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Lily O’Lee week 8 STEAM Mrs barrowman

First we read the book then we started in our books writing about what Lily O’Lee was doing and what the catastrophe was.

Second we started on sketches school or any drawing app and we sketched Lily O’Lee or ourselves.

Lastly we took screenshots of our sketches and drawings and made a little video or Canva slide as well as adding text to match our drawings it was really cool and we learned how to illustrate as well as authorise. We had to change the words to our own ing words like carrying, Singing, bringing or skipping.

Jill Eggleton: Jill Eggleton is a famous New Zealand author who has written over eight hundred children books. She writes rhyming books and has written about sixty by herself.

 

Week 2 STEAM with Miss Goodwin

This week, we continued with Sir Edmund Hillary, Jean Batten, and Ernest Rutherford — three amazing New Zealanders who changed the world.

We found out about the incredible things they did:

  • Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb Mt Everest, and he helped build schools and hospitals in Nepal and is on the New Zealand 5 dollar bank note
  • Jean Batten was a brave pilot who flew all the way from England to New Zealand by herself!
  • Ernest Rutherford was a scientist who discovered important things about atoms — he even split the atom!We talked about how each of them inspired other people and made a big impact on future generations.We also mapped Jean Batten’s flight path on a world map and saw all the countries she flew over. It was really cool to see how far she travelled!

    Then we chose one of the three people and made a fact file about them. We wrote about who they were, what they did, and why they were important.

    For our STEAM challenges, we got creative!

    • We designed a survival tool or shelter, thinking like Sir Edmund Hillary on an expedition.
    • We designed paper airplanes to test which would fly the furthest, like Jean Batten

We also built a structure to keep an ice cube from melting. We had to think carefully about materials, insulation, and design.

 

 

 

💡 What We Learned:

  • We learned that one person can make a big difference in the world.
  • We practised teamwork, problem-solving, and design thinking.
  • We used science and creativity to build and test our ideas.
  • We gained confidence in sharing our learning in different ways — maps, writing, building, and presenting.

It was an exciting week full of challenges, learning, and fun! We’re proud of what we created and how much we discovered about these inspiring New Zealanders.

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Week 1 blog

Our timeline digitally and on paper-Famous New Zealanders

This week in STEAM, we did this really fun activity where we became researchers!

In groups of 3-4 we were given a famous New Zealanders to research about.Some people learned about Jean batten, first person to fly across the Tasman sea! Others had Sir Edmund Hillary, first person to climb Mount Everest.While others were learning and researching about Ernest Rutherford who split the atom!

In my group we had Te Rina, Siobhan and I we worked as a team to find important times and events in this persons life-like when they passed when they were born of we their lives changed forever. We put all our facts together in order to make a timeline on a big sheet of paper. It was like retelling this persons life as a story!

Then we turned our awesome timelines into a digital timeline on Canva. We added shapes and pictures even colours to make them really stand out and make them look even more awesome!

We learned:

-How to work as a team

-How to research properly

-How to add shapes and pictures on Canva

It was really fun learning about all these amazing kiwis. We think they would love our timelines!

 

I didn’t know Jean batten flew across the ocean

I didn’t know Ernest Rutherford was a scientist

I didn’t know that Edmund Hillary was on the five dollar bill

We can’t wait to learn more about this in STEAM and share it with you next time!

Steam-term 4 week 1

 What?Our talk show is about kaitiakitanga

Interest?our intrest is sea life

The people in our team and there responsibility 

Arya-planning

Riley-researching

Athene/me-logo and other extra stuff

this is my logo that I designed

I chose this colour because it reminds me of the ocean and our logo is based on the ocean