Our slide

Our Slide Design

Our challenge 

Mr. Goodsir assigned us with a task to make a slide with suitable trusses. We had to do this because our old slides trusses were not stable enough. We were only allowed to use Popsicle sticks, toilet rolls and hot glue guns for our slide.

This is our final slide.

This is our ladder to get into the slide.

These are our final trusses

     

Our tower is 

2 storeys high.

Our final thoughts

Now that our slide is finished we are very pleased with our result. We have learnt a lot from this experience and now know more about strength. If we could improve our design we would hide the welding and fix up the paint job.

By Meadow And Renee  

We had the task of creating a Popsicle stick model or prototype of the yellow slide  in the senior playground because that slide had been disapproved by the  Board of Trustees after an engineers report for safety reasons. We were trying to create a safer and stronger slide. We had to create a clear plan and most of all strong trusses. Mr Goodsir was looking at our plan, trusses and the finished project. 

This is our finished model;

This is a closeup of our trusses;

We would have liked to add another floor and maybe some more supports in the middle of the slide. We would also have liked to have more time so we could do some neater painting.

By Brooke & Emma

JJ AND ETHANS SLIDE

Our Popsicle Stick Slide

At school our big yellow slide is broken so we had to make a slide prototype with popsicle sticks and toilet paper rolls. We had to make sure we used trusses to hold it up. We learnt that trusses were good for holding heavy things up like our slide.
Our design for the slide was to kind of replicate the old tower but to have an open slide attached instead of a closed in slide. We also incorporated a monorail attached to the tower. When it came to painting the slide we came up with the idea of having fake grass instead of bark chips.

Ethan and I think that our slide turned out really well because we made the trusses really strong. But we also think that we could have improved on our presentation because our painting wasn't very good. Overall our slide turned out pretty good.

Room 7 technology challenge Poppy Kate and Zoe

Room 7 Technology Challenge

Our senior school slide is broken because people kept climbing on top of the old slide. So our class decided to do different prototypes to have ideas for a new slide in the senior playground. It needed to have trusses to make it strong. Our slide model is in the pictures below. The stones are blue, purple and green to give it effect and to attract young students.  

We think our slide is good and safe but we needed to put more glue under the slide to connect it to the tower to make the slide stronger to go down.

Wonky Worm

Wonky Worm
Mud street Garden
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Hac,

I am a worm who lives in your amazing garden. This is a letter to say the things that are not so amazing about it.
First of all Mr. Hac your "lawn mower" is more like a "life or death" machine {to worms.} Beacause it has killed 10 of my friends. I hope you will stop! Secondly Mrs. Hac will please cut up the left overs into smaller pieces  I mean surely you would know how small our mouths are.

Kind regards,
Wonky Worm


By Meadow

Aliens

E . J . CARSON

Aliens

Are they coming for you?!

Chapter one

Megan woke up to the sound of creaking down the hallway. CREEK, CREEK... goes the wooden boards. Megan thought to herself what is that noise? So she got up and opened the door and then she screamed to the top of her lungs.

BUT THIS WAS TWO YEARS AGO

Knock, knock, knock “It’s time for breakfast you two!” said mum.

I’m Harry and I am 15 years old, have blond hair and blue eyes. In the other room across the hallway is my sister. Her name is Megan. She is 14 years old and has brown hair, blue eyes and loves rock’n’roll. We both quickly got up and went down into the living room. “What's for breakfast?” I asked. There was no reply. There was only the kitchen with our breakfast on the bench ready to be eaten and the T.V was making a staticy noise.

”MUM!” we shouted, still no response. But then... we both turned around and saw our mum lying on the ground with a SAW THROUGH HER HEAD!

“What happened?!” screamed Megan in a shocked voice.

THE NEXT MORNING...

I had a sudden wakening of shock. It felt like a bullet going straight through me and I was sweating with terror. My sister came bursting in and said, “MUM’S GONE. SHE'S NOT DOWN THE HALLWAY ANY MORE!”

“WHAT!” I said, so we raced down the street and knocked on someone's door to see if it happened to any other people down our street.  

