Te Reo

Tena Koutou, Today Pitara and I were working on our Te Reo language. Here a video clip of us trying to speak Te Reo.

10 Important Buildings

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How houses are designed and built

: Constructing is a classical human activity. It began with the sole function needed for a controlled environment to permit the effects of climate. Constructed shelters were one, means by which human beings were able to adapt themselves to a wide variety of climates :

A building is kind of similar to a house but with lots of stories. A building takes about weeks or months to build, or maybe years. It is built for brands or industries. 

Firstly, the builders draw their designs on blueprints. After some time of designing they go ahead and find a construction site and check if it's an architectural area. The builders then buy/rent the land from the landlord and then start buying their equipment to start building.

After some time of getting their equipment, they measure their poles and wood, to see if it's the right size. After they find the right size they start building. After some time of planning they go ahead and make sure that the surface is ready and good to go.

The builder then gets their measured poles and starts placing them into the corners of the house so the house can stand tall and straight. While some of the builders are placing the corner poles, the rest of them get to work and start placing the poles in their places.

Once they finish the pole placing, they go ahead and add the wood. They add the wood to the outside of the house and the inside of the house. Then they start off by placing the outside wood first and then making their way through the house. This usually takes about 4 weeks or less/more but it depends on how big the house is.

While that much of the builders are placing the woods, the rest go ahead and start bringing in the rest of the equipment to make sure that the woods stay standing and not wobbly. After some time of getting some drills, nails etc, the rest of the builders start drilling the woods together so it stays standing.

After drilling, the builder then starts filling the house with their walls and installations. Once they finish placing the installations walls and ceiling they then start painting.

Some time after painting, they go ahead and finish off with a few last touches. Last touches as in, filling in the house with everything a house needs:)

Once they finish building, stuffing and filling the house, they then sell the house to the government to actually sell the house to other people.

Tech / Coding with Microbit

Today Miss. Ferguson taught us all about coding with Microbit. We coded our microbit to play dice, but graphical. Amazing right?

About me 2021

For cybersmart we had a Ko Wai Au challenge. It really just means to describes ourselves(:

Three Important Buildings

For Social Studies, one of our tasks was to pick out three of the most important buildings. The buildings I chose was The Louis Vuitton Foundation, The Louvre Museum and The Eiffel Tower(:

Sky Tower Trip

 As we were getting off the bus we stood there in amusement. We went inside and met our guide, Maria and her assistant, Cooper. They were really nice. They then guided us down the escalator and into a little movie room.

After some time of waiting, Maria then played a little movie featuring the Sky Tower and explaining how/when it was built. We all sat there in awe while watching the movie being played. It was really fascinating knowing how the Sky Tower was built. The videos were about How the Sky Tower was built, volcanoes around the Sky Tower and a lot of interesting facts. Did you know that Rangitoto is the youngest volcano of them all? Amazing right?

Later on we headed to level 51. Wow! The view was amazing and we stood there in awe. We stood over the glass and stood there in fear, because we were all scared of heights. I got over the fear of heights and started getting comfortable with the whole “standing over the glass” thingy.

After sometime of watching and walking we sat down for a little lunch break and then headed off to level 60. Level 60 has the best view of them all. I’m still shocked that I’ve been that high up. Everyone leaned on the glass and I was scared as an Elephant. Level 60 has to be the best level of them all.

Sometime after visiting level 60 we headed down to level 45, the Refuge. The Refuge literally has no view but metal everywhere. The Refuge is like a safe room but with lots and lots of space. We then roamed around the Refuge and saw the Dynosphere. The Dynosphere is the little circle thingy on the top, top of the Sky Tower.

After that we then headed to the underground and elevated ourselves to level 51 again. Again the view always finds a way to surprise me. From there we then headed down to the lobby.

We then went outside and back on the bus on our way to school. I really liked going to the Sky Tower. I wish we went back there again:)

Coding with Python

 Python is a coding language.

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Here is my code for a flashing heart on a Microbit.

Here is a little video of the microbit running:)

Architecture

Architecture: 

W.A.L.T: We are learning to create accurate floor plans for building a house. We used floorplancreator.net to do this. 

Here are my floor plans.

2D:

3D:

I learnt that from doing this activity is that no matter how old you are, you can do anything:) If I join the building industry, I would like to be a Carpenter:)

Pepeha

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Here is my pepeha

Kiwican - Term 2 Week 2

We walked our way down to the hall and in there was Mrs. Mack and Lina, our Kiwican leaders. Mrs. Mack greeted us in Japanese. When we sat down we went straight into a reflection from last week; Theme and Topic.

After our reflections we started off with our energizer, Splash. Splash is exactly like Bang but we say splash instead. After we lost a few players we got down to our last two, Lina and Hayden. Our storyteller was Mason, Special word was Mc Donald's. At the end our winner was Lina.

Sometime later everyone got down into a circle to answer some questions. Our questions were about some scenarios Mrs. Mack told us about. The questions were mostly about honesty:) After we finished answering questions we went into our activity, Animal Farm.

Lina split all of us into 4 groups and gave us an animal. She gave each group a specific animal and the beat went like; Tiger, Tiger, Raw, Raw, Raw! The game went amazingly fun. After some games we sat down for a bit started our G.K.Q.

The game went well until Mrs. Mack brought up all the winners. The question was "How many 10 fit into 1000?" After some time of guessing Arman got the answer correct and we finished from there:)

Theme: Integrity

Topic: Honesty

We had such a blast going to Kiwican, Can't wait for our next session:))

Coding the Microbit

Today for tech, Miss Ferguson has been teaching us about coding the little Microbit. I learnt how to code the Microbit to play Rock, Paper, Scissor with me. The picture down below is how I coded the Microbit.

Vocabulary

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For English we had to pick out some words/vocab to find the meanings and understandings of that word.