Forces and Motion Rotation Day.

Here is my work explaining what activities and what I did at each station on the rotations day.

What I found hard was trying to make the car track and it breaking so many times, but in the end my group finally finished and it worked pretty well.  

How Turtles Use Magnetic Feilds.

Today we read about magnetism and magnetite, and here is my work on explaining why turtles use magnetism.

Narrative Writing.

 Nowhere To Run.

I approached slowly, the dark building on the left, where I heard a thud rush past me. I saw some old mossy steps ahead and rushed up them prepared for anything to happen. I peeked around the corner of the walls.  There I saw some tall, ancient stone doors. I strode up to them and pushed my weight against them and they slowly creaked open. I was astonished by what I saw in front of me. Pacing through the tall doorway, I saw something move. Not sure what it was, I was aware of what might happen. The doors closed behind me with a crash. I ran back to try and open them but they wouldn't move.

 

“Who's there?” I demanded.  There was no response.

I asked again “who's there?” There was still no response.

 After waiting for about a minute something jerked me forward, I felt my whole world falling. Crash, I landed on the ground. Stumbling to my feet I glanced around, but all I could see was the darkness. I just sat against the wall with tears filling my eyes.

 “I’m never going to get out of here,” I said to myself. I stood up and started walking with my hands in front of me, so I wouldn’t crash into anything.

“Ouch” I kicked my toe on something. I knelt down to try and figure out what it was.  I think they are steps.  “This must have been what I fell down earlier,” I said to myself. 

I sprinted up the stairs, my feet going clic, clac, clic. When I got to the top something brushed past my leg. “Ahhhhh” I screamed. “Who-whos  the-there?” I asked.

I heard whispers coming from behind me which made me feel dizzy and made my heart beat 100 miles per hour. I tried to turn around but only then I realised that my whole body was frozen with fear.  I couldn’t even move my mouth to talk. When I unfroze I flung my body forward and started running. I ran down the stairs across the hallway and into a small room. By now my eyes have adjusted to the dark. I ran my hands quickly across the walls to see if there were any trap doors but it turns out not all ancient buildings have them. As I heard the mysterious creature striding towards me I started running again, my arms and legs shaking, but I knew I had to keep going. I was running straight to a dead end but didn’t know it at the time, only as I got closer I realised…. 

Forces and Motion D.L.O

 Last week, on Wednesday, we had a forces and motion day-Topana and Neke. On this day we contribute our ideas and learnt new things about different forces and motion. We had to go to different stations and each station had something different to the rest of them. We all went to three different stations. 

After that, we created a D.L.O about what stations we had been to and what we had done at each station. My D.L.O is embedded below.

My group focused and tried hard to complete all of the tasks that were set for us in our rotations. On this rotation day it was fun to try and complete all of the experiments. It would be great if you could leave a helpful, positive and thoughtful comment.                

Digital Technology Matariki Project - Bluebots and QR Codes.

 For Matariki we learnt about the stars. We made a special Bluebot mat. On the mat we had QR codes and when you scanned them you learnt about the stars. We taught other kids how to code the blue bots to get to the QR codes. We learnt that there are nine stars in the Matariki cluster and each star has a special name and something they are connected to like the weather, food or water.