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Hi , Today I created a super column . I thought it was really cool how much some paper columns can hold. Overall I was able to hold about 6 things with my super column. Well actually I had 9 but I Nanogirl said to try a rock. It was quite heavy making so I could only hold about six on my super column. It was tricky to put the rock because it was so heavy and the whole thing would collapse. What I discovered was that if you put the items on two columns horizontally , vertically or diagonally. It create more support. Because it is balancing on the columns. So I put the heavier things like the rock. I ended up using 5 columns made out of paper sticked with tape to put my six items on. The items I used were , a rock , two phones , a pair of scissors , a glasses case with glasses in them , a paper flower. A helpful tip would be to put heavier things on columns. Here are some photos below.
Hi and Merry Christmas to you all.Today I chose to make a paper cup using origami . It was actually a lot easier then I imagined it would be. A tip I would is to be very accurate because I ended messing up at the end because my bottom of the paper cup was not sealed and it ended up having a hole. I just improvised and put some tape at the bottom to stop the hole a little bit. If you would like to learn how to make a paper cup. Their is a link to a tutorial below.
Today I learnt how to ask someone about the weather in Maori.
Here is a recording of me saying the weather.
The Names Maui
The Maui that moved the sun with the help of my brothers
I felt sorry for the villagers as they could not work as hard due to how little the day was. I had the courage and so did my brothers. I was happy with my decision. Preparing was a challenge but we plaited flax into rope to use. We arrived at the hole where the fierce sun rises up. Unknowingly the sun was caught in our trap. I sprung up onto to it and start smacking it with my weapon. The Sun says '' YOur gonna kill me!''. ''No'' I say. But I will send far away from this place. Off he went drifting as the atmosphere got a bit cooler. It was a struggle I was tired but was proud of what I did in the end.
HI this is my slide for Kiwi Jingle Bells!!
Hello , Today I made a PigPen Cipher Clue to show my favourite beach. What I learnt was a different way to show right the alphabet in a different way. I really enjoyed learning about it. I did not find much challenging but I did have to have a bit of a think for my clue of my favourite beach. At the bottom is what each of the symbols represent.
Hi I have made a xylophone today. I discovered that it's not just glasses that make that noise steel cups can as well. So I have used those with the paper xylophone I made. The sound they make is really cool. Something tricky I found was measuring the different amounts of volume. I don't have any helpful tips but I just poured a little bit out and have a look if its better not then just pour some more out.
Today i learn about the game which one does not belong. There is not a specific one that does not belong. All of them have reasons for why they don't belong. Like I am about to show one about pizza.
This is my Chorus. If pretty is like that song made by the college but I made mine in my own words. I chose that of Naruto because he never gave up and never lost hope even though he was the weakest in his class but ended becoming the strongest in all nations.
Hi , The Kowhaiwhai I have made consists of a koru and a fishing hook. It just keeps going on after that. The koru means a new life or growth. The fishing is a symbol of good luck and strength. So basically what I am saying is the the fishing hook has hooked on to the koru giving it good luck and strength as it grows.
The insect I have made is the Limey Spider. I have made this insect up by myself. I came up with this name because I saw we have quite a lot of lime coloured stuff in our backyard and found these weird green balls growing from trees. I decided to use it for the abdomen and front bit of the spider. It has two fangs in the front and four legs attached to the abdomen. The sticks and fangs are little twigs. I made a hole in the ball for the eyes. I named it limey spider because its body is pretty much lime green colored. The spider is like that as well because it can mimicry into other green coloured spider colonies making it basically camouflage through colonies of other green coloured spider species.
Do you feel your team has worked well together? How so? Yes we have worked really well and have all done a really good job at contributing and planning our next steps. We have set up our stall for market day now and are ready for tonight's market day. We made a stand to put our price chart on and changed the 4 candles one to a large. That picture up their is our stand. We thought about displaying and made it look. The bottom two papers say which are small and large. The thing in the middle is the stand with a price chart.
