Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Olympic infographic

In room 7 we have been doing a infographic about the Olympics. We had to pick a country from the Olympics and research about them. Our writing is only allowed to be 3 minutes of reading. This is what I have done so far.
 
I will keep you updated.

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Our fun experience at the Maths Spectacular

Today we went to the maths spectacular in New Plymouth. There was about 5 other schools including Ngaere. We saw heaps of amazing art work made by other kids and schools. My favourite art work was the peacock made out of paper. It was really colourful. (Kaya and Ashley) My favourite thing was the watermelon and pineapple made out of folded paper I liked it because it looked colourful an life like(jorja)I liked the rubix cube board because I learned how many people played with them or do play with them so how popular they are and how many different combinations there are to solving them(breeze)

Sunday, 21 August 2016

Chook pen

I Am hoping to make a chook pen for the school. I have looked at three different designs and I chose my favourite one . It is good for the school because you can grow vegetables or herbs on the side of it and it can hold about 3-5 chooks. We would like to use the scraps from school as food for the chooks. I am now looking up materials and finding their costs. 

lead conference 2016


Dear to dream. 
What I took in from the lead conference was, some times in life there will be some knock down.
Which is where you won't always be able to be famous in life, sometimes there will be hurdles that you will need to overcome. Also u should never give up because some day you will succeed at that thing your where going to give up on at trying.

LEAD 2016


Check out my blog for information about the LEAD conference 2016 from my perspective.

Lead 2016

On Friday the 19th the leaders of Ngaere attended a lead conference in New Plymouth. The most important part I took away from was how people got knocked down but persevered and was able to go back and try again. The speaker I liked the most was Jack Brown because in September 2015 he was in a car crash and as a result he is now in a wheelchair and cannot feel or move his legs. He has had less than a year to learn how to balance and to control a wheel chair. He has also just been selected for the under 23 New Zealand basketball team.


Lead conference 2016

On Friday, 11 of the leaders left on an adventure to New Plymouth for the lead conference. It was a very fun day With lots of speakers and fun activities. The thing that I found the best was jack brown who was put in a wheel chair after a fatal car crash that left him paralysed, he started playing basketball in his wheel chair and his dream was to get into the New Zealand team for basketball and make it to the Olympics. Within only one year he has already made it to New Zealand team. This showed me that dreams can come true and that nothing can hold u back 

The leader conference 2016

On Friday the 19th of August eleven students from Ngaere school went to a leader conference up in New Plymouth. We got told about other people's lives and experiences from when they were growing up. There were six men Nathaniel, Sam, Jack, Jordan, Oscar and Ashtrin. There were two girls Abby and Victoria. Jack had been in a car crash late December last year he has been and still does play basketball but now in a wheel chair. Abby was on the x factor with another girl called Hannah in a team called Mae valley they tried so any times trying to get in but got dropped all of the times they didn't give up and kept on trying. 

Genius Hour


In room 7 we have this thing called genius hour. This time round we had to come up with 2 ideas of anything for genius hour we chose making a generator and learning the history of WWI. We then had to rule up four quarters in our page and write down 4 question which were What is it?(Product, area of learning), Where or who is it for?, Why do we need it?What is the purpose?, What learning will you or other people gain? The one we want to do most is making the generator because it's a fun way of learning basic and complicated electronics.

Monday, 15 August 2016

Genius hour term 3

My group and I have been trying to convince Mrs England to get together a little cooking class for the juniors so the kids can have experience the feel of food and learn how to make their own lunches.

Genius hour

So far we have put down both our first and backup ideas, and are up to pitching them to Miss Boatswain  what we are hoping to do is conduct our very own proper experiment using different chemicals. The second idea is to plan and create a tree fort in the sandpit tree. Our next step is to see if we can get our idea approved by Miss Boatswain. We would learn how to conduct a proper experiment using a method, we will also be Collecting data in a range of ways in the sand we will present our data collection and experiments on an I movie. We believe that our idea fits into the curriculum because what we are doing is science.

Genius hour

This term we are doing a genius hour project, we picked gymnastics for our project. We have planned our weekly timetable, what we hope to achieve at the end of our project is to develop new skills in coaching,planning and gymnastics. We are really excited to start this programme, and can't wait to share our progress with you.

Genius hour Learn to test

In room 7 we are doing something called genius hour. For our genius hour we are doing learn to test and we decided to do a test in what rusts metal faster out of vinegar or water. We have now done our pitch and are ready to get approved and start. We will also test what materials don't dissolve. And then hopefully put this on rusty part of the school.

Term 3, Genius hour.

This term we have started a new genius hour project in groups of three! 
our group consists of Emma, Keisya and me, Tylah.
We had to pick two ideas and choose our favourite one to pitch to mrs England . Our two ideas were to make a healthy cook book to inspire our students to make delicious and healthy food for our families and friends or to bring to school in their lunches, and our second idea was to start fundraising for a 3D printer for our school to learn about new technology and to boost their creativity!
We will be blogging our progress throughout the term and hopefully fundraising for a 3D printer!

Genius Hour learn to do/Learn to make

This genius hour we got to pick anything we wanted to do but it had to have some sort of learning in it. So we decided we wanted to design a new PE Shed structure and expand it so there was more space. We also are hoping to make the inside of the PE Shed more efficient so that it is easier for the teachers and students to use. Our first step was to get it approved by Mrs England, then we went down and did an observation of the existing PE Shed. Two things that we liked were  the ball holders and the equipment, Two things we didn't like were the lack of space and storage, we also didn't like that it didn't have lights. Our next step is to research the cost of it and what we can reuse from the existing PE Shed. 





Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Maths eyes

This week we have been working on developing our maths eyes,this is a task that miss boatswain gave us to work on our maths eyes. See if you can work these out. 


Our maths eyes around the playground


Math eyes


For maths we have been focusing on developing maths eyes. We went around the school in groups of 3 and had to find 3 different photos and add a math question to the photo. We had to take the 3 photos and make them into a pic-collage along with the 3 questions. The pictures are up above can you answer them, put your answer in the comments below.

Maths eyes

Our focus lately has been to develop maths eyes our task was to use the environment around us to make 3 maths questions.

Maths eyes

For the last couple of days room 7 has been learning how to use our maths eyes. We had to go outside and find the maths in the real world by using equations and redeveloping my maths eyes.

Maths eyes development

We have been developing our maths eye.
We had to go out side and find maths problems around  the  environment, also we had to think of math questions to go with our Pictures 

OUR MATH EYES

In room 7 we have been learning how to use/get our math eyes. We have created some paper glasses so we can open our maths eyes.we have drawn what we think math is on the glasses,we also walked around the school and found things that represent maths.