Lit Leaders trip

 Kia Ora bloggers, This Monday and Tuesday I went on a leaders course with the other leaders of marshland school. We learned about seven habits a great leader has, we also got to do lots of fun activities like rock climbing, table tennis, and playing foosball.

The place we went to was Papanui youth development. They have lots of people from other schools come and they work with disabled people to help get them ready to go into the real world. 

Comment if you have been there before!

The 7 habits

Science experiment

 Kia Ora bloggers the last few weeks we have been doing an experiment and writing about it, we made crystals. Our question was what crystal will work the best if we change the dissolved material. We made three different crystals sugar crystal, salt crystal, and borax crystal. The sugar crystals grow long but thin,  the salt crystals build up very slowly, the borax crystal grows wide but shorter.

Our crystals worked well, our sugar crystal worked perfectly like the video, The salt crystal didn't work as well, but the borax work perfectly as well. 

Here is our video on it! 

Sign language

 Kia Ora bloggers this Wednesday for sign language week we had to do hello my name is _____. I have a video on this. At the start instead of saying hello my name is, you say hello my name what.

Here is some information.

 NZSL is a combination of hand shapes, facial expressions, and body movements.
NZSL is the natural language of the Deaf community in New Zealand; it reflects New Zealand culture by including signs for Maori terminology and concepts, which can not be found in other sign languages or countries.
As one of the country’s official languages, more than 24,000 New Zealanders use NZSL daily. It is also the 12th most frequently used language out of approximately 190 languages currently used in New Zealand (Census 2006).
So why aren't other languages recognized in the same way? Other languages - Samoan, Tongan, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc - have recognition in their own country of origin. Like Maori, NZSL is strictly “home-grown” in New Zealand.
There are hundreds of sign-based languages in use around the world, and even within a given language, there can be regional dialects. For example, people in Christchurch may use slightly different signs than people in Wellington.
As spoken languages can be different from one region or country to another (for example English), so too can sign languages. American Sign Language, for instance, is quite different from British Sign Language.
Points to remember about NZSL

Rocket inquiry

 Kia Ora bloggers this term for inquiry we had to make a bottle rocket and learned about newtons 3 laws and we made a video on it. Our class did the wonder project wich we learnt about what makes a rocket fly better where to launch it and other things.

My group was called Yee.T gang our rocket went negative wich was pretty funny but we weren't the only people wich was good. One rockets went 66 metres but one of our ambassaders went 74 metres I think.

Watch the video!

Maori game instructions

 Kia Ora bloggers The last few days we had to make a video and put a QR code on a poster to explain the rules so people can play the game. The game we got wasm pukana it is a Maori game the rules are here, play the game see if you like it?

Flight experiment

 Kia Ora bloggers, this week in literacy we have been doing a flight experiment. In my one, I wanted to see what could make an f-15 paper plane fly further. The flaps on the wings the wing size and the nose.

It didn't really do anything actually the one with no changes was the best flying plane. My infomation that I took was in a google doc.

Python psa coding

 Kia Ora bloggers, today we made a python coding about an issue in the world my on was on littering in the ocean. We are learning to write in python what it does at the moment is has blocks you can drag and it comes up in python when you use it. This one we have made only used simple coding like move somewhere or turn and say something but after a while, we will get to be really good coders maybe.

https://www.codesters.com/curriculum/hour-of-code-2019/Create+a+PSA/20/ copy this.