Year: 2024

Catapult

LI: Practical build challenge to design and create newspaper model of a catapult.

Today this week me and my group, Riley, Mason and Maurice created a catapult. A catapult is a simple machine that was used in the 80’s to throw heavy objects at a enemy with great force. A fact that we learnt is that there are 3 types of catapults called, ballista, Trebuchet, and a Mangonel. Our choice was to create a original catapult with a long range part. The materials that we used are newspaper, pencils, rubber bands, and tape. After that me and my group made a DLO about our catapult.

I found this activity interesting to investigate about catapult, also to create a catapult made out of materials like mine, and create a DLO about something from the 80’s.

The Gift From Google

Today we received a huge delivery from the same Google team that visited us last week. When we found out that there  was a delivery received at the school from Google, we saw over like 25 Lego boxes sent to us from Google. We knew that would plan this suprise for us for being polite and showing them around our school. My favourite part of this day is that we enjoyed taking a pack of Lego home to enjoy playing.

Google Meets PBS

A team from Google came to visit us to talk about the technology and opportunities Google provides. I was surprised about what their big message was to us. The team members names were Steve, Caro, Teyha, & Simon, the Google team told us about themselves and what Google does. Teyha inspired us by giving us advice of where to start searching for our goals, what we learnt from that is that possibilities are achievable. Steve also taught us that sometimes the job we want might not exist and to not make something 10% better, make it 10x better. Caro told us that it does not matter if you fail on your goal, as long as we have fun, celebrating failure or success. Simon explained that to begin with Google translate was compared with lots of English documents and documents in different languages to match the correct words from different languages to English. Did you know that Google got its name from misspelling “Googol” and that Google got its colours from the inspiration of Lego bricks? The advice that inspired me is when Steve said “Don’t make something 10% better, make it 10x better”.

 

Bengal Swamp Tigers

LI: to write an information report that informs the reader about the swamp tigers.

Swamp Tiger 

Swamp tigers have a very distinct fur color coming in orange with black stripes with white patches on their legs, face and chest. These beasts are very muscular and have strong jaws made to shred meat. They usually weigh about 300 – 660 kg. They are also known as the Panthera Tigris Tigris.

Did you know that swamp tigers grow 1.5 bigger than original tigers

These huge beasts need to eat, their diet consists of large bodied deers, pigs, cows, goats, buffalos, humans, but what makes these tigers so unique is that swamp tigers have adapted their territory so well they started hunting for fish and crabs.

(Are swamp tigers allowed to eat other than meat).

The swamp tigers live around grasslands with swamps. They also live around countries with a hot temperature. 

We used our smart searching skills to find facts about the Bengal Swamp Tiger. Once we had found the information we needed, we made notes in our own words. We used these notes to help us write our information reports. Information reports give readers with information on a chosen topic by providing them with facts.

 

Swamp Tigers.

LI: to find information and take notes.

This week me and my partner Kale did some research on swamp tigers, swamp tigers are endangered species of tigers that are bigger than you think, we started by searching up information on google about swamp tigers. Then we moved on to watching videos to learn about swamp tigers appearance, diet, habitat and behaviour. After that we made a copy of information report document to gather all our information about swamp tigers. Then we finished our work by putting out information report on google slides so we can make a video of it for our audience to hear it.

I enjoyed this activity because its interesting to learn and research about interesting animals like swamp tigers.

Subtraction Algorithm

LI: to understand how to use subtraction algorithm.

This week I learnt about how to use subtraction algorithm, algorithm is basically a method used in maths for adding, taking, and multiplying massive digits. To do subtraction algorithm, you need to understand of doing subtraction with zeros, for example there is a picture of my subtraction algorithm DLO.

I enjoyed this activity because this activity helped me improved my subtraction.

Addition Algorithm

LI: to learn how to do addition with higher values like millions.

This week I learnt how to do addition algorithm, algorithm is a method used in maths for adding up, taking away, and multiplying massive numbers, which it could probably get in handy, to be able to use any type of algorithm, you would need to memorize your times table off by hard. for example: above here is a picture of my DLO of how to do addition algorithm.

I enjoy this activity because I learnt that algorithms can help out a lot.

Healthy Eating

LI: to understand why vegetables, protein and meat that contain proteins are good for you.

This week me and my partner Kale made a DLO and blogged about why we need to eat more vegetables, it is healthy and good for you to keep your body healthy, strong and skinny and if you want to stay alive longer. You need to eat 5 servings of vegetables and 64 proteins per day to keep your body healthy and strong.

I enjoyed this activity because I learnt that I can make a new healthy routine for me.

AUT Milennium Water Safety

LI: How to survive in a swimming situation.

This week me and my partner Kale made a animation that is about water safety and how to survive in a swimming situation, during our AUT Milennium trip that was on tuesday, we learnt how to survive during a swimming situation, which we learnt about making a swimming chain with our group to swim around to get to surface, and we learnt about the huddle Position where we huddled up with 1 person in the middle, which me and my partner came up with a plan of making a animation of what we learnt.

I enjoyed this activity because I learnt how to survive while swimming.

Howick Historical Village

LI: to make a collage about the “Howick Historical Village”.

This week me and the LS block went on a trip to the “Howick Historical Village”, LS2 and LS1 got split up into 3 mixed groups for each group to explore the “Howick Historical Village”, my favourite part of the “Howick Historical Village” was to learn about what was going on back in the 80’s, our first activity was that we walked around in the middle of the “Howick Historical Village” woods, which we found a old house, then our second activity was to built a vehicle that was used for fun back in the 80’s and to probably get around in the country, which was to build a trolley, and after that our last activity was that we learnt about the life of the 80’s when the womens job was t0 milk cows and feed their pigs milk while the mens job was to gather water and wood for their family.

I enjoyed this “Howick Historical Village” trip because I love exploring the past.