Kia ora Bloggers,
A few weeks ago, we started learning about our inquiry for the term. Our topic for this term is culture, tradition, and heritage. Our task was to choose a maori tradition and learn about the past and present of different things about the tradition.
I worked with Jessica and Bella and we chose Tā Moko which are maori tattoos. Here is our work:
Hey Bloggers,
This term for inquiry we have been learning about rockets and how to make a rocket that will successfully launch. We learnt about Newtons 4 laws of motion. We designed our rocket and did a few test flights and finally, did a final launch. We explain everything in this short film that we made.
Kia Ora Bloggers,
This week and last week, on Wednesdays after we get back from Technology, we have been learning how to code. We used a website called codesters. It teaches you how to code but still has things to drag and drop. Our task was to make a PSA(Public Service Announcement). My PSA is about littering and how it kills wildlife. It starts with a person walking through a forest and drops a plastic bag, then a hedgehog comes and gets trapped in the plastic bag. After that, another person comes through the forest and talks about how plastic and littering is killing our wildlife.
Thanks for reading! Bye.
Hi Bloggers,
For the past few weeks in Literacy, we had a student-teacher and we were learning about children books. We learnt about children books authors like Margaret Mahy, Dr Suess, and Lynley Dodd. We read a book from each of the authors and broke it down, talking about the themes and language features. Some of the most common language features were rhyming and repetition. After we learnt about these books and authors, we were challenged to write and illustrate a children's book of our own. I wrote mine about Celery, and I tried to incorporate repetition as much as possible. Here it is:
Talofa bloggers,
Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan. This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from. If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.
In my classroom you will learn about:
Samoa as a country
Link to a traditional dance video
Basic greetings
The alphabet
How to count 1-10
Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples
An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan
I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.
Fa!
Kia ora bloggers,
This term for Inquiry, we have some people from the wonder project coming in to help us. They come in every Tuesday afternoon and teach us about engineering. Our goal by the end of this term is to successfully launch a rocket! Last Thursday and today(Monday) we have been challenged to design and test a parachute to try out our engineering skills. We had newspaper, fabric, scrap paper, paper towels, and string to make our parachute. It had to be strong enough to hold 2 hex nuts.
My team made one out of fabric and string. We got a square piece of fabric and cut holes into every corner. We then tied string into those holes and connected them all together. This design worked ok. It took 1.85 seconds to go from the top of a staircase to the ground. We didn't have enough time to change and improve our design but if I were to change it, I think I would use a different material. I think a big piece of paper would work well as it has fewer holes than fabric.
Thanks for reading! See you next time:)
The name 'Aurora' comes from the Latin word for sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, it is usually a greenish colour but sometimes it is red or blue. This natural phenomenon usually occurs in areas known as the 'auroral zone' near the poles of the Arctic in the north and Antarctic in the south. In Southern hemisphere latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora australis or the Southern Light. An Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields. When they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.
