Our Amazing maps!

Hello bloggers!  Over the past few Fridays, Mr. G's  Friday maths group have been making maps! The maps Are our own made-up countries and cities, and it has been really fun and interesting to make! I made a country called Obeliskos, and it has lots of different cities and things! Obeliskos has four landmarks: Basalt valleys, which is a deep canyon entirely made of basalt, but shrubs still manage to live there. Industrialis, which is a hulking city that smells of smoke and has millions of residents. Artemis Volcano, with a massive lava lake inside. And Crater City, with a small wild west town inside. with all these landmarks, we needed to make bearings for all of them, figuring how far away from each other they were, and the location on the grid map. I hope you like it (And can understand it!)

(Picture won't send, will try again later.)

Making a PSA in Python!

 Hello Bloogers! (intended) today we blogged our PSA's in python! yes, we coded our own PSAs. it was really fun! I focused mine on littering since it's a big problem everywhere. I see so much plastic and wrappers around Prestons. but I got some pictures of my work! 

This is the code I used for my animation. it's not much, but it creates a steady animation.

So what's happening here is the there's a clump of plastic on the floor, and then the bin twirls around in the air, then comes crashing down to collect the litter. it's quite simple, but effective

I hoped you liked my animation (Or flipbook) and see you next time!

Rocket flight results!

 Hello bloggers! on Monday we got to test our rockets out and send them on a test flight. we flew our rocket...  and it was a bit disappointing. one of the fins fell off, and the rocket itself tumbled to the floor. here are our results we gathered and overall score.

The fins were uneven and unstable. We used 3 fins, and we think 4 would be good next time.

The nose cone was surprisingly sturdy for not being glued or taped onto the rocket. 

The weight may have been too much. Next time we could add 2 hex nuts to go higher.

The water was fine. We used 260.  We might add more to get more thrust.

The psi was as much as we could go, 60. I think we should lower it but by a small amount

I would give it a 4/10. It went poorly and it definitely needs improvements.

But next time, me and my rocket team will make sure to make it excellent.

See you next time!

Samoan Classroom!

 Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country

• Link to a traditional dance video

• Basic greetings

• The alphabet

• How to count 1-10 

• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JoUDGaXJril3WccDOJIGACczEuung-obfflfzhy-RmM/edit#slide=id.p

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

Fa!

Samoan Conversation!

Hello bloggers! Today for Samoan language we did a slide or a scratch on a Samoan conversation. it's about two characters having a conversation in Samoan. I did Mario and toad on a beach, talking to each other. the grey text under the black text is what the Samoan means in English. I hope you enjoyed, and please give me feedback!

Space project!

Hello bloggers! on Tuesday we started a project with 4 other people. 3 scientists came to school and they told us about what they did. we got paired with someone who helped protect floods and put up flood banks.

but the project we were going to do was to construct a rocket and launch it. not a million-dollar rocket, but a  small rocket that would be powered by a chemical reaction of some sort. I and some friends got together and created a group. we all sorted out jobs for us. I got the job geographer. I'm not sure what a geographer at a rocket launch does since it's quite hard to find out on google and I don't know anyone who's a geographer, but I'm sure I'll find out soon.

apart from that, have a good week and I'll see you next time!

Numeracy + Literacy work on first week back!

Hello Bloggers! on the first week back, we did some interesting things. for maths, we focused on magic squares, and for literacy, we researched science and some scientists who changed science forever. 

let's get into it! 

For maths, we looked at magic squares, which are interesting 3 x 3 grids with numbers in them. the magic thing about the magic square is that the square has nine digits in the grids, sorted into 3 groups of 3 same numbers. for example, 333, 555, and 777. with all the numbers, we sort them out so that horizontally, diagonally, up or down, it always equals 15. 

I hope you enjoyed reading about the magic squares. now we can move onto literacy! 

literacy was fun this week, we got to research a scientist. I researched on Galileo Galilei with his fantastic discoveries and contributions he made to science. some people even call him the father of science.

I made a canvas poster that tells you all the things about Galileo and what he did.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my first week back at school. give me any feedback if you have any! apart from that, see you next time!