Salmon

 Salmon 

I made this because I wanted to show and tell people about salmon.

Catapult Writing

Our mission was to create a catapult that would fire a tin foil ball. The  materials we had were  15 popsicles and 12 rubber bands and one spoon.  

 

What me and Benny did was stack about 15 popsicle sticks on top of each other then put some rubber bands around the ends of the popsicle sticks so they wouldn’t fall down. Then we put a spoon through the middle of the pile so it was wedged in there tight. 

In the competition ours went really far but after it wouldn’t work. Ours won by about 2 meters. (past second place) 

The way our’s worked was you pushed the back down and it flicked the tinfoil ball. 

We originally wanted to go all for looks and not care how far it went but all the designs we found used hot glue so we decided to just build something that could at least shoot. For that design you hit the spoon and it launched but it only had height. But then Benny fingered out that if you held the spoon down so it was bending it would launch much further.

Next time I think we should make a proper design

our  first design looked a bit like ← 

But with popsicle sticks.

P.S. I think the wind died down for a second while we shot the catapult.

A fun afternoon

Narrative writing

Here is some Narrative writing I did.

Shadow Knight

In a time of war there was a knight. That knight was born to rule the forest of the Evil but there was a problem. There was an evil king that had taken over and forced the knights' settlement in siege. The knight had decided to go through to the other side of the forest and take over Lord Darks kingdom. 

So one day at dusk the knight got his trusty horse and rode through the forest. When he got near the Dark Kingdom's walls he slowed and tied his horse to a tree so he could move like a fox. 

The knight eventually found a hole and squeezed through. Inside the walls of the mighty Dark Kingdom, there were beautiful gardens with waterfalls, and little streams with bridges over them. The knight tried to blend in but a guard with a nifty eye spotted the knight and called the other guards and sentries. 

The guards dragged him to see the King who was sitting on his throne. In his mighty deep voice the king bellowed,“ I KNOW YOU! YOU ARE THAT SHADOW KNIGHT! TO THE DEEPEST DUNGEONS MEN!” 

 The dungeon looked bare and dark. The knight stumbled around until he found a small table with a candle and some matches. The knight got the candle lit and looked around. He found a cupboard but it was locked with a padlock. The knight then found a small rod of metal and started picking the lock. After about 10 mins the cupboard's lock sprang open. The cupboard was small apart from a  small crow bar. The knight smashed down the door and  ran up a flight of stairs when he heard someone coming. The knight ran into another room and hid. 

But then the knight realized that he had entered the head gallery. The door started slowly opening so the knight dived behind a pile of heads. A group of guards marched in and started searching for something. After about ten minutes they found the thing they were looking for. It was what appeared to be a key. The guards marched over to a painting of a head and slotted the key into a small key sized hole. The painting swung open revealing a couple gliders. The guards took a glider and shut the painting. Then the guards returned the key then left. When the knight thought the guards weren't just around the corner he went over to where they put the key. The knight got the key and went over to the painting and grabbed a glider then snuck through the deserted corridors until he got to a high point. The knight got on the roof of the tallest tower and strapped on the glider. 

Right before the knight was about to jump the guard got pulled back by a group of guards... The knight got the crow bar and started blindly hitting hoping he would hit some guards. After a while the guards lo0sended their grip and the knight ran and jumped. At first the knight thought that the glider wasn’t working. But then  the Knight realized he was aiming for the ground. The knight quickly pulled up and only just got out over the wall. The moment the knight got over the wall all the centres started shooting their bows at him. After a while the arrows couldn’t get close and the knight landed in a small patch of grass by his village. The knight was happy he was still alive but his village wasn’t too pleased that he didn’t KILL the evil king. 

“Willam, come down stairs.  Dinner is served.” 

BY Cameron

I found it fun because I like writing.

Forces and motion

We are learning about different forces and simple machines and how they work. 

We had a hole day to learn about forces and motion by going to 3 different class room and doing different activities.   (See bellow in DLO)

The lego was KINDA hard cause the instructions were hard to read.

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Te Huarere - The Weather Cameron & Zade

Digital Tech Matariki - BlueBots & QR codes

For this project we first created a google drawing about one of the stars of Matariki. Then we made the projects into QR codes which we put them onto a gridded  mat.  Then people used bluebots to get to the QR codes.In this project we learnt that each star is connected to there own special ability.