Mosaic Art

This week for art we have been making mosaic art on our chromebook. First we opened a google drawing and filed it in other. After that we needed to find a picture that we wanted to make a mosaic out of. Then we used a polyline tool to make different shapes over the top of the photo, then color the shapes to match the color on the photo. At first making all of the shapes was hard because the polyline tool was challenging to use. The shapes also  had to be quite big for the polyline tool to work. After I found out how to use the polyline is was really easy. Matching the color was also rather easy. Have you ever made a mosaic on a chromebook or computer?

Wonder project

This term in Te Ngahere our teachers have organised two engineers to come to our school and teach us about rockets and jobs that you can have to make/test rockets, over the next 8 weeks. This week they introduced themselves to us and told us about what their jobs are.  Troy is a civil engineer, Civil engineers design major transportation projects and supervise them. At the moment he is working on ways to transport stormwater so the towns don’t flood.  Gustavo is a Pomologists,  a Pomologist is someone that works with fruit. Right now he is creating more varieties of kiwifruit. Gustavo and his fellow Pomologists created the red kiwi fruit. When Gustavo told us how different Kinds kiwifruit where made it  was really interesting and very complicated. I had no idea how 

complicated  making different kinds of kiwifruit was.

Did you know that there is such a thing as a red kiwi fruit?

A New Language

In Te Ngahere this term we have been learning how to read a short book in Te Reo Maori.  The book was called Nga Mahi Parekareka kei te Marae. I was good at pronouncing the words in Te Reo when I knew how they sounded. Saying all the words in a sentence was hard because it was hard remembering all of the sounds that the letters make. Some of the words that I found easy to say are: nga, Tamariki, ratou, ako and haka.  Some of the words that I found hard to say were: Kaimakamaka, mahi, rehia and potaka.

Can you speak Te Reo?

Matariki !!!

In Te Ngahere this week we are celebrating Matariki, a cool activity
that the teachers have been doing for three years, was to color/
decorate a paper feather. Then write what we wanted to be when we
were older and our dreams, then when we were older we could look
at the back of our feather and read our dreams. This is how I decor-
ated my feather.

What was hard? Keping in the lines and and not having 

the same color too close to each other was hard.  What was easy? 

thinking of  creative ways to color in my feather was easy.

How do you celebrate Matariki?

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After

Cool Conversion

Cool Conversion.

In Te ngahere this week we have been learning how to convert
between fractions, decimals and percentages. We were given
a worksheet and we had to make a screencastify. This is what
we created. 

What was hard? When we had to convert a fraction into a decimal it was hard because the process was more complicated. What wasn’t hard? Converting a decimal into a percentages wasn’t hard because there was only two steps.

Are you good at converting between fraction, decimals and percentages?

Trick shot challenge.

In Te ngahere this week we have been doing a trick shot challenge. We had to create out trick shot using the success criteria, It must bounce off a surface, you must use cardboard, It has to take at least 3 seconds from start to finish and It must land in the cup. 

What didn’t work well? When we didn’t bend the cardboard the
ping pong ball kept falling off, What work well? We worked well
in our team to create a cool trick shot, What would you do
differently next time? Next time we can make our trick shot
more interesting and change our throwing angles so that it will
be more likely to land in the cup.

Have you ever done a trick shot challenge?

Do you have maths eyes?

We Are Learning To identify maths in the world around us using
our maths eyes. 

In Te Ngahere for math this week we have been learning about
math eyes. We were given a photo of gingerbread men and we
had to find things using our maths eyes. Here is what we found.
All the gingerbread men have walked through some mud, the
gingerbread men have got really badly styled hats, the ginger-
bread men are all smiling, All the m&ms are different colors, the
m&ms are crooked, I can see 12 gingerbread men,  I can see
24 m&ms, all of their smiles are different, only one of the ginger-
bread men has got two of the same color m&ms on his front,
At first finding math in the picture of the gingerbread men was
hard but when you look at it for a while it got easier to find things.
I found that find all of the math things in the picher was had and
also finishing all of the work on time.

Have you got maths eyes?

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