Leonardo da Vinci and Simple Machines

Hi Ola School
Recently we went to the Waikato Museum to see an exhibition showing many of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions. Did you know he invented a sort of helicopter and the first hand-glider? Because we are learning how to use Google Apps for education, we took what we had learnt about da Vinci, and made a slide show collaboratively in a group.




For the next few weeks we are going to learn more about the 6 simple machines (many of which da Vinci used in his inventions) and we are going to have a science fair at the end of our learning to showcase what we have learnt.

Kaitieke Seniors Introduce Themselves

Well here we go! Our first post on our shared blog. We are writing this together as a group today, although as we get in to the swing of regularly posting, we will have individuals send posts too.

We thought we would start by sending you a short video clip to introduce ourselves. At Kaitieke School this year we have 16 students. For three days of the week we have a second teacher working here and so we split the class in to Juniors and Seniors. The Seniors who introduce themselves below are Year 4 to Year 8 students. This makes us 8 year olds to 12 year olds.




So in order we have Nate, Codi, Kyle, Jack, Ria, Maia, Blake, Lycan and Bryce.

In our next post we will introduce our Juniors.

We look forward to 'meeting' all of you in your first posts.