Paper plane test

Paper plane test

This test was the paper plane test where we took an average paper plane and attached a balloon to the top.  We took some trials to see what would happen with different designs.

Hypothesis

My thoughts of this test were the plane would take pickup height if the balloon was at the front and vise versa.

Materials

Paper plane

Tape

Balloon

Procedure

1. Make a standard paper plane.
2. After concluding these instructions add a tape loop to the top of the plane making sure it is double sided (sticky part on the outside).
3. Finally apply an inflated balloon to the upper side of the tape making sure the balloon is held shut.
4. Let er fly.

Results

Our trials led to many results and challenged my hypothesis hugely.  I thought the higher of the strength would be lower quality which was completely wrong.  After trialing I found out the higher strength meant the more chance of fetching lift and weaker equaled it to cut height.  The test went the exact opposite of my original thought. My reasoning was the lighter throw would cause wind to lift or do something with it.  The heavier throw would cut through the wind and go down which was WRONG!!

Conclusion

After concluding this test we found out the reasoning of the plane flying is because the balloons air is being rapidly thrown from the balloon propelling the plane forwards.  Overall this trial was fun and had amazing results.

Dear Christian Kaka

Frimley school

Frimley road

Frimley

Hastings

4120

6 / 6 / 2018

Dear Kakas

Kia ora

My name is Riley Burgiss.  I am writing to tell you how wonderful it really is here in Aotearoa.

I really hope you have a good time here in Aotearoa.  There are many special things about New Zealand like the rich earth and green grass.  We also have a special bird native to our specific country. It is the Kiwi. It is a nocturnal flightless bird that has nostrils at the end of their beaks.  They also lay eggs ⅓ the size of their body weight.

We have beautiful sceneries in New Zealand take for example Rotorua's giant boiling mud pools.  If you fell in the mud would dissolve your skin into nothingness. There is also a story that goes as a guy was in a police chase.  He was sprinting straight down to the huge pool onto the bridge and committed suicide. He jumped the railing into the pools and no one ever found the body, well at least what my dad said.  But there are other places like sunrise hut up at Ruahine Ranges. I and room 14 / 15, 16 / 17, 18 / 19 conquered the mountain with amazing views.

Around here in New Zealand, we love rugby, soccer, cricket, T ball, pretty much all sports.  Some of our kiwi favourites are hokey pokey which is vanilla ice cream with crunchy lollies. We also like mixes from the dairy and just a classic fish and chips.

Kia ora, tēna koā and many others are greetings we use to invite other cultures.  In school, we do performances that are representing other countries like in week 5 term 2. Me, and the year 6 boys celebrated Samoan language week with a sasa based on the triple A’s.

Anyway, welcome to Aotearoa.  You're gonna fit right in with everyone else.  Hope you have a good stay.

Kind regards

Riley Burgiss

moment

We started rolling as soon as I had reached the front.  There were tonnes of cool things like glowing tunnels, murals and a train bypass.  Finally, we reached the end and left.

EXPLODED MOMENT!!!!

Gripping the faded handle on the pole, the driver entered.  Reaching the control panel he was ready. Removing the handbrake from position the train began sliding down the rails.  We were rolling through what felt like blindness. Pitch black in midday until the opening. “Sunlight,” screamed Isabelle (my cousin) as we pulled out into the graffitied walls.  Now we could see millions of gang signs which was instantly swapped into a giant tunnel lit by light which is the only description I can give. Lights upon lights upon lights. It was the exact opposite of the other tunnels.  Black to bright. We were leaving the tunnel and my eyes had picked up on an oncoming carriage.

We came head on and dodged the collision with extra track causing a bypass.  Everyone was waving and screaming while running to the back. From where I was, I couldn’t see everyone but the back six or seven rows could see straight through the returning car.  Taking the thought of traveling back a few rows but there were other kids that would have gladly removed me from my position. The carriage was what felt to be stuck. Hauling out of place the car picked up speed with about 3 km/h.  Just up ahead was the giant tunnels again but this time there were, yep another bunch of lights. Instead of description less bright flickers they could be described as that but colour changing. I couldn’t stand the screaming kids, even my brother was in on the noise!   We exited the tunnel and came to a screeching halt. *Opening doors* “TTttffff,” the doors were opened and we were off at Central Wellington.

Dress rehearsal

Dress rehearsal

24/9/18

Trotting through the curtains I made it to the stage.  Everyone was already cheering and clapping like no one was there.  Pushing past the final curtain people were staring, eyeing us down.  The feeling I had just had no description.

Making the stage instantaneously made sickness in my guts.  Jimmy, Jake and Seu began their speeches. “Afio mai, welcome to the senior pacific group,” said Jake. After the speeches the school waiata began.  “Heretaunga Ararau, Heretaunga Hukanui,” everyone sang in unison. My guts had unravelled just to knot themself back up again ready for the slap dance.  After making the decision not to do the slap dance I quickly found myself performing on the dance.

