This week we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi because last week was Waitangi day. We had 9 activities to do and I will be showing you 3 of my activities. The three tasks that I will be showing are questions about the Treaty.

The first one was about He Whakaputunga and He Whakaputunga came before the treaty
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The second one was about before the treaty and this was before they writ the treaty

The third one was about writing the treaty this was when they were with the English writing the treaty

Have you learnt about the treaty?

This week in PBL we have been learning about the earth’s system.  For our create we had to make an island or a planet that is suitable for humans and wild life. For our create we could choose between a paper mache a minecraft world or a map I choose to make a map for my island. On my island I have a village a lake a river, mountains, farms and a wind mill we also made a blurb to go with my map. look below to see my work.

Have you ever made an island before?

This week in reading we have been reading about tall towers and structures.

The two structures I read about was the KVLY-TV mast and the burj khalifa we learnt in the text how big and how much it weighted.

Two facts I learnt were the TV mast is three times bigger than the PwC tower in Auckland and the burj khalifa cost 1.55 billion to make.

For my create task we had to make are own tower and we also had a planning dock that goes with it if you look down below you will be able to see my work.

Whats your favourite building in the world?

This week for reading we have been reading about natural resources  I learnt that wood is the 14th most needed natural resource in the world.  My learning goal was to make a poster about a natural resource I chose wood/timber.

I learnt about wood. one fact I learnt was it would take 30 years for a tree to fully grow to its max height. I chose to learn about wood because my dad works in wood and timber management so I know lots about wood and timber from my dad so i did wood because I already knew lots about it.

Have you learnt about  natural resources?

This term we are going to be doing algebra and patterns. Last week we were learning about patterns. Our create was to make a pattern that grows. You have to have a rule or chart to explain how much it grows. If you look below you can see my work and working out. I had a chart to show how much it grows by and how much you add on each time. I added three then six then nine.

Have you done algebra and what are you learning?

 

How can we be Champions of Peace

For the last four weeks of Term 3 we were learning about ‘How we can be Champions on Peace’. 

 

Firstly we learnt about the different symbols of peace. Some of these are the CND and the dove. 

 

These symbols represent peace because it stands for symbol CND stands for campaign for nuclear disarmament.

 

With these symbols in mind I created a Peace Artwork. My Peace Artwork represents peace because it show no matter what country you are in we can all spread peace with only one word. peace.

We also researched some real life champions of peace and wrote a short biography. I wrote about martin luther the king Jr I thought this person was a champion of peace because they stopped racism and fixed a lot of people’s minds by telling everyone that black people are the same.

 

 

We also created a peace prayer book. I have attached my peace prayer book here. 

 

I enjoyed learning about peace because it was fun to learn what people did and how they did it.

 

I learnt there is peace everywhere and you can show it in anyway i learnt i can show peace to make me feel better because when i help people it makes me feel good.

 

One way I plan on being a champion of peace is by helping people and making sure everyone is equal.

Have you learnt about a champion of peace.

Howdy on Monday the 10th of September Kaupeka year 7’s headed away to camp for two nights and three days. We went to Wainui camp. It took about an hour and a half to get there on the bus. once we arrived we got told to sat down and we got told our bunk people and room and we went to our fist activity. 

My activity group was made up of Me, Oscar, Eli, Patrick, Kellan, Mikayla, Payton, Ella, Claudia. 

our activity leader was Oscars Father Andrew.

Our first activity was Orienteering and also my favourite activity .

I have created a video to showcase and reflect on my time at camp.  I made a Q&A with my friend Cody.

I created my video using imovie because It was easier and more fun.

Have you ever been camping.

 

In Science we have been learning about electricity, one of the experiments we did was called Balloon Static. This experiment involved balloons and lots of different materials. We rubbed the balloon on different materials and compared which ones made our hair stand up.

Materials needed:

• A balloon
• scarf
• the floor
• school jersey

My Hypothesis: Before I did my experiment I thought most of them were going to work really well and my hair would go static. However, they barely  did much. Although when rubbing the balloon on the wall and carpet this did make the balloon stick to the wall.

What I discovered: After finishing my experiment I found out that my hypothesis was incorrect because when I tried rubbing the materials on the balloon they didn’t really work. It only worked when you rubbed them on something fuzzy. 

 

In this image I made I’m showing what was happening during the experiment this is what everyone’s hair looked like by the end because no one brushed their hair down after.

If I was to do this experiment again or something similar I now know that fuzzy things work best and not to get to excited about other things as they will not work as well. 

Something I found interesting during this learning was the scarf actually did work, this surprised me because most of the materials didn’t work but this one did. 

Have you ever done an experiment similar to this one?

Hello It’s me Christian. Im going to show you my Math for this week It was about probability. We spun a wheel that had breakfast names on it those names were hot chocolate, porridge, sausage sizzle and hot cakes. I recorded the out come using tally marks, Hot chocolate got the most with sixteen picks and sausage sizzle had the least with 8 picks. I liked this task because it was easy for me to do and I had fun doing this. I will see you again next time bye. do you like probability?

This week we have been learning about probability for maths. For our create we flipped a coin 50 times and we recorded the outcome. I got 24 heads and 26 tails so if I said there was a 50% chance of it landing on either heads or tails equally I would be correct because its basically on the same number. This is what my create looks like I liked this task because it was really simple and easy any one could have done this so I found this fun thanks for reading see you again next time.

Do you know how to do probability?