My Most Amazing Creativity To Share about my Drawbridge Challenge

Kia ora e hoa, we have been making a drawbridge for a drawbridge challenge. We had to create a circuit for a ping pong ball or marble to travel. I learnt what a drawbridge is. A drawbridge is a bridge that is hinged at one end so that it may lift to prevent people to cross it and to let vessels pass under it. This is a very fun activity but it involves a hot glue gun so I don’t recommend it for young kids, it might blow up in their/your hand. I have experienced seeing it. So far my group and I have made the base and almost two full sides. Next time I could stop making everything perfect and try to get it done. I hope you learnt something new and I hope you liked this blog post.
Kia kite.

Pou Pou Art

In Te Ngahere we have been doing art. For art we have been doing Pou Pou/Pou. Pou are carving that are normally found in a marae, they represent IwI/tribes or in other words they are a sign that marks territorial boundaries or places of significance that are carved by maori. They are made out of wood but we drew them on paper and colored them in with pastel. My theme was rainbow and I accomplished it. I used more warm colors then cold colors but when I am completely finished it would sort of be even between the mix. I learnt what pou meant and actually were because I had no idea what they were. My teacher Whaea Barbara also learnt something new. She learnt woman/girls don’t poke their tongues out. Here is a photo of my pou but it’s not completely done and it is very messy.
Hope you learnt something.
Kia kite ano.

Fractions

Today in Te Ngahere I was doing fractions. I was doing sort of a quiz. We were turning fractions into decimals. There were 4 options to choose from and we had to choose the right one and there were 10 questions to answer. I had trouble at the start but then I got used to it and started getting the hang of working out the questions. The method I used was making the denominator a multiple of 10. Then you take your numerator and multiple it by the answer. For example if you have 8/25 you would multiple 25 (denominator) by 10 which would be 4. Then you multiple 4 by 8 (numerator) which = 0.32. And that is how you turn fractions into decimals. Here is a link to my slideshow if you don’t understand.

Kia kite ano.