Spelling week 4

Te Reo maori

WALT: create a basic scratch jr maze.

Spelling results week 3

Maths

WALT: use multiplacation and division to solve 'part unknown' problems.
SC: use division to work out items for 1 group multiply the numerator.

Personalized pathway

A lady from Auckland University, Whaea Sue, came into our class to talk to us about our personalized pathway. What we had to do was to write 2 goals from a list of 10 improvments. They were: Communicating, Problem solving, Team player, Creativity, Independence, Self managment, Resillience, Leadership, Willing to learn, & Positive attitude.

A letter for Matt

Maths

Te Reo Maori

WALT: translate simple books from maori to english

Holiday school

Who goes to school on the holidays?? Well long story short I do…. It was a really long week but it was pretty good I must say. Day 1! So, I got woken up at 6:30, on a Saturday morning, when I normally sleep in till at least lunch time but, because I forgot all about what we were doing. Anyways I got ready to go while everyone else was all waiting for me because I didn’t get a reminder or anything about this so I took my time while my family looked really annoyed by how slow I was going, I got ready as slow as I wanted. I finally finished so we all jumped in the car and off we went for a really long drive…. I made that sound really long but we really only went to the Ngawha school which is only 15 minutes away. We got there in a blink of an eye, not exactly realizing that we were way too early so we sat at the school for 20 minutes and the key finally turned up I felt like we played for ages but we didn’t really. When the nans opened the doors it looked really old and ugly but that’s where we had to sleep. After everybody finally came which took forever we did a meet and greet type of thing well all we had to do was say our names and our parents names which was easy. Then at about 9:30pm all the adults stayed inside for a meeting and all the kids went outside and played games like tiggy, spotlight, go home stay home and more half of them we played I didn’t even know what they were but I got used to them really quick. Most of us kids didn’t go to bed until 4 on sunday morning and we didn’t know we had to wake up at 8:00 in the morning so alot of us were really tired. Day 2! So I went with a few of my cousins went to go ask my mum and dad what we were doing today, they told us it was a surprise, we went around asking all the adults but nobody wanted to tell us…. So I went for a quick shower and then waited…. And waited…. And waited, then we thought they were finally thought they were going to tell us but all they said was “all the kids get in the car, we’re going for a ride.” turns out we were sitting in the car for a long time so long I went to sleep. We were going for a easter hunt in the bush, literally in the middle of nowhere, it was so much fun the adults told us “we have hidden 120 chocolate eggs somewhere around this area, you all get 15 eggs each” so off we all went to find our eggs. It took us at least 1 hour to find all the eggs. After we got back to the school we got ready again and jumped straight back into the car and went for another ride, all of us were so excited until we got to the amazing Ngawha Spring. We all knew if we stayed in Ngawha it would be really stink, I walked through the gates and walked straight back out because it was so stink. So through the whole time we were there which was 4 hours long, I sat in the car. When we got back to the school, we had dinner then all the kids went back outside till we got tired. Day 3! We pretty much just had fun and games and big hangi and boil ups at Ngawha school not that much to say here I guess it was kinda boring I was too tired to play so I sat inside playing on my phone. Day 4! This is the day when all the real fun came through. So, after breakfast and showers and everything else, we jumped back into the car again and off we went. Turns out we only went to Waitangi for 2 enjoyable rides on the waka. There was only 2 adults on board on both rides, I guess this doesn’t sound that interesting but it was only fun because at one point when we were on the water, my older brother wasn’t in Waitangi because he was getting lunch and on the first ride so my dad had to tell little stories and my other brother had to steer which was really difficult so as we were going around in the water he turned too hard and when my dad was telling his stories all the kids were laughing and yelled LOOK !! we were going straight for the other boats that were parked up so he pulled the paddle as hard as he could to steer away from the boats then my dad ran as fast as he could to the back of the waka, he also pulled the steerer as hard as he could, he pulled so hard the steerer snapped in half, it fell into the water and my dad went straight down with it. All the kids laughed so hard it was so funny. So in the end we did crash, not into anyone elses boats but we did hit a pole, thankfully there was no dents in the pole or the waka which is a success, on the other hand we went back without a steerer so we went back really slow. It was a really different experience for us as kids. After that adventure we went back for dinner, every night at dinner most of us kids had a missive habit of talking about bread on bread (stuffing on bread) I guess it was pretty funny but then it got really annoying. After dinner and dishers and everything all the kids went back outside to play again until we got tired. Day 5! All that happened was cleaned everything and made it all spotless, said what we wanted to say, said our goodbyes and left.

Algorithm's with scratch jr.

WALT: create a grid and code our character to move.
SC: 1. use our voice to explain what we are doing.
2. use scratch jr.
3. record using screencastify.

First we have to create a grid, then we had to select and insert characters and put obstacles around. Then we have to create our directions to the way point. After that we record using the voice recorder. it is always important to check with the teacher or a buddy. Then we screencastify what we have done and then posted it to our blogs.

Robotics