Maths Ws - Scatter Sheet/Chart/Graph

Welcome, everybody, to my blog.
For my maths this week we were learning how to make a scatter chart.

Level 4 -  Complete a Statistical Investigation

Collect and display data on a scatter graph / Talk about distinctive features of scatter graphs.

There'snot much for me to explain here so I'll just straight away show you it. (All the information is on the google drawing)

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

What's another statement you could make?

Blinding Mirror - Narrative Writing

Hey guys.
Today on this blog I will be showing you my narrative piece of writing.
We were given four different pictures to choose from and to base our story on.
We also had to have between 250 - 300 words in our story.
I used 299 words but it took a whole lot of cutting words out to do it - (I started off with 419 words)

The teachers didn't really give us a specific goal to work on this week but they said if they find any writing goals that they think we've ticked off from this piece of writing, that they would tick it off.

Anyway here's my piece of writing...



Hope you enjoyed.

What other describing words would you use to explain how the field looked when she went through the mirror.

Reading 1-2-3 Task

Hey everybody.

For my reading task for this week the teachers gave us something a little bit different.
I call it he 1-2-3 task.
First we had four different articles to choose out of, I chose one about the Arts and Music in primary school.
The author is basically saying that the Arts and Music should be more embraced for younger children and in their schools. The author knows that some kids may struggle with the usual curricular but find that music really helps them with concentration and just learning in general.

To do this task we had to do 3 Questions, 2 Proven facts and 1 opinion of our own.
So it's basically called the 3-2-1 challenge aha.

Because it's a bit hard to read I'll give you a little snippet of each number:

Q2) Do you think that the Arts and Music should be given the same amount of time as the other main curriculars such as maths and reading, or are you just saying that schools should embrace them more?

Fact 1) Playing an instrument benefits creativity, spatial-temporal ability, IQ scores and reading and language. It can also improve motivation and behaviour for secondary school children.

Research: From the website on the link below it tells you all the benefits from playing and instrument and even listening to music. It says it can help your concentration skills, mental skill ect.

Link

(The research is to back up the fact from another source).

Opinion 1)

In my opinion, I mainly agree with this author, and although I know that lot’s of kids don’t enjoy the arts or feel like their not good enough, others need that encouragement to keep going in life.

I think it would be good to step it up a notch and make it a more important thing in kids curricular.

Goal: Use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions.

Here's my task:

Thanks for reading, I hope you come back for more. :)

Do you think they should embrace the Arts and Music more for younger children?

Maths - Two way tables

Hey everyone.

So for my final blog post for this week I will be showing you my maths task that I've been working on.

We were basically learning about two way tables, we had to write at least three claims about them then in our workshop we would talk about the claims and turn them into percentages.

I haven't got all the percentages on here but you could always try to figure out another ways to write the claims but with percentages added in.

Anyways, my question was about girls and boys favourite type of jump in athletics - high jump or long jump.

I decided to make up the numbers so they were totally random. 

(The goal is on the drawing)

Here's the completed task:

Thanks for taking a look at my blog!!!

What's another claim you could put down, adding percentages?

Writing Poems

Hey, welcome back.
Today I'm going to share with you my writing task for the week, my goal was:
Select words and phrases to enhance meaning and/or mood and confidently shape ideas for effect.

In the workshop we were learning about a type of poem called a Diamante Poem. We watched a few videos about them and then watched a video on what makes a poem a poem.

I decided to write two diamante poems and also had to write another random poem. Being honest on my other poem Stranded, it was going to be a limerick but then I sought of just carried on and made a structure of my own.
I ended up writing my diamante poems about Night & Day and also Hockey & Dance because those are two things I can relate to so I can make the words more interesting.

You do not need to make your poem about two different things it could be about sought of the same things just with a change of word, such as Dog & Puppy.

When we were in our second workshop we talked about meaningful words in our poems and why they would create mood. I ended up choosing Storytelling, Mysterious & Golden. I chose these because I felt like they added depth to the poem and went further than your average words.

Next I writ my definition of a poem, I didn't need to do this just like I didn't need to do the second diamante poem but I felt like putting something else extra in.
You may not be able to read it clearly from the picture so I'll just put it here:

My Definition of a Poem:

A poem can be known as a form of speech, a form of words, a form of music and even a form of art. It can’t be defined by just one of these things, it’s never limited. 

A poem’s about being creative and sharing a piece of your mind, or someone else's mind and editing it with your own language and changing it with your own thoughts.

A poem could even be about a story, it’s about finding the deepest parts and turning it into something intriguing to listen to, read, and even see.

When you write a poem it’s about expressing new ideas or feelings and finding the most meaningful and heartfelt words to show.

And that’s how I’d define the word Poem

How would you describe a poem and what makes a poem a poem?

Reading Ws - W4 T2

Hi everybody.
Welcome to a new week of my learning.
The book I read is called How to fall.
This week I have been working on three reading goals. The first task already has the goal on it so here it is:



For this next task it had two goals mashed together, so here's the goals as one..

Goal: Use prior knowledge to connect to the text and make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions, using more sophisticated texts

I have written this on the same book.

Here's the final product:


How would you describe the word Staunch in your own words?

Maths - Tree Diagrams

Kia ora everybody.

For my maths for this week we have been learning about tree diagrams and how tom make them on diagrams.net.
We also learnt some easier ways to solve problems using them.

