Haoura and Olympians

 

Embracing how to win and lose is important because you will be more accepting of the result and will bounce back next time and at the same time showing good sportsmenship & respect to your competitiors. Athletes train both their body and mind so that all their four walls are balanced no matter what happens on the big stage. When you know how to win and lose you can reflect on the past and try to do better when another chance comes around. 

Vayan & Micah

 

Matariki brochure

 L.I to strengthen our connections to Matariki

For Matariki we made a brochure for the celebration. A brochure is a informative paper document that can fold, it gives you information bout a place, person, celebration, etc... In our brochure we created different parts with different topics explaining the harvest, traditions, and many more. In this activity we also showed the origin of Matariki and how it was named.

Matariki Stars

L.I to strengthen ur connection to Matariki

Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition. To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities. For this task we learnt about facts about the matariki stars.

SImple machines

L.I to find information about simple machines

We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. 

Tere are the 6 simple machines

Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams (information pictures) to show the different parts that the simples machines have. We also summarized out facts in 25 words.

Technological practices

 LI: To use technological practices process to design a toy

For Mrs Fisi’iahi’s Inquiry lesson, we were focusing on the three last technological processes. They were: build, test and evaluate. We used the required materials in order to build the AUV rover. After this, we tested and compared each group’s rover to see which group was able to scramble across the floor the furthest. Evaluating our results was the last step. 

I found this activity interseting because we got to test diffeent variable on the rover to see which one was the best.

Inquiry

 L.I to Identify, Investigate & Design a model of rover

The three technological practices were identify, investigate and design. When doing these technological practices, we need to make sure we are doing it properly for a proper trial and error project. Identify means to observe the opening problem. Investigating means to research how to solve the problem or research how to use materials for the model. Design means to draw or create a blueprint/sketch of your model. These three practices help you to build an end product of your model. Our group enjoyed looking into these practices and worked together as a group to come up with a design.

Toys

 LI: To strengthen connections to technology

  This week we have been learning about the 6 processes of Technological Design and how each one is important in the process of designing a product. We are using the processes of technological practices to  design and build a rubber band- powered rover that can scramble across the floor. I found this interesting because we faced different challenges, for example what materials we could use to make our rover.

Holiday Christmas tree

 L.I to decorate the Christmas tree with our decorations

This week we finished our holiday decorations for our school Christmas tree that we have been working on this term, these decorations represent the different people in Panmure bridge. We went to the office and hung our decorations on, they looked really good on our Christmas tree. 

Design technology challenge

L.I to design holiday decorations

This term we have been learning about Design technology in order to make felt holiday decoration for our school Christmas tree. Today we evaluated on our product to find out the positives, improvements, the things we could change and other questions which asked us about our experience about the sowing. If we do this next time I think I could do smaller stitches and add more stuffing for my decoration.

Design process flow chart

 L.I to create a flow chart about the design process

This term for inquiry our topic is design process. This week we made a a flow chart that informs others  about the design process and information on designing a product.

Inquiry

L.I To think deeply about a change I would make

If I was prime minister I  would make public transport cheaper for people over 55 because some elderlies don't have a source of income.  

 

Inquiry

 LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice 

To decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision. If I was 18 I would vote for Labour because I like the way that they handled the  Covid - 19 pandemic and kept the damage to minimum. I also like how they are providing wage subsidy for the employees that lost their jobs and giving tax relief to businesses that are being affected. This means if Labour Won the election in my electorate Jenny Salesa would be our member of parliament and Jacinda Ardern would become the Prime Minister. Something I found interesting was that today there are 120 members of parliament compare to 37 in 1854.

Haoura

L.I to create a poster to explain what Haoura is

For Inquiry we are leaning about Hoaura, Haoura is the Maori belief of health that is unique to New Zealand. They consist of four walls which are Taha Tinana which is physical well being, Taha Wairua which is spiritual well being, Taha Hinengaro which is spiritual well being and Taha Wahnau which is social well being. For our task we made a poster about what houra is and the benefits of having the four wall standing.

Problem solving

L.I to explore problem solving

This week we used problem solving by using tangrams after we lost our internet connection. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles were a way to cure boredom. The tangrams were easy to make only using an A4 paper and a pair of scissors. They consist of seven pieces which are cut in different shapes. we were put together different shapes and animals using these tangrams. We problem solved by listening to the instructions.

Kiwrious

L.I to find the most effective UV filter


LS2 have been trialing the electronics sensors for the Kiwrious project. We are working with with Suranga, Sonia, Evan, Dawn and Yevon from Auckland university. Our task was to keep the Zally which is a fictional creature safe, in order for it to grow we had to expose it to white light but it was allergic to UV light.  We tests different materials to see which let in the most light and the least UV light.

Periscopes

L.I to explain how a periscope works

Mr. Johnston came and taught what periscopes are, how they are used and who uses them. We found out that the angle the incidence is the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 degrees. It was fun because we got to play with a real periscope.

Light facts

L.I to share 5 facts about light that we found interesting

We worked collaboratively to create a DLO that shows facts about light. On fact that that interests me is that only takes eight minutes for light from the sun to travel to the earth.

Places named by early explorers

For this activity we put all the places we could find named by or after early explorers and explain how it got its name ( Captain Cook, Abel Tasman and Kupe) People name things after famous people, themselves or how things look at that place. For example Kupe found New Zealand by accident and his wife named it Aoteoroa because of the long white cloud. One of the most interesting places was Banks peninsula. Did you know that new Zealand has the longest place name of the world, it is called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Advetising

L.I to advertise our company

We are advertising our company and frames for our market day on the 29 of November 2019. The advertisements could make were an poster, a brochure or a video. My group created a poster to let people know what we were selling.

Inquiry

L.I to balance the supply and demand foe profit

We played the coffee shop game. In this game we had just opened our own coffee shop and we had 14 days to make as much money as possible. We were given $30 to spend to stock up for the first day, we had to buy the cups, coffee, sugar and the milk before every day to serve coffee. We could also adjust the about of coffee, the creaminess, sugar, milk and the price we sell it at. Each day we had a different weather forecast, so we had to adjust the price depending on that. There would me more or less costumers depending on our reputation. If we had a good reputation there would be more costumers and if we had a bad reputation there would be less customers.