Steps

Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we are measuring our steps. The reason we are doing this is because Whaea Becks and Whaea Chrissy have ordered pedometers, (things which count how many steps you’ve taken). With the pedometers we’re going to add all our steps together after one day. With all our steps added together we’re going to see if we could walk the distance of New Zealand.

First we had to measure how long our steps were (mine are 80 cm). Afterwards we had to estimate how many steps it would take us to walk 10 metres. My estimation was 12 and a half steps. When we had estimated how many steps it would take us we had to measure something outside. My group and I measured te Whare Kai which is 10.31 metres long on the length of te Whare Kai. Once we had finished measuring the Whare Kai. We took turns walking the part we measured; it took me 16 steps to walk the part we measured. Now we’ve finished making a digital poster. On the poster we had to take a photo of what we measured and put a bit of a summary in it.

Everything that we’ve been doing so far I’ve enjoyed. Something I could do better next time is take a better photo of the Whare Kai.

Science Fair

In Te Ngahere we’ve continued with our science fair (not that we had a break). My group’s question is, What is the best material for insulation? The reason we’re doing this (other than science fair) is to carry out a scientific experiment. What we’ve done to carry out our experiment is we’ve wrapped 5 materials around 5 ice cream containers. When we had done that we boiled water and poured it into the ice cream containers. We checked the temperature with a water thermometer every 20 minutes for two hours. After we had finished that experiment we did the same thing except with cold water. Last Friday we had to present our experiments on a board and they were judged by Mrs Lindsay and another judge but I forgot her name.

The NED Show

At Paihia School we had a NED Show. NED means Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best. The NED Show has a lot of important messages in it. The person this show is about (Ned) has to go on a mission. The mission he goes on is him trying to find his mindset. He has to fly to Mt Everest using a Hot Air Balloon once he gets to Mt Everest he gives up trying to climb Mt Everest because he has a Brain-freeze (not from eating an ice-cream). Then a Yeti  appeared out of nowhere. The Yeti’s name is Yet. Yet the Yeti told Ned that he can’t climb Mt Everest YET (this was one of the messages). When Ned climbed Mt Everest he found another envelope with another riddle inside of it. I don’t remember the riddle but I remember the answer, it was a zipline. Ned ziplined down Mt Everest all the way from Nepal to the Caribbean. When Ned landed, he landed on a X. Then Ned spotted a pirate and she was coming towards him. She encouraged Ned and gave him courage. After this she told him to dig down on the X and Ned dug down. In the hole he found a treasure chest but when he opened it all there was, was a treasure map. Ned looked up at the pirate and said “I have to go through a JUNGLE!?” The pirate encouraged him more which made him go and find the treasure. When he found the treasure and opened the treasure chest he found rocks. Ned was mad at the pirate because he walked all that way for rocks. Nicole did a bit of a magic trick and made the rock a Ruby the pirate had also done this as well Ned had found 2 thirds of his mindset now.  Ned saw something in the air, at first he didn’t know what it was then he realised it was a UFO. The UFO was heading towards Ned and then it abducted him. Ned was prepared to fight but then he looked up at an alien and they were so much taller than him. Ned started stuttering and then the aliens asked Ned if he could fix the UFO. In the end Ned fixed the UFO and he found out the problem. The aliens knew too much so they kept saying “I know.” You have to let go of I know so your brain can grow.