Cool Carnival Games

 Hi readers!

In Numeracy (maths) we have been learning about gambling and the risk of it. One of the things we have done is played these online carnival games. They are all about gambling and how easy it is to lose everything.

Here are some screenshots of some of the carnival games.

Some are harder to win than others and I ended up with a total of 87 points, a paper clip, and a pin. We also did some other things about gambling. We made dice for Australia and New Zealand. The Australian dice had 1 miss and 5 goals because of there shooting percentages and NZ had 2 misses and 4 goals because of their shooting percentage. We then rolled a dice and did a tally chart of the number of misses and goals of each country. In some NZ won and in other Australia won.

Have you gambled before?

Until next time!

 

Children Books!

Hi readers,

In literacy, we have been learning a lot about children's books and the things children books have, like rhyme and repetition. We learned about multiple children book authors and their specialties in writing children's books.   

We then started writing our own children's books we had to have one of those language features. The book has to be illustrated by yourself and it has to have more than 5 pages.

My book is using rhyme and a little bit of repetition. It is about 12 pages long and the moral is that you should own up to your mistakes.

Here is the draft so far.

So that is the draft so far, I still have some rhyming to do but then I can start with the illustrations.

What is your favourite children book author? Have you tried writing a children's book before?

Until next time!

Parachute engineering!

Hi readers!

We have been learning a lot about rockets and we are going to start designing bottle rockets soon. But to test our engineering skills we had to make a parachute.

We were given lots of materials (paper, fabric, string, tape, etc) to make our parachute with. The parachute would have to safely bring to nuts to the ground. The slowest time would win.

Our first design didn't go so well, it hit the ground quickly and didn't catch enough air, it also broke whilst being stored away, this is what it looked like

So we all decided we were just going to make a new parachute with a completely new design. We made heaps of changes to the parachute, we changed the shape from a square to a circle and put paper on top of the fabric so less air could escape. We also used thinner string, it still held the nuts but made the parachute just a little bit lighter. That's the changes we made to our parachute and this is what it turned out to look like.

You can't see the string very well but just trust me when I say it's there.

It took 2.3 seconds to get down the floor, meaning it did pretty well. The difference between the beginning parachute and the end parachute was very big and I think my group did pretty well considering we were on a bit of time crunch (Because we had to make a completely new one)

Until next time!

Wonderful Weekly Mashup!

Hi Readers!

This is a weekly mashup for week 2 and what I have done. I am going to show you some Maths, and some Literacy. I'm going to start with maths.

For maths, we have been looking plotting points on a cartesian plane. we have also been working on finding coordinates. 

For this slide, we had to find the odd one out of the coordinates. To do this you had to check that the coordinates fit in the expression. Then you had to match the ordered pairs with the correct line (expression).

Next is literacy.

For literacy, we are learning about children's books, and our end goal is to write a children's book, but before we do that we were looking at different children's book authors. We started of by looking a Dr. Zuess, who is known for his poems and rhymes. We were tasked to make a poem, about absolutely anything and put it on a slide. Here is mine

What do think? Who your favorite children's book author? Have you made a rhyming poem before?

Until Next time!