To Build a Bot and Emotional Robots-Reading work/Robots

This term we have been learning about robots that can be emotional robots - A.I and about kids building robots. We did this in our reading work. We read two interesting articles about building robots.

Here is the link to my work.

The abandoned house

Today we had a digital technology day and I chose pick a path with Mrs Glue. We learnt how to use google forms .

Transformation DLO

Writing-Abandoned vegemite factory

Abandoned Places writing

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

Choose one of the above images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

The abandoned Vegemite factory 

I'm on a secret mission off to investigate an mahue (abandoned) vegemite
factory. When we got there, I looked up, it was about 5 times my height.  I
had never seen anything like it . I scraped my hand along the wall, it felt
crusty and old. My heart skipped a beat as I walked in. A big whiff off old
dust that smells like ash hit me. That’s when I got the eerie feeling that this
place was built 10,000s and 10,000s of years ago. The ash from 10,000s of
years ago had blown away but this ash smelt new and smoke from a fire
was hovering in the air above us. 

When we got inside the musty door slammed behind my colleagues who like
vegemite. I felt winiwini (fearful). We carefully looked upstairs for any clues
of why people left this creepy/spooky place. The mouldy staircases creaked
as we carefully walked up them. When we got to the top there was two ways
to chose to investigate, left or right. We chose to split up. We slowly walked
until we found a door that said KEEP OUT in whero (red). Beneath it was a
rusty old padlock I knew we could unlock it because it was probably over
10,000 years old. When we tugged on the dirty door it flung open. It smelt
like dead rats but when we walked in to the wet floorboards. We heard a
deafening noise behind us. I felt like someone was following us… My
curiosity got the better of me and it turned on my torch to find the vegemite
factory owner.

“ What are you doing at my old vegemite factory?” The vegemite owner
screeched. “ We are investigating this old dungeon” we said. 
“But what for?” “To find out why people left this place. ’’ The owner looked
old and wrinkly like a mouldy grapefruit and his eyes were faded. Suddenly
there was a loud BANG. The owner took us to a secret room. It was
surprisingly clean and there were 3 windows to let the light and fresh smell
in. There was a spotty sofa with some fluffy pillows on them. I heard a
squeak. I looked behind me and the door was wide open and something
jumped out…

How to make a paper plane?

Hi, today I researched how to make a paper plane. I have made a presentation of the instructions. When you have had a go, let me know how your plane flew, and maybe send me a photo. smart Blogging.
 

My Scratch project-Te Reo Moari

Task:Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week-Korero o te Wiki.

WALT:
-use scratch to code for computational thinking
-learn how to create basic code on scratch
-say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori

Click here to see my Korero o te Wiki-Phrases of the Week.

See my scratch project bellow

My Marae Recount

Rm7 and Rm 5s trip to the Arahura Marae

 In week one, term two, 2019 finally Rm7 and Rm5 went to the Arahura Marae to learn about our local Marae. As I got out of the car I felt excited for the powhiri and everything else except my mihi; the one thing I felt nervous for!

 The Wharenui
As soon as I walked in I could see the wonderful carved wharenui. At the top I could see the pounamu Tekoteko. It is the only one in New Zealand ! As I walked into the Wharenui I realised the glowing ribs and spine that lay above me and the protective carvings were all staring at me. I saw the little buttons on the carvings and the different colored patterns later on Jerry ( the person that knows a lot about the Arahura Marae ) told us the buttons meant that they had owned the land and the colors were the different strands of DNA from the different tribes/iwi.

 The River
 On the downhill walk to the rushing river I was thinking if I or anyone else would find pounamu. I was getting excited for the sand sculptures. Just before we got down to the river Jerry told us some tips, “ DON’T LOOK FOR GREEN “ ! I asked myself why would you not look for GREEN when you're looking for GREENstone. Sadly I didn’t find any greenstone. When we moved onto the sand sculptures we had no Idea what to do so we had to think hard and then we got it. The best idea ever! Two mountains , the Arahura Marae , the river and Waitaiki. We made the mountains out of leaves and sand. We made the Arahura Marae out of sticks and a flower. The river was made out of little white rocks and Waitaiki was made out of sticks , flowers and leaves.

 The Evening Rotations
 At night we did the evening rotations. We got to write down which ones we liked the most in order. For my first evening rotation I did soap carvings with Ms Barrow. We had to use a stick to carve through the soap that Ms Barrow gave us. I found the stick annoying because it kept going where I didn’t want it to go. But it smelt great. For my second rotation was the tukutuku panels with Ms Glue. Ms Glue gave us a needle and a sheet with squares on it. First you had to poke holes in the corners then thread wool into the holes. After the evening rotations we roasted Marshmallows then put them in a chocolate biscuit to make it a smore. YUMMY I thought as I was eating my smore and at the same time I was listening to the story that Ms Barrow told.

 I am really thankful for all the parents and teachers that came because we couldn't of gone without them. I am also thankful that we were invited to the Marae and got taken down to the river. I could imagine all the hard work that Miriama and her staff put in to all the food that they gave us. I really enjoyed the experience.