We knocked on the Pitt’s door to see if it happened to them and this is what we got... it's normally Mr Pitt and his wife Mrs Pitt, right... but this time it was just Mrs Pitt “ Where is Mr Pitt?” Megan asked.  

Mrs Pitt said that he went missing last week and never came home from a camping trip.

” We experienced that once with our nana. She never came back from a trip up to San Francisco.”

“Where is your mum you two?” she asked.

“Well here it goes. She died,” I said.

“OH! good heavens,” Mrs Pitt said. “Well we better go than,” we both

said changing the subject.

“WAIT!” she snarled, “you two could stay here and keep me company if you want, it’s quite lonely?”

“Yes we would love to” Megan said

LATER ON THAT NIGHT

“Tonight you two will be sleeping in the bunk room,” said Mrs Pitt.

The bunk room looked very, very old and dirty. It had spider webs everywhere and sand scattered all over the ground like a sand storm had just struck. It had wooden boards on the floor and wrecked old walls with huge cracks in them. The bunk room wasn't that big it was about 3 metres wide and 3 metres long. It looked like something was under the wooden boards because one of the boards was poking up, so I asked, “What’s under the wooden boards?”

Mrs Pitt just stood there and stared straight at me like statue.

“Well,”she said changing the subject,

“You better get some sleep.”

So we hopped into bed and went to sleep.

THE NEXT MORNING

“AAAAHHHH...” screamed Mrs Pitt in

deathly voice, suddenly it stopped.

Megan and I walked uncertainly down the hallway into Mrs Pitt’s bedroom and then we saw Mrs Pitt’s body without a head. We raced out the door and then we saw an _____ hopping into a ___!

Chapter two

Two nights later, we have been surviving the most terrifying invasion.

In the two nights that have been terrifying we have had over 26 deaths in our city.

We made our own mini hut outside by our garage that we stayed in.

We have had a few friends that have stayed with us.

The first friend’s name is Mike. He has black hair, blue eyes and his parents were billionaires.

Then we also have Curt. He has blackish hair, green eyes and Jonah Lomu is his grandad.

They are the friends that we found and all of our parents are dead.

“What happened to your parents?” asked Mike rudely. Megan ran off and cried. Before I could answer his question, this huge monster (alien I think) came up behind him and ripped him to pieces.

 

“Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!” I yelled in a shocked voice.

Megan came back and asked, “What happened?”

“RUN!” I scattered. While we were running this huge thing was chasing us. It looked very silky and wet. It had demon eyes and had a glass ball around its fat head and it looked a darker pale green.

Finally the alien stopped chasing after us and left, “That was scary,” Megan said.

“Heck yea,” I added. “ WAIT! where is Curt?” I asked.

“Hey I’m over here guys,” said Curt Megan had a big sigh of relief

“Why did you sigh?” asked Curt CHOMP!

“AHHHHHHHHHH” we yelled,

“First of all Mike's gone now Curt’s gone, what’s next?” Megan asked.

“No time for talking RUN!” I said.

Chapter three

We finally found our way home with a lot of stress.

“Is it gone?” asked Megan.

BANG!

“What was that!?” shouted Megan

BANG, there it goes again, BANG, this

time it was louder, then....

BANG!,CRASH!, THUMP! the alien monster blew the wall down and came racing inside, then the monster bent down and growled, it picked me up and somehow said “ You human beings blew up our planet. THAT IS WHY I KILLED YOUR MOTHER!” yelled the alien.

“Please put him down,” said Megan in a scared voice.

“NEVER!” said the alien then chopped me in half with his mighty strong teeth.

Half of my body came flying down and the other half was still in his mouth, blood was dripping down his mouth. The alien said “ Well then. YOU ARE NEXT!”

“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH” Megan screamed “ Please we will leave your planet situation alone” begged Megan.

“FINE!” said the alien, and then scattered away.

“Harry!” screamed Megan sitting next to me.

A tear dropped and landed on my face, but Megan thought to herself I have to get revenge and she broke the deal, but first she buried me and had a little funeral.

So days past and Megan had finished her deal braking mastermind as she called it.

Her plan was to blow up the plant again to get rid of them once and for all.

Chapter Four

Time passed and the plan was ready.

