Cairn Animation

 My class (Room 7) is going on a camping trip to Arthur's Pass. Me and Harper learned about cairns and made a animation. Cairn are like landmarks people use to find their way back, and know they've been there.

Creatures at Arthur's Pass

My class is going on a camping trip to Arthur's Pass, so me and Harper did research on 3 select animals from Arthur's Pass.

Athlete Research

 

Matariki around the world

 Since Matariki is upon us, we have been learning about it and the legends along with it. There are different legends about Matariki, these are three of them. 

Matariki Stars

 We have been learning about Matariki for, well, Matariki. These are the seven stars of Matariki and a little bit about them. 

Sea Star Habitat

 We are learning about sea creatures and I have done a Sea Star. This is about how they are suited to their particular habitat.

Hypothermia

 We are learning about hypothermia to keep safe while at camp!

Heatstroke and dehydration

 

We are learning about heatstroke and dehydration because we want to stay safe while at camp! 

Forces and Motion: Marble run

On Tuesday, September the 15th, we made marble runs and we finished them off this morning. The goal was to make the marble last 20 seconds long on the marble run that we made. Me and my friends made a marble run and ours went for 3.58 seconds. That may not seem very long but we bet three groups.

We were doing the marble to finish off our topic, forces and motion. We were learning mainly about gravity and friction.

I enjoyed making the marble run because it was a lot of fun and it was very interesting.

I found it challenging because we had to keep improving it and fixing up our mistakes but other than that, it was really fun.

Next time I would try to make it last longer and try to slow the marble down.

How do honey bees use magnetism?

We had to choose an animal that used magnetism. I chose a honey bee.

It was very hard to find information on how honey bees used magnetism because there was hardly anything about how they used magnetism.

Forces and Motion - A Day of Learning

 Last week, on Wednesday, we had a forces and motion day - Topana and neke. We learnt new things about forces and motions.  The day involved the whole school rotating around different classrooms and doing different activities. Each group got to do three out of eight activities. 

After that, on Monday, we made a DLO about it. My DLO is embedded below.

Not finished.

I tried really hard to complete the three activities. I found the Lego activity challenging because I rarely use Lego, and we had to make a active merry-go-round.

If I was to do this again I would have taken an i-pad and have took pictures.

The Globe DLO

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