Leaders Trip

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Friday Task Is To Blog Something From The Start Of This Term. On the first two days of the Term (Monday and Tuesday), all of the Leaders were able to participate in going to Papanui Youth Development Trust, where we learnt about the Seven Habits, how to improve our Leadership Skills, Motivational Speeches, Self-development, Team development, Strategic thinking, Ethical practice and civic-mindedness and Innovation as well as many other activities. Papanui Youth Development Trust was very educational, and I took so much knowledge and gained information. The Seven Habits Tree are - One is "Proactive", Proactive behaviour involves acting in advance of a future situation, rather than just reacting. It means taking control and making things happen rather than just adjusting to a situation or waiting for something to happen. Two - "Begin With The End In Mind", Planning for a Goal or Dream that you wish to succeed (Painting the bigger picture) 

Three - "Put First Things First", Start by putting the things that are more important, for example, School rather than playing with friends. Four - "Think Win-Win", Everyone has a fair chance. Five - "Seek First To Understand Than To Be Understood", people form opinions based on their own experiences, you filter everything you hear through your life experiences, your frame of reference. Six - "Synergize", To put it simply, synergy means "two heads are better than one." Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. Lastly, number 7 which we haven't discussed yet is "Sharpen the Saw", Balance feels best. On the last day of our leaders trip, we had to write a speech for an overall conclusion and experience. What activity have you been able to participate in while being a Leader?

Rocket Inquiry Video

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Task Is To Continue On With Our Final Rocket Inquiry Video. Since we last launched our Rocket we have been creating a video from all of the events that have occurred this Term and presented it visually in a way that our Families and Friends can see. Before we started filming, we had to come up with an enticing Script which we will read aloud. For our Film, we used IMovie and added interesting effects such as Rockets Departing as a sound effect, Different Filters, and a VoiceOver. There was a certain rubric that we had to follow of all of the things we had to include, for example, Talking about our Wonder Project Ambassador, their job and how it relates to working with and certain functions and mechanisms of a Rocket, Finding our Centre of Mass and a Swing Test, Our Prototype for our Rocket, Aerodynamics and Stability, Newtons Laws Of Motion, and lastly, what we would do to change or modify and improve our Rocket. On Wednesday, we will have our Celebration Assembly and our Families can participate in what we have been learning this Term, while also having a friendly but competitive competition to see whose D.I.Y Rocket can fly the furthest by using different items, for example, Hex - Nuts can be used for the drag of your Nose Cone which acts as a Parachute. The Measurements will be recorded from the Distance, The Time of Flight that it was in the air for, and the distance of your Rocket calculated from Kilometers. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, I am unable to post my video. What is your Inquiry This Term Were you working integrated or individually?

New Zealand Sign Language Week

Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Wednesday Task Is Learning More In-Depth About One Of Our Three National Languages Which Is Sign Language. Todays Task was to challenge ourselves by learning and playing a game which our Teacher found called "Sign Ninja Game" It has a variety of different challenges, for example, the colours, numbers, names of members from a family tree, Puzzles etc you can also earn different awards and Belts. This game does progress into a more complex version. Before our lesson did start, however, we watched a couple of videos to give us a brief explanation of why Sign Language is so important to our country and the alphabet. We would then practise aloud Signing our name and other key attributes. Sign language is a brilliant tool that will help bridge that communication gap that might exist when there is a hearing impairment and even in situations where there is no hearing impairment present. Since communication is so important, that makes learning sign language invaluable for communication. Sign Language is taught at all Schools and can be very efficient. (Reasoning - Said Above) Once we had finished learning about these Signs, we had to create a video of ourselves saying "My name is" by using the letters of our name. My video is not uploading, however, I will try and get it to work. Can you Sign your name, including colours, Numbers and other things too? 

Final Rocket Launch

 Hello Bloggers, This Weeks Inquiry Task We Had To Video Our Final Outcome/Video Of Our Rocket Launch. In the previous Post with our Rocket Slide Show Presentation, we had all of the given information about our Rockets and our Rocket that had our "Three Rocket Launchers" Logo on it and it was a clear 1.5-litre bottle. However, we have now modified this and we painted our Rocket Pink including the Fins and the Nose Cone. Once we went up to launch as we were pressurising the water to 60Psi, the paint on our Rocket made our bottles dried paint crack into minuscule pieces and one of our fins flew off. Next, as we were giving our final countdown to launch our Rocket, it flew on an average 20 meters and flew for 3.75 seconds. Next time I think that we should have kept our Rocket how it was before because the paint put a major effect on this process. From the following weeks, we have been creating an Imovie about this Term during our Wonder Project and all of the events that have occurred including our Swing Test, Centre of Mass and our final rocket launch. What is your project from this Term?

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?