House of bricks reflection!

 My favourite Lego activity was the racing cars because It was fun going back and forth retrying and testing to make our car go faster and reach the furthest length, and in the end our team came first and was only 2cm off the record of all the groups in our school.

My least favourite Lego activity was the kuapeka activity because I started to make a really cool forest with some houses filled with cool plants and in the end it just became a giant pile of leaves.

The activity that tested my perseverance the most was the racing cars because we had to keep going back and making changes to our creation, to make it go as far as possible and it at the start it did not even get down the ramp.

The most challenging activity was the symmetrical mats because it was very hard to make it the same on each sides and in the end it actually looked very cool and when you make it spin it looks like a circle.

I enjoyed working collaboratively with others because I got to work with my friends which was very fun and made it easier to communicate with each other, and it was an awesome experience.

  

Exercise for every body

Hi my name is Bronson would you like to get fit and lose weight? well I am going to show you why I think everybody should exercise daily and make it part peoples lifestyle! 

Exercise can be as simple as lunges, squats and even pushups!

30 minutes a day can help you lose weight regularly if you are struggling to keep an active lifestyle, and the best part is that all the latest tech and sports equipment makes it so you can exercise from home. A rowing machine or a treadmill could easily fit somewhere in your house so you can workout whenever!

It is also proven that people who exercise for evan just at least 11 minutes a day tend to live longer, you want to live longer right? Well drive down to a gym near you, gym membership fees can come as cheap as $36 or evan $10 monthly.

Exercise is helpful in many ways like sleep stress and anxiety. It also helps to boost your thinking, memory and attention. So I hope now you have heard this you will get into exercise everyday, thank you for reading!

Learning a Rubik's cube!

This week for reading we learned about hobbies, there were a bunch of ideas to make for the create but I choose to write a journal of me learning new hobbies. I decided to write about me trying out a Rubik's cube and eventually solve it. It took a while but I finally got it here, is my journal!

Day 1:

I was getting bored in lockdown so I thought of some cool things to learn, I remembered one time my cousin showed me how fast he could do a rubiks cube and I thought that it would be cool if I could do that to.

Day 2:

I started by watching a few different tutorials on youtube and see what one I thought was best I followed all the steps, and no matter how hard I tried I kept mucking up and making small mistakes that made me have to restart.

Day 3:

But I thought of how cool it would be to solve a rubik's cube, so I kept learning and I finally got it, I was so happy, and that was when I started to try and solve one off by heart.

Day 4:

At first it seemed impossible without a video to watch, I was always forgetting the top layer of the cube, I watched the video a few more times, and then I could solve it all by myself.

Day 5-7:

I wanted to get faster so I kept going and I was getting slightly faster every time, and now  I can solve a rubik's cube in around about a minute, thank you for reading.

Have you ever tried out a Rubik's cube? Could you solve it?

Growth vs Fixed mindset!

 This week I learned about a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, a fixed mindset is someone who gives up or thinks they cant improve, but a growth mindset is always trying to improve and make there work better, I made two people and wrote about what a growth mindset and fixed mindset think. here is my work! 

Do you have a growth mindset?

ratios!

 This week I learned all about ratios, I watched all the videos and had a clear idea of what a ratio was, I did four different examples of ratios and an explanation, here is my work!

Now you know what a ratio is, are you ready to try and solve a question yourself? if there are 13 cows and 27 horses, what would the ratio of horses to cows be?

Great Graphs for Tumu Hub!

This week for math we made two different types of graphs to show the birthday months people have in our teams Rātā, Mānia, Korokio and Kōhia. We also had to include two statements that you can see from the graphs. I think I did pretty well and chose graphs which make sense, I had to change some of the headings for capital letters but it turned out well and I thought it was fun learning about graphs.

Have you ever made a graph using google sheets?

town trip

 Town Trip

On the 20th of May Tumu Hub went to town to look at designs and ideas for our PBL. There was 4 rotations, we went to see and ride a waka, look around Victoria Square, play at Margaret Mahy and we feed some tuna.

My favourite part of the trip was getting the chance to ride a waka on the Avon because it was really cool to learn the way to paddle the waka. When we finally got in the water we went up and down the river 4 times as we were chanting “Hee! Haa! Hee! Haa!”.

Something I learnt was that Margaret Mahy playground is designed about the important parts of Ngāi Tahu, like the slides and bumps where the trampolines are represent the Port Hills, there are a load of carvings into the ground and in the water section there are tuna.

The thing I found the most interesting was learning about all the different statues placed all around the Victoria Square because they had metal rectangles with writing about the person, there was about 2 statues with Queen Victoria and Captain Cook.

This trip has helped me with my PBL because I saw a lot of different and new designs and ideas like mats and pou carvings that I could use for my PBL this term. I have more knowledge about pou and mat designs. I could use that knowledge to suggest ideas for pou at school. We could put it at the front gate.