Rocket Test Flight

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task For Inquiry Is Reporting Back On Our Rocket Test Flight. On Thursday, we had to create a Presentation that deflected on The Fins, Nose Cone, Weight, Water, Psi (Per Square Inch) And Our Overall Flight Success. Next, we had to present our reflection of our Rocket in front of the class, so if anyone had to change anything or make something different to improve their design, they could report back or take notes. For my group, we used four fins placed around the 1.5-litre bottle evenly. To get the rectangular shape we had to trace it using cut out card. For our Nose Cone and Weight, we used three Hex-Nuts that were placed around the outside edge with Sticky Tape around it to keep it secure. 

When we went outside to Test our Rocket we used 280ml of Water and turned the dial on the Pressure Gage to 60Psi. When we Tested our Rocket it glided to the other side of the field while rotating on a 360 Degree Angle, once it landed other than one fin falling off we glued it back on and our Nose Cone, as it acted as a Parachute was needed to sellotaped while being attached to the bottle. Each Inquiry Session, our Group takes Notes and has created a Slide Show to represent all of the work we have completed, and for the parents or caregivers to see on the Launch Day. Have you launched your own Water Rocket Before, and what was your final outcome of the process?

Coding A Public Service Announcement

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Wednesday Task Is To Complete Your Very Own Coding To Create A PSA. After our group finished Technology, our Teacher decided to teach us how to Code a PSA (Which is a Public Service Announcement) It is a message intended to the Public, with the objective of raising awareness of a specific issue, and is intended to changing public attitudes and behaviour towards it. (This is Preferably discussed by the Government) My Coding Presentation informed people about Deforestation and how humans are cutting native trees down and clearing these essential habitats of animals on a massive scale and how this needs to be decreased or stopped at once. My Coding has a Person discussing this information, which if you click it my character, it will speak about why it is a major problem. Once it has finished talking press on my monkey that will talk about him wanting to be protected. To learn Coding there are certain elements and conditions that you must follow, to provoke my characters to talk I had to distinguish the certain tools numbers and words. For example, sprite = codesters.Sprite("monkey")sprite.move_down(150) sprite.move_left(120) means I have created a new Sprite which is labelled as a "Monkey" Have you coded something similar before to raise awareness?

Samoan Virtual Class - Room

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Wednesday Learning Task Was To Create Our Very Own Virtual Classroom Using Google Slides. As over the past weeks we have been learning in Depth about the Language of Samoan and the attributes and Traditions. Our Teacher told us that we had to create a Slide Show/Presentation that has to include images from the internet that has a hyperlink and relates to the Presentations we have created that has to do with Samoan. Here are the things we had to include in our Virtual Classroom. - Samoa as a Country link to a Traditional Dance video, Basic Greetings, Alphabet, How to count from 1-10, Information about Siapo or Tapa Designs How it is created and An animation showing a simple Conversation in Samoan. Have you created a Virtual Class Room that has to inform other people about something or a certain Subject?

Rocket Animation

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task For Continuing On With Our Inquiry Is Creating Our Individual Rocket Animation. As for the past Term we have been learning about the Fundamental Science of a Rocket, using a Pressure Gage to launch our Rockets that has to be filed under 60 PSi and our Rocket Engineers have demonstrated some of these aspects. This Afternoon, our Teacher set us a Task and included in the Animation we had to include a Diagram and the Forces of a Rocket. This Includes the Thrust, Weight, Drag and Lift. We also had to show the developing process of the Rocket launching off into our Solar System. At the end of this Term, we will be using, precisely, one-litre bottles and creating plastic fins attached with other essential items. Have you learnt about the Diagram of the Rocket?

Pukana - Maori Games

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Friday Task Is To Create A Video, Poster, And Qr Code To A Moari Game. Our Teacher Mr Lone put us in a designated group of four and we got given a game to learn which was Pukana. Our First task was to take notes about what the Pukana Game is and how to play it, next we designed a creative Poster to demonstrate and give an introduction into how to play the game with a group of more than five. Lastly, we did a demonstration video with two combined groups together to fully evaluate our final outcome. 

The game starts by getting all the people into a circle. One person will start the chant and everyone else will start slapping their thighs to the rhythm of that person's chant and once the starting chant has ended he will either point both hands to the left or right and yell Pukana. Next, The person who has been pointed at now has the choice to go left or right by yelling Pukana and pointing. The person that they point to will do the same, and so on and so forth. 

There is another option instead of Pukana that is available and that is to slap your hands in motion were the right hand will go forward and slap the left hand and then yell "Aue" and it would be transferred to the person across being pointed at and they would yell “hī” and raise both arms to their head. The people beside the person receiving the “Aue” would have to yell “Tautoku” and point their left hand on an angle to the ground and their right arm bent to make a triangle shape like a salute to their head. If you would like to make the game harder and more challenging if someone breaks the cycle or takes more than a certain amount of time, they are out. 

Samoan Language Animation

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Wednesday Task Is Learning More In-Depth About The Samoan Language. In Term 1, we were focusing on learning basic Samoan Greetings and then from the Start of Term 2 we were focusing on Savings and Money Capabilities. My Animation was of a Teacher informing two students about the Samoan Language, basic Greetings, and learning them in various sentences. The Background of my Presentation using Google Slides was demonstrating a Class Room and specific learning resources other than the Traditional Samoan Beaches and Palm Trees because I was wanting to be more authentic. Have you learnt the Samoan Language Before?

Children's Books - Literacy

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task In Literacy We Have Been Focusing On Writing And Learning Around The Areas Of Children's Books. Over the past weeks, we have been watching certain people reading Children's Book and recognising the Theme, Moral, Language Features, Message Etc. Children's Books has really enticed me to learn more about Picture Books for Younger Audiences. By the End Of This Term, we will be creating our very own Story with following a certain rubric structure to make our Storys both engaging and interesting. Here Is The Rubric Structure I Created - We will also be Illustrating it and creating a Cover Page for our Novel using Canva. Have You Created Your Own Story Before?

- Simple Moral

- Alliteration

- Description

- Basic Storyline

- Simple Vocabulary 

- Character Development/Traits

- Creative Setting

- Basic Plot - Cohesions (Introduction, Problem, Action, Resolution, Conclusion)

- Grammar

Parachute For Rocket Challenge

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Learning Task For Our Rocket Challenge Inquiry Is To Be Able To Construct And Build Our Own Parachute. Our Initial Design Process was a range of fabrics conjoined together to make a curved shape. We then added Masking Tape to help hold everything together and finally string that attached the two Hex - Nuts. Our second Design Process Involved us using Bubble Rap, Masking Tape to hold the String and finally the Hex - Nuts. By using the String and Inter Twining it together created a curved shape. With all of the Materials we used with our Design, we didn't want to add to many materials or else it would go straight down which had a lighter Material will cause it to go slower. Our Challenge Today, Is The Parachute with the slowest time wins. Our Parachute, However, Didn't go as planned as we only started with a small-time Frame. Our Parachute started with a nice flow then went straight to the ground, our time in Mid - Flight was 1.4 Seconds. Once we had finished creating our Parachute we created a slide that had our Begging, Middle and End Evaluation Plan and Outcome. Have you constructed your own Parachute before and added the certain Steps?