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Through the last couple of weeks Te Waka Ako has been doing procedural texts on how to play cultural games. I wrote one on how to play caber toss. 'Caber' is the Scottish way of saying 'big log'. Caber toss is a game from the Highland games in Scotland. I learnt that traditional cabers are supposed to be 19 feet and 6 inches tall! That's like 6 metres of really heavy wood. Wow! I think I did really well on my procedure on Caber toss. Here it is!
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On Friday last week the Senior and Middle school hosted their very own Student Led Toolkits. The Teachers had us write down where we where we were going, when we were doing it, and what we were doing, all on a piece of paper the day before the toolkits. No.1 I had drones, no.2 I had Word Art, no.3 I had Makey Makey. They were all so fun! Let me tell you about the activities.
Firstly I went to the hall where I was going to do drones. Once I sat down I saw my friend from the Middle school come through the door. Her name is Ella. The students who were running the drones told us how to use them. They demonstrated how it worked and then the crashed the drone on the carpet. Everyone started laughing. The instructors tried to get everyone sorted. It didn't work. Pretty much none of the drones were charged enough to work. We could hear the sphero people on the other side of the hall. Miss Daly said "if the drones don't work then go and play with the spheros". Ella and I started paying with the sphero inside and then Miss Daly said we can take them outside onto the court. So we did. I controlled while Ella chased after the sphero at full speed. It was so much fun!
Secondly I went to Waitemata to do Word Art. I already kind of knew how it worked but I wasn't sure. One of the instructors was my best friend and the other I didn't know very well. They led everyone through the instructions step by step so that we can all do it together. There are pictures at the end of this post if you would like to see what I made.
Finally I walked over to Kaiwhare to find Anna standing at the door waiting for me. We sat down on the mat and the instructors told us what Makey Makey is. When they had finished telling us about it me and Anna were buddies so I sat down and I set up by Chromebook while Anna went to get some playdough and LEGO and tin foil. Obviously she also got the Makey Makey kit. We connected the usb cable to the Chromebook and the other end to side of the panel. Then we clipped on the green alligator cable to the bottom of the panel. After that we clipped and all the other alligator cables to the different holes. All the other ends of the cables got put into either playdough or LEGO wraped in tin foil. Once we had it all set up I put my finger on the metal bit of the green alligator cable that was connected to the bottom of the panel and then pressed with my other hand on the LEGO wraped in tin foil and then the playdough.
Here is a picture of the kind of drone we used:
Here is the Word art I made:
This is what Makey Makey is:
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This term Ms Sands has got together a group of the people who wanted to do Orienteering. I was one of them. The first meeting we had we talked about all the things on the map. The next time we met up we saw that Ms Sands had set up the pegs in a figure eight. We got given a sheet then we had to clip the sheet where the letters matched. Then a few weeks later we got together and we got timed and there was an actual course where we had to clip 20 pegs. Last week we found out that the race was the Tuesday after! Last weekend I found out that my team was going to be racing against my friend's team from another team!
In class we got into buddies and we made an Orienteering map course. We opened a google drawing which had a map of the school and we had to make an Orienteering course on it. We had to put on the arrows, circles, and numbers. This is what I mean.
Here is the map my buddy and I made:
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