Steam challenge

 Kia ora bloggers,

today we had to do a Steam challenge. 

for the create task we had to make a table that would hold the weight of one book and if it did we would try two books and so on. We could only use a 10 pieces of news paper and 1m of tape to make our table. For my teams design we tried to make 5 poles of news paper and one or two pieces on top to hold the book but it didn't work that well as we couldn't get the 5th pole to go underneath but it wouldn't stay so we left it out but we could tell that our table wouldn't be able to hold the weight so we tipped it upside down and we thought it could hold the books but it only held one.

 Kia ora bloggers,

For the last couple of weeks we have been have been doing our Matariki ink art.

We started by drawing a design on a draft copy, then we went on to a piece of foam and once you've done that you can pick the ink colours you want and paint over your piece of foam and apply it onto a piece of A4 paper, then we had to cut it out, then we trace an outline of a cardboard frame for our frame, then we had to stick our art onto the back of our frame and then we had to sign it with our initials or signature. Here is a picture of my art. It might look brown and blue but its purple and blue.

Robot

Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have created our own robot on google draw.

We made a robot on google draw with a lot of different angles and once we have done that we then get it printed so we can measure the angles on it but we can't measure right or straight angles because there easy to measure so we can only measure acute angles (less than 90°), Obtuse angles (more than 90° but less than 180°) and reflex angles (more than 180° but less than 360°).

Can you guess what type of angles there are on mine?

  Kia ora bloggers,

today before tech we played this fun game where we had to work together in a group and make a creation for a egg that we have to drop on concrete from the high up.

The problem was:  Some people are injured at the bottom of a sheer rock face. They need medicine, some of which is fragile and has to be packaged so that it will not break.  You do not have a cord to lower it gently; it will have to be dropped.  You have some common materials handy to use.  There is no wind blowing on this occasion. So we got into a group of five and we got some equipment to use to make a creation for a egg to go in so if we were to drop it of the top of the stairs in the maker space it hopefully wouldn't crack, Here is the equipment we got to use: 3 sheets of A4 photocopy paper, A plastic bag, 1m of string, 1 sheet of A5 thin card, Cellotape, Scissors and Paper to sketch design on. After we got our equipment we had 25 minutes to discuss and make our creation, Heres some photos of us making our product:

 Kia ora bloggers,

For maths today we are still learning about angles.

We have learnt about the reflex angle that is always more than 180° but less than 360°,

For our create task we had to write our first name using a ruler then we had to measure at least one of each angle like an acute, Obtuse, Right angle, Straight angle and a reflex angle, Here is an example of mine.

 

 Kia ora bloggers,

For literacy over the past week we have been learning about birds of NZ and adaptation.

We had to read through an article and answer some questions about adaptation. Then we had four different types of birds and a article to read about them, The different types of birds were Kiwi, Takahe, Kakapo and the Moa we had to choose two different birds to read about i picked the Kiwi and Moa.

For our create task we made a google drawing and put all the facts we found about the birds and their similarities, Here is an example of mine.

 Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have started to learn about angles.  

We learnt about 3 different angles today - acute (less than 90°), right angle (90°), and obtuse (larger than 90° but smaller than 180°).  We also learnt how to use a protractor to measure angles.  We know that we need to measure an angle from a vertice (a corner where two straight lines meet).

For our create task, we had to measure three different angles on the first letter of our name, here is an a example of mine.