Let's Get Crafty!

PBL Challenges!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. Today I am going to be talking to you about our PBL this term. This term for our PBL we are focusing on innovation. The teachers this term have set up some challenges about innovation they are wearable arts, marble roal and balloon challenge. Today i'm going to be talking to you about my favourite challenge with  Miss Dungey's. Her challenge was wearable arts. First of we got into groups of 4 or 5, in my group I had Lily, Pieta, Ethan and Archie. Our challenge was to make formal clothes including 2 skirts, 2 jackets, 1 pair of pants and any accessories we had to make these things with using 24 sheets of newspaper 10 meters of tape and a pair of scissors. We needed to walk down the cat walk in the clothes we made and show the select committee ( AKA the audience ). I made myself a skirt, a jacket and a handbag, Pieta made herself a skirt and a bracelet, Lily made a pair of pants, shoes and earrings, Ethan made himself earrings and a bracelet and Archie made himself a bikini top, a skirt and a crown. After we made all of that stuff it was time to walk down the catwalk and strike some poses. I had heaps of fun doing this challenge.

                          Which challenge would be you favourite?

Let's get our dance on!

Aerobics!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. Here at my school we had the option to do aerobics, which is a sport involving dance and gymnastics. There were six people from my school participating in the competition, they were, Eilish, Beth, Sophie, Ariella, Santara and myself. Me and Eilish did a duo, Santara and ariella did a duo and Beth and Sophie both did solos. We learnt a routine to the song everything is awesome. We had practices on a Monday lunch time and on Sunday mornings, We also had practises in our pairs or by your self but only by yourself if you are doing a solo, at the practises we went over the routine. After practising the routine over and over again it was finally time for the competition. I arrived there in my outfit and my hair up in a bun ready to dance. After watching a few dances it was Me and Eilishs turn to perform, we did the dance with smiles on our faces. After we found out we got in the finals and did the dance again. It was finally time for the awards we were announced 4th out of and Santara and ariella came 2nd ( there were 6 people in our group ) and Sophie came 3rd and Beth came first in the solo category ( out of 3 people ). Then at the end of the competition we found out we all got into nationals in Queenstown which is more great news. After a long day of dancing it was time to go home, I had a amazing day and want to do aerobics again in the future.

Do you do dance, gymnastics or aerobics?

The killer bees buzz by!!!

The Killer Bees Buzz By!!!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. Throughout this year we have been lucky enough to have participated in winter sport. Over the season my netball team the killer bees has had mixed success, as we have won the majority of the games and lost a few to. My team has faced many challenges like injuries and a losing some games, but we had good sportsmanship, perseverance and determination even when things didn't go our way. I'd like to thank my teammates for their support and my wonderful coach Miss Parker for her help. Throughout this season I have became a better team player and I got fitter throughout the season as I was running around the netball court a lot. The highlight of my season has to be when we played our first game as a team, because we got to know each others strengths and weaknesses on the court. It was also great that we won the game, plus the opposition team was really nice. Next year I would like to try some new positions on the netball court as I am moving up to seven a side.

What winter sport do you play?

 

A Helmet on your head keeps you away from a hospital bed.

Cycle Safety

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. At my school ( St Francis Of Assisi ) All of us year 6's participated in cycle safety. We learnt so many new things to keep us safe on the road. We learnt how to do right turns, left turns and ride around a round about, and we also learnt how important it is to have a helmet on our head and to have lights on our bike. We went of in groups to learn the basic skills for biking like ABBC that is a way you check your bike a is for air, b is breaks the other b is for bolts and the c is for chain. Those things are super important. Then it was time to get on the road on the first day in my group I had a instructor called Anuk and the students in my group were Cory, Lewis and myself and we just rode around a learnt a few things about being safe on the road. Then on the last day my instructor was called Jeff and in my group was Cory, Lewis, Eilish and myself then we learnt how to do turns go through intersections go around round about s and then we got a bit of free riding time just because we had learnt for a while.

Have you ever done cycle safety?

Magnificent Maths!!!

Magnificent Maths!!!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. In the Tumu hub lately we have continued to do maths boards ( here is a link to my post about math boards) what is math boards you may ask, well it is a piece of paper with four squares and a diamond in the middle of the paper or doc. in the diamond you write an equation and in each box there is a question to prove you know the answer in one box it says solve it numerically, solve it visually, make a word problem and lastly solve it another way. here is a picture of my most recent math board.

What type of math are you doing at your school right now?

The Boat That Float's!!!

The Boat That Float's!!!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. In the Tumu hub this term we have been learning about innovation. Through these first 5 days of term we have done three challenges one about how we can move a toy car without touching it, how we can make a air plane using recycled products and who could fly it the furthest and also, we made boats out of recycled products and we had to float them and put marbles in it. Today I will be talking to you about the boat. For the boat we used tinfoil, plastic cups, straws and paper. In my team I had Archie, Maxwell and Travis. We managed to get 86 marbles in our boat before it sunk. All of these challenges were loads of fun.

Which Challenge would your favourite be?

STOP Climate Change!

Reading!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog. Today I'm talking to you about climate change and global warming, yes this stuff is all happening. In my reading group we have been reading about all these things. here is some of the facts that I learnt...


Renewable Energy
Anything with energy does something towards our environment also climate change is caused because of things not being put in the rubbish. Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, and it is terrible for our environment.


Global Warming
Global warming is when a whole planets average temperature rises. All planet's absorb energy from the sun. On earth, we experience this energy mostly as light. But planets also reflect heat. The heat energy radiates out from the surface of the planet back into space.

Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a element used by plants and animals to build amino acids. Amino acids make up the proteins that help plants and animals to grow. Farmers add nitrogen to the soil as fertiliser to speed up plant growth, but microbes in the soil also use nitrogen.

Greenhouse Gases
Farmings a huge part of greenhouse gases. A cow does a average release between 70 and 120 kg of Methane per year. Methane is a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide But the negative effect on the climate of Methane is 23 times higher than the effect of carbon dioxide.

Here is a picture of people striking to stop climate change...

How will you save the world?