Choose your own adventure

WALT: Create a choose your own adventure story revolving around our bike track at school.

This is a story Jason and I worked on, I think that the story is pretty funny if you choose certain answers, we did this as a task from Toki Pounamu. This only took a few days so don't be too harsh.

We found it challenging to try to link some slides because some are very similar, but it was challenging to think of ideas to write about.

We liked the outcome of the slides and liked how smooth it was to click through. Have a read and see what you think and put some feedback in the comments.

Growth Mindset quotes

"Persistence is key to Achieve your dreams"
-Carter, 2019

WALT: Create an original growth mindset quote.

This is my original quote; it reads: "Persistence is key to achieve your dreams" I made this quote to tell people that they need to keep trying if you want to make things come true.

I found it super challenging to try and think of a quote but I kept going with a growth mindset.

If you want to know what this means it is means that you know it's hard and you keep on going without saying. "I give up." "I can't do this.", Instead, you are positive.

I found it fun and enjoyable trying to fix it in the lines and was happy about the finished product.

This is a good idea if you want to suggest it to your Teacher / Class; and make sure you try and read the book: "The Dot" to go with this activity

Homemade balloon powered car

For our Year 6 forces and motion technology, we made homemade balloon cars. We made these cars out of cardboard for the body,  Bottle caps for the wheels and balloons for the power to push the car.

We found it challenging to make the wheels spin and most of all to get the balloon to push air out of the straw.

We found it fun/funny that our car didn't move, but when it did we got super excited and happy.

We encourage you to try this experiment for yourself/your class and see how far your cars can go.

Tin-foil Boat

WALT: Create a Tinfoil boat to float and hold the most amount of plastic cubes

For our Year 6 Tech, we created Tin-foil boats, Our goal was to make them be able to float and to hold the most amount of plastic cubes. As a result, our ship worked really well. When we put our boat in the sink it went well but sunk. We were able to fit 2 cubes inside.  The winner was able to fit 138 blocks inside their boat.

We found it challenging to Build/Construct our boat to make it float.
We found it fun/funny that it could hold 2 blocks as we thought it would just tip and sink.

We really liked this technology experiment for "Forces and Motion" and think you should try it for yourself.

Term Reflection

WALT: Reflect on our term.

What I enjoyed about our term was... ALMOST Everything. I really enjoyed our Yr6 Technology; Which was cooking.

I found cooking some of our food Very challenging.

What I could be BTB about for my term and slide is to not talk or Talk and do work at the same time. To make my slide BTB I could have coloured my slides or taken more photos.

If there's anything you want me to do or add put your suggestions in the comments!

Film festival

WALT: Make a film to present.

For our film festival we made this film, If you would like to watch have a go and tell us what you think!

Noah Barleywater Runs away

For our Reading activities, we have to read Noah Barleywater runs away.

The book is about a boy who runs away from his parents, it is a Fairytale, some of my favourite / weirdest parts of the story is when he picks an apple from a tree and it is rushed to the hospital. And when a dog starts talking. 

My favourite character is an old man who is inhumanly fast and speedy, he is also a puppet-maker, his puppets come to life.

I would recommend this book to an older audience as it is hard to follow and it may be confusing.

Blog Graph / Statistics

WALT: Make a graph to show our statistics and find out what we need to do to make it better.

To make my blog more active and have no more posts is to do more, as a result of doing more I will be able to post more and bring out more content to bring in more viewers. 

I can post more by blogging even when unnecessary or not required. I can post more by sharing most of the work we/I do, like mathematics and reading/literacy. This will bring in more viewers and make my blog more active and a more vast selection of work for people to view and comment/learn from.

Homeade chips.

Credit to Moblog for images.

WALT: Create chips and experiment which is better, oven or microwave. As well as explain the science behind it.

For our food tech, we created homemade chips. We got tasked with the oven. Ours came out pretty good hut what we learned was not to put all of the oil we did. We found the cooking challenge as it took a while to cook.

I liked the taste as it was very salty and bitter and crunchy and good.

What you do to make it is.

Thinly Sliced potato chips.

Pour oil on top of them.

Salt well.

Put in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes on bake.

Eat.

I hope you learned something and can make these at home or try whenever you can.

Hokey Pokey.

WALT: Explain the Science of Hokey Pokey and how it's made.

For our Yr6 Tech, we made Hokey pokey, The main 3 ingredients we used were Golden Syrup, Sugar and baking soda.

In this video, we explain the science and what we could have changed to make it better.

You mix the sugar and Golden syrup in the pan, you turn to stove on and mix until there are no sugar crystals left. After this, we add a teaspoon of baking soda and vigorously mix it so it doesn't stick and becomes runny and bubbly. After this, you add it to the buttered pan and refrigerate it.

I found it challenging to Stir as it was hardening and needed to be fast.

I enjoyed the process and the tasting of the Experiment, I liked to eat it because It was very sweet.

Year 6 Tech Cooking.

With this video, we explained what we did to make our Cookies and what changing ingredients did. We all had a turn explaining what it was like and how we did it. Just to summarize this terms Year 6 tech, we made cookies and experimented to find out how change makes the Cookies different and possibly better.

Film Shots /camera angles

WALT: Research and practice our camera angles for the film festival.

As an activity, we took camera angles and shots with our Chromebook camera.

Here we have 8 different camera shots that we have done, these shots are very good to know when filming videos. And are also very useful if you get a job in cameras/filming. 

It may not be the best quality as it was impromptu. It was also raining so it had to be done fast.

I hope you learned something off of this post and can sue these shots with your school's film festival!

Math challenge cards.

                                                          Mathematics word cards.

                                        WALT: Complete word cards for our weekly maths.

Mathematics challenge cards: 1'st card: At the book sale, five paperbacks cost as much as 3 hardbacks, Paperbacks are worth $9, thus meaning hardbacks are $3.

Challenge card two: There are 12 eggs in a dozen ( carton) There were 132 cartons, 27 of the eggs were broken. How many eggs were there that weren't broken. Answer 1557.

Battleship Math activity.

WALT: Play a round (or two) of battleships on the sheet.

For our weekly maths activities, this was the first activity we did a battleships worksheet

The rules:

Both Players need a sheet and a pen.

Draw your ships, they can be placed upwards or sideways.

Decide who will go first, call out a grid marker; the other player will look for that grid coordinate and will tell you if it is a hit.

If you sink the other player's ships you win.

Transformation using grids

This was my Transformation using Grids Mathematics Toki Pounamu. This was my Best piece, (from what I thought) 

  How it was made: We got a 5x5 grid and attempted to copy the image from the left onto the grip using the curve and polyline tool on a google drawing. 

This was the second Image I did, I chose the image because, well; They were pre-set and it was the second, I also liked this design and thought I could do it well.

Have you ever tried to copy and image onto a gird? Give it a go!