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WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

Geometry Artwork

This week Room One started a geometry task on translation, rotation, reflection and enlargement. For this unit WALT explain and use the invariant properties of figures and objects under transformation (whakaata, hurihanga, nekehanga, ngakengake and whakarahi ).

First we made a strip and cut out eight triangles out of one square then we glued them on and we chose to do rotation, reflection and translation. Then we made another two and one of each included rotation, reflection and translation.

After that we had to do 3 challenges on enlarging and each challenge got harder. Scale factor is when you enlarge something by the scale factor of a number. Enlarging by a scale factor is when you just times the whole shape by a number. That’s what enlargement is drawing something something bigger. So for this bird down here you can see that is been enlarged by the scale factor of 2 so that means I had to times the bird by 2 and draw it.  

We had to look at artwork from other cultures and write a simple little report on the lines of symmetry on that artwork and write and explain about it. Also I realised something, this picture doesn’t have 2 lines of symmetry because the red and the black don’t go together.

Then we had to start designing our art work. When we finished our artwork Ms Kemp photocopied out artwork 4 times and then we cut them out. Next we had to draw out a border in vivid on a big piece of paper. Then we had to choose where had how the positioning of the 4 pieces went on the paper and once we had done that we glued them on we had to write a piece of writing. My piece of writing is what you are reading now

The mataoroko has been nekehanga 3 times to the katau. Within these hikuaua you can also see hurihanga, whakaata, ngakengake and nekehanga. Also in my pattern I have rotation in my enlargement and rotation in all of the squares. The Js are reflected and translated and on the squares from the small one to the big one it has added 7 squares. There is a total of 39 squares and 16 Js.

Overall to wrap this topic up doing this was very fun and I enjoyed doing this artwork and everything else we did. Overall at the end I was happy with my results and and I had no idea it was going to look like this in the end.

WALT write to express ideas. We were allowed to respond to the ski trip how we wanted.

Skiing On Monday

On Monday the 15th of August 2016 me and Room 1 went skiing at Porters Pass ski field.

We had to be at school by 6:45 am. The worst thing was that I woke up at 4:45. After my parents I had breakfast and then got ready and packed. Then Summer picked me up then we went to school. After everyone left it took Gage a while to get to school and then finally he came.

After we got on the road again we set off for two hours in the car. With lots of views to see and lots of things to look at. Most of the chatting and looking out the window took away a lot of time and we all knew we were close then finally we saw the porters sign.

Down the dirty road up and down we go and we knew were close because we could see the ski field, the T bars and the chair lift then the scariest part there was a very high and long zig zag road up to the car park and up we go.

When we were up the road we parked and lined up and ski / boot hire. After a while of waiting we went in. I was the first person. Then I walked up to the boot person and asked them for a size 5 boot. Good enough it fitted perfectly. Then since the boot fitted I walked up to the ski person and gave him the other boot and he took it and got some cool skis. Then he asked for my weight and he did them up and I was the first out.

After that I went over to the beginners slope and there was Ms Kemp. Then Mitchell's dad have us a little push and I was skiing for the first time then I went on the magic carpet which I fell off but I was fine. After we had ski lessons and we were showed some tips and tricks. Once that was done I had trouble turning so I asked for help then I knew how to turn and I got the intermediate password. Once I was there I was nervous so I went up and down with Guy’s dad from half way. Then I built some confidence up and went higher and higher each time. At one part I faced my fear and up to the very top. There was a little drop at the top of the intermediate and I fell off all three times I went down It on the third and final time is was the saddest part. I had to go back to the boot and ski hire and go back to my car.

Yet another two hours back down the zig zag road. On the way back I was half asleep. I knew the way back so it went faster. The other best thing was that I got dropped off at my house at the end.

By Jack