Athletics Day 2018

On the 2nd of November we had an Athletics Day. There were many fun activities to do. There were also House Relays at the end which I got to compete in. At our school there are different houses which are Tui, Kea, Ruru and Pukeko. The fastest people out of different age groups got to run the house relay.

Shotput

Watching Sprints

Long Jump

High Jump

House Relays

 There was a lot of cheering and shouting on the day. Also we got points on her our age group behaved and whoever is the best gets a free iceblock.

Art Show

Hola! Our art show was on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Week 9 last term and took place in our school hall. Hauraki made paintings of a bird. Here is my painting of the bird. I made a tui, as you probably know from my last blog post. Here is a finished product of my bird: 

I also did some train art. Basically this piece of art will go in a new train station that is predicted to be finished in 5 years time. This is my train art;

Here is an explanation of what will happen.

My art and everyone else's train art is going inside the train station as a wall tile. Hope you enjoyed the my art, Blog Ya Later! 😃✌️👋

Technology Rotation

Hi guys, about 4 weeks ago we started doing the technology rotation. There were 3 different rotations in this activity. Geoboards, BP Challenge and the Papertronics. First we did geo boards. We had to cut off a 12 cm wood block for a long plank of wood. Then we marked a dot 2 cm apart the last dot. We filled up our wood with 25 dots. We got nails and hammered in all 25 nails. After that we started adding rubber bands on the geoboard. I made some weird shape and then wrote Hi. 

This was a fun activity but there is more activities.

Then we did the BP Challenge.

In this one we basically had to make a bridge or something that would hang a marble off the table but it has to be above table height. Here are some pictures:

This one was by far the best of all!

The last one is the papertronics. We had to make a circuit with tinfoil and paperclips. We had a LED light and a battery and we had to make the circuit longer by using the tinfoil or the paperclips. Unfortunately I didn't even get a circuit. I learnt in the geoboards how to use tools and in the BP Challenge I learnt how to use different materials to out advantage.

Stop Motion

Hi Guys, today we made stop motion videos. We used play-dough and we had to slowly move the play-dough so it looked like a tiny movie. We also had to take a picture each time we moved it. I did about 15 minutes of work for a 12 second video. It was hard not putting your elbow, finger, arm or body in the frame. Next time I would make it longer or do different videos.

This was so fun! We did this for about 40 minutes but I did make other movies. All the others were me messing around. Hope you liked my blog post and comment what I should improve! Blog Ya Later!

Cybersmart - Improving Comments

Today we made a DLO to help us improve our blog comments. I used the blog comment that I made on Anuk's blog. All we had to do was read the text in the coloured boxes. Then we added that into our blog comment to make our comments even better! In my comment I put my name and school at the top of the comment. I added another thoughtful comment and I added my blog address if they want to check out what I am doing.

Thanks for viewing my blog and please leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment! 

Keep Your Password Secret

Happy New Year!

Hi guys, hope you're having a good start to 2018. This is my first blog post for this year and I am blogging about Cybersmart that we did today. It was to look at the rules of taking care of a chromebook. We had to pick an important rule and make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) out of it. My one was about Keeping Our Password Secret. All these rules are from the Kawa of Care we signed in early 2017.

This was challenging because we didn't use any pictures. This is all made on google drawings and made using shapes. Please comment and tell me what you think.

Blog Ya Later!