Marble Challenge

In our class  we have been making marble ramps. When we finished making the ramps, our class had a challenge.
The challenge was whose marble stopped the closest to 110 cm from the end of the ramp.

What was something your group did well?

My group wrote the instructions clearly for the other group to read, and we also put notes on the book and
pencil box to help the other group to construct our ramp. Our group was working together and collaborating will.

 

What is something you could have done better?

Our group could have folded the cardboard more clearly because when the marble rolled down the ramp it keeps
bouncing off the edge of the ramp.

How close did your marble get to 110 cm?  Did the marble go further than 110 cm? Or shorter?

The marbel went further than 110   

Why do you think your ramp was or was not successful? Why? Why not?

Our ramp was unsuccessful because our ramp became a variable because  in our practise we didn’t roll it the
same.

How clear were your instructions? What was something you explained well?  What was something that
needed to be clearer?

I think that my group wrote clear instruction, thay where qit detailed.

If you had an opportunity to design a new ramp.  What would you change? Improve?

I would make the folds on the ramp a lot clearer so the marble wont bounce of the edge of the ramp.

Talent Quest

On Friday there was a Talent Quest at Paihia School. Kids that had entered an act had been practising for weeks.
The first act was vaughan telling some jokes.

Then there was a lot of gym and dance roughtens. Some of them where in outfit. A group of dance did a really cool dance to a song called police man and came threed. One of the dancers  did a dance to a michael jackson song and came second. Brezza danced to bad liar and she came first!!  

Math

WALT - solve multiplication problems by doubling and halving.

This week our class has been learning to use doubling and halving to solve big multiplication problems like
5 x 44 = ___ - double the the 5 and half the 44 = 10 x 22 = 220. This strategy make big multiplication problems
easier to work out. We had to work out lots of hard problems using this strategy, it was very easy for me to use this
strategy after a little while once I had got the hang of it. I did not find this strategy hard to us.

After we had done all the evidence we had to make a DLO to explain step by step  how to use this strategy for
multiplication problems. I find making this DLO hard.
This is my finished DLO

Our identity

On Monday the 18th of February, Whaea Monika and  Whaea Kerry came to our school to talk to the

year sixes about our identity. In the Whare we were using Tinkercad and  Paint 3D to make a Ngahere
so Whaea Kerry could make it into a Virtual Reality video. We got into our pairs and went on Tinkercad,

we had to design and create a tree and after we had made our trees we went onto Paint 3D and  made

some native birds to go in our Ngahere. We had to show Whaea Monika our work so that she could save

it for us.

We looked at what Whaea Kerry was making in Virtual Reality, then we went onto a carving program

called Sculpt GL and sculpted something that shows our family values .I really enjoyed making the 3D

trees and  birds because we could make what designs we wanted and we didn’t all make the same thing.

I could have made my tree and bird better next time by making it neater and more life like. I really enjoyed
doing this, and it would be really cool If we could do it again.

Science

A few weeks ago four people came to our school, to teach the school about science.

There names are Taiyo, kaitlyn, Nina and Juan. They come from the university of Auckland.
They made the colors of a rainbow out of different chemicals, Nina also made a fire out of two chemicals
mixed together. Kaitlyn poured dry ice into a box and but a balloon in it and when she took it out it was
deflated and when it touched the air it blow up again!!

The thing that I learnt was that there is something colder than the south pole (dry ice.).

A&P Show

In Te Maunga we made some things for pet day.  My class decorated novelty containers with flowers,
We decorated vaseline saucers and three biscuits each. We made digital posters to advertise The Bay Of
Islands A&P show.

After we had finished our work we went outside and one of the teacher aides came into judge our work.
The people who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd got their work taken to the A&P show.

Our teacher also sent some of our other artwork that we have done during  the year. She entered my
collage. It came first at the A&I show and I won $3!!

Procedural Writing

In Te Maunga we have been doing Procedural writing about: Beeswax wraps, Bird ball and Pikelets.
Before we wrote the procedure we got to experience it first. The one that I mostly enjoyed was  making
Pikelets.I enjoyed  making Pikelets because we all got a turn at doing something. After we made the
pikelets we got to eat them!!

I also had fun making the Beeswax wraps.

First we could chose a color fabric (yellow or blue) I chose blue, then we could draw whatever we wanted
on it.

After that we got our fabric dipped in beeswax.

We made them so that we didn't have to use gladwrap.

After we made something we wrote a procedures about it.