Our Rocket Video

 Kiaora bloggers and welcome back to my blog. It is finally the last week of the term which means we have 2 weeks of holiday and also spend time with family and friends. This term has been a long term with about 14 weeks non-stop, I think. Everyone is so very tired but just because of that doesn't mean we don't continue our learning each day. In the inquiry, you probably have already heard about this but, we have been creating and learning about rockets and space. The part that I fund most interesting about rockets is the cost and time that goes into each one of these rockets. You wouldn't think that the rockets would cost that much to build because you only use it once then you have to rebuild or add some more touches onto it. For the past week and a half, we have been creating our videos in the group that we built our rockets in and explained exactly what we learnt and some other things as well. 

The video part was really cool and creative because you got to decide where you wanted your video to be set which is amazing. I think our rocket explanation video is cool and really creative. My team and I worked really well together because we are friends and we got a lot of work done surprisingly. Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope you like the video. You should really do something like this with your group and like investigate more what you don't already know about what you're doing. Have a good holiday and I'll be back after the holidays posting more of my school life and learning. 

Super sign language video

 Kiaora blogger and welcome back to my blog. You may not know yet, but this week it is New Zealand sign language. Our class is celebrating this week by doing a fun task that involves learning how to sign with your fingers and using resources online to learn how to sign. NZ Sign Language is one of 3 official languages recognised in New Zealand.  This poster here is the official signs for each letter of the alphabet and some common words used in greetings. Watch the video below once, and then try to copy the letters as they slowly do them. To show what we have learnt during the time we have, we were to make a video of us signing "Kiaora, my name is" and then sign your name to complete the sentence. Here is the video of me signing that phrase.

I'm having technical difficulties with loading the video so when it works i'll put in on here. I fund this task really fun and really cool especially because I haven't learnt sign language before. You should give it a go. If you want to learn more about sign language like your name and simple phrases, you can go onto sign ninja or you can look at the photo above to learn the alphabet, your name and small phrases. Thank you for reading this weeks blog post. It is almost the holidays and I will probably post again this week. Have a good holiday if I don't post anytime after this.

 

Lucky, launched rocket

 Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week has been really cool because on Tuesday we got to launch the final product of our rocket. Our rocket is really colourful and my group and I put lots of time and effort to perfect our rocket. We had some time on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to create and come up with a design and idea for our rocket to launch as high as possible. Our rocket went really hight and it was in the air for quite some time as well. My group and I were really surprised after it got launched because we didn't think it would go as high as it actually went. Thankfully we filmed the very last launch so than I can show you how great our rocket was.

 

You may not be able to see it but if you can, it went really high and stayed in the air for quite sometime after we launched it. It was hard sometimes because it wouldn't go quite how we wanted it but we are still very proud of how hard we worked to get the final product of our rocket. Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope you come back for another blog post of mine soon. Have a good weekend! See you next time!

PSA - Coding

 Kia ora Bloggers and welcome back to my blog. It's finally the middle of the week which means we only have half the week left at school. For the last couple of weeks, we have been getting taught by our teacher on how to code your own game or system thing. We had to code in words which is complicated but fun at the same time. We have been coding a game to address a world issue that is something bad like littering or something else like that. I decided to do my game on littering because I think it's really important to know not to litter where ever you are in the world. My message on my game is to tell anyone in the park not to litter. 

These images are about how I coded it and how the game worked in the end, also about what it looks like. This process did take me two Wednesdays to complete and I think I can do better if I had more time to do it. I will defiantly use this website next time if I want to code a really easy game. This website is called Codesters if you want to give it a go. Thank you for reading my blog post. Make sure you come back next blog post for some extra fun in your day! Have a good week.