3D Printing Reflection

O my gosh! I finally completed my first 3D ( 3 dimensional )print! Isn't that awesome? May Road School has officially got a 3D printer and the students are creating a design to print out. Mrs. Haydon got the idea to design key chains so we don't lose our Chromebook cases, and get them mixed up. It was fun experiencing what I could make online. We used a store ware called tinker cad. It was super fun making our designs. My design was successfully printed but I did a boo boo. Under my design I put a big E on it. But I can still learn make things right next time. Next time I would go around my design and remember to check under. Here's a photo of my design:

Right now I'm working on my new design creating some shaped bunny egg. I finished today at around the afternoon. I can't wait until its printed out! Here's a screenshot of what it looks like online.

I do really hope this actually turns out right this time. :) Check out some my classmates blogs to see what there design looks like and how it turned out.

Cheers,

Ema

How to greet people. PB4L.

This week, May Road School's PB4L ( Positive behaviour 4 learning ) Is : How to greet people. Room 14 made a powtoon giving them intruction of how to greet people. Here is my Powtoon. Happy learning :) Cheers, Ema

Steps of how to have a positive digital footprint!

Last Friday, James visited Rm14. He showed us how to delete our YouTube channels, and also the teacher dashboard. After that he gave us our first instruction. Go to your Chromebook, search your first and last name, and see what pops up. So we did that. 2 or 3 people in our classrooms found photo's that they didn't know that was online. I found photo's that I did know that was online from my blog.  After that, we came back to the mat. He showed us what people can do online in seconds. So, we timed him. It took him 20 seconds to tweet a random photo of Rm14. Luckily, he deleted the tweet.. He sent us off to make atleast 5-8 steps of how to have a positve digital footprint! Here's my one!

3 Question About Earthquakes!

This week we were learning about earthquakes. Rm 14 have been learning lots and lots of facts about Earthquakes. After watching videos, reading facts, and learning about earthquakes, Mrs Moore sent us off to answer three main questions.
1) What is an Earthquake?
2) What do earthquake do/cause?
3) What is an earthquake drill? Why do we have to practise earthquake drills?
So we went off and answered all three questions. Also yesterday we did an earthquake drill at exactly 9:15am. My heart was beating fast once the bell ring to tell us it is an earthquake drill. Have you ever been in an earthquake drill?

Here is my presentation:

Maths Games

This is a presentation showing some cool maths game that you can teach your class. These maths games help you with your maths. Some helps you with all your maths, your division and multiplication, and basic facts. Have fun learning these game and also have fun learning maths! We did this presentation so the parents can teach there kids and help them with their maths. We also had a week called MATHS Week and some of us showed the parents how to play it. We were the teachers that night and they were the students. Maths is awesome! I love maths <3

The Recycling Station

The Recycling Station

Last week half of the school visited the recycling station. They all told me they had an amazing time there. I really wanted to go but sadly I was sick. I have learnt a lot from my friends and they explained to me what they did. A worker named Maria has told them a lot and also showed them a presentation. Room 14 was split up with other classes. I totally think they have learned a lot. Did you know that you can recycle some plastic? I didn't know. Did you also know that there is 3.5 million tonnes of rubbish is buried under New Zealand? WOW! 3/4 of the rubbish could have been saved! It is very important that we put our rubbish in the right bins and that we don't litter so we can keep our environment, community, and world healthy and tidy. Here is a drawing of the recycling station:

Speeches.

This term Room 14 has been writing persuasive speeches! We had to write a persuasive speech trying to convince the Audience and the judges about your topic. My topic was "Why we should have a positive attitude." I chose this topic because I think students like us are not having a positive attitude! If we have a bad attitude at primary how would we act in the future?

We all had great speech topics and ideas. We spent nearly a whole block in the morning getting our speeches done. I've got to be honest. I was waiting to do speeches ever since last year! 

When I have finished writing my speech, proof reading it and making sure it makes sense, and then putting it on cue cards, it was finally time to practise and trying to memorising it before I present it in front of the class. When I presented my speech I felt really, really, really, nervous. I was quite happy of the fact that I was the last one to present that day. While we present our teacher will be judging us of how we present our speech, written it, practised and memorised it and she will be checking if we have done our success criteria. We even had a time limit of our speech. My time was 3.54, which was a bit to long. But I was happy it did not go over 4 minutes. 

 When everyone has presented their speech it is time to vote for our Class Finals. The people who gets into the Finals will have to present their speech again. We had to write 3 names on 1 piece of paper. We had to keep our votes anonymous, which mean we do not write our name or tell them who I am.  At the end of the day our teacher has counted all our votes she was ready to tell us. The class finals are: Ivorn, Faiupu, Luciano, Emalata (Me), Hermione and Dinah. I was kind of surprised because I made it to the class finals last year, and now this year. 

When I got home I practised, and cut my speech down so my time would be good! I was even more nervous this time because I'm in the class finals. 

The day came when I had to present my speech. I think I was really good because my time was 3.08! I was super happy. It's not too long and it's not too short. Just right! But I still kept doing my happy feet. (That was because I was super super shakey) 

After 1 day the teacher had a class meeting without the speech finalist. She said it was too hard for her to choose so the class chose with her. I was wanting to find out badly who was going but then we found at the end of the day. The speech finalist were:

Ivorn

Fai'upu

Hermione

Luciano

Congratulations!

These people went to the hall in Friday the 28th to present their speech. They were also competing with other classes. The judges were Mrs. Noakes, and Mrs. Shuster. It was a bit sad because I wasn't there to hear their wonderful speeches! But I heard that in 3rd place was: Faiupu, and Ma'asoama from Room 15,

In 2nd place was Hermione! Finally, in first place was   ..................

Ivorn! 

Congratulations Ivorn! Ivorns speech was " Why we should be ourselves"! I was happy though because I have heard Ivorns speech and I want to congrats her again.