The Renegade Rockets!

 Kia ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog,

I hope you had a good weekend and stayed really hydrated since it was really hot. As you may know by now, this term the Toroa hub has been learning about rockets and space. After we learnt a little bit about space and rockets, we started to create rockets that were just made out of plastic bottles and we decorated it with cardboard and paper. We also added the details like the fins and the nose cone because every rocket has both of those. After we had been learning and finding out the basics about rockets and space, we were able to test out rocket prototypes and see any changes we needed to make to then make the rocket a bit better. We got a choice to make a group name and a logo, but my group just decided to have a name which is "The Renegade Rocket"I find it really interesting how long it takes to get a rocket ready for launching and how long it takes to get to space. Last week we added information about our rocket and then added the changes and why we needed to change them. My group and I completed a google slide that has all of the information that you would need to know about our rocket. 

That is a little bit of what we've been learning throughout the last term and this term. I like the rocket that we created and personally, I think we do need to add changes and if you saw near the end of the presentation, was the overall rating for our rocket. I hope you learned a lot from this blog post and rocket presentation. Thank you for reading my first blog post for this week. I hope you have a good week and learn lots. see you next time!

Super Samoan classroom

 Talofa bloggers,

Welcome back to my blog. I hope you are all having a fantastic week so far and doing as much as you can in level 2. Since the start of the year, I have been learning about Samoan every Wednesday because of tech.  This morning before we went to tech, we made a Samoan classroom on google slides. In this classroom, we had to include the alphabet, numbers from 1 to ten the flag and some easy Samoan greetings. This is my virtual classroom of what I've been learning so then maybe you can also learn from it. If you hover over items in the classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on. 

In my classroom you will learn about:

• The alphabet
• Samoa as a Country 
• The traditional dance 
• Basic greetings
• How to count 1-10
• Information about siapo
• Animation about a simple conversation

I hope you enjoyed my classroom and I would really like to know what you liked best about it! Have you learnt about Samoan before and have you been to an island like Samoa? I really like the Samoan information and the flag because the flag is really colourful and the information/facts are so interesting. I like finding out about different places and other cultures. See you next blog post!

My recommended rocket animation

 Hello Bloggers and welcome back to my blog.  Wow! It's already week 5 and this term has already been filled with lots of learning and fun. Today's post is about what I did today for Inquiry. This term our hob is learning about space and rockets, it's really fun and super fascinating. Today we had to make an animation of what we rockets do when the blast off into space and some other things that rockets have. I decided to add people to it because little children might watch it. Here is the animation that I made! 

I found this animation really cool and fun to create because not every day you get to learn and create something about cool rockets. I kind of want to go to space one day because since I heard about space and rockets when I was younger, I've always wanted to go in a rocket and to space. Thank you for reading my blog post about my rocket animation. I hoped you enjoyed it! Did you know that the top of a rocket is called a Thrust and the bottom of a rocket is called the drag weight? Do you want to go to space one day? See you next time!

Problematic, paragliding parachute

Kiaora bloggers and welcome back to my blog. I haven't been posting much since the holidays, but I had a good holiday and it was really good coming back to school and catching up with my friends. For this terms Inquiry, the Toroa hub is learning about space and rockets. Every Tuesday people that have learnt and studied all about space and rockets, come in and teach us a bit about science and space each week. They also tell us what they do as their job, which is really important because there are different jobs in space and science. We have learnt so much so far and we are still to learn much more. As we weren't given any tasks from the people that came in, our teachers set us a task that was started on Thursday and needed to be completed today. 

Since we are learning about the subject space, our teachers thought it would be a cool and fun idea to create mini parachutes with resources like fabric and things we could find throughout the hub. We had to be in a group of three so then we could get our parachutes done quicker and easier. And the winner parachute was the group that had the longest time to get to the ground. Our initial design was to have some newspaper as the base and fabric taped on top of it, we had a string attached to each corner which leads to the bolts. When we tested it, it was too heavy and dropped straight to the ground in seconds. Our final design had a small piece of bubble wrap as the top of the parachute, with a string attached with tape to hold the bolts.

Here is the final outcome of my parachute that my group and I made and tested. I think we had a total time of about 1 second and 4 milliseconds and the longest time won and it was about 4 seconds. I like how our parachute turned out and I was not expecting it to go so well. I liked how we used bubble wrap for the top because most people used fabric and it was really interesting to see how long bubble wrap can stay in the air. It actually looks like a parachute which i'm very surprised and happy about. Did you guys have a good holiday and are you glad to be back? It's almost halfway through this term and it's actually gone pretty fast already. Thank you for reading my first blog post of the term! see you next time!