Our Norm/Pirate Ship

  My Reflection

This term in Maths Room 20 have been learning about geometry. We have learnt about nets and 3D shapes. Using the knowledge we knew we got to do a fun task. We had to choose between an treasure chest or a pirate ship.  Kieran and I decided to work together to make a cool pirate ship. I liked making the nets and decorating the nets. Some bits were annoying but most things were not that bad. We decorated our ship from the inspiration of Norm The Sloth. I would like to do something like this again as it was quite fun.

Narrative Plan- William's Adventure

Our Biodome- Home For Sloths

T4 W6- Diary Post

 T3 W6 

Diary Post

Over the last 5 busy weeks since the beginning of term 4, Room 20 have actually done quite a lot of things in our learning. We've had our new student teacher, our biospheres in Inquiry, our fun brain breaks, all sorts of things. 

One of my highlights was the book we were reading with our student teacher, Miss Terry. She picked out a book called Between Two Ends. It was about a courageous young boy, who wishes to go inside a book to rescue a girl named Shari, to make his father proud. Shari had been stuck in Collfield's 1001 Arabian Nights book for 20 years. Between Two Ends was interesting but sometimes a bit confusing.

Another of my highlights were making our Biospheres for Inquiry. We were learning about what would happen if earth became uninhabitable.  We had to plan our areas, plan on how we get oxygen, food, water etc. We got lots of milk boxes and that was our structure for our biospheres. Then we had a whole school day to ourselves to decorate the boxes inside for the Inquiry Showcase. We had to paint the insides, make the boxes stick together.

We got a lot of help from our teachers but the project overall was a success! 

Another highlight we did with Miss Terry was the narrative writing we did. We had to choose a part/chapter of the book, Between Two Ends. Then you had to choose a character that's not the main character and write from their perspective. This is quite fun and interesting because even though most of the plot is the same, it's fun writing from another character's eyes. For example their is a minor character in the story named Khan. Khan is a giant leopard with green eyes, but because he isn't mention that much in the story you can make up lots of parts.

The last and probably final highlight was Swimming. On Friday we usually play water netball. I like normal netball but water netball is just more fun. We split into two teams, the teacher usually yell out something that applies to you. Example: If you have brown hair. If it does apply to you then you have to swim out/run out, grab the ball. Then your other teammates come along and you try pass the ball over. The hoops are just black tires people hold up. It's fun but sometimes annoying because the ball is all wet and slippery.

Overall the last five weeks are busy, fun but a bit interesting too.  But I don't think it's gonna be that busy compared to the end of the year things we have to do.  

St John Certificate

Youth Town Certificate

A Perfect Spring Day

What Makes Me Different

Making A Prediction - The Hardy Boys- The Vanishing Thieves

My 2016 Speech- Why Donald Trump Shouldn't Be President

Life Cycle Of A Moth

Application For Exploration Of New Colonies

Speech Planner

Grid Value Portrait

My Reflection

WAL about value in art- how light or dark something is. We were inspired by Chuck Close, the one that invented the Grid Value Art.  First we started by taking a line for a walk, where it is basically doing a bunch of squiggles and then you had to do light and dark patterns inside of the squiggles. Next we had to do enlarging pictures. We had a small picture and we had to draw that on a bigger piece of paper. Finally we we did a lot of patterns to get ideas when we did our actual art. For me the trickiest part of the art was doing the facial patterns because it was hard to do the patterns. My favourite part was drawing the hands because it was easy and didn't look that bad.

Math Skillz- Increasing And Decreasing Percentages

Math Skillz- Converting Percentages, Decimals, Fractions, Ratios

My Reflection 

I was learning to convert the percentages, decimals, fractions and ratios with the puzzle pieces.   I found this easy ish because I  knew most of the conversions ( I learnt them on Mathletics.)   My next step is to learn more complex conversions.

Term 2 Week 2 Diary Posts

                         Term 2 Week 2
Over the past few days in Room 20, we have been doing something called the solar system challenge for our inquiry.  It's basically where in a slide show there is some challenges and you have to complete them. But I guess you get to know some facts while completing the challenge.  

There is one challenge where you have to write ten facts about a planet, ( not earth) and present it in a interesting way. Another challenge was you have to write an alphabet that relates to the solar system.  

There was one challenge where you had to compare two planets, using a Venn Diagram.  If you don't know what a Venn Diagram is, it's basically two circles that overlap and it is a tool to use to compare things. I compared mine with Saturn and Neptune.

 There was another challenge where you had to draw a diagram of the solar system and anything else you wanted to include.  You could do it online or offline. 

 The last challenge was that there was and image that had everyday objects, to replace the planets so we would how big the planets are.  The challenge bit of it was that we had to get an everyday object to replace the sun.  

Persuasive Techniques In Commercials

My Reflection 

I was learning how to use persuasive techniques. 
The task was that you had to make a commercial about something to make our holidays more interesting. We also had to make it appeal to our parents so they get persuaded. The persuasive techniques were:

• Slogan - a catchy catch phrase 
• Repetition- when you repeat the important bits in the commercial over and over again.
• Testimonial- when it's basically a happy customer review.
• Emotional Appeal- where the commercial makes you really emotional!
• Bandwagon- Fear of missing out
• Expert Opinion- Where there is a "expert" saying the product is good.

We used the techniques slogan and repetition. Our slogan was Wii Play Wii! 

Term 1 Week 10

                                                         Term 1 Week 10

Over the last few weeks, Room 20 have been doing heaps of things.  One thing was that back in Easter, the Year 6 team has done a Easter egg hunt of the whole school! At the auditorium Mrs Adamson explained how it worked.  So basically you have a sheet of paper and have to get in a group of four.  A teacher would give you a clue that has a number on it. Then you would figure out the clue and find the place where you think the clue relates to. When you reach the place, you would have to to find a piece of gold egg shaped paper. On the gold piece of paper there is a letter. You write the letter down of the sheet of paper. Now sometimes they give you a sentence clue or a picture clue. I reckon the picture clue would be the hardest because it would be hard to find the exact place of it. Then after you have done all the clues, you would have to use the letters to make it in a phrase. Then when you have worked out the phrase, you would have to go over to Mrs Graham to tell her the phrase! So basically that's what we did.  

My Kennings Poem