Task Masters

In Te Ngahere to start off the term our teachers decided to do something fun, so we did a little bit of task master challenge . For taskmaster we played a game where everyone in the class has to try stay on the piece of news paper for 5 seconds, without touching the ground. Before we started we all had to come up with strategies so that all of us could stand on the news paper at the same time. Everytime we did it we would have to fold the news paper in half so it would get smaller and smaller. We only had one minute to find out the best strategy that we wanted to use. On the first round my group Angela, Ana, Marley and I, there was enough room for all of us to just stand on it so we did. Then on the second round I jumped on Angelas back and Marley jumped on Anas back. In the end my group won, but then the teachers wanted us to do it again but with 3 people. So my group was now Angela, Ana and I. We decided to try the same strategies that we used when we had 4 people but it didn’t work and sadly we were out and had to sit down. I really enjoyed this because it really had my groups brains working with trying to find out strategies that would work the best. Next time I think I would try put myself in a group with people that have small feet and are good at balancing. Have you ever played this game before & if you have how did it turn out?

New Maths

Kia ora, in Te Ngahere this week we have started a new type of maths. We have started making graphs, the reason why we are doing this is because it is going to help us with the science fair this year with presenting our data. First, we all jumped into the groups that the teachers put us in and all wrote down our age, eye color, how many siblings we have, how we got to school on a piece of paper. After that, we gathered all of the data and made a table. We then made a graph. The graphs that I made was a pie graph and bar graph because those are the two graphs that I understand most. I really enjoyed this because it was really interesting and I haven’t done anything to do with graphs in a long time. The thing that I think I could of done better was coming up with better graphs to present my data instead of just using the regular graphs like a bar graph or a pie graph, but then sometimes the regular graphs are better to use to present your data because they are easier to understand. What is your favorite graph?

Great Marble Challenge:

Kia ora, Last week in Te Ngahere we started doing a marble challenge. In this marble challenge we had to create a ramp that the marble would travel down and stop exactly on 1.1 meters. We created these ramps because we were going to have a competition to see who’s ramp worked the best and why. We were allowed to use whatever we wanted to make the ramps. Once we made our ramps we then created our instructions, the reason why we created instructions was because we were not constructing our ramps another group was. I really enjoyed doing this because when we did this two years ago I had no idea what to do and what would help the ramp work better and what wouldn’t, but this year I remembered from two years ago what worked well and what didn’t. I also really enjoyed this because it was a great experience for the year 6’s to have a go and celebrate with us. Something I think I would work on or do better next time is that I would work on making my instructions clearer. When we did this we also had to follow the scientific method, if you don’t know what the scientific method is it is 1 ask a questions, 2 gather information, 3 make an hypothesis, 4 test and experiment, 5 analyze your test results, 6 modify your hypothesis if needed, 7 then present your conclusion and the last step is to get someone else to test your hypothesis. I hope we get to do this again soon because it as a great experience to do with the year 6’s. Have you ever made a ramp before?