The Wonder Project- Modifying

Kia Ora bloggers, on Tuesday 14th June we fixed our rockets. Last week Tuesday was our second test launch and next Tuesday will be our last

Last week we had our second test launch, for my group our rocket went high but some damage happened to our rocket such as all of our fins coming off. This Tuesday my group had to fix a lot of things like our fins because our fins were cardboard and our fins had to be plastic. 

This took us kind of a long time because we made the fins then we put them in the rubbish bin because we thought we could use our cardboard fins but we couldn´t. We tried making more plastic fins but they were to curved. We didn´t finish by pack up time so we had to stay in and do it. We had to bring plastic from home because there were no more plastic bits we could use. When we had to finish our rocket we got the plastic my friend gave us and made fins. Then we glued them on, our rocket is now finished.

My marvelous boat animation

Kia Ora bloggers, today I made a boat animation. I made everything expect the clouds out of the polyline tool and the curve tool. My top tip for you guys is if you ever make a boat animation is for the sea make two pieces, make one darker then put that one at the back, and then for the 2 piece use a more lighter blue. Then when your boat is going though the sea it won´t look like your boat is going out of he screen. What  do you guys think I could do better? Have you ever used the polyline tool or the curve tool before?

Origami butterfly

 Kia Ora Bloggers, 

Today my class and I made origami. My teacher let us go on you tube and search up origami and pick something that we can make. I picked to make a butterfly. It was kind of hard but also easy at the same time. I was near the end when a hard part came. It took me a few minutes to get it right then I moved on to the next step. All of my other friends were making butterfly's as well but my friends Neha, Alisi, Loiloi and Besi made roses which were really cool. I finished mine and I loved it so I made another one. Here is a photo or me holding them!

The Wonder Project- Lesson 6- second test flight

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

This week on Tuesday we did our second test flight. 

After morning tea room 8 and room 6 went into room 9 to talk about what we needed to do and how we shot our rockets to the sky. We learnt about action and reaction, once we finished talking about that Mrs Eagleson asked the teachers from each class to pick students to come up and blow up a balloon. My teacher picked Lovely and Ahmed, Mrs Shrestha picked Elijah and Jeziah and then Mrs Eagleson picked Martha and Mila. They all blew a balloon that was the same size and pinched the end so no air would come out. Then Mrs Eagleson told them to let go at the same time so we could see who´s balloon went the highest. Mila´s balloon touched the ceiling so that means she won. We did one more round but the balloons were all different sizes. Mila and Martha's balloons were small, Lovely and Ahmed´s  balloon were medium and Elijah and Jeziah´s balloon were big. 

They all let go and Elijah´s balloon touched the ceiling so he won, Lovely´s balloon nearly touched the ceiling but it didn´t. After that we went over the rules before going back into class to get our rockets. Then we made our way to Keith hay park. We set everything up and then Mrs Odeon picked the group missioners 5 to go first. They went and there first flight didn´t go so high but the second flight it went kind of high. Then my group went, for our first flight it went high but the second time it went higher. The others went and there one´s were really cool!

Wonder Project- Lesson 5

 Kia Ora bloggers, 

Today we had another Wonder Project lesson. We mainly talked about stability and how our rockets would fly. 

We had to find the centre of mass which we had to balance the bottle with a string where it would be stable and balancing on each side. Then we had to find the centre of pressure which we had to make a trace of our bottle then balance it on a ruler and where ever the trace of our bottle balances we make a line.

Then we had to take our bottle and put the trace over it. Where ever the line was on the trace we had to make a line on our bottle. When we finished that we had to do the stability test. Our group had to redo the fins because they were not the same size as each other.

We remade the fins then we had to find the centre of pressure. This one was a bit hard for our group but we managed to get it done. Then my friend who was already finished helped us do the stability test, our rocket was good and we finished.

Here are some photos!

Wonder Project - Lesson 4 - Making Rockets

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

On Tuesday for the Wonder Project we created our own Rockets. Room 9,6 and 8 went into the hall to talk about Newtons 2 law of motion. Newtons 2 law is F=ma, F is for force, M is for mass and A for Acceleration. If you apply more force to an object it moves at a higher rate, Mass is the weight of an object and acceleration is movement. 

Then after Colm told us all about Newtons 2 law of motion the teachers handed out papers for everyone to make paper planes. Colm said that when we create our rockets it has to fly in the right direction. He asked people who thought their plane flew high to come up and show everyone. All of them were good and then he told people who thought there plan flew badly to come up and show everyone. This girl came up and flew hers and it didn´t even go off the stage. He told us the wings where the problem because there was a hole in it. 

Then after that we went back into class to build our prototype rockets. We started of by cutting the top of a bottle and putting it on another bottle. Then we made our wings and drew that was on Neha´s rocket because we chose. We attached the wings and then put our bottle in a box where all the other groups prototype rockets where. 

This was so much fun and I am really excited to launch them next week.

ToolKits

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

 Today was Toolkits, there were different sessions and things you can learn. There were three sessions, everyone had a session to go to, me and my friend Alisi wasn´t on the list so Phil ( The one in charge of toolkits ) let us go to anyone we wanted to got to. We went to Word art. I got to learn how to make word art and how to download the word art I made. 

Then for the second lesson I was presenting with my friend Mekhi, we presented one about shortcuts. Here are the slides we made, we showed them a lot of shortcuts. At the end some people gave us some shortcuts that wasn´t included in our slides. We did, copy and paste, New tab, take a snippet screen shot, reopen the last tab you were on, open another window, close the current tab you are on and Lock your chrome book screen.  

Then the next session I went to was webcam toy, they taught us how to go on webcam toy and how to take photos on it. They showed us some photos they took themselves and then they gave us time to take our own photos. Toolkits was so fun today.

Here are some things I created today!