Haiku Poems

This term we have been studying ecological sustainability.  We have looked at local, national and world wide systems that we need to look after to keep our environment sustainable for the many generations of people to come.  These systems have included the water cycle, water pollution, air pollution, deforestation, urban sprawl and climate change.

This past week we have had a go at writing Haiku poems to summarise some of the problems we have encountered.

Haiku poems are traditionally Japanese poems about nature.  We studied a variety of examples and identified the syllable pattern is usually 5, 7, 5 but some vary from that a little.  They also didn't generally rhyme.

Here is a slide show of one poem from each person in the class.

Prototec Maths

Here is the website that you may find useful for practicing your basic facts

PROTOTEC

Give it a go, try both the sheet and timed test type.  The sheet version will give you a sheet of all of the questions that you can answer and when it is marked it will give you a time it took for you to complete it.  The timed version gives you one question at a time and changes every three seconds.  Just like the basic facts testing we do in class.

Most of you will be at stage 5 or 6.