Swim Safe

In Te Ngahere we had a swim safe lesson on dry land. Our host was Tracey
and she was teaching us five ways to stay safe when your on a boat. First
she said to us that we needed to have a flare gun or a flare, if you don’t
know what a flare gun or a flare is well a flare gun is a gun that shoots
flares into the sky then a  red smoke stays in the sky like a cloud. A flare
is this thing that looks like the firework that you hold in you hand.
(Caution KEEP AWAY FROM KIDS!) Second you need to wear a life jacket
when you are on a boat, A life jacket can make you float when you fall off
your boat. The third rule is you need to know the coast guard channel. If
you don’t know the coast guard channel is well it is 16 and for russell it is
3. Four let someone know where you are going, how long you will be and
how much people are with you, you need to say this to someone because
if you get stuck someone can come rescue you. Five check the weather
you need to check the weather because  if the weather is good then you
will have a great time out on the boat. I think that Tracey taught us a good
lesson for when you go on a boat. Do you have any ways to keep safe on a
boat?

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STEAM Challenge

In Te Ngahere we have started doing STEAM, if you don’t know what
STEAM means well you came to the right blog, ( S stands for science,T
stands for technology, E stands for education, A stands for Arts and M
stands for medical. Our steam challenge was who could make the
tallest tower out of two pieces of news paper. We were allowed to
use two pieces of newspaper and 30 cm of tape. When we were
given a time of 20 minutes to build the news paper towers. We
could also jump in  group of three or less. The people in my group
m where Ricardo, Dale and also me (Jahrell). Once our time was up
we measured whos newspaper tower was the highest. Another
group won but it was all good because we had fun. We were learning to
build a tower with a limited equipment and balancing it so it would stand. 
What would you do to make the highest newspaper tower that stands?

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Te Reo Maori

Kia ora bloggers, In Te Ngahere we have been learning to repeat Te Reo Maori words from a video like how to have a simple conversation, We had  to listen to a three minute video in Te Reo and then we had to try to fill the gaps in a doc that the teacher made for us. We were allowed to jump in a group of three or less. I jumped in a group of two because I find it much easier to work with one person. After we filled in the missing gaps we had to make a DLO and it had to teach and explain to others what we were learning. I found making the story fun because we were allowed to pick what we wanted to create. The challenge that I came over was trying to learn how to say the Te Reo Maori words and translating them into english words. I think I improved saying more Te Reo Maori words.

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Math DLO

In Te Ngahere we have been doing math DLO’s, DLO means Digital Learning Object. My
DLO was about Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers, I found it hard to make the DLO because
my friends were asking me for help and I was trying to do my DLO. The DLO had to
have an example in it, explain how you do it step by step, why you should do this
strategy, how it works and how to do this strategy.

How you do it: A question you can use: 77x97.

First you find an question, then you times the right bottom number with the top right
number and then you place the first number at the top left corner and the other
number underneath the bottom, right number. After that you times the bottom
right number with top left number and then. Once you have done that you place
a 0 at the bottom of the 7. After that you time 7 by 7 and then you place the
answer at the bottom of the x and the 9. Once you done that you plus all of the
number together and then you write it on your math book and then you get the answer.

I found it hard at the beginning because I didn't understand what we had to do but
then I did understand it because my friends helped me learn how to do it. 

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Te Reo Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about things in our class
room but we had to say them in Te reo maori. We had to make
an animation with your writing buddy. My writing buddy is Mark
S so I had to go with him, once we made our animation we had
to learn the kupu then we got to screencastify it. We learnt te
reo maori words about the class and stationary. 

Blog ya later. Link to animation:  https://drive.google.com/drive/recent

Energize with Whaea Gina

On Tuesday we went to energize, our host is Whaea Gina. We
learnt about Every day drinks, sometimes drinks and never have
drinks. Frist the year 6’s went to see Gina and then the year 7
and 8’s went. Whaea Gina said that coke had 10 teaspoons of
sugar in it. We got learnt that only water and milk were every
day drinks, we also found that most of the energy drinks had
caffeine inside of it except that E2 does not have caffeine in it.
Once we got told all of the stuff about drinks the year 7 and 8’s
came over for there turn to talk to Whaea Gina.

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Steam Project

In Te Ngahere we have been doing steam, the project that we had to do
was make a hoop glider and see how far it could fly then we had to
make a modified hoop glider and see if that would go further that the normal hoop glider. I found out that S stands for science, T stands for technology, E stands Engineering, A stands for Art and M stands for math. Before we made our hoop glider we had to create a plan, in the plan we had to put a method, variables, results and equipment. After we put all of those into a doce we got to make hoop. When we made our hoop glider we went out and tested it. After we tested them we made a modified hoop glider, our modified hoop glider had one more hoop on it. Seconds later we had a look at our results and seen if our normal hoop glider would be better that the modified hoop glider. We found out that the normal hoop glider was better than the modified hoop glider because the modified hoop glider was going straight down.  We were finally finished after we put of results on to our doc. 

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