digital immersion

today we had a  session with Gary from the digital immersion.we learnt how to program an robot to move one place to another by programming it.we used an special language called binary to program our robots,in our groups we had fun learning how to program an robot and learn binary language.but in the beginning was challenging .

 

2D and 3D Shape

2D shapes

Picture	Name	Sides	Angles
△ ⬠ ⯃ □	Triangle Pentagon Hexagon Octagon square	3 sides 5 sides 6 sides 8 sides 4 sides	60 108 120 135 90

marcus thomas

Reciprocal Reading Independent Activity

Name:Tupou Peaua___________________________           Date:8 august     2018

Name of text: how did Marcus get into caving ____________________________________________________________

Author: susan paris ________________________________________________________________

Schema: (Prior knowledge) What do I already know about the topic? I know that…..

I know that this is an  story is about an new Zealand caveman called Marcus Thomas who is an new Zealand caveman.

Predicting: Looking at the pictures, the headings,captions,labels,etc. What do you think you will learn? Why do you think that? I will learn about…. Because….

I predict that marcus thomas was an new zealand caveman and he liked caving when he was young.

Clarifying: Write about a challenging “new” word. Is there a part that is confusing? How did you clarify the confusion? I do not know what….means. I am confused about……

Speleological,Chambers,stalactites,flow stone,Laisure lime,Vertical,alpine and tomo.

Questioning: Write one ‘right there’ question. Who, what, when,why. Write one ‘think and search’ question. Compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence.

How did marcus thomas get into caving? When he was young. he read a lot of adventure stories. What did caving offer marcus that other sport didn’t? He played football and he enjoyed the team spirit but he didn’t spend all week thinking about football just like he did about caving.

Summarising: Write down the ‘main idea’ and at least 3 details from the passage.

The main idea is how did marcus thomas get into caving? The details are: 1.when he was young he was reading a lot of stories about mountaineering. 2.Then one day he saw an documentary about the nettlebed cave near nelson. 3.he would spend hours of reading the maps of the caves.

how to make things glow in the dark?

yesterday we went to room 7 for science intensive with Mrs Tofa we were learning about how things glow in the dark the materials we used are

- cup

- water

- high lighter ink 

- tape 

- miss cards mobile

- purple and blue marker

1. first we filed in an half way water in the cup 1/2.

2.then we putted in the ink of the high lighter and mixed it. the colours were green,yellow,orange and pink.

3.Miss card and Mrs Tofa used tape and put it on miss cards torch then they coloured it with an purple and blue marker on it to make an black light. After that Mrs Tofa took us to the dark room and turned on the torch then the cups were starting to  glow so we painted our hands and faces with it.