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.

By Felix

                             

                        

                        

                              

                               

                               

                              

                              

                             

                             

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

  

         

Triangles

         

Parallelogram and Rhombus

        

Circles

           


Google Slides to create rocket pictures

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.

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.  

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. 

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!

Chinese New Year Song

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 

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. 

Hockey Time

Nic from Auckland Hockey came and taught us some basic hockey skills.

Here is a video of us having fun giving it a go!

                

Cheetah Poems

Here are some of our cheetah poems based on this slow motion video.

         

Cheetah

Sprinting like a golden bullet,

Long tail floating in the air,

Legs knotting into a huge ball,

Stretching legs as long as rope,

Greatest speed of lighting,

Speedy Cheetah!

By Sophie S

The Cheetah

Powerful balanced tail,

Visible strong leg muscles,

Bright gold shooting bullet,

Fast as the speed of light,

Very firm steady head,

Leaping, pouncing, creature,

Metal like feet digging in the ground,

By Max

Cheetah

Looks like a golden dart,

Long body stretching,

Sprinting like the wind,

Powerful paws,

Balancing tail,

Steady head,

Cheetah!

By Craig

Cheetah

Golden spotted machine,

Bunching its hind and front legs together,

A bullet of muscle,

A  hard rock head,

Steady tail,

Black, golden, white

Cheetah

By Grace

CHEETAH

Strong speedy cheetah,

Stretching, leaping, pouncing, flying, body

Ripping the ground with powerful claws,

Faster than a horse,

Powerful balanced tail

A golden animal bullet,

Striking it’s prey with a

 Crunch!

By Michael

Scooter Saftey

Thank you Ms Hadlow for making our scooter safety video

         

Trip to Mt Hobson

Dance in Schools Performance

Dance In Schools

We have been working hard on our Hip Hop and Salsa dances.

One more practice tomorrow before our performance on Friday!

Chinese Class

Here is a snippet of what we did in Chinese today. 

Liu Lao Shi brought in some traditional Chinese objects for us to learn about.
We also started learning a song to help us remember some of our phrases.