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.