What have you done to get over difficulties or challenges? Well first knowing our plan. Because we were quite clueless at the start not knowing what to do. Now we do it independently and all of us know what to do.
How has your teacher helped you to become business prepared for market day? Mr Dunn has taught to think about things like our displaying of the stand , how to make it look appealing and that we must have a plan before we do anything.
List all the things you need to bring with you for market day next Friday. We have brought everything as we promised and have done a good job. Hopefully everyone sells some of their products!
Today we our main plan is to get our packaging sorted and set up our stall for the market day tonight. We are going to make a stall in the woodwork room to put our price chart on. We have changed the the ones with 4 candles to the large section because it did not seem right.
Do you feel your team has worked well together? How so? Yes we have worked really over time. At the the start we were quite confused but then we started to actually plan out what we are doing and all contributed to the product we made.
What have you done to get over difficulties or challenges? Well first we have not used the woodwork room much and did not know about machinery. Our drilling of the holes, some of them were on an angle and dangerous but we fixed that problem. We did not know what to do with packaging but figured it out.
How has your teacher helped you to become business prepared for market day? They have told us that we must be prepared and know what to do . That all of us should have a job and not stand around one person. Recording all of our progress. Figuring out the costs of resources. Thinking more sustainable and things friendly for the environment.
List all the things you need to bring with you for market day next Friday. We will need brown paper bags , our logos , tape , our product and our poster and also our group.
We have finished all our products and know our next steps. We have sorted out our pricing which will be 15$ for the large ones and 10$ for the small ones. During the weekend I am going to print out our logos and the poster with the price chart. Raman and Gagan will be buying the brown paper bags for our packaging.
How do you think you have used your time today? We have used our time pretty good today. We have figured out our packaging of our product, We have started making a poster for our product. We all worked effectively and all did something.
What has been your biggest achievement today? We have figured out our prices for our product. We are going to have two types of driftwood candle holders. Large ones and Small ones. The large ones will be 18$. A Lot of the teachers have recommended prices around this range. The small ones are 12$.
Name someone in your class (from another group) who you think is making a cool product. What is their product and why do you think it will sell. Jamie is creating coasters. They are selling in sets of 4 . Those are cool and they are planning to sell christmas themed ones which is nice because we getting into the time of christmas.
What do you need to do to make sure you will be on task for next week? That we sort out our prices and get our packaging sorted.
Today we are not doing much work in the woodwork room because we are done in their apart from chisling . We are focusing on making our prices and poster for our station on when we are at the market day. We are also thinking of packaging and I have a bit of an idea. We are going to use brown bag because they are environmentally good and it is sustainable. We are making a logo as well to put on the brown bag as our packaging.
How do you think you have used your time today? We have used our time really well. We have made all our products and are planning to get more driftwood to make some more. We worked as a team and problem solved our problem with the holes being drilled on an angle. So we worked well.
What has been your biggest achievement today? We figured out the problem with holes being drilled on an angle and figured out how to fix it. There were also some holes where the candle can easily get out. We fixed that as well.
Name someone in your class (from another group) who you think is making a cool product. What is their product and why do you think it will sell. My Friend Izan who is making coasters is pretty cool. Because they are making christmas themed ones and they will probably sell quite fast. They are selling them in sets.
What do you need to do to make sure you will be on task for next week? Probably start thinking about prices and advertisement things.
Today Our main plan is to make more of our products. We are also going to fix the other ones because some of them are drilled on an angle so we need to make them straight. Also Raman and Gagan are planning to get more driftwood because we think we can make more. They will probably go on the weekend during the afternoon. I am also trying to figure out what the price could be because we have different sized products so maybe We could have two different prices in like three groups. One group could be smaller sizes and then there are large ones.
How do you think you have used your time today? I have used my time effectively because I made a few products and we worked efficiently which was my goal from last week. We had a job each so I think we did really good.
