EPro8 Activity

 In Te Ngahere the years Sixes did an activity called EPro8. EPro8 is activities related to measurement. We also did this to see how well we work together, and this week we were making catapults. We were learning about two different kinds of energy. They were called potential energy and kinetic energy, Kinetic energy is when it is moving and potential energy is when It is stored. We had to make our catapults using 30 bamboo sticks, a roll of tape, a roll of string, 30 rubber bands, 2 A4 pieces of paper and a piece of A3 paper. We also used a ping pong ball to fire and we used a measuring tape to measure where it landed. The ball had to go  at least 3 meters before hitting the ground. We had a group of four and we started thinking of a way so that is was stable and it was able to launch. We got up to building the base and we used rubber bands to hold it together. Then two of us was working on the base while the other two was working on the launching part. It was very hard because we couldn’t find a way to make a launching mechanism. What was also hard was that we just couldn’t work together and I was getting stressed out. We then took apart the catapult and then restarted. We managed to finish our catapult and we tested it. We were 100mm away from 3 meters and so we added more rubber bands on the top so it would get more power from the potential energy. We then tested it and as we were done the timer ran out. It was a very challenging activity. Next time I will try work as a team.

Have you ever made a catapult before?

Suspicious Instructions

 For the first day of term 2 in Te Ngahere we did a reading test to see how good we follow instructions. We got a piece of paper with 23 questions and they were a bit confusing but also suspicious. 

We had 4 minutes to do the test and I was a bit nervous. I started doing the test. The 1st instruction said read out all the questions carefully before doing anything. I actually didn’t read it I was just reading part of it and then assumed I knew what we had to do. The 2nd instruction said “write your name in the upper left hand corner” so I did that. Moving on I got up to question 19 which said “on the reverse side of the paper add 8950 and 9805” after I finished instruction 19 the time was up. We went down to the mat and the teacher explained what everyone did wrong. We had to actually read all the instructions and then do question 1 and 2 and everyone had failed. After I realised what we did wrong, I felt so silly. From now on I am going to try and read things as carefully as I can.

Have you ever done a test like this before?

Te Reo Maori

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing something called E.P, this stands for Education Perfect. On Education Perfect we have been learning how to speak Maori. We had to make a DLO and screencastify ourselves saying the Maori words, we were learning to say the alphabet, greetings and place names in Maori. This site has really helped me pronounce the Maori words correct and properly.

You should use Education Perfect to help you with lots of stuff.

Smart Surfing

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing a thing in our class called smart surfing. Smart surfing is a thing about how you type your searches into Google. It really helps because it will give you a more accurate information than typing in the whole question, for example “what is the world's largest spider” you have to pick the key words like world, largest and spider then you just need to type in your keywords and then you have a more accurate information. It really does help and you can know things better. I wanted to type in a question like what are long tailed bats threats so all I typed in was long tailed bat threats and it came up with a much better answer.  I learnt lots of different stuff by doing smart surfing and it made me more successful.

Now try this out yourself.

Coastal Seas

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the coastal seas. We have been learning about marine animals, different places in the oceans and the different oceans. We watched a video about the coastal seas and I learnt a ton of facts about sea animals. For my animal I chose the White Tip Shark. I found very cool facts about this marine creature and now I will share some facts about the Bottlenose Dolphin, the White Tip Shark, a Wrasse, a Humpback Whale and Kelp. This is my groups DLO.

Magnificent Maths

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. We had to do 10 questions and we could pick any strategy to solve this problem. There was addition and subtraction problems what I learnt was that it is really hard to solve subtraction problems by using place value partitioning . I solved all the problems using algorithm and it was really cool.  Then when we had finished we got a partner and we had to mark each others work. I really enjoyed doing this because it was helping we relearn what I already knew. It is the best strategy to use for me because it is the easiest one I know. In this I also learnt how to use different strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Beautiful Butter Chicken

 Yesterday in our class we went to a place called Greens in Paihia. We went to Greens because it was someone's birthday and his name is Shivam. His parents owned the restaurant called Greens and they offered us to go there for lunch. After we sat down about 3 minutes later we got cans of Coke and Sprite. Then soon we got trays of butter chicken, rice and naan bread. I was very excited. I took my first bite of the food and it was FABULOUS I started stuffing my face and the naan bread was also as good as the butter chicken. I then took a sip of my drink I was full after an amazing dish. But then it just kept getting better, Shivams parents then came out with a big trolley filled with easter eggs. After that we gave Shivam a birthday card and we started singing happy birthday. Then after eating we said thank you by singing some waiata for his parents and then we left.

Have you ever been to Greens before?