Aeroplane - Careers

This week we have been learning about what we would like to be when we leave school ( college ). We have talked to one other in small groups of what we want to be when we are older. I have chosen to become a Aeroplane pilot because there are a lot of things to do when you are in different countries and I could also learn new things from other pilots to become a expert. Pilots go through expert training and go through fly school to learn how to fly a plane. You earn a lot of good money while becoming a pilot and can earn lots of experience to becoming a pilot. 

Algorthim

Today we have been learning about algorithm maths. Algorithm maths is a strategy you can use to solve maths problems. We have created a digital learning object on what a algorithm is. Algorithms can be used for solving hard problems. Algorithm is quite easy to use when you are not sure what to solve, The HTO  stands for Hundreds, Tens and Ones. We have learnt a lot about algorithms and how it will help effect our learning. 

Using Virtual Reality ( VR )

Today Josh, Jeremiah and myself had the experience of learning about bridges in vr. While using the vr headset we had a challenge. This challenge was to find a arrow containing information about the bridge we had visited. It was quite interesting learning about these bridges, one of the bridges we had been to was the Golden Gate bridge in America. We had learnt many things about that bridge and we had a lot of fun while doing it. I can't wait for the next time we will be using the vr headset and how it will affect our learning. This activity links to our inquiry which is all about bridges.


   

Who Wants To be A Mathionaire?

Today for our maths challenges today we have played a times table game called Who Wants To be A Mathionaire?. Each answer you had got right will make you climb up to reach $1,000,000. This Maths game was quite hard because there were a lot of hard times tables equations that were tricky for me to do. But besides that I had a lot of fun while playing this game because it can help me with more of my times tables. If you would like to play this maths game try to become a Mathionaire click this Link

Pro's and Con's

We have been working on Pro's and Con's of living in a lighthouse. We had written down what are good features about lighthouses and bad features about lighthouses. Pro's are the good features while con's are the opposite ( Good and Negative ). Pros and Cons are the opposites to good and bad features. The pros are the good features of things and cons are the bad. 

Tech Reflection - Pewter casting

For tech today we have been working on our pewter casting designs. The design I have chosen to make is a diamond necklace. The person I'm going to make my pewter casting design for is my mum because she likes jewelries and she has a ton of a collection of them at home. For our tech group the hardest challenge today was to trying to cut out the wood I had traced my diamond on. It was quite difficult trying to cut it out because it had been vibrating a lot so it was hard to cut while rotating it to get my corners correctly. I had really enjoyed doing this tech rotation and hope to finish my design off by next week or later. Our tech teacher Mr Grundy had taught us how to use sand paper to make our pewter casting design polished. I had quite enjoyed doing this tech rotation because we could choose what we would like to make and how we were to design our item we have chose. 

Matariki Information Poster

Today for our inquiry presentation we have been working on Matariki ( The Seven Sisters ), For our task we had made a information poster about Matariki. Matariki is based on the Seven sisters and how it came to be, Matariki is a famous Maori celebration that Maori's come to celebrate and to gather for the Maori New Year ( Matariki ).  Matariki is a Maori Celebration to New Zealand because they have named it the Maori New Year.