Learning this term

This term I have really enjoyed learning about decimals more.Last year I learnt a lot about decimals but forgot my knowledge of decimals.I spoke to Mr Anderson about it and he taught me and my group more about decimals.I found it fun because I knew a bit about it,and its not hard to learn when Mr A explained about decimals.Once you learn about decimals they are easy.I knew about tenths and adding tenths and wholes but I need to work of adding hundredths.Now I have learnt to add hundredths in a decimal,I taught other people how.I have really enjoyed learning about decimals this term.



I have made very good progress this term with my times tables.I have learnt in two weeks the 6 and 4 times table and division.I have been working on my times table and division at home and it really helped.I worked every night and I worked on them at school.I need to learn and practice my times tables and division more because they really help my knowledge toolkit.Next term I am going to start to learn my 7 and 8 times table  and division.

Maths Gloss Assessment and Learning Conversation

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Personal Voice

Personal Voice.....

In class lately we have been learning about personal voice.Personal voice is all about writing about your feelings,emotions,thoughts,opinions.You add in what you would say or do.Another part of personal voice is to make sure the reader knows how you are feeling at different times in the text. 

(e.g) The dog ran so fast,the collar slipped of its head! By this time I was freaking out!

 

In that sentence I was freaking out because the collar had slipped off the dogs head.That is personal voice,since I was letting the reader know exactly how I felt.

Before Camp

On Tuesday my class and few other classes are going on a school camp.

We have activity groups and each group do different  at a time.I am excited for doing the water slide,because I have seen images and its looks really long and fun.I am also excited about archery,because I do archery and I like doing archery.I am very excited about making the raft, because last year we went on camp and made  rafts and it was very fun.

I'm not excited if I  fall out of the kayak because  there are Eels  and the water is very brown.

Some of the activity were:

Archery

Eeling  

kayaking 

raft making

And more.....

I like going to camp,because Its really fun,you learn lots of different things and It teaches you independents.
I am feeling excited about all the nature surrounding us.There is lots of bush and I am really looking forward to everything!

I hope everyone has a great time at camp and enjoys them self.

Reading Numbers up to a Trillion

In class this week we have been learning about Reading numbers up to a trillion, (e.g 25 365 998) which is 25 million 365 thousand 998.
When you are reading number such as 22387654 you will break them into their  houses like this 22,387,654. the houses names are trend setter,thousands,millions and billions and so on.The trend setter house has the ones tens and hundreds kept in it.The thousands has the all the thousands in it.and millions has all the millions etc..
When i separated the numbers earlier it makes it easier to read because i separated in the houses.

Also we have been learning to put numbers on and take them off the number (e.g 22887542 If i were to take 1 off it would be 22887541) and adding 100 would be 22887442.1000 after would be 22886542.

 I personally found it quite easy to read numbers and add and subtract of the number.But when i started i found it very hard,but since i have learnt about separating the numbers into their groups.

My Learning

Hi everyone My names Shanelle.

I like to play netball,I like to draw and design things.

I like to learn in nice quiet spaces because i just get distracted.And i get things done faster and easier.

My strengths are my decimals and around the maths area,I am very good at reading long paragraphs and things like that.I need help with writing,I find it hard to support my ideas with detail and techniques,my writing isin’t that interesting.I am good at spelling,but need to learn more vocab.

Cope- Curiosity,open mindedness,persistance

All of them have to be used the be a good learner.when using curiosity you be brave and ask questions when you dont understand,being curious helps you learn.when you are being open minded you are open to suggestions and open to different learning.persistance is when you never give up and keep going,but if you need help to need to ask as well.I try to use all of them all the time but i struggle with curiousity and asking questions.

My teacher (Mr A) could help me by giving me paper work (for homework) because i seem to get it done faster with no fuss. My parents could help me by looking at my blog more often.

I love to learn writing techniques because i love writing and its also learning.I love to learn more vocab because i learn new words to put in my writing to make it more powerful.

In 2014 I learnt a lot more about maths and decimals.I learnt heaps of writing techniques (e.g show not tell,PEE paragraphs and others..) I improved a lot with vocabulary I learned a heap of new words.

This year I would like to work on my times tables more often and learn all the tables & division.I would like to write more complex texts and add more ideas to make it powerful.I would like to learn more in maths to expand my learning in maths.

Balloon Powered Car

This is a text about my groups balloon powered car. In our class we have a system in class called W.I.T (wildy important task), and we have subject to make,design and research about them. We have groups In W.I.T and the people in my group are Abbie & Emily. When we have researched,designed and tested we compete and see who’s car goes the furtherest. Using the scientific method to help us along the way.

My groups balloon powered car is made out of polystyrene,milk bottle lids and the balloon/straw. We used those materials because we saw a successful car and made a new design with it.

When we tested our design and it originally went about 13m.It was a successful car.

Then we changed something ( which i don’t know what) and the car started to turn. The car had a lot of speed but turned around in circles. Now we are discussing what has happened

When we had the competition our car went really fast but turned again and ended up going 6.13m until it turned. We were proud but we were a bit disappointed with our total because it usually goes 13m.

Our questions were:

What is the scientific method?

What is a fair test?

What do balloon powered car look like/designs?

What is friction?

what does forces mean?

what are the best forces for a balloon powered car?

What mass does the balloon powered car have to be to go the furthest distance?

What does hypothesis mean?

To validate the questions we look up a source and find an answer,Then we search another source And find their answer.Then also search another source to triple check your understanding.

If one answer was different you would search up another source to see what one is correct.

In our group we were answering What the scientific method was and we looked in images and saw an answer.Then we looked on youtube and found a video called the scientific method rap and watched it.It turned out that the video and steps were different to the image.At that point we had to search again.It turns out that the scientific method rap was just for looks it was completely wrong.

Thats the importance of validating!