It's not rocket science, or is it?

 Hey Bloggers,

This week we have been launching rockets into space (not really but...) Our rocket is made out of 1.5-litre bottles on the slide below is all of my teams work we have been doing, we do not have pictures of our rocket so far but there might be some eventually.

 

Till next time!

Samoan Virtual Classroom

Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country
• Link to a traditional dance video
• Basic greetings
• The alphabet
• Counting 1-10 in Samoan 
• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples
• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

 

 I hope you enjoyed looking at my classroom and I would really like to know what you liked the most.

Fa!

 

Samoan Greetings

  Hey Bloggers,

Today we made an animation to show Samoan greetings. At the end is a translation, but I challenge you to try and figure out what they are saying before the end, Can you do it? Did you like the characters in it?

 

Till next time Bloggers! 

:D

Precious Parachute (Kind of)

 Hey Bloggers,

For our Inquiry this term we are looking into rockets and space, eventually, we will be making our own rockets, But what goes up must come down right? Our task was to make a parachute, combined with air our rocket should be safe, but we must test it first.

So for the past two Inquiry sessions, Thursday and Monday, we have been making parachutes. Our task was to have the slowest time, with two hex nuts tied to it at the bottom. I was in a group with Pippa and Sophie, our first parachute used fabric and string, it was too fast so we had to come up with another plan, for our second parachute we used thick paper and string.

Here is the photo of the actual parachute:

Here is the picture of the diagram, the bigger one is the final design and the smaller one was our original idea.

Maths Terms

Hey Bloggers, 

For Maths this week we have been learning what terms are, terms are when you have one number to start and then you have a rule that tells you to count up in a number. Watch my video to help explain it more.   

Can you figure out what term 12, 15 and 20 would be? What if you started with 12 and took away 8, how many blocks would there be?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Welcome Back For Term 3!

Hey Bloggers,

Welcome Back, I hope you have enjoyed your holidays! I had a lot of fun skiing and playing netball, however, I am ready to get back to doing schoolwork again as I have a very busy term coming up!

This term for Literacy we are going to be writing hypothesis, conducting science experiments and then writing about them. For Maths, we are doing Numer & Algebra, Including how to use terms. 

I think I am most excited for our Inquiry this term though because we are going to be learning how to build rockets! We are having a team of Ambassadors teach us about space rockets and things we need to know when building our own ones. 

I also have a big sporting term ahead including Basketball next Monday and Winter Sport next Friday.

How busy is your term? Did enjoy your break? What did you do throughout the holidays? I hope you enjoy your term coming up!

Till Next Time Bloggers!

The Southern Lights

Hey Bloggers,

Today we are making art with the southern lights. The Southern Lights ( also known as Aurora Australis ) is created by the sun and makes solar winds that travel at 750 kilometres per second, they the travel towards the earth and some of the wind breaks through the magnetic pole fields. This makes the oxygen collide with the solar wind to create The Southern Lights! 

Have you ever made art to do with The Southern Lights? 

Till next time!