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.

Matariki/What are the star names?

L.I: To create a image of the Matariki cluster.

For the new Te reo challenge we had to created our own original drawing of the matariki stars.then we had to put  all of them in the right places as if there where already in the sky. 

Three brids

L.I: To use our knowledge and find three interesting information and fact about these matariki harvesting birds.

Optical illusions

L.I:To explain what an optical Illusion

This DLO shows what is a optical Illusion and how an Optical Illusion happens. On this DLO it shows what Optical l Illusion means. We used one Optical l Illusion and found out what wrong with it. I worked with my group to find interesting information about optical l Illusion information. Mr Johnston also came in to help us with this.

Venn Diagram

LI: to create a DLO of tool for harvesting.

This Venn Diagram it shows how people used to celebrate matariki, how people celebrate matariki now and how do now and then do the same thing. I worked with Makaili RJ Leroy and Akuhata as a group and we found information about what people do on matariki now days. As we created this I learned some new interesting facts about matariki such as maori people make things out of flax like kites.

What is Matariki

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find information that tells others what Matariki is.

Te Reo Challenges

LI: To draw and label the Matariki cluster of stars 

This week for the Te Reo challenges is that Miss Pryde gave the school a Te Reo challenge.We had to make the stars of Matariki and name them.Also the Matariki is the Maori new year.  

Maths

LI:To practise defining maths vocabulary [words]

To help us practise the meaning of maths words Mrs Anderson taught us the game maths word challenge. we played this in group's of 3, in my group was Makaili and Ellenora.To play the game one person in the group had to turn around and the other people had to find a word and give clues then the other person tried to guess what the word was.