Tamaki College Tech

This week at Tech for graphic design's we continue to try and finish our layout of our game so we can soon use the 3D Printer to print out what we need for the game. After that we got to make a moon on tinkerpad.com which is the website you use to print out your games. But we used it to practice and learn how to use it. So first when we started making the moon we had a shape of a cylinder we made the width larger and the height taller so we can copy the shape and then group them together then it should get rid of half of the shape then it will make it look like a moon. Then we started by making two circles that are the same height and width then in the middle of both of them would be a square but the same size as well. If you group them then it would make it look like a pill then we would copy it and make it a little smaller then group them then there should be a hole in the middle. Then we added the first letter of our first names and last names. Then we got to make our teacher it was fun cause we were starting on the website so it might look bad like mine, Now we are used to using the website cause of the practice we had also our teacher said whoever has the best looking one gets there one printed. Tech was actually fun and educational. 

HIIT

So this week we had no kiwi sport so our PE teacher called our class to come and do HIIT. So we were working on our body strength. So we started off my doing boxing we had our right arm on our cheek and with our left arm we had to try and touch each others shoulders if we did touch there shoulders then they had to do a burpee our a press up. Then we wore our heart rate monitors and we were working on our strength to make our heart rate come up. We did pull ups and most of the pull ups I did boosted my energy up. Then we did press up's and then mountain climbers. Then we had to get into a circle and we had to follow the pattern of the song which was called Bring Sally up and we did squats well following the pattern and we had to try and make people finish the song with out stopping.

Math's game//Number Challanges

So this week we got to make our on maths game. So since it's nearly the end of term 2 we decide to gather up all our prior knowledge and make a maths game about different strategy's we did this term. So I decided to make a basic facts maths game so more people can get fluent with there basic facts. It was hard making a maths game because we had to link the right stuff to each other. So after I finished my game I added characters that I made and made it into a GIF. Then we would put it on the correct answer slide or the wrong answer slides. After that I let a few people play my game but my feedback was that my questions were to hard if you want to make people fluent with there basic facts. I didn't get time to fix it. Then we presented our maths games to the whole class and I also got the same feed back so I fixed my maths game and made it better. I felt such a relief to finally finish my game 

Rhythm Interative's vist to PBS

This week the whole school was visited by Rhythm Interactive. We had a instructor and his name was Johnny he played a beat on the Djembe and we would copy him. He also said that if you can say you can drum it. If you are wondering what a Djembe is its African drums. So Johnny started by just playing beats on the Djembe and we would copy the beat but then we listen to the pattern and the rhythm of the beat then we would do it in steps and it made us know how to play the beat off our her hearts. My class helped new students to our school play the Djembe because some of them were nervous. I enjoyed it at the show because it helped learn something new and it was fun. 

Rhythm Interative's website

Tech//Graphic Design

This week at tech the year 7 group were working on choosing a game we can play on paper and turning it into a 3D game but before that we got into groups of 3 people or 2. So we had to think of how we can turn it into a 3D game. The game we started to focus on was hangman my group decided just to use Lego blocks to build the structure and so it was easy to build it. Our first idea was to to curve out a wooden person and wooden hook and us strings to pull the person up but we thought that it might be to complex. We also had two games but we would be working on the other game next week.

Kiwi Can//Reflection

This week for kiwi can our topic was integrity and our theme was responsibility. So first up we got into five lines then we started talking about what we do at school that is responsibility. Then we got to play a game and in the game we had a partner and there was a cone in the middle of us and our kiwi can teachers say to touch your heads,knees and toes then you could try and grab the cone before your partner. It was fun because we got to work on our body movement. Then we started talking about our topic and theme it felt good to know that I was showing responsibility at school. Then we played another game which was more fun cause we had to try and focus on the ball and jumping over the skipping rope at the same time who ever missed catching the ball went into the middle and had to swing the rope around but carefully cause it might cause injuries. I had fun at kiwi can.

Kiwi Sport//Gymnastics

This term for kiwi sport we had gymnastics. Our coach's name was Steve and he taught us to not be afraid and give a shot of everything. So my group started by jumping on a trampoline and do a forward roll on the mat I tried it and it was fun our coach didn't recommend doing a flip but just roll. Then we got into the next station and on that station we had to do a handstand on the wall and also pull your self up on a bar it was hard for me I couldn't properly do all of the activity's but I gave all of them a try. Then on our last station we had to balance on the beam and jump in the middle of it and still balance. Then we had to do a cartwheel then we had to forward roll down the mat.