WALT: code.

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WALT: code.

WALT: use language to suit the audience and purpose.

We are writing to DISCUSS. There is lots of current discussion around New Zealand's national flag. Please excuse the spelling mistakes in one of the youtube videos!

A preview of coding for Year 7/8 next term...

We will be learning how to 'code' next term. This means we are learning to use computer language. Press the space bar to see my helicopter move.

WALT: use a variety of sentence structures.

Miss Dare's Vocab Game

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WALA: the Treaty of Waitangi.

What happened before the Treaty of Waitangi?

WALA: place value of large numbers.

Wow! There are lots of people in the world. But, how do we write numbers that big?
Do you know how to write the population of these countries in numbers?

New Zealand - four million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand, three hundred and forty nine

Tonga - one hundred and five thousand, seven hundred and eighty-two

Iceland - three hundred and thirty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-five

Vanuatu - two hundred and fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and one

Egypt - eighty-three million, three hundred and eighty-six thousand, seven hundred and thirty-nine

United Kingdom - sixty-three million, four hundred and eighty-nine thousand, two hundred and thirty-four

Aruba - ninety-three thousand, three hundred and six

India - one billion, two hundred and sixty-seven million, four hundred and one thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine

China - one billion, three hundred and ninety-three million, seven hundred and eighty-three thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six

USA - three hundred and twenty-two million, five hundred and eighty-three thousand and six

Finland - five million, four hundred and forty-three thousand, four hundred and ninety-seven

Japan - one hundred and twenty-six million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, eight hundred and eight

Australia - twenty-three million, six hundred and thirty thousand, one hundred and sixty-nine

(Populations from: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/)

WALA: Who was Kupe?

According to tribal narratives, Kupe was the first Polynesian to discover the islands of New Zealand. His journey there was triggered by difficulties with fishing in Hawaiki, his homeland. Apparently the problem was a great octopus belonging to Kupe’s competitor, Muturangi.
Kupe set out in his canoe to kill the octopus, and such was the length of the pursuit that it brought him to New Zealand. With a companion known as Ngake (or Ngahue) in another canoe called Tāwhirirangi, he pursued the creature all the way to Cook Strait (known as Raukawakawa), where it was finally destroyed. It is said that his wife, Kuramārōtini, devised the name of Ao-tea-roa (‘long white cloud’) on seeing the North Island for the first time.