The Great Flounder Expedition

WOW what a blast it was to go out on our very own tamaki estuary to catch baby flounders. Why are we catching baby flounders you ask? Well the fish population is decreasing because more and more greedy people seem to catch fish and put them in stores to sell or even just take it home with them and cook it. But the flounder team and I weren't doing that, we were catching baby flounders to put them into our school fish tank. We saw that the fish numbers were decreasing so by catching fish and putting them into our tank, they will have a better chance of surviving.

How long will we be keeping them for? We will be keeping the flounders up until the are and adult and then we can release them, then they will have a better chance of surviving. How many did we catch? Well we caught more than 50 baby flounders but we could only keep 12 in our tank and the rest were put back into the ocean, but 9 had been given to Kauri Flats school because they only had caught 4. How did we feel before, during and after? Before we went out into the water we had did a karakia (Prayer) we all felt excited and amazing that we had the chance to go out and save the fish. During while we were pulling the net along the surface the whole of Pt England had walked down to watch us for a bit and sing a waiata/himene and while they were singing I felt the energy come from them and all the blessings and thoughts that were going on. The aftermath was incredible because we caught so much flounders, a bit of sardines, crabs and a lot of rocks and shells.

 Who were involved? Well there was Roimata, Aysha, Aliyah, Daniella, Lyi Sorn, Angel, John Armour, Justus, Angelo, Isaac, Hosea, Whaea Saf, Tyson, Peter, Sarah, Mr Vogt, Mr Somerville, Mr Jacobsen and myself (Danielle). What did we do with the fish? Well we took the fish back to school and chose the decent sized ones and put them into our tank, and the rest went back into the awa (River) and some went to Kauri Flats school. How did you feel at the end of the day? I felt exhausted and so did everyone else because pulling the net was heavy and a bit difficult because we were sinking into the sand.

Also on behalf of the flounder team we would like to say a massive thanks to all the helpers and mostly to peter for flying all the way to Auckland (NZ) just to help us with our expedition and also lending us your fishing net (He only had 2 hours of sleep because of his flight here, that's why he is amazing. If you don't know who Peter is he is a professional at fish (which means he knows a lot about fish, how to catch them and lots of interesting facts about all the different types of fish there are. So that was our wonderful adventure and everyone needs to keep our awa clean and not be so greedy for fish and other sea animals/creatures.

My problem solving

Walt: multiply and divide decimals.
We are learning to multiply and divide decimal numbers. 
Today we have been doing our problem solving with divide
 a by questions that look like times and time tables that looks like divide a by's,

My week 6 problem solving

Walt: add and subtract decimals.

We have been learning to add decimals also subtract decimals. The other thing we learnt when we are adding decimals, is that we can add subtract. That is rounding up to the close number like: 15.12+17.15=,
so you go like this: 12+88=1.0 then, 15+1.0=16.0+1.15=17.15.
So add the ones you added to round. So 88+1.15=2.3.

Teacher lesson WK3

Walt: work with decimals.


Today we are learning to multiply and divide whole numbers.
 I have learnt to multiply whole numbers. That's including decimals.

Week 5 problem solving

Walt: multiply whole numbers.

Today we are learning to multiply and divide whole numbers.
 I have learnt to multiply whole numbers. That's including decimals.

Teacher lesson week 2

We were learning to add and subtract decimals. We have started off with easy decimals and numbers and then tried to answer it our selves.

My week 4 problem solving

Walt: understand decimals place value.


We are learning to understand the decimal place values.
 We have been learning to do the place value of decimals.

Problem solving T2 week 2

Walt: add and subtract decimals.


In our maths we are learning to add or subtract decimals. Decimals are little dots like full stops but used in with numbers. Like this for an example and this is a decimal: 0.2,3.05,0.6. So thats and example of what an decimals look like's if you don't know what it is.

Week 1 term 3 teacher lesson

We were learning to add our decimals and also subtract. What really was the important thing about adding or subtracting decimals would be looking at there columns. When you'r adding or sub then look at the colums. Columns are the important part there.

My WK11 problem solving

WALT: Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators

I have been learning about fractions and have been solving fraction problems by using addition or subtractions. I solved fractions by using additions. So for example if i had 2 whole pies and gave 1 1/3 i would only have 7/10.

My week 9 problem solving

Walt: solve multiplication problems using a range of strategies.


We have been practicing out fractions. We get a problem that envoles fractions and we try to work it out.
The denominator is the bottom number witch tells you how many pieces there are altogether. The numerator is the top number witch tells you how many pieces you have. So the bigger the denominator the smaller amount you get.