Hong Kong STEM Challenge #2

Our buddy class in Hong Kong challenged us to a STEM activity. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

We were given 3 challenges and they were:

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base.

Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size.

Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it.

Here are the materials we had access to:

We were allowed to choose what we thought would best help us achieve our goal:

6 x long sticks

1 x wooden 100s square

2 x pipe cleaners

2 x straws

1 x 1m ruler

11 x plastic cubes

1 x bunch of popsicle sticks

4 x wooden small flat pieces

                         To read about our student's experiences click on individual student blogs

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base.

Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size.

Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it.

In Room 10 we are problem solvers.

To read about our student's experiences click on individual student blogs

Principal's Award...

Well done Navarone!

Tessellating Regular Polygons...

In Room 10 we are learning to tessellate.  

You can see how to tessellate by viewing individual student blogs.

Farewell David...

Farewell David, we are going to miss you and your family xx

Ben and his mates.

Pohutukawa Syndicate gave David a strong farewell.....

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Practice Makes Us Better...

We are continuing to focus on developing our basketball skill so we will be able to play an awesome game of basketball by then end of the term.

Mrs Breuss-McBride came and shared some awesome ideas for skill building:

Sharing what we are getting better at with each other
at the end of the session.

Room 10 Swimming Stars!

We had a great time on Thursday down at Cannons Creek Pool for our syndicate swimming sports.

All the kids who participated were amazing and gave it all they had.  

Here are the kids who were placed in the top 3.....

Technology Challenge.... Group 1 & 2

Our Hong Kong Buddy Class challenged us to complete this technology challenge.  Read on to see what we needed and watch our videos to show if we were successful.

The goal was to make a structure that could launch a marble towards 3 containers and hit the middle one for the maximum score.

We needed per group:
4 sheets of A4 paper
2 pieces of A4 card
1m of sellotape
1 pair of scissors
1 marble
3 containers

Time:
Planning 5 mins.  Building 20 mins.

Group One!

Group Two!

Unfortunately the first attempt wasn't videoed for Group 2.

Cook Island Language Week...

Cook Island Language Week:

The theme for this year is:

"Kia ariki au i toku tupuranga, ka ora uatu rai toku reo"

"To embrace my heritage, my language lives on" 

We ended our week with a wonderful assembly where students and parents came together to share their beautiful culture.  

Below are some photos and videos 

from the assembly.  

If you are on our school Facebook Page you can watch the teachers attempt to dance Cook Island style.... it was a blast!

To join the Cook Island Community on
Facebook click this link.

Basketball Skills Continued....

Every Monday morning we have our Physical Education slot and we are continuing to build on our Basketball skills.   

This week Mrs Bruess-McBride came and shared her knowledge with us.  She gave us a four different skill based activities we can use to practise our basketball skills.

Kia Kaha Keisha!

On Friday we said good bye to one of our students in Room 10.  

Keisha is moving away so we wanted her to know how much we love her and will miss her.   The kids made her cards and we each shared at least one thing we loved about her.  We then shared a cake that Miriam had baked before giving her loads of hugs.

We will miss you Keisha xxxxxx