they're when naming a place, a thing, or the existence of something. ( Replace “there” with “here”)

When should you use their? Showing possession. (Replace “their” with “our”)

When should you use ? Combining the words “they” and “are”. (Replace “they’re” with “they are”) 

Give 2 of your OWN example sentences for each.

There

• Whats over there.
• I’ve never been there before.

Their.

• “I went to their cottage last summer.
• I went to their spot yesterday. 

they're

•  “They’re the two best players in the league.”
• They're two big for your feet. 

Student-led conference

Tonight I took my dad though my student-led conference with Mrs Campbell. I came straight form club tennis chaps so I came to school in my tennis gear so I felt a bitt uneasy especially when I saw Mr Diver outside the window.

It went very well and we discussed how I needing to work on my writing.