Ancient Greek Olympics

 LI: To give a presentation on the Ancient Greek Olympics.

Last week, LS2 gave presentations to the class about what we know on the Ancient Greek Olympics. For this task, my group used Prezi to present and recorded a Screencastify to present to the class. Prezi is a good way to keep your audience entertained by animating the different areas of your slideshow.

We talked about what the Ancient Greek Olympics was and what took place on the five days of the Olympics. We also gave 5 fun facts about the Ancient Olympics.

I enjoyed this because it was fun to present and learn about the Ancient Greek Olympics as well. One fun fact that I learnt about the Ancient Greek Olympics was that one athlete trained by lifting a bull calf everyday until it was a full grown bull.

Haoura and olympics

 

Athletes at their best train mentally and physically because both the mody and the mind need to be strong and have a good balance to be an athlete. If you win or lose it is good to be calm and be thankful that you get to represent your country and that you’ve made it to the olympics. You will be more successful if you believe in yourself and knowing you have support from fans and your whanau to direct you in the path of fame and success . 

Matariki Stars

LI: to strengthen our connection to Matariki

To continue our learning with Matariki we drew the Matariki stars, and labeled each of them. This activity helped us identify each star, and learn each of the names to strengthen our connections to not only Matariki but the culture and celebration. It was really fun doing this as this was an art based activity. We were able to edit these stars and it was very fun doing. 

Havesting DLO

 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. This DLO is about what the Maori people Harvested in Matariki. During Matariki poeple collected Kumara, Potato's and more. They used tool's like the Ko, Toki and some other ones as well. I enjoyed this activity because I learnt lots about the Matariki history.

Inside/Outside Brochure

 LI: to celebrate matariki

This week for the matariki challenges we created 2 brochures which was an inside brochure and an outside bochure. For my inside brochure, me and my group explained about the matariki stories, how matariki was celebrated in the past and what food was harvest at the festival. For my outside bochure, we explained matariki and wrote fact about it too.

What I found a bit hard is that i didn't know any fact so I had to reaserch it.

Matariki

LI: To strengthen our connections 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.

I found out that more than maori people celebrate matariki.

I enjoyed learning about matariki because I learnt more about my culture.

Pulleys

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find out about pulleys. 

We have been learning about simple machines. There are 6 different types of simple machines. This week we learnt about pulleys. Our DLO shows our labelled diagrams of a pulley system. A labelled diagram is an information picture.

Pulleys are simple machines that helps lift heavy things.

25 Word Summary: A pulley is used to transfer heavy loads easily by force by hooking one end of the rope on load and pulling on the other.

Did you know? I knew about pulleys since I was year 6.

LAWS OF INERTIA

 LI: To create a DLO explaing the Law of Inertia. 

This week for reading we have been continuing with science. For this session we were learning the Law of Inertia. The Law of Inertia connects to physics in science. In groups we created a DLO explaining what the Law of Inertia is and who created it. Isaac Newton was the person who found out and created the Law of Inertia. I collaborated with Fau, Ellenora, Karlos and Matthew to complete this DLO. Isaac Newton made 3 laws:

Law of Rest

Law of Direction

Law of Motion

Inquiry

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

If you were Prime Minister, what one thing would you do to change NZ for the better and why?

If I was Prime Minister I would give every homeless person a house and give every child lunch at school. I would give every homeless person a house because no one will mock them. I will give every child lunch at school so they are not tired.

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 national party because they want to introduce new regulations for shark cage diving this means if national party won the election in my electorate Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi would be our member of parliament and Judith Collins would become the Prime Minister.

Making connections to problem solving

L.I To explore problem solving.

Today we created a tangram puzzle with LS1 because we had no internet connection. So we made a tangram puzzle. It is an ancient Chinese puzzle. We used  A4 paper and scissors. Then we were listing to the instructions to make the tangram. After that we work were together as a group to make a square. It was really challenging. We were problem solving and communicating. the problem for us was that we that it was hard to make the square but the solved it by asking for help and communicating to each other.

Experimenting with ultraviolet light

L.I To find the most effective UV filler.

LS2 has been trialling the electronic sensors for the kiwrious project. We are working with Suranga,Sonia,Evan,Dawn and Yvonne from AHL at Auckland university. I found that green cellophane was the most effective filter to keep zally safe from the UV light. My DLO will show you how I did this.

Matariki

LI: to learn more about Matariki

For Inquiry we learnt about Matariki. In our DLO we summarised the general idea of Matariki and its story. We picked out twenty important words related to Matariki, then from those twenty words, we picked the six of the most important words. Using those six words we summarised the general idea of Matariki using only a few short sentences to make it simple.

Fish in a bowl

This week Mr Johnson visited the class.He tolled us all about how are eyes can deserve us.And how blinking can clean your eyes.And keeps it moused and if you wave a pen in front of your face.It looks like it's made from rubier.It is a trick that your eyes play on you.We also made a toy with one picture on one side,and one on the other side. sometimes your eyes see one thing but it needs time to imprint it in your memory.And we had to drew on those sides a fishing bowl and a fish and when you spin it around you can see the fish jumping into the fish bowl.

What is matariki

L.I To use your smart searching skills to find information that tells others what matariki is.

For our Inquiry we were learning about Matariki, since its June. On this DLO it presents what is Matariki, the seven sisters, and their names. Matariki is a Maori New Year, and it is a celebration. Matariki is also a star cluster with seven sisters, or some people know it as six daughters and one mother. Matariki is about gathering with family and friends, and talking about ancestors in stories.

Periscopes

L.I To explain how  periscopes work.

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

Light Facts

L.I To share 5 facts about light that we find interesting.

We worked collaboratively to create a DLO about light. One fact that interests me is light travels in waves because it is used in a microwave.

Inquiry l Rube Goldberg machine

LI: to try make a Rube Goldberg machine with all the six simple machines.

We had to try make a Rube Goldberg machine with the simple six machines. A Rube Goldberg machine is a complicated machine to do a simple thing. It took us 2 tries to get every thing working. I was the person working with the wheel and axle. We used a incline plain, wheel and axle and a lever. 

To create our machine we used a chair and some wood to make the incline plane. We used a car and a book to start our machine. Then someone tips the book, the book hits the car and the car comes down the incline plain, as soon as it gets to the bottom it's going to the person at the bottom of a table. The person at the bottom of the table is going to roll the ball in his hand. The ball then rolls and hits the person standing in front of the table. The person in front of the table is going to roll the basketball then the basketball comes down hits the person next to him. The when the basketball hit the person next to him, the person next to him slides under the table and hits the person that is at the finish. The person at the finish is going to roll the ball down the incline plain and the ball hits the cup with the dice in it.

The thing I found challenging was trying to get everything working. I would change people being under the table.

Pully

Pulley has a wheel and over it is a rope,string or chain.So that'show a Pulley works.We had to get into a group of four.So we gottwo sticks.There is one person in the middle trying to pull in the people
holding the sticks.We also have a rope.After when we had try pulling the sticks in with our hands we tryed pulling it with a rope.We also did more loops.We had to make sure not to get rope burn.When we have done that we have to do our DLO about Pulley.We have to write down the meaning and answer the questions.The last question is about where we have seen a pulley.Here's from our group and it is a elavator.

S.T.E.A.M

This week for inquiry we were learning about Rube Goldberg while we are doing this activity we are focusing on STEAM (Science,Technology,Engineering,Arts and Maths). We had to make a slide on Rube Goldberg and his personalities. We also had to make a simple machine using our bodies trying to open the door. This activity had to have rolling,turning side to side and other kinds of movements.