Origami Airplane Wingspans

LI: to use statistical and scientific methods to study the effect of wingspan and area 

on lift.

For term 4 we are studying aerodynamics. We learnt what variables are as well as 

independent and dependent variables. 

Our task this week was to create 12 paper/origami planes focusing on one certain design 

and studying each aspect of the design and which part of the paper planes are important 

and how they affect launch and flight.

A variable is a feature of an object or thing that can change between multiple types of 

the object/item. An independent variable is unchanged by other variables or will not be 

changed by other aspects or assets of a variable. A dependent variable is depends on 

another factor in order to be changed.

Venn Diagram Characters

LI: to novel study.
For a novel study task I chose to do a Venn diagram about three characters. For this task we had to find out the character's personalities and things about them, I then had to compare each of the characters. I learned by doing Venn diagram.

Figurative Language

LI: to investigate figurative language.
For the reading task this week we had to use three characters and use one thing they have to make a simile, metaphor, hyperbole and a personification. My three characters were Pikachu, Batman and Black Panther. I learned by making a simile, metaphor, hyperbole and a personification about the character's thing that they have.

Touch | Inter-school

LI: to learn how to play touch.
On the Wednesday the sixth of November the panmure bridge touch teams walked to Dunkirk Reserve to play against other touch teams. We had five teams, we had a year five team, a year six team, an A team, a year seven team and a year eight team. I was in the year six team, we played against, Tamaki Primary, Pt England, Bailey Road, St Heliers, Glen Taylor, Panmure District and others. Both the year six team and the year five team lost all of their games, but the A team won all of their games except their last one. I learned by playing touch.

Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: To learn how to do a volley in tennis.
For tennis this week for tennis we were learning to do a volley, a volley is keeping the tennis ball from bouncing. We learnt to do the volley by playing with others. I learnt by playing with others to learn how to do the volley.

Kiwi Can

LI: To have a respectful communication with someone.
For kiwi can we were learning about how we could respectfully communicate with someone. We also listed types of respectful communication with someone, they were body language, art, music, dance and drama. The two games that we played to learn about respectful communication were "Rock, paper, scissors", basically we would play normally but if you lost you had to get onto your knees and play against another person thats on their knees, if you win that game you get to stand up again, if you don't you are out. The other game we played was called "Animal Choir", we got animal names that represented four teams, when we got into the teams each team got a song to sing. I learned by talking about respectful communication.

Origami Plane

LI: to use statistical and scientific methods to study the effect of wing span and area on lift.
For maths throughout the coming weeks we are going to be learning about airplanes and how they fly. This week we had to make earthier a blunt tip plane or a pointy tip plane. Our group chose to make the blunt tip plane, after we made the plane we made a google drawing showing three parts of the origami airplane and their functions. We also had to figure out the fuselage length, the wing span and the wing area. I learnt by measuring the wing span, the wing area and the fuselage length.