READING: Relevant and Irrelevant Information

This week we will be using this website to practise identifying irrelevant information:

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/d/relevantp.cfm

http://esl.fis.edu/learners/read/irrelev3.htm

Life without geometry is point-less!

From this week we are going to be investigating 2D, 3D shapes, lines and angles. Here are some useful links we will use over the weeks:

  Maths is fun - geometry - solid geometry

Ever wondering where those funny sounding names like icosahedron came from:  Greek Prefixes



This video contains some pretty tricky geometry, we will just be looking at the first 2 minutes.

Expand Vocabulary: Dictionary or Thesaurus

Blogging It with Room 22

This week we are going to start blogging with Whaea Alice's friend's class Mrs Barbour and Room 22 at St Albans School in Christchurch. Here are their blogging topics for the week:

Halberg can post their answers on their own blogs please.
Make your blog post title Blogging It.
http://room22blogginit.weebly.com/

Week 5 Writing topics:
* Who am I? (What makes me the unique and special person that I am? What are the special things I like and do that make me who I am? Remember to use "because... because")
* Describe the oldest person you know. (Make sure you use interesting sentence starters, as well as your 5 senses to make you writing more interesting).
* Dear Alien, let me tell you about Earth 

The Earth is a Puzzle: Key Word Vocabulary Exercise

ICT Maths

Put yourselves to the test this week before you go onto Studyladder set tasks:

complete 10 questions on http://tablestest.com/