I solved three problems, one was about a handball game, another was about three chocolate bars, and the last one is about a number plate.

I also did a 3 min screencastify on the number plate one and how I worked it out.

(That's not the same order in the slides).

But here's my finished create task:



What's your favourite strategy to use in maths and why?

Writing Task - Complex Sentences

Hi bloggers, today I give you my writing task for this week.

My goal is...

Use complex sentences that are grammatically correct / proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation.

For this task we got to do some fun things such as playing with independent clauses and Dependent clauses.
The way we did this is that first everybody had to write down an independent clause, next you had to go after somebody else's clause and write an independent clause.
We did the same with the depended clauses.

Some of the sentences we came up with were..

I found a bug - it was tasty.
I watered my fish - but it had already drowned.

As you can probably see we were trying to be creative with the sentences and just have a bit of fun.

Next we had to write a short story with at least four complex sentences throughout it. Besides that you could just have four complex sentences and that could be your whole story.

I decided to change it up a little though so here's my create task:




What's the difference between a compound sentence and a complex sentence?

Reading - Lest We Forget - Anzac

Hi guys and welcome to my first blog for the week.

For this week I had two goals and here they are:

1) Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important.

2) Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about.

We had four different texts to choose from, although two were for level 3 readers and two were for level  4. 

I decided to choose one from level four and the book I read was called Lest we forget. It's a story about Anzac day and I learnt about different men's experiences during/after the war, it was probably one of the most interesting Anzac books I've ever read.

Anyway, I had a few different tasks to choose from and templates to use but I chose this one. I chose this not only because I liked it but because I could put in my own thoughts on parts of the texts.

So here's my final product:

What's your favourite part about Anzac day?

Reading - Fake news

Hi guys, here's my reading task for this week.

So we have been learning about false news, we did some fun courses on line and looked at some pictures that made us choose whether they were real or false pictures.

Then we watched some videos and read some books that all relate to teaching us to know whether or not a website has true information.

Next we had to make an infographic about everything we learnt.
Here's mine:



What's another way you could spot a fake article?

Credit to...
Fake news picture
Spell check
Date & time

Writing - Revising and editing

"Hey bloggers."

For the writing task from this week our goal was....

Goal:

Revise and rework writing for clarity, impact and purpose. proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation.

To complete this task I watch quite a few videos and it they really help me understand the true meaning of even the simplest punctuation.

While doing this I learnt about revising and editing, I even learnt about the phrase ARMS. I have written about that down below in my DLO.

Next we had to edit a paragraph in our PBL reports to make it better and more interesting to read. We also just had to overall make sure that we were using the best possible types of punctuation.

I have written down 3 thing that I have learnt and/or think are important when writing or revising.

Here is my DLO:

What's another thing that is important when it comes to writing?

Maths T2 W2 Statistics/Graph/Data

Hello everyone, thanks for coming to check out my blog.

This is my maths task for this week.

Our goal was to...

Goal: Complete a statistical investigation by collecting, discussing and displaying data.

We were given two different choices to base our graph on, there was NZ Covid 19 cases or yr 7/8 data.

I chose yr 7/8 data and from the data that was given to me, I chose to do it on the genders and eye colours. Here is the result from my data:

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog post and I hope you come back for more in the future!!

What's your eye colour?

What's another thing I could of based my data on?

Reading - Making Connections

Hello everybody.

For this weeks reading task my goal was:

Making connections between texts, using more sophisticated texts.

To complete this goal we had to pick two stories from the selection of around nine that were given. After that we were just told to lightly skim across the words and just pick up the sentences that you need to answer the question.

We did this because we didn't want to spend our whole time reading two full stories when really we only need a couple of sentences.

Here's my work:

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you are encouraged to come back and see more of my learning at St Francis of Assisi School.

What do you already know about the treaty?

How do you think it has effected our lives today?

Punctuation DLO - Writing

WELCOME BACK.

To my first writing blog of TERM 2.

In my writing workshop we have been looking at more complex punctuation such as those extra things like dashes and semicolon's. And although part of it was about that, other parts of it was about just remembering the simple things like full stops and capital letters, reminding us what their use is and how their so important.

We all watched a few videos out of the selection we had and then hat to change some sentences punctuation from our information report.

Our goal was: Attempt more complex punctuation

Here's my working:

I hoped you enjoyed this blog post, make sure you come back to see more fun learning!!

Why do you think trying more complex punctuation is important?

Maths Task Tessellations

Hi guys, I'm so glad to be back and be doing some online learning!!
So the first task I have completed for this week has been my maths task, therefore that's what I would like to show you in this post.

As you may know from the title, we have been introduced to Tessellations. Our goal is:
Goal: Identify and use the features of a figure that do not change (invariant properties) as it is reflected, rotated, translated or enlarged.

We had to watch some videos to get the right understanding about what tessellations really were and the rules that go along with them.
A tessellation is a shape that can be repeated by itself and connect with no gaps. The three rules for tessellations are:
1. Translation
2. Rotation
3. Glide reflection
Basically you have to have on of these rules in your shape if you were to create a tessellation. So the shape must be able to connect with itself.

We also used Jamboard to answer some questions and gather together what Tessellations really means.

Here is my Tessellation:

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog and I hope you come back for more.

What are some other shapes that could make a tessellation?