Explosive Wonder Project

In Te Ngahere last week a couple groups have already started building their rocket. In class yesterday my group & I started to build our rocket. In my group I have Mihi, Chum and Stilly to work with. We started yesterday because all the other days we forget to bring the equipment but if we brang it before we could had started last week or on that day. My group & I all got together on a table with all our equipment and started to cut the ice cream containers for our fins. We still need to complete our rocket before we start to test it and testing is today. So I reckon my group needs to get a move on and catch up with a few other groups. I think my group is going well because we all communicate but we just need to focus. If you had to opportunity to do the Wonder Project would you ? This is a little sneak peak of what our rocket will be like.

Respect The Rules

In Te Ngahere we have been working on Kawa Of Care which is about rules around your chromebook. I have been learning new ways of looking after my chromebook because once our 3 years of warranty is over we can’t get our chromebook fixed for free, so we have to start looking after our chromebooks before we break it. We all sat down on the ground and re winded our learning about our chromebooks. What we did was talk about how we break our chromebooks and how we can over learn those to look after our chromebooks. Once we finished we got to make a DLO showing what you do with your chromebook and what not to do. I went off with my book and started drawing with my pencil and then explained what my drawing was trying to explain. Have you learned about Kawa Of Care? Here is my DLO/drawing I did

Wonder Project

This week on Wednesday only Troy came to our school because Gustavo had to stay home & look after his wife. On Wednesday for the Wonder Project we all talked about thrust, weight and when a rocket drags. I learned that a rocket needs stability, thrust and drag to make it fly up in the air but when the thrust runs out the rocket goes down because of the weight and drag. Once we finished talking about that we all went out on the deck to watch a couple of people test the launcher and it worked. Then we all went back into class to work on an activity to create a rocket using shapes then add arrows facing the way it will go with thrust and without thrust. If we finished that we had a chance to start creating the look of our own rocket. Here is a picture of what I did for the activity. Have you done the Wonder project before?

Movie Making

In Te Ngahere we have been making a plan to create our own movie. We are making our own movies because there is going to be a movie night in KeriKeri but also our class are having our own private movie night but during class time. For this movie making I have been learning about different filming angles because we need to know what type of angles we will be using once we are filming. In class we had to get into our own groups and In my group I had Mihipeka, Jorjah, Nevaeh, Tizara and Lily. Our movie is based on Dora the Explorer but ours is called Lora The Maori Explorer. We had to create a whole script and plan before we start filming because we need to know what we will be doing so we don’t just go off and do random stuff. Have you made your own movie before with a classmate?