New Term

 Hey Bloggers,  

It's a new term, but more than that is it's my last term here before going to Highschool. My holidays consisted mostly of laser Tag and Reading but I would also like to know about your holidays in the comments. For the first few days of term, I went to a Leaders training course that consisted of learning the 6/7 habits that a leader should develop. It was also full of fun, and complicated challenges that used a lot of teamwork. But what I am going to share is the Tessellation I did in Maths. 

Tessellation is defined by a flat surface covered by one or many geometric shapes, These overlap with each other leaving no gaps in between. As you can see I did my own tessellation followed by an answer to the question, Can all triangles Tessellate?

I would now like to conclude with a question for you, what have you learned this week in maths? Did you have any problems? if so how did you overcome them?

NZSL Ninja Challenge

 Hey Bloggers, 

This week is NZSL week, more than 14 years ago NZSL became an official New Zealand language (6 April 2006) I would like to give you a brief history of this wonderful language. New Zealand sign language uses a mix of English and Maori Translations, this is why it is not a universal language. The first (NZ) school of the deaf opened in 1980 in Christchurch and was called 'Sumner School of the deaf' and is still open to this day. This language. This used to be banned from being used in the 1880s, however, in 2011 Television used interpreters for the briefings after the Christchurch earthquakes. This was the first tie the interpreters were seen on screen. 

To celebrate we went on this game called 'Sign Ninja' that taught us the basics (colours, numbers, food, drinks) of NZSL using a Ninja type game, then we were instructed to create a video of us saying "hello my name is_____" in sign language. Down below you can see my attempt and the sign language game that we played. Why don't you have a go at doing these challenges? What words do you know in NZSL? I would really like to know in the comments.

Video NZ

Our Final Rocket launch!!

 Hey Bloggers,

As you may know for the past 8 weeks we have been learning about how to design our own rocket. and recently we have been launching ours into the air, one final time. This was a great experience to have and would 100% do it again if I had the chance. Some of the things I found hard were the gluing of the fins and keeping them on during the test launches, this works its self out in the outcome because no fins came off during the last flight due to us using stronger glue. Overall my team was personally amazing and wouldn't change our group for the world. What would you call your rocket team if you had one?

animating a interactive PSA (sort of)

Hey bloggers,

For the past few Wednesdays, we have been looking at PSA and more importantly, how to create them using code. Mine is about littering when we see a girl litter and her teacher tells her not to do it, But I made the teacher spin round while he said it (which is the main reason I didn't screenshot it) This was pretty basic and the software was personally better than a scratch, If you made a PSA could you link it in the comments I Would love to check them out.

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.