The Museum

In term 3 in week 9 we went on a field trip to the museum. First we went in a room that I think only people that work there and people on field trips are allowed in. They had some activities for us. First my group did a thing where we tried to warm up a stick. Next we drew some ancient drawings then we had to smooth the hard bits off a rock and the water smelled so bad. Next we had carve off the black on the wooden slab but I did it wrong because I was mostly digging into the wood. Next we had to cut the inside of wood with a Maori axe then we had to drill into a wooden slab with a Maori drill which was my favourite activity. Then we had some food and we all played in a tree and I got lot's of sap and bark on my hands. Then we all went back inside and we looked a lot's of stuff and someone was dressed as Gandalf. And they had a new event there it was a polar exhibition. I really liked the bit where they had a life size polar bear statue they had one standing up and one on four legs. Then we went to the old Christchurch street and the was a horse that you could ride on but I couldn't get on it and a bike with a big wheel at the front and a small wheel at the back and you can also ride on but the pedals were so hard to turn. Then we went to the see arctic stuff we all had a ride on the snow mobile and we had a looked at the dinosaur bones and we looked at a mummy and birds. It was a very good field trip I really liked it and I went back there in the weekend with my family. So have you been to the museum and what is your favourite place there?

The challenges

This and last week we did three challenges where we had to make clothes a grabber and a tube. My Favourite challenge was the second one we had to make a grabber to get a balloon.

I had a really liked it my team worked very well and had lot's of fun doing it. What challenge would you have done

Fantastic Football

In term 2 we do winter sport and I play soccer.
We only play winter sport in the winter session because it's called winter sport. On the first day of winter sport it was pouring with rain it was not a good day for sport. My team has won once and I was doing cycle safety when that happened. On week 4 term 3 winter sport will end. My Favourite moment was when I blocked the ball from the goal and it hit my face!
I feel like I am now better at getting the ball and controlling it.

If you do winter sport what sport would you play?

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Building with LEGO

On Thursday someone came to our school and she gave us challenges for us to do with LEGO! The first challenge we had to build a bridge strong enough to hold some book's and a pencil case. Next we had to make a really tall tower but our one wasn't that stable and strong but we managed to rebuild the tower. The last one was a car race I gave my car wooden wheels two crystals a pod and a tail piece it went really far. My Favourite challenge was the car race and I really liked doing it.

What do you like making with Lego?

My maths board

In term 2 our teachers made us start creating maths boards. We use these for maths problems this term too.  I have done one recently. It was 15 + 6. The first slides has pikachu and mega Charzard x on it and it has 8 slides.

I like doing maths boards because you can write your own word problems and I can write about things that I like. I also like doing the questions because they are good maths problems because they are questions that I have not done before. 

PBL Term 3

This term we have been looking at ways to innovate to improve our lives. The first thing we did was to Make a boat out of tinfoil,plastic cups,and duct tape. we called our boat the chugger and we got 38 marbles in the boat before it sunk. on Friday we had to make a plane and our team was called the oofers because our plane would keep on crashing and our plane stayed in the air for 2 seconds.

What would you do to improve your life?

Renewable energy

This term in reading, we have been reading about the environment. I have enjoyed reading about Renewable Energy. Renewable Energy is energy that will never fun out.

These are some of the different renewable energies that I learnt about.

* Biomass - this is fuel from plants.

* Solar energy - this is energy from the sun and you can get solar panels at your house.

* Hydropower  - made from water spinning around and this makes energy.

* Geothermal - energy from under the ground.

This links to our PBL questions because these don't make greenhouse gases and it is renewable and they don't make smoke like coal or fire.

I now understand that these energy sources are beater for the planet.

Question:  type of these 5 wood you use?