STEAM CHALLENGE

In Te Ngahere we did a steam challenge. Our challenge was to build a free standing paper tower out of 2 pieces of newspaper and 30 cm of tape. Building the tower was hard because while we were building it the base wasn’t staying together but in the end it stood up. What I did well was not getting the tape mixed up. What I could do better is talk to my group more because I wasn’t really talking to my group. What worked well was that our tower could stand 1m high. I think that the base made it taller because it was wider and able to hold it up high.

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MATH DLO

What I learned about in Math

In Te Ngahere we have been making Math DLOs  about the new strategies that we learnt. I learnt a division strategy that is hard because I didn’t know my times tables. I also did one about adding. That one is easy because I just need to add three numbers that had three digits. It was hard for me to learn both because I need to learn my times tables for division and I got confused with all the carrying.  

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Hope you enjoy the recording.

Adding

Division 

Movie making

This week In Te Ngahere we have been making movies. My group (Jack, Franky and Mark O) are making a movie about a bear hunt. We had to write a script for our movie bear hunt and bring what we needed for the movie like cups. In the movie I am the bear Jack is the movie director Franky and Mark o are Billy and Bob. We haven't finished the movie but here is the script.I found the script writing hard because it is not easy to think about what view to do for everything to make it funny or show more emotion. What do you guys think about our movie script?In a few weeks I will post my movie so stay in tune.

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Rugby

In Te Ngahere the Taniwha rugby team came to visit Paihia School. We got to talk to them about their life
and how they got in to rugby. The 3 that came spent 1 to 2 years playing for the Taniwha. After we had
asked some questions we got to play a game. I can’t remember what it was called but the Taniwha had
to hit us with the balls and if we got hit we had to help them throw balls at everyone. I had a really fun
time playing with the players. They said that it doesn't matter how skill full you are it matters if you try
and do it. Like if your skillful it doesn't mean you will be a famous sportsperson unless you do it and
commit to it. To sum that up they said you need to have a great attitude.

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Beach clean up

In Te Ngahere we went down to the  beach clean-up. We had to walk down to the beach and get into groups of three  or four. Once we got into groups we went around the beach and picked up all of the rubbish.  My group and I found a dead crab. We also found tons of glass. We found glass that wasn’t sharp anymore. I found more rubbish in between rocks or in the bush then I did on the real beach. I enjoyed this because we got to find things that was dumped into places. I learnt that people are lazy sometimes and chuck their rubbish in the rocks or just throw it on the beach. People are till drinking on the beach even though there is a liquor ban. The empty alcohol bottles are evidence of this. The most common rubbish was glass and plastic which is bad because the rubbish can go into the sea and kill our sea life. We need to find a solution to this problem so we don’t kill all the fish. Do you guys have any ideas? 

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Dimensions

In Te Ngahere We were learning about what the three dimensions are to a character. We were learning this because we needed to know what the dimensions are for our writing and the movie marathon that we will be making at the end of the year.  We also made character DLOs. We made them to show that we know what the 3 dimensions are. The first dimension is what they look like or what you can see on the surface. The second one is there backstory, fears family history and their dreams. The last dimension is what there desires are and who they are. We had to write some examples and write what the dimensions meant in our own words. After that we were allowed to decorate our DLOs.  Something that was tricky was having to find the 2nd dimension because it was hard to find there backstory. Now that I know how to do this it can help me with my writing.

Here is my DLO

DLO

Energize

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing project energise. 
For today we have done it about drinks and what drinks
are good and bad for you. Drinks that weren’t good for
you were things like V, Mother and Red bull.  Things that
you should not have lots of are Powerade, milkshakes and
juice. Things that are good for you are water and milk because
they don’t have any sugar in them. I learnt that drinks that have
flavours usually aren’t that good for you because they have
sugar or they have fake sugar in them. We were learning this
because we need to keep healthy and if we know this we
will know what is good for us and what isn’t that good for us.

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DLO