Zones of Regulation

 We have been looking at the different Zones.

Red - Angry.   Yellow - Silly.   Blue - Sad/ worried/ tired.   Green -Ready to learn.

We talked about:

1. What can make us feel these feelings?

2. What can we do to get back to the Green Zone -Ready to Learn.

Matariki Star designs

Here are some of our designs for Matariki stars.

Technology -Machines

In Rūma 2 we have been studying simple machines, and how they work to help us solve problems. We had a go at making lots of simple machines like levers, axels and pulleys.

Then we used the design process to make catapults to solve a problem.  We all had different problems to solve with our catapults.

After we designed and made them, we decided what we needed to change to improve them. We called this debugging or modifying. 

Some of our designs and catapult models.

Computational Thinking. Writing code for our robots.

We have been robots and programmers this week. This is our first try at writing code for our robots to follow.  Everyone understood the task so quickly, and worked together with amazing collaboration skills, showing their school values so well.  We are learning that each symbol represents an action and that you go back to the start when you finish, and repeat.

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Flying Machines

We have just started learning about Machines in Rūma 2. To begin, we watched a short movie, and wrote about our own designed flying machine to show what we already know about machines.

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Making our Home Learning into Books

Our Teacher is making our Home Learning Blog posts into books on book creator. Just for us to have a memory of this time and the work we did at home.

Check out this book

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Houses and Huts Topic

We saw a topic of Huts on our blog buddies site. We thought it would be great to do for a home learning topic. We designed dream houses and wrote about them, and built huts from lego and blankets and other things.