Spring Limerick

 For this learning at home activity we had to either write a recount about our bubble life, or you could do what I did, create a poem, an acrostic poem, a haiku poem or a limerick. I chose to do a limerick. No matter what poem you chose it had to be about spring. It took me a while to make my limerick but it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

The thing that was slightly easier than the rest was deciding the first line, I knew I was going to use it because that is what I wake up to every day. Because I have my own room and it is close to the top of my family's house. The other easy thing was understanding the rules behind the limerick. If you want to learn them click here.

The thing that challenged me most in this activity was making my limerick sound cool. In the video explaining limericks it doesn't say anything about the syllable structure. So I ended up adding too many syllables into my limerick. The syllable structure goes like this: The first, second and fifth line have eight or nine syllables and the third and fourth line have five or six.

To improve my limericks next time I will follow the syllable structure that I mentioned just now. It might be a little bit difficult but I would manage. 

Magnetic Car

 This science lesson we got to choose what type of experiment we had to do out of trying out some electronics, creating a lemon battery, making a battery powered car and the one my group did, the magnetic powered car. My group had me, Naiya, Liam and Lucas S. We had to do the hardest part out of the groups that had to do the magnetic car because we had to screw in all of the tiny, 3/4mm screws onto the bottom.

I observed that it was rather difficult once we got the car moving to make it go that far because the magnet we were using to push the car along kept on slipping to the side of the magnet that was attached to the car. The back wheels were also quite tight and reluctant to move.

Some advice for the next people to do this experiment is to make sure that the magnets are lined up perfectly behind each other so that they don't slip to the side of each other. I also think that it would have a better outcome if you made sure that the wheels weren't as tight as how we had them.

(It was a magnetic car not a battery one)

Cotton Ball Launcher

 During this science lesson we were learning about how different variables can change the thing you started out with originally. To test this we created a cotton ball launcher. To find out how to create one watch the video bellow. We put some tape down on the carpet then marked a line on the tape every thirty cm, we then lined up at the beginning of the tape and shot our launchers and saw how far we got along the tape. The highest I got was one hundred and twenty cm. The highest scored in the class was one hundred and fifty cm, which Carter and Ruby got.

I observed that a good way to make your cotton ball go further was to make the inside roll longer that the outside one. Another good thing to do was to put tape or a piece of paper across the part that you would put the cotton ball, that way the cotton didn't get stuck on the rough edges of the paper.

In future I think a good way to improve the result that I got would be to point the cotton ball launcher a bit higher instead of pointing it horizontally across the room. I think this would improve the experiment because the higher it gets the further it will have to fall and when something falls it doesn't fall straight down it sort of falls across. What other way do you think I could improve? 

Olympic Values Medals

This Blog post is about sharing my Olympic values medals that I designed. The three Olympic values are, excellence, respect and friendship. The medals were a create option for after we had finished our must do's. The other options for the creates were an animation that showed one of the values through sport or to make a poster about the three Olympic values. Once we had done one of these we could do a rap if we wished.

The main thing we were learning about in week one and two for inquiry was the Olympic values that I mentioned earlier in these stems. This Blog post is one of the two creates that I did. The gold medal represents excellence because if you are excellent you are the best you can be. The silver one shows respect because a good way to show that you respect someone is to shake hands with them after the match. Last but not least, my bronze medal is about friendship because you can show friendship by looking after and taking care of your friends.

During this activity I found easy to decide what I was going to put on each of my medals. For example, for excellence I chose an angle heart because if someone is referred to as an angle it means they are the best. That put together with a heart which often means kindness equals to the basic definition of excellence. 

Something that I found rather difficult to do during this time frame was to figure out how I was going to make the medal straps look like medal straps. First I did the coloured bit then went over it to make the gray triangle. If I didn't make the gray triangle the strap wouldn't have looked like an actual strap. 

In future I would like to improve my create by choosing a background that looks slightly more exciting. It would make it harder to improve the medal straps but I could work with it. What do you think I could have improved on with my medals?