Whats is Renewable energy?

What is Renewable energy?
This term in reading we have been reading about the environment. I have enjoyed reading lots of different books and reading out loud. I think that I have learnt lots from the start of the term and I have enjoyed going to all my work shops.

I know better now not to use fossils fuels and start using Renewable energy like wind mils and solar powered energy. For reading this week, my group read a book called living in a Sustainable way.

This is my poster about Renewable energy and what I learnt .

Are you going to start using Renewable energy?

kindness changes everything

PBL Term 1

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about kindness and the big question was How can we build community through our actions?First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.

We created an action plan and we came up with a couple of ideas such as rubbish clean up and raising money for kids can but after a few weeks we wanted to came up with a new Idea because a rubbish clean up would be to had to organising . We did not like the raising money for kids can because we wanted our idea to be free for our community so we decide to make kindness cads that we would give out for free.

How did our action build a sense of community in the school by showing every one kindness pays it forward.

For our final product our group made kindness cards with lollies stapled to it. We decided that we were going to give them out to people that have shown kindness .

I contributed by helping our team decide on our idea and spouting our team also making our idea happen and by buying the thing that we need.
   

I think the PBL might impact on others by showing other people that kindness always pays back and that showing kindness is the right thing to do.

What I learned about working with others was hard when we did not get along but I think  that it was easier to work as a team than by myself.   

Buy it now before they all run out or spin out

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?

First we learned what STEAM stood for.
S for Science
T for Technology
E for Engineering
A for the Arts
and M for Maths
Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.
Then; make a table that was able to balance M&Ms for the team. We were much better at the second challenge because I felt like it was a easier to make the table because all the table was rolled up newspaper for the legs and a flat  piece of newspaper for the top.In Literacy we learned to write up science experiments and to write a technology report using the design process of ask, imagine, plan, create, improve and share.


Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.
How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.

My team made a Disappearing color wheel it was really fun making the color spinner her is a pitcher 

Reflection

My highlight from this PBL was the mark day but it was really hard to make the spinner at the start because the video that we watched it used  string for the handles  but that did not work with our spinner the next materials we tried was elastic and that worked but the elastic was to much money so then we thought about rubber bands because we had lot of them and they worked so that was what we made the handles out of and it sinned relay well.
 
Next time I would make more because we did not realized that we were going to sell that many.

our Project Based Learning

our Project Based Learning

This term our Project Based Learning has been about cultural stories and the big question was;

What is the significance in the 21st Century of our Cultural stories?

First we brainstormed what culture is and came up with lots of ideas like traditions what they eat there religions there celebrations the holidays they celebrate like Easter Christmas and the stories they tell . Culture is what we do in the countries that’s why we have different Cultural stories Then we thought about our own culture and talked to our parents about our traditions and heritage. I wrote a post about my family and things we like to do.

In Literacy we read and discussed myths and legends from around the world then we concentrated on Maori legends. I read Battle of the mountains I have written my own legend I retold the legend of Maui and the sun in my own words.

We made a performance about the story Battle of the Mountains. Some students wrote the script, some students took on the job of making all the artwork, some worked hard on organizing the music and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with dance and drama.

 

Reflection: 

For our production I contributed by making a big book for the narrator 

I think the show might impact on others by how much hard work we put in to it 

What I learned about working with others was that every idea counts 

A Bit of a Laugh

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In my Reading Workshops I have been learning to ask good
quality questions. I have created a quiz about the journal story that we have been reading "A Bit of a Laugh".

1 Who is Eddie?

2 Why was Eddie different from all the rest from all of the mechanics?

3 What was Eddie's favourite thing to do?

4 He liked to go for bike rides why?

5. Who was the first person to climb Mt Everest?

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I enjoyed reading this story because it was interesting because at the start of the story I didn't realise that Eddie was really Edmund Hilary.

Do you think Miles is a real person?

My speech

                                                                                                       Our hub had to create a speech on anything we like so I decided to do my speech topic about inside vs outside. I chose this topic because I wanted to persuade people that we should be outside                                  more then inside. Hope you enjoy

       so what parson are you and inside person or and outside                                                          person. 

My culture

                                             My culture   

I am a kiwi i live in new Zealand I have some Irish , Australian and  English blood in me. We have lots of culture in New Zealand this is what I do with my family  .We like to go to the rugby in the weekends and we like to bring our whole family . We eat lots of nice food but these are the food us kiwis love to eat, fish in chips, pizza and we also love to have BBQ .  We go on lots holidays we always seem to be by water so we can go fishing and diving for Papua and finding shells . last time we went on holiday we got to go on a fishing charter we Caught a lot of fish.

On the 25 of April we remember those who died in the war,this day was named Anzac Day. Anzac day stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. We like to bake Anzac Biscuits on this day. On my birthday on my I always wake up very very early and wake every body else and open some presents and if we are Lucky we get to go out for breakfast if we don't go out of breakfast we go out for diner i love having birthdays because it is all about me i love it but it is sad when it ends

we like to celebration Christmas so dose billions of people around the world. all of our family come over and we have a big lunch . but in the morning we open all our cool toys and cloths in the presents. we put up our pool and we blow our pool toys . we always play son cool games like last year we played score it was so so fun and that is what me and my family do so thank you for reading and what have you have learnt a lot