Megan had also made a mini rocket from scratch with all the stuff she could find.

She placed the the rocket in the front yard and placed the bomb inside and then there was a sudden BANG! it flew up into the air like a bullet fly as straight as a lazer beam.

A few hours later Megan realized that what happens if the alien was still here, but she just thought she’ll sleep it off.

Later that night Megan woke up to the sound of creaking down the hallway. CREEK, CREEK.... goes the wooden boards, Megan thought to herself what is that noise? so she got up and opened the door and then screamed to the top of her lungs and whispered to herself  

“THEY'RE BACK”

HEADING

      I was in a deep dark sleep when suddenly CRASH! BOOM! My eyes flew open now I was wide awake. I wasn't sure if it was real or if I was dreaming.

      FLASH a bright white light blinded my eyes. Now I knew I wasn’t asleep.
     I jump out of bed to see what was going on in our back yard. To my surprise I saw a UFO. Next there was another loud crash, even louder, but this time. It woke up the whole neighbourhood. All of a sudden the UFO disappeared into thin air. I wasn’t sure what was going on. Then Mum ran outside to see what was going but she saw nothing. She rushed inside to see if I was hurt or injured. She was about to check on me so I hopped back in bed so when she came in she wouldn’t suspect a thing because I thought I should keep it a secret.

      As soon as she left and went back to bed I snuck outside to see if the UFO would reappear, but I had no luck. Then I turned around when... FLASH I looked over my shoulder to see what had happened and it had just reappeared right in front of me. So I snuck behind a bush and watched. A huge door opened and two creatures walked out but I was not expecting to see what I saw. Two EMMA! From planet Emmalet. They had short blond hair, blue eyes, freckles and had double jointed thumbs. They both had identical faces but one was slightly shorter than the other. They talked very weird. One sentence I heard sounded like this, “Noos ew lliw eb elba ot ekat revo eht dlrow.” I ran up to my room and studied the sentence. I realized that there was a pattern and that pattern was the they were speaking... ...backwards and this was the translation, “Soon we will be able to take over the world.” AH I need to warn the police but first, “MUM... aliens are soon going to take over the world, see look this is what they said, “soon we will be able to take over the world,” I yelled. 

     DUN DUN DUN.

     Mum what are we going to do. First we have to go warn the police... 111. “We have an emergency. Aliens are soon going to take over the world and we need your help to stop them,” Mum said over the phone.
  "We will be there right way,” said the police. Knock knock knock. “Hello and thank you for coming right away. The aliens are in our backyard and they don’t know you're here to investigate. This way to the backyard GOOD LUCK,” said Mum.
      The next day I woke up and headed outside to see if the cops had gotten rid of the aliens but when I ran down the stairs the aliens had invaded our house and had tied up the policeman, who was unconscious because the aliens must of sprayed him with some sleeping gas. 
     So I decided to warm mum that aliens had taken over our house. “Mum aliens our taking over our house”, I yelled.
“What are you talking about, I’m sure that the officer PB took care of the aliens and sent them back to their planet Emmalet,” said Mum in her motherly voice. But when she headed down stairs she had an opposite thought. What is going on she thought and she also was thinking about how she was going to fix it.
     We both put our ideas together and we decided to yell and make lots of noises because the aliens have very good hearing that they might just hate the sound and leave our planet and they will hopefully head back to their planet Emmalet. So we gathered all the pots, pans, my old trumpet and we started making terrible noises by banging pots and pans together and blowing in my old trumpet. It start to work as the aliens were getting weaker and weaker by the minute. Soon the aliens were lying in a heap on the floor not moving or breathing. Once they were unconscious we put the aliens in their spaceship and set the autopilot to planet Emmalet. The spaceship started hovering up and down until WHOOSH the spaceship disappeared. Now there were no more aliens on planet Earth.

     We decided to celebrate by throwing a party in the neighbourhood to celebrate no more aliens. There were cakes and chocolate and lollies too. The food tasted delicious. We were having a great time until BANG aliens decided to crash the party and this time there weren't just two aliens there was hundreds. “We’re going to need a lot more pots and pans,” said Mum. Wish us luck bye.

                                            The End