3rd Visit !

This morning we cycled to Bethlehem, the weather was fine but on the way back the rain started and we got saturated, so we had to change into our P.E gear.

Firstly we were creating objects for our forest floor, for that we went outside and collected various twigs, etc. We came back inside and started making our trees, which we made by attaching paper rolls around the stalks of the branches so that they would stand up. We also made Rupunzel's tower which looks really cool and girly. Next week we will make the 3 little pigs house, and continue to collect branches for the forest. We all joined in to make the forest floor and our buddies came up with some really groovy ideas. At morning tea it started spitting a bit and then stopped. Two little 5 year olds challenged Miss Cording and asked with some attitude, “Why the big kids were invading their playground?” and of course Miss Cording had to answer back nicely... Ha-ha.

After morning tea our group had to program our robots to follow a loop, using the light sensor. We hadn’t exactly learnt how to program the light sensors, and we looked pretty dumb in front of the Year 4’s. We used an instruction guide and we found out how to program the light sensor. Our aim that day was to teach the Year 4’s how to program the robots by themselves. We weren’t allowed to touch our laptop, so we had to explain to our buddies how to work the NXT software. The Year 4’s soon learnt how to do it all by themselves. Sadly, we didn’t get to test our programming on the robot today because we didn’t get enough time and the robots were always being used. We had something to eat and it was time to say good-bye. We cycled back to Otumoetai Intermediate in the rain, not leaving one piece of clothing dry.