Mahi Toi

Last week in Te Ngahere we started doing mahi toi. Mahi toi is art and the art we’re learning to do is to draw continuous lines, draw curves, rule straight lines and best of all blend colours. We have started to trace over a design as practise. I did a good job at tracing over the designs and lines, I need to work on making my lines straighter. Once I finished that practise sheet, I was then able to start practising using colors to blend.Here is a photo of my blending. Do you know how to blend?

Thank You Gustavo & Troy

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we have started to write a thank you letter to Gustavo and Troy for taking their time out and coming to join our class to teach us about how rockets are launched. We had to write what we enjoyed and also what we enjoyed in The Wonder Project. I enjoyed launching our rockets because it was so satisfying watching rockets fly up in the air. I also thanked them for being helpful, kind and patient especially when we would sometimes disrespect them. I also liked that they would always encourage us. I just wish they could come back into our class to teach us the next stage in The Wonder Project. Have you checked out my Wonder Project post? Here's my Thank you letter.

Pounamu Pendants

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to estimate using percentages. The activity we did was called Pounamu pendants in this activity we had to find out what was the percentage of the area of the original rectangle and what piece of the grid does the finished pendant use. There were four separate pendants where Mihi & I had to go through row by row to see how much area the pendants cover on the grid. For A we think the pendant was covering 57% of it. We worked this out by the number we got, divided it by 180 and then times it by 100. I think I did well at counting up all the numbers. This activity was really fun to do and learn here is a photo of my activity. What type of math do you enjoy doing?

I Wonder

Today was Gustavo and Troy’s last day which means it was the final day to launch our rockets see which team came first, second and third. Straight after morning tea everyone got out their rockets and headed to the deck and waited for their turn to launch. Mihipeka, Jorjah and I helped out Whaea Shanna to make her job easier. Mihis job was to get the next group to come up to get ready and write down how much water and air pressure they used. Jorjah’s job was to record every groups rocket when it launched and my job was to measure how far each groups rocket went. I did well at making Whaea Shanna’s job easier and it didn’t take long launching each groups rockets. After we finished launching everyone's rockets we went back into class and Mihi told everyone who came first second & third. The group who came first was Thea’s group, the group that came second was my group so we won a lollipop or chocolate and the last group who came third was Roberts group. I think I have done a great job in the Wonder Project and I have enjoyed every little bit of it thank you to Gustavo and Troy. Heres a picture of my group creating a parachute.

 

 

Something Special

On Monday in Te Ngahere we created something nice to share with our old teacher Whaea Becks. Whaea Becks has taught in Te Ngahere for 3 years but this year she left to travel. The most happy but sad thing is that next year she's coming back to teach at Paihia School again but I won’t be here, because this is my last year as I am a year 8. My friend Mihipeka and I made a video to send to Whaea becks to show that we have been missing her and wish her the best. If you see this Whaea Becks we Hope you are okay and we miss you alot, love from Anyah/your favourite

I Wonder

Today is Wednesday which means Troy will be coming into our classroom for Wonder Project. A couple of days ago my group and I were working on our rocket like hot gluing fins on and hot gluing the bottles together. Last week on Friday my group went out to launch our rocket but their was a problem. We didn’t get to fully launch our rocket because it had a leak in it so we didn’t launch it. On Monday we re started, we got two water bottles cut the top off one bottle and hot glued it on the bottom of the other water bottle. We then stuck the fins on and a printed face of my friend Mihi on it. So we basically changed our whole rocket just had the same design. Now we are ready to launch which happened today and our rocket went up into the air straight after blast off. Then it went straight at the end and landed on the ground which looked cool. Here is a video of us launching.