Challenging Great Marble Challenge

What we did: 

Kia ora last week we did a great marble challenge. We had to build a ramp that

will be appropriate for a marble to go down. Once we built our ramp we had to

test it and modify if we needed to. The most challenging part of this was getting

the marble to stop at 1100mm because we kept getting on one side or the other

instead of right on 1100 mm, but we did get a few times though. The  easiest part

of this was building the ramp and the hardest part was getting it to to stop at exactly

1100 mm. 

Competition:

For the competition we had two containers with the group that will be testing and

the other container had the ramp that the testers would use. We also had a sheet of

brown paper with the points on it, there were 1 point, 2, 3 and 5 was the highest and

5 was exactly 1100mm. At the end we announced the winners and they got there

prizes. In 4th place was Tiiria, Mikaila and Ana, in 3rd place was Wairua and

Marlon, 2nd place was Jaelyn-Marie and Kahsius and lucky first in 1st place

was Dale and Dezray.

Have you ever done this before? 

Terrific Tips To Help You With Science

 Kia ora last week we started science and to do since we had to follow the scientific method. We were learning to do this because we have a science fair coming up and to learn how to make an infographic. We made a google drawing explaining all of the steps to do science correctly. In future I could probably use this when I go to university. I think I did well by putting all the sentences into my own words, but I think if we do this next time I am possibly going to add more detail to make it sound more interesting.

Do you like science??

Challenging Mosaic Art

 Kia ora this week we started this thing called Mosaic art. We were learning to do this because soon we are going to have QR codes showing the animal we were researching about and they will be on pictures. I learnt how to make a animal using shapes and polyline to create an awesome affect. I think I did well by making my shapes look like the animal. I chose a Red Pandas because pandas are my favorite animal. We first got to pick a animal or anime character and then put it on a google drawing and by using polyline make a small triangle with  the colours of  the animal. Next time I am going to take my time to really get an idea of my animal. 

Have you ever made Mosaic art?

A Fun Day Out Of School

 Kia ora last week the year six’s went with  Project Island Song to Otehei Bay. We were learning how Project Island Song keeps pest away. 

We had to be at school at around  8.20am and be down at the wharf at 8.30am. When we got down to the wharf we met some members of Project Island Song. Some of us had jobs; there were health and safety which meant they had to say everyone's name before they hopped on the boat and give everyone a squirt of hand sanitizer. Next was biosecurity and there job was to have a shoe brush to clean your shoe and to pat your bag down to make sure there were no weed seeds, ants and pests in our bag. There were also construction so they had to bring the parts of the rats traps on and off the boat because we were  making rat traps later on. The last job was planting and they had to bring the plants on and off the boat and carry the gardening gloves. 

When we were on the boat we had a little karkia and the captain went over the safety rules before we headed out to the islands. We got a floating classroom booklet with lots of things to do in it. Some of us got to go on the bow of the boat for a little bit and then we swapped with the other people. Our first stop was Motorua where we heard the bird song it was amazing. On the way to the island we saw lots of birds and got to tick them off in our book.  When we got to the island we had some morning tea, after morning tea we got split into groups my group was called super seeds, because we were doing planting first. We walked up big hills and then got into groups of three and planted our plants, then we walked back. When we got back we had lunch and made our rat traps.

 This was really fun because I learnt lots of things, it was hard planting the plants but in the future I will know how to plant  plants. 

 

Have you ever been to Urupukapuka island before?