Miraitowa The Tokyo Olympic Mascot!

 Hello today I have a DLO on the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Mascot Miraitowa. I will not be talking about Someity in this blog post which is the other mascot of this current olympic.

Miraitowa is the Mascot for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It was designed by the Artist Ryo Taniguchi after 2,042 applications were submitted for approval. The Tokyo Organising Committee reviewed each design and picked the top 3 for elementary Japanese students to decide the winner. 

Miraitowa has the ability to teleport to places instantly. Miraitowa’s name has the combination of Japanese words meaning “Future” (Mirai) “Eternity” (Towa). Miraitowa represents the Tokyo Olympics will lead to the future of everlasting hope in the hearts of the world.

The patterns on the robot are similar to the Ichimatsu pattern it also represents

the culture of Japan with it being also a Samurai helmet.

I hope you got some understanding behind Miratowa and some interesting facts

about the mascot.

Duolingo Spanish Lesson

 Hello today I learnt some Spanish and took notes of it from duolingo a free websitie to learn heaps of langauges from around the world. I can say a few phrases and can understand the meaning of them.

Here are my notes from today and some words and phrases in spanish.

Samoan Language Week Post

 Talofa Lava O lou igoa John,

Ua mai oe?

Manuia Faafetai

Ua mai lou aso?

Hello my name is John and this week was special because it was Samoan Language week. There were class items and performances from most classes including dances from room 8. 

I hope you like this DLO on Samoan Language Week. It has a few facts that you may or may not know about samoa.

Enjoy your weekend!

Toolkits 2021

 Today I presented me and Gammado's Tinkercad presentation at the 2021 Ako Hiko Toolkits. Held at Owairaka District School. I presented the Tinkercad presentation in Room 7, we started off by introducing ourselves and what our toolkit is really about. We explained the basic shapes on tinkercad and the library and basic mechanics of it as well. We challenged the audience to build a house of their own choice with 20 minutes on the clock. After those 20 minutes we finished up with a Q&A  and then we ended the presentation. 

We had a lunch break then we chose a workshop that we wanted to attend and we went there. We chose Minecraft Coding and Word Art, for the word art we went back to Room 7 and we sat down waiting for the presentation to begin. We went on this website called wordart.com and we made our word art with our names and what we like. 

And then we went to our last workshop which was Minecraft Coding. They showed us the link to the coding website and we chose our journey in water or on land. I chose the water voyage and it is a strategy coding game where you use commands to move your character spaces. We had 12 levels to complete and I completed 10 out of 12. We got a certificate from completing 8 out of 12.

Thank you to all who presented and who organised the event. Blog you later!!

My Minecraft Coding (Ako Hiko Toolkits 2021)

 Hello, this is my Toolkits Minecraft coding badge that I received for finishing all 12 levels in the coding game. It is a fun interactive coding game, it helps you with strategy and solving puzzles.

Tinkercad Rocket Fins Design Write!

 I chose the elliptical fin for my rocket design because I researched the most aerodynamic fin and the results were the elliptical fin design. Since the curved shape of the fins causes the air to flow around the fin. So Mr Walker printed out 4 copies of my fin. I make the end of the elliptical fin a square shaped (T) to slot in under the plastic brace. 

Blog you later!

WW1 Group Reading

                                                               Trench Warfare Synthesis

Video Links: Trench Warfare Trench Warfare 2

Texts: Gilbert Williams William Charles Davis

This past week we have been reading 2 texts and 2 videos over ww1 and summarising, predicting, questioning and clarifying.

 The life in the trenches was very stressful and depressing. The trenches were very crap, it was muddy and bloody. Soldiers being scared to death from all the rapid fire from enemy lines. The sleep schedule of 3 hours for the regular soldier was tiring. 

Trenches weren't made to be long term so the trenches weren't very comfortable because it was muddy and full of diseases. There was also many shattered bones, dead body's and blood everywhere because of this soldiers starting producing bad mindset for example they thought when they were gonna instead of if they were gonna die. They found the trenches very boring because they had to sit around for hours on end just waiting.