Building Extremely Hard Catapults

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about kinetic energy and potential energy. Potential energy is when energy is stored up inside of something.  For Example: If you have a bowling ball and push it down a slide its called Potential energy. Kinetic energy is when something is moving, For Example if you have a slingshot and a ball and you let go of the slingshot the ball will fly and that is called kinetic energy. 

With kinetic energy and potential energy we built catapults. 

We did this challenge to see if we could follow instructions work together collaborate and communicate.

I found it challenging to communicate to my group and get ideas from my group to make our catapult better. I think we found it easy to build our catapult out of thin bamboo sticks and rubber bands the rubber bands tied the bamboo sticks together. Next time I think we will try to communicate to each other and make sure everyone has a job.

Have you ever made a catapult before?

Following Instructions Test

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about following instructions. 

My teacher said that we were going to have a reading test. She gave my class a piece of paper with instructions on it but we were not allowed to flip the piece of paper over until she put the timer on. We only had four minutes to fill out the paper but the teacher gave us more time. We flipped the piece of paper over and there were instructions that we had to follow.  

We had a piece of paper with twenty three questions to fill out. The first question said read every question carefully but I thought of reading every questions while I answered the questions. When I got to the end I read the twenty third question and It said “Now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentences one and two! Then draw quietly on the back of this paper while you wait for everyone else to finish”. I felt annoyed that I didn’t follow the instructions.

Our teacher  gave us the piece of paper because we had to learn how to read instructions carefully. 

In the future I think that I would try to read all of the instructions carefully and follow them. 

Do you think that you can follow instructions carefully?