Tyson @ Panmure Bridge School

     This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. This task was about Nastia Liukin.  The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist?

    A provocation is a topic which brings our strong emotion within somebody. This provocation was about Olympic venues and should countries that host the Olympics spend billions on these facilities just for them to not be used again. In this task we formed an informed opinion on whether we thought it was a good idea or bad idea to build these venues.      

   L.I to use the most efficient stratigies to find the answers     The Olympics is currently happening, our maths group have 8 Olympic challenges for us to complete. This challenge was about Michael Phelps and the events he competed in. Our questions were how far did he swim and how many strokes it took to get him there.  

L.I: To compare the past and present rules.     For this reading activity we were tasked to compare the olympics rules from the past and the present using a venn Diagram. There was a big difference between the past olympic rules and the present. The rules that stayed the same was no shoving, no holding, no cutting of other racers. This task was interesting because I learnt there are heaps of rules in the Olympics

 LI: To identify the main ideas behind the text    This week for reading we read a text called Poros of Malia. This text was about a man named Poros who competed in the sprints in the ancient olympics. Poros had won this event in the olympics prior so he had to win or they would have been made fun of. After we finished the text we answered a list of questions, by answering these question we got a better understanding of the story because it helped us remember the details and the main idea of the text.

 LI: To understand how flowcharts relate to coding blocks  LI:To understand how to get the microbit to talk to another microbit using radio signals. Here is my flowchart document.      The next activity today was coding the microbit to send a radio signal to another microbit. We had to make sure that both microbits were on the same group number so we didn't accidentally get a message from another group.        

This week for maths, we had a competition of Super fingers.  Super fingers is a game that recalls the times table. The People who made it to the quarter finals were Kruse, Afatia, Chris and Mahdi. The third round was the semi finals. The winners for this round was Vayan, Afatia, Chris, Spelman. For this round, the teams were uneven so it was Vayan vs Micah. The fourth round was the finals Chris and Afatia. The champion for this competition was Afatia. I enjoyed the competition because I get to recall my times table.

 LI: To try the mBot to draw a star shape for Matariki This week the year 8s of LS2 coded the mBots to drive in a star aligned path. To make the code we used different action codes. We used a code that allows the mBot to move forwards, left and right, and the seconds the mBot has to do the task at. We drew a star on a large piece of paper and we tested our mBot on the paper. After we have tested our first one we made changes to further improve our mBot code.

 LI: To understand How important Matariki is for New Zealand    Matariki is a time to celebrate when your families come closer.For Matariki we've made a few pieces of amazing work.We made an information brocure about Matariki. We wrote about the story of  Matariki, we found some facts about Matariki, we named all the Matariki stars and we showed how to find Matariki. What I found interesting was that there is so much information about Matariki      

 LI: To identify what tools Maori people used back in the olden days        This week for inquiry we’ve been focusing on Matariki. Matariki is a time where we can come together and celebrate the Maori New Year with our family and friends. For this activity we found out what tools Maori used in the olden days and found out information about the tools they used.  I found this activity fun because.In the olden days people had to do so much work just to plant or harvest crops

    LI: To strengthen our connections to Matariki.      Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition. To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities. I found out that Matariki comes around June and July and that next year there will be a public holiday for it. I enjoyed this because I got to learn more about the country that I live in.

LI: to learn how to code the micro bit in Python. The first image shows the Python coding for flashing hearts. It flashes between a small heart icon and the regular. The main thing to notice between the python coding and the blocks is that the forever loop is at the top and the bottom of the content in both. We then created a Python coding that uses buttons, the main thing to notice is the "def" which is defining what the on_button_pressed will make the micro bit do. Again it has the top and bottom so the content can go inside it. This task was fun because it actually felt like professional coding.