Bridge Building

We have been learning about forces and how they help shape the sort of bridges that we build.

We learned that there are three main types of bridge design; beam, truss and suspension.  Using this knowledge we designed and built our own bridges.

Miss Fletcher set the challenge that our bridges had to be 30 cm long and strong enough to hold an object.

In my group there were Frank, Zavier, Kaye-Lani and Stella. We used an Egg Carton and some cardboard to build our bridge.

Here is a photo of our Beam bridge.  What I like best about our bridge is that it can hold the weight of me when I sit on our beam bridge.

Maths - Volume and Capacity

This week we used popcorn to learn about Volume and Capacity.

Speech

We have been learning how to write speeches. I wrote my speech about Police.

Did you know that bad guys are in jail because of police? Police are important to our communities. They can help people, they arrest people and they can put people in jail and they save people’s lives. I believe that the police is an important job.

Firstly, the police take their job seriously. They do a good job as there are a lot of criminals around New Zealand stealing money.    

Next, Police can arrest people if they commit a crime. The person can get charged by the police and may have to go to court. 

Finally, the police give people a ticket for speeding. If people speed they might crash and hurt themselves or hurt others.

I believe the police deserve to have a break, they help save New Zealand. Being a police officer is an important job.

Moon Lander

Title:  Moon Rover Lander    Label: Science

For science we made a Moon rover lander using only a paper cup, paper, cellotape and straws.  We were given the task of making our Moon rover land softly onto our Moon landscape so that our marsh-mellow astronauts did not fly out.

The materials I used for my Moon rover is plsikbag and paparn and capn and tapn.

What I like best about my Moon rover is

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was  ….

One thing  I learned about landing on the Moon was

Here is a video/picture of my Moon rover landing on our school’s Moon surface.  I hope you like it!

ART AUCTION

 

we have been learning to talk to each other in maori here  is a converstify we recorded on Screencastify.

   

Handwriting

Here is my handwriting sample for term 2.  I am good at my letters on the line. I need to work on my lats name.