Elections

Dear Blog Readers,

This weekend there is a big debate happening, over Labour, National, Green, United Future, New Zealand First, Maori, Mana, Libertarianz, Democrats for social credit, Conservative, Aoteroa Legalise Cannabis, Alliance, Act New Zealand.

What are important issues for you? Who you think could do the right job for New Zealand?

Drew && Emma

Cam's Farm Work

Cam on the Farm

More PowerPoint presentations from Sam Sloan

Blog Comments

Today we looked at blog comments. We have been looking at synthesizing in class and saw a connection between good comments and synthesizing. We decided that a good comment uses information from the text and what the reader already knows to create something new. This means starting a conversation in the comments.

We created this rubric to help us:

Palmerston North 3D Model

For inquiry we had to make the square, Palmerston North, using 3D models for the buildings. 

We had to have certain skills to complete this task

- make 3D nets

- scale

- building 3D shapes

- measurement

- symmetry

- tabs

We also had to make sure that 1 story was 2cm high and a 2 story 4cm high.

These are some photos of how it turned out:

TV ADS

At school we have been working on some Ads

Here are two of them:

Geometry

In Class we have been working on Geometry. We have had several rich tasks that involve a variety of mathematical concepts to complete.

One of the tasks was making a 3D model of Ross Intermediate using Google Sketchup

The concepts we needed to understand were:

- Scale

- Properties of 3D shapes

- How to build 3D shapes

- How to use Google Sketchup

- How to visualise the different perspectives of 3D shapes

- How to accurately estimate lengths

Here is a walk through of Oliver's Model of Ross Intermediate

Manawatu Hockey Tournament

Quentin is in the U13 Manawatu Hockey Team. In the weekend he played in a tournament. Check out his moves in this video he made.