inquiry work

Welcome back bloggers.

For the last couple of weeks in class, we have been making Models, slideshows, and presentations all about our inquiry topic. The topic  had  to  somehow relate to mountains.  People  did  topics  such as  snow monkeys, yeti’s, and how mountains are formed.  My topic was  mountain lions  also known as cougars. I made a backdrop with flaps to lift, and lots of  information.
 Here  is  my presentation:

The first thing that I had to do was Cut the paper out into the shape of a cave. Then I cut out some blue felt for the sky and stuck it all down. I added some grass and vines at the bottom, then I started to draw and colour the cougar and her cub.
when I had finished drawing them I stuck them on. I covered my cave in camo material to make it look cool, and then I cut out some of the shapes for the flaps. After gluing everything down, I printed out all the information and glued it all under the flaps. Then after adding some of the finishing touches, I was done!

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment

Des Hunt books, slideshows and more

Welcome back bloggers!
for the past couple of weeks I have been working on a slideshow about a book I am reading.
The book was called Sunken forest, and it was by Des Hunt.
He has published many amazing children's books including:
The Peco Incident
The Tooth
Cool Nukes
Or some shorter ones:
Frog Whistle Mine
Skink Gully
Crown park
You should really check out some of these books. He also has many others, to many to list.
Anyway, back to talking about my slideshow.
I had to do a whole lot of activities around the book, and topics in the book.
Here is the plot or stroyline, that I have summarised for you:

The book was very gripping, and I loved it. 
If you want to read to book like I did, here is a picture of it:

And her is a link to Des Hunt's website so that you can check him  out: Click
Thank you for reading, and feel free to leave a comment!!!

The wonderful world of science

Welcome back bloggers,
Today I saw a very exciting and funny science show. The show was called: The crazy world  of science. You might have seen them too,
because they travel from school to school performing for kids. 
The man doing all the experiments was called Richard, and the sound effects lady was called Robyn. There were lots of exciting parts of the show, but here are some facts about my 2 favourite bits (about water and bubbles). 

Why is water so interesting?
Water (or H20) (or dihydrogen oxide) is made up from loads and loads of little atoms. Atoms are very small particles of an element. 
Atoms join up to form things called molecules. A water molecule is made out of 3 atoms. 2 of them are Hydrogen atoms (H2), and the last atom is oxygen (0), put them together and you get H20 !

Why are bubbles so interesting?
Bubbles are made of 3 main parts: water, soap and air. This is 
why they are the thinnest thing that the human eye can see! When lots of bubbles join together it is called foam. Here's another fact:
bubbles are very rarely popped by gravity. Here are some of the reasons why bubbles do get popped:
Dryness
Evaporation
The sun
Air turbulence

Another thing that I really liked about the show was his magic tricks. 
The first one Richard did was get 3 metal rings. Then he made them connect together and pull apart without using his hands at all, it was super cool. The other one he did was when he kept randomly making red pom poms appear. They came out of his: 
Pockets, hands, and even his mouth!!!!

I had loads of fun at the show and I really want to see it again, so until them I guess I could try some stuff by myself at home!
Before I go, here are some photos and videos: 

Mixing and magic

After show work

Bubble work

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment!

Architect or blogger?

Welcome back bloggers

In class we have been doing geometry. 

Tinker-cad is a good website to use when using shapes and measuring , which is what we had been doing.  

We decided to design a playground because that is something that the juniors are running short of. 

Here is my screen-castify about my design: 

What is tinker-cad?

This is a website where you can design

3D buildings and places (like playgrounds). 

I would recommend it for your geometry!

I found this work quite challenging, because we had to place everything in a very specific place and do lots of calculating so our playgrounds look real. I still really liked the challenge though.

Feel free to comment!

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