Egg Experiment

 

Hey Bloggers! 

On Wednesdays for tech, I am in the Afternoon group which means we leave at 12:00, so we have a session in the morning and we have started doing science! last week we did a moon experiment and this week we did an Egg Experiment, we had 25 minutes to create a plan and construct a safety protection for our egg. Our supplies were 3x sheets of A4 paper, 1x sheet of A5 paper ( a bit thicker ) 1x plastic bag, 2x lengths of sellotape, 1x meter of string, and last of all 1x egg, after the 25 minutes Mrs. Osborne dropped the eggs off the mezzanine floor in our Makerspace. Sadly our egg didn't survive but we were pretty happy with our design, it had lots of cushioning and we had wrapped it pretty well but it was a bit sad that it cracked. 

Do you think it was a good design? Would you have designed it differently? 

Please leave me some advice if anything is wrong. Blog you later! 

Tidying up and Compensating Numbers

Hello Bloggers! How was your Holiday? 

In Davies Maths ( My maths group ) This week we have been learning and working on how to tidy up and compensate numbers. In this blog post, I will be explaining how to tidy up numbers and also compensate them. To start this you have to first have 2 numbers for your equation e.g 132 + 76, you then have to either subtract or add to make one of the numbers a number ending in zero like 132 -2 + 130 now you have the tidy number you have to do the opposite to the other number like this, 76+ +2 = 78, now you have your new numbers the equation is simple, 130 + 78 instead of 132 + 76. Now for subtracting your numbers now are 132 - 76, now we can do 132 +8 to get 140 but with the 76 you have to add as well so, 76 +8 to get 84 now you have 140 - 84. So there is how to Tidy up and compensate your numbers to make an easier equation. Did you know how to do this before my post? Do you find it easy to do? It would be very helpful if you could leave me some of your feedback by leaving a comment. Blog you later! 

Hundertwasser Art

 

Hello Bloggers! How was your 5 day Easter weekend? 

In class, we have been doing some art that is inspired by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, his style of art is like a kid's brain, colorful, different shapes, and no straight lines. Our task was to draw our design in pencil on a sheet that had all of the different things we would need like onion domes, houses, raindrops, floating eyes, and a hidden face, after that, we got to draw our sketch design on a normal piece of paper after we finished our sketch we got to do it on a thicker, bigger piece of paper and once we did that in pencil we got to go over it in vivid. Finally after vivid was the pastels, we had to use a mix of contrasting colors and analogous colors, we had a color wheel to go off but we could choose what colors we wanted. 

Can you spot everything in my art? Can you find the hidden face?

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Maori Weather Animation - Scratch

 

                     

Kia Ora Bloggers! Do you know how to say the weather in Maori?

On Fridays in the mornings, there is a leader that comes in and he is our Kapa Haka teacher, but this week we didn't have Kapa Haka so the people that do Kapa Haka stayed behind at the hub and did what everyone else does when we are at Kapa Haka. Our task was to make an animation on scratch on the weather in Maori, for the weathers I chose wera, hot and hukapapa, snowy. The scratch was quite fun to make but it was a little bit confusing for the voices but I managed to fix it. 

Have you ever used scratch before? Do you know how to say rainy in Maori?

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Consider... A day at the Basketball court

 

Kai Ora Bloggers!

This is another Wednesday task and a part of K.O.S ( Keeping Ourselves Safe ). This task was, we got a piece of paper with a black and white comic that had one spot missing, we had to figure out what was happening in the comic then figure out what would happen in the last space, after that we had to draw in the people and what would happen I also added some writing of what they would have said, after that we were allowed to color in and be creative with the designs. This is my finished product as a photo. 

What would you have done if you were in this situation? 

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My Pepeha

 

                      

Kia Ora Bloggers!

Some of our work from the past week has been to write a Pepeha, a Pepeha is basically a speech about you, your family, mountain, river and your people/ ancestors Everyones Pepeha is different here is mine. There is also a video of my Pepeha on the last slide with photos and recording of me saying it. This was pretty easy to do because I have done a Pepeha before but I haven't done a video before so this was pretty fun. 

Do you know your Pepeha? What is your Mountain or River?

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The British's POV on The Treaty of Waitangi

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! 

This is another inquiry task that I have completed this week and it is The British POV ( Point Of View ) on the treaty of Waitangi. Our task was to write a script of their pov and then put your words into an app called voki, how voki works is you get 600 characters to write with and you can write something and then you copy and paste it into voki, you can also add a person, customize them and add in a background. This was kind of tricky to work out at first but once I got the hang of it it was pretty easy to write. 

Have you ever used voki? Do you know any other fun facts about The treaty of Waitangi?

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