Life Ed

This week the people that did not go to volleyball when to the life ed for the last time.Then we had to recap what happen last time we were there.Then after that we had to tell Nichole what we did last time.Then Nichole told if someone can sand up and Hosea did and Nichole scad him and we could see what his bran looked like and we can see how fast the nerves goes.Then we watched a video on what bad stuff can do to you then we saw Herald one last time then we told side goodbye.

What is Science

L.I To summarise the information. L.I: to find the most vital ideas from the information to help us answer the question what is science.

This week for reading we have been learning about what science is. We started off with writing down what we already knew about science on sticky notes, then we watched a video to find out more. While watching the video we used the sticky notes to make notes. The video explains the areas of science, the difference between basic science and applied science. One thing we found really interesting was that you use chemistry, physics, and biology when you make a lime juice from fresh limes. We negotiated and shared ideas to create a summary, we used the sticky notes to create sentences for the summary. Our group worked collaboratively to get these activities completed. We enjoyed doing this activity as we were able to practise negotiating and taking time to respect everybody's ideas. We have summarised our learning below. Science is about getting knowledge from asking questions . It is divided into 3 areas: Chemistry, Physics and Biology. Science is both basic and applied, basic science using what you know. Science is either beneficial or harmful depending on how you view and use it. Questions we want to ask: Where can science be used? Why is science important to our world ? When do scientists ask questions?

Making Connections to problem solving

LI:To explore problem solving. 

Today in the morning the wifi went was not working and we had to do something different. So we did tangram it is an ancient Chinese puzzle.We used A4 paper and we had to cut them out but had no lines to follow to make the shapes. We had to listen carefully to the instructions and follow them to make our puzzle correctly.  After we made our puzzle we tried to put all the shapes together to make a square. It was really hard at first as we were learning how to problem solve. It os important when you are problem solving to ask some questions and look for different ways to find the answer. My partner and I were working great with each other. One fact I found interesting was that many years ago when people were on ships and got bored so they made animals shapes with their tangram puzzles.

6 Sentence Story

L.I.Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative

Today my group wrote 6 sentence stories to help us take risks with our writing. We did this by sharing our ideas and writing sentence that drop hints about what was happening in the picture we chose to write about. We helped each other by suggesting ideas to each other to make our stories more interesting.

They were about to walk into the cave that went underground.The cave was so big there had to be more beyond the path.Nick was good at exploring.Suddenly  the shadow from the mythical creature appeared behind them. Jim and Tim were so scared about getting eaten by the creatures that they fainted.Screaming they ran towards the light.

Experimenting with Utraviolet light

LI:To find the most effective UV fitter.

 

 LS2 has been on trialling the electronic sensors for the kiwrious projector are working with Suranga,Sonia,Evan,Dawn and Yvonne from the AHL at Auckland University.I fond that the red paper was the most effective fitter to keep Zally safe from  the UV light.My DLO will show you how i did this.

Tech: Coding

LI: To make the mbot go around a race track.

Today Miss Ferguson challenged us to code the mbot to go around a racetrack. To do this the code needs to allow the mbot to sense the black line. When it can't find the line the mbot moves backwards and forwards until it corrects itself. 

                                         

I really liked this activity and my fastest lap time 43.24 seconds. Mr Dunn taught some of us how to use a formula to work out the speed. My speed was 0.21 metres per second which meant I came in 7th.

Summarising

LI: to learn more about Matariki

This week for Inquiry we learnt about Matariki. In our DLO we summarised the general idea of Matariki and its story. We picked out twenty important words related to Matariki, then from those twenty words, we picked the six of the most important words. Using those six words we summarised the general idea of Matariki using only a few short sentences to make it simple.