Cooking!

 For options we switched into cooking and mandarin. For cooking on the first day we made cinnamon toast. The second was cheese toast. on Monday was scones. today was cheese and herb cupcakes. right now its in the oven cooking. 

Microgreen growing

 This week we are growing micro-greens. We all got into groups and got ice cream containers. We got Lincoln from Wonder Project to help us cut the holes. after we got given a grow mat cut to fit in our ice cream container and then we watered the grow mat. After that we soaked the seeds in water for 5 minutes and added them to our grow mat, we made sure that they were spread evenly and not to close to each other.

Now its day three and they are grown not fully but they have grown so much in three days!

We used some censors which are... Light, conductivity, temp and humidity. 

My group is Me, Libby, Jordan, Charlie and Maraea.

Here are some photos.

Here is ours!

Lion Dance!

On Wednesday in period 1 we went to the hall to learn a lion dance. The man taught us some moves (Like a cat)

There were 4 costumes, White, Yellow, Orange and Red. The interior in the head was made of bamboo and was pretty cool to look at. The first 4 pairs went up and did some moves that looked like they were a cat and  it was pretty funny.

There was a red string inside the lion head so you could blink the eyes and flap a trap door so you could open and close the mouth. I was the head and Libby was the body and I had to set the lion head on my shoulders which was pretty hard and sore. Here are some photos.

 

It was Very Very Fun. (We were the White one)

Probability CREATE. Maths.

 For maths were are learning Probability. 

Probability is a chance of something happening. 

For our homework we needed to do create a slideshow of probability and tell what each one means and show at least 3 examples.

Discover China Week

On the Last week of term 3 it was  Discover China Week.

I only did 2 of them because I was sick.

 the first one we did was calligraphy. We wrote a few words for practise then we wrote the words on a piece of rice paper.

The second thing I we did was a dance. Were were holding fans that when you opened was really loud. We learnt the dance which was fun. The lady who was doing the fan dance showed us an ocean fan which is down below and it was very smooth and cool.
 

I wish I got to do the instrument where you got to play it.

Here is my Calligraphy.

Here is the Fan Dancing

Otaki Youth Space!

 On Wednesday the Kapiti council came to our class to do a workshop. What they did was different Activities to see what we would like for a Youth Space in Otaki.

There were about 6 or 7 activities that we did in rotations.

Questions!

What would it include?

I think it would include different Activities. Maybe some games for the younger people. I think it could also have 1 or 2 iPad's and if you were going to go on them you could have a certain amount of time.

Where would it be?

I would say it could be somewhere nice not in the town but somewhere where it would be nice outside and room for lots of outside Activities.

What sort of space would you you want it to be?

I would want it to be a Space where everyone would feel welcome. 

I hope the youth space in Otaki will be a fun place where kids can hangout after school or a place where older people can hang out with there friends. It will also welcome everyone to join in with the fun!

Here are some photos from when they came to our class:

  

Horticulture Block Gardening

 We have been Gardening.

The jobs that I did were: Soil Testing, Raking the Mulch and Pulling out weeds. 

We did it to fix up the Gardens again and we helped out a man called Mike who was in charge of it.

It was fun and we did it on Tuesdays. 

Here are some Photos.

My Tapa Art.

 Week 7 was Tongan language week, to celebrate it we made Tapa art.

What we used was: Brown Paper, Vivid, Dye.

The steps we did:

1. We researched the internet to find Tapa art inspirations. 

2. We then sketched our designs out on the paper.

3. After we made our final designs and put Black and brown vivid on them.

4. We scrunched our Art to make the paper softer for the dye so it could stay on.

5. In week 8 we got dye and dyed the Tapa art. The colours we used were Brown, Yellow, Red, Ochre and  Vermilion.

Here is mine!

Fractions, Decimals and percentages. By Sammy!

 In lockdown we have been doing FDP (Fractions, Decimals and Percentages) in maths.

So far we have only gotten up to doing Fractions. There are 3 areas that we do in the Fractions work. 1st is Learn where we watch a video, do Education Perfect, An activity and then 3 quizzes.

2nd is Create where we do what different fractions might look like and Fractions in real life and how to show how to do some maths questions.

3rd is sharing our work onto Blogger which is this. 

I quite enjoyed doing the Fractions because they were really fun.

My maths By Sammy!

 While lock down we have been doing video call. This is my maths work.

Jean Batten! By Sammy

In the first week of term 3 we were working on Jean Batten. We needed to complete 5 out of 8 activities then send our best 3.

I am going to share my plane that I drew, My Then and Now and my Timeline of jean batten.

  

TIMELINE: Born in Rotorua: 15 september 1909 

1913: she moved to Auckland with her family 

1930: when she turned 20 she travelled to England to learn to fly

 1932: she learned to fully fly 

1933: Jean got trapped in a sandstorm in syria 

May 8 1934: she set a world record and reached Darwin in 14 days, twenty two hours and thirty minutes 1935: she got a Percival Gull and flew from England to Brazil 

1936: Jean flew almost 22,000 kilometers from England to New Zealand 

16 October 1936: she returned to her hometown Rotorua 

The following february: She went to Australia. 

A few months later: She flew back to England and did short flights in England 

22 November 1982: She died after being bit by a dog and refusing medical care 

 MY PLANE:

THEN AND NOW: Then New Zealand to England: 11 days and 45 minutes 

 Planning her flights while flying

England to Darwin: 17 days and 16 hours 

England to Brazil: 2 days, 13 hours and 15 minutes 

 Now 

23 hours and 48 minutes 

A computer to tell you 

17 hours and 43 minutes 12 hours

Sammy Research card!

 For my Research card I did facts about Camels. 

