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Mosaics On week 2 term 3, team 3 is having an art week. What Whaea Breeze chose to do for our whole class was to do mosaic art. For those of  you who don't no what mosaic art is, mosaic art is an image that is created by putting together small pieces of paper or tiles and instead of using paper  B9  chose to use tiles. Here is what it looks like so far.   As you can see my class and I have chosen to do a yin and yang. For those of you who don't know what a yin and yang is, yin (the moon) means the dark side of things and yang (the sun) means the bright side of things, in better words yin and yang means a balance between good and bad. It had took our whole class a week to crack the tiles into pieces and glue it on our wooden cut out. You must be thinking about how we cracked the tiles, well... we used a tile cutter that looks a little something like this. You slide the tile in, then use the handle to push down and crack the tile. One th...

Balloon car Last week we had to make balloon cars for our STEAM project. The materials that my group used were cardboard cups, straws, balloons and rubber bands.  Our balloon car had to do these 4 things: The car  must be propelled forward by the air escaping the balloon. The car must be sturdy and not fall apart when in use. The car must travel at least 5 feet.  The car must travel in approximately a straight line. Some challenges that my group faced were trying to not pop the balloon,  making holes in the bottle tips,  our car not moving 5 feet and the wheels were not turning. My group didn't complete the challenge because it didn't move 5 feet. We were the only group to have our car move at least half a foot.

Mosaics In B9 we are making mosaics.We learned how to cut tiles and use the glue to stick the tiles onto a big circular thick board. The glue we used is called liquid nail. It was really hard to get off so if you use that glue watch out because it doesn't come off once you stick it on. The picture we are making is a yin and yang. A yin and yang means good and bad. Yin represents all things light such as  heaven, summer, spring, positive charge and many more bright things. Yang represents all things dark such as the moon, autumn, winter, negative charge. In the world it is important to have a balance between both light and dark. Here's our unfinished product. This is what it will look like after.

Balloon cars Whaea Breeze gave B9 and I a challenge. The challenge was to make a stable car that can move by the air in a balloon. But the car had to move five steps forward and also it had to move in a straight line. My team and I started to make a plan. Once we were finished, we created our first balloon car.  My team and I came across some challenges that we had to solve. One of the biggest challenges was making a hole in a bottle tip because we only had scissors to make a hole. The materials that my group used were a straw, a balloon, a cup, tape, scissors, rubber band and bottle tips. Then we finally created our balloon car. Next we tested our creation to find out if it worked. But sadly it only moved half a foot. I felt angry that we wasted 30 minutes but at less it moved. Next time I would make better wheels so that it could move forward.

Holiday Recount One terrific holiday, my cousin downloaded Fortnite and used his credit card to buy season 5 battle pass. Later on, I looked on my Instagram and video chatted my friend Azariah and he said he brought something from the Gucci store. It was a bag that was very expensive. Then we started talking about Fortnite. Later on my Aunty, cousin and I went to Manukau and watched Incredibles 2. I saw my friend Christian I said, “Hi,” he replied, “Sup come to my house after.” I said, “Text  me when you get home.” Later on I meet up with my friend Christian he said,“Come to the park.” We played on everything in the park it was boring. So I went home and logged onto Fortnite and tried to get a victory Royale in solos. I kept on dying and it made me so angry that I felt like smashing my keyboard. After that, I looked how much followers I had on Instagram and I had 140 followers. Later on I had dinner and played on the computer until midnight trying to get drifts his...

Balloon Cars In B9 we have been learning about STEAM. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. In STEAM activities we have to Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create and Improve on our design.  The project that we had to make was a Balloon Car. The materials that my group used were cardboard cups, rubber bands, bottle caps, bottles, scissors, straws and sellotape.  Our balloon car had to do the following 4 things. 1. The Car must be propelled forward by the air escaping the balloon. 2. The Car must be sturdy and not fall apart when in use. 3. The Car must travel at least 5 feet. 4. The Car must travel in approximately a straight line. One challenge that my group faced was that the wheels would not turn. We tried solve this problem by changing the wheels. Unfortunately this did not make the car move. It was the same with the other wheels before. The only things my groups car did was number 1 and 2. Our balloon car was not a success. ...