Team Time

Today Totora had team time. This means that we get to either bring our own device, or watch a movie with popcorn (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). It's a reward for the people who do their work and/or don't get on reflection. I'm a pretty average kid, so I got on. I chose own device. I TRIED to play minecraft with Oliver but it wouldn't let me join his world so i just played my own world where I'm making my own village. All the animals are called Greg and Greg's Girlfriend. I also messaged my friend in America.

Algebra

This week for numeracy, Mr Kumar has been teaching us about Algebra. It seems scary when you hear it, but it's actually super easy. We did a few work sheets around it, then we got this slide explaining it further.  I actually like this Algebra, and would like to try something harder.

Wearable Arts

Since term 2, we have been working on wearable arts. Liam, Rata and I are making a Fern Dress. We made our prototype, which ended up losing both arms and the stick helping it stand up... We have a few issues, but are brainstorming ideas to fix them. For example, how are we going to get the dress on and off? We thought we could make an opening in the metal hoop skirt and she could slip in and out of it, or more fabric instead of a hoop skirt, then add a zip.

We will start to make the proper dress tomorrow. Here is a picture of our prototype

Prototype ft. Rata

Instructions

Yesterday we made paper planes using the set of instructions on a google doc. Some of them were really confusing, and I kept mucking up. Later on, we went outside and flew them. Mine did ok, but I was way far from a ralevent place.
In the afternoon, one of the Juniors came to our class and taught us how to make origami butterflies. It was a lot of fun and I made two. He also gave us the instruction sheet so we could try ourselfs. Thank you Jo for teaching us!!

Now that we've done that, we have to  create our own step by step instructions to make anything. I'm not sure what I'm going to do it on yet. I did do a little funny one while I was thinking, though it's not very good... Hopefully I will have an idea by tomorrow!

Why Legend of Zelda: BOTW is a piece of art

After we did the joined argument about cellphones, we split off by ourselfs to write our own. It took me a while to come up with an idea but I decided to write about why Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is a piece of art. Here is the final product!

✃ Shapes and Angles

This week we have been learning about how to measure interior angle sums, interior angles and exterior angles of any shape. This was quite new, though it was ok since we knew what the shapes were.

To measure the interior angle sum, you take the number of sides of a shape minus 2, then times that by 180. Next, we find the interior angle. Take the interior angle sum divided by the number of sides. Finally the exterior angle. The equation to find this is 180 - interior angle.

In simpler words,

{ NUMBER OF SIDES - 2 } x 180 = INTERIOR ANGLE SUM

{ INTERIOR ANGLE SUM } ÷ { NUMBER OF SIDES} = INTERIOR ANGLE

180 - { INTERIOR ANGLE } = EXTERIOR ANGLE

✃ Hopefully you found this helpful!