Trickshot Challange

Yesterday Te Ngahere did a Trick Shot Challenge, to do this we
had to find a way to get a ping pong ball into a plastic cup in the
most creative way possible & it had to be at least 3 seconds.
The one we did yesterday wasn’t as creative as we would like it
to be but it took a very long time to get into the cup, we put it
down a rail & we bent the cardboard so that the ping pong ball
didn’t fall out, so it wasn’t very creative.  So today we made
another one that was a bit  harder & more creative, we put the
cardboard down the stairs, we left a few stairs not covered so
that it would bounce off some stairs, roll down the cardboard &
land in the cup, we assumed it would be a bit easier but it
seemed to take a long time & was NOT that easy.

Arms & Legs Everywhere

Yesterday in class we were learning to use our maths eyes in our
everyday life . We did this by looking at a picture of 12 gingerbread
people and writing down what we could see in the picture, here is what
my buddy and I saw using our maths eyes. All these gingerbread
men/woman have 2 m&m’s which are used as buttons, Each
gingerbread person has what we think is chocolate as a hat and shoes,
Each gingerbread person is lined in an array of 4x3/3x4, There are
48 limbs, 24 buttons(the m&ms), 12 hats and 24 shoes  all together.

What I found hard about this was when the teacher said
“Do you notice anything” I was trying to look for a pattern.
What I found easy about this was after I figured out that I didn’t have
to make a pattern I started noticing lots of stuff. What I think could do
better next time is if I need help I should ask. 

How often do you use your maths eyes?

Packing

For this activity we had to make a list of things we would need to bring to our chosen country. Then we had to put stars (*)  beside the most important thing that we HAD t bring.
Here is mine

My own airline

For this activity we got to design our own airline, mine is called Autumn's Airlines because I just think it sounds really cool & I love the logo!

Stay safe while flying

For this activity we had to watch 2 saftey videos about flying on an airplane, we then had to pick 3 things to do to stay safe while flying & write the explanation.

Weather in Australia

For this activity we had to go onto this site that the teachers had linked for us and check the weather of a weeks forcast for the country that we had chosen, I choose Australia.
Here is mine

Technology

On Wednesday last week the year 7’s and 8’s went to technology at Morewa
School. I was doing woodwork. The time before we had made the molds for our
necklaces but this time we melted the Puter (some sort of metal) and made it
look nice and shiny. Most people had to restart because it was too big, mine
was the first to be done because mine was quite small. It took quite a long time
to make it look nice, we had to do about 4 things but they took about an hour
each to do (It actually ended up looking really shiny). Next time we go to
technology we are going to make the holes on the necklaces, put the string on
and start our new project. What I could do better next time is when something
doesn't work i could ask for help.