E learning symposium

On the 13th of August me, Kaitlin and two of the kids from Te Maunga  went to the E learning symposium at  Bay of island College. Kaitlin and I got chosen to represent our school and show others how to use seesaw. We got to explain to people about how seesaw helps us.We told them why we use seesaw and how it helps our learning. The schools that were there were Tautoro primary, Kawakawa primary and Ohaeawai primary those were all the schools I can remember. When we got there we went to the college hall and set up when all the schools were there one of the teachers from one of the school groups  welcomed us. Then we got to go do some coding. We made groups with other schools and tested there coding it was so fun. Once everybody got to have a turn at the coding we all went to our stations so people could have a look around. Some of the teachers from other schools came to have a look at our station about seesaw they asked us questions like how is it easier to use than blogger and what do your parents think of seesaw. When they asked us what our parents thought about we gave them a sheet of paper that said what our parents thought of it. It was kind of scary talking to people we don’t know. Overall I had a great time at the e learning symposium.

Science Fair

For the past eight weeks we have been doing Science fair projects. My buddy for the science fair was Kaitlin. Our project was testing cereal for iron. To our surprise we found a lot of iron in Special K and Weetbix but we did not find much iron in Coco Pops or Nutri Grain. We had to get a  special magnet called a neodymium magnet which is really rare and expensive so I asked my Mum if we could borrow the magnets from her schools science department. When we were done all of the testing we created a science board to show our learning. Last Friday was the school science fair I was so excited. The judges were our principal Mrs Lindsay and one of the parents from our school named Danielle. They came and talked to us about our project I was a bit nervous about talking to the judges. At the end of  the day at assembly they announced the winners three teams came in first, two team came second and one team came third so they get to participate in the finals in Kerikeri at the Turner Center. My group got highly commended along with a few other groups. The science fair was so exciting.😀

NED SHOW

Last week at Paihia school we had a show called the NED show come to our school. The lady who was running the NED show at Paihia school told us what his name stood for N=Never give up E= Encourage others D= Do your best. I found the NED show really interesting. The lady who was running the show Nicole did some really cool tricks she used trick ropes for one of the tricks so she could make a rope to climb mount Everest. The show was about helping NED find his mind set. NED found his mind set by using the things his name stood for. When Ned was at mount Everest he meet a yeti named yet and told him don’t say “I can’t do it” say “I can’t do it yet”. The show was so funny and the lady who ran the show did some really cool tricks with the yo-yo string.