Designing my Mars Lander

Designing my Mars Lander

In robotics I designed a rover in tinkercad. I started with looking at designs of mars lander's then sketched one I thought looked good. After that I created it in tinkercad. I started by getting wheels then put the base over it. Then I added cameras and sonar panels and the outcome looked alright. The design principles was that it could overcome any terrain, it had good shock absorption and that  it had strong joint placement. I then tried to create with Lego and my hypothesis was that it would. When we made it we worked in groups and we didn't use my design and it didn't work. If I could change anything about my Lego thing I would change everything because it didn't work.

Art Projects

This piece of art is about a robot that's a calculator that helps kids with math. We had to create a robot that used one of the PB4L School-wide Expectations, and I chose learning

This piece of art is a fish hook that we had to draw.

Letter to parents as Polynesian leaving to New Zealand

Dear Mother and Father, William here, I have finally made it to New Zealand after a long 5 month journey. I’m glad that I did not suffer from one of thy many diseases on thy boat and I am feeling good. Although I am all goods a couple people I made friends with sadly died but there’s still a couple people that are still alive who I don’t mind so that’s good.

I specifically remembering seeing land for the first time I wasn’t sure what New Zealand and was exciting to have finally saw some of it. My excitement grew as every hour we got a bit closer until we finally hit land. My heart rushed until the captain of the boat announced we were at New Caledonia. Although that killed some of my excitement I was still happy to be out of the boat for a while. We got to stay at the island for the night before the next couple months of travelling on the ocean.

For those next couple of months I started getting really sick and thought I was gonna die, luckily I didn’t and I cleared up just a month before we made it. That month was really boring though because that sickness I had went around everywhere and half of the people on the ship died. I had to play dice for the rest of the trip until I saw New Zealand. When I got to New Zealand it was cool. See ya later mother and father.

mandarin comic strip

We have been learning mandarin and gad to make a comic strip writing mandarin

math term 2

In meth this term I've learned some basic algebra.

Term 1 Identity

Around the end of term 1 we did a piece of art kind of introducing us to what what we are doing this term, which is about art. To do the art we got the teacher to trace our shadow onto a white piece of paper. Then we cut that trace out and stuck it on some black paper and put it one the wall.

Express Yourself In Art

During this term we have been researching artists, this is a piece of work that I have done in a group.

Marti Friedlander

She began working as a photographer in 1964, when she travelled around New Zealand.

Her passion was taking photos of New zealand and the different events that took place.

Marti Friedlander photographed the people of New Zealand from the 1960s up until the present.
By bringing an immigrant’s perspective on her adopted country she showed New Zealanders to
themselves. She is particularly renowned for her portraits of artists in the 1960’s and 1970s, and for
her images of the last Maori women to have received the chin moko in a customary manner.

English term 1

In English this term, we have done many things. We usually start our day with this thing called the big question. The big question is a task where the teacher gets us to write our opinion or story on a question or picture in 5-10 minutes. Our aim is to get over 100 words and this has helped us to think on the spot and write our thoughts. A the end of each period we also usually do a success ticket. The success ticket is just us evaluating our work and I think its good because then why know what we've have done and what we can improve in the future.                                   

                                                         This is my first big question:

 

For the work this term we have been doing the hero cycle. We started off writing about our hero or someone who could be a hero to some people and we had to make a poster for our hero. I choose Gandhi. We had to write facts about our hero and why they are our hero. On my poster I put links on pictures where you could go to find a website about Gandhi or me writing something about him We then went onto the hero cycle which was about a cycle that every hero movie follows and we did some other stuff.



                                                                This is my hero poster

On the 9th of April all the year 9's went to Kumara. At Kumara we did various activities such as re-enacting things that have happened in Kumara's history, looking at the Londonderry rock and some other things. With the re-enactment thing my group chose to act out a mining accident. The next thing we did was go to the londonderry rock which was the best thing in my opinion. The next thing we did was a bunch of reading about stuff that happened in Kumara, and our last activity was a game. In the game there were tennis balls symbolising gold and there were two teams that had to try to get the most gold in a bucket in the time they had. The Kumara trip was alright.

Attitude

WALT: Create a slide show about one of these words: Attitude, perseverance, endurance or another word I can't remember

Living Springs

This is my screencastify of what we did on living springs

Matariki work

WALT: Do a creative way of creating and presenting our work about a constellation of stars called matariki

You can't really read it but this is my work

Children At WW1 Children's book

Children at WW1 (children's book writing)

WALT: Write a children's book about WW1, This is just the writing and not stuff like the pictures and spacing everything out.

Children at WW1

When World War 1 started nearly all the men from New Zealand went off to fight with the British Empire. This left only woman and children in New Zealand to have to do all the work the men would usually do. Boys at the age of 12 would start training to go into the war and the girls would learn how to knit and bake for to send socks and biscuits to the soldiers fighting.

