Escape house

 For lockdown one of our tasks was to play Kylah's escape house.

I found getting through every room and getting the answers right tricky.

Here are some screenshots of the different things in the rooms.

My favorite room was the one with the tarantula.

I liked Kylah's escape room because it was fun and challenging.

Double Experiments

For Lockdown we had a task to do.

It was to do two experiments,

One with ground peppercorns and soap,

And one where you have to float paper clips.

The reason for doing the experiment is to learn about water tension. You can see an example in the photo I took.

The water molecules stick together and don't break so the paper clip floats.

I found balancing the paper clip onto the other paper clip tricky.

Here is a video of attempt 127. AKA 5.

Problem solving robot

 This week we were reading about robots. we had to design a robot to solve a problem. A big problem I have is cleaning my room.

 I made a droid called RCD 4 (Room Cleaning Droid)

I found making the droid and getting the right shape tricky.

Why Do Planes Crash?

For writing we were allowed to write our own piece of descriptive writing. I decided to write about why planes crash because I was interested in finding them on google earth. Below is my piece of writing after a title of why planes crash. I found trying to describe plane crashes tricky.

                                                                Why Planes Crash

Do you know why planes crash? in this piece of writing I will tell you why planes crash and why they go missing. Planes crash because they could run out of fuel or someone could slam the throttle and damage the engine and it will stop. when a plane runs out of fuel it is because the fuel pumps could jam.

There is a plane crash ten miles off the coast of normans cay called "Pablo Escobar's sunken plane". When it was discovered one day after the crash they found illegal packages packed inside, now it is a popular diving spot for experienced divers. planes usually crash in water because airports are made on the edge of the city by the beach. When you are at Gisborne airport if you look past the runway you will see a cliff which is the cliff near the beach.

 Sometimes planes crash and are never found, like malaysia airlines boeing 777 flight MH370. You can find plane crashes on google earth or on google maps. Did you know that an airbus can fly with one engine, that is why they don't crash that often. planes go missing because the pilots get stuck in storms or the air traffic control lose contact.

 Now you know why planes crash so you can look for them or go to known plane crashes like Pablo Escobar's plane when you are older.

Maths mini golf perimeter and area

 For maths we were learning how to use measurement with perimeter and area. To find the area you have to multiply the length and the width. To find the perimeter you have to add the space around the shape. We had to make a mini golf course on google drawings and figure out the area and perimeter.

Down below is my google drawing of my golf course measurement.

I found figuring out the measurement tricky.

I enjoyed making my golf course and laying out the obstacles.

Click on the link to watch the video of how to measure the perimeter and area.

Matariki on scratch

For Matariki we made a scratch project about someone going to the stars of Matariki and asking what their name is. At the bottom is my scratch project. I found coding the steps to the right place tricky. the game will only work once because when the dog glides to the star it won't go back to the start. Press the space key when the background changes.

Samoan Tatau

When Koka Kalo was here she would take green geckos which was my group and do a task with us. Our task for Samoan language week was to find the meanings for the Samoan tatau and draw the pictures. I have taken a photo of my drawings of the tatau. I found getting the shapes the right size tricky. Do you know the meanings of the Samoan tatau?

My cosy bedroom.

For writing we did a descriptive piece of writing about our bed room. I added a few descriptive words and have changed a bit of the original story. Down below there is my whole piece of writing. I found putting in descriptive words and fitting them in the right place tricky.

     

My Cosy Bedroom

My room is fresh, warm, cosy and small. When I lie down in bed my led lights shimmer in the dark. I can feel my grey blanket softly touching me.

My big white bed is in the left far corner and my dresser is on the other side. The taste of cat fur fills my mouth. It's sometimes messy but in school weeks it's really clean.  There are random things under my bed and there is cat fur everywhere.

The feeling of warmth fills me and I feel safe. I can hear quiet purrs from my cat sleeping under my bed.

It smells like dirty cat fur from my cat shredding truck loads of fur.

I think my bedroom is the smallest out of all the bedrooms in the house.

slide show of Past, Present, Future

For cybersmart we were learning about how to use images labeled for reuse. We had to make a slideshow of something people have used in the past and search for images from the same thing but what it looks like today. Down below there is a slide show of the images I chose and you have to guess what it is. I found cropping the images to the right shape a bit tricky. Have you been studying the past, present, and the future?

10 things to know about waitangi day

 In the past week we have been learning about waitangi day. the day the british and maori agreed on sharing the land of new zealand. There is a task to do. it is a game called "the treaty of waitangi game" we started with mini quest one this is mine. Enjoy!.