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.

The Holocaust

Hello, This term in literacy we have been creating a site about the Holocaust, and to help us we are reading a book called Once its about a boy called Felix in an orphanage looking for his parents but he didn't know that his parents weren't coming back for him as they were most likely in a concentration camp or they are dead and he always made up stories using his imagination trying to make him happy. If you want to take a look at my site click Here

 In Toroa we have been doing this type of art called Hundertwasser Art and we had to make our own one.

Some of the techniques that I used when I was colouring in with pastels is I tried to keep the tip of the pastel flat when I was colouring so then you wouldn't see so many lines of where I coloured and it would be smooth.

The colours I used in my art were mostly analogous colours which means they are beside each other on the colour wheel for example reds, yellows and oranges because they are similar colours, But some were complimentary colours which is where they are across from each other on the colour wheel for example red and green or yellow and purple because they are completely different colours. 

Some features that people should look out for in my art would be a hidden face, floating eyes, lollipop trees and onion domes. Here is an example of my art: