Newspaper Challenge's

Newspaper Challenge's

this term we have been doing challenges. We did three challenges the first one one we had to make clothes out of 24 sheets of newspaper 10 meters of tape and 3 or 4 people. the second challenge was build a ramp for a marble. In this challenge we had to build a ramp to hit a can we had 3m of tape, 8 pieces of newspaper my group almost hit the can we got three points because of how far the marble went.

The last challenge was to build a device too pick up a balloon that was 1.5m away. My group did good until our tool ripped in half when we almost almost got the balloon. That challenge was my favorite challenge. The materiel's we had to use were 1m tape, 7 newspaper, and 5m of string.

what challenge would you want to do with paper??????

Winter sport

Hello my name is James. This season for winter sport my team played soccer. 
This season of winter sport we have had been somewhat successful. We have lost most of our games and we also won some of our games. In one of our games the score was two- two. We had to have 5 extra mins. No one scored. We had a penalty shoot out and still no one scored. The other teams coach said she will tell the football manager that the score was two- two and see what happens. The fifteenth of August was our last game. Our fitness and skill levels improved a lot. My fitness improved a lot because I play soccer on Saturdays and I also kick soccer balls every night after school. My mum was our awesome coach. she gave up all her Thursday afternoons to be with us.      

 

What winter sport would you play? 

Math boards!

This term for math's and last term we have been doing math boards. Math's boards have four squares and a circle in the middle. In the circle in the middle you write a question that you think will challenge you. my favorite thing about it is a visual solution. 

If you do math board's what is your favorite thing about math boards

Polar ice caps

This week for reading my group read this article:What Is a Polar Ice Cap?

The new ideas I have now I’ve read this text are:

    

1. Give everybody free solar panels. 
2. Ban plastic bags                                        
3. stop littering
4. turn off lights if we aren't in the room
5. stop throwing things out the window of the car                                                                                                                                                       I now better understand that climate change is very powerful and bad. I also understand that things we do affects the environment.       How can you help change the environment? 

PBL! James E

P.B.L-Term 1

This term our Project Based Learning (P.B.L) has been about kindness and the big question was: How can we build community through our actions?

First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.

Reflection:
We created an action plan and we decided to spread kindness by running multi sports for Paiaka.

For our final product our group organised multi sports for Paiaka.

How did our action build a sense of community in the school? We built community in the school through our actions. By organizing games that the students enjoyed playing.

I contributed by... coming up with ideas and helping everyone.

I think the P.B.L might impact on others by teaching others new sports they don't know of.

What I learned about working with others was... knowing everyone's names and see how they work as a group.

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