Launch Away!

 

Hey peoples,

If you didn't already know we are learning about rockets at school for inquiry. We have finished our prototype and have tested and reported on it. I am in a group with Caprice, Pippa, and Tilly. We have reported on our rocket and are quite happy with our result:

Hope you learnt something!

See ya later,

Soph :D

Exellent E hia!

 

Hey peoples, 

Hope you're all well and staying safe from Covid-19 and other winter illnesses. Can't wait for spring to arrive. 

For Maori, we have learnt multiple games, in a group we have made a poster and video on how to play E hia, a game slightly similar to rock, paper scissors. Here is our poster with QR code to video. If you don't have a scanner with you then I will put a link to the video under the poster:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wYP8hhH177p7j9OmktUDpSbyTxZ-4g9J/view?usp=sharing

Hope you learnt something!

See ya later!

Soph :D 

Spectacular Samoan with an Awesome Animation!

 

Hey peoples,

As we all know Covid-19 has started up again in Auckland so make sure you stay safe by washing/sanitizing your hands often and coughing or sneezing into your elbow. None of us want to go back in lockdown so try and help keep others safe. At school, we already have things canceled at the moment like winter sport, but we will just have to wait until Friday to find out what happens next.

In class, we have been learning Samoan. We have now learnt how to greet someone in this language. This slideshow will tell you everything you need to know about having a simple conversation. The last slide will contain definitions of what the Samoan greetings mean. Here it is, click play to start:

Hope you learnt something!

See ya later!

Soph :D

Absolute Parachute, (basically)

 

Hey peoples, 

For inquiry we are looking at rockets and space. We have engineers come in on Tuesday afternoons who teach us about rockets. But, if rockets go up with energy they must come down, and a safe way is air!

On Thursday and today (Monday), we were given the task to construct a parachute. Our goal was to try and make it go as slow as possible. We also had to attach 2 hex nuts to the parachute. We were to do this in groups of three, I did it with Zara and Pippa. 

Here is a photo of our initial and final diagram: 

For the initial design we used fabric and string we thought this would work well because the fabric was light. When we first tested it by standing on the chair it went fairly well. But when we took it upstairs to test it it spun in circles rather fast.

The final design we thought we needed something that would block the air out so it went rather slow. We decided to use thick paper. When we got it tested it took 1.83secs to get to the bottom. We decided to add an extra layer of paper that had space for air to make it billow out. This made it go slower (2.00secs), we were quite pleased with the result.

In the future to improve I think we need to think about how we can add more materials to make it go slower but not add too many materials so it is too heavy. 

Here is a photo: 

Hope you learnt something!

See ya later!

Soph  :D

Unknown Upsetment

Kia ora, hello peoples,

I will be showing you some litercay work that I did over the week. We are looking at Film Noir. Mr Shaw gave us the task to write a story plot with a backstory on Film Noir. We then had to give it a title and write an introduction. 

Here is mine:

Hope you learnt something !

See ya later!

Soph :D

Spectacular Space

Kia ora, hello peoples,

It's great to be back blogging with you guys. I hope you all had a fantastic break over the holidays!

So, for inquiry we are looking deeply into space. Over the week we got given a tic tac toe grid that had different things to research about space on it. We had to do 3 in a row of the activities. I am going to show and tell you about one of the activities I did.

I decided to research about how people in space do daily things like washing their hair. We had to write about 4 of these things and explain why they have do do it, ( I wrote about five ).
Here are my results:

Did you learn something?

See ya later!

Soph :D

Spectacular Southern Lights

Kia ora, hello peoples,

Today we have learnt about the Southern Lights. The Southern Lights appear in the South Pole. They are generally green but are sometimes blue, red, or violet. Now you may be wondering what causes the Southern Lights. Well, they are caused by the sun, little particles reflect off the sun and down towards the Earth. The Earth has this sort of magnet that stops most of the particles from getting in, but some manage to sneak through. The particles excite the oxgen and nitrogen atoms which causes them to light up. That is the Southern Lights!

For our artwork today we made the Southern Lights. First we had to rip white paper in the shape of mountains and stick it at the bottom of a piece of black paper. We then dipped a paintbrush into white paint and brushed the bristles back so it made lots of dots on our paper for the stars. We then had to use chalk pastels to make the lights. There were more steps aswell but I find it very hard to explain!
Here is my art:

See ya later! Have a good holiday!

Soph