Origami

Today we did some origami. We got to choose from these options.

The teacher said that we could choose harder ones if we didn't want to do these ones, so I chose to do a parrot. It took 20 minutes to do this and I really put a lot of effort into this so please don't judge my parrot. Here are some of the steps.

These were only from the first 3 minutes. Half way through my dad wanted to make one to so his will be in there as well. Here is the result. The top one is mine and the bottom one is my dads. I'm really happy with the result and hope to do this again someday.

  

Drawing - Timmy turtle

Today I made a drawing of a turtle reading a book. I used Youtube and my own creativity to make this wonderful creation. I also gave it a title because it was such a small drawing.

Scratch - Make it fly!

Today we made a new Scratch project on making a character fly! To make it look like the character is flying, we coded the scenery to move behind the character. The main scenery were buildings and clouds. After coding the scenery, I decided to make a game out of it. My character would fly around looking for food, and when he found the food he would get points. The points would get higher and higher and when you get 20 points more, then my character would say something. If my character ate something bad like rubbish or junk food, it would take 3 points away from your score. After you lose 5 lives, you would lose all your progress. If you collect a heart, you will get an extra life.

Maths - Compactor Index

Today we learnt about the compactor index. In the compactor index there was information of what people bought and stopped buying in the 60's all the way to 2020. Our task was to give 2 statments for each decade. Here is a screenshot of the compactor index.

Here are some statments that me and my group made:

60's :  From this compactor index, I can see that people in the sixty's stopped buying corsets.

70's :  From this compactor index, I can see that saveloys have lasted 30 years before they stopped being sold. 

80's :  From this compactor index, I can see that water beds stopped being sold after one decade. 

Matariki - Scratch Project

Today we made a scratch project on Matariki. For our project we had to have the stars of Matariki on one stage and when we click on one of the stars, it'll take you to a page where there are 5 facts about the star. There is a video above to show some of my work. Hope you enjoy!

NZ first gold medal!

Today we were watching womens coxless pair finals. NZ was in the race. As the race started things were already starting to get intense. NZ was in second just behind Canada, then NZ was in front with Greece on their tail, but NZ won by one second and won NZ their first gold medal. The racers were Grace Prendergast and Kerri Growler. NZ came first, ROC came second, and Canada came third. In the medal ceremony all the teams were wearing their tracksuits and they all look so cool! I really like the ROC tracksuit. After we won the teacher started singing the national anthem. The whole class screamed like MAD! All that hand and leg coordination must have been really hard and tiring. I could probably only do a quarter of that race and be exhausted! I hope we can get another gold medal!

Simplifying Fractions

Today we were learning how to simplify fractions. The we found a number that could be put evenly into both the numerator and denominator.

The first question I did was 12/15. The simplified fraction was 4/5. The number that I put into the first fraction was 3. 3 into 12 is 4 and 3 into 15 is 5.