Kia Ora reader, today we are recapping on what we have been doing in Engineering from the beginning.

This Thursday in class, we reviewed what we have been doing in Engineering, and everyone got to choose the group they are in. I had to choose Shanah because we were the last people to get into a group. The main goal of today is to get the ten things done in time. We have been working on the things for round 2-3 hours. Most groups aren’t done with their projects, such as the straw tower and the Da Vinci bridge, and Matairki LED lights. Turns out we weren’t the only group having issues with those tasks.  A different group did the Jengatower, and my group did the dominoes.

Did you know the meaning of Electrical Engineering is to design, construct, and build electrical systems? They also operate and manage these systems. Like your lights in your house and power lines, your chargers, everything that has wires is an Electrical pulse that carries through wires, but a solar panel doesn’t need power or wires, it just needs the sun for it to work and give power to a place. And you’re probably thinking, how does that work with dominoes? Well, it does, the electrical pulse can still run through dominoes with the movement of the Dominoes, the way it moved without stopping is an electrical pulse because it didn’t stop moving for the time it worked.

Want to know some facts about Electrical engineering? Here is everything you need to know about Electrical engineering

First, it takes around 3-4 years before you can actually start building things like power lines, house lights, and way more than just the two I wrote about.

Nga Mihi,

That’s the Recap for the week

Kia Ora Reader

This week for Math, the year 7s are learning about money and discounts.

The picture below the text illustrates a solution to the problem. If it’s a 10% discount, it basically tells you how to solve the 10% discount, but not the 25% or 50% ones, because we have only been looking at the 10%, 25%, and 50% discounts for this week.

So let’s just say if a $123.67 is on sale for 25% off, that means half it and then half it again, so by halving two ti, you should get the new price. Here I will do it for you, just listen/look, so if I  have something for 123.67 and I want to buy that and it’s 25% off, I will calculate halfing the number two times, so the half of 123.67 is $61.835, and then half that again to get your answer, and that is 30.9175, so basically 31 dollars. For the 50% one, let’s just say there are two of, you a $1456 dollarsis on the table, and you both want it, so then you have to split it fairly between both of you, so what’s half of 1456 dollars, here’s the answer for half of 1456 dollars for the 50% discount is $728 dollarsthat’s your answer to a 50% discount for $1456 there’s your answer, $728 dollarshats half of $141456 dollars

Nga Mihi, that’s what the year 7s are doing for this week’s math.

Malo e lelei, Reader, as next week is Tongan Language Week.

This Wednesday for Electrical Engineering, we did a challenge using physical participation that included a group of people with a ball. Along with that, we’ve crafted Matariki Art using our electrical engineering skills for LED lights.

Before we get into what we did in Electrical Engineering, let’s talk about the game we played before doing the craft. So the game is about getting the ball around the circle of people, so basically you need people to stand in a circle, you can’t use your hands to get the ball around the circle the ball is basically the power, like the power in your lights, and the people could not drop the ball or the power would not work not really but that’s how Whaea Ellen wants us to think like the ball is the power and we are the wires, so that’s the game we did before we did the craft.

So, the first thing we needed for our Matariki card craft was Copper tape, LEDs, and a card with the Matariki stars on it. So at first, we got into groups and got a kit with everything we needed to make the glowing stars on a Matariki card, then went to sit down somewhere. My group and I went to a table in the hall, opened the kit, and took everything out of the bag/kit first. We took a look at the paper with the instructions on it, folded the card like it said, then you had to peel off the layer, stopping the stick from sticking, then you put it on the card the right way, so there are plus and minus as you have to watch where your putting them or it wont work. So, after you finish putting the LEDs on, start to line up the copper with the lines on the card, the skin tone line, and the blue line with the copper tape, but you have to make sure the two lines of copper aren’t touching or the same thing will happen, it won’t work if they are touching then you with see a battery a circle one put the flat side on the minus circle and make sure that the copper tape is in the circle foe it to work and light up attfer you get the lights going get scissors to cut holes in the matairki stars for the glow.

Nga Mihi

Ciao,Reader I chose Italian to say Hello 
heres my DLO where I pointed out the fun things around St jeoph's School 

We are investigating St Joseph’s School in Levin the school has more things outside to look at like a bowling club and a Adventure Park with a dog park right Next to the school and a church a bit higher than the school, there for are school only has a bakery and a two school just across the road  the arrows a put highlight the things that are important. 

Click here to listen to me talking about the map

Kia Orana, Reader Happy cook islands week! hope your enjoying cook islands week?

Today and Yesterday  the year 7s there with Whaea Zoe for math as the year 8s are with Whaea Lorranie.

Whaea Zoe asked us questions to be able to leave the mat and go do the work from are books, She asked us to make a hole number with addition and subtraction so like this. 4.56 make that a hole useing addition and subtraction, you can only adding and subtracting? tell me in the comments. The picture this the math we have been doing the hole week out of the book.

So if you get stuck with  adding and subtracting line the numbers like the picture and or subtract them you can do both it does not matter which one it is, I am going to show you how to do it with adding the nunbers together, so i am going  to do the last one on the picture you have to try and do the one in the middie.

So 101 and 728 just say its in a line and the 101 in on the top 1 +7 =8, o+2 = 2, 8 + 1= 9 there you have it the answers.

829

Kia Ora Reader

The year 7 & 8s we were building Bridges. But as are challenge we were given by Whaea Ruth was to build the highest tower using jenga blocks But were was no pictures of my group building the jenga tower.Then we had a tea towel under the blocks we all used the tin can to make it go straight up but we put blocks under it for it to be more straight we had the best game plan to make in stand straight up nice and tall but wasn’t the winner. After that we had to make a bridge out of a cardboard thing but it feels like paper. Every other group built big bridges. We built a small one then we saw what they were doing and we made a big one or tried to and  the  time ran out we only had 45 mins.

Nga Mihi

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