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.

Science 😃

At the end of term two in Te Ngahere we started doing science project for the science fair. My science group was Imogen, Talashia and Kaitlin. Our science project is to try to find metallic iron in cereals. Before we could carry out our experiment we made a google form for student voice asked what there favourite cereal was. We picked the top five favourite cereal to test they were Nutrigrain, Weetbix, Coco pops and Milo cereal. Once we have got all the cereals we are going to crunch them up and put a magnet in to see if any the cereal moves. Our next step would be to add water to the cereals  and do the same thing as we did with the non watered cereals. If the cereal moves that means there is a trace of metallic iron in it. One we have done the test we are going to make a board explaining our science. I will post some photos of the experiment once we finish.😃

Paper rocket

In Te Ngahere we have been making paper rockets. We were learning about making paper rockets so we could learn more about the scientific method for the science fair we are doing. We were in buddies. You had to make the rocket from a video. Then you had to test it 10 times each and record your data. After you had recorded all the data then you need to make the rocket but with some sort of modification. Our modification was to give our rocket more fins. When you had modified the rocket you had to test your modified one 10 times each and record the data. Once you had recorded all your data, you had to use the data to make a graph for each set of data. Our hypothesis was that the modified one would fly better but we were wrong the one with no modifications flew better. My buddy and I have completed both our rockets and here are the photos and data.

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Science

In Te Ngahere we were learning about the steps for scientific method. We were
learning about the scientific method because we are doing science fair projects.
These are the steps to the method.

1. Ask a question (Which water is better to drink town supply or tank water?)
2. Gather information and observe (research)
3. Make a hypothesis (guess the answer)
4. Experiment and test your hypothesis
5. Analyse your test results
6. Present a conclusion

Te reo

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a animation about our Whanau in Te reo maori.
We have been learning how to talk about our family I Te Reo Maori.
We had to put our Mum, Dad, Grandparents, Siblings and Aunts and Uncles.
We have also been learning how to ask and answer questions about our Whanau in
Maori. Here is an example  Ko wai ma ratou witch in English means who are they.