Magneturtle

 Last week I went to an Australian beach and saw a turquoise turtle with big black eyes. I thought it was cute so I pet its shell. I realised the back of its shell looked like a spider web. After a while we went back to the airport to go back home to New Zealand. When we got back home I walked my way down to the beach and saw something extraordinary! The exact same turtle from Australia! I ran up to it and studied it carefully. I used my phone camera and zoomed in on it. It had a sort of Magnetic Touch on it.

 A Sea turtle uses the earth's magnetic fields to navigate their way back to the place where they were born many years earlier. It finds the magnetic field from sensing the invisible lines in the ocean leading from New Zealand to Australia. It returned back to New Zealand because it needed to lay its eggs back on the beach it was born at. Every year it returns back to lay its eggs so I was lucky catching it. It moved over to Australia to get warmer water and richer fish. 

Link to where J got the information from 

And this one too!

Popsicle Catapult

 

My Catapult

 By Zade

 Last week all my class made different catapults to see whos went the furthest. We could only use 1 wooden spoon, 15 popsicle sticks and 12 rubber bands at max. We worked in partners and Finn and I worked together. 

 We were scrolling through google trying to find the right catapult. I found a regular catapult that you pull back the spoon and let go to make it fire. Finn thought that a standing catapult that has a lot of pull back would do a lot better but I convinced him to use the catapult design we were originally going to use.

 A catapult is basically a lever that you push down one side and the other side goes flying up at Top Speed. We used one rubber band and tied it around 7 rubber bands to make them stay together and to make the height enough because we can pull the spoon back enough to fire it far. We tied the spoon to the sticks and that was our catapult.

 Me and Finn came second place and during the competition, the design Finn wanted came last. We used tin foil to put in the wooden spoon because it’s not too heavy but not too light and if it hits somebody in the eye, it won't hurt. We had two turns at using our catapults for the competition. Cameron and Benny came first place and on their first try their wooden spoon broke while they used it. The competition was really fun and I enjoyed myself a lot. Hope you know how to make a rubber band by now.

The Shadow Games - Narrative Writing

 

Forces and Motion DLO

Last week we had a forces and motion day (Tōpana and neke). We learnt more about forces and motions. What happened was the whole school went to three out of eight different classes which all involved different activities.

This is my D.L.O on the three activities I completed and found out more about on Wednesday.

Te Huarere: The Weather