Auckland Harbor Bridge History

This week for reading we learnt about the Auckland Harbour Bridge. This bridge was built in 1932 and is made out of 5,670 tonnes of steal and 6,800 liters of paint. Did you know that the Harbour Bridge contains 6 million hand driven rivets. Are you aware that the Harbour Bridge is 1149 meters long. San Kyaw and I have collaboratively worked together to finish this DLO.

The Panmure Bridge History

This term for inquiry our topic was about Structures and Bridges. The DLO my partner San Kyaw and I created was about Panmure Bridge, and the calendars shows the year of the bridge. Did you know that the Panmure Bridge was built between 1864 and 1865. Are you aware that in 1959 11,205 cars drove across daily.

Decimal Maths

Today for math I created a DLO about using decimal maths. The question I chose to work out is 37.3 + 19.8 . This DLO shows how you can solve decimal equations, using the decimal method this was really easy to use because it is just like adding and subtracting. I have really enjoyed learning this new strategy in maths. I hope we could do it again

Tech reflection

This week is our seconded to last week for Pewter castling at Tamaki collage. Today we were all finishing off our sand paper, we just sanded our design to make it smooth so it was easy it polish it. The polishing was a bit hard because the water was going every where, and lots of us started accidentally cutting our selves. 

Sky Tower Visit

Today LS2, LS1 and room 5 visited the sky tower to learn about its features and the structures of it. Our class was split into two groups, and both groups got the chance to walk around the Sky Tower observation deck. Each groups went to three stations, the theater, the observation deck and the emergency room. Each room was apart of the sky tower and had lots of details to them. We watched several clips of the Sky Tower history, and what places you could visit. Some interesting facts I found about of the Sky Tower is that, the Sky Tower is 338 meters tall, It weighs the same amount as 6000 elephants. We would like to thank Douglas Bates for donating the money for this excellent trip.   

Sleep Presentation

Why is sleep important? well, group A have the answer to that. Together in our group we created a presentation that gives a clear explanation of why sleep is so important, how long do we humans need to sleep, why sleeping is healthy and how technology or devices affect our sleep patterns. Sleeping is really healthy for your body because it helps you recharge energy for the next day. Did you know when you are sleeping you grow every time. 

Scale drawing week

last week was our Art week we've been leaning about how to do scale drawing.

First we had to look for an picture to do our art, I picked a hashirama from Naruto. Before I did anything else I got a practice sheet the image I drew was an lion it was pretty because I was going box by box. Then Mrs Kirkpatrick said when you finish your practice we will move on to the A3 paper of drawing our design after that I moved on to the A3 paper so I could draw my picture on to the A3 paper.

Pechaflickr Narratives

For writing we wrote a pichaflickr, a pichaflickr is a story short story you make people interested in your story. The fun thing about this activity was thinking about how we could make our story sound the best and also working in pairs.  I learnt the structure of a narrative, how to link ideas to paragraphs and also how to paint a picture only using words, to show not tell what was happening during the story.  I worked collaboratively with Dallas while doing this activity.    

HIIT Training

Today we did HITT (High Intense Interval Training) this training program is based on increasing our heart rate by Pau te hau which means getting puffed. The 4 rotations we did are squats, tap steps, Push ups and fast star jumps. The hardest rotation was the push ups. For these rotations we did the 4 sets of each. We also had 20 seconds to do them .We got us an extra 20 seconds for a little brake to regain our energy.

Cook Island Language Week

This week is Cook Island language week and we respect their culture by embarrassing it. We then made a DLO talking about the traditional foods and dances, phrases/sayings, it's flag and prime minister, a map of Cook Island and also Travel information for example how many hours it would to go from here (New Zealand) to Cook Island. I learnt that the 15 stars on the Cook Island flag stand for the 15 islands that make up Cook Island, which is Tongareva, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Pukapuka, Nassau, Suwarrow, Palmerston, Aitutaki, Manuae, Takutea, Atiu, Mitiaro, Mauke, Rarotonga, and Mangaia. I've also learnt that the capital of Cook Island is Avarua which is well known for their amazing beaches and shopping centers. 

HIIT Training

Today we did HITT (High Intense Interval Training) this training program is based on increasing our heart rate by Pau te hau which means getting puffed. The 4 rotations we did are high knee sprints, tap steps, mountain climbers, fast star jumps. For these rotations we did the 4 sets. Then we had 20 seconds for each rotation which gave us an extra 20 seconds for a little brake to regain our energy.

HIIT Training

Today we did HITT (High Intense Interval Training) this training program is based on increasing our heart rate by Pau te hau which means getting puffed. The 4 rotations we did are Mountain climbers, Split squat karate kick, high knee sprints and star jumps. For these rotations we did the 4 sets. Then we had 20 seconds for each rotation which gave us an extra 20 seconds for a little brake to regain our energy, and a huge thank you to Mrs Anderson for cheering us on.