Childrens Book

 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:

Childrens book by Hana Kennedy

Samoan Virtual Classroom

 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!

Rocket Science! - Step 1, Parachutes

 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:)