A beginners guide to measuring area and perimeter.

This week we have been learning to calculate area and perimeter. In this task we had to  calculate area and perimeter of different sized windows, then we had to find out why the windows were priced how they where. This is my groups DLO. Finding how the window shop had priced the windows was hard but finding the area and perimeter of the windows was easy. Can you calculate the area and perimeter of a shape?

Hypnotizing art

This week for art we are learning how to  draw continuous lines, draw curves, rule straight lines, select colours for effect and Blend Colours. First we had to practice drawing curves, continuous lines and Ruling straight lines on a template that the teacher had gave us. Once we finished doing the practice activity we could draw on a bigger template which was on an A4 piece of paper. After that we could color our art in, but I am not up to that part yet. Drawing the continuous linse was rather easy but when we had to start ruling all the lines it was a bit tricky because my ruler keeped slipping. Over all this art was really fun!!

Are you good at art?

Pounamu Pendants

This week for maths we are doing measurement. Using a picture of a pounamu on  a grid  that was 9 by 15 there were 135 squares all together. We had to figure out what the percentage of the grid was a Pendant. First I figured out how many squares of the grid where all pounamu. Some of the squares were Pendant and background so I had to add two squares together, like one square was ¾ background and ¼ Pendant so I added it to a square that had ¼  background and ¾  Pendant  because that made one complete  square of Pendant. Then once we finished finding out how many squares of Pendant we had to find the percentage. To find the percentage multiply the answer by 100, E.G - 65 (Pendant) ÷ 135 = 0.48 x 100 = 48. At first finding the percentage was hard but it got easier the more I tried it. Do you know how to find the percentage of something?

Newton’s three laws of motion explained

Last week for writing we were learning to use structure and language features of an explain piece of writing. I wrote my  explanation on how Newton’s three laws of motion apply to our bottle rockets that we have been making for the wonder project. This is my explanation. I really enjoyed writing this explanation because I knew what I wanted to write and I also knew  what all of Newton’s laws of motion are. Thinking of all the words I was going to use to make my writing easy to understand was hard.

How the three The Three Laws of Motion  make the bottle rocket to fly.

This  explanation is going to explain how Newton’s three laws of motion act upon a bottle rocket. 

Newton's First law of motion states that every object will remain at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This law applies to our rocket because our rocket will stay at rest until the unbalanced force (thrust) propels our rocket up. 

Newton's second law of motion is F = ma, or force is equal to mass times acceleration, this law involves our rocket because the heavier our rocket was the more acceleration we needed to get it off the ground.

Newton's Third law of motion states that every action has an opposite and equal reaction. When involving this law with our rocket it applies because the air pressure(thrust) pushes the air downwards which is the equal reaction then the rocket launches up which is the opposite reaction. 

Newton's first law of motion helps the rocket move. Newton's Second law helps get the rocket off the ground, and Newton’s third law of motion helps our rocket go up. This is why the three laws of motion are important when you launch your rocket.

Did you learn what Newton’s three laws of motion are?

I am Hope!

A few weeks ago we participated in a Treasure Hunt at Paihia School, to fundraise for the I Am Hope foundation which helps kiwi kids who have mental health problems by providing  free counselling and support when they need it. We all had to bring a gold coin if we wanted to do the Treasure Hunt. Also instead of finding prizes around the school the principal hid little pictures of gumboots. There were numbers on the back of the pictures of gumboots that represented a prize we would get. We had as much time as we needed to find all of the pictures of gumboots. Also a rule was when we found one of the gumboots we had to take is to the principal so she knew who to give the prize to at the end. When all of the prizes were found the principal called our name if we got a prize. I found two of the gumboots, my two prizes were eskimo pies. Over all the Treasure Hunt was really fun. Have you ever done a Treasure Hunt?

Going to Extraordinary Lengths

This week  in Te Ngahere we have been learning about prime numbers. The purpose of my blog post is to teach people about prime numbers. A prime number is a number that can only be divided by one and itself, e.g - 7, you can only divide seven by one and seven (itself) that means that is is a prime number. For our maths activity we had to find all of the prime numbers to 100. After we found out all of the prime numbers we then had to make a DLO based on how we solved our problem. At first figuring out the prime numbers were easy but as the numbers got bigger finding the prime numbers got a bit harder. This is my DLO. Did you learn anything from my blog post?

Important information that you should know, if you own a chromebook

This Term  in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the Kawa of Care. The purpose of my blog post is to teach people about the Kawa of care. The Kawa of care  is is a contract that we need to follow in order to keep our chromebooks safe. For the Kawa of care we had to make a DLO to show the rules you need to follow, e.g - never have food or drink near your chromebook. Then we need to screencastify our DLO. This is my DLO. I didn’t learn very much because I have done the Kawa of Care before, so I already do every thing to keep my chromebook safe. Do you have a chromebook, if so do you follow the Kawa of care?