Technological Practices

L.I: To use techonological practices process to design a toy.  

For Mrs Fisi’iahi’s Inquiry lesson, we were focusing on the three last technological processes. They were: build, test and evaluate. We used the required materials in order to build the AUV rover. After this, we tested and compared each group’s rover to see which group was able to scramble across the floor the furthest. Evaluating our results was the last step.

I found this activity interesting because we found ways to create the rover without using videos and I got excited once we finished our project.  

Current Events

 L.I: To find the information in a current event

L.I: To identify the author's purpose 

This week for reading we looked at current events. Current events are events that have happened recently. For our activity we had to find information about current events in New Zealand or events that are happening around the world that the news is telling us about. We looked on the Kiwikids News website to find some events. I researched about a 43 million year old whale that was discovered by paleontologists.  A fellow paleontologist Oliver Lambert was in this project. He was the only known paleontologist in this discovery.

 They discovered the whale bones in sand. They found these pieces in Playa Media Luna, Peru. They discovered this in 2019, 4th of April. We don't know how they found it but I read that some of the bones of the four legged whale were excavated and taken to a lab so scientists could research it.

I found this activity interesting because I was really shocked because I didn't know that a four legged whale creature stepped foot on this earth. 

Football Interschool

 L.I: To represent my school at the football interschool

On wednesday half of LS2 and other PBS student when to Madills Farm to play football. When we arrivied to Madills Farm we saw other schools that we knew we were going to face soon. My first game was against stone fields. Although the game was very fun we lost 1-0. Our next game was against Glenbrae. We had heaps of fun and they were quite tough but we ended up with a draw. Our third game was against Sylvia. They did put up a good game but we won 1-0. Our fourth game was against Panmur District. We both had similar skills but we came out on top with 1-0. Our final game was against the other group of Panmure bridge. We demolished them and the points were 3-1. 

At the end of each game we payed respect to the other team. We had heaps of fun and we were happy and proud about the result that the other team had. Special thanks to Mr Ogilvie for orginizing our team and coaching us. Another thanks to Mr Pao and the other parents for supervising my team and the other teams throughout the day. 

Identify, Investigate and Design

L.I: To identify, investigate and design a model of a rover

The three technological practices were identify, investigate and design. When doing these technological practices, we need to make sure we are doing it properly for a proper trial and error project. Identify means to observe the opening problem. Investigating means to research how to solve the problem or research how to use materials for the model. Design means to draw or create a blueprint/sketch of your model. These three practices help you to build an end product of your model. Our group enjoyed looking into these practices and worked together as a group to come up with a design.

ASB Get Wise

L.I: To learn how to spend money wisely

LS2 had lessons on how to spend money wisely. Our instructor Marlon taught us how to use money by playing a game. In the game we have a $1800 budget for trip to Fiji. The passports cost $200 dollars. The plane tickets cost around $500 - $800. The $500 dollar plane ticket take us to a part of the plane where theres nothing to do and we have to sit in a uncomfortable spot. The $800 dollar plane ticket takes us to the first class. 

The hotel cost around 200 - 500. The 200 dollar one leads us to a motel with no air conditioner, uncomfortable bed and a fan to keep us cool. The travel insurance was for $300 dollars, we could use it but our group didn't. We had 3 activites. The first activity is surfing which cost $100 dollars. The second activity is snorkling which cost $200 dollars and the third actvities is sky diving which is $300 dollars. Our group paid for two sky diving passes.

Near the end Marlon said that the food we ate gave us food posioning. We went to the hospital and the hospital bill was around $2000 dollars. We had to roll a dice to see if we have to pay for it. If we rolled on 5 or 6 we were safe. If we rolled on any of the numbers lower then we have to pay them that amount. We were left with $100 dollars at the end. At the end we had fun points. The activites gave us 12 points in total but since my group paid for two sky diving activties we got 24 poitns. I found this activity really interesting and fun because I had a new understanding on how to spend money wisely. 

Moment in Time

LI: To use the language features and structure of published poem to help use write our own poem

We looked at the language features and structure of a poem called ‘A Moment in Time’ and used our experiences from camp to follow the structure and collaboratively create our own moment in time poem. To describe what we heard, what we saw, how we felt and what we wondered we used our senses, adjectives and adverbs. Ajectives are words that describe things. Adverbs are words that describe actions.

I found this activity intresting because the way out group created some lines for our poem.

Cockroaches: Born Survivors

L.I: To summarise and understand a text

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Summary

Cockroaches detect danger by using their cerci and wind sensors. They are survivors because the use of their special sensors help them avoid many predators.

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This week we read and discussed a non fiction text called Cockroaches: Born Survivors. This text is about information of a cockroach but it’s mainly about how a cockroach survives.

For our activity we had to find 20 important words and choose 6 most important words. Then we put those 6 most important words into a summary.

Cockroaches have two long spiked tails called Cerci. The cockroaches also like to hang around dark and warm places until it's night. The characteristics of a cockroach is that they are really fast and they can detect danger by their wind sensors.

An interesting fact that our group found out about cockroaches is the fact that cockroaches have been on Earth for over 300 millio years.

We found this activity interesting because we learnt many different things about cockroaches and had fun when learning.