Samoan learning update

 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

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

Fa!

Space/ Rocket Launching Animation

Hey guys,

Since we have started our rocket experiments, we decided to make our own animations basing on our launch experiences from last week, this bases on the drift, weight, and launch to create a successful rocket go into space. If you want to look at this a bit deeper, you can look at Nasa's Apollo missions on their site. please tell me what I can improve on. 

My amazing samoan animation

 Hey guys,

We have been picking up our learning of Samoan again starting with basic greetings, then we were made to make an animation of people having a conversation using the correct terms we saw in the video. I really started to enjoy Samoan after this lesson. The basic greetings you will see in this animation are "how are you?" "well, thank you" " Have a good day" "hello" "goodbye", these are the majority of them but I challenge you to guess what the other ones are, I need some feedback in the comments.

Parachute Challenge

 Hey Bloggers, 

Recently we have been learning about how a parachute works (on top of our science and rocket inquiry) and we were tasked to create a parachute that could hold to mechanic nuts for our 'people'. I wasn't here for the majority of the task because I was off doing other things for the school so I really loved how it came out, we, of course, tested it and I don't think we got the best time of 2.5 seconds. How do you think we did?

New term Rocket challenge

Hey guys,

I apologize for not posting last week. on Fridays, I get really busy and have no time to post. Anyway, this term we have been Starting a space project that allows us to build and engineer our own rockets. We have been sorted into groups and every Tuesday we get an engineer come in and talk to us about how it is going to work. from there we have decided if we were going into the space industry what job would you get and why. This is my group's official slide for this project and we will probably keep updating it throughout the term. Also,  our name is Glad wrap and our logo stands for that in case anyone confused.

Aurora's (Southern Lights)

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Along with our Matariki and koru work, we have also been learning about  Aurora's. These are lights That surround places like the north pole. Looking at the beauty of the sky, hence the reason it was named after the Roman Goddess of The dawn, Aurora.   These light come in all shapes and colours, however Mostly green.
These lights start with the sun being so hot that the gasses around it leave pieces of the sun falling off and charging directly at the earth. from stopping them from crashing into the earth, the earth has a magnetic border around it so instead of part fo the sun. it creates the Southern/ Nothern lights in the sky. We made art inspired by the lights, What do you think?

Backwards stratagey

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This and last week in maths we have been learning different strategies in algebra to help us work out the problems. for a couple of days, we have been working on the backward strategy. The backward strategy is when you have a problem that has a part of the answer and it's your job to tackle the rest of the problem and figure out the rest of the answer. take an example where you have a problem like this (?x3)+5=20 you could either guess and check or turn you're + into - or turn your x into divide (can't do it properly) You get the basis. If you like take a try at my word problem and solve it in the comments.