Maori Games

 

Hey bloggers, today we've been writing some instructions for our Maori games. We've been put in into groups that then have to write their own set of instructions, my group were Olivia F, Matilda, Tom and Valley-Rose and had to do Pukana. The teachers had also made it more interesting by making our own video to demostrate the actual game and turning the video link to a QR code, which is really facinating! Make sure to scan the QR code properly and it should pop up with our video with us doing a voice over to explain the rules. I hope you really find this interesting and actually watch the video! Tell us in the comments of the QR code doesn't work, so I can redo it. 

Samoan Greetings

 

Hey bloggers, today we've been learning some basic greetings in Samoan, it's a language that isn't very oftnely used. The overall look and sound is definitely quite similar to Maori, which is ofthen more reconized by people. Here is my smooth-ish animation of tow people explaining all the greetings while skating (for fun :) that we would oftenly use in English to Samoan. Disclaimer: Near to the end, I didn't do their movement and any extra frames. I hope you've learnt some basic greetings in Samoan. Did you think some of them were really different to Maori?

Almost Perfect Parachutes

 

 

 Hey bloggers, this week we've been looking into thinking like an Engineer, our challenge was to build a Parachute that would take the longest to glide down two Steel Nuts, the materials are provided and from school. 

I've grouped up with Damian, Taine, Cameron and Brock. Our first idea was to make 2 to 3 Parachutes, because we've thought it would increase the amount of drag and drag up more air, but it didn't work, because the smaller Parachutes (0.72 seconds). 

Our Second idea was to make a Para glide reusing our previous material (fabric), because we didn't thought a lot with the materials and taped some paper towels to be more sealed, we thought it was better because it was bigger (means more sizable drag) and easy to make, unlike hot air Balloon shaped ones would be much harder, but it still didn't did well enough (roughly 1.3 seconds).

On our final idea (in the image) was to use a wide paper, because it's light, but durable, we've made sure that the ribbons were the same length and it was symmetrical, also not tangled up, I've also used some masking tape for the two Steel Nuts making sure that it doesn't tilt and move when gliding, it surprisingly went for a quite good 2.84 seconds and came 3rd out of the whole class.

I think using a paper Parachute wouldn't be that great, because it wouldn't easily open when example a rocket dropping and would require a lot of air pressure (because it was to be in some sort of compartment, I think), other than that we can improve more on our understanding for each material and somewhat know what good materials are good for some purpose. 

I hope you've enjoyed our challenge in building Parachutes as a part of our Wonder Project to building our rockets. What materials are good for making Parachutes other than Plastic related bags?

Charming Childrens Books pt2

 
Hey bloggers, this week we've been looking more into Childrens books and starting to write our very own stories that would have some moral and would also be entertaining for younger audiences. My Story is about a girl called Sally who gets bullied at her local Private School everyday, Sally dreams and thinks lots about things and excels at all of her subjects. But Sally finally finding it very annoying and infuriated when dealing bullies all around the school, so she began standing up for herself and walked away and told the teachers when she had the chance to. This is a story about not giving up and facing your fears in life. I hope you enjoyed my story(haven't fully completed yet).

Perfect Percentages

Hey Bloggers, this week in maths, we've been looking into Percentages and converting them form fraction to Percentages. Here is one of the first example that I did, like a Netball game with Australia vs New Zealand, here are the Goals and Shots Taken for both teams, I also showed you my determined Pergcentage and how I'd gotten my Shooting Percentage. We've also made two cubes for each team and written goals to misses on the cube, like for Australia there would be 5 sides that would haves Goals and 1 side Miss and NZ would have 4 sides that would have Goals and 2 sides Miss. I hope you've enjoyed my example for Percentages. Did you find this interesting?

Charming Childrens books

Hey bloggers, this week we've been looking into childrens books and be looking into the different authors like Dr Suess, Lynley Dodd and comparing their differences from the characters to their own taste. Everyone in our Literacy group had to write their very own poem that has to rhyme and have some sort of moral, my one is a about a Duck that's stuck in the truck and talking about the things that he has been through and done. Some of the other ones were really funny and are packed with homour. I hope you've enjoyed more about poems. You can also write down your own short one in the comments. Did you liked my rhymes? Did you find it crazy about the Duck?

So Much Mathematical Terminology

Hey bloggers, this week on Friday, we've been looking into the language of Math. We had to write an explanation about the different terms that we've learnt before, also giving them an example in maths and for an Application term in the world. I've written my explanations and my examples for an Application term in the world, also try and solve some. The reason why we we're doing this is to really understand all the basic languages in math, making sure that we would for sure to understand terms that are synonyms. I hope you've learnt the different terms and understood them. Did you think my explaination is clear? Did you liked my examples that I've used?