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 LI: to understand what the athelets were thinking.

This week we have been focusing on the Olyimpics due to its beggining. Since our focus for reading is the olympics we used a photo and linked them to 3 catergories (what they were; wondering, thinking, feeling/seeing). We then added text boxes answering each of those certain catergories. 

Medal Tally

 LI: to understand the problem and hand using strategies.

For this olympic challenge we counted the medals of the top 10 countries to create a medal tally. The medal count was from two dates 1986-2012 and the 2016 olympics. Once we count up all the medals from the top 10 countries  we put ranked them from 1 to 10. The strategy that we used was addition. The country with the most medals was the USA with 2673 olympic medals.

Olympics Provocation

 LI: to gather information from the text to make an informed opinion.

For Reading we were learning about what a Provocation is. A Provocation is a certain topic that triggers emotions and feelings and lets people express their personal opinions on the topic. 

The topic for our Provocation was the nations that hosted the Olympics, should they spend so much money on the Olympic facilities. Japan spent 15.4 billion dollars on their facilities for the Olympics. 

To continue our learning Reading we also read a book about the Olympics, on Violet Walrond. Reading the book we had to answer a set of questions with our Reading Group. Tese helped us with our comprehension and inferring skills.

Flow Charts & Radio Chart

 LI: to understand the flow charts and the radio charts.

For our tech session this week we revised on flow charts and we starting working with the radio feature of the kittenbot. In the slide above we re-arranged the shapes to show a clear chart of the example code would look like.After the flow charts we learnt how to communicate through our kitten bots using the feature called "radio". We could send short messages and display them using the LEDs.

Olynpics Challenge 1

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 Since the olympics is currently happening, our maths group have 8 olympic challenges for us to complete. This challenge was about Michael Phelps and the events he competed in. Our questions were: On average, every swim stroke Michael Phelps take gets him 2 metres down the pool. Michael comped in 8 different events in the beijing olympics in 2008. In total how many metres did Michael swim for his gold medals?

FInally, how many strokes did Michael have to take in total for all o his events if Michael can propel himself 2 metres with each stroke. The strategies we used addition and division, first we added up all the metres Michael swans and then divided it by two because he advanced 2 metres down the pool. 

Robotics in the Stars

 LI: To try and get the mBot to draw a star shape for Matariki

This week the year 8s of LS2 coded the mbots to drive in a star alligned path. To make the code we used different action codes (moving, wheels, etc). We used a code that allows the mbot to move forwards, left and right, and the seconds the mbot has to do the task at. We drew a star on a large piece of paper and we tested our mbot on the paper. After we have tested our first one we made changes to further improve our mbot code. 

Matariki brochure

 LI: to have a greater understanding of the celebration of Matariki.

For Matariki we made a brochure for the celebration. In our brochure we created different parts with different topics explaining the harvest, traditions, and many more. In this activity we also showed the origin of Matariki and how it was named.

Birds & Matariki

 LI: to understand the way of harvesting whilst Matariki.

This week we have been learning about Matariki due to the celebration in New Zealand. For one of our tasks we created a DLO about the harvesting of Matariki and the birds that come with it. In our DLO we explained how the birds were preserved for the feast and a biography of the different birds they used in early times.

Matariki

 LI: to strengthen our connection to Matariki.

Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition.

Vision Board

 LI: to gather a recording of what we want to accomplish this year.

Last week we made a vision board of what we want to accomplish by this year. As you can see I used icons and logos to show what I want to acheive. In my board I talked about the college I want to go to, the levels of maths I want, and some of my personal goals outside of school.