PBL invention 2019

Today I am presenting the amazing Jenga mat that forms into a bag. 

This term my group was Aidan, Ebony and Zoe, we made the jenga mat that forms into a bag. This is how we made it and who got the materiels. So Zoe got a supermarket bag and I brang a yoga mat, and at school we got some Velcro. They are the only materials you need to use.

Our idea was that we wanted to stop the sound of it crashing down to the ground. Also we thought that it would also be great for the teachers so they do not get headaches.

So then we cut four of the edges and then started sticking some Velcro on. Then we cut the yoga mat so it was the same size as the bag. We decided to fold the bag up to its shape and tested if the cut Yoga mat could fit in the bag. We tested to see if the jenga could fit in the yoga mat that is rolled up in the bag.

Now it is time to see if the jenga mat worked. We started playing jenga then at the same time Aidan Ebony Zoe and I knocked it down. There was no sound at all.

If you had the opportunity to buy this would you?

Field trip to the museum

We went to the museum on Monday the 16 September 2019. First one of the men (Anthony) from the museum told us a story about a Taiga fa who kidnapped a girl because he wanted to marry her. She said no and wanted to go home because she was already married. The tangafi and the woman's husband started fighting. Here is a photo of him telling us the story.  

 

We are now listening to Anthony talk about  Maori gardening tools. The shovels are way different  to what they  are now. It was quite interesting. Did you know that the Maori made baskets from bark? Anthony showed us one of the actual baskets that was stored in the cabinet at the museum.Did you know that back in the olden days the elderly had to try the medicine because they thought they would die first anyway!?

Next we went into the secret classroom that is in the museum. We got to chisel some wood and to use a drill but it was not a real drill. It was one were you had to pull in out to get it to drill a hole. We also got to chop some wood to try make the shape of a canoe and cut some wood out with some Pomona. We also got to smooth  some rocks on a big rock and with water. The  last activity in the classroom  was trying to make smoke and only two people have done that before and no one has ever made fire. Here is a photo of the classroom.

Know it was lunch time we ate our lunch then we got to play in a tree and round the water fountain we tried to climb the highest in the tree and we played other games as well. 

Then after that we were aloud to have a look around the museum. we got to play some quizzes they're about animals. we all got a ride on the Antarctic sleigh. also got to look at some of the antarctic animals. 

After that we went back to school on the bus. when we got back to school it was time to go home. It was a really fun day. 

What would your favorite part be in the museum?

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How are rocks made

Rocks, rocks and more rocks. Rocks are everywhere you go, for example on mountains they have
billions of rocks on them. You may be thinking rocks are boring but I am sure you will not once you have
read this. Do you know how old rocks are?  The answer is they are 3.8 billion years old!
Did you know most of earth is covered in rocks? One thing you will find out in this peace is how rocks
are made. 

Rocks come in all different shapes and sizes. They can be humongous rocks or tiny rocks that are
called stones. Another type of rock is boulders. Boulders are big rocks that may have fallen down a cliff.
For example at Kaikoura there was an earthquake in 2017. There are heaps of boulders going into
Kaikoura and there are also humongous rocks. There are also rock faces on the way to Kaikoura.

Can you look at a rock and estimate how old it is? Well I'm sure you can’t unless your a Geologist (that is a rock scientist). This is how rocks are made. Lava pours down then in many years they form into rocks. And they will sometimes break from rocks then that's how they form into stones. Did you know you can make awesome stuff out of stones or with stones. I've seen someone on one of the tvs at the Museum this guy made a knife and cut pounamu!.

I now find rocks really interesting now that I have read facts about them. I hope that you have too.

Do you now find rocks interesting?

you need to work hard before the times up

Are you ready for the qualifiers of the epro challenge. My team is Frank, Frankie, Alice and me Benjamin. We started with the ball pit that was a really good challenge to start with. We got it of a orange ball that gives you 30 extra points to start with. We got the points for that straight away and we were already on 60 points. We went to the box to put the balls in know. In the qualifies we In the qualifies we had 3 hours and we got 320 points and we won the qualifiers.



Are you ready for the semi final of epro 8. Epro 8 is where you do lots of challenges and you have to complete them in about 3 hours.



This is what happend in one of the competitions three two one start we looked in our booklet and had a look at the challenges we decided to do the apple picking one. We made something for it then we tested it. It failed first so we went to something else we got some points then we moved back. This time we made it different. It worked out well this time. We did the next challenge was how many apples can you get in one minute we got 8 in one minute so we passed the test.





We did heaps of other challenges with cords and white boards and boxes. You can also use string and other really cool stuff. 12 11 10 9 8 Put the buzzer on 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 finished. Yay we came 3rd were in the finals and canterbury university.


 The Next week we went to the university for the finals.When we got there we had a look at our new things then we got started. In the finals the them was arcade games. There were lots of new things in our tool thing. We started of with the challenge called alien invasion. That was a hard challenge to start with but we got the points for it which was great.

Have you ever done epro 8 or do you want to do epro 8?

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.