Year 8 Day at Tamaki College

Today the year 8s went to Tamaki college to see what a day in Year 9 looked like. The first activity was maths. It was a lot of fun. We played battle ships against Mr Jones, our teacher for maths. Luckily we won the battle ship game. The next thing we did was science. Our teacher's name was Mr Stoddard. We learnt about static electricity and physics. We did experiments to help us understand. First we made water bend by rubbing a plastic tube on a piece of material and running the taps slightly. When we put the rubber tube next to the water it looked like it was bending. After our yummy lunch we had English. Our teacher this time was Mr Stevenson. We were finding visual images connections with new vocabulary. Last but not least was PE. For PE our teacher was Mr Moyes. We played turbo touch. We had 3 teams, there was non-bands team, a red team and a yellow team. I was in the non-band team but I never found out the final score or which team had the most tries. I think it was the red team but it does not matter because we all had so much fun. A big thanks to Tamaki College for showing us their awesome school and a big thanks to the teachers that taught us in the time we were there. I am looking forward to being a Year 9 student there next year!

Kate Sheppard Sketch note

The other day we made a sketch note of Kate Shepard there is a lot about Kate Sheppard in this sketch note i found it quite interesting what we found i hope you do to there was alot of sites with a hole information we put as much info as we could on the DLO.

Kate Sheppard

Kate Sheppard was the leader of the suffrage movement so we made a DLO about her we had to find 4 things about her who shew was what did she do why she is famous and personalty quality's it was fun looking at the web sites we found about her sometimes we put what we already knew in there. 

M bot

today at school we made a m bot from when i won it at the google tech summit so far we have built it got the remote for it and the m bot can drive its self and we can control it with the remote the last thing we need t do with it is program it to speak we have to use scratch to do it can wait till its finished.

GEG student summit

Last week Shannon Tiava Daniel  Jeremiah and I went to a school. We got to chose what activity we wanted to do. There was a fun activity where we had to find clues to find the key to get into a suit case. Sadly we ran out of time then we went to lego robotics Daniel and Tiava and I were in a group. We also presented how to make an animation. I thought we did really well. I won a prize. The prize I won was an m-bot! It is a robot that you can play with, you can make it move, it also has recording eyes.

Women's suffrage movement

In reading we have been looking at the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand which was led by Kate Sheppard over 100 years ago. Our task was to write a 25 word summary about what the suffrage movement was about. To finish this task my group and I had to work collaboratively, talk with each other and ask questions. We learnt that Kate Sheppard and the rest of the women that were apart of the suffrage movement had a huge impact on the way New Zealand is today.

Design tech

 to day at design tech we have finished the 3D printing and we are know onto painting. My design is the bat signal and i have put my first layer of paint on next time i will put my second layer of paint on we have 4 weeks left of tech so we have plenty of time to finish my design.