Atareita's Makey Makey Design Challenge

Atareita @ Pt England School: Makey Makey Design Challenge

MakeyMakey Game Controller Designing

This term our inquiry topic is technology. So we spent the week learning about the design process and designing our own game controllers. Then using a makeymakey we used our controllers to control our Chromebooks and play games or complete activities.

Our class made it on to TV.

Check out this Raising Children episode to see our awesome class and school.
Watch Raising Children - Sunday 3 May - TVNZ OnDemand

News Reports - Nepal Earthquake

This week we having been reading about the Nepal Earthquake. We then have been learning how to write a news report with a focus on writing facts rather than opinions. To begin we created a Lino pin board of all the facts about the earthquake with the link to where we found the information. This was to help us understand that to find accurate facts we need to use more than one resource.

Atareita's Field of Remebrance

Atareita @ Pt England School: Field of Remebrance:







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Manuwai's Holiday Writing

Manuwai @ Pt England School: Holiday Writing:

Last cold Monday I went to a camping site with my dad and my siblings in Coromandel.

How we got to the camping site was on my dads caravan. It is pretty big. After a big ride in our caravan we stopped at the shop to get some food for us to eat. What we had to eat was a delicious cheese and steak pie with a lovely refreshing drink called Aloe.

After we went to the shop we started to head to our campsite. Once we got to the campsite we started to set up our beds, food , campfire and we also got ready to take our dogs for a walk. When we were ready to take our dogs for a walk we got on our bikes and we raced down a pathway to the lake.I was the last one but i didn't care because I was with my dad.When we got to the lake we started to go for a walk because we were tied and we didn’t want to rush the dogs because they were having a drink. Also when we had a little bit of time me and my siblings went for a swim for about half an hour it was cold.When it was time to go I said goodbye to the little fish.

After I said goodbye to the fish we started to head  back to our caravan.

When we got back to our caravan we started to gather up some stones and some twigs for our campfire. I didn't get any stones or twigs because I was in the caravan making the smores and marshmallows with ice-cream and chocolate sauce for dinner.When my dad came back with my siblings he told me “Make sure you set out the table and the cutlery please.”And I said “ok dad.”A few minutes later i finished setting the table out and the cutlery. When i finished setting out the table and the cutlery i went back into the caravan and  i played with my dogs. Fluffy, Zebra, Malcolm and velvet. When it turned night time me and my siblings went to go get the twigs from the back of the caravan.

Our dessert was ice-cream and chocolate sauce. After we had dessert we went into our caravan and went into beds. In the morning me and my dad took my dogs for a walk while my siblings packed up. When we got back from our walk we were going to have breakfast. What we had for breakfast was Weet-bix with a cold milo. It was pretty nice.

After we had breakfast we had to go back to our house. I was really sad that we had to go but i told my dad if we could come back here again.

I loved camping with my dad and my siblings. I hope we can go back there very soon.

Term 2 - Tinkering, tools and toys

This term Pt England's inquiry topic is Tinkering, Tools and Toys. It is all about Technology and the design process. In Team 4 we are creating animations of our own video games. This video is what the Team 4 teachers put together to introduce our topic.