Thursday 16 August 2018

Learning about Moon Craters and Day and Night

Phases of the Moon


We learnt why the moon changes shape.

We learnt that the moon doesn't make its own light. 
The moon revolves around earth in a fixed orbit. 
The moon reflects the suns light and depending on where the moon is in its orbit it will look different from earth. 

Here are some photos of us creating this.
We had one torch which was the sun, a foam ball which was the moon and our head was earth.
In a dark room we held the moon above the earth and slowly rotated so we could see how the sun reflects on the moon in different parts of its orbit.


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Sunday 29 July 2018

2D Shapes

We have been learning about 2D shapes and how to describe them.
Here are a few activities we did to practise describing shapes.

 Using our bodies to make shapes
 Squares
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Triangles
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Parallelogram and Rhombus
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Circles
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Google Slides to create rocket pictures

Wednesday 20 June 2018

Making Poster on Google Slides

Our Area Robots

Our Dream House

In maths have been learning how to work out the area using repeated addition and multiplication.
Here we have been practising how to use Google Slides by designing our dream house and working out the area.



Monday 7 May 2018

Estimating and Measuring in Metres

Estimating and Measuring in Metres

We have been learning how to estimate and measure metres.
In this activity we had to design a pirate ship on paper. Then we went outside and drew the pirate ship on the concrete with chalk. First we had to estimate the length we then used a metre ruler to measure it out accurately. Here are a few photos of us draw, estimating and measuring.  


Tuesday 20 March 2018

Exploring Musical Instruments


Before we start designing and creating our own musical instruments we needed to find out different ways instruments could be played.
We also wanted to find out how we could make the instrument play loud, soft, high and low sounds. 
Here we are experimenting and recording our findings. 



Thursday 8 March 2018

Learning about instruments

Today we had Shaun O'Kane visit our class from Musiqhub.
He showed us some different instruments and explained to us how they work.

Brass Instruments
He taught us how brass instruments make sound by blowing or 'buzzing'.
He said you stretch your lips like an e, then blow them together like a b.

Trombone:
He moved the trombone slide down longer or up shorter to change the note.
He said if he blowed gently, it was a quiet sound
If he blowed hard it was a loud sound

Trumpet
On the trumpet, he moved his fingers on the valves, it opened and closed the pipes and made them longer or shorter. That made the notes higher (a short pipe) or lower (a long pipe).
He could change the sound without moving his fingers too.
If he changed his mouth so his lips were tighter, he could play different notes called 'overtones'

Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical pipe - it gets wider as it goes down.
The buttons open holes to make the pipe long or short.
You can blow harder to get higher notes called overtones.
As he opened up the holes, the notes got higher.
The saxophone and clarinet have a reed mouthpiece
When you blow, the reed vibrates.
The saxophone didn't sound very good without the reed!
It sounded funny with a trumpet mouthpiece on!

We learnt a lot about sound!
Check out our video!


Tuesday 13 February 2018

Bio Poems

A few poems we wrote about ourselves. 

Amazing, pretty, playful
Who enjoys playing with her friends
Who feels happy when her mum gives her a hug
Who wonders where the Easter Bunny lives
Who fears Rangitoto will erupt
Who dreams of travelling the world.
Grace

Amazing, creative, playful
Who enjoys soccer, cricket and rugby
Who feels happy when helping others
Who feels excited when birthdays come
Who dreams about being the smartest person. 
James

Loyal, helpful, kind
Who enjoys reading books
Who feels happy when he is with his family
Who wonders about life on different planets
Who is scared of global warming
Who cares about jaguars leaping in the jungle
Who is able to climb mountains
Who dreams of being a super hero.
Solomon

Crafty, smart, confident
Who enjoys biking, ice skating and playing with friends
Who is able to ski over bumps and a flip into a pool
Who feels scared when walking over a glass bridge
Who cares about family and friends
Who wonders where unicorns live
Who dreams about having a real unicorn as a pet.
Caitlin 

Sunday 11 February 2018

Welcome Back!


Welcome to Team 20's Blog 2018
Learning and relationship building is well underway. 

Here are a few snaps from our maths lesson. 
We were interviewing our class mates to gather data to make a bar graph to show the house colours in Team 20.