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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Market day review

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 … Everyone was helping and also it was book character day.

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 Mini Rockets
Sadly I was not in the photo.
And if you got the box with the orange gem you would get this →→                           
Reflection

My highlight from this PBL was everyone was helping cooperating and everyone had a good time and it was fun.
Next time I would hope that Sam helped a bit more because the only day he was actually helping was the day before the market.

Monday, November 26, 2018

😀Marvellous Market day!!!😀

Whats coming up in tumu well we have just normal stuff WAIT A SECOND We have the market day coming up and what are we selling well we are selling mini rockets some of them are made of teabags and some of them are made of tinfoil and the price is only $1.50 so come down with your money to 370 Innes road St Francis of Assisi school and theres also a secret in one box so if you find an orange gem in a box you bring it back to school and get a prize so we hope to see you at our stand.

Friday, September 28, 2018

The Super Tumu Performance

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) 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. Culture is country, food, language.

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 Hatupatu and the bird woman I have written my own legend called how the chicken got its crown.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 organising the music and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with dance and drama.



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Reflection:

For our production I contributed by painting the blue on the second to last page.



I think the show might impact on others by making people want to watch and learn more about culture.



What I learned about working with others was you get the job done and in the end you are proud of yourself.






Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Super swimming

Welcome back guys my name is Ben and today I am going to talk to you about swimming. For the past two weeks we have been doing swimming at graham condon, for the first week we did our freestyle backstroke arm circles breathstroke survival backstroke and more on the second week we did something different for the first two days we did the same thing but on the third day what do you think we did thats right we did life jackets and we gone to pencil jump off the end SO FUN and on Friday we went in our pj's
I know what your thinking SO FUN but your wrong it was so hard.
So thats my swimming post thanks for viewing.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Respect

welcome back everyone my names Ben and today I am going to talk to you about respect and I have a short song about respect and it goes like this r e s p e c t I always treat my friends how I hope they treat me r e s p e c t treating everybody respectfully!!!  and thats my song about respect hope you liked it now I will talk you readers about respect. respect is being polite like using your manners and tidying up after yourself and looking after the furniture and wearing your school uniform with pride and helping others hope you learnt something about respect

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Reading Evidence Group I

In reading I have been wondering….


How can I deepen my understanding of what I have read
through applying my own ideas to the story.


I read the story….. Hatupatu and the bird woman.


It was about….. Hatupatu found a creature it was the bird woman.


We then had to create…. A flying machine and a wanted poster.


This was my idea….


I chose to do this because….  I got to do it online and it was fun.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Ben's amazing maths evidence

Welcome back everyone to my blog and today I am going to talk No not talk but to make this blog more interesting I am going to put a link to my screencastify slide and you will be able to watch my video that I created with sketchpad and I already said I created the video with screencastify and my strategy to solve the problem was using rounding and compensating hope you enjoy


THE VIDEO

By the way the last bit takes a long time you might have realised and if you find another way to solve the problem please comment down below
Hope you learnt something!!!!

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

My family culture

Welcome back everyone its me Ben and today I am going to talk about my culture.
My Mum comes from Brazil and my Nana comes from Australia and the rest of my dads family is from New Zealand



Image result for brazil flag

this is my culture
what is your culture
see you later.

Friday, May 25, 2018

Blog Profile -Public VS Private

We are learning what to include in a public profile that will go on our blog.

Friday, May 4, 2018

My fabulous fantastic first blog

What up guys its your boy beast mode boss Ben and i will be doing blogs about reading writing maybe commonwealth games maths and more we have been doing a programme called epic reading and one more called reading eggs and you can only do it on computers an Chromebooks i think and by the way its time to go see you later.