What has been your biggest achievement today? We made lots of products and had our things planned out and knew what we were doing. We worked as a team.
Name someone in your class (from another group) who you think is making a cool product. What is their product and why do you think it will sell. Jahni are making coasters and I think that is a good idea and their designs look cool.
What do you need to do to make sure you will be on task for next week? We need to make sure our driftwood are straight when we cut them because then they are on an angle and it is not safe.
Our plan is to grab our stuff from the office and head straight to the woodwork room and start making our products. Me and Gagan will drill the holes using the drill machine into the driftwood and Raman will do the chistling to make the candle fit in nicer.
What went well today for you and your team? Think about your teamwork, and your group’s product idea.
What was difficult? Why do you think that was? The shiving part after drilling the holes was difficult. Because since the wood was soft it could not cut the wood cleanly so we had to use a shiv to make it cleaner.
What are three new business terms you learnt today? You have to have a prototype before you start your final product. Need to have everything planned. Work as a team not just standing around a person doing everything.
What do you need to work on in preparation for the PREP lessons next week? Try to work better with people in our group doing different jobs.
Plan: We need to get started on making our product in the woodwork room. We will make a prototype out of scrap so we have an idea of what to do with our actual resources.
Reflection Questions:
What went well today for you and your team? Think about your teamwork, and your group’s product idea.
What was difficult? Why do you think that was?
What are three new business terms you learnt today?
What do you need to work on in preparation for the PREP lessons next week? I need to have a plan on what I am doing and start making my product. We can work a bit more efficiently so we can get most of our product done next week.
On Sunday Me , Raman and Gagan will go to Waikanae beach to collect the driftwood to make our hangers. My dad will probably take me their and Raman and Gagan will bike their and will meet up their 2:00 in the afternoon at the front of the beach. We will collect maybe like 10 pieces of driftwood and we will need tea lights which we will probably have to buy . But most of our costs are free. Because to add the driftwood sticks into the driftwood , we will use a hot glue to stick it in their. So we make total profit. Then on Friday we will bring our driftwood in like a bag or something and then start making our driftwood hangers the friday in that week. We are going to glue our logo onto the driftwood under the hooks after we have finished making them. Our resources are sustainable because we are not cutting wood out of actual trees which depletes natural resources. That is not being sustainable. So using driftwood is a good idea.
What went well today for you and your team? Think about your teamwork, and your group’s product idea.
What was difficult? Why do you think that was? Focusing a little bit. Because I was getting distracted by my friends. Its fine I will try harder after holidays starting fresh.
What are three new business terms you learnt today? I created a CV. It was not that hard. I learned the qualities you need to get hired or for someone to be convinced for them to let you work. I learned making a logo.
What do you need to work on in preparation for the PREP lessons next week? I will be set for after the holidays.
My group is Raman and Gagan , We are making driftwood hangers. We will use hooks and add them to to the driftwood. The driftwood will have no cost because we can find a bunch by river banks and at the beach. We will need to buy the hooks somewhere like Bunnings. The driftwood might be sanded to make it look a lot nicer and then add the hooks. I still do not know the weight of the driftwood because it is hard to actually estimate because some might have more water content then the other. Right under that is our logo. Our company name is JRG Inc ( acronym for Joe , Raman and Gagan). Our slogan is you drift with the wood. It just came to mind.
Today Was the first day of prep. We were getting settled in. I worked really hard today and tried to stay focused on task which was difficult. I worked well with my teammates. We all contributed in the paper challenge we did and did a good job. I think we will work well with our product idea. It was difficult to focus and stay on task. Because I was getting distracted by talking to my friends. So maybe I think I can work with them but need to stay on task. That they need to be innovative and creative. They need a good understanding of marketing and creating products. For preparation I am going to think about what I sort of materials I need to make my product. Also I will finish my logo , slogan and name for our product. Also need to start thinking about business cards and things like that.
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