I am a student at Ōtaki College in Ōtaki, NZ. My blog is a place where I will be able to share some of my learning. Please note....some work won't be edited - they are just my first drafts, so there may be some errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas on my posts.
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Scratch Creation
Today we got challenged to make a scratch comic, using coding. What we had to do was pick a superhero and make a story about it doing certain things. Our superhero was a guide dog for blind people. We had to make the guide dog do certain things. Some of the things were a starter project in which we got the dog to guide a lady across a road. The next activity was show off with a super spin. What you had to do for that one was the dog had to do a spin in the road. The next one was it had to fly over buildings, but our dog couldn’t fly over buildings so we just made it cross a road again because it was a guide dog and doesn’t fly over buildings. Neatly was you had to add background music. Then you had to support your hero. By doing that you would just add in another character. There was also keeping the score by creating a game by programming your hero to collect objects. The last one is draw your own hero, and what you had to do was use the paint editor in scratch and make your own hero. Scratch was a really fun activity and maybe one day you could try it for yourself.
Monday, 29 June 2020
Making Ink Traps
Last week , we made lnk tracking tunnels to see what pests we have at school .
Equipment
. 1 sponge
. peanut butter
. Food colouring for ink
. Cardboard
. 2,x empty 2litre milk cartons
. white paper
steps
1. cut the ends of the milk boltles.
-save 1 to hold the sponge
2. join the two milk boltles together.
3.wrap them with black plastic .
4. put a piece of white paper inside.
5.put food colouring on the sponge and a blob of peanut butter.
6. Put the tunnel in a outdoor space to see what happens.
When we checked our trap, the pests had stolen the sponge! We replaced it, and they stole it again!!! Other traps showed rat and mice footprints, and poop! They also chewed the sponges.
Equipment
. 1 sponge
. peanut butter
. Food colouring for ink
. Cardboard
. 2,x empty 2litre milk cartons
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| Making the trap |
. white paper
steps
1. cut the ends of the milk boltles.
-save 1 to hold the sponge
2. join the two milk boltles together.
3.wrap them with black plastic .
4. put a piece of white paper inside.
5.put food colouring on the sponge and a blob of peanut butter.
6. Put the tunnel in a outdoor space to see what happens.
When we checked our trap, the pests had stolen the sponge! We replaced it, and they stole it again!!! Other traps showed rat and mice footprints, and poop! They also chewed the sponges.
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| Evidence of Pests from another trap |
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
dog looking at a book about food
The dog was cute.
Wearing glasses makes the dog smart.
Thoughtfully, he is reading a book about food.
He can cook a delicious pizza with sauce and black olives and cheese on it.
He can cook a delicious pizza with sauce and black olives and cheese on it.
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Making elephant toothpaste
Today in science we made elephant toothpaste.
1. The first step was to pour hydrogen pyroxide into a bottle.
2. We added blue food colouring into the bottle because it's my groups favourite colour.
3. Then we added dish washing liquid into the bottle.

4. Next we put warm water into a container with yeast and mixed it.
5. Lastly we added the yeast to the bottle and it exploded with blue foa
Friday, 12 June 2020
Planting
Yesterday the class planted kowhai seeds. We had to roughen the seed with sand paper. We put the soil pod in water and mixed them. Then we put our finger in the soil and made a space for the seed. WE put seed in and covered it with soil.
Friday, 29 May 2020
What's the Zoom?
Here is my 'What's the Zoom?' Quiz. I would love for you to have a go!!! Watch the slide presentation and answer each question as you go!
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