Genius Hour: Tanks

This is my Genius hour presentation for this term.  My topic was tanks.  I hope you learn some facts about
Tanks.
Tanks By Cameron Potts from Room16 Parkvale on Vimeo.

Holt Plantarium Visit

HOLT PLANETARIUM VISIT  

Monday 16 June 2014

Something I enjoyed was watching how people live in space because it was interesting how they live and the different exercises they do.

Something I found interesting was how hard it looked to eat in space because the food floats around.

The most exciting thing about space is being in zero gravity because you can do back and forward flips endlessly without falling

I would like to learn more about stars and how they can be different colours.

“How do stars in the universe have an impact impact on us?”

I want the rest of my inquiry topic to be about: Stars and heat

Matariki Workshops Kite Making

On Tuesday the 10th we did work shops we also learnt that Matariki means face of god. It is also the Maori new year. This is my Writing about Kite making which is one of the workshops we did.

As I walk into the hall I see Flax and two other things on the ground to one side of the hall. One was Fluffy and the other was brown with some black spots here and there on it. We quickly learnt that the fluffy stuff was Toi Toi and the brown with the black spots was Harakeke. We had to get to into groups of three. I end up with James and Kory we get sent to a table. Louise says “get 4 pieces of Toi Toi which is the fluffy things one person from each group.”

“I’ll go get It” Kory says.

“Ok” me and James reply. Kory comes back with Toi Toi. We tie two pieces of Toi Toi together using the flax string we had made before we got the Toi Toi. We tied at both ends and in the middle. The next step we had to do was put the other pieces of Toi Toi as a triangle and tie it at the top where the ends of the Toi Toi met. Next thing we had to do was get a cross bar which was a stem of a Toi Toi across the other Toi Toi. We have to tie the Toi Toi cross bar to the Toi Toi that are facing down. Me and James hold the top of each Toi Toi when Kory is tieing the bottoms of the Toi Toi. One of the parents helping cut us a crossbar that goes across near the top of the Toi Toi. James and I hold one side when Kory is on the other side tying it together and we swap sides and do it again. Then we had to tie Harakeke with the flax string we had made with flax. At first we tied them separately but then a parent shows us how to do more with one piece of flax string, by criss crossing the flax other and under then back up again. If you did the middle first it was easier then doing the sides first. I ended up doing it. We finished the kite and had a photo with everyone else that had done kite making in the morning. What a great experience for me and everyone!

Miami Heat

This is the Miami Heat logo Mr Cottrell made it on room 6's whiteboard. Miami Heat are the best. NBA CHAMPIONS!!!!

Nehemiah's Publishing

Today we visited room 3. We showed then our blog.

Here is Nehemiah Publishing.
When I went to McDonald's I saw Brody and Brody's sister.
I zoomed on the big red slide and my mum called out to me to take my photo.

My Park

For home links problem of the Week we had to design a park I used Minecraft to make my park here are some screenshots.

Exit and Entrance

Open grass for running and playing

Basketball court  

Ice skating rink

Pond with double grass

My park with a birds eye view 

My Learning so far this year

Star Facts

Created with Padlet

going to work with commas game

I really recommend this to do as homework it so fun and good for commas learning.

Guess My Camp Animal

We were going to go on Camp Roil. But it was so wet we had to cancel it and do day trips.We did Master Chef and Flax rock. We where going to do a Waka ride and fishing but it was to wet to do so. The Waka and fishing was postponed until term 2. We had to have Camp animals My camp animal is you have to guess in the comments.

A) Tiger

B) Jaguar  

C) Wolf

D) Cheetah

Roast Pork

I can smell the Roast Pork from my room I run down the hallway and into the Kitchen. Mum is just pulling the roast pork out of the oven as I get to the door. Mum starts to cut the roast pork and it falls apart and she puts it on the plates and puts gravy on three of them. She puts crackling on the plates. I rush to sit down. The Roast Pork melts in the my mouth. The hot meat is delicious and moist. The crackling is crunchy and salty. I chomp down my Roast Pork and quickly ask for seconds.

59.9 Degrees South

An Argo is a floating monitor that records the world’s ocean. They are dropped off the side of the research boats. They can be put in the ocean by a huge container ships or by small research vessels. Argos drift around collecting information.

The Argo have a cycle. One It descends, then it parks it self at 1000 metres. It drifts for 9 days, descends to 2000 metres. Ascends to the surface collecting data, at the surface sending data to the satellite and the satellite sends data to receiving station and database.

Height: 1.2metres

Weight: 40 Kilograms

Cost: $19,000

Made in: the United States, France and Germany.

Life span: Up to 5 years.

Image off Google images.