the tallest tower challenge

This morning we had our first literacy class for term 2. we did a fun activity with our friends. I was put in a group with Precious and Triston. We had to make a tower as tall as we could but with straws and pipe cleaners. at first we were just talking about how we where going to do it. I had an idea of how we could make the tower tall without falling but that didn't really work. but while we where thinking on how where going to build our tower Precious had a great idea. It was similar to my idea but we put the pipe cleaners in the straw to make it more stronger. We all had to participate and work together to make our tower stand. It wasn't the tallest but we worked together and tried our best to at least make it stand. :)

spaghetti tower teamwork challenge

Today I went to my literacy class which is room 4 with Miss Stone. We shuffled into our reading groups. My reading group is called Dahl Kauri, Rae Jae Hannah, Nina and Marie are in Dahl. So Miss Stone told us that we have to work together to make a tall tower strong enough to hold a marshmallow out of spaghetti and string. Our tower went really well until the end it was starting to fall. The marshmallow was too heavy but it was just a marshmallow on one piece of spaghetti. At first we were going to make it a square but then we realized that the strongest shape is a triangle so we restarted and made a triangle. We were all trying to make it strong but we were trying to make it tall so we kind of made it weaker as we went on. Once we reached the top of the tower it started to collapse. All of the different reading groups were challenging each other. Ihimaera was the winning group there tower was high and had the marshmallow on the top and it wasn't falling over either it was like the sky tower kinda. But our tower was a bust but it was so fun to reconnect with my reading group.