Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Fibonacci Exploration

First off I don't really understand Fibonacci in nature, but I can understand the stair case thing and how to get the numbers. To get the numbers you add the number before and the number you just got and add them together. If that doesn't make sense I'll try explain: 0 + 1 = 1, 1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 2 = 3, 2 + 3 = 5 & 3 + 5 = 8 and so on. If that doesn't make sense watch a video explaining Fibonacci. I tried to draw the pine cone that the girl in the video drew but it ended up looking like a flower and tried again. Mary & I helped each other and we both tried to draw the pine cone and failed but thats ok. How I drew the 'pine cone': At first I tried to follow the video and my 'spiral' looked like a bunch of scribbles. Then I drew a box marked out the 8 points to divide it by but instead drew an asterisks with 8 points and curved the lines. Then I made another asterisks with 5 points and drew the lines but curved them in the opposite direction of the other curves. Then I made a pattern inside that is supposed to look like a pine cone but ended up looking like a flower.




Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Sailing 2019 Recount



Yesterday afternoon the Y6 7 & 8's went sailing. First we got dressed at school and walked down to the yacht club in the rain. Then we went inside for a bit then got instructed what part of the boat was which and how to put it together, then put together a boat on our own. After that we put on our wetsuits, rain jackets and life jackets. Then we partnered up (I went with Mary) and chose our boat, we chose the pink boat. Mary had to hold the boat still while I got in and put in the center board and put down the rudder. At first I was controlling the rudder and Mary was controlling the sail, personally when we were tilting and almost capsizing I was not a big fan so I was yelling at Mary to let go of the rope. Most of the time while we were sailing Mary and I were laughing. Then at one point we close to Jakob and Kyle's yacht, I was controlling the rudder and sail while Mary was splashing them with the bailer. Then we played a game, the aim of the game was to get everybody on your team to hold the ball and then throw it into the rescue boat. Mary and I kept spinning around in circles and couldn't get the ball, but we got it eventually. When it was time to get out of the sails I had to jump out of the boat,  my legs felt like jelly and I felt like I couldn't walk. This was my 3rd time sailing and this time I picked up how to sail quicker this time. Over all I enjoyed sailing and I hope sometime in the future I can go sailing again.