Leaders trip to Papanui!

 Hi Bloggers,

Welcome to term 4! For the first two days of this term, the 2020 leaders at our school travelled to Papanui and for two days to do a day camp to learn about the habits of effective people. This sounded boring when we first got told but when we got into it and started to understand it wasn't too bad, Jeremy, this was our instructor. 

The seven habits are:

Be proactive, stay calm and look at the positive side, your the driver not the passenger.

Begin with the end in mind, think about the bigger picture and how little things might affect other things.

Put first things first, do your bigger tasks first not the little ones otherwise you will run out of time.

Think win-win, don't always make things fair, just make sure all people win one way or another.

Seek first to understand then to be understood, try to hear with the intent to listen not to reply.

Synergize, everything is better together, demonstrate good problem-solving skills.

Here are some pictures from some of the activities to demonstrate the habits:

Fantastic Film Noir!

 Kia Ora Bloggers, 

Over this term, we have researched and looked at evidence of different genres and their conventions, some of the genres were: Horror, Sci-Fi, Film Noir, western and musical. Next, we had to choose one of the genres we were interested in and wanted to look into more and create a video essay/presentation.

It took a lot of searching and effort to get a full script with lots of facts but I finished it eventually, but that wasn't the end of it. Next, I had to find different clips from different movies that go with the facts I wrote down and different photos. I used WeVideo to put everything together but the app kept playing up so it took a little while. 

I decided it would be easier to do the voice over first so I could have things popping up while I'm talking and not have to worry about me talking too fast. Here is my finished essay, I think I did pretty well and now I just need to wait for my score!  

How has your last week been?

Become a super sign language ninja!

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

This week is National sign language, 14 years ago sign language became an official language of New Zealand along with Maori and English. Before the 6th of April 2006 sign language was banned from being used, children were forced to use it in secret and if they were found to be using it, children kept sugn language going without adults for over 100 years! 

Sign language is a mix of hand shapes, facial expressions and body movements, it was created by deaf people for deaf people. Italso reflects New Zealand culture by including by including signs for Maori terminology and concepts. 

For our task today we did things based on sign language week. First, we had to go over our alphabet and make sure we could remember it for later, then we had to go on this sign ninja site and complete the different tasks and play the games throughout the different rooms. Here is a link to the site for you to try it yourself: Sign Ninja!

Because we learnt the alphabet we had to sign "Kia ora, my name (your name)" I found this quite easy because I am quite good with the sign language alphabet. Here I am doing it:

Do you know your sign language?

 

Renegade Launch Finals

 Kia ora Bloggers,

If you have seen some of my recent blog posts you would know that we have been working on rockets and on Tuesday we had our final launch to see how our rocket would fly. We weren't very confident in our rocket as we had made a lot of changes since our first flight but hadn't had the chance to test it.

When we did fly it, it was a nice surprise as it actually flew very well, it went 65 metres and had 5.85 seconds in the air. This was the second-best out of everyone's so we are pretty proud. This was a fun experience and I learnt quite a lot about all the things that go into rockets behind the scenes. Here is our slide, the video of our flight is on the last slide, it isn't the best as the sun was in the way. 

Have you ever create a rocket?

Code your own PSA

 Kia Ora bloggers,

On Wednesdays half our class if off at tech in the mornings, and the last half of the day we go to tech. As our task to complete we had to create our own PSA, this stands for Public Service Announcment, I did mine to tell people to pick up litter.

We started off by having to go through this step by step programme so we can learn how to use it, after we had to create your own one. I found this quite easy up until when I had to make it interactive, this was confusing to find all the right buttons. 

I had to take screenshots because we couldn't embed it into our blog posts, but here are the important frames and my coding. 

Renergade rockets reflection

Kia Ora Bloggers,

For our inquiry we are looking into rockets, we have ambassadors coming in every Tuesday to teach us different things that go into making rockets, we are ending up making our own out of plastic bottles.

I am in a group with Bailee, Brooke and Hannah, we are called the renegade rockets. We have had to make a prototype rocket and a test flight. Here is our reflection of our test rocket and flight:

The messy microwave

Hi bloggers,

Over the past few weeks, we have a student teacher in our hub, his name is Mr Loan, he has been working alongside Mr shaw, so for literacy Mr Loan has been teaching us about children's book and some different authors.

It was all leading up to us creating our own children's books for the new entrance kids in kiwi, I found this quite challenging to make it interesting but I think my book turned out quite well. 

Mine is called The Messy Microwave, it is about a microwave that isn't being treated very well and has to find something to do about it. The moral of my story is to treat people with kindness.

This is my finished picture book, I made it using google slides. Let me know what you think of my book!