Rot ya teeth

Lately for the past few weeks we have doing work around science, such as learning new vocabulary and doing our own experiments. We first started learning about a scientist called Isaac newton and his laws of gravity. Then we went on the work i groups of three for a balloon race, which is a fair test showing how fast the balloon attached to a string with a straw can travel. In the balloon race we kept track of the time of the balloon while it was traveling across the room. We also also measured the balloon using a tape measure.

After we did some research and a DLO we then went on to create our won experiments in groups which were chosen by Ms Wilton. When we did this group project, we got paired up with people we don't usually work with. Myself, Felix and Lauren all discussed a topic to choose for our science fair test. If you don't know what a fair test is a fair test is an experiment that has all the same factors and a variable that you are able to change.  

My groups fair test was an experiment about how fizzy can rot your teeth; we used cola, cola no sugar, lemonade, and lemonade no sugar. We used eggs to replicate teeth for our experiment, we filled all the drinks into four cups. We first made our own hypothesis, which is a prediction about what was gonna happen with our experiment. To make sure it was a fair test we filled them up to the same amount at the first line of the plastic cup.  We left our eggs to sit in the cups for two days we checked the results, then we put them back in for a week and the results turned out to change a whole new colour and more breakage. We displayed our knowledge in our experiment on a science fair bored which Ms Wilton made, we took about a week to fully design our boards. 

Overall for our experiment the worst fizzy to drink are cola and cola no sugar cause they cause lot's of breakage, as well as rot in your teeth! both the lemonades didn't really have much of a change but the lemonade no sugar had a faint yellow shade along the inside of the shell, while the cola was turning a dark brown on the inside and outside. To show our results we made an observation about the colour and our variable was to change the type of fizzy. 

The hardest thing throughout science for me was to work well with my group, because I think I came across as bossy. I really enjoyed getting to see how our groups fair test came out with good proper results, I am glad we left the eggs in there for a week. I think me and my group did well because we all came together in the end and worked well. 

Mihi

In Room 6, we have been doing work around our mihi because it was Maori language week.  We had to make a mihi on game froot a site where you can create you own games. I used the mihi maker tutorial to make it.  

Something I need to work on : Finishing it faster

Something I did well : Learning how to use game froot

Schools Should Have A Summer Sports Tournament

In Room 6 we have been doing some persuasive writing, for a couple of weeks we have been doing different types of writing but it all linked to the persuasive topic.  We all had to pick a topic to write about from the class site, I chose "schools should have a summer sports tournament". The reason I chose it was because I think it would be nice for us to have a sports tournament in summer, while the weather is nice and warm.

Something I need to work on : Adding more facts and more information to my writing
Something I did well : Finishing it on time

Schools should have a summer sports tournament

I state that schools should participate in a summer sports tournament, which provides summer sports selection.  Although we have winter sports tournaments, why not have a summer one? the weather is much better.

Schools should have summer sports season, because of all the children can keep fit and healthy.  Sports can teach children many skills such as good sportsmanship, respect, leadership, resilience, as well as teamwork. It can also help them develop a passion and something they love.

In summer there will be exceptional weather, which helps children play better. Children can enjoy themselves because they have the opportunity to partake in a sport of their choice. They can come out of their shell; also make friends. 

Also, children can play baseball, softball, rugby, field hockey, tennis, and swimming. Those are some sports that can be played in summer; children will enjoy them.  This way they can enjoy playing a variety of sports; while keeping healthy.

In conclusion, I justify that a summer sports tournament should be mandatory for schools.  It would improve improvement in obesity rates.

Volcanoes

In my reading group mars we have been doing work around volcanoes, we did work around this subject for around a week.  We read lot's of articles, about how volcanoes work and the different parts of them.  

This is my info graphic about volcanoes; it tells you facts and how volcanoes work. It took me long to finish because I had to trace it and put my learning into it. 

Something I need to work on : Finishing faster

Something I did well :  Trace my own pictures

Isaac Newton

Lately in Room 6, we have been learning about a scientist named Sir Isaac Newton.  For the past couple of weeks we have been doing science experiments related to him. We also did lot's of research about him in groups. While doing this work around Isaac newton we all learnt what a fair test is, a fair test is an experiment where you do something in the same position and place and don't change anything. Our goal was to create a slideshow about Issac Newton's laws and explain how a rocket can work in space. Sadly I didn't explain how a rocket can work in space yet.

I did some research on Isaac Newton and watched some videos about the different laws of his such as inertia, acceleration, and force and gravity. Before doing this I didn't know anything about the Isaac Newton's laws of motion, but learnt lot's through research and videos.  

What I did well : Added lot's of information about his laws of motion

What I found challenging : Finishing it on time and understanding the scientific language

Next steps : Adding more information about Issac Newton's life 

Darkness

WALT… 
Use paragraphs to link similar ideas together
write in structured, well developed paragraphs that flow well from one to the next within the text
use linking words and phrases to link paragraphs for effect

We had to describe a picture of a man in a dark wood cabin, everyone in room 6 did this writing and we all came up with a different backstory and perspective. Before we started writing, we did some reading about paragraph writing which guided us while we were brainstorming the five scenes. Also while I was writing I tried to use some interesting vocabulary, I used a site called wordhippo.

When I was writing this descriptive text it was hard to come up with a link between the paragraphs so it flows, but in the end I managed to come up with a story line that can flow well between the text. But overall I wrote as the point of view of me watching the man/telling the story and in third person.

Next Steps : Making my sentence structure better and using a bigger variety of sentence types.

What I enjoyed: Getting to express my way of thinking for this picture.
What I found challenging: Finishing my paragraph writing on time.

Darkness

He hides in a dark abandoned wood cabin with only one room, while he lays uncomfortably in the dirty corner. As the man aches in pain, his fragile bones slowly move to change his position. The man’s blood sweat and tears all drip down, as his lonely thoughts keep him awake. The midnight darkness starts to howl, while a strong gust of wind thrashes towards the window from outside. While the rain starts to leak from the moldy window, he listens to the forest storms. The sound of a car passing gives him a sense of anxiety; assuming that it someone coming to find him.

He staggers over to the window to see a foggy bright vibrant yellow light in the darkness, then the yellow light turns off. He then ducks down from the window; so nobody will see him. his heart starts pounding heavily. Within seconds a tremendous hard-knock bang on the door. He avoids answering the door; but hides in fear. Another hard knock appears across the door then the door burst open, a tall tough man comes inside the dark wooden cabin, he stays hiding in the corner. The tall man shadows over the weak skinny man, he whispers “please I’m innocent it wasn’t me” the tall man replies with “that’s just the way the world works” he drags the weak man out of the cabin and they drive off nowhere to be seen. 

Baring Street

This week in Room 6 the whole class read a story called "Boring Street" the story was based on how a boy named Ryan moved from his old neighborhood into a new street called Baring Street but Ryan named it boring street. After we read the story we did follow up activities about it.

For this activity my goal was to act like you're looking out a window and you recall the most important event of the story. I choose this activity to make it digital, because it sounded very interesting and I like drawing characters on computer better.  It took me a reasonable amount of time to complete this activity, because I had some pieces of already drawn clothes from other drawings I have made. 

In this drawing Ryan and his friends Ze Minh and Heremia were fixing up the old skate park to make their boring neighborhood fun. I think that was the most important event of the story, because it made Ryan change his mind about the neighborhood he called "boring street".

What I found Challenging: Picking the most important event it the story

What I need to work on: Adding some more detail to my drawings

What I enjoyed: Drawing my characters