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.

(Click on the photo)

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

 (Click on the poster)

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

(click on the poster)

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