Writing

Standing on the pier is the bright gaze of the setting sun falling asleep from a day of hard work. The ocean comes alive, crashing against the tall supports. Sand getting soaked by the large waves crashing on the beach, sand castles that have been made on the day just been, slowly disappearing. Soon the sun is nowhere to be seen, the stars reflecting off of the calm ocean that has now fallen asleep, No clouds in sight. No light to be seen from the houses across the road and no noise to be heard, not even a leaf falling to the ground.

I can order unit Fractions

The bird that thought he could sing

Chirp chirp chirp, ‘I’m good at singing right?’ ‘Yeh so good’ I say that as my ears are in pain from what he says is singing, but I don’t want to hurt his feelings how do I say that he is not good when he thinks he is? I take a small step forward, and another small step, I tap him gently on the shoulder and say ‘ummm, Hello’ What do you want? (gasp) You want to tell me that I am no good at singing, don’t you?’ He Says in shock, ‘No no you are great at it it’s just sometimes you're a little high pitched and it hurts my ears’ ‘Oh, I see well I’ll be on my way then. At least you were honest, because that’s what friends do, they help each other improve.’ ‘Wait don’t go, you could be good at something else,  you could… Oh, I know your great at dancing just do that instead’ ‘Oh well I suppose I am pretty good at it… Oh all right then.

Fractions

Fraction Wall

1.  What relationships do you notice between different fractions? (for example I notice 2/8 is the same as ¼)

2. Create 5 different number sentences that add up to one. (Think about our fraction circles from yesterday)

Use pictures to show your working.  Upload these to your blog.

1. 5/10 is the same as ½
2. 4/6 is the same as ⅔ 
3. 2/8 is the same as ¼ 
4. 2/4, 3/6, 4/8,5/10 and 6/12 is the same as ½ 
5.   

Girls group

Today at girls group we had to look at a blob of paint and write down what we saw from each angle, we had about 3 minutes to write down what we saw and them Melissa turned the blob to the side and we did it again and turned wrote it down.

Before we did that we did the feeling cards. For the feeling cards Melissa spreads the cards and we have to pick one for how we felt in the weekend and how we feel now. After the blob we had to write down things that you might think about people when you first meet them and whether they are nice things to think about people or not.

I thought that it was interesting and hard to think about.

Penguin diagram

This is my Penguin diagram.t
Penguins have Hooked beaks to grab onto fish we they are swimming.
They have wings like flippers so that they can swim. Penguins cannot fly but they can swim.
Thick and silky feathers to keep it warm so that the water runs of their feathers.
Webbed feet to help it swim faster.

Here are a few Penguin facts
Penguins cannot fly
Some penguins live in new Zealand
Penguins eat fish
They can swim very fast
The father bird sits on the egg for nine weeks in the cold and dark while the mother goes to get food.

100 Questions

Today we did 100 questions. I did 84 and I got them all right.  I enjoy doing 100 questions because I can learn how to do the question.

Explaining Scientific Diagrams

Explaining Scientific Diagrams

Introduction
Scientific diagrams contain different Elements. These include, Purpose, Audience, Visuals, Symbols and Words/Labels.Diagrams explain something of the reader's choice.


Purpose
The purpose of a diagram is to show people what something is or how to plant it as it shows in the examples above. The purpose of this is to show how something works in words that your audience can understand, showing how something works or what it is. This can be very useful to understand something and what qualities it has. For example, If you were showing how to plant an apple tree, one of it’s qualities would be that the bark of an apple tree root can be used for fevers and diseases.


Audience
The Audience is an important part of a diagram. This is because based on the age of your audience your diagram might be easier to read. If you have an audience aged 4-6 you would make your diagram easy to read and you wouldn’t put scientific words in your diagram, for example in text one they chose to use words like sun and water. If you were creating a diagram for older people, around ages 14- 15, you would make your diagram harder to understand and with more scientific words in it, like H2o instead of water. Your audience needs to be able to read your diagram easily.


Visuals
The Visuals in your diagram can be important because if your audience is younger kids, visuals can help them understand what you are trying to explain. If your diagram is for people that can understand more scientific information you might not put any visuals in because you know that they can understand what you are trying to explain. Colours can be important for younger readers because is will be more appealing to them, and will make them want to read it because it will look more exciting.


Symbols
Symbols can be arrows that show movement, for example, in text one the arrows are showing how the water and minerals are helping the plant not only survive but grow. Symbols can be very important for young readers to help them understand, in this case how plants grow. They help to explain what plants need and how to care for them.
 


Words/Labels
Scientific words can be hard to understand because usually they are long words examples of this are: Structural, Back fill, Biodegradable,
Undisturbed and stabilize. You would not use these words in diagrams for younger kids, but for older children you might use words like this.
If kids don’t understand the words that are in the diagram they will not want to read it.


Conclusion
A scientific diagram informs the reader about something that they have chosen to look at. A diagram is different depending on the audience that it is created for.

Math

Today at math we did our quick 10. It was pretty easy, I got them all right except for one. The one that I got wrong I did not know so I didn't do it. Maths was pretty fun and easy.

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french

French
I have been learning french for the William Pike Challenge this is what I have learnt.

Hello my name is: Bonjour je m' appele

I have a: J'ai un

Pet: animal de compaigne

Rabbit: Lapine

Cat: Chatte

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Botanic Gardens

On Monday we went to the botanic gardens, we learnt thriving, threatened, extinct, introduced, native and endemic animals and plants.
We played a game that we had to pretend to be fantails and we had a green space each that we could move to other places to stand on so that we could get to the end, we worked in groups. Some people had to take our green spaces away, we had to keep our foot on it so that we could keep it. After  that we all got into groups we got a tree to sketch and find out more about. Our tree was the kakabeak. I got to sketch the tree, maria was map reading and Jessica was reading about the tree.

100 Questions

My goal was 6 times 6 and it didn't appear in my test I will keep working on this question.

My this weeks goal is 6 times 6 again so that I can keep working on this and getting it it right.

I like doing theses tests because I fell like they help with my progress in my math.

Here is a link to my Multiplication sheet. Link