Tasi, Lua, Tolu, Fa,” shouted Isaac setting the rest of the dance in motion.  We all began from the beginning and off to the meer end. “Heeee,” we shouted as the crowd began cheering, “WOOOOOOOO *clapping*.”  Beginning to jog on the spot the drum started playing. Making our way slowly back my heel whacked against the step and “ah!” “Sssshhhhh,” everyone began trying to hush the noise but just amplified it.  Moving on back still everyone finally hushed and the girls created a barrier from us to the audience. Music filled the room room breaking mass silence. “Aue aue, Nuku I mua and when it’s time to find home we know the way,” began the song.  Throughout the dance there was chatter from both sides mainly the stage side. Coming to an end on the girls dance it was the boys dance, Lomi lomi. I dreaded this moment hoping it wouldn’t come but …

Music was playing you get the idea, awkward.  We basically had to pretend to wash each other is the dance in a nutshell, just awkward.  “Huh disco fever!” shouted some little 6 year olds out in the crowd. After the final claps we finished off the dance, coming to the end of the performance, it was only minutes away.  Dudududududududu, the drum had made a return and the sasa was seconds from beginning. “Lalo,” Jeff shouted putting the group on the ground ready for motion. “Tulolo, Nofo, Tulolo Nofo.”  We were off and prepared to finish the pacific performance. “John cena, YOU CAN’T SEE ME, Lue. 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 everyone had stuck in their heads for timing. We finally neared the absolute end and that was it.  Finally the Sasa ended an, “ewatangie, e tangi tangi tangi e ewatangie,” we all began and the dress rehearsal was over.

OPTIONAL CROSS COUNTRY

OPTIONAL CROSS COUNTRY

It is here- WHY?!  Cross country, it is even boring than boring and more annoying than annoying, I don’t even have words to describe it.  Every year there is one day that I hate because many reasons. I reckon that we should be able to choose whether we want to compete in cross country.

Unfairity

During my years at school there has been one thing that I hate more than anything, Cross Country!  One reason I hate Cross country is because unfairity. I reckon cross country is completely unfair.  Imagine you aren’t the fittest of the bunch and you're facing Usain Bolt when he was a kid. This sparked the idea of competitive and uncompetitive cross country.  You can select between the two options thus stopping most anger about the reihi (races).

Uncomfortableness

The stitch, a completely uncomfortable feeling no matter where you get it, left right, top, bottom it hurts.  I think that cross country should be 100% optional. We are currently being forced to do a boring run that doesn’t teach us anything, WE ARE AT SCHOOL!!!!!!  One out of four kids don’t like cross country and I think three quarters of those kids don’t like it because the stitch, IT IS UNCOMFORTABLE.

Optional Cross Country

I HATE cross country, it's boring uncomfortable, unfair and forced.  Cross country should be optional, I mean that list could go on and on so I think we should have to options, competitive and casual.  I wrote about this a little in another paragraph but I’ll give an in depth tour of the options. The casual would be for people who aren’t as fit.  It would also not have a intercity reihi and would just be the one. Next is the competitive reihi. These reihi would be pretty much the exact same as now just only confident people.  Take back to when I mentioned Usain Bolt vs an unfit kid. This choice would stop anger of the unfit kid. Finally I had one more option, ya don’t have to compete. I think this would leave less people in the reihi but also leave less anger about the reihi.

Conclusion

Unfairity, uncomfortableness, boredom heck this solves it all.  After this I think it is safe to say that the choices will stop anger in most kids for cross country and it is also safe to say I don’t really like cross country.

Paper plane test

Paper plane test

This test was the paper plane test where we took an average paper plane and attached a balloon to the
top.  We took some trials to see what would happen with different designs.

Hypothesis

My thoughts of this test were the plane would take pickup height if the balloon was at the front and vise
versa.

Materials

Paper plane

Tape

Balloon

Procedure

1. Make a standard paper plane.

2. After concluding these instructions add a tape loop to the top of the plane making sure it is double

sided (sticky part on the outside).
3. Finally apply an inflated balloon to the upper side of the tape making sure the balloon is held shut.
4. Let er fly.

Results
Our trials led to many results and challenged my hypothesis hugely.  I thought the higher of the strength
would be lower quality which was completely wrong.  After trialing I found out the higher strength meant
the more chance of fetching lift and weaker equaled it to cut height.  The test went the exact opposite of
my original thought. My reasoning was the lighter throw would cause wind to lift or do something with
it.  The heavier throw would cut through the wind and go down which was WRONG!!

Conclusion

After concluding this test we found out the reasoning of the plane flying is because the balloons air is
being rapidly thrown from the balloon propelling the plane forwards.  Overall this trial was fun and had
amazing results.

Term 2 Math reflection

Term 2

Math reflection

What have I learnt this term

1. Strategies - New strategies have helped me solve many questions that before would have been a lot harder like 63 x 39 = ____

A strategy you could use is box mult (iplication).

      2. Mistakes - Mistakes seem terrible at first but they actually help the brain grow.  Scientists have proven that mistakes make your brain grow more than getting stuff right.

      3. Sharing ideas - Work together, everything will be easy.  Two brains are a lot better than one. In most cases groups learn more than singularly placed people.

      4. Growth mindset - Keep a growth mindset for everything, you’ll achieve more.  A growth mindset is when you try new things and keep improving. Don’t keep a fixed mindset!

      5. Pi - 3.14159265359 a.k.a the best food ever a.k.a the circumference of a circle a.k.a 3 and a bit.

      6. Math people - Everyone is a math person.  Scientists have proven the brain is pretty much plastic or rubber

How I have adapted new ideas into my learning

1. Response - Response can be adapted to all positions in learning, literacy, art, P.E, all sorts.

      2. Mistakes - Mistakes actually help and again in all positions of learning.  It’ll help your brain grow in many different places.

      3. Sharing ideas - Again this will help in all positions but everyone uses this one in literacy but consider it stealing ideas.