swimsafe

In Te Ngahere a person named Tracy came in Te Ngahere. She taught us the important things you need and should know before you go on a boat. The 5 safety rules for being in the ocean or a boat. Wear a life jacket on a boat and only wear a life jacket at the beach if you can not swim,  tell someone where you are going and when you'll be back. This is for the boat and the Beach, put your own Safety first no matter where you are, check the weather before you go out and always bring a waterproof Phone or waterproof phone case because if your boat capsizes you your phone will not work anymore. A couple other things I learnt was if you have flares on a boat which you should have make sure you know how use them because if you don't know how to use a flare your not going to have time to read the instructions. A parachute flare is completely different  than most flares ,when you shoot it the flare goes up 300 metres and then shoots a parachute out with a light on it. This parachute will stay up there for about an hour. I hoped you liked my blog post. Here is my DLO.

Tower battles

It was the first day back at school in Te Ngahere. We were doing a steam challenge. A steam challenge is when you create a specific thing with  a certain amount of resources and time. We also had to work in groups of 3 or 2. My group was Me, Jahrell and Dale. The steam challenge we had to do was to create a paper tower with two pages of newspaper, 30 cm of sellotape and 20 minutes. About 5 to 10 minutes in we had created our paper tower, It was anywhere between 1 metre 17 cm and 1 metre 19 cm. We shrunk our paper tower by about 3 to 4 cm because It did not balance that well. After we shrunk our paper tower so It would balance better, Is what we thought. It didn't even balance anymore. At the end of the experiment I did not stand but if it did we would have came second at a height of 1 meter and 15 cm. What I learned was it is possible to build a paper towel over 1 metre with 2 Pages of newspaper. What I enjoyed was we came up with an idea in the first 2 minutes. What I found hard was building the paper towel. I hope you liked my blog post if you did please comment. here is my reflection