Alison's Blog

HCF, or highest common factor, was my goal a couple of weeks ago. I took, in my opinion, a bit long to learn it, but it's easy if you know what a factor is, which I do, but I was a long time ago... Excuses excuses, anyway, I would like to show you how to do it. 😀 Look below for instructions... First step: Find two or more numbers you want to find a common factor of. I'm going to use 24 & 36. Take those numbers and find all the factors of those numbers. 24: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12 & 24. Those are all the factors of 24. Now let's try 36. 36: 1,2,3,4,6,12 & 36. What are the factors that are the same (btw these are also called common factors)? For 24 and 36 they are: 1,2,3,4,6 & 12. 12 is the highest out of the previous numbers, so the highest common factor of 24 & 36 is... 12. This goal was a goal that challenged me to know my times tables and division facts better, it also lead me to my current goal, divisibility rules. The two goals are related in man

You know how I was describing the coding challenge in the previous post? Look down ⬇️ if you haven't... Well, turns out my groups app made the finals for New Zealand! 🇳🇿 There is an article on stuff (link  HERE 😁  )Oh by the way I'm not in the photo so don't bother looking 🤣. Stuff says: Less Stress , helping kids aged 7-12 resolve stress and anxiety problems through games, drawing pages, inspirational quotes and a stopwatch for exercise.  That's not the whole thing but that's how it describes our app, which is accurate. If we win the finals we go to San Francisco and go to the worlds, which is very complicated so I won't go on with it but here's the world info  Here

Hi!☺ I know it's been a while since I last posted anything, so I decided to post about what I've been busy with for the last few AGES. Everyone knows about coding, but how many everyone's actually know HOW to code? Not as many as you might think, and how many of them are girls? Annoying Fact ↓ Only one in every seven engineers are girls.  For some more info on the tech challenge,  Click HERE (And not HERE)

Hi 😃 I have been busy busy busy writing, and it's finally  done! The writing is informative, and is about Alto Clef. (This weird thing over here →) Anyway, I'm not going to explain it here, click on the link for the writing! LINK (Please click, because I said so.)

I'm Alison and I'm myself, obviously. My sister is Rebecca, and she is annoying and cute. (Mostly annoying.) Rebecca is a year 4 at Frankley School,and she is in Tuhono. My dad is Robert and he is a music teacher for lots of schools. Dad plays lots of bass and double bass, he can play ukelele and guitar to! He can read music and is really talented. My mum is Sheryl and lives in Dunedin. Mum is and English teacher at Taieri Collage in Mosgiel. She is really annoying when she corrects me in my bad grammar. (I don't mind much!) Mum is getting married in the holidays, and me and Rebecca get to go down to see! (YAY!) I have a half-brother named Shay from Mum's side of the family. He's turning TWENTY this year! (I really can't believe it!) Shay works at McDonald's in New Plymouth.I also have a half-sister named Abigail from Dad's side of the family. Abby lives in Rangiora and is fifteen this year. Abby is really athletic and does a lot of soccer and running.

  Rubbish is one of the biggest problems in the world. And isn't it sad how big it is?  Luckily, people are starting to do something about it. Trying to use less or no glad-wrap, putting your rubbish in the bin and recycling things are all a good start. But what about the rubbish that's already out there?  Are we just going to leave it? I don't know about you, but I did something about it.  Me, Gabrielle, Gypsy and Kalissa picked up rubbish at lunch around the whole school for THREE DAYS! We found so many pieces of glad wrap, and chip packets, and muesli bar wrappers in the bush near the stream, near there we also found an orange Mitre 10 shopping bag, which was a bit strange and brought on many questions. A few days after we had finished our quest for rubbish, we got invited to share at our Whakangahau (assembly).  Even the little kids got our message and looked in their lunchbox's  to see all the rubbish! Comment on how you could improve your rubbish problem