Technology

Mbot Quizz

Today we went to Technology and today we did the same things from last week. We programmed the Mbot to move in a square again. It was quit boring because we all already knew how to do it. Click onto my link to fill in a form about Mbots. 

Te oro

Today, room seven and six went to Te oro. This little trip was unexpected, but really fun at the same time. We didn't have a bus, so we had to walk there, luckily it was close to our school. Once we arrived a lady introduced herself and then we had to take our shoes off, and then we could go into the room we were doing our crafts, and it smelled pretty funny once our shoes were off. Once we went in we had to sit on the mat while the other people were singing. When that was over they all introduced themselves and then we got straight into it. Then our teachers had to seperate all of us into three groups and I was in the third group. My group had to sit on the mat and then the teachers separated our group into two groups. I went with Whaea and we got started. Whaea gave us four flaxes each and a pair of scissors for later. We started grabbing two pieces of flax and put them on top of eachother, then made it into a loop. After that we grabbed the other two and put them on top of each other and then put it between the hole and the top. We made another loop with that around the first one and  inserted the end into the first hole. To do this step you might need another person to help you because you will need more than two hands to do this. You will have to pull all four sides and then you will get four squares. Turn it around and then take one from each end and fold it straight up, do that until you get to the last end, and with the last end you have to tuck it into the closes square there is and then this is the part when you need your scissors. Grab the scissors and then you have to cut the ends into a triangle end. Do that onto the rest and then you have a star. Today I've learnt how to make a star and I've learnt that in Maori star means Fetu, also I've learnt that in Maori flax means Harakeke. Today was really fun and intresting to learn everything we've just learnt and I hope we could go there another time again, but maybe without the walking.

Rugby

Today my class and I went outside for some Rugby. I felt really cold because it was early in the morning and I wasn't really in the mood for rugby, because of the weather, I thought that Rugby was going to be canceled. Then once we started the sun popped up and I was really happy that it didn't rain and ruin our Rugby session. We did some warm up games so our blood can start pumping through our body.  We played rats and rabbits which is our usual warm up game. Once we finished that we got into some passes. Then we played the real game and our coach said that it was kind of like netball, so we had to play like how we play in Netball. So we couldn't run with the ball, we couldn't  kick the ball and we couldn't touch the other people, so we had to be three feet away from them. Then there will be someone from your team and they have to stand inside the square, which is your try line and then your team has to try and get a point by getting a try in your square. Rugby was really fun and intresting because I learnt a new game and I hope it will be the same next week we go there.

Technology

Today we went to Technology at Tamaki College and we focused on how to move our mbot. We started off easy, and it went pretty well. In this picture is the code I used for programming my mbot. This image shows the code that I used to make it move forward, wait one second and then it moved backwards into its position. We took some videos of the mbot moving and then we had to put it into our google slides. Today's lesson was really intresting and I think that it was easy, and I hope next week we go there, we do something even more challenging than today.

Technology at Tamaki

Today we went to Tech and it was pretty fun. First we went to our classes and by surprise we didn't see Mr Krishna, our normal Robotics teacher. There was this other guy talking with the deputy principal. 

The deputy principal said that Mr Krishna wasn't feeling really well so we had a reliever. This guy was really cool because he was pretty chill with us. He didn't really know us and it was his first time teaching us so he taught us the things we did in the first week and last week. We told that and then we just went straight into programming the mbot and trying to put sound into it. We had to be in pairs so I went with my friend, Papiloti. 

First we had to plug it into the mbot and start coding. We didn't know what to do so we asked our teach teacher. He showed us what to do and we both finally knew how to do it. We had to go onto this Google slides and we will find the information there. 

Once we logged on to the slides we saw some music notes on the slides. He said that we had to look at the letters below it and write it down on coding. I did the work while my friend was doing something else, it was really cool adding the sound because the song that I programmed was the birthday song. 

Once I got used to it, it got easier and easier as I went through it. I was finally done with the code and it sounded really cool. I think my friend and I were the only ones done because I didn't hear anyone else's music, but ours. I was really happy with the work we did and I hope next week we put everything together.

Prototec Maths

Today I was so happy with my score that I got. I made big progress today and I'm so happy because I only got one equation wrong and it was a division equation. I could've got it right, but my siblings kept jumping on the bed and I couldn't concentrate. I know that my teacher is going to be so happy for me because now I can try and beat the other people that are on stage 8. My mum was also happy for me because I only got one wrong and she said that it was really good and to keep it up the good work. I can't wait until I try to get off stage 8.