Apart from training the children had to farm all their food because there was a large shortage of food. If you didn’t farm you could only buy so much because there was a list that the government gave you called a ration coupon. These coupons would only let you have so much food before you got a new one, and how much you could get varied on how big your family was.

The life that the children lived wasn’t as easy as it is today either, you couldn’t really do anything in schools without being smacked by a cane, and you didn’t just learn to read, write, etc. You would do a lot of fitness to prepare you for when you went to war and a lot of the children went to war faking their age thinking it would be an amazing adventure going to Gallipoli (and other areas ANZAC soldiers went to) but it wasn’t as great as they thought...

The war was a sad failure for a lot of our soldiers in Gallipoli, they all came up onto the beaches  with their boats and while getting out around 3,000 of the soldiers were shot by Turkish soldiers up a hill, but the surviving soldiers did well helping out the British Empire.The countries fighting with our soldiers were Australians, Indians, British and Canadians, which is all of the British Empire.

The war ended in 1918 when Germany realised they couldn’t win and signed an agreement to have peace and to stop fighting which was prepared by Britain and France. However Germans later fought in 1939-1945. Since then Germany is still a bit of a threat but they haven’t tried to cause any wars lately.

Composite Numbers

WALA: Something we didn't know that was a type of maths question (I knew this, just forgot what it was called when I started)

Solar system mnemonic

WALT: Write mnemonics (which happen to be about the solar system)

(Peter is a person that likes to know about unpleasant car noises)

Safe Cycling

Safe Cycling

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 3rd of April Blaketown school did safe cycling. We learnt how to check our bikes in an ‘M’ formation, how to indicate at corners and to indicate when stopping.

We learnt to look behind your right shoulder when passing parked cars, going through an intersection and stopping. We learnt from two police officers named Constable Terry and Constable Jos as well as two parents helping.

There was a course set up for us to do on our bikes and we had to zig-zag around cones, identify what vehicles are behind us on signs, use indications, go up ramps and do stuff like that.

The course was just out on the court, but after we done that he talked to us for a bit then we biked around the block. We had to use the skills we picked up from the course on our court on the actual road and it was just a lot of fun.

Duffy Show

Duffy Show (Diana Queenin)

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th of April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to a semi-duffy show thing. For the duffy show a lady called Diana Queenin came and showed us some stuff that she’s collected while travelling around the world.

She showed us the stinger off of a stingray, which is exactly the size of a tyrannosaurus rex tooth and has barbs on it which helps keep its prey on the stinger, although stingrays are harmless to a human unless you annoy it (in the wild). Also only in New Zealand orcas feast on stingray, which is something she taught us.

Another thing she showed us were geodes which are crystal rocks. She showed us a fake amethyst rock, which is quartz dyed purple and she showed us quartz, which can be found in rocks, which is quite interesting.

She showed us fossils found in rocks like trilobite fossils and stuff like that, that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Other things she showed us was copperite, which is dinosaur poo,  horseshoe crabs shell, which is the closest relative to a trilobite that’s alive, and she taught us how snakes kill you, as well as having a snake skin to show us, so she had quite a pile of weird, interesting stuff.

Top Team

Top Team

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th or April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to Paroa school to do top team. We had an early lunch at 11:00 something, then went to the school at 12:00. Once we got there we waited a bit sitting on the ground then after a couple minutes we were allowed to walk around while waiting. Some of us decided to play bull rush so we went over to a field and played for a couple minutes until we got called in for the people who held the game to talk about the rules and what to do.

After they talked about all that they gave a sheet to the leaders in teams that the teachers picked. On the sheet it says what activity you go to. There are 14 activities and my team started at activity 3. You get points for how well you do in the activities you do but you still do it for fun unless you’re really competitive about it for some reason.  I didn’t have the best team  and it was kind of difficult doing stuff when you team somehow doesn’t know how to move, but we did alright never the less.

The activities we did were things like trying to jump at the same time in bean bag to go forward or trying to walk at the same time on skis, which were really hard because that actually involved your entire team doing the one thing unlike some activities where it’s just one person at a time trying to throw a gumboot at a target and stuff like that.

At the end of the activities my team scored 209 and the highest scoring team got like 350 or some like that. My team definitely wasn’t the best but we tried, at least most of us did.

Science Roadshow

On the 14th of March our class went to the science roadshow that was held at the highschool and we learnt about sciencey stuff. We learnt about microscopes, infra red scopes, chemical changes and some other stuff. As well as them showing us stuff we were able to go around the place and look at and play with different sciencey things. My favourite thing about the roadshow is this thing where you pull up a big ball in this tube and when  you drop the ball all the air from under the ball goes into another tube where a smaller ball is and pushes the smaller ball up. Something I semi-didn’t like about it was this solar powered miniature car thing that would move if you put it under a light because I got my finger stuck under the light  and it bruised two of my fingers which hurt, but that was only because I was stupid.

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