Whakatauki

Today we have been learning about our school whakatauki. Our schools whakatauki is, Manaaki Whenua ( Care for the land ), Manaaki Tangata ( Care for the people ), Haere Whakamua ( Go forward)  This is our school whakatauki.

Math place value (Subtraction)

This week for maths Josh and I recorded our place value (Subtraction) Strategies to solve an equation easily. To answer our question we used place value as our strategy and used screencastify to record our thinking. Using this strategy makes your place value equations much more easier.

Softball

Today was our first week at softball our softball teacher name is Allyson. At softball we learnt how to catch and how to throw there where come good technique on how to throw the ball and how to catch the ball the technique is called the Monkey and a crocodile when you put them together you get mokeydile that is the technique.

Design Brief

Design Brief

What

What can the design be used for? (To charge your phone)

What can you do with the design? (Watch videos)

What will the design look like? (It needs to be able to hold the phone on an angle)

What am I going to design? (Phone holder)

What will the design be made from? (3D plastic)

What is the process on making the design? (3D printer)

Where

Where am I going to put the design? (In my room)

Where can the design be used? (On my bed)

Where are we going to make the design? (In the graphic classroom)

Why

Why do we need this design? (To hold my phone)

Why are we making the design? (So it could hold the phone)

Who

Who will use the design? (Myself)

Who can I give this design to? (Myself)

Who will like this design so much that they want one? (My brother)

Who will design the product? (Myself)

Who will make the design? (Myself)

When

When will we take the design home? (In 10 weeks)

When will we finish the design? (In 8 weeks)

When will the design be used? (Everyday)

When will the design break? (When my cousin brakes it)

How

How durable are the materials? (When the brittle starts to snap)

How long will the design last? (Until the design hits the concrete)

How will we make the design? (Using the 3D printer)

Today was our 2nd week at tech. In graphics we started our design brief on what we will use to make the design. After we finished the What, Where, Why, Who, When, How. We did a comparison on the type of phone stands.

Winter Olympics and P.B.S Comparison

Today we are learning about  the comparisons of the Winter Olympics and our school, Panmure Bridge school. We used our smart searching skills to find the answers. It was hard to figure out what the Olympic creed was. This comparison was really useful for us. This would help us learn about the Winter Olympics that is currently happening.

Screencastify place value strategy (addition)

Today for maths Josh S and I made a screencastify to show you our strategy for solving an equation. To answer our question we used place value as our strategy and using screencastify to record our thinking. Using this strategy will make your maths easy.

Summary The Pathway

Today for reading we wrote a summary about the pathway. The pathway is about the British people and native people the British people are trying to buy the land on the native people the British people manged to buy a land for a tin of nails.