Chain Reaction Trickshot

Here in Te Ngahere we have been creating new trick shots every week. The trickshot that we were focusing on this week was to create a chain reaction for at least 5 seconds. The group that I had been working with for the past three weeks decided to create a domino effect using books. I personally found creating our own obstacles difficult because I dont have alot of experience with making trick shots. Setting up our trickshot was very difficult because we couldn't physically contact each other. Have you ever done trickshots ? Here is our trickshot.

My Trickshot Reflection

Here in  Te ngahere we have created our own trickshots using cardboard. Our focus was to get the ping pong ball to roll or bounce inside the cup without physically touching the ping pong ball, my group decided to make a ping pong bat out of cardboard and to use folded piece of cardboard so the ping pong ball would roll down the piece of cardboard into the cup. Have you done anything similar to this before? Here is our reflection.

My Math Eyes

We learnt to identify maths in the world around us. We had to identify the things that stood out about a group of gingerbread men on a slide presentation.  I realised that all of the gingerbread men had two legs and two arms. Using our maths eyes we had to understand the questions that we were given so we could answer them related to the topic.

What I did well was I used my math eyes and spotted different things about the gingerbread men. What I could do better is identify more detail about the gingerbread men. I personally found describing the gingerbread men to create a story difficult.

Did you find anything different about the gingerbread men ??

Day 1 of the SLJ

On the 15th of april the students of Te ngahere had to choose a country to describe and research about for the summer learning journey. We had to choose a country from the options that we were given. The country that I had chosen was Mexico because I wanted to understand and learn more about the country and what has made a difference. I then had to write three interesting facts about the topic like american politics creating the border and other facts about Mexico.  I personally found finding out facts about Mexico was very interesting because I had learnt new things like how Mexico is the 14th largest country by land area. The country I have chosen to travel to is Mexico because I want to learn more about the country itself and what has changed throughout the years. American politics has had a massive impact on Mexico in general. America has created border restrictions causing the children in Mexico to separate from their parents. The most populated city in north america is Mexico city with the population of 22 million. In 1968 the Summer Olympics Game was hosted by Mexico City.

My Digital Dig

Here in  Te Ngahere we have been learning the correct ways to navigate through our computers using keyboard shortcuts. We were learning how to take screenshots, copy and paste and the meaning behind the shortcuts and what they do. I learnt a lot of new shortcuts and ways to make my learning easier. Here is a DLO of my top tip. The digital dig had taught me many shortcuts that can help me throughout my learning like, screen shots, copy and paste, zoom in, zoom out and many others. The thing that I found difficult was finding all of the shortcuts because some were very confusing to understand. What I could do better next time is understand more difficult shortcuts that can help improve my learning. 

               

Maths Whizz

Here in Te ngahere we got given the opportunity to participate in the maths whizz learning app. Usually maths whizz cost money but our class is doing a free trial to see if the app is appropriate for our learning. I personally enjoyed playing maths whizz as it helps my learning in many ways. Maths whizz improves my learning because it gives me difficult questions, and since I don’t understand them yet I could learn them in my own time. First we started off by logging into our maths whizz accounts, then we did a determination test that determined what level you are on and made sure that the questions you are given suits you. I personally think that maths whizz is in an awesome learning app.

Turbo Touch

Here in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to play turo touch. In week 4 our class created groups that were our teams. We had already done the tournament in week 4 so this week we were playing in the finals. My group was called the team tokers. We first played against the champions and we won 10-1. Our next game we played Chig and we won 6-1. Our third game we played against Crazy Horses and we won 4-0. Our very last game we played a difficult team called Seagulls and we tied 2-2. Our total points were 11 and our total tries were 22. I personally enjoyed turbo touch because most people cooperated with their group which was cool to see. Hopefully we get more chances like this in 2020.