Use your imagination with lego bricks

On Monday the 18th of August house of bricks came to my hub. We had three different challenges. They were making a car then racing it to see how far it could go.



The second activity was The bridge which you had to make a bridge it could not have stablazies and it had to hold as many books and pencil cases as it could. Here is a photo of sid's and mine.
















The last one was the tallest tower ours was the tallest tour for our class and hub it was really tall. Our tactic was to make a tall square tour. That made it stable. This is a photo of my team.

Have house of bricks ever come to your school?

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Highlights of winter sports

Highlights of winter sports.

For winter sports this year I did hockey. We won 7 and drew 2 games we have one more game left to play. My goal this year was to get really good at the indian dribble and I have succeeded my goal for the year. I think next year my goal will be to try to be a bit more sneeky and flick the ball over peoples hockey sticks and my defence. This will help me to be more sneakier and faster.

This is my team.

We play on Thursdays at Nunweek Park. I play striker ( which is a goal scorer).
They are sand turfs. The goals have big tall nets and they have poles with a wooden planks at the bottom of the goals. My last game was really challenging we drew 9-9.

If you play winter sport or want to what sport would or do you play?

The magical bush

        The bush

One dull gloomy gray day John was walking thru the magic bush. He was going to meet Jef and george his two best friends then they were going to have a meeting about The magic bush roots they were dying so they were going to find a new place. They found heaps of other bushes but there were only two other bushes that would be all right. But the thing is that they had to move there stuff and they were a secret group.

John finally got to there meeting place and he found Jef but where was george George was
usually the first one there so what were they going to do would they go and find him our wait f
or?. They decided that they were going to wait a couple of minutes and if he was not there
soon they were going to find him. But where was he and was he coming?. Then suddenly
there was a big black scary monster came out of the seen. They started sprinting for a
long time then they saw George coming. Guess what george said Well George asked them
if they had seen his big black monster and Jef and John said at exactly the same time
we saw a big black scary monster and its chasing after us run!!.

Jef and John  ran and hid in the bush. But george ran straight to the monster and said come
back right know and get into your big black cage. Or I will be really angry and you will stay in
your cage for ever the monster tried to escape but he put his foot in a trap and the monster
screamed so loud he could have turned def that's how loud it was. But finally George got him
walking and george almost got him home when he saw a dog.

The dog started barking at the monster and they got into a fight extremely scary monster was
not scared of this big bull dog he just toppled over the bulldog and the bull dog did the same
thing. So it did not really look like a fight it was like two trampilions bouncing on top of each
other. Finally they stopped fighting and George got the big black monster back home in his
cage. When george got to his meeting they already  had found a big bush for there meetings
and it was a bonus because it had a tree with a hole in it so they could hide there.

The best Math board ever

This is what my hub has been doing this week. We have been doing Math boards.

 This one of the math boards that I have made. So what happens is you get given a question and this is how I sometimes figure it out is this way. You can do any equations you like with Math boards. My friends and I sometimes call them math cubes sliced in quarters. 

Here is another one of my math boards/ math cubes sliced in quarters.

Does your school do Math boards?

The floating boat

 On Pbl we did a boat we could use paper, straws,plastic cups,foil, and tape. The record in Tumu hub is 141 marbles and it had paper at the bottom and the cups were at the top. You had to try get as many marbles in your boat as you can as I said earlier the record is 141 and the boat did not rip at all not even the wet paper did not even ripp a little bit. my boat got 14 marbles. What we could have done better was that we should have used more cups than paper and straws and we needed to make more stable.


If you made a floating boat out of these materials what would your floating boat look like and how many marbles do you think you could put in the floating boat?

Endangered species

Endangered species

  What is a kakapo?

A kakapo is a bird that is very endangered. The only place they are found is in New Zealand. The parts in New zealand they are found are stewart Island  and mostly all the kakapo are found in the South Island.


What kakapo looks like.

Kakapo are birds that can't fly. They have black and green feathers and have a hairy face and with their beak is grey and almost on the top look like nostrils They have cute black eyes. They look very fluffy and they are really cute.


Facts about kakapo

There are only 148 kakapo in New zealand

They came here with a host of predators like dogs,cats,weasels and rats.

Kakapos have strong smell that the predators can smell them easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Males don’t take care of their babies and that leaves the females to take care of them.

When the opossums ate all the food the Kakapos has nothing to eat.

The kakapo are super climbers they climb with just their feet

Are kakapo endangered?

Kakapo are very endangered there are only 148 left in NZ  which is extremely sad. 

Benjamins best ideas for Ice caps

My reading follow up this week

This is the link for our follow up What Is a Polar Ice Cap?

The new ideas I have now I’ve read this text are:

• Put more trees round the place when we use more buildings.
• STOP USING PLASTIC
•   Give everyone free solar panels
• Stop using cars so much we could just use horses and donkeys
• Give every one electric cars
• Give everybody solar powered cars

What do I understand better? that the polar ice caps 9 percent every 10 years
it might not sound so much but it is a lot of ice. Before 5 to ten years we need to make
a change and quickly. That means that Antarctica is melting and the polar bears are starting
to suffer because of us. They are suffering by losing their homes and we need to stop.

What do you think you could do to help?