My Complete Wonder Project

This Week in Te Ngahere we finished our Wonder Project that we have been doing for the past 8 weeks.

We had to write a reflection about innovations, problem solving and collaboration, we had to write what we thought we did well and what we did not do well. The hardest part to write was the innovation, because innovation is what your group did to ensure your rocket was successful, I found that really hard to answer. The easiest part was to write about was collaboration because you need to explain what teamwork skills you had used.

Here is the Slide

Have you ever launched a rocket before?

My Glorious Movie

This term in Te Ngahere we have been making films for the film festival. We finished filming our movie and finished editing them. This week we watched our classmates movies while eating chips and lollies.

The hardest part to watch was my movie because it was so embarrassing I had to put on my hoodie while people were watching my movie. 

The easiest part was watching other people's movies because I didn’t have to be embarrassed. 

Here is the slide to my Movie

Have you ever made a Movie?

My Wonder Project! I’m Lovin’ it

This Week we tested our Rocket for the second time and it went really well. We changed some variables such as, replacing the cardboard fins into plastic fins and pumping 60 PSI. We also changed the water level to 300ml. The hardest part to launch a rocket is to pump the rocket to 60 PSI because my group struggled a lot to pump it. The easiest part was definitely to launch it and count to 3, 2, 1 BLAST OFF!!!

Have you ever Launched a Rocket?

The changes we made is in slide 9

What I learnt about Te Reo Maori

Hi my name is Mark a year 7 student from Paihia School. This term in Te Ngahere we have been making a maori DLO with a buddy, we were learning to speak English to maori like translating english to maori like this (I ako ratou ki te mahi paoro) It means they learnt how to play rugby. My Buddy was Zac a year 6 student.The hardest part to understand is maori words because every time Zac and I search up a word for maori it comes off wrong, the easiest part was the english words.

Our Script I’m Lovin’ it!

Kia ora this term in Te Ngahere we have been making films.

My group and I have been making a script called “The Mysterious Hat and Glove”. We made a funny script to motivate people. The main characters were Nathan/Mark’O and Jayden/Mark’ S. Jayden and Nathan found the mysterious hat and glove from the man who is protecting them. Once he saw them he walks away and puts the hat and gloves on the tree. The hard part was to communicate with my buddy because my friend is the only one who is doing the work. The easy part was to write our names and where our location is. Here is the script if you want to read enjoy!

My Amazing Art!!!

 Hello there, my name is Mark and this term we have been making an art called Mosaic art. We had to find a photo that we like and put it on a google drawing my pick was a cartoon car, we drew our photo with the polyline or shape tool and then we made the border color transparent and filled the color with the same color of the picture.  We also had to pick a background color to make our art stand out. I enjoyed it because it was fun to make. The hardest part was to draw the shapes at the right sides. The easy part was to make a background. My photo came out good and this is what it looks like, here's the slide.

Wonder Project

Hi there bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have been working with the Wonder Project Team, their names are Gustavo and Troy.

They taught us how rockets fly, they said that the two main things rockets need to fly are thrust and stability.

We went to the field to test our class’ rocket prototype. It blasted away like a real rocket, but it didn’t go that high.

I enjoyed The Wonder Project because it’s fun making a rocket and learning about why rockets fly. I also learned that plastic rockets flys by thrust and stability. Have you ever made a plastic rocket? here is the link to my Wonder Project Progress