It was so cool to see about the facts.

Sammy's 5 scary roller coaster rides. Research cards.

 For my Reaserch card this week I decided to do one on 5 scary roller coasters.

I found so that I thought were scary and I made google slides showing them. some of them have videos and pictures and some of them have pictures. (and the writitng for all of the slides.)

Animal Habitats. By Sammy.

On Thursday and Friday I did this Research card on animal habitats. I had to put where they lived and different Places.

I Did Freshwater, Mountain, Forest and Desert.

There is a slide presentation of the animals I did.

Rockets. Post by Sammy

Yesterday We flew practise rockets through the air.

 My group was Me, Libby and Jayden. We made a google drawing about what we recorded yesterday. We were doing it outside and the weather was quite good. 

Some of the rockets went CRAZY, some went high and the others went far. After we did everyone's we put on fins and they went pretty well.

I observed that when the rockets had less water they went higher. Like when we did 700ml of water and 60 psi it went all crazy and not high. 

I think less water works more because its lighter and more water like what we did first makes it heaver and makes it go crazy.

Here is the table of what we recorded while we were outside.

         

This is our group

                                             This is me and Libby

Life of a frog/ A frogs life Cycle By Sammy

This Week I did the Life Cycle of a Frog for Research Cards. I love to look at the photos of the cute little frogs. This Slide show has a little bit of infomation about each stage of the life cycle.

Space Research Card!

Today I did a Research card on how long it takes 5 different planets to travel around the sun. I was pretty Amazed with some of the results. Here it is!

Sammy's Research card.

This week I did A Research card which I thought was really really FUN! I like doing this because I got to Research about different places. I hope you learned a little bit about these 4 places!

$Currency Research Card$ By Sammy!

For my research card this week I did currency. What I Had to do was find out how much $100 in australia was in New Zealand, Japan, USA, Chili and China. I was suprised with some of the results. (If it won't come up here it is down here) $Currency Research Card$ How much is Australias $100 in… New Zealand: $107.18 Japan:¥ 853.52 USA:78.3686 Chili:54671.1 China:¥ 502.13 This is the amount of $100 in all of these countries.

Research Card Of My Syphonic Orchestra.

 

This Week I did my reaserch card on an Syphonic Orchestra. I had to put where the seating plan was in the Syphonic Orchestra. I also had to put what the instruments were. I made a slide show of what the seating plan was and what the instruments

My Daily Writing Challenge.

I have picked my favourite writing challenge out of the 2 that I have done this week. 

 Its about a Spider that crawls on you when your doing an BIG exam.

 

https://www.writethatessay.org/wte/writer/2026307 

 THats the link and I hope you like it.

Research cards!

We have been doing research cards again for literacy. I have worked on A Japan Brochure one and a Allergic one. I really like doing these because they are so fun and I can show them on my blog about what I have done in Literacy. This one is the Brochure one! And this is the I'm Allergic one of researching commen things to be allergic to!

Sammy's Research Cards

 

I have been doing my week 9 research cards. I am happy with how they turned out and they look quite good. I did one on 10 cats and the other of 3 menus in wellington.

Sail Boats By Sammy

 

We have been making sail boats which was very fun. Were going to sail them in the school pool and in the river At the pools I think. Jordan and I were partners and we made a boat. 

 

The things we used: Ice cream container for the base.

 Plastic bowl for the Keel 

 Skewer for the Mast 

 Plastic for the sail and Tape to tape the plastic on 

 

I enjoyed this a lot. It was exiting to make and fun. 

We have taken Some photos and this is them! 

I bet our boat will go far down the stream and pool.

My Research Cards By Sammy

For Inquiry my group had to do 2 research cards for the week. I did mine and I'm going to post it to my blog as you can see. I did Yum (One about lamb dinner) and which dog (10 breeds of dogs) I hope you like my Research cards I have done.

My Lamb dinner one won't come on so you will just see the which dog one.

 

Sail Boat By Sammy And Jordan

We are now making Sail Boats in class inspired by the Americas Cup. Me and Jordan are in a pair and we will show you our sail boat design. We will be making them on Monday and after everyone has made theirs we will sail them at the pool. 

I am really exited to make it. Me and Jordan have made a list of materials of what we will need. 

And to finish the design we will put Stick people so they can enjoy the ride.

The Base of the boat will be an Ice cream container. The sail will be card paper. The mast will be skewers same as the keel and rudder. 

          

Wind Cars By Sammy!

During week 7 We have been Making sail cars. I made my sail car pink. It was really fun making the sail cars. I used paper, Card, Hot Glue, Tape, Wheels, straws and skewers. We raced our cars which was a lot of fun! I really liked seeing what people had made and seeing them race.

What was good about my car was it was fast but not as fast as everyone else's

What didn't go well is it went to one side because of the sail. It also Wasn't to fast

I really like my car and I'm excited to make boats next!

   

Self portrait Paintings By Sammy!

 During the week we have been Making self portraits of ourselves! I will give you some steps of how we did it!

1. We got some wood boards and covered it with newspaper and glue.

2.We found 10 or 8 words about us. Like mine was Sport, Smile, Legend, Happy, Big heart, Cricket, Netball, NZ! 

3.This was one of my favourite parts... PAINTING! I chose an angle paint with nice bright colours.

4.I used some Practice paper to practice Tracing the drawing with pastel on the bottom of a picture of me and used a pencil to trace over it.

5.After we had done the tracing we went onto our outlines with black paint to see the painting better to see.

I found step 3 my favourite part of it all Because you got to choose your colours that you like!

But I found step 5 the outlining a little tricky Because I was worried I would go outside the line!

Me Working on My Portrait

My Finished Product

 

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