Rube Goldberg Machine!

 In Blastoff today we constructed our Rube goldberg machine! (It is a complex machine to do a simple task). Rasmus and I drew up a design that consisted of a Hot wheels car and a track for it to roll down and smash into the dominos. Next, the dominos should slow the car down enough for it to nudge the ping pong ball at the end into the cup!

Blast off!

 We built catapults and held a competition to find out who built the farthest launching catapult. Luca won by a hair, it was very fun overall! I would recommend it to others!

Physical Activity Reflections

Last week I participated in Campion’s athletics day, I placed 3rd in High Jump and jumped 1.8 meters. I can jump this high because I put all my strength into my run up, then when I am in a good position I transfer my energy to my legs and jump as high as I possibly can. My technique is to jump up and turn onto my back mid air, then I weave my way over the bar and land on my back. On a scale of 1-5 I rate myself 5 for pushing myself to my limits. I know this because my heart rate increased to the point I thought it would burst, I was sweating like a pig and I was puffing the entire day to an extent like I was gonna bust a gut. I love to participate in running long distances, competitive football, handball at lunch and P.E during class.

Spy's Code Of Ethics

Today Carmen Sandiego escaped prison and trashed our classroom. Also she and her V.I.L.E. goons  stole a ancient artifact. The Spy Organization A.C.M.E. reached out to our class and we all are learning to be a spy agents and catch Carmen Sandiego and her V.I.L.E. henchmen. We all made our agent names and code names as well as printed our fingerprints on a form.

I enjoyed printing our fingerprints and writing our agent code names.
I found nothing challenging.
My digital learning object shows what our Spy Code Of Ethics are and what we have to follow.

The People of Parihaka

For RE this week, we were learning about Parihaka. Parihaka was a peaceful village full of kind and caring people. But the government wanted to take the land. They sent soldiers with guns and swords, but the people of Parihaka did not resist, instead they greeted the soldiers. The women baked bread while the children sung and danced. The soldiers still took their land and inprisioned the cheifs but the People of Parihaka did not retaliate or complain. When the cheifs got out of prison, they simply rebuilt Parihaka.

I enjoyed making the Google Drawing and learning all about Parihaka.
I found nothing challenging.

The Rosary

This month is the month of the Rosary.
We are learning all about the Rosary and part of that is making a Google drawing about how to pray the Rosary.
I enjoyed learning and making the Google drawing about how to pray it.
I found it challenging to find the infomation about each prayer that you say.

The Worst Soccer Game

WALT describe in our writing. We were trying to use some long and short sentences, use adjectives and adverbs, use juicy verbs to start a sentence, use a simile or metaphor, keep to one main idea in each paragraph and edit for spelling and punctuation.
I enjoyed writing about the terrible match we played in soccer.
I found it challenging to find adverbs and put them in my writing because the ones I was thinking of didn't fit in.

The icy grass crunched beneath us as we ran. The frosty wind thrashed against the ball and pushed it back as we tried to kick it. Frozen rain bucketed down. The clouds roared like a lion with all its might. The game still continued, even though the weather struck us with its might and our arms and chest felt stiff like frostbite. Eventually everything became a blur. Our bodies stung. The wind threw us to our knees. Cold rain soaked our clothes. Finally, after all that, I slowly got up from the ground and used all of my adrenalin to score the finishing goal. As a celebration, all I wanted to do was have a hot bath and a delicious hot chocolate.