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.