Eye illusions

This week Mr Johnson visited the class.He tolled us all about how are eyes can deserve us.And how blinking can clean your eyes.And keeps it moused and if you wave a pen in front of your face.It looks like it's made from rubier.It is a trick that your eyes play on you.We also made a toy with one picture on one side,and one on the other side. sometimes your eyes see one thing but it needs time to imprint it in your memory.And we had to drew on those sides a fishing bowl and a fish and when you spin it around you can see the fish jumping into the fish bowl.

Video

Career/Intelligence Officer

LI:To explore a  career that interests me.

Today i took the career quest quiz to help me find a career that intensest ,e.At the end the there options i chose were Intelligence Officer,Lighting Technician and Police Officer.This DLO shows us how we had to cosh one of are careers that we put on are finish work sheet.One of my there were Intelligence Officer.An Intelligence Officer is like a smart officer,when you first start you can make a lot of money but when you are old at the job you can make more money then the new people.Then we had to make a DLO about are career

Tech

Today at tech me and the eothe year 8’s we were coding the mbots to make a stairway with a maker. Today we had to try and make the mbot draw a star. Then we got chalk and started drawing stars on the stars outside. Then we started to decorate our star. When we finished our star we pretended to be the mbot and went in a star shape walking on the lines. The reason we did stars is because it was matariki week. 

Statistical Investigation: Kowhaiwhai designs

LI: To carry out a statistical investigation across PBS to find the most popular kawhaiwahi design.

Our group worked collaboratively to carry out a statistical investigation to help Miss Pryde choose the winning kowhaiwhai design for our PBS Te Reo blog. When we asked the students the designs on the DLO were the most popular. If you click on the link you will see all the kowhaiwhai designs our class created.

Here is a link to all the kowhaiwhai designs

Periscope

LI:to explain Periscope work.

Today Mr Johnston came and taught us what periscope are they,how they are used and who uses them.We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.That means if the light hits the mirror at 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 desegregation.it was fun because we got to play with the Periscope. 

Light Facts

LI:To share 5 facts about light that we find interesting.

We worked collaboratively to create a DLO that shows facts about light.One fact that interests me is White light is made up of the colours ROYGBIV because i like white makes ROYGNIV and ROYGNIV makes white.

Tech

LI:TO use the infrared sensors to follow the lines.

This week for Tech we went back to using mbots. We had to use the skills that we did last week.And those skills were Binary's.Then we had to make the mbot move on a black infinity symbol with out hitting the white spots if the left sensor hit's the white it slows down if the right one it's the white spot it does the some thing like the left one.But if both of them hit the white spot the mbot stops moving.Then we had a little play with the mbots before we had to go.     

Here are some Binary's

00-0

01-1

10-2

11-3

Here is the code me and the year 8's did.

Maths question

LI: To find the most efficient strategy to answer the question

This week our group practiced finding the answer to written maths questions. To do this we needed to first find the numbers we were working with. We decided the most efficient strategy was to use our times table knowledge. Being able to find how many groups of a number made this strategy efficient. 

Evaluating a Text

LI: To read the information in the text, think about what you have read and form an opinion  

We read the story ‘The Protest March’ then made connections between what is happening in the world now. We used the information in the story and our prior knowledge to help us form an opinion. 

Hotcakes Recipe

LI: To structure and write a procedural text.

For writing we have been learning how to write a procedural text. To do this we used the recipe we followed at Tech. This procedure tells the reader how to make hot cakes. Before we wrote this we worked collaboratively to order the pictures Mrs Anderson took of us making the hotcakes. Once we had done that we matched each photo with a verb. A verb is an action word and tells anyone following the recipe what they need to do. After that we use the verbs as sentence starters and collaboratively wrote a list of instructions.

Tech

Today for Tech me and the year 8's went to robotics and we had to do some maths i did know how to do it but at lest i did. Then we had to write are name's in numbers my one was this.

00001,01100,10110,01000,00001,10100,00001

A K U H A T A

Then we had to make a letters by using the numbers i did not do that because i took so long at doing the maths to get the numbers.

Then we went out side to do with Mrs Ferguson's number on a piece of paper.Then she show us same games that required some maths it was so hard i stop playing the game.Then we had to go back to school.

Gingerbread Man

L.I To retell the story of the gingerbread man.

Today we read the story of a gingerbread man. The old lady was making a gingerbread man but she told the little boy to watch it the little boy was watching it but he was daydreaming. Then the gingerbread man jumped out of the oven and ran out of the house.He passed the little boy, two well dodgers , two ditch diggers, a bear. He came to a wolf but he did not outrun the fox because the fox tricked the gingerbread man and ate him all up.

Video here 

How animals protect themselves

Today we read how animals protect themselves. In this book it tells us how animals protect themselves from predators. One of the animals called Tortoises have a hard shell that can help protect them from preadators.

An interesting fact i fund was this.

The Tawny Frogmouth can disguise itself to look like a tree. 

PBS Live stream

Today was the 7th live stream for the school.We saw people get bags and certificates for being kind and we saw people sing the song and we had the tidy kiwi and at the end we had a little song that finish the livestream.

Tech

LI: To learn how to code an m-bot to sense something, by using the force.

Today at Tamaki College I went to robotics with the year 8's. In robotics we focused on using sensors by using the force. We first learnt about ultrasonic, which means sound waves that can't be heard by people. Once we learnt about ultrasonic, we started coding our m-bots on m-block to sense our hand, so it goes the other way. When we did our codes, we wrote the input, algorithm and output of our code on a google slide and included a video showing our mbots sensing our hand.

Cityscape of Sydney

LI To write a description of my Cityscape using prepositions. 

 On the right hand side of my Cityscape there is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Did you know it is 97 years old? The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the widest long-span bridge and the tallest steel arch bridge in the world.  On the left hand side beside the bridge is the Sydney Opera House which is one of the most famous performing art centres in the world. Suncorp Place beside is one of the tallest buildings in Sydney. The oldest building in Sydney is the Elizabeth Farm. I had blended the colours purple, red and blue. In the middle of my cityscape, I have a reflection of my silhouette of Sydney, Australia.