Our Experience With The Wonder Project & Our Launches!

 For the past nine weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning, making, launching and modifying bottle rockets.

Our design process:

First we had to get all of our materials then we started building our bottle rockets, the first thing we did was cut one of the bottles from the top of the label then glued it on to the bottom of the other bottle. After a while we figured out that we were not meant to glue it on, we were meant to tape it on so we could untape it when the parachute goes in. After that we cut out our fins and glued them on, we then did our stability test and launched our bottle rocket. 

We have now launched our bottle rocket five or six times. Our most recent launch was our best, it went 28.14 meters!  The best rocket that has been launched went 79.4 meters, can you believe that! We also made a parachute but ours sadly didn’t open when we launched our rocket  because it was to tight.

The hardest part about this was taking off the bottle lid after we realised we weren’t meant to glue it on. The easiest part about this was pulling the lever when it was time to launch.

Have you ever made a bottle rocket before?

Check out This Great Mahi Toi

 This week in Te Ngahere we started some art called Mahi Toi. We stated by tracing over four intricate designs (all the same) on a practice sheet, I did two in pencil and two in vivid. I have just started to practice blending on one of my practices which is looking really good so far! The teachers told us a blending tip; you start dark then go light but what they said to make it dark was to color it in lightly over and over so you don’t get stripes! Once we are confident blending and tracing we can start a real copy on an A4 piece of paper. My favorite part about doing this art is the blending because there are so many different shade of one color. The hard part about this was making sure my lines were not bumpy; they had to be smooth.  Here is an image of my practise sheet.

What kind of art does your class do?

Weather In Te Reo Maori

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning more Te Reo Maori, we are learning to understand and use familiar words about the weather. We started by reading a book about the weather in Te Reo, then we learnt what some weather conditions are in Te Reo Maori, such as: cloudy, rainy, sunny,etc After we had memorised the weather conditions we played memory with them (Which turned out to be really fun). Then we played go fish but we had to ask for what card we wanted speaking in Te Reo and if we wanted to go off subject we would have to do it in Te Reo. since we are still doing this when we are done ,we are going to make a weather forecast  in Te Reo Maori and present it to the class. I really enjoy learning the weather in Te Reo. 

Can you speak Fluent Te Reo Maori?  

PE Drills, I'm Loving It!

 

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we went out to the field to do some PE (Physical Education) drills for

 Ki O'Rahi. We started off by playing a small game; I really enjoyed playing it because it wasn’t the type of game where two people have the ball the whole time and don’t share, Everyone got a turn. What I found hard about this was figuring out where to go to next because I went from the line, to the back, to the person you threw the ball to. After that we played a short game of rippa rugby; this time basically two people had the ball Nearly the whole time and it wasn’t very fair on the rest of the team!

Do you know how to play Ki O’ Rahi?

Some T-Shaped I Absolutely LOVE

 For Panui (Reading) in Te Ngahere we do T-Shaped. We did this one to help us find show and not tell in a text.  The first thing we had to do was read the texts and answer some questions that we have to find show not tell for. After we had written all of our answers there was one last question at the bottom asking: which text created the most powerful images and feelings, explain why. The hard part about this was the last part because at the start I didn’t really understand what to do. The text I found the easiest was The Battle because it had an equal amount of both show and tell, it also had great vocabulary compared to the other two texts. 

What does your class do for reading?

Math DLO that will blow your mind!

 For the past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning to do equivalent  fractions. We had to solve a sheet called fraction frenzy, I found these questions really fun to do but some of them were quite challenging. After we had solved the sheet we had to redo the first two questions on a piece of paper in a pair or group, I chose to be in a pair with my friend, Fern. We started by cutting out all of the fractions and glueing them in the correct places on an A3 paper. After that we could either make a math DLO together and screencastify it individually OR we could make it separately and screencastify it individually. I chose to do it by myself and screencastify by myself. We were doing this to share our learning and show that we actually know how to do the math.

Do you enjoy learning math?

